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Native land-care tips from Down Under
Globe and Mail
A delegation of Australian Indigenous Rangers arrived in Vancouver on the weekend for a tour that will take them to Yellowknife and Winnipeg before ending in Ottawa in a week. The group, organized by the Pew Environment Group, is here to talk to native ...
From the Outback to the Boreal - Australia's 'Indigenous Rangers' to Share New ...Canada NewsWire (press release)

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Gardiner wants to be role model on US tour
Brisbane Times
Gardiner, born of an Aboriginal mother and Scottish father, hoped to inspire others as the first indigenous Australian to represent on golf's biggest stage. "I am very proud...it's a great feeling," he said. "Golf has become more popular the last 10-15 ...

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Philanthropic Investment in Aboriginal Women Needed - Report
Pro Bono Australia
Australian philanthropists are being urged to investing in programs to assist Aboriginal women and girls who can then act as catalysts for social change in their local communities, according to a new AMP report. The AMP Foundation report The Best of ...

Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal students to protest to 'Save the Koori Centre at Sydney University'
Green Left Weekly
I want to build a fair and more compassionate Australia." Jackson continued: “As an Aboriginal man himself one wonders what has changed the thinking of Shane from one of great and high ideals to a low assimilationist attitude to the Koori Centre. Our ...

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Scott Gardiner becomes first Aborigine to gain US PGA Tour card
Herald Sun
Gardiner, born of an Aboriginal mother and Scottish father, hoped to inspire others as the first indigenous Australian to represent on golf's biggest stage. "I am very proud . . . it's a great feeling," he said. "Golf has become more popular the last ...

Green Left Weekly
Kids in care 'losing culture'
The Australian
Indigenous children are increasingly overrepresented in state care, the Queensland Child Protection Inquiry has heard. One in every two indigenous children is expected to be reported to the state's child safety department this year and half the ...
Aboriginal students to protest to 'Save the Koori Centre at Sydney University'Green Left Weekly

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Sydney Morning Herald
Actor, director and writer Leah Purcell. Source: Supplied
The Australian
ACTOR, director and writer Leah Purcell is one of the ensemble cast featuring in Redfern Now, a six-part ABC drama that has the distinction of being the first series produced, directed, written and acted by indigenous Australians. Purcell talks about ...
Big ideas shape city life storiesBrisbane Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
Chop chop: Jamie picks up the pace
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous arrival. Redfern Now is one of the most exciting – and inclusive – new dramas to come out of ABC television. It's prompted a surge of pride in Australia's indigenous arts community because of the momentum behind the show and the calibre of ...

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Sovereignty: Northern Murray Darling Basin (mp3)

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Big ideas shape city life stories
Brisbane Times
The series stars some of Aboriginal Australia's best-known actors - Leah Purcell, Deborah Mailman and her Sapphires co-stars Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell - and harnesses serious directorial clout, with Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) and Rachel ...

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Big ideas shape city life stories
Sydney Morning Herald
The series stars some of Aboriginal Australia's best-known actors - Leah Purcell, Deborah Mailman and her Sapphires co-stars Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell - and harnesses serious directorial clout, with Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) and Rachel ...

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Yothu Yindi to be inducted into ARIA Hall of Fame
NEWS.com.au
The seminal collective of Aboriginal and non-indigenous musicians, led by Australian of The Year Mandawuy Yunupingu, stormed the charts worldwide with the unforgettable anthem "Treaty". The song, written by Paul Kelly with the north-east Arnhem Land ...
Hall of fame accolade crowns a life of firstsThe Australian

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Indigenous rangers to share land management skills
ABC Online
A group of Indigenous rangers from central and northern Australia is travelling to Canada to share skills in Indigenous land management. The trip has been organised by the Pew Environment Group. Patrick O'Leary from Pew says rangers will share their ...
I don't want his apologyNational Indigenous Times

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Tammy Solonec delivers scathing attack on government failure to act on jail rates
National Indigenous Times
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples Director, Tammy Solonec has launched a scathing attack at the seventh annual National Indigenous Legal conference on the failure of Federal, State and Territory governments to address the unacceptably ...

Deaths in Custody - Gerry Georgatos, Darren Axtell, Tiga Bayles 98.9FM (mp3)

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Shane Duffy welcomes NATSILS appointment of Eddie Cubillo
National Indigenous Times
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS), the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services around Australia, has met in Adelaide to discuss issues of critical importance affecting ...
Queensland child protection inquiry raises adoption for foster childrenThe Australian

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South Australian artist Trevor Nickolls dies at age 63
Art Daily
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art specialist, Wally Caruana says “Trevor participated in a number of seminal international exhibitions, which, history shows, have had a profound effect on the promotion of Indigenous Australian art abroad.” “These ...

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WA today
Spirit of the ancestors
WA today
At Tyrendarra, an indigenous protected area, we follow a walkway past reconstructed stone huts and wooden traps. "The lake was like a giant pantry," Church tells me, "and the eels were traded right across southern Australia." Using core samples, Builth ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Spirit of the ancestors
Sydney Morning Herald
At Tyrendarra, an indigenous protected area, we follow a walkway past reconstructed stone huts and wooden traps. "The lake was like a giant pantry," Church tells me, "and the eels were traded right across southern Australia." Using core samples, Builth ...

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Hall of fame accolade crowns a life of firsts
The Australian
He was the first Aboriginal man from Arnhem Land to gain a university degree and one of the first indigenous principals of an Australian school, at his home community of Yirrkala. He spent many years working to improve indigenous education. In 1993 he ...
Yothu Yindi to be inducted into ARIA Hall of FameHerald Sun

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