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SA Libs want art gallery on hospital site - Ballarat Courier

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 10:31pm

Ballarat Courier

SA Libs want art gallery on hospital site
Ballarat Courier
"The National Aboriginal Gallery will be of international significance and attract visitors from across Australia and throughout the world," Mr Marshall said on Tuesday. The new gallery would provide a significant cultural and economic boost to the ...

When Douglas Grant met Henry Lawson: new light on Australia's dark story - The Guardian (blog)

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 5:42pm

The Guardian (blog)

When Douglas Grant met Henry Lawson: new light on Australia's dark story
The Guardian (blog)
Grant's life was complex, incorporating so many competing narratives of Australian history. There is the frequently overlooked story of modern Australia – that of violent dispossession and all its profound reverberations through intergenerational ...

The Greek defending the rights of Aboriginal Australians - Kathimerini

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 3:49pm

Kathimerini

The Greek defending the rights of Aboriginal Australians
Kathimerini
Andrew Jackomos is fighting to improve the living conditions of young members of the Koori tribe, indigenous Australians of New South Wales and Victoria. Still, when the 65-year-old walked around Kastellorizo, the island from which his grandfather ...

'Silenced' indigenous abuse victims living in fear - The Australian

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 1:00pm

The Australian

'Silenced' indigenous abuse victims living in fear
The Australian
Documents obtained by The Australian under Freedom of Information laws show child neglect was the most widespread issue in the communities visited by the former National Indigenous Intelligence Taskforce established by the Australian Criminal ...

SA Liberals propose national Aboriginal Art and Culture Gallery, high-end hotel for old RAH site - The Advertiser

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 12:32pm

The Advertiser

SA Liberals propose national Aboriginal Art and Culture Gallery, high-end hotel for old RAH site
The Advertiser
However, he said an indigenous gallery would make Adelaide stand out as a must-see and unique destination for visitors who would then tour and spend in SA's regions. “Australia doesn't have a national Aboriginal art and culture centre,” Mr Marshall ...

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'It's nonsense': I'm A Celebrity's David Oldfield doubles down on his shocking claims that Aboriginal Australians ... - Daily Mail

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 11:48am

Daily Mail

'It's nonsense': I'm A Celebrity's David Oldfield doubles down on his shocking claims that Aboriginal Australians ...
Daily Mail
He's the former One Nation politician who recently claimed that Aboriginal Australians and other native peoples 'didn't invent anything'. And on Monday, David Oldfield doubled down on his shocking remarks after being kicked off I'm A Celebrity... Get ...
I'm A Celebrity Australia star David Oldfield booted off the show after sparking race rowMirror.co.uk

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Warren Mundine blasts radical Aboriginals over terror talk - The Australian

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 9:36am

The Australian

Warren Mundine blasts radical Aboriginals over terror talk
The Australian
Wayne Wharton, who is organising a protest camp at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, told The Australian that activists were “not far” from taking up guns due to the Prime Minister's stance on a range of indigenous issues. Mr Mundine, a former head of ...
Turnbull no longer cares about reconciliation with Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Wayne Wharton says young indigenous activists could soon resort to terrorismDaily Mail
Indigenous activists to target Prince Charles with Games protests: ReportStarts at 60

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Australian Museum festival, Weave, tackles myths of Sydney's first people - The Sydney Morning Herald

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 6:29am

The Sydney Morning Herald

Australian Museum festival, Weave, tackles myths of Sydney's first people
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's Aboriginal people were the first known astronomers, the world's first known bread makers and pioneered ground-edge axe technology – but you wouldn't know it from most historic accounts of early white settlement. The colonial rush to ...

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The mobile restaurant popping up in a gorge or over a river in Western Australia - SBS

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 3:25am

SBS

The mobile restaurant popping up in a gorge or over a river in Western Australia
SBS
If you don't know much about Australia, you may assume our local cuisine is a strange conglomerate of our most famous exports – lamingtons and meat pies, for example. Paul Iskov, head chef and owner of Western Australian pop up restaurant Fervor is ...

Turnbull no longer cares about reconciliation with Indigenous Australians - The Guardian

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 2:04am

The Guardian

Turnbull no longer cares about reconciliation with Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
One part of this broader picture is the absence of any effective debate about the collapsing bipartisanship in what we had once believed was a collective, national project of reconciliation with Indigenous Australians. This has been a half-century-long ...
Paternalism is compromising the health of Indigenous womenThe Mandarin
'If a white racist comes for me I'm taking justice into my own hands': Aboriginal activist warns indigenous ...Daily Mail
Indigenous activists to target Prince Charles with Games protests: ReportStarts at 60
The Australian
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Paternalism is compromising the health of Indigenous women - The Mandarin

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 1:43am

The Mandarin

Paternalism is compromising the health of Indigenous women
The Mandarin
Dr Vanessa Lee applies a lens of political determinants of health to illuminate policy failure for Indigenous women and their communities, and calls for the government to be held accountable to the outcomes of generations of harmful policy. When it ...
Alice Springs celebrationAdelaide Crows

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'If a white racist comes for me I'm taking justice into my own hands': Aboriginal activist warns indigenous ... - Daily Mail

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 1:37am

Daily Mail

'If a white racist comes for me I'm taking justice into my own hands': Aboriginal activist warns indigenous ...
Daily Mail
The leader of a radical Aboriginal group which wants to decolonise Australia says young indigenous activists could soon resort to terrorism. Wayne Wharton claimed the federal government's failure to act on indigenous issues such as the Australia Day ...
Indigenous activists to target Prince Charles with Games protests: ReportStarts at 60
Your noon BriefingThe Australian

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Clarke to edit new anthology 'Growing Up African in Australia' - Books+Publishing

Sun, 2018/02/25 - 11:45pm

Clarke to edit new anthology 'Growing Up African in Australia'
Books+Publishing
Black Inc. has announced it will publish a new anthology in 2019, Growing up African in Australia, which will be edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke, with assistance from writers Ahmed Yussuf and Magan Magan. The anthology, which will be aimed at both ...

Successful art campaigns: how you can do it too - ArtsHub

Sun, 2018/02/25 - 10:51pm

ArtsHub

Successful art campaigns: how you can do it too
ArtsHub
'This means that innumerable tourists as well as Australians are having what they think is their first experience with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander art – only actually it's someone's completely insulting appropriation. Appalling.' She continued ...

Shepparton's Aboriginal Street Art Project continues - Hit 107

Sun, 2018/02/25 - 10:32pm

Hit 107

Shepparton's Aboriginal Street Art Project continues
Hit 107
Yorta Yorta woman, Aunty Margaret Tucker (MBE) was one of Australia's first female Aboriginal rights activists and was highly active from the early 1930's within the Australian Aborigines League (which she was involved in establishing) as well as ...

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Program Manager - ArtsHub

Sun, 2018/02/25 - 1:45pm

Program Manager
ArtsHub
Arnhem Northern and Kimberley Artists (ANKA) Aboriginal Corporation is a not for profit Indigenous governed organisation that has been serving its membership for over 30 years. ANKA is the peak advocacy and support agency for Indigenous artists working ...

Indigenous activists warn of protests at Commonwealth Games - The Australian

Sun, 2018/02/25 - 1:00pm

The Australian

Indigenous activists warn of protests at Commonwealth Games
The Australian
Mr Wharton is the leader of the Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy, a radical group that advocates the decolonisation of Australia. His previous activities include burning effigies of mainstream indigenous leaders Noel Pearson, Warren Mundine and ...

Shepparton's Aboriginal Street Art Project continues - Triple M

Sun, 2018/02/25 - 12:23pm

Triple M

Shepparton's Aboriginal Street Art Project continues
Triple M
Yorta Yorta woman, Aunty Margaret Tucker (MBE) was one of Australia's first female Aboriginal rights activists and was highly active from the early 1930's within the Australian Aborigines League (which she was involved in establishing) as well as ...

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BEHIND BARS PART 5: Australia's Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities: The Need For Large-Scale ... - New Matilda

Sun, 2018/02/25 - 10:35am

New Matilda

BEHIND BARS PART 5: Australia's Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities: The Need For Large-Scale ...
New Matilda
This is a political question, and until it is more widely grappled with, it will not be resolved, because it will take a great deal of pressure to convince Australian governments, state and federal, to treat prisoners more humanely. What this means now ...

Tucking into the Australian superfood market - The Sydney Morning Herald

Sun, 2018/02/25 - 10:01am

Tucking into the Australian superfood market
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cherikoff's research work at the University of Sydney's biochemistry department, analysing the nutritional composition of Australian Aboriginal bush food, spurred him on to launch his own business. "My first business began in 1984 when I started ...

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