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Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word 'kangaroo' - ABC News

Sat, 2018/06/23 - 12:04am

ABC News

Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word 'kangaroo'
ABC News
An Indigenous language that has survived for more than 50,000 years and gave Australia the word "kangaroo" is fighting to stay alive amid fears the number of fluent speakers is dwindling. Guugu-Yimidhirr is the mother tongue of people in Hope Vale on ...

Workshops share traditional knowledge of 'cultural burns' as fire management - ABC News

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 10:49pm

ABC News

Workshops share traditional knowledge of 'cultural burns' as fire management
ABC News
Mr Steffensen works with a group called the Firesticks Alliance, an Indigenous organisation that runs programs with communities across Australia to build recognition of cultural fire management, and to reintroduce it onto lands owned and run by ...

'Eerily similar' suspected Indigenous murder cases go cold as police explain away the truth - ABC News

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 9:09pm

ABC News

'Eerily similar' suspected Indigenous murder cases go cold as police explain away the truth
ABC News
And yet 10 years later, a different Aboriginal family is reeling from police mistakes that were "eerily similar" to the Raggett case. This is the real life Mystery Road, where Indigenous deaths are explained away by those who are supposed to find the ...

Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art - ABC News

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 8:26pm

ABC News

Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art
ABC News
This year marks 200 years since the first Chinese migrant arrived in Australia back in 1818, yet the historical connections between Chinese and Indigenous people have largely gone unrecorded.

'An untold history': Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a strong cultural bond - ABC News

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 5:41pm

ABC News

'An untold history': Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a strong cultural bond
ABC News
This year marks 200 years since the first Chinese migrant arrived in Australia back in 1818, yet the historical connections between Chinese and Indigenous people have largely gone unrecorded.

NT Government's National Indigenous Art Gallery plan dividing proponents and opponents down the Centre - NT News

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 2:03pm

NT News

NT Government's National Indigenous Art Gallery plan dividing proponents and opponents down the Centre
NT News
“It will cement Alice Springs' reputation as the Inland Capital of Australia and the Red Centre as the heart of Aboriginal art in Australia and the rightful home for a National Aboriginal Art Gallery,” she said. But the Government's plan to build this ...

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The fight to rid indigenous communities of drug and alcohol abuse, sexual assault - Daily Telegraph

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 12:03pm

Daily Telegraph

The fight to rid indigenous communities of drug and alcohol abuse, sexual assault
Daily Telegraph
In Halls Creek, in Western Australia's Kimberly, a 16 year old has been charged with the alleged sexual assault of a four-year-old boy. Last year in the Northern Territory, 149 sexual offence cases involving children under the age of 16 came to the ...

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Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art - ABC Local

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 7:00am
Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art  ABC Local

This year marks 200 years since the first Chinese migrant arrived in Australia back in 1818, yet the historical connections between Chinese and Indigenous ...

Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art - ABC News

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 7:00am
Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art  ABC News

This year marks 200 years since the first Chinese migrant arrived in Australia back in 1818, yet the historical connections between Chinese and Indigenous ...

Federal Government announces review into indigenous transplant gap - NT News

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 2:17am

NT News

Federal Government announces review into indigenous transplant gap
NT News
Indigenous Health Minster Ken Wyatt will today unveil “a comprehensive review into the hurdles, service gaps and practical challenges” that prevent indigenous Australians from accessing transplants. The announcement follows national outcry over ...

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Federal Government announces review into indigenous transplant gap - NEWS.com.au

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 2:16am

NEWS.com.au

Federal Government announces review into indigenous transplant gap
NEWS.com.au
Indigenous Health Minster Ken Wyatt will today unveil “a comprehensive review into the hurdles, service gaps and practical challenges” that prevent indigenous Australians from accessing transplants. The announcement follows national outcry over ...

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Marcia Langton: how I eat - Gourmet Traveller

Fri, 2018/06/22 - 12:02am

Gourmet Traveller

Marcia Langton: how I eat
Gourmet Traveller
He details the Aboriginal economy and analyses the historical data showing that our societies were not simple hunter-gatherer economies but sophisticated, with farming and irrigation practices. This is the most important book on Australia and should be ...

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Victoria passes historic law to create Indigenous treaty framework - The Guardian

Thu, 2018/06/21 - 8:38pm

The Guardian

Victoria passes historic law to create Indigenous treaty framework
The Guardian
It is the first time legislation stating a formal intent to negotiate a treaty or treaties with Aboriginal people has ever been adopted by an Australian parliament, and comes as a federal parliamentary committee conducts hearings to examine national ...
Victoria passes Australia's first Treaty billThe Australian
Victoria passes Aboriginal treaty billThe Age
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Indigenous group hid more than $2m in payments from Adani mining giant - The Guardian

Thu, 2018/06/21 - 6:00pm

The Guardian

Indigenous group hid more than $2m in payments from Adani mining giant
The Guardian
Guardian Australia has obtained court documents that show the Kyburra Munda Yalga Aboriginal Corporation did not account for payments by Adani, then paid its own directors up to $1,000 a day cash-in-hand to conduct now-invalidated cultural heritage ...

Australian Soccer keen to further celebrate Indigenous athletes' contributions - SBS

Thu, 2018/06/21 - 12:05pm

SBS

Australian Soccer keen to further celebrate Indigenous athletes' contributions
SBS
The contribution Indigenous Australians have made to the sport of football, or soccer, has been rich, diverse and plentiful. So, with the Socceroos battling to match it with the world's best, should the celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Victoria passes Australia's first Treaty bill - The Australian

Thu, 2018/06/21 - 12:04pm

The Australian

Victoria passes Australia's first Treaty bill
The Australian
Australia's first treaty legislation passed Victoria's parliament on June 21, 2018, after consultation with more than 7500 Aboriginal Victorians over two years. The Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Bill 2018 will set up a ...

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Socceroos Need More Indigenous Talent - IndigenousX (press release) (blog)

Thu, 2018/06/21 - 7:51am

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)

Socceroos Need More Indigenous Talent
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
However, like Australian cricket, soccer has long had an under representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players at the elite levels. (For the purposes of this article I'll be referring to the men's game, there will be another piece in ...

Victoria passes historic law to create Indigenous treaty framework - The Guardian

Thu, 2018/06/21 - 7:00am
Victoria passes historic law to create Indigenous treaty framework  The Guardian

It is the first ever Australian legislation stating intent to negotiate a treaty.

Cairns salesman fined for misleading vulnerable consumers continues to work as pawn broker - ABC News

Thu, 2018/06/21 - 5:57am

ABC News

Cairns salesman fined for misleading vulnerable consumers continues to work as pawn broker
ABC News
A former used car salesman who was fined $1.2 million for repeatedly signing up poor, Indigenous people in far north Queensland to exorbitant loans is continuing to work as a pawn broker in Cairns. Colin Hulbert was slapped with a lifetime ban from ...

APY Lands to star in Switzerland gallery dedicated to Indigenous Australian art - ABC News

Wed, 2018/06/20 - 8:46pm

ABC News

APY Lands to star in Switzerland gallery dedicated to Indigenous Australian art
ABC News
The work of Aboriginal artists from South Australia's APY Lands will feature prominently when Europe's first gallery dedicated to Indigenous Australian art opens next year. More than 30 female Aboriginal artists from every community in the APY Lands ...

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