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National Australia Bank CFO Gary Lennon helping make every customer count - The Australian Financial Review

Fri, 2017/01/06 - 1:25am

The Australian Financial Review

National Australia Bank CFO Gary Lennon helping make every customer count
The Australian Financial Review
It was also through NAB that Lennon joined the board of the Stronger Smarter Institute, which is chaired by Chris Sarra and aims to work with school principals and teachers to help improve outcomes for Indigenous children across Australia. Both of ...

Briggs eyes top 20 - Shepparton News

Thu, 2017/01/05 - 11:17pm

Shepparton News

Briggs eyes top 20
Shepparton News
It takes aim at the date of Australia Day, which he believes is culturally insensitive to indigenous Australians. With lyrics like ''You can come and wave your flag, but it don't mean a thing to me'', the track has been a big part of the growing social ...

Black Arm Band recreates Indigenous Australian magic in 'Dirtsong' - BeatRoute Magazine

Thu, 2017/01/05 - 6:37pm

Big Island Now

Black Arm Band recreates Indigenous Australian magic in 'Dirtsong'
BeatRoute Magazine
VANCOUVER — Black Arm Band has been telling Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander stories for over a decade now. Their motto is to celebrate the past while revolutionising the future, through music and art. The band's guest artistic ...
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Wesley Enoch won't censor Sydney Festival's Australia Day activities - The Australian

Thu, 2017/01/05 - 1:01pm

The Australian

Wesley Enoch won't censor Sydney Festival's Australia Day activities
The Australian
Enoch's festival includes a range of indigenous artists and performances. Among the highlights is a concert at the Opera House, Music in the Key of Yes, to celebrate the 1967 referendum. A program of talks and classes called Bayala will teach people ...

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The year Australia's newspapers broke me - The New Daily

Thu, 2017/01/05 - 12:10pm

The New Daily

The year Australia's newspapers broke me
The New Daily
On April 8, 2013, Paddy Manning, a journalist employed by business and finance newspaper, The Australian Financial Review, pressed 'send' on an article he had penned for online publication, Crikey, and blew his AFR career sky high. Manning's article ...

Wanganeen to leave new mark on AFL - The Advertiser

Thu, 2017/01/05 - 10:34am

The Advertiser

Wanganeen to leave new mark on AFL
The Advertiser
Wanganeen has been exploring his indigenous heritage through painting. The former Bomber also designed Essendon's indigenous guernsey for their Dreamtime at the 'G match last year. Wanganeen was a premiership player for Essendon in 1993, the ...

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Australia Day 2017 - On Line opinion

Wed, 2017/01/04 - 10:57pm

Australia Day 2017
On Line opinion
It is especially sad when compared to the gracious invitations Australians now receive to play cricket and football on Aborigines' tribal lands such as the MCG and SCG. But why do some call for a "Day of Mourning" or a "Survival Day", when the ...

DNA study confirms Aboriginal history - Echonetdaily

Wed, 2017/01/04 - 9:48pm

Echonetdaily

DNA study confirms Aboriginal history
Echonetdaily
The largest study on the DNA of indigenous Australians confirms Aboriginal people were here tens of thousands of years before European colonisation. The study by La Trobe University analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 594 indigenous people from across ...

In Family Rules, an Indigenous mother rules the roost of nine unruly daughters - Brisbane Times

Wed, 2017/01/04 - 8:59pm

Brisbane Times

In Family Rules, an Indigenous mother rules the roost of nine unruly daughters
Brisbane Times
So Family Rules does something important from the get-go simply by showcasing an ordinary suburban family who happen to be First Australians. Filmed in the classic ob-doc style, Family Rules follows the Rule family as they go about their daily business.

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In Family Rules, an Indigenous mother rules the roost of nine unruly daughters - The Age

Wed, 2017/01/04 - 2:48pm

In Family Rules, an Indigenous mother rules the roost of nine unruly daughters
The Age
So Family Rules does something important from the get-go simply by showcasing an ordinary suburban family who happen to be First Australians. Filmed in the classic ob-doc style, Family Rules follows the Rule family as they go about their daily business.

DNA study confirms Aboriginal history - Yahoo7 News

Wed, 2017/01/04 - 7:54am

DNA study confirms Aboriginal history
Yahoo7 News
The largest study on the DNA of indigenous Australians confirms Aboriginal people were here tens of thousands of years before European colonisation. The study by La Trobe University analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 594 indigenous people from across ...

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DNA study confirms Aboriginal history - 9news.com.au

Wed, 2017/01/04 - 7:42am

DNA study confirms Aboriginal history
9news.com.au
The largest study on the DNA of indigenous Australians confirms Aboriginal people were here tens of thousands of years before European colonisation. The study by La Trobe University analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 594 indigenous people from across ...

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Animated installation turns global challenges into art for Sydney Festival - SBS

Wed, 2017/01/04 - 6:48am

SBS

Animated installation turns global challenges into art for Sydney Festival
SBS
It highlights the cultures and languages around the globe that are in danger of extinction - about 3500 of them, including Australia's Indigenous communities. Projects such as My Grandmother's Lingo - backed by SBS - are trying to ensure their survival.

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Centrelink wipes surprise $7800 debt after Indigenous woman seeks answers - SBS

Wed, 2017/01/04 - 5:25am

SBS

Centrelink wipes surprise $7800 debt after Indigenous woman seeks answers
SBS
The Centrelink welfare debt crisis engulfing the Department of Human Services has been affecting Aboriginal Australians, with NITV receiving more than one hundred claims from people saying they have received of demands for repayment despite correctly ...

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Stop superannuation from becoming 'stolen wages' - Investment Magazine

Tue, 2017/01/03 - 6:06pm

Investment Magazine

Stop superannuation from becoming 'stolen wages'
Investment Magazine
In January 2016, a woman from a remote Indigenous community aged in her early fifties contacted Financial Counselling Australia looking for help. She was desperate to be granted an early release of $20,000 from her superannuation account to pay for ...

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Daniel's spare time well spent - Perth Now

Tue, 2017/01/03 - 4:01pm

Perth Now

Daniel's spare time well spent
Perth Now
He has helped youngsters through Curtin University's Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, which runs workshops for Aboriginal schoolchildren. He is studying health promotion and health and safety and cheerfully said he is “chipping away” at his ...

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Tackling Aboriginal ear disease will help close the gap - The Australian

Tue, 2017/01/03 - 1:02pm

The Australian

Tackling Aboriginal ear disease will help close the gap
The Australian
We should be embarrassed that Aboriginal Australians have the world's worst incidence of middle ear infection and the worst deafness rates because of those infections. More than 90 per cent of young Aboriginal children have hearing-aid-level deafness ...

Andrew Quilty's Everyday Australia Instagram account more than just 'beaches and bikini babes' - ABC Local

Tue, 2017/01/03 - 2:41am

ABC Local

Andrew Quilty's Everyday Australia Instagram account more than just 'beaches and bikini babes'
ABC Local
Or how about a flood-stricken suburban street, cousins shooting hoops or a cattle farm? Two years ago photojournalist Andrew Quilty set out to tell the stories of everyday Australia that weren't just about "beer, beaches and bikini babes". The 2016 ...

Australia's first Aboriginal grower group established in Western Australia - ABC Online

Mon, 2017/01/02 - 11:50pm

ABC Online

Australia's first Aboriginal grower group established in Western Australia
ABC Online
The Noongar Land Enterprises (NLE) group has been set up by the Department of Agriculture and Food WA (DAFWA) in the hope it will maximise the potential for industry investment and international supply opportunities. DAFWA project organiser Kelvin ...

Philanthropist Andrew Forrest aims to end slavery and disparity - The Australian

Mon, 2017/01/02 - 1:04pm

The Australian

Philanthropist Andrew Forrest aims to end slavery and disparity
The Australian
We should be fiercely and passionately proud to be Australian,” Mr Forrest said at the ceremony in November. “If we in Australia say we're not going to stand for any form of modern slavery, like we're not going to stand for any form of indigenous ...

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