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Black is the New White by Nakkiah Lui at the Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre - The Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2018/03/22 - 5:53am

The Sydney Morning Herald

Black is the New White by Nakkiah Lui at the Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre
The Sydney Morning Herald
"I'm a massive fan of David Williamson's work - I had a look at how he has interpreted issues," she says. She wanted to bring something of the same seriocomic approach to contemporary Australia - and to depict an Aboriginal family that wasn't like the ...

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Indigenous owners 'left out' of rock art site's world heritage listing talks - The Guardian

Thu, 2018/03/22 - 4:36am

The Guardian

Indigenous owners 'left out' of rock art site's world heritage listing talks
The Guardian
Labor also called for Murujuga Indigenous rangers to be given enforcement powers similar to those held by ordinary parks and wildlife officers, after the committee heard rangers had no power to order those abusing the park to stop or move on. It said ...
Future of globally significant rock art still up in air as Senate inquiry hands down findingsABC Online

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The Mocker: Time for comedians to wake up to themselves - The Australian

Thu, 2018/03/22 - 3:57am

The Australian

The Mocker: Time for comedians to wake up to themselves
The Australian
In 2003 she was awarded a $65,000 Australian Indigenous Scholarship to study in Canada. In 2012 she received 'The Dreaming Award' from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Arts Board of the Australia Council to the value of $20,000. Now she has her ...

Myer accused of racially profiling Aboriginal boy after security guards called at Perth store - ABC Local

Thu, 2018/03/22 - 1:54am

ABC Local

Myer accused of racially profiling Aboriginal boy after security guards called at Perth store
ABC Local
Department store Myer has been accused of racial profiling after staff called security guards to conduct checks on a teenage Aboriginal boy while he was shopping at its flagship store in Perth's central business district. Jaylen Garlett, 16, was ...

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Australian nursing and midwifery code of conduct slammed over 'white privilege' - NEWS.com.au

Thu, 2018/03/22 - 1:07am

NEWS.com.au

Australian nursing and midwifery code of conduct slammed over 'white privilege'
NEWS.com.au
Nurses and midwives around the country must now adhere to a new code of conduct with a section specifically dedicated to “culture” and which details white Australians' inherent privilege “in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders”. The ...
Nurses fight 'white privilege' codeBundaberg News Mail

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Capital-city native-title deal 'a celebration for us all' - The Australian

Wed, 2018/03/21 - 1:01pm

National Indigenous Times

Capital-city native-title deal 'a celebration for us all'
The Australian
The decision is the first in which Australian indigenous people have been formally recognised as traditional owners of parts of a capital city. The state will provide an undisclosed sum to the Kaurna people, and funds for the repatriation of ancestral ...
New crop of rangers look out for countryNational Indigenous Times

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Federal Court grants South Australia's Kaurna people Adelaide land rights - The Advertiser

Wed, 2018/03/21 - 2:40am

The Advertiser

Federal Court grants South Australia's Kaurna people Adelaide land rights
The Advertiser
In an emotional Federal Court hearing this morning, Judge Debra Mortimer approved an agreement between the Kaurna people and South Australian State Government over about 4000sq km of land from Hamley Bridge in the north to Myponga Beach in the south ...
Kaurna people granted Adelaide land rightsYahoo7 News
"Our ancestors will be smiling": Kaurna people gain native title rightsInDaily

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Bernie McLeod continues to grow football across Indigenous communities - South Coast Register

Wed, 2018/03/21 - 1:45am

South Coast Register

Bernie McLeod continues to grow football across Indigenous communities
South Coast Register
“We pretty much started off with just a concept and now we have great numbers of aboriginal teams lining up to compete and the level of football improves every year. “This year we actually sent Australian Indigenous representative men and women's teams ...

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Kaurna people granted Adelaide land rights - 9news.com.au

Wed, 2018/03/21 - 1:17am

The Advertiser

Kaurna people granted Adelaide land rights
9news.com.au
It is really fantastic," Ms Power said. The final agreement recognises 12 Kaurna elders as the descendants of the Aboriginal people who owned the land when Adelaide was settled in 1836, but it does not give them ownership of the 4000sq km of land now ...
Federal Court grants South Australia's Kaurna people Adelaide land rightsThe Advertiser
"Our ancestors will be smiling": Kaurna people gain native title rightsInDaily

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Indigenous stars poised for Games claims - National Indigenous Times

Wed, 2018/03/21 - 12:47am

National Indigenous Times

Indigenous stars poised for Games claims
National Indigenous Times
Among the big names facing off against competitors from 71 nations and territories are volleyball star Taliqua Clancy, discus thrower Benn Harradine and boxer Clay Waterman. For Harradine, the only Indigenous member of Australia's athletics team, this ...

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Adoptions threaten culture: peak body - National Indigenous Times

Wed, 2018/03/21 - 12:02am

National Indigenous Times

Adoptions threaten culture: peak body
National Indigenous Times
Any move to have Aboriginal children adopted by non-Indigenous families would be a backward step, according to Australia's peak body representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. SNAICC (National Voice for Our Children) chairwoman ...

Indigenous group 'offered $10m in water' to help pass Murray-Darling plan - The Guardian

Wed, 2018/03/21 - 12:01am

The Guardian

Indigenous group 'offered $10m in water' to help pass Murray-Darling plan
The Guardian
The government offered an Indigenous group $10m in water entitlements as it tried to get its plan to reduce water for environmental flows in the Murray-Darling basin through the Senate, a senior Indigenous leader has said. Fred Hooper, who heads the ...

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Indigenous language link reveals common ancestor - The University of Newcastle, Australia

Tue, 2018/03/20 - 11:45pm

Warwick Daily News

Indigenous language link reveals common ancestor
The University of Newcastle, Australia
“These findings show that Indigenous Australian languages were not the likely languages spoken by the first inhabitants of Australia, raising more questions around how the languages spread and how the linguistic findings connect to the genetic findings ...
'White Australia needs to know it has a very black history'Warwick Daily News
Goondiwindi becomes set of Myall Creek filmGoondiwindi Argus
10 MW Northam solar farm stacks capacity, LGC revenue to make merchant workpv magazine Australia

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Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum? - ABC Online

Tue, 2018/03/20 - 11:32pm

ABC Online

Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum?
ABC Online
Professor Marcia Langton, one of Australia's most respected Indigenous academics, told Fact Check that the so-called flora and fauna act was first mentioned by pioneer Aboriginal filmmaker Lester Bostock during a council meeting in Canberra in the ...

Spear Hill site a 'spiritual centre': report - National Indigenous Times

Tue, 2018/03/20 - 11:11pm

Spear Hill site a 'spiritual centre': report
National Indigenous Times
Roland Coppin, Ronald Hicks and Terry Hughes take a break during a cultural evaluation of Ngajanha Kanyja. A cultural evaluation report for traditional owners has found the Eastern Guruma people of Western Australia's Pilbara used and occupied an area ...

New crop of rangers look out for country - National Indigenous Times

Tue, 2018/03/20 - 10:52pm

National Indigenous Times

New crop of rangers look out for country
National Indigenous Times
Mutitjulu elders have launched a new Central Land Council ranger group to manage the vast Katiti Petermann Indigenous Protected Area around the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park. Central Land Council chairman Francis Kelly said Mutitjulu's Tjakura rangers ...

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Music's big guns set to ignite Karijini - National Indigenous Times

Tue, 2018/03/20 - 10:22pm

National Indigenous Times

Music's big guns set to ignite Karijini
National Indigenous Times
Some of Australia's biggest Aboriginal music stars will take to the red gorges of Karijini next month. Archie Roach, Deborah Cheetham and Gina Williams will be among the line-up at the sixth annual Karijini Experience, which will run from April 17-22 ...

'There are bones all through our beaches': Why people are finding skeletons in the Kimberley - ABC Online

Tue, 2018/03/20 - 7:29pm

ABC Online

'There are bones all through our beaches': Why people are finding skeletons in the Kimberley
ABC Online
A human skull has surfaced at a beach in northern Western Australia, a discovery police say is not unusual in outback Australia, where the skeletons of Aboriginal people remain tucked in caves or trees from pre-colonial times. The skull was spotted by ...

How FIFO activists are doing down Indigenous Australia - The Australian Financial Review

Tue, 2018/03/20 - 12:01pm

The Australian Financial Review

How FIFO activists are doing down Indigenous Australia
The Australian Financial Review
Here it also hurts the poorest Australians, people in remote and regional Australia and Indigenous people engaging in economic activities on their traditional lands. This was demonstrated by the weekend byelection in Batman, where mostly affluent Labor ...

Police had 'no power' to wake sleeping Aboriginal man who suffered fatal fall, inquest told - ABC Online

Tue, 2018/03/20 - 7:56am

ABC Online

Police had 'no power' to wake sleeping Aboriginal man who suffered fatal fall, inquest told
ABC Online
Mr Young was not doing anything wrong at the time of the incident, but police and paramedics attended because a woman residing at the property had asked them to leave. The inquest heard Mr Young's family held concerns the officer responded in the ...

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