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City celebrates with indigenous arts
inmycommunity
A traditional flag-raising ceremony will be held in Central Park on Monday afternoon, accompanied by a performance by indigenous dance group Wadumbah Dance. Later that night an exhibition by renowned Nyoongar artist Lindsay Harris will be opened at ...

The Aboriginal question
ESPNcricinfo.com (blog)
It is also worth noting that the first tour of England by players from Australia was the 1868 side composed of Aboriginal cricketers from Victoria. At the time of commencement of Test cricket in 1877, Australia was predominantly populated with people ...

Champion of Red Centre Indigenous land rights
ABC Online
An Indigenous elder who helped secure the first land rights deal in central Australia has been honoured with a state funeral in remote central Australia today. The funeral attracted hundreds of people in cold and rainy weather to the outback community ...

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Alstonville High students become Aboriginal flag for NAIDOC
Northern Star
STUDENTS from Alstonville High School yesterday made a public show of support for the celebration of indigenous history, culture and achievements as 850 students formed a human Aboriginal flag on the school grounds. As part of 2013 NAIDOC Week ...

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$15 million to support Indigenous broadcasting
Invest in Australia
The Minister for Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today announced that $15.7 million will be provided to support the production and broadcasting of local Indigenous content across Australia. “The Indigenous ...

The Guardian
Western Australia will go it alone to close Indigenous health gap
The Guardian
Western Australia has refused to give in-principle support to re-signing the Closing the Gap Indigenous health agreement, instead announcing it will fund initiatives itself over the next year. In another blow to negotiations with the commonwealth ...

I'll be a Prime Minister for indigenous affairs, says Tony Abbott
The Australian
"I want him to stand up for indigenous Australia, I want him to stand up for domestic violence,'' she told The Australian. Bringing her audience to tears, the author and domestic violence survivor read aloud from her autobiography, which details the ...

The Catholic Church's toll on Aboriginal Australia
Eureka Street
Man kneels on floor beside Aboriginal Students. Book cover of Francis of Central Australia, Public confidence in the Catholic Church has eroded considerably. There are several reasons for this, but one for which it has failed to take much ...

Sport more than a game for Indigenous Australians
ABC Message Stick
JANELLE SAFFIN: Sport can be the hook or vehicle to provide opportunities for communities to come together to encourage Indigenous participation in education and employment and to demonstrate positive behaviours through local and elite sporting role ...

Power, not prohibition, is key
Courier Mail
THE latest decision by the High Court of Australia upholds the legitimacy of alcohol management plans, which are bitterly resented by some indigenous people. Premier Campbell Newman says prohibition won't work. Instead, he says: "We've got to target ...

PolicyMic
In Australia, Aboriginal Women Are 80 Times More Likely to Experience Violence
PolicyMic
An article published by Perth News on Monday explains that Aboriginal women in Australia are 80 times more likely to be physically and sexually assaulted than non-indigenous Australians. Not twice as likely, or 10 times as likely — but 80 times more ...
Australian indigenous dancer to perform hereCeylon Daily News

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The Guardian
How Australia's Barunga festival keeps alive the Aboriginal spirit
The Guardian
I'm one of a few hundred "whitefellas" far outnumbered by "blackfellas" at an indigenous festival four hours south of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Now in its 28th year, Barunga is Australia's oldest and largest remote-community festival. It peaked ...

Ceylon Daily News
Australian indigenous dancer to perform here
Ceylon Daily News
During his visit to Sri Lanka, David will conduct workshops for dance students from schools and universities to promote greater understanding of Australian Indigenous culture. Theoretical and practical elements will help Sri Lankan students understand ...

WA today
Catriona McKenzie's Satellite Boy is a fine addition to indigenous film canon
The Australian
The beauty of the film, though impressive, never overshadows the harshness of life in this part of Australia. Gulpilil radiates an aura of quiet authority, and the boys - neither of whom had any acting experience before this - are engagingly natural ...
Satellite BoyartsHub Australia (subscription)

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Aboriginal new media group claims exclusion
artsHub Australia (subscription)
The new media group Blackout Collective, which is made up of practicing Aboriginal new media artists, claim the IESA Sydney event was organised by an Australian based committee yet they posit that there was very little Aboriginal input and that they ...

Australian legend and pioneer of Indigenous theatre comes to Nambour
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
Ilbijerri Theatre Company, is the longest existing Indigenous theatre company in Australia, and to celebrate their 20 year anniversary in 2010, they teamed up with Jack Charles and prolific writer John Romeril (winner of the 2008 Patrick White Award ...
VETERAN INDIGENOUS STAGE PERFORMER JACK CHARLES ON TOURABC Online (blog)

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New Aboriginal language born in the NT
Australian Geographic
Professor Jane Simpson, Chair of Indigenous linguistics at ANU agrees. “It is a rare opportunity to see the effects of a very rapid shift from one language to a new language; usually we only see the results long after the change has happened,” she says.
New Language Discovery in Remote Indigenous Community in Australia ...Science Daily (press release)

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Rio Tinto signs Pilbara Indigenous land access deal
ABC Local
Rio Tinto has signed an agreement with the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation for access to 13,000 square kilometres of land in the Pilbara. Yindjibarndi says the agreement encompasses all the significant Indigenous sites between Karratha and Tom Price.

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Rio Tinto signs Pilbara Indigenous land access deal
ABC Message Stick
Rio Tinto has signed an agreement with the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation for access to 13,000 square kilometres of land in the Pilbara. Yindjibarndi says the agreement encompasses all the significant Indigenous sites between Karratha and Tom Price.

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