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Indigenous Australians may have been the first bakers making loaves 15000 years before the Egyptians - Daily Mail

Thu, 2016/09/08 - 12:14pm

Daily Mail

Indigenous Australians may have been the first bakers making loaves 15000 years before the Egyptians
Daily Mail
Australian author Bruce Pascoe claims Aboriginal people were not only hunter gatherers as commonly portrayed after European colonisation in his book 'Dark Emu, Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?' 'Yes, we were the first to invent bread by 15,000 years.

Celebrating Indigenous achievements in business:: - Invest in Australia

Thu, 2016/09/08 - 9:46am

Celebrating Indigenous achievements in business::
Invest in Australia
... capture and processing is adhered to, for this we are working through the process with the government and Aboriginal groups. I hope we can have in future a very viable native harvest business that provides products all over Australia and around the ...

Australia's Indigenous children are incarcerated at the world's highest rate - Independent Australia

Thu, 2016/09/08 - 4:38am

Independent Australia

Australia's Indigenous children are incarcerated at the world's highest rate
Independent Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are sentenced and incarcerated at three times the rate of non-Aboriginal children arrested. This is another reason why many of us are calling for the national rollout of the Custody Notification Service ...

John Howard, Tony Abbott lock in against treaty with Indigenous Australians - ABC Online

Thu, 2016/09/08 - 12:14am

ABC Online

John Howard, Tony Abbott lock in against treaty with Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Two former Liberal prime ministers have outright rejected a treaty with Indigenous Australians, as public debate continues about the merits of holding a referendum to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Let the market unchain indigenous communities - On Line opinion

Wed, 2016/09/07 - 10:08pm

Let the market unchain indigenous communities
On Line opinion
The remote town of Warburton, Western Australia, gives us a glimpse into everyday life for many indigenous Australians. The average life expectancy in Warburton is 45. The population of 800 is mostly unemployed. Most young adults do not go to high school.

Sung into her seat: Indigenous MP Linda Burney makes history as the world watches - ABC Online

Wed, 2016/09/07 - 7:13am

ABC Online

Sung into her seat: Indigenous MP Linda Burney makes history as the world watches
ABC Online
Wiradjuri woman Lynette Riley has been "blown away" by the international interest in her Indigenous acknowledgement, sung from the public gallery of the Australian Parliament, to welcome her long-time friend Linda Burney as the first Aboriginal woman ...

Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art - Hyperallergic

Tue, 2016/09/06 - 10:35pm

Hyperallergic

Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
Hyperallergic
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia's Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics. They did so ...

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'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happiness - ABC Online

Tue, 2016/09/06 - 7:20pm

ABC Online

'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happiness
ABC Online
Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men have lower rates of happiness than their non-Indigenous counterparts, with 10 percent rating their happiness as zero out of ten, a new survey has found. The Mission Australia Youth Survey spoke to 18,727 ...
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are IndigenousHuffington Post Australia
Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian ArtHyperallergic
[ September 7, 2016 ] We can't let our young people despair and lose hope, says Calma NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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Q&A: Shakespeare's Sonnet 127 Was Read In An Indigenous Language And It Was Awesome - Huffington Post Australia

Mon, 2016/09/05 - 1:55pm

Huffington Post Australia

Q&A: Shakespeare's Sonnet 127 Was Read In An Indigenous Language And It Was Awesome
Huffington Post Australia
... translates Shakespeare into Indigenous languages, and on Monday night Q&A was treated to one of those performances. Farmer performed Sonnet 127 in Noongar, which is the indigenous language of her family in the south-west of Western Australia.
Q&A on Shakespeare's universal truths: 'This famous white fella who's dead now 400 years'ABC Online
Listen To Shakespeare Performed In An Indigenous Language On Last Night's 'Q&A'Junkee
Germaine Greer tells Q&A Shakespeare's timeless lesson is to make us thinkThe Guardian

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FactCheck Q&A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500000 Indigenous people in Australia? - The Conversation AU

Mon, 2016/09/05 - 9:25am

The Conversation AU

FactCheck Q&A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500000 Indigenous people in Australia?
The Conversation AU
Nicholas Biddle works in a centre at the ANU that receives funding from Commonwealth and State/Territory governments to research Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander demographic and socioeconomic outcomes. Dennis Foley is an Indigenous Australian ...
Ngaya Ngyamitjimitang. This is all I can say in my own language, and it is painful for meThe Guardian
Hurtful cartoon fails to help indigenous victims of injusticeThe Australian
In memory of so many, there must be a national custody notification serviceIndependent Australia

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Victoria signs over $500m in public housing stock to Aboriginal organisation - ABC Online

Mon, 2016/09/05 - 12:18am

ABC Online

Victoria signs over $500m in public housing stock to Aboriginal organisation
ABC Online
AHV CEO Jenny Samms said she believed the transfer of housing to the Indigenous organisation was the largest. "I believe it is the biggest housing ownership transfer in Victoria and the biggest in Australia to a single Indigenous organisation," she said.
Victoria to transfer ownership of hundreds of homes under Indigenous planThe Guardian

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That Sugar Film: Documentary maker Damon Gameau pays back ... - ABC Online

Sun, 2016/09/04 - 8:59pm

ABC Online

That Sugar Film: Documentary maker Damon Gameau pays back ...
ABC Online
That Sugar Film actor and filmmaker Damon Gameau repays a debt of knowledge, using the success of his latest documentary to support an Indigenous health ...
Australian Story :: The Sugar Trip - ABCABC Message Stick

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Victoria to transfer ownership of hundreds of homes under Indigenous plan - The Guardian

Sun, 2016/09/04 - 8:44pm

The Guardian

Victoria to transfer ownership of hundreds of homes under Indigenous plan
The Guardian
The Victorian government will transfer ownership of 511 homes to Aboriginal Housing Victoria on Monday as part of a plan to provide almost 1,500 homes to Indigenous peoples reliant on public housing. The housing minister, Martin Foley, said the homes ...

Aboriginal woman goes from 'non-citizen' to Australian parliament - Yahoo7 News

Sat, 2016/09/03 - 3:57am

Yahoo7 News

Aboriginal woman goes from 'non-citizen' to Australian parliament
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Wearing a cloak decorated with the goanna lizard, the first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia's lower house took her seat in parliament this week, saying that as a child she was a "non-citizen". Former teacher Linda Burney made ...

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First Aboriginal curator appointed to South Australian Museum, with ... - ABC Online

Fri, 2016/09/02 - 10:55pm

ABC Online

First Aboriginal curator appointed to South Australian Museum, with ...
ABC Online
The South Australian Museum hopes more stories of Indigenous history and culture will be uncovered, following the appointment of its first Aboriginal curator ...
An Indigenous curator for Indigenous artefacts: South Australia ...The Guardian (blog)
AM - Young Indigenous leadership gathering underway in Sydney ...ABC Local

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'Blatant war and genocide': memories of Native Police haunt Indigenous Queensland - The Guardian

Fri, 2016/09/02 - 10:53pm

The Guardian

'Blatant war and genocide': memories of Native Police haunt Indigenous Queensland
The Guardian
Detail from an 1888 drawing of the massacre of Indigenous people by Queensland's Native Police at Skull Hole, near Winton in central Queensland, Australia. The drawing was by Norwegian scientist Carl Lumholtz, who recounted being shown between 1882 ...

An Indigenous curator for Indigenous artefacts: South Australia breaks new ground - The Guardian (blog)

Fri, 2016/09/02 - 9:46pm

The Guardian (blog)

An Indigenous curator for Indigenous artefacts: South Australia breaks new ground
The Guardian (blog)
On Monday the museum will formally announce the appointment of Iseger-Pilkington as curator of Aboriginal art and material culture. Six other Indigenous Australians work there. But it is the first time in the history of the museum, founded in 1856 ...
Young Indigenous leadership gathering underway in SydneyABC Local

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Can Turnbull change course in Indigenous affairs? - The Conversation AU

Fri, 2016/09/02 - 1:11am

The Conversation AU

Can Turnbull change course in Indigenous affairs?
The Conversation AU
The mismanagement of a new competitive funding scheme, the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, and the substantial cuts to Indigenous funding in the 2014 budget, have both had a significant impact on services and communities across Australia.

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Introducing 'Noongarpedia' – Australia's first Indigenous Wikipedia - The Guardian

Thu, 2016/09/01 - 9:24pm

The Guardian

Introducing 'Noongarpedia' – Australia's first Indigenous Wikipedia
The Guardian
The Noongarpedia project began in 2014 by a team from the University of Western Australia led by school of Indigenous studies professor and Noongar elder Leonard Collard, with Curtin University's John Hartley and the Miles Franklin award-winning ...

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