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Cultures combine for Homeground Festival
SBS
The Festival will showcase a unique collaboration of song, music and dance from Indigenous cultures across Australia and the world. "It's part of our commitment to really engaging with not only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures of ...

Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Frankston weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Frankston weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Monash Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Monash Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

UQ adjunct wins visual arts award
UQ News
“Her work examines issues of Indigenous identity on a regional, national and international level and challenges historical stereotypes, which encourages debate between artists and communities in Australia and internationally.” The first Visual Arts ...

UQ adjunct wins visual arts award
UQ News
Professor Foley co-founded the Boomali Aboriginal Artists Co-operative in Sydney in 1987 and her art has been acquired by institutions all over the world, including the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the British ...

ABC Local
The Gods of Wheat Street: a TV drama about a family who just so happens to be ...
ABC Local
Taking Australians into the home, and hearts, of an Aboriginal family, 'The Gods of Wheat Street' aims to fill a huge gap in Australian television. Director Jon Bell says the production, which explores modern Aboriginal stories, has been described as ...

Still striving for child rights at home
UNICEF Australia
UNICEF Australia spoke to Members of Parliament on low rates of birth registration among Australia's indigenous community during a visit to Canberra last month and shared the success of UNICEF innovation in increasing birth registrations among ...

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Social media hurts indigenous Australians
NEWS.com.au
MALICIOUS gossip and bullying through social media is fuelling violence within Australia's indigenous communities, a social welfare advocate says. Elke Smirl, who heads an action group dealing with indigenous family violence, says over the past few ...

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SBS
Social media hurts indigenous Australians
Courier Mail
The chair of the Eastern Metro Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group said bullying on social media can have enormous ramifications for indigenous Australians. "Lateral violence is a very serious issue for us and it can be described as ...
ACMA launches 'Be Deadly Online' campaign aimed at indigenous cybersafetyMuMbrella

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SBS
Social media hurts indigenous Australians
Ninemsn
Social media hurts indigenous Australians. 2:15pm April 4, 2014. Malicious gossip and bullying through social media is fuelling violence within Australia's indigenous communities, a social welfare advocate says. Myriam Castro of Brazil has been jailed ...
ACMA launches 'Be Deadly Online' campaign aimed at indigenous cybersafetyMuMbrella

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Aust trackers forgotten in foreign land
SBS
A Queensland researcher is investigating the fate of up to 50 Aboriginal trackers who assisted Australian troops in South Africa only to disappear from the record books. It's possible some died but others may have fallen victim to the new White ...

Aust trackers forgotten in foreign land
SBS
They served the Australian army in the Boer War but their country may not have wanted them back. A Queensland researcher is investigating the fate of up to 50 Aboriginal trackers who assisted Australian troops in South Africa only to disappear from the ...

ACMA launches 'Be Deadly Online' campaign aimed at indigenous cybersafety
MuMbrella
According to the ACMA the campaign was created with major contributions from a number of Indigenous communities across Australia, including Yarrabah in Tropical North Queensland, regional Victoria and the Mid West Gasgoyne region in Western ...

Computerworld Australia
ACMA launches Indigenous cyber safety campaign
Computerworld Australia
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has launched cyber safety videos and resources to discourage cyber bullying amongst Indigenous communities around Australia. The resources were developed with input from communities ...
ACMA launches 'Be Deadly Online' campaign aimed at indigenous cybersafetyMuMbrella

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inmycommunity
Aboriginal flag set to fly
inmycommunity
THE installation of an extra flagpole to permanently fly the Aboriginal flag at the City of Rockingham council building is just one proposal put forward in the City's draft Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which is open for public comment. The ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Young people the target for indigenous recognition crusader
Sydney Morning Herald
"Why shouldn't all Australians feel a sense of pride when we hear about the innovation, adaptation and survival of the first Australians." Ms Frail is determined to play her part in ending the silence in Australia's founding document about the nation's ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Young people the target for indigenous recognition crusader
Sydney Morning Herald
"Why shouldn't all Australians feel a sense of pride when we hear about the innovation, adaptation and survival of the first Australians." Ms Frail is determined to play her part in ending the silence in Australia's founding document about the nation's ...

The Guardian (blog)
Why was Christos Tsiolkas snubbed for the Miles Franklin prize?
The Guardian (blog)
Alexis Wright's The Swan Book is an imagining of the fate of Indigenous Australia in a dystopian future wrecked by climate change, while Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a tale of love and death in a Japanese POW camp on the ...

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