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Sydney Morning Herald
Artwork a memorial to indigenous soldiers
Sydney Morning Herald
A young Aboriginal artist, whose grandfather fought for Australia during World War II, has been commissioned to create an artwork for Hyde Park to commemorate indigenous soldiers. Tony Albert will create the indigenous war memorial that will be ...

Australia's Secret War on Aboriginal People
CounterPunch
The corridors of the Australian parliament are so white you squint. The sound is hushed; the smell is floor polish. The wooden floors shine so virtuously they reflect the cartoon portraits of prime ministers and rows of Aboriginal paintings, suspended ...

Australia's Secret War on Aboriginal People
CounterPunch
The corridors of the Australian parliament are so white you squint. The sound is hushed; the smell is floor polish. The wooden floors shine so virtuously they reflect the cartoon portraits of prime ministers and rows of Aboriginal paintings, suspended ...

StartSomeGood partners with IndigenousX to launch Australia's first Indigenous ...
3BL Media (press release)
November 8Social impact crowdfunding platform StartSomeGood has partnered with social media hub IndigenousX to empower Indigenous Australian changemakers to raise funds and rally community support for diverse Indigenous-founded initiatives.

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40 years on: how Gough Whitlam gave Indigenous art a boost
The Conversation
The decision to place control for the arts in the hands of Aboriginals is intended to stimulate indigenous Australian arts and lead to the preservation of many art forms almost lost since the settlement of Australia by Europeans. The Queen opened the ...

Victorian Indigenous Art Awards announced
artsHub Australia (subscription)
The awards are key to raising the profile and celebrating the quality and diversity of current indigenous art practice in Victoria and the uniqueness of south-east Australian Aboriginal art. Developed by the Victorian Government, through Arts Victoria ...

Indigenous health groups 'worried' about Catalyst program
ABC Online
WILL OCKENDEN: The Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association president, Dr Tammy Kimpton, says she hasn't had any patients talk to her about stopping their statins, but it's still a big worry that they might. Other Indigenous health groups echo her ...

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StartSomeGood partners with IndigenousX to launch Australia's first Indigenous ...
PRWire (press release)
Social impact crowdfunding platform StartSomeGood has partnered with social media hub IndigenousX to empower Indigenous Australian changemakers to raise funds and rally community support for diverse Indigenous-founded initiatives.

The Guardian
In the lucky country of Australia apartheid is alive and kicking
The Guardian
The corridors of the Australian parliament are so white you squint. The sound is hushed; the smell is floor polish. The wooden floors shine so virtuously they reflect the cartoon portraits of prime ministers and rows of Aboriginal paintings, suspended ...

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The Brutal Past and Present are Another Country in Secret Australia
Center for Research on Globalization
The corridors of the Australian parliament are so white you squint. The sound is hushed; the smell is floor polish. The wooden floors shine so virtuously they reflect the cartoon portraits of prime ministers and rows of Aboriginal paintings, suspended ...

Brisbane Times
Indigenous women take hands-on role in health
Brisbane Times
Sheila Hure, Elaine Lomas, Joanne Delaney, Jennifer King, Sethy Willie and Ms Delaney-Theile all received their degrees while working full-time at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Mount Druitt - home to Australia's largest urban Aboriginal population.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous women take hands-on role in health
Sydney Morning Herald
Sheila Hure, Elaine Lomas, Joanne Delaney, Jennifer King, Sethy Willie and Ms Delaney-Theile all received their degrees while working full-time at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Mount Druitt - home to Australia's largest urban Aboriginal population.

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Call for overhaul in approach to Indigenous employment
ABC Message Stick
LEXI METHERELL: You've said that the Coalition Government will strongly support private sector-led job initiatives for Indigenous people, such as the Australian employment covenant, which was launched by Andrew Forrest five years ago. Now that program ...

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MP's Indigenous work call faces rough road
ABC Online
A resident of Santa Teresa in Central Australia says forcing people to commute to Alice Springs to find jobs is not a reasonable solution to unemployment in the region. The Prime Minister's Parliamentary Secretary for indigenous affairs, Alan Tudge ...

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MP's Indigenous work call faces rough road
ABC Online
A resident of Santa Teresa in Central Australia says forcing people to commute to Alice Springs to find jobs is not a reasonable solution to unemployment in the region. The Prime Minister's Parliamentary Secretary for indigenous affairs, Alan Tudge ...

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False barriers to useful work
The Australian
As Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister with a focus on indigenous affairs, I have been dismayed to find that too often language about remote indigenous Australians does not focus on what people can do but on the barriers that prevent them ...

Sudanese 'first' in remote job crisis
The Australian
In a commentary piece published in The Australian today, the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister writes that he has been "dismayed to find that too often language about remote indigenous Australians does not focus on what people can do, but ...

Indigenous runners conquer New York
ABC Online
All eleven runners from the Indigenous Marathon Project have crossed the finish line in the New York Marathon. Olympian and former World Champion Robert de Castella was with the runners who finished the race following six months of intense training in ...

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Indigenous runners conquer New York
ABC Local
All eleven runners from the Indigenous Marathon Project have crossed the finish line in the New York Marathon. Olympian and former World Champion Robert de Castella was with the runners who finished the race following six months of intense training in ...
Aboriginal Runners Make Marathon Journey to New YorkRunner's World Newswire

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auDA Foundation grant supports digital literacy hub for Indigenous Australians ...
WhaTech
The auDA Foundation is funding the development of a digital literacy hub for Indigenous Australians, aiming to provide literacy resources to teachers and children in remote Australian communities. The Aboriginal Literacy Foundation Inc (ALF) will ...