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Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many stories
BBC News
An enormous exhibition banner flaps gently in the breeze as a small group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women crane their necks upwards to read the words: 'Indigenous Australia: enduring civilization'. The long awaited exhibition ...

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BBC News
Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many stories
BBC News
An enormous exhibition banner flaps gently in the breeze as a small group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women crane their necks upwards to read the words: 'Indigenous Australia: enduring civilization'. The long awaited exhibition ...

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Aboriginal advocates in Australia have focused on this issue, raising the possibility of a re-run of the 2004 Australian legal challenge to return bark ...

The state, he says, has to rationalise services to Western Australia's remote Aboriginal communities. The state simply cannot afford to do otherwise.

It would also stand in stark contrast to the attitudes of Australians at the time of the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal voting rights. How would they view ...

Sarah Booth said some schools taught Aboriginal history and culture well, but ... It comes after a review into the Australian Curriculum suggested there ...

"We think we're the first in the world, definitely the first in Australia, and we consist of around 100 to 150 students," Mr Tan said. "We think Aboriginal ...

Since 2003, he's added Aboriginal art to his portfolio – leaping into the .... the Kaiadilt was amongst the most gender-equal in Aboriginal Australia.

In Western Australia, the nation's mother of jailers, the children of First Peoples are 52 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Aboriginal ...

... the majority of Indigenous affairs funding to non-Aboriginal organisations, ... schooling, community safety, culture and strategies for remote Australia.

Author of the book ‘Dark Emu – Black Seeds : Agriculture or Accident?” The book argues the idea that the first Australians were hunter gatherers has been invented to undermine Aboriginal people. "My message to my own people," he says, "is the rest of the country's not going to change if we don't stick up for our culture; and our culture was one where we had an agricultural economy." "If we stick up for our culture, it'll be useful not just for us but for the whole of Australia, because some of those crops that our people were growing are going to be useful in the future." 98.9fm, NIRS, Radio Brisbane

TARNANTHI, the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, will be presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia in ...

NATALIE WHITING: There are almost 10,000 schools in Australia and ... PETER BUCKSKIN: We've always described as Aboriginal educators that ...

The Guardian
Most groups funded under Indigenous advancement strategy non-Indigenous
The Guardian
Having got “many calls” after the announcement of the process, Gooda said some organisations did not have the capacity to put together the complicated applications, a suggestion also made by the – otherwise largely supportive – North Australian ...
Funding for Indigenous organisations an improvement on Labor, Nigel Scullion ...ABC Online
Plato said engage with our politicians or risk being governed by the 'dumb ...The Stringer

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BHP Billiton has reaffirmed its support for Aboriginal Australia by announcing a A$3.9 million partnership with Reconciliation Australia to deliver the ...

The Guardian
Most groups funded under Indigenous advancement strategy non-Indigenous
The Guardian
Geographically, the largest share went to eastern New South Wales (18%), which has a quarter of Australia's Indigenous population, followed by greater Western Australia (13%) and the Top End and Tiwi Islands region (11%). A 10th of the funding went to ...

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“If Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are to have confidence in ... supportive – North Australian Aboriginal Family Violence Legal Service.

It attacked the young and the old, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... despite clear indicators of age discrimination in the workplace in Australia.

Yes indeed, she discovered, you can find some authors from India, Africa, and the Arab world, or Aboriginal Australia, but once you get beyond the ...

SIMON TAN: We are Australia's first ever medical student orchestra. ... SIMON TAN: We think Aboriginal health and community support is something ...