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WGAR News: Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters ...
Sydney Indymedia
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples is a national voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. As a company the Congress is owned and controlled by its membership and is independent of Government. Together we will be leaders ...

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Gudirr Gudirr, Marrugeku – review
The Guardian (blog)
Pigram's solo dance work is an articulate and thoroughly interrogated exploration of her politicised identity as an Aboriginal Australian of diverse cultural heritage. Working with Belgian choreographer Koen Augustijnen's "task-based" choreography, and ...
Gudirr Gudirr rarely loses its gripThe Australian
Aboriginal culture showcased in dance for changeSBS

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Major Aboriginal art exhibition for Auckland Art Gallery
National Business Review (subscription)
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is bringing the largest and most significant exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian art yet seen in New Zealand to Auckland in March. My Country showcases the breadth of recent work by Aboriginal and Torres ...

Major Aboriginal art exhibition for Auckland Art Gallery
National Business Review (subscription)
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is bringing the largest and most significant exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian art yet seen in New Zealand to Auckland in March. My Country showcases the breadth of recent work by Aboriginal and Torres ...

Outside pressure key to better life for Aborigines, says Pilger
Brisbane Times
"My own sense is that the so-called problem of indigenous Australia, which is really a problem for non-indigenous Australia, will only be resolved when there is enough pressure from outside the country," he says. This claim and others come from Utopia, ...

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Adam Goodes and the 'matter of choice'
The Australian
She chose not to be a victim, not to wallow in a past that saw nine of her 10 siblings taken from their parents; saw her removed at the age of five from her parents at Point Pearce, an indigenous town on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, 70km from ...

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Adam Goodes and the 'matter of choice'
The Australian
She chose not to be a victim, not to wallow in a past that saw nine of her 10 siblings taken from their parents; saw her removed at the age of five from her parents at Point Pearce, an indigenous town on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, 70km from ...

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Tim Flannery in call to honour Aborigines killed in land wars
Sydney Morning Herald
Tim Flannery, Australian of the Year in 2007, has expressed his ''personal sense of outrage'' that Aboriginal warriors who fought and died defending their lands and people against white settlers are ignored by the Australian War Memorial. In any other ...
Put indigenous warriors in war memorials: FlanneryThe Canberra Times

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Tim Flannery in call to honour Aborigines killed in land wars
Sydney Morning Herald
Tim Flannery, Australian of the Year in 2007, has expressed his ''personal sense of outrage'' that Aboriginal warriors who fought and died defending their lands and people against white settlers are ignored by the Australian War Memorial. In any other ...
Is there place for aboriginal warriors in war memorials?WA today

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Freeman banks on support for islanders
The Australian
But Credit Suisse isn't alone, with Citigroup late last month unveiling a collaboration with Indigenous Business Australia and Supply Nation for a mentoring partnership for indigenous businesses. UBS supports the Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous ...

Freeman banks on support for islanders
The Australian
But Credit Suisse isn't alone, with Citigroup late last month unveiling a collaboration with Indigenous Business Australia and Supply Nation for a mentoring partnership for indigenous businesses. UBS supports the Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous ...

Remembering the Aboriginals who fought for Australia in WWI
FRANCE 24
But it is often overlooked that among the 420,000 Australians who participated in that conflict – of whom around 60,000 never made it home – up to 1,000 of the so-called “Diggers” (the nickname for Aussie soldiers) were Aboriginals, men who had no ...
Theatre unearths Australia's shameartsHub Australia (subscription)
Digging Up the Anzacs' Untold StoryWall Street Journal (blog)

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Is there place for aboriginal warriors in war memorials?
The Age
Is there place for aboriginal warriors in war memorials? (00:36). Australian of the Year for 2007, Prof Tim Flannery has opened the idea of recognizing aboriginal fighters in war memorials to discussion at an Australia Day panel. 17/01/14. Gratuitous ...

Theatre unearths Australia's shame
artsHub Australia (subscription)
In fact there were gay Anzacs and city Anzacs, boys who put university courses on hold, young men who had never had a partner and some who never would and, of course, a small but important group of Indigenous Australians whose service is all the more ...

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Review: Pilger's Utopia shows us Aboriginal Australia in 2014
The Conversation
Welcome to Aboriginal Australia in the 21st Century – John Pilger's Utopia. It was more than two decades ago when I saw John Pilger's 1986 documentary The Secret Country for the first time. I was a 17-year-old…

Review: Pilger's Utopia shows us Aboriginal Australia in 2014
The Conversation
Welcome to Aboriginal Australia in the 21st Century – John Pilger's Utopia. It was more than two decades ago when I saw John Pilger's 1986 documentary The Secret Country for the first time. I was a 17-year-old…

French Tribune
Kangaroo Sketch in Portuguese Prayer Book might Prove Existence of ...
French Tribune
This suggests the existence of Indigenous Australian before the arrival of Dutch. The book has been purchased at about US$15,000 by a New York gallery, Les Enluminures. It is believed that the book was possessed by a nun from western Portugal, named ...
'Kangaroo' sketch suggests Portuguese may have beaten Dutch to AustraliaBignews Portugal

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Summer camp aims to lift Indigenous uni enrolments
ABC Online
Indigenous students make up only one per cent of higher education enrolments in Australia. As Tracy Bowden reports, a special summer camp at the University of Sydney is hoping to help change that. TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: The summer holidays in ...

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Summer camp aims to lift Indigenous uni enrolments
ABC Online
Indigenous students make up only one per cent of higher education enrolments in Australia. As Tracy Bowden reports, a special summer camp at the University of Sydney is hoping to help change that. TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: The summer holidays in ...

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ABC Online
Summer camp aims to lift Indigenous uni enrolments
ABC Online
Indigenous students make up only one per cent of higher education enrolments in Australia. As Tracy Bowden reports, a special summer camp at the University of Sydney is hoping to help change that. TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: The summer holidays in ...

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