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UNSW alumna to represent Australia at Venice Biennale - UNSW Newsroom

Fri, 2018/03/09 - 4:39am

UNSW Newsroom

UNSW alumna to represent Australia at Venice Biennale
UNSW Newsroom
The selection was done by an independent panel of respected arts professionals chaired by Professor Callum Morton from Monash University and comprising Chris Saines, Director, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art; Franchesca Cubillo, Senior ...

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'The killing time': How placenames reveal violence, murder and injustice in the Kimberley - ABC Online

Fri, 2018/03/09 - 3:19am

ABC Online

'The killing time': How placenames reveal violence, murder and injustice in the Kimberley
ABC Online
Rudolph Philchowski was killed in 1913 — in the middle of the killing time — by an Aboriginal man known as Gulbooding, commonly referred to as Wallambain. There are recordings that Philchowski was a Polish count, but it was more likely he was a ...

Language revival preserving history - The Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2018/03/09 - 3:11am

The Sydney Morning Herald

Language revival preserving history
The Sydney Morning Herald
A teacher chats to people who are fishing along the turquoise waters of Nalina Nalina, a beach in Broome, in Western Australia's Kimberley region. She is speaking Yawuru, the local Indigenous language. The ''excursion'' is part of an adult immersion ...

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Hard targets needed to end the disgrace of indigenous incarceration - InDaily

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 10:09pm

InDaily

Hard targets needed to end the disgrace of indigenous incarceration
InDaily
The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Service has suggested adding a further target to slash the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care. These should not be overly ambitious targets ...

Child protection report reveals soaring number of investigations - The Guardian

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 5:00pm

Child protection report reveals soaring number of investigations
The Guardian
Rates of substantiated abuse cases increased further with remoteness and low socioeconomics, particularly for Indigenous children. The report found almost half of Indigenous children who were the subject of substantiated notifications were from the ...

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'Out of control': Rates of Indigenous kids in ACT government care jump again - The Canberra Times

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 2:05pm

The Canberra Times

'Out of control': Rates of Indigenous kids in ACT government care jump again
The Canberra Times
Ms Causon described the review as an important opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to "have a real say in how to improve outcomes" and address the "alarming number of our kids involved in the child protection system". Louise ...

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Stark protection rates for indigenous kids - 9news.com.au

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 2:03pm

9news.com.au

Stark protection rates for indigenous kids
9news.com.au
Emotional abuse and neglect were the most common types of substantiated abuse investigations for both indigenous and non-indigenous children. The average age of engagement with child protection services was the same (eight years old) among indigenous ...
'Out of control': Rates of Indigenous kids in ACT government care jump againThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Murnong: Indigenous root vegetable a menu pick - The Weekly Times

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 1:02pm

The Weekly Times

Murnong: Indigenous root vegetable a menu pick
The Weekly Times
The murnong, a dandelion-like plant with a bright yellow flower and a nutrient-packed tuber, was cultivated for thousands years by Aboriginal people across Australia's cool, dry south and south east. But their crop was almost immediately wiped out with ...

Cockburn council to consult with residents on moving Australia Day celebrations - Community Newspaper Group

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 12:34pm

Community Newspaper Group

Cockburn council to consult with residents on moving Australia Day celebrations
Community Newspaper Group
The plan also included a proposal to write to the Federal Government providing the City's Aboriginal community consultation findings, which support a change to the date of national Australia Day celebrations. At tonight's council meeting Corina Abraham ...

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Australian women trailblazer edition - Insights News

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 6:53am

Insights News

Australian women trailblazer edition
Insights News
International Women's day is about celebrating all women are and strive to be but what does an Australian woman look like? You could throw the words around like diverse, vibrant, ambitious, intelligent, compassionate, etc. and you wouldn't even come ...

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Man dies after falling from Sydney Tower - The Guardian

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 6:47am

The Guardian

Man dies after falling from Sydney Tower
The Guardian
The skywalk is more than 250m above ground. Two paramedic crews responded and treated witnesses for shock. A police spokesman said an operation was under way and a report will be prepared for the coroner. Readers in Australia seeking support and ...

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Pre-colonial society shows humans can live collectively - Red Flag

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 3:57am

Red Flag

Pre-colonial society shows humans can live collectively
Red Flag
“If the test of sophistication were whether or not all were fed regardless of rank or whether all contributed to the spiritual and cultural health of the civilisation, Aboriginal Australia might have a much higher rank than some of the nations ...

City of Cockburn to vote on Australia Day change - PerthNow

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 1:49am

PerthNow

City of Cockburn to vote on Australia Day change
PerthNow
THE City of Cockburn could follow its neighbour Fremantle and move its Australia Day celebrations from January 26. Cockburn Council will tonight vote on whether to consider moving its annual Coogee Beach Festival from Australia Day because of concerns ...

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June Oscar ensuring Indigenous women's voices are again heard by government - The Mandarin

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 12:53am

The Mandarin

June Oscar ensuring Indigenous women's voices are again heard by government
The Mandarin
“Together with my team, I will be travelling to many places in rural, remote and urban Australia to hear directly from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls. Wiyi Yani U Thangani, which means 'Women's Voices' in the Bunuba language is ...

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Bruce Pascoe celebrated with Australia Council's Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature - SBS

Thu, 2018/03/08 - 12:53am

SBS

Bruce Pascoe celebrated with Australia Council's Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature
SBS
With the 33 books he has written, the Bunurong man incorporates Aboriginal knowledge and different cultural aspects into his storytelling, as he believes it educates people on the true history of Australian colonialism. “One of the things I was pretty ...

Ruby Payne-Scott, Daisy Bindi, Mina Wylie and Fanny Durack: Meet Australia's unsung female trailblazers - ABC Local

Wed, 2018/03/07 - 11:42pm

ABC Local

Ruby Payne-Scott, Daisy Bindi, Mina Wylie and Fanny Durack: Meet Australia's unsung female trailblazers
ABC Local
'The future is female' has become an International Women's Day catchcry — chanted at marches and endlessly hashtagged on social media. But the slogan was first used in the 1970s on a T-shirt designed at a feminist book shop. And just as the words have ...

What writers and publishers must learn from the Deadly Woman Blues fiasco - The Conversation AU

Wed, 2018/03/07 - 7:34pm

The Conversation AU

What writers and publishers must learn from the Deadly Woman Blues fiasco
The Conversation AU
With Deadly Woman Blues, Walker sought to produce a chronologically ordered biographical encyclopedia cataloguing the overlooked histories and achievements of black women in Australian music. This included not only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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Aboriginal leaders add their voices to calls for abused children to be removed - The Australian

Wed, 2018/03/07 - 1:00pm

The Australian

Aboriginal leaders add their voices to calls for abused children to be removed
The Australian
The Australian asked a range of national and Northern Territory figures whether they thought the soaring STI rates identified among Aboriginal children by a royal commission justified more active intervention on the part of child protection authorities ...

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'Jesus loves nachos': Australian woman trademarks divisive bridge graffiti - The Guardian

Wed, 2018/03/07 - 8:41am

The Guardian

'Jesus loves nachos': Australian woman trademarks divisive bridge graffiti
The Guardian
“This is how it started apparently: in the mid to late-80s some Aboriginal boys from Barunga community were in Katherine on a Christian convention and they wrote 'Jesus loves' on the bridge,” she says. “Then in the early 90s someone added 'nachos ...

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Aboriginal groups push for culturally designed housing, as NT Government confirms it designed tin shed extensions - ABC Online

Wed, 2018/03/07 - 7:16am

ABC Online

Aboriginal groups push for culturally designed housing, as NT Government confirms it designed tin shed extensions
ABC Online
On the same day as Mr McCarthy's concession, Aboriginal organisations from Arnhem Land to Central Australia met in Darwin to discuss the issue of housing in communities, town camps and homelands. Aboriginal Housing NT co-chair Barbara Shaw said not ...

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