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Our Constitution is racist, says Australian of the Year Adam Goodes - The Daily Telegraph

Sat, 2014/04/05 - 3:19am

Our Constitution is racist, says Australian of the Year Adam Goodes
The Daily Telegraph
AUSTRALIAN of the Year Adam Goodes has described the Constitution as “very, very racist'' as he campaigns to have indigenous people recognised in the nation's founding document. Goodes highlighted several aspects of the Constitution he believes to be ...

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The Gods of Wheat Street: a TV drama about a family who just so happens to be ... - ABC Online

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 9:53pm

ABC Online

The Gods of Wheat Street: a TV drama about a family who just so happens to be ...
ABC Online
Taking Australians into the home, and hearts, of an Aboriginal family, 'The Gods of Wheat Street' aims to fill a huge gap in Australian television. Director Jon Bell says the production, which explores modern Aboriginal stories, has been described as ...

South Australia sarfari camp: Pitch perfect - Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 5:01pm

South Australia sarfari camp: Pitch perfect
Sydney Morning Herald
Advertisement. Ikara's 15 en suite premium tents are situated in a secluded location away from the main resort, which was bought in 2012 by Indigenous Business Australia and the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands. Set amid river red gums and native pines, ...

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by: public works: BRONWYN WATSON - The Australian

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 1:23pm

by: public works: BRONWYN WATSON
The Australian
According to Paul Donnelly, an expert in Australian gold and silver, 1851-1900, the use of the oversized emu egg was widespread because it was viewed as an exotic souvenir from nature. Aboriginal figures were frequently used because Europeans at that ...

Mark Williams backs vision of all Australian football factory in Adelaide - Herald Sun

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 11:06am

Mark Williams backs vision of all Australian football factory in Adelaide
Herald Sun
AFL coaching great Mark Williams has emphatically backed a ground-breaking all Australian football factory planned for Adelaide's northern suburbs that will tackle indigenous disadvantage. Former state cricketer Chris Harms' innovative plan for a ...

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Constitution racist, says Australian of the Year Adam Goodes - The Australian

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 11:06am

Constitution racist, says Australian of the Year Adam Goodes
The Australian
AUSTRALIAN of the Year Adam Goodes has described the Constitution as “very, very racist'' as he campaigns to have indigenous people recognised in the nation's founding document. Goodes highlighted several aspects of the Constitution he believes to be ...
AFL footballer Adam Goodes: 'For us to reconcile you can't have people still ...NEWS.com.au

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Australian Multiculturalism in an Asian Century: The Case for Racial Tolerance - ABC Online

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 10:26am

ABC Online

Australian Multiculturalism in an Asian Century: The Case for Racial Tolerance
ABC Online
The modern story of Australia is one of a nation of immigrants. Apart from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, all of us have been immigrants or are the descendants of immigrants. The successive waves of immigration following the Second ...
Top 5 acts of racial discrimination in AustraliaThe Vine
Remove Section 18C – normalise Holocaust denial…writes Andre ObolerJ-Wire Jewish Australian News Service

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Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashion - Frankston weekly

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 7:12am

Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Frankston weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashion - Monash Weekly

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 6:45am

Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Monash Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

UQ adjunct wins visual arts award - UQ News

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 6:32am

UQ adjunct wins visual arts award
UQ News
Professor Foley co-founded the Boomali Aboriginal Artists Co-operative in Sydney in 1987 and her art has been acquired by institutions all over the world, including the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the British ...

Aust trackers forgotten in foreign land - SBS

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 2:15am

Aust trackers forgotten in foreign land
SBS
They served the Australian army in the Boer War but their country may not have wanted them back. A Queensland researcher is investigating the fate of up to 50 Aboriginal trackers who assisted Australian troops in South Africa only to disappear from the ...

Aboriginal flag set to fly - inmycommunity

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 12:54am

inmycommunity

Aboriginal flag set to fly
inmycommunity
THE installation of an extra flagpole to permanently fly the Aboriginal flag at the City of Rockingham council building is just one proposal put forward in the City's draft Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which is open for public comment. The ...

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Young people the target for indigenous recognition crusader - Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2014/04/04 - 12:50am

Sydney Morning Herald

Young people the target for indigenous recognition crusader
Sydney Morning Herald
"Why shouldn't all Australians feel a sense of pride when we hear about the innovation, adaptation and survival of the first Australians." Ms Frail is determined to play her part in ending the silence in Australia's founding document about the nation's ...

New report shows economic benefits for Aboriginal Community Controlled ... - Crikey (blog)

Thu, 2014/04/03 - 9:07pm

New report shows economic benefits for Aboriginal Community Controlled ...
Crikey (blog)
“Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations are major contributors to closing the appalling health gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians by providing culturally appropriate primary health care to Aboriginal people,” Mr Mohamed ...

Aboriginal flag set to fly - inmycommunity

Thu, 2014/04/03 - 8:07pm

inmycommunity

Aboriginal flag set to fly
inmycommunity
THE installation of an extra flagpole to permanently fly the Aboriginal flag at the City of Rockingham council building is just one proposal put forward in the City's draft Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which is open for public comment. The ...

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Indigenous war stories get a wider audience - Warrnambool Standard

Thu, 2014/04/03 - 5:41pm

Indigenous war stories get a wider audience
Warrnambool Standard
The exhibition's curator, Jean McAuslan, told a major museums' conference in Warrnambool yesterday that Aboriginal elders John Lovett and Keith Saunders had approached her at the 2009 launch of the Indigenous Australians at War exhibition at ...

John Moriarty backs George Brandis on rights - The Australian

Thu, 2014/04/03 - 1:14pm

John Moriarty backs George Brandis on rights
The Australian
The Aboriginal artist, activist and businessman, whose studio designed Qantas's distinctive plane livery, fought for Aboriginal rights in the 1967 referendum — and now he's standing up for freedom of speech. He's backing moves by ... “I have devoted ...

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Bush Aborigines are fed up - The Australian

Thu, 2014/04/03 - 1:09pm

The Guardian

Bush Aborigines are fed up
The Australian
The imminent departure from the ruling Country Liberal Party of three traditional, culturally respected indigenous members not only plunges the government into crisis but could create a watershed for indigenous representation in Australia. Aboriginal ...
Former Labor maverick Marion Scrymgour calls on rebel backbenchers to leave ...Yahoo!7 News
Alison Anderson a 'sideshow': NT chiefNEWS.com.au

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New project works to preserve the stories of Aboriginal diggers - SBS

Thu, 2014/04/03 - 6:35am

New project works to preserve the stories of Aboriginal diggers
SBS
The personal stories of Aboriginal men who fought for Australia in World War Two are being preserved through a nationwide project worth more than $1 million. By. David Liddle, NITV. Source. NITV News. UPDATED 3 MINS AGO. Serving Our Country, a ...

Court approves controversial exhibit - NEWS.com.au

Thu, 2014/04/03 - 5:03am

Court approves controversial exhibit
NEWS.com.au
A MAJOR Aboriginal exhibition at the South Australian Museum is allowed to proceed as planned, after the Supreme Court today dismissed an application to ban parts of the exhibit. The court had previously granted two temporary injunctions after a group ...

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