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Wall Street Journal
An Aboriginal Dance Company Explores Australia's Cultural History
Wall Street Journal
This true story of first contact has become the inspiration for a show touring Australia, put on by the country's leading indigenous dance company, Bangarra. "Patyegarang" is a portrayal of love and illumination in an era marked by bloodshed and pain.

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State government provides training funding for Aboriginal communities
Roxby Downs Sun
South Australia's Aboriginal communities will have the chance to access the skills and expertise of the business sector under a $1 million funding arrangement with Jawun Indigenous Corporate Partnerships. Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Minister ...

State government provides training funding for Aboriginal communities
Roxby Downs Sun
South Australia's Aboriginal communities will have the chance to access the skills and expertise of the business sector under a $1 million funding arrangement with Jawun Indigenous Corporate Partnerships. Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Minister ...

Google News

ABC - AM - Michael Brissenden Across Australia female imprisonment rates have doubled in the last decade and Indigenous women account for almost the entire increase. That's the shocking finding of new research conducted by criminologist Professor Eileen Baldry, who's labelled the situation appalling and scandalous. The first Indigenous magistrate in New South Wales, Pat O'Shane, says handing out repeat short sentences means prison rehabilitation programs are useless. Sarah Dingle reports.

SBS
Aboriginal woman who died in WA jail was there for an unpaid fine
SBS
After complaining to police about severe pain, vomiting and partial paralysis she was twice taken to a local hospital but on both occasions declared well enough to be sent back to prison depsite reportedly not being seen by a doctor reported he ...

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The Stringer
22-year-old police death in custody should not have occurred
The Stringer
The death of 22-year-old Yamatji woman Julieka Dhu while in police custody earlier this month has led to renewed calls for medical nurses to be stationed at lockups 24/7 and for the implementation of the Custody Notification Service in Western ...

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The Stringer
WA Aboriginal Health Council says “NO” to $7 co-payment
The Stringer
Western Australia's Aboriginal Health Council, a peak health body for First Nations people, has gone further than just criticising the Federal Government's $7 Medicare co-payment. The Council is sending a powerful message to both the Federal Government ...

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The Stringer
What will it take to end Aboriginal disadvantage, the inequalities and the ...
The Stringer
The Fred Hollows Foundation's CEO, Brian Doolan said, “There are no excuses for Australia to be the only developed country in the world where people still suffer from trachoma, where Indigenous men in areas such as the east Katherine region have an ...

The Guardian
From two Aboriginal employees to 241 in just four years: How Ayers Rock Resort ...
BRW
There are 241 indigenous people who are employed at the resort – 35 per cent of the staff. Yet, only four years ago, only two Aborigines had jobs there. It was a pretty bad “look” in the spiritual heart of Australia, not helped by the fact that the ...
John Pilger: Australia is a land of excuses, not the land of the fair goThe Guardian

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The Guardian
John Pilger: Australia is a land of excuses, not the land of the fair go
The Guardian
In his 2013 film Utopia, Pilger brought attention back to the Indigenous disadvantage in remote Australian communities, dismantling the Howard government's basis for its Northern Territory intervention (the claim of widespread child abuse by Aboriginal ...
Red Centre resort no longer all-whiteThe Australian Financial Review

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The Guardian (blog)
Italian artist Giorgia Severi to bring Indigenous voices to Venice biennale
The Guardian (blog)
“The core of the project, which is called Land, is to bring a message to western countries by working with Indigenous people in Australia in their different lands,” she explains. Severi has been with the Wirrimanu community in Balgo on the edge of the ...

The Guardian
John Pilger: Australia is a land of excuses, not the land of the fair go
The Guardian
In his 2013 film Utopia, Pilger brought attention back to the Indigenous disadvantage in remote Australian communities, dismantling the Howard government's basis for its Northern Territory intervention (the claim of widespread child abuse by Aboriginal ...
From two Aboriginal employees to 241 in just four years: How Ayers Rock Resort ...BRW

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SBS
Remote Indigenous Australians rely on Facebook to stay in touch
SBS
“Typically in the population, around 42 per cent of people are members of Facebook in Australia - it's really quite a big number - and amongst people in remote communities it's up to 62 per cent which is majority of people,” said Lead Survey Researcher ...

John Paul Janke from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs with the story of a 19th century tintype photo of a young Aboriginal woman. Source: ABC TV 66 Canberra

Ex-minister Gary Johns threatens Constitution challenge
The Australian
Its name is in direct response to Recognise, the federally funded campaign to build awareness and support for changing the nation's Constitution to acknowledge indigenous Australians. A joint select committee on constitutional recognition, made up of ...

Indigenous learners renovate a reputation
The Australian
For the past 30 years Fairbridge has worked with young people at risk, including young people with a disability, those with drug problems, those with mental health issues, refugee children, Aboriginal young people, children with cancer, those ...

ATCO Australia Continues Support of Indigenous Culture Through New Nomad ...
NewsMaker (press release)
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA -- (Marketwired) -- ATCO Australia's partnership with Nomad Two Worlds and renowned Nyoongar artist Tjyllyungoo (Lance Chadd) will continue with a new world-first art project capturing the cultural significance of the ...

ATCO Australia Continues Support of Indigenous Culture Through New Nomad ...
NewsMaker (press release)
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA -- (Marketwired) -- ATCO Australia's partnership with Nomad Two Worlds and renowned Nyoongar artist Tjyllyungoo (Lance Chadd) will continue with a new world-first art project capturing the cultural significance of the ...

SBS
Facebook usage among Indigenous Australians at a national high
SBS
The McNair Ingenuity Research Institute has surveyed four-hundred Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders on their media habits. Results from the national study revealed that Facebook usage among First Nations people is twenty per cent higher than the ...

Indigenous arts given funding boost
ArtsHub (subscription)
The ILS program, a community-based program for the maintenance, revival, transmission and promotion of Australia's Indigenous languages, will receive $8.8 million. This news comes after it was announced earlier in the year that funding of almost $9.5 ...