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Grant to help online marketplace IndigiSpace showcase Aboriginal artists - The Advertiser

Sun, 2016/11/13 - 9:17am

The Advertiser

Grant to help online marketplace IndigiSpace showcase Aboriginal artists
The Advertiser
ABORIGINAL artists from across South Australia will soon be able to showcase their work to Australia and to the world through their own online market place. Greg Hodgkinson started IndigiSpace earlier this year for Adelaide artists and will expand to ...

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Grant to help online marketplace IndigiSpace showcase Aboriginal artists - NEWS.com.au

Sun, 2016/11/13 - 9:11am

NEWS.com.au

Grant to help online marketplace IndigiSpace showcase Aboriginal artists
NEWS.com.au
ABORIGINAL artists from across South Australia will soon be able to showcase their work to Australia and to the world through their own online market place. Greg Hodgkinson started IndigiSpace earlier this year for Adelaide artists and will expand to ...

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'That's my bike you black c***' - NEWS.com.au

Sat, 2016/11/12 - 4:06pm

NEWS.com.au

'That's my bike you black c***'
NEWS.com.au
Lynch, 80, is father to six and grandfather and great-grandfather to 57 local kids (“The problem is Australia only has a two to three per cent Aboriginal population, so I thought I'd do something about it,” he says). I had planned to call Bowler but ...

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'That's my bike you black c***' - Perth Now

Sat, 2016/11/12 - 4:02pm

Perth Now

'That's my bike you black c***'
Perth Now
Aboriginals,” he or she posted in the aftermath of Elijah's death, “don't deserve to live. That's good that young boy got killed. Aboriginals don't own Australia. Aboriginals live in the bush. They are filthy animals. They all need the death sentence ...

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Groundbreaking new 'Birthing on Country' program launched - SBS

Sat, 2016/11/12 - 8:30am

SBS

Groundbreaking new 'Birthing on Country' program launched
SBS
A new maternity program designed to achieve better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their babies has just been launched. The culmination of a partnership between the University of Queensland, Australian College of ...

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Bill Leak cartoon: Eric Abetz welcomes dismissal of race discrimination complaint - Radio Australia

Sat, 2016/11/12 - 5:33am

The Guardian

Bill Leak cartoon: Eric Abetz welcomes dismissal of race discrimination complaint
Radio Australia
The cartoon was drawn in response to a widespread focus on the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia's prisons, after images of abuse in Don Dale detention centre were broadcast on Four Corners in July. After it was published, the Race ...
No investigation into Bill Leak cartoon after complaint droppedThe Guardian

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Bill Leak cartoon: Eric Abetz welcomes dismissal of race discrimination complaint - ABC Online

Sat, 2016/11/12 - 5:10am

The Guardian

Bill Leak cartoon: Eric Abetz welcomes dismissal of race discrimination complaint
ABC Online
"Australians do love their freedom of speech even if sometimes they find it uncomfortable," Senator Abetz said after the complaint was withdrawn. The cartoon was drawn in response to a widespread focus on the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia ...
No investigation into Bill Leak cartoon after complaint droppedThe Guardian

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Australia gifted Kiwi Horton's Aboriginal art - Sky News Australia

Sat, 2016/11/12 - 2:45am

Sky News Australia

Australia gifted Kiwi Horton's Aboriginal art
Sky News Australia
The collection they are giving to the gallery comprises more than 220 pieces of Aboriginal art, weaving and objects from a number of Aboriginal communities across Australia and will continue to grow, the gallery says. The collection has been created by ...

National Aboriginal Construction Partners wins $10m Defence contract - The Australian

Fri, 2016/11/11 - 1:01pm

The Australian

National Aboriginal Construction Partners wins $10m Defence contract
The Australian
Badge managing director Jim Whiting says the project brings together Western Australia's Marra Worra Worra and NPC National to build better communities and offer construction scholarships, traineeships and apprenticeships. “We see this as laying an ...

Aurukun mayor supports new school head - NEWS.com.au

Fri, 2016/11/11 - 6:41am

Sky News Australia

Aurukun mayor supports new school head
NEWS.com.au
Aurukun's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy was shut down and teachers evacuated in late May after increasing unrest. Then-principal Scott Fatnowna was carjacked twice in as many weeks. Teachers returned to the town in July under increased ...
Pearson pulls support for Aurukun schoolThe Cairns Post

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Aurukun mayor supports new school head - The Australian

Fri, 2016/11/11 - 6:31am

The Guardian

Aurukun mayor supports new school head
The Australian
Aurukun's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy was shut down and teachers evacuated in late May after increasing unrest. Then-principal Scott Fatnowna was carjacked twice in as many weeks. Teachers returned to the town in July under increased ...
Pearson pulls support for Aurukun schoolThe Cairns Post
Noel Pearson pulls education group out of Aurukun school in QueenslandThe Guardian

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Groundbreaking new 'Birthing on Country' program launched - SBS

Fri, 2016/11/11 - 5:34am

SBS

Groundbreaking new 'Birthing on Country' program launched
SBS
A new maternity program designed to achieve better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their babies has just been launched. The culmination of a partnership between the University of Queensland, Australian College of ...

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Inquiry can't overlook NT housing 'crisis' - 9news.com.au

Fri, 2016/11/11 - 4:39am

Inquiry can't overlook NT housing 'crisis'
9news.com.au
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chief executive Priscilla Collins says governments can't turn a blind eye to the abysmal state of housing in the Territory. "Homelessness and overcrowding places additional pressure on relationships and makes ...

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Bulk bone metabarcoding to uncover early eating habits - Science Network Western Australia

Fri, 2016/11/11 - 2:42am

Bulk bone metabarcoding to uncover early eating habits
Science Network Western Australia
Curtin PhD student Frederik Seersholm is planning to use a revolutionary approach called “Bulk Bone Metabarcoding” to analyse the eating habits of aboriginal people first arriving in Western Australia from East Asia and Africa around 50,000 years ago.

Scullion honours Indigenous diggers - SBS

Fri, 2016/11/11 - 2:30am

Scullion honours Indigenous diggers
SBS
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has paid tribute to Aboriginal diggers who gave their lives for their country in overseas wars, despite not having the right to vote at home. Australians have gathered at Remembrance Day services across the ...

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NoongarPedia created as first Wikipedia site in Aboriginal language - ABC Online

Thu, 2016/11/10 - 11:51pm

ABC Online

NoongarPedia created as first Wikipedia site in Aboriginal language
ABC Online
In Noongar country, in the south-west of Western Australia, researchers are building the first Wikipedia site in an Aboriginal Australian language. The Noongar people spoke their language for thousands of years — until, last century, it started to fade.
'Noongarpedia' bringing a vanishing language to the webABC Technology and Games

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Pearson pulls support for Aurukun school - The Cairns Post

Thu, 2016/11/10 - 10:26pm

The Cairns Post

Pearson pulls support for Aurukun school
The Cairns Post
Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy Aurukun Campus. CYAAA led by Noel Pearson, is a program which aims to provided numeracy and literacy and to support Cape York's children's bicultural identity The school program incorporates the 5Cs in the ...

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Alice Springs Satellite Gets A Deadly Makeover - Gizmodo Australia

Thu, 2016/11/10 - 8:50pm

Gizmodo Australia

Alice Springs Satellite Gets A Deadly Makeover
Gizmodo Australia
"We've built a very strong relationship with Geoscience Australia and I think what this project can show to the rest of Australia is that professional, locally-based Aboriginal organisations are capable and you can get these outcomes," Peter Renehan said.

Remembrance Day: Private Miller Mack's 'spirit' to return home a century after he left for the Great War - ABC Online

Thu, 2016/11/10 - 7:57pm

ABC Online

Remembrance Day: Private Miller Mack's 'spirit' to return home a century after he left for the Great War
ABC Online
Almost a century after he was buried in an unmarked, common grave in South Australia, the remains of an Aboriginal digger who fought in the Great War will be returned to his home. Private Miller Mack was buried in Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetery in ...

Possible 'first encounter' Aboriginal shield uncovered in Berlin - The New Daily

Thu, 2016/11/10 - 12:09pm

The New Daily

Possible 'first encounter' Aboriginal shield uncovered in Berlin
The New Daily
Aboriginal shield boomerang Berlin The boomerang found at the Berlin museum, believed to have been stolen by James Cook on April 29 1770. Photo: ABC/Dylan Wood. Mark Wilson, an Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ...

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