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Schools get guide for indigenous languages
The Australian
The draft framework released by the Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority (ACARA) on Tuesday is the first national curriculum document outlining how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages can be taught and supported in schools.
Tjapukai makes bid for national museum in CaravonicaThe Cairns Post
Aboriginal museum flagged for Cairnsmicebtn (blog)

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AFL celebrates Indigenous round 20 years on from St Kilda star Nicky Winmar's ...
ABC Online
While Freeman's 400-metre run during the 2000 Olympics was a high point in celebrating Australia's indigenous sporting talent, Freeman sees Winmar's jumper-lifting moment following the Saints' round-four win over Collingwood at Victoria Park in 1993 as ...

NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal advocates warn of youth suicide spike
ABC Online
More than 100 people including Indigenous leaders and government representatives attended a crisis meeting to discuss a spike in Aboriginal youth suicides. Aboriginal leaders have described the alarming number of suicides, including children as young ...
Crisis meeting called on Aboriginal suicideThe West Australian
Action wanted as 11- year-olds take their livesWA today

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ABC Online
Why the didgeridoo should be our national instrument
ABC Online
With permission from Australia's Aboriginal people, it's time to proclaim the didgeridoo as our national instrument, writes Dean Frenkel. The didgeridoo is the sound of Australia. Many countries and cultures have their signature sounds: Scotland, the ...

Crisis meeting called on Aboriginal suicide
The West Australian
Indigenous leaders in Western Australia are holding a crisis meeting with senior bureaucrats to discuss high suicide rates among the Noongar community. Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation executive officer Robert Eggington will present a list of outcomes ...
Action wanted as 11- year-olds take their livesWA today

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SBS
New bid to address Indigenous disability
SBS
We have set targets as part of our Close the Gap strategy to make sure that we get Aboriginal children getting early childhood education for example. That target will get set this year. So we know that if we set clear targets and then are determined to ...

BT joins Supply Nation indigenous business network
iTWire
He said Supply Nation was a simple and effective collaboration between Government, corporate and indigenous Australia, and its mission was to facilitate, encourage and promote business between these sectors and indigenous owned businesses.

Exploring connections between art, song and dance in Aboriginal Australia
UQ News
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Myfany Turpin, from UQ's School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, will explore the poetic nature of texts, their meanings, how dance and visual designs are used as iconic representations, and how Indigenous ...

WA today
Investing in Aboriginal youth will pay huge dividends
WA today
This is our responsibility, just as we all share a responsibility to create better educational, health and life outcomes for indigenous Australia. Their plight is, without any shadow of a doubt, our national disgrace and we are not a wholly civilised ...

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still dreaming of home
The Australian
Watarru is the most isolated community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, and one of the most remote Aboriginal communities in Australia. It is 550km south of Alice Springs and until recently had a reputation as one of the safest ...

Adelaide Crows
Guernsey honors Indigenous Round
Adelaide Crows
Adelaide will wear a special guernsey against North Melbourne next Sunday to celebrate Indigenous Round and acknowledge the role of Indigenous players – past and present – who have represented the Club. The one-off guernsey incorporates the ...
Adelaide Crows turn red, yellow ... and blackAdelaide Now

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The Canberra Times
Investing in Aboriginal youth will pay huge dividends
The Canberra Times
This is our responsibility, just as we all share a responsibility to create better educational, health and life outcomes for indigenous Australia. Their plight is, without any shadow of a doubt, our national disgrace and we are not a wholly civilised ...

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Adelaide Crows turn red, yellow ... and black
Adelaide Now
The Crows will wear red, yellow and black hoops in honour of Australia's Aboriginal players in the AFL's Indigenous Round. The "indigenous guernsey" - to be worn against North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium - retains the Crows' traditional hoops but ...

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Investing in Aboriginal youth will pay huge dividends
Sydney Morning Herald
This is our responsibility, just as we all share a responsibility to create better educational, health and life outcomes for indigenous Australia. Their plight is, without any shadow of a doubt, our national disgrace and we are not a wholly civilised ...

Warren Mundine ready to assume position of power under Tony Abbott
The Australian
FORMER Labor Party national president Warren Mundine is poised to assume a powerful position in indigenous affairs under a conservative government after forging an extraordinary alliance with Tony Abbott that he declared was "bigger than partisan ...

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Intense colour
The Australian
These two works, Mother Courage and The Shadow King, are the latest attempts in Australia to tell classic plays through Aboriginal lenses. Notable examples include Enoch's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet for Bell Shakespeare in 1999 and Black Medea, ...

The life of Deborah Cheetham, Indigenous soprano
ABC Online
Singing has always been an integral part of Australia's Indigenous culture, and Indigenous soprano Deborah Cheetham, likens opera to corroboree. She talks to Phillip about composing Australia's first Indigenous opera, Pecan Summer, founding her Short ...

Campaign for Aboriginal foster carers goes bush
ABC Online
Children and Families Minister Alison Anderson says she is travelling to remote Northern Territory communities to recruit more Aboriginal foster carers. Most of the children in care in the Territory are Indigenous but there is a lack of Aboriginal ...
Child neglect crisis takes over from sex abuseThe Australian

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Camel muster master plan gets enterprise over hump
ABC Online
An Aboriginal council overseeing country on the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory has started a camel mustering company to create employment opportunities for local people. Alex Knight from the Ngaanyatjarra Council says so far ...

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Radio Australia
Miners falling short on Indigenous consultation: Oxfam
ABC Online
A major aid agency says Australia's resources companies are not being open enough about how they gain the consent of Indigenous land owners at their overseas mining projects. A study by Oxfam Australia found that only one of the 53 biggest miners on ...
Only one Aust mining company meets UN indigenous standardsRadio Australia

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