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Adelaide Fringe goes round the river bend with indigenous nature and cultural hub - NEWS.com.au

Mon, 2018/08/27 - 10:04am

NEWS.com.au

Adelaide Fringe goes round the river bend with indigenous nature and cultural hub
NEWS.com.au
Picture: Naomi JellicoeSource:News Corp Australia. MESMERISING projected imagery, soundscapes and light installations will transform Torrens riverbanks near the University footbridge into an interactive hub of Aboriginal storytelling at next year's ...

PM Morrison and what he might mean for Indigenous Australia - SBS

Mon, 2018/08/27 - 7:38am

SBS

PM Morrison and what he might mean for Indigenous Australia
SBS
After last week's historic double spill and leadership coup, Scott Morrison is setting up office as Australia's 30th prime minister. In selecting his cabinet, the former Treasurer has chosen to keep Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion in his ...
Tony Abbott 'not retiring' and calls Peter Dutton a 'reluctant challenger'The Guardian
Tony Abbott holds out on Scott Morrison's special envoy offerThe Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson says Tony Abbott job offer of indigenous envoy is condescendingThe Australian
Lawyers Weekly -NEWS.com.au -Los Angeles Times
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Australian archaeologists dropped the term 'Stone Age' decades ago, and so should you - The Conversation AU

Mon, 2018/08/27 - 5:53am

The Conversation AU

Australian archaeologists dropped the term 'Stone Age' decades ago, and so should you
The Conversation AU
In Australia, “Stone Age” was seen not as a technology practised by Aboriginal people, but rather as the essence of what they were. “Stone Age” people were assumed to have no system of land tenure. For that, you needed to improve the land through ...

Tony Abbott 'not retiring' but questions Morrison's Indigenous envoy role - The Guardian

Mon, 2018/08/27 - 1:28am

The Guardian

Tony Abbott 'not retiring' but questions Morrison's Indigenous envoy role
The Guardian
Abbott told 2GB on Monday he would “love to do a fair dinkum job” but wants to see “what this new role entails” because he did not want to “trip over the toes” of the Indigenous affairs minister. “I've been going to Indigenous Australia for years and ...
Wyatt floats fixed terms for PM, lukewarm on Abbott as Aboriginal envoyThe Sydney Morning Herald
PoliticsNow: Dodson blasts Abbott job offer and 'offensive track record'The Australian
Lawyers react to new PMLawyers Weekly
Los Angeles Times -PostBulletin.com
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Career Spotlight: Aboriginal Art Centre Manager - ArtsHub

Sun, 2018/08/26 - 11:52pm

ArtsHub

Career Spotlight: Aboriginal Art Centre Manager
ArtsHub
More recently, ArtsHub spoke with the art centre managers of Ernabella Arts – also in the APY Lands, and Australia's oldest continuously running Indigenous Art Centre – and Bula'bula Arts at Raminginging in remote Arnhem Land (NT), to find out what it ...

Henry Reynolds: Australia was founded on a hypocrisy that haunts us to this day - The Conversation AU

Sun, 2018/08/26 - 9:04pm

The Conversation AU

Henry Reynolds: Australia was founded on a hypocrisy that haunts us to this day
The Conversation AU
The laws with which the colony was founded also declared that Aboriginal people became subjects of the Crown, which should have given them protection under British law. This created a problem of timing. Did the British seize the land of Aboriginal ...

Contaminated water is a problem in remote Australia, so an Aboriginal teenager decided to try and fix it - ABC News

Sun, 2018/08/26 - 9:01pm

ABC News

Contaminated water is a problem in remote Australia, so an Aboriginal teenager decided to try and fix it
ABC News
An Aboriginal teenager from outback Western Australia has hopes a water filter he engineered for a school project will one day help improve water quality in places where its health effects are only recently being understood. Uriah Daisybell, 18, has ...

Aussie historian says Sydney's history is far more brutal than previously thought - NEWS.com.au

Sun, 2018/08/26 - 2:39pm

NEWS.com.au

Aussie historian says Sydney's history is far more brutal than previously thought
NEWS.com.au
And, it was this tactic which resulted in the massacres of so many indigenous Australians during the early colony. “The only way to come close to Aboriginal warriors was to invent the dawn raid, which means opening fire as soon as you see them and it ...

Pretty for an Aboriginal: Set it Alight - ArtsHub

Sat, 2018/08/25 - 12:31pm

ArtsHub

Pretty for an Aboriginal: Set it Alight
ArtsHub
Part podcast, part polemic, part stand-up, this conversation with Nakkiah Lui and Miranda Tapsell and very special guest Ta-Nehisi Coates burns down the structures, strictures and power brokers that have governed the entertainment industry for too long.

All Set For Racing Following Rider Presentations at 2018 World Junior Motocross Championships - Fullnoise

Fri, 2018/08/24 - 6:25pm

Fullnoise

All Set For Racing Following Rider Presentations at 2018 World Junior Motocross Championships
Fullnoise
Warm temperatures have Horsham's circuit, and Australia as a whole for that matter, will be hosting a motocross event of this type for the first time in history. Horsham itself is a regional city in the Wimmera region of western Victoria with a ...

Review: Speed north to Darwin to see the latest, most dynamic Indigenous art - The Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2018/08/24 - 1:45pm

The Sydney Morning Herald

Review: Speed north to Darwin to see the latest, most dynamic Indigenous art
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aside from the NATSIAA, the museum is also playing host to Midawarr/Harvest, a collaborative exhibition between John Wolseley and Yolngu bark painter, Mulkun Wirrapanda, previously shown at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.

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Coniston Massacre: NT police apologise for state-sanctioned massacre of Aboriginal people - ABC News

Fri, 2018/08/24 - 10:44am

ABC News

Coniston Massacre: NT police apologise for state-sanctioned massacre of Aboriginal people
ABC News
An official inquiry soon after the massacre found 31 people were killed, but the National Museum of Australia puts the figure at more than 60. Local people say many more died. The Northern Territory did not exist in 1928, and Murray worked for South ...
Remembering the Coniston Massacre 90 years onNEWS.com.au

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Lachlan Edwards to represent Australian indigenous men's team at trans-Tasman tournament - Geelong Advertiser

Fri, 2018/08/24 - 10:20am

Geelong Advertiser

Lachlan Edwards to represent Australian indigenous men's team at trans-Tasman tournament
Geelong Advertiser
Edwards, who plays football at Bell Park, was one of just two Victorians to earn a call up to the Australian indigenous men's team for the fifth annual running of the trans-Tasman tournament. “It happened last year, but it fell in football season for ...

What kind of prime minister will Scott Morrison be? - ABC News

Fri, 2018/08/24 - 7:56am

ABC News

What kind of prime minister will Scott Morrison be?
ABC News
Scott Morrison remains an intriguing, and polarising, figure on the Liberal Party frontbench. He's been described as relentless, ambitious, and hard-line, although these labels only give us some clues to his personal politics, and ultimately his ...
Federal MP Wyatt 'disappointed' in DuttonBega District News
Peter Dutton's extreme makeover: smiling, drinking and the AC/DC testThe Guardian

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Art Centre Manager - ArtsHub

Fri, 2018/08/24 - 7:36am

Art Centre Manager
ArtsHub
Desart is the non-profit peak industry body for over forty Central Australian Aboriginal Art Centres and the Tjarlirli Art Board of Directors has engaged Desart assist them in the recruitment of their new Art Centre Manager. An information package ...

'All women are beautiful': Trevor Noah explains controversial joke - The Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2018/08/24 - 7:36am

The Sydney Morning Herald

'All women are beautiful': Trevor Noah explains controversial joke
The Sydney Morning Herald
Trevor Noah has attempted to shed more light on his controversial joke about Aboriginal women. The comedian, who is currently touring Australia, recently sat down with two hosts from Brisbane community radio station 98.9 FM. The presenters – Chelsea ...

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The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania's Black War - Art Guide Australia

Fri, 2018/08/24 - 5:04am

Art Guide Australia

The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania's Black War
Art Guide Australia
The National Picture, a partnership between the National Gallery of Australia and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, is the culmination of extensive research undertaken by Professor Tim Bonyhady and Dr Greg Lehman. An exhibition with a focus on how ...

Adelaide CBD siege ends peacefully with man taken into custody - ABC News

Fri, 2018/08/24 - 4:12am

ABC News

Adelaide CBD siege ends peacefully with man taken into custody
ABC News
He is the cousin of Wayne Morrison, an Indigenous prisoner who died in custody after an altercation with guards at Yatala Labour Prison in 2016. The coronial inquest into Mr Morrison's death is scheduled to begin on Monday, but police said they did not ...

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APY lands general manager Richard King ousted - The Australian

Fri, 2018/08/24 - 2:42am

The Australian

APY lands general manager Richard King ousted
The Australian
A board that runs South Australia's remote Aboriginal lands has ousted the region's general manager in a move likely to spark a renewed bout of infighting. Richard King, general manager of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, a region of ...

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Coniston Massacre anniversary sparks push to create day of remembrance and formal apology - ABC Message Stick

Thu, 2018/08/23 - 8:31pm

ABC Message Stick

Coniston Massacre anniversary sparks push to create day of remembrance and formal apology
ABC Message Stick
On the eve of the 90th anniversary of the Coniston Massacre — Australia's last state-sanctioned mass killing — an Aboriginal leader has called for a national day of remembrance, like Anzac Day, to commemorate massacres of Indigenous people.

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