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Central Australia readies for the royals
Ninemsn
Central Australia readies for the royals. 2:25pm April 21, 2014. About 300 people live in the remote Aboriginal community of Mutitjulu, the closest to Uluru, and visitors need a permit to enter the community. Indiana and Savana were killed at Watsonia ...

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The Times (subscription)
Doris Pilkington Garimara, Aboriginal Novelist, Dies at 76
New York Times
In the 1930s, Australian authorities undertook a campaign to force the native Aborigines into white culture, with the hope that intermarriage would eventually eliminate their race. Mixed-race aboriginal children were taken from their families and ...
Doris Pilkington Garimara dies; wrote of Australia's 'stolen generations'Los Angeles Times
Doris Pilkington GarimaraThe Times (subscription)

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island war heroes 'vanished' from the Anzac legend
The Daily Telegraph
The 19-year-old Queenslander signed up in May, and by August was disembarking in Suez, Egypt, to begin training for the Australian Light Horse Remount Unit. The young indigenous trooper would fight in the 11th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt for the next ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island war heroes 'vanished' from the Anzac legend
The Daily Telegraph
The 19-year-old Queenslander signed up in May, and by August was disembarking in Suez, Egypt, to begin training for the Australian Light Horse Remount Unit. The young indigenous trooper would fight in the 11th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt for the next ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Ranger mine: Rio Tinto, ERA can't pay for rehab? Indigenous owners say 'no no ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The relationship between Energy Resources of Australia and a crucial group of indigenous people appears to be deteriorating, after the miner raised doubts about its ability to pay for the rehabilitation of the Ranger uranium mine near Kakadu. The open ...

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The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's latest report on youth justice has revealed a significant drop in the number of young people within the system. The Institute says the decrease of over 1000 youths is a promising trend. But concern remains over the fact that almost half of the total numbers of youths under supervision are Indigenous. Marc Tong reports on SBS World News Radio

The Canberra Times
Health service funding in limbo
The Canberra Times
The Community Council for Australia said the uncertainty created by the government's position was also affecting charity and non-profit service providers. Advertisement. Chief executive officer of Canberra's Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health ...

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Sky News Australia
Aboriginal activists stage royal protest
Sky News Australia
About 30 Aboriginal activists are staging a protest at South Bank, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are due to arrive soon. The protesters are gathered at the park precinct, where the couple is due to attend a civic reception before a brief ...

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Sky News Australia
Aboriginal activists stage royal protest
The Australian
Police told AAP a small number of Aboriginal protesters had been moved on at South Bank. One activist was ushered away after going behind barricades meant to keep the royal route along Grey Street clear, outside the South Brisbane train station.
Fancy a ride, William teases KateYahoo!7 News

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Australian Indigenous Fashion Week Isn't Just Pretty Prints
The Fashion Spot
But Desert Designs wasn't the only example of Australia's oft-ostracised Aboriginal culture making its mark on modern fashion. After the last shows of MBFWA official had wound down, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week picked up the baton ...

Australian Indigenous Fashion Week Isn't Just Pretty Prints
The Fashion Spot
But Desert Designs wasn't the only example of Australia's oft-ostracised Aboriginal culture making its mark on modern fashion. After the last shows of MBFWA official had wound down, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week picked up the baton ...

The Fashion Spot
Models walk the runway at the Desert Designs show during Mercedes-Benz ...
The Fashion Spot
But Desert Designs wasn't the only example of Australia's oft-ostracised Aboriginal culture making its mark on modern fashion. After the last shows of MBFWA official had wound down, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week picked up the baton ...

The Fashion Spot
Models walk the runway at the Desert Designs show during Mercedes-Benz ...
The Fashion Spot
But Desert Designs wasn't the only example of Australia's oft-ostracised Aboriginal culture making its mark on modern fashion. After the last shows of MBFWA official had wound down, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week picked up the baton ...

Recognition for Aboriginal justice
inmycommunity
AUSTRALIA'S colonial legacy is still “very much present” in modern society as long as Aboriginal people are imprisoned at a greater rate than others, says retired District Court judge Mary Ann Yeats. The Mosman Park resident said she initially ...

Indigenous firm cleans up for the future
The Australian
Iman Operations, which secured the cleaning contract with Thiess — the contractor on QGC's LNG project in Queensland's Surat Basin — sourced an $800,000 loan through Social Ventures Australia to allow it to scale-up to increase its workforce to take ...

The Guardian (blog)
Blak Wave: 'It's all about Indigenous self-representation'
The Guardian (blog)
What does it mean to be young, gifted and black in Australia today? Who are the next generation of Indigenous arts creators, curators and policymakers? Are Indigenous voices part of the mainstream creative discourse or always “other"? And how do you ...

The Guardian (blog)
Blak Wave: 'It's all about Indigenous self-representation'
The Guardian (blog)
What does it mean to be young, gifted and black in Australia today? Who are the next generation of Indigenous arts creators, curators and policymakers? Are Indigenous voices part of the mainstream creative discourse or always “other"? And how do you ...

SBS
High rate of Indigenous youths under supervision
SBS
Amnesty International's Indigenous Rights Campaigner Rodney Dillon is part of a team researching for a justice report focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth. The report is concentrating on Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern ...
Number of young people under youth justice supervision dropsABC Message Stick

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Keeler walks catwalk for Indigenous Fashion Week
ABC Local
Katarina, originally from Ceduna, walked the runway at Australian Indigenous Fashion Week in Sydney after being named as a finalist in the Indigenous Model Search Competition. She says the event has an important role in increasing diversity in the ...

Keeler walks catwalk for Indigenous Fashion Week
ABC Local
Katarina, originally from Ceduna, walked the runway at Australian Indigenous Fashion Week in Sydney after being named as a finalist in the Indigenous Model Search Competition. She says the event has an important role in increasing diversity in the ...

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