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How Pat Corrigan gives away one of Australia's great art collections - Daily Telegraph

Wed, 2018/08/01 - 3:29pm

Daily Telegraph

How Pat Corrigan gives away one of Australia's great art collections
Daily Telegraph
Corrigan, who made his fortune in freight after starting Corrigans Express in 1965, has long held a special position in Australia's art community as an avid collector, generous philanthropist and tireless promoter of Australian indigenous and ...

'Unsatisfied anger' could become armed struggle, says Mick Dodson - The Australian

Wed, 2018/08/01 - 2:13pm

The Australian

'Unsatisfied anger' could become armed struggle, says Mick Dodson
The Australian
Simmering anger in indigenous Australia over a failure to make good for past wrongs could easily turn into organised armed resistance, Aboriginal academic Mick Dodson has warned. In launching a new thriller by former journalist and political staffer ...

UQ to take native food to the world with $3.5m grant for centre - Courier Mail

Wed, 2018/08/01 - 11:02am

Courier Mail

UQ to take native food to the world with $3.5m grant for centre
Courier Mail
The University of Queensland will today receive a $3.5 million federal grant to create a training centre to teach local agribusiness and food producers how to take indigenous and uniquely Australian food from the bush to dinner plates around the world.

Peter Macdonald, heart transplant pioneer, helping close the Indigenous life-expectancy gap - ABC News

Wed, 2018/08/01 - 7:21am

ABC News

Peter Macdonald, heart transplant pioneer, helping close the Indigenous life-expectancy gap
ABC News
"They are seriously disadvantaged and, as you know, we've got this awful gap in life expectancy between the Aboriginal community and non-Indigenous Australians. "What I do coming out here won't solve this problem but at least it's something. It's an ...

Champions of Indigenous recognition to feature in Mason Conversation - UNSW Newsroom

Wed, 2018/08/01 - 4:24am

UNSW Newsroom

Champions of Indigenous recognition to feature in Mason Conversation
UNSW Newsroom
“The 2018 Mason Conversation is the opportunity to hear from these two inspiring Aboriginal women from different generations and backgrounds, about this landmark process in Australian law and politics, and the personal journey that brought them to be ...

Unpaid domestic violence leave comes into effect across Australia - ABC News

Wed, 2018/08/01 - 2:04am

ABC News

Unpaid domestic violence leave comes into effect across Australia
ABC News
In Australia, one in three women will be affected by domestic violence, with Indigenous women disproportionately impacted. Indigenous women and girls are 32 times more likely to be hospitalised from family violence than the rest of the population.
Millions of Australians now eligible for domestic violence leaveHRM Asia

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'Digital land rights': co-designing technologies with Indigenous Australians - The Conversation AU

Tue, 2018/07/31 - 8:41pm

The Conversation AU

'Digital land rights': co-designing technologies with Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
For the last 248 years, Indigenous Australians have experienced disruption and disadvantage as a result of colonisation. Now with the advent of the internet, the same structures that keep Indigenous people marginalised and isolated in the real world ...

Noumea, Broome dancers explore independence movements - The Australian

Tue, 2018/07/31 - 2:04pm

The Australian

Noumea, Broome dancers explore independence movements
The Australian
The dancers in Le Dernier Appel come from a range of backgrounds, including indigenous Australian, Kanak from New Caledonia, Vietnamese and Indonesian. The performers bring with them their personal stories, experiences and their own dance styles, ...

Google News

Australian Native Food and Botanicals: Amanda Garner raising interest in native foods - The Weekly Times

Tue, 2018/07/31 - 2:02pm

The Weekly Times

Australian Native Food and Botanicals: Amanda Garner raising interest in native foods
The Weekly Times
The organisation was established about a decade ago by Vic Cherikoff — regarded as a pioneer of the native Australian food industry — Chris Reid of Tasmanian native mountain pepper business Diemen Pepper, and a handful of others to develop native ...

Dismantling ATSIC probably a mistake, says Amanda Vanstone - The Australian

Tue, 2018/07/31 - 2:02pm

The Australian

Dismantling ATSIC probably a mistake, says Amanda Vanstone
The Australian
The committee examined earlier examples of indigenous advisory bodies as well as current ones, such as the Murdi Paaki Regional Authority in western NSW, the Torres Strait Regional Authority, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and others.

Indigenous Land Corporation to hand FNQ cattle stations back to traditional owners without cattle - ABC News

Tue, 2018/07/31 - 8:40am

ABC News

Indigenous Land Corporation to hand FNQ cattle stations back to traditional owners without cattle
ABC News
... Territory and Western Australia with around 78,000 cattle. Many of the properties are used to not only breed and fatten cattle, but provide vocational training for Indigenous people. Mr Entsch said the ILC was failing in its charter to assist ...

Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction - The Guardian

Tue, 2018/07/31 - 2:52am

The Guardian

Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction
The Guardian
It also recommended that Australia commit to a process of agreement-making and truth telling. Malcolm Turnbull rejected the voice idea, calling it undemocratic, but it has the support of Labor, the Greens and Australia's peak legal, community, and ...
Why the Law Council backs an Indigenous voice to ParliamentInDaily
First Nations Voice would 'inevitably' improve lives, says expertThe Mandarin

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Lack of integration between home support and primary care: report - Australian Ageing Agenda

Tue, 2018/07/31 - 1:24am

Australian Ageing Agenda

Lack of integration between home support and primary care: report
Australian Ageing Agenda
Meanwhile, the report describes the drop in the number of indigenous people in home care over the last three years as concerning. According to a 2017 Aged Care Financing Authority report 330 fewer indigenous Australians were receiving home care in ...

Google News

Banking royal commission: Indigenous Australians face barriers to accessing superannuation - ABC News

Mon, 2018/07/30 - 7:14pm

ABC News

Banking royal commission: Indigenous Australians face barriers to accessing superannuation
ABC News
Financial counsellor Alan Gray goes the extra mile to assist some of his clients. He travels from his Broome base to remote Aboriginal communities in WA's Dampier Peninsula. Two of the communities he works in are more than 200 kilometres up a dirt road ...

Goolagong's search for the next indigenous star starts in Darwin - The Australian

Mon, 2018/07/30 - 2:16pm

The Australian

Goolagong's search for the next indigenous star starts in Darwin
The Australian
It is now 37 years since Goolagong Cawley, who turns 67 today, won the French Open and Wimbledon and in that time, Australia has not produced another indigenous grand slam champion. Ash Barty, who recently became a National indigenous Tennis ...
Indigenous breakthrough a matter of time, says Goolagong-CawleyEurosport.com AU

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Indigenous playwright: Australian theatre is "whitesplaining" stories - The Sydney Morning Herald

Mon, 2018/07/30 - 7:58am

The Sydney Morning Herald

Indigenous playwright: Australian theatre is "whitesplaining" stories
The Sydney Morning Herald
But instead of revelling in the standing ovation on Friday night and the warm reviews over the weekend, Indigenous playwright H. Lawrence Sumner was upset about the latest example of what he called "whitesplaining" Aboriginal stories in Australian theatre.
The Long Forgotten DreamAboriginal Art Directory News
The Long Forgotten Dream review – play prods old wounds of colonisationThe Guardian

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Indigenous breakthrough a matter of time, says Goolagong-Cawley - Eurosport.com AU

Mon, 2018/07/30 - 7:21am

Eurosport.com AU

Indigenous breakthrough a matter of time, says Goolagong-Cawley
Eurosport.com AU
MELBOURNE, July 30 (Reuters) - Nearly half a century after Evonne Goolagong-Cawley became the first Aboriginal Australian to win a grand slam title at the 1971 French Open, the nation still waits for another indigenous talent to emerge and claim the ...

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Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction - The Guardian

Mon, 2018/07/30 - 7:00am
Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction  The Guardian

A parliamentary committee established to examine the proposals of the Uluru statement has heard there is strong support for the concept of an Indigenous voice ...

Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction - The Guardian

Mon, 2018/07/30 - 7:00am
Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction  The Guardian

A parliamentary committee established to examine the proposals of the Uluru statement has heard there is strong support for the concept of an Indigenous voice ...

Banking royal commission: Indigenous Australians struggle to access their own super - ABC News

Mon, 2018/07/30 - 7:00am
Banking royal commission: Indigenous Australians struggle to access their own super  ABC News

Financial counsellors like Alan Gray are driving hundreds of kilometres up dirt roads on a regular basis to help their clients in remote Indigenous communities ...

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