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Australia: Video reveals agonising death of Aboriginal woman in custody - World Socialist Web Site

Thu, 2016/12/29 - 6:01am

Australia: Video reveals agonising death of Aboriginal woman in custody
World Socialist Web Site
On August 4, 2014, at Port Hedland in northwestern Australia, Julieka Dhu, a 22-year-old Aboriginal woman, died of a preventable illness while in police custody for unpaid fines of $3,622.34. Dhu had been imprisoned on August 2 for four days to “cut ...

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More Indigenous Doctors Aim to Close Australia's Health Gap - The Wire

Thu, 2016/12/29 - 5:57am

The Wire

More Indigenous Doctors Aim to Close Australia's Health Gap
The Wire
Sydney: Vinka Barunga was born in the Worrara tribe of the Mowanjum aboriginal community in the remote town of Derby in Western Australia. As a child, she witnessed disease and suicide amongst her people, which made her resolve to one day become a ...

Pair safe after three days escaping desert floods - The Australian

Wed, 2016/12/28 - 1:06pm

Express.co.uk

Pair safe after three days escaping desert floods
The Australian
Their progress through the Western Desert near the Northern Territory-Western Australia border was described by police Superintendent Brendan Muldoon as “quite extraordinary”. The 30-year-old man and the 27-year-old woman, both Aboriginal people ...
Record heavy rainfall sparks sudden waterfalls off Uluru, park closureThe Australian Financial Review
Australia's Uluru reopens after rains turned rock into cascading waterfallsDaily Mail
WATCH: Torrential downpour turns Australia's national PARK into waterfallsExpress.co.uk
Sky News -Reuters UK
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The highs and lows of SA great - dailytelegraph.com.au

Wed, 2016/12/28 - 6:54am

dailytelegraph.com.au

The highs and lows of SA great
dailytelegraph.com.au
1929: SA writer David Unaipon became the first published Australian Aboriginal author. The Port Augusta to Alice Springs railway was completed and Adelaide to Glenelg tramway completed. It is not until 2004 that the line continues to Darwin and the ...

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SA weathers the storm for Proclamation Day - The Advertiser

Wed, 2016/12/28 - 6:16am

The Advertiser

SA weathers the storm for Proclamation Day
The Advertiser
A shout of “Aboriginal land rights” and a no to nuclear dumping cry marked minor dissent amid the proceedings. The Premier later remarked that South Australians should be mindful of the balance between commemoration of the first landings and indigenous ...

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The highs and lows of SA great - The Advertiser

Wed, 2016/12/28 - 6:11am

The Advertiser

The highs and lows of SA great
The Advertiser
1929: SA writer David Unaipon became the first published Australian Aboriginal author. The Port Augusta to Alice Springs railway was completed and Adelaide to Glenelg tramway completed. It is not until 2004 that the line continues to Darwin and the ...

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Australian University to promote Aboriginal culture - Press TV

Tue, 2016/12/27 - 8:18am

Press TV

Australian University to promote Aboriginal culture
Press TV
The University of Adelaide has established the National Center for Aboriginal Language and Music Studies (NCALMS) for that purpose. An aboriginal elder carries burning gum leaves during a smoking ceremony on Australia Day in Sydney, Australia, ...

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING TRUE BLUE - dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)

Mon, 2016/12/26 - 5:57pm

dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING TRUE BLUE
dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)
Arriving in Jerusalem a week or so back for the Australia Israel UK Leadership Dialogue, Aboriginal leader and former Australian Labor Party president Nyunggai Warren Mundine discovered his luggage had been lost enroute. For the first two days of the ...

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Record-breaking Christmas storm in Australia's Uluru national park causes flash floods - The Independent

Mon, 2016/12/26 - 1:09pm

The Independent

Record-breaking Christmas storm in Australia's Uluru national park causes flash floods
The Independent
A quarter of people in Kintore, a remote settlement in the Northern Territory with a 91 per cent Aboriginal population, was evacuated after a record-breaking amount of rain hit the Uluru-Kata Tjuta national park yesterday. Photographs shared on social ...
Christmas storm brings waterfalls to UluruThe Times (subscription)
Stunning waterfalls on Uluru after freak stormSky News
Australia's Uluru flooded after record-breaking Christmas downpourthejournal.ie
Condé Nast Traveler
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Survival skills essential when disaster strikes in Western Desert region - The Australian

Mon, 2016/12/26 - 1:03pm

The Australian

Survival skills essential when disaster strikes in Western Desert region
The Australian
In 1982, aged 28, I acted as a field assistant for anthropologists Kim Akerman and Peter Bindon who, with the help of the local Aboriginal community, were working in the Great Sandy Desert locating significant Aboriginal sites for the Western ...

Schools failing history - NT News

Sun, 2016/12/25 - 9:54pm

NT News

Schools failing history
NT News
Mr Egan, who was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 for services to Aboriginal people, was NT Administrator from 2003 to 2007. Both believe the education department is failing Territory children by not giving them detailed knowledge about ...

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The greatest team photo in Australian sporting history - The Age

Sun, 2016/12/25 - 6:39pm

The greatest team photo in Australian sporting history
The Age
This is ostensibly a cricket photo, but the Aboriginal players in this picture, all from western Victoria, had seen dispossession, disease and murder at a catastrophic rate. Like photographs of Truganinni taken around the same time in Tasmania, these ...

Aboriginal XI v MCC remembered 150 years on - cricket.com.au

Sat, 2016/12/24 - 9:13pm

cricket.com.au

Aboriginal XI v MCC remembered 150 years on
cricket.com.au
Editor's note: Some of the language used in the newspaper excerpts below is a reflection of Australian society at the time. Readers may find the language offensive, but it has been included to help explain the relationship between Aboriginal people and ...

Interview: Chef Paul Iskov, Champion of Aboriginal Australian Ingredients - The Daily Meal

Sat, 2016/12/24 - 12:48am

Interview: Chef Paul Iskov, Champion of Aboriginal Australian Ingredients
The Daily Meal
We met Paul Iskov at the Margaret River Gourmet Escape, a major international food and wine experience in Australia. He is unusual in that he forages for his food and ingredients with the aborigines and hosts all his meals in pop-up format. He's one of ...

Labor calls for overhaul of 'Mickey Mouse' work for the dole courses - ABC Online

Fri, 2016/12/23 - 4:56am

ABC Online

Labor calls for overhaul of 'Mickey Mouse' work for the dole courses
ABC Online
"I don't believe in training for training's sake," Labor Leader and Aboriginal affairs spokesman Bill Shorten said. "I believe the training should lead to meaningful jobs. "I don't think you punish people for not necessarily going through some of the ...

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SA Museum, Yolngu people breathe new life into didgeridoos from 1880s - ABC Online

Fri, 2016/12/23 - 4:34am

ABC Online

SA Museum, Yolngu people breathe new life into didgeridoos from 1880s
ABC Online
The instruments are just some of the 28,000 Aboriginal items held by the South Australian Museum's Australian Aboriginal cultural collection. The fragile nature of the instruments meant museum workers had to be especially careful to reintroduce ...

Agreement reached over Cape schools - dailytelegraph.com.au

Fri, 2016/12/23 - 2:33am

dailytelegraph.com.au

Agreement reached over Cape schools
dailytelegraph.com.au
According to the joint agreement, the Department of Education will be responsible for the operation of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy and Good to Great Schools Australia will be responsible for the implementation of its “5C Education Model ...
Noel Pearson Cape York schools ink deal with Palaszczuk governmentThe Australian

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Agreement reached over Cape schools - Courier Mail

Fri, 2016/12/23 - 2:20am

Courier Mail

Agreement reached over Cape schools
Courier Mail
According to the joint agreement, the Department of Education will be responsible for the operation of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy and Good to Great Schools Australia will be responsible for the implementation of its “5C Education Model ...
Noel Pearson Cape York schools ink deal with Palaszczuk governmentThe Australian

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Agreement reached over running of Cape York schools - NEWS.com.au

Fri, 2016/12/23 - 2:19am

NEWS.com.au

Agreement reached over running of Cape York schools
NEWS.com.au
According to the joint agreement, the Department of Education will be responsible for the operation of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy and Good to Great Schools Australia will be responsible for the implementation of its “5C Education Model ...

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