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He had a private screening and he came in with his arms open and said “I love this movie” and he wanted to understand Aboriginal Australia. He got it ...

ABC Online
Indigenous expert joins Australian Heritage Council
The Age
Lyndon Ormond-Parker, who was born in Darwin, is of Alyawarr descent from the Barkley Tablelands in the Northern Territory. An Indigenous cultural expert of over 15 years' standing, Mr Ormond-Parker is an Australian Research Council Fellow in the ...
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...ABC Online

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ABC Online
Indigenous expert joins Australian Heritage Council
The Age
Lyndon Ormond-Parker, who was born in Darwin, is of Alyawarr descent from the Barkley Tablelands in the Northern Territory. An Indigenous cultural expert of over 15 years' standing, Mr Ormond-Parker is an Australian Research Council Fellow in the ...
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...ABC Online
Australia returns land to indigenous ownersRadio New Zealand
Infrastructure on NT budget wishlistYahoo7 News

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Awareness about Australian Indigenous languages is very low. Most Australians still believe that there is an Aboriginal language and have no idea ...

Gurrumul, who is blind, is an aboriginal singer/songwriter from Australia. He is playing Sweetwater in Mill Valley on May 9. (Glenn Campbell photo).

ABC Online
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...
ABC Online
The head of one of Australia's most powerful Indigenous bodies has accused Adam Giles's Country Liberal Party (CLP) Government of "sweeping aside" Indigenous people to develop the Northern Territory. The Northern Land Council's (NLC) chief Joe ...
Australia returns land to indigenous ownersRadio New Zealand
Infrastructure on NT budget wishlistCourier Mail

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ABC Online
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...
ABC Online
The head of one of Australia's most powerful Indigenous bodies has accused Adam Giles's Country Liberal Party (CLP) Government of "sweeping aside" Indigenous people to develop the Northern Territory. The Northern Land Council's (NLC) chief Joe ...

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The head of one of Australia's most powerful Indigenous bodies has ... "It just seems that Aboriginal Territorians should be swept aside and the big ...

The Guardian
WA Indigenous groups frustrated at lack of detail in remote communities plan
The Guardian
Its chairman, Anthony Watson, told Guardian Australia the announcement was “very disappointing.” “We were expecting that they would put out a report, not a five-page PR exercise,” he said. “There is no comfort. We don't know the details … they have ...
Aboriginal people to be consulted on remote community closures: WA GovernmentABC Online
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
WA remote indigenous communities closure plan 'stab in the dark': Premier ...NEWS.com.au

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The Conversation AU
Let's see all the faces of Team Australia on our TV screens
The Conversation AU
Australia has moved a long way from the 70s series Boney, for which New Zealand-born actor James Laurenson was hired to play a half-Aboriginal detective – but we're still a very long way from achieving colour-blind casting across the board in our ...

The Conversation AU
Some Australian Indigenous languages you should know
The Conversation AU
As an ice-breaker, I often ask my linguistics students to name an Australian Indigenous language. Some are able to name Warlpiri, Yolngu Matha or Arrente, but most cannot manage the name of a single language. That is astonishing given there are 250 to ...
Exhibition: Indigenous Australia – enduring civilisationGeographical

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The Conversation AU
Some Australian Indigenous languages you should know
The Conversation AU
As an ice-breaker, I often ask my linguistics students to name an Australian Indigenous language. Some are able to name Warlpiri, Yolngu Matha or Arrente, but most cannot manage the name of a single language. That is astonishing given there are 250 to ...
Exhibition: Indigenous Australia – enduring civilisationGeographical

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The number of children requiring protective services in Australia has ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders continue to be over-represented in the ...

How many Indigenous languages exist in Australia? ... Most Australians still believe that there is an Aboriginal language and have no idea about the ...

Australian soapies are among our most successful media exports. ... and said “I love this movie” and he wanted to understand Aboriginal Australia.

“The statistics in Australia are pretty dire,” Professor Davis says. ... “You cannot proceed as a nation to recognise Aboriginal culture in the Constitution ...

Warren Mundine has backed calls from indigenous leader Noel Pearson for the first Australians to rise above their traumatic history, saying Aboriginal ...

The Australian
Indigenous culture focus for Australia's first UN woman
The Australian
During the past fortnight with Professor Davis in the chair, the UNPFII has confronted a range of issues that are directly relevant to Australia. Youth suicide, constitutional recognition and the forced removal of Aboriginal people from their land have ...

Lift yourselves out of victimhood: Warren Mundine
The Australian
Mr Mundine said the call from Mr Pearson for indigenous Australia to stop blaming the wrongs of the past for today's disadvantage expressed a frustration with welfare dependency, which he shared. “I have never seen anyone pulled out of poverty by ...

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The Australian
Indigenous culture focus for Australia's first UN woman
The Australian
“It seems to have attracted huge international coverage,” Professor Davis told The Australian. “It was the subject of much concern.” The indigenous professor says there is a misconception globally that affluent developed nations such as Australia do ...