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Celebrating exceptional Indigenous artists
ArtsHub (subscription)
This week, Australia Council celebrates the work and contributions of four exceptional Indigenous artists in its eighth National Indigenous Arts Awards. Presented at a ceremony at the Sydney Opera House on Wednesday night, the prestigious national ...
Bungaree wins top museums and galleries awardAboriginal Art Directory News

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Courier Mail
Indigenous soldiers who fought for Australia while having few rights deserve ...
Courier Mail
Len Waters, history's only Aboriginal fighter pilot, returned from 95 sorties against the Japanese over New Guinea in World War II to discover there were no flying jobs for a black man in Australia. If he could stomach it there was a place for him on ...
Australia developing first ever school curriculum for Indigenous languagesThe Guardian
Why Aboriginal people need autonomy over their food supplyThe Conversation AU
BHP: Yes to first peoples voteThe Australian
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International Business Times AU
Closure Of Aboriginal Settlements In Australia To Spark More Protests
International Business Times AU
Australia is moving to close its remote Aboriginal communities since the government believes they are no longer sustainable. A new wave of protests is being planned for next week across the country. Western Australia had previously said it can no ...
Australia's closing of Aboriginal communities sparks protestsUSA TODAY
WA community closures a 'wake-up call' for better representationSBS
Attacks on homelands highlight Aboriginal homelessnessRed Flag

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The Guardian
Aboriginal language Wikipedia faces cultural hurdles, say researchers
The Guardian
Researchers looking at setting up an Aboriginal language Wikipedia say the site will have to change if it is to accommodate cultural differences. Nyungar man Clint Bracknell is one of a group of academics from the Western Australia and Curtin ...

TIME
Comment: Sorry Day is about empathy and reconciliation
SBS
The 1967 Referendum showed the world that the great population of Australia could empathise with Aboriginal people when an overwhelming majority voted 'Yes' to recognising Aboriginal Australians in the Constitution. This was an act of solidarity shown ...
This Is Why Australia Has 'National Sorry Day'TIME
'Assimilation' to 'genocide': Australia acknowledges stolen generationseuronews
Sorry Day protesters voice anger at 'continuing stolen generations'The Guardian
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Babel Island muttonbird hunt affirms ancient food culture
ABC Online
"What they say is that the states like Australia and America and New Zealand must go out of their way to encourage Aboriginals and Maoris and Indians to continue to practice our culture. "Now you get some narrow minded people in Australia who think 'Oh ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal women's choir performs baroque hymns in Arrarnta language
Sydney Morning Herald
Today, the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir spans five Aboriginal communities and they sing in six languages, including traditional Aboriginal languages, English, German and Zulu. Two honorary male members will accompany the 29 women on ...

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The Guardian
Australia developing first ever school curriculum for Indigenous languages
The Guardian
Jakelin Troy, director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research at the University of Sydney and a key writer of the curriculum, currently in draft stage, said it will mark the first time in the country's history that an Australian language ...
Mackay Regional Council to celebrate Reconciliation WeekMackay Daily Mercury

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The Hindu
Aboriginal art from Australia
Business Standard
An exhibition from Australia, which reveals the aboriginal history of the world's longest stock route through the deserts of Western Australia, has gone on display here. Titled 'Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route' the show provides a window to the ...
Aboriginal works that convey sacred storiesThe Hindu

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The Guardian
Indigenous man's death in custody blamed on NT 'paperless arrest' powers
The Guardian
Jonathon Hunyor, principal lawyer at the North Australian Aboriginal justice agency (Naaja) said the arrest powers lacked accountability and safeguards, and had a greater impact on homeless and Aboriginal people. Naaja has previously challenged the ...
'Death in custody result of NT policy'9news.com.au

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The Conversation AU
Why Aboriginal people need autonomy over their food supply
The Conversation AU
Going without food, or going without nutritious food, has heavy consequences for Indigenous people, as we learnt on a recent research trip to the West Kimberley. Indigenous Australians are already twice as likely to have a disability or chronic illness ...
Aboriginal languages could reveal scientific clues to Australia's unique pastAncient Origins

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Daily Mail
Rare illustrations by French explorers in 1800s show aboriginal people and ...
Daily Mail
A hundred detailed illustrations of life in Australia before colonisation, painted by French explorers, will go on display around the country for the first time. Painted between 1800 and 1804 during an expedition commissioned by Napoléon Bonaparte, the ...

USA TODAY
Australia's closing of Aboriginal communities sparks protests
USA TODAY
SYDNEY — Government moves to close remote indigenous communities because of alleged social problems and the cost of maintaining them is triggering a new wave of protests planned for next week across Australia. Western Australia's government said it ...

Ancient Origins
Aboriginal languages could reveal scientific clues to Australia's unique past
Ancient Origins
The loss of Australian aboriginal languages could obstruct access to unique scientific information regarding Australia's ancient geological history, according to a story reported this week by BBC News. Ancient Australian aboriginal legends passed down ...

Green Left Weekly
John Pilger: Honour our Aboriginal heroes
Green Left Weekly
If you want to meet the best Australians, meet Indigenous men and women who understand this extraordinary country and have fought for the rights of the world's oldest culture. Theirs is a struggle more selfless, heroic and enduring than any historical ...

The Australian
Sotheby's puts faith in Aboriginal art
The Australian
“They see indigenous Australian art as a field with broad international interest,” he said. In Australia, Bonhams, Sotheby's Australia and Deutscher and Hackett used to stage one or two dedicated Aboriginal art sales each year, with hundreds of lots on ...
Now, experience Australian Aboriginal art in DelhiNew Kerala

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The Australian
British Museum's Indigenous Australia exhibition draws crowds
The Australian
The stores visit came towards the end of a momentous week for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and artists who were in London in late April to attend the official opening of the museum's landmark exhibition Indigenous Australia ...

The Australian
Property rights will help economic development of indigenous Australians
The Australian
Since European settlement the vast majority of Australians have been able to participate in the economy and enrich themselves by developing their property. That hasn't been the case for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. For more than 200 ...
BRANDIS CUTS BEGIN TO BITEAboriginal Art Directory News

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Red tape driving the Aboriginal art market offshore
ArtsHub (subscription)
The 75 lot sale of mostly early and ethnographic material was drawn together by former Sotheby's Australia Director of Aboriginal Art, Tim Klingender, with a core from notable Dutch collector Thomas Vroom, and the balance (bar two from Australia ...
Buried Country reissue illuminates once again the rich trove of Aboriginal ...ABC Online (blog)

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ABC Online (blog)
Buried Country reissue illuminates once again the rich trove of Aboriginal ...
ABC Online (blog)
When it was first published 15 years ago, Buried Country: The story of Aboriginal country music represented a major addition to the chronicles of Australian music. As a revised and updated edition hits the shelves, Barnaby Smith talks with the book's ...
Body politics goes BlackArtsHub (subscription)

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