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The men who drilled holes in Turnbull's frontbench - The Border Mail

Fri, 2016/01/01 - 5:35pm

The Border Mail

The men who drilled holes in Turnbull's frontbench
The Border Mail
Briggs, 37 and a married father of three, admitted to behaving "inappropriately" towards a female public servant, a new recruit at Australia's Consulate-General, during a post-work drinking session in Hong Kong's notorious Lan Kwai Fong party district ...

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The men who drilled holes in Turnbull's frontbench - Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2016/01/01 - 1:18pm

Sydney Morning Herald

The men who drilled holes in Turnbull's frontbench
Sydney Morning Herald
Briggs, 37 and a married father of three, admitted to behaving "inappropriately" towards a female public servant, a new recruit at Australia's Consulate-General, during a post-work drinking session in Hong Kong's notorious Lan Kwai Fong party district ...

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Asia puts locals between a rock and a hard place - The Australian

Fri, 2016/01/01 - 1:03pm

The Australian

Asia puts locals between a rock and a hard place
The Australian
Northern Land Council chief executive Joe Morrison said two “huge” projects — the prawn farm and the extension of the Ord River irrigation scheme from Western Australia into the Territory — were causing angst among traditional owners because they ...

The Eighties review: Frank Bongiorno looks at the decade that changed Australia - Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2016/01/01 - 12:46pm

Sydney Morning Herald

The Eighties review: Frank Bongiorno looks at the decade that changed Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
Despite the hand-back of Uluru and the ban on Coronation Hill uranium mine, he sees Hawke abandoning Aboriginal commitments. These flaws, I agree, are outweighed by Hawke's economic and industrial relations contributions. Bongiorno's big 1983 ...

Artist captured the carefree people of Australia's tropical north - Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2016/01/01 - 9:18am

Sydney Morning Herald

Artist captured the carefree people of Australia's tropical north
Sydney Morning Herald
When famed Australian artist Ray Crooke walked into Eva Breuer's Sydney gallery one day in 2002 she pointed to a $22,000 painting and said how pleased she was to have such an early work of his on show. The Melbourne-born artist inspected the picture of ...

Ballarat to spin yarns - The Courier

Fri, 2016/01/01 - 5:20am

The Courier

Ballarat to spin yarns
The Courier
BALLARAT is about to embark on a new tradition of storytelling, weaving Aboriginal Dreamtime elements with stories from the motherland and of course, the contemporary experiences of the city's residents. That is the opinion of a Welsh storyteller about ...

Hawke Government Cabinet Papers Grapple With Same Issues As Modern Australia - Huffington Post Australia

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 8:13pm

Huffington Post Australia

Hawke Government Cabinet Papers Grapple With Same Issues As Modern Australia
Huffington Post Australia
The release of cabinet papers from the 1990-91 Bob Hawke government show that, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Hawke's administration devoted time to addressing asylum seekers, terrorist threats to Australia, aboriginal ...
Hawke grateful for being dumped as PMYahoo7 News
Hawkes says he's grateful to Keating9news.com.au
Cabinet papers: War, a leadership challenge and the 'Granny Killer' collaredSydney Morning Herald
The Guardian
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Australian Schools Add Aboriginal Languages - Language Magazine

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 7:21pm

Australian Schools Add Aboriginal Languages
Language Magazine
New South Wales (NSW) has been a leading force in governmental programs to preserve and promote Australia's Aboriginal languages. Now, more than ten years after the introduction of NSW's first Aboriginal Languages Policy in 2004, Australia is finally ...

Sydney's New Year's Eve celebrations kick off with welcome to country and ... - Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 1:41pm

The Australian (blog)

Sydney's New Year's Eve celebrations kick off with welcome to country and ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney has once again proved why its New Year celebrations are world famous, with bursts of brilliance providing a spectacular backdrop to the Harbour Bridge and Opera House as Australia welcomed in 2016. Synchronised to a soundtrack of some of ...
Australians flock for 'biggest, best' New Year's Eve celebrationsThe Australian (blog)
Happy New Year! First Nations honoured with Welcome to CountrySBS
Happy New Year From The Huffington Post AustraliaHuffington Post Australia
Daily Mail -NEWS.com.au -Yahoo7 News
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Cabinet papers: How the deaths in custody royal commission changed policy - Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 1:15pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Cabinet papers: How the deaths in custody royal commission changed policy
Sydney Morning Herald
Ninety years after federation the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody changed the way that government shaped policies affecting Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Robert Tickner told the cabinet in early April 1991 that ...

Hawkes says he's grateful to Keating - SBS

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 1:09pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Hawkes says he's grateful to Keating
SBS
He didn't achieve as much as he would like to improve the lot of Aboriginal people. States still exist. Hawke argued passionately for Australia's federation to be reformed through abolishing them, leaving a central government and strengthened local ...
Cabinet papers: War, a leadership challenge and the 'Granny Killer' collaredSydney Morning Herald
Cabinet papers 1990-91: Hawke's fight to keep mining out of Kakadu helped ...The Guardian

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Hawkes says he's grateful to Keating - 9news.com.au

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 1:08pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Hawkes says he's grateful to Keating
9news.com.au
He didn't achieve as much as he would like to improve the lot of Aboriginal people. States still exist. Hawke argued passionately for Australia's federation to be reformed through abolishing them, leaving a central government and strengthened local ...
Cabinet papers: War, a leadership challenge and the 'Granny Killer' collaredSydney Morning Herald
Cabinet papers 1990-91: Hawke's fight to keep mining out of Kakadu helped ...The Guardian

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Cabinet papers 1990-91: lingering indigenous remorse for Hawke - The Australian

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 1:01pm

Huffington Post Australia

Cabinet papers 1990-91: lingering indigenous remorse for Hawke
The Australian
He declared “there is still so much to be done'' for indigenous Australians “and I wished I could have done more''. Documents show that in 1991 cabinet agreed to establish a council for Aboriginal reconciliation, anticipated the final report into the ...
Hawke Government Cabinet Papers Grapple With Same Issues As Modern AustraliaHuffington Post Australia
Hawke admits he's 'grateful' to KeatingSky News Australia
Hawke grateful for being dumped as PMYahoo7 News
9news.com.au -Sydney Morning Herald
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June Oscar: taking a courageous stand for the benefit of others - The Australian (blog)

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 1:01pm

The Australian (blog)

June Oscar: taking a courageous stand for the benefit of others
The Australian (blog)
She took a stand in her Kimberley community in Western Australia's far north for the lasting benefit of its residents and especially for children. Now she is working to ensure a ... Working with researchers and doctors from the George Institute and the ...

First Nations honoured with Welcome to Country - SBS

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 12:30pm

Huffington Post Australia

First Nations honoured with Welcome to Country
SBS
Sydney has honoured the First Nations Australians of Sydney Harbour – the Gadigal, Wangal and Gamaragal clans of the Eora Nation – with a beautiful Welcome to Country ahead of the New Years Eve fireworks. ... Nathan Moran, the CEO of the Metropolitan ...
Sydney New Year's Eve 2015: Welcome to Country ceremony to be seen around the ...Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Harbour's New Year 2016 celebration explodes with City of Colour ...Daily Mail
Happy New Year From The Huffington Post AustraliaHuffington Post Australia
NEWS.com.au -Gay News Network
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Special Indigenous welcome to country for Sydney NYE - SBS

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 6:36am

SBS

Special Indigenous welcome to country for Sydney NYE
SBS
Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council chief executive Nathan Moran said the organisation was "depply honoured and overjoyed that the Sydney New Year's Eve celebration will have a specific focus on respecting the First Nations Australians of Sydney ...

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Australian Researchers Investigate How Cigarette Packaging Fools You - Gizmodo Australia

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 5:36am

Gizmodo Australia

Australian Researchers Investigate How Cigarette Packaging Fools You
Gizmodo Australia
They found that Aboriginal and Torres Island people certainly did know that smoking was bad. What plain packaging did was reduce was the perception that certain kinds of cigarettes were “less bad” for people. Packages depicting healthy icons with words ...

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Sydney New Year's Eve 2015: Welcome to Country ceremony to be seen around the ... - Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 5:15am

The Australian (blog)

Sydney New Year's Eve 2015: Welcome to Country ceremony to be seen around the ...
Sydney Morning Herald
For the first time, Sydney's New Year's Eve fireworks will be ushered in with a vast and proud Aboriginal Welcome to Country ceremony, putting local Gadigal, Wangal and Gamaragal traditions front and centre in global new year celebrations. ... $7 ...
Australians flock for 'biggest, best' New Year's Eve celebrationsThe Australian (blog)
Special Indigenous welcome to country for Sydney NYESBS
Fireworks to kick off global New Year party despite terror fearsYahoo7 News
Gay News Network -Daily Mail -International Business Times
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Australians flock for 'biggest, best' New Year's Eve celebrations - The Australian (blog)

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 1:24am

The Australian (blog)

Australians flock for 'biggest, best' New Year's Eve celebrations
The Australian (blog)
With temperatures reaching a temperate 25C, the bridge will tonight become a giant Aboriginal flag, with red fireworks and yellow flares, while specially choreographed Welcome to Country will be projected onto the pylons. Security forces are flooding ...
Sydney to usher in 2016 with massive welcome to country tributeGay News Network

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Australian cultural festival aims to deepen ties with Brazil - SBS

Thu, 2015/12/31 - 12:34am

SBS

Australian cultural festival aims to deepen ties with Brazil
SBS
The goal of 'Australia now' is to broaden and deepen that image." Bromilow is confident he knows what aspects of Australian culture will "speak" to Brazilians. "One is expressions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. This is something that ...

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