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Gillian Triggs rejects 18C 'bias' claims over Bill Leak probe - The Australian

Thu, 2016/11/03 - 1:02pm

The Australian

Gillian Triggs rejects 18C 'bias' claims over Bill Leak probe
The Australian
“(He) expressed an opinion that a significant number of people would agree that the cartoon by Mr Leak was a racial stereotype of Aboriginal Australians and an opinion that our society shouldn't endorse racial stereotyping of Aboriginal Australians or ...

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Study into Aboriginal English used in WA - NEWS.com.au

Thu, 2016/11/03 - 10:04am

Study into Aboriginal English used in WA
NEWS.com.au
University of Western Australia linguistics researcher Celeste Rodriguez Louro has received a grant to analyse variations and changes and understand the rules of the language spoken by Perth-based Aborigines. Aboriginal English was spoken throughout ...

Aboriginal English introduced at UWA - Sky News Australia

Thu, 2016/11/03 - 9:21am

Sky News Australia

Aboriginal English introduced at UWA
Sky News Australia
University of Western Australia linguistics researcher Celeste Rodriguez Louro has received a grant to analyse variations and changes and understand the rules of the language spoken by Perth-based Aborigines. Aboriginal English was spoken throughout ...

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Study into Aboriginal English used in WA - The West Australian

Thu, 2016/11/03 - 9:01am

Study into Aboriginal English used in WA
The West Australian
The distinct version of English spoken by Australian Aborigines will be the subject of a new study. University of Western Australia linguistics researcher Celeste Rodriguez Louro has received a grant to analyse variations and changes and understand the ...

Use keywords to search content on this website - Herald Sun

Thu, 2016/11/03 - 7:17am

Herald Sun

Use keywords to search content on this website
Herald Sun
“We present evidence from Warratyi rock shelter in the southern interior that shows that humans occupied arid Australia by around (49,000 years ago), (10,000 years) earlier than previously reported,” the report published in the journal Nature said.

Shelter rewrites history of first Australians - NEWS.com.au

Wed, 2016/11/02 - 11:49pm

NEWS.com.au

Shelter rewrites history of first Australians
NEWS.com.au
ABORIGINAL Australians settled in arid parts of the country 49,000 years ago — 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, a rock shelter in South Australia's Flinders Ranges has revealed. Remnants of plants, ochre and bones, including one from a ...

Indigenous Peak Body Warns of Closure - Pro Bono Australia

Wed, 2016/11/02 - 11:43pm

teleSUR English

Indigenous Peak Body Warns of Closure
Pro Bono Australia
“In 2014, the federal government failed to honour the bipartisan support for the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples to act as a voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, by not funding the peak body,” co-chair of the National ...
Abbott wants to be Indigenous affairs minister? Well, he ain't qualified for the jobThe Guardian (blog)
41% of Indigenous Australians' Diets Are Nutritionally PoorteleSUR English

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Meet the Indigenous rangers keeping our country healthy - The Age

Wed, 2016/11/02 - 10:25pm

The Age

Meet the Indigenous rangers keeping our country healthy
The Age
Her work has helped pave the way for Aboriginal women living in remote Australia. "I remember at one of the first ranger forums we went to, I was the only woman there," she says. Karajarri Senior Ranger Jess Bangu collects samples for a biodiversity ...

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Oldest known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in arid Australia found in Flinders Ranges rock shelter - ABC Online

Wed, 2016/11/02 - 7:11pm

ABC Online

Oldest known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in arid Australia found in Flinders Ranges rock shelter
ABC Online
The site, known as Warratyi, shows Aboriginal Australians settled the arid interior of the country around 49,000 years ago — some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. The shelter, about 550 kilometres north of Adelaide, also contains the ...
Shelter proof of oldest arid AboriginalsSBS
Humans lived in SA 49000 years agoThe Advertiser
49,000 Year Old Evidence Of Indigenous Australians In The Outback ...Gizmodo Australia
BBC News -Gizmodo -Science News -Nature
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Subscribe and save - Australian Geographic (blog)

Wed, 2016/11/02 - 6:12pm

Australian Geographic (blog)

Subscribe and save
Australian Geographic (blog)
... researchers that found the oldest yet evidence of human occupation in South Australia. The discoveries were made at a rock shelter 20m up a slope in the Adnyamathanha Aboriginal country of the northern Flinders Ranges, about 550km north of Adelaide.

NT Australian of the Year awards: Aboriginal leader Andrea Mason receives top honour - ABC Online

Wed, 2016/11/02 - 9:35am

ABC Online

NT Australian of the Year awards: Aboriginal leader Andrea Mason receives top honour
ABC Online
Indigenous leader Andrea Mason, who leads an organisation giving a voice to 3000 women in a remote part of the Northern Territory, has been named the NT's Australian of the Year. Ms Mason is the chief executive of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and ...

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Aboriginal entrepreneurs launch Australia's first innovation hub for minorities so no one gets left behind in the ... - StartupSmart

Wed, 2016/11/02 - 7:27am

StartupSmart

Aboriginal entrepreneurs launch Australia's first innovation hub for minorities so no one gets left behind in the ...
StartupSmart
On a mission to prevent anyone getting left behind in the digital economy, Aboriginal entrepreneurs Leigh Harris and Julie-Ann Lambourne are building Australia's first innovation hub for minority groups. D:HIVE will be a centre for digital innovation ...

Rhodes Scholarship: Tasmanian Aboriginal student Bede Jones ... - ABC Online

Wed, 2016/11/02 - 4:54am

ABC Online

Rhodes Scholarship: Tasmanian Aboriginal student Bede Jones ...
ABC Online
An Indigenous Tasmanian man whose mother and father are both gay hopes his Rhodes Scholarship will encourage others to see diversity as a strength and ...

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An Indigenous Tasmanian man with same-sex parents hopes his Rhodes Scholarship will encourage others to see ... - ABC Online

Wed, 2016/11/02 - 4:54am

ABC Online

An Indigenous Tasmanian man with same-sex parents hopes his Rhodes Scholarship will encourage others to see ...
ABC Online
Melbourne-based Bede Jones, who studied philosophy and criminology at Melbourne University, is the first Indigenous Tasmanian and second Indigenous Australian (after South Australia's Rebecca Richards) to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Each year ...

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Art lights up new path for Indigenous prisoners - SBS

Wed, 2016/11/02 - 2:44am

SBS

Art lights up new path for Indigenous prisoners
SBS
First Contact (season 2) airs on 29 November, 30 November and 1 December 2016 at 8:30pm on SBS. Across 28 Days, six well-known Aussies take an epic journey into Aboriginal Australia. Watch the trailer here, and catch-up on episodes after the program ...

Rodney Kelly: Aboriginal man demands British Museum hand back shield belonging to ancestor - ABC Online

Tue, 2016/11/01 - 9:47pm

ABC Online

Rodney Kelly: Aboriginal man demands British Museum hand back shield belonging to ancestor
ABC Online
While it has acknowledged the bark shield is of cultural significance to the Gweagal people, the British Museum is not about to return it. Lissant Bolton from the museum's Oceania department said the museum was willing to loan the shield back to Australia.

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Why Australia's Uluru Could Be Closed to Travelers - Condé Nast Traveler

Tue, 2016/11/01 - 4:28pm

Condé Nast Traveler

Why Australia's Uluru Could Be Closed to Travelers
Condé Nast Traveler
Next on the list might be Uluru, one of Australia's most iconic landscapes, which has become the central battleground in an ongoing conflict between the Australian government and the native Aboriginal community that calls the area home. The Anangu ...
Why are indigenous Australians threatening to 'close' Uluru?Telegraph.co.uk

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Aboriginal artefacts returned to Albany country by British Museum for temporary exhibition - ABC Online

Tue, 2016/11/01 - 1:52pm

ABC Online

Aboriginal artefacts returned to Albany country by British Museum for temporary exhibition
ABC Online
A showcase of some of the oldest Aboriginal artefacts in Australian history have been returned for a temporary exhibition by the British Museum, sparking calls for them to remain in Australia permanently. Yurlmun: Mokare Mia Boodja, meaning "returning ...

I'm offended by Human Rights Commission, not Bill Leak - The Australian

Tue, 2016/11/01 - 1:04pm

I'm offended by Human Rights Commission, not Bill Leak
The Australian
Leak's cartoon was informed by the Four Corners program and by related commentary, which included an opinion piece I had written for The Australian on August 2. My article was just as critical as Leak's cartoon of so-called “Aboriginal parenting styles ...

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