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Noel Pearson teaching model to get $22m
The Australian
BACK-to-basics schooling will be rolled out across indigenous Australia to lift literacy, as the federal government provides $22 million to fund a dramatic expansion of Direct Instruction from a pilot teaching program on Queensland's Cape York ...

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The Best of NAIDOC Week 2014
ArtsHub (subscription)
With the Centenary of World War I, the annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture is focusing on honouring the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who have fought in defence of Australia. with the theme 'Serving ...

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Indigenous dance performance marks Australian Navy Chief handover
ABC Online
The outgoing Chief of Navy, Vice-Admiral Ray Griggs, named the troupe Bungaree, after a 19th century Aboriginal performer who circumnavigated Australia with explorer Mathew Flinders. The dancers performed at his handover ceremony today, as he ...

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Indigenous dance performance marks Australian Navy Chief handover
Yahoo!7 News
The outgoing Chief of Navy, Vice-Admiral Ray Griggs, named the troupe Bungaree, after a 19th century Aboriginal performer who circumnavigated Australia with explorer Mathew Flinders. The dancers performed at his handover ceremony today, as he ...

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Indigenous dance performance marks Australian Navy Chief handover
Yahoo!7 News
The outgoing Chief of Navy, Vice-Admiral Ray Griggs, named the troupe Bungaree, after a 19th century Aboriginal performer who circumnavigated Australia with explorer Mathew Flinders. The dancers performed at his handover ceremony today, as he ...

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Adelaide protests budget cuts to Aboriginal programs
Green Left Weekly
About 250 Aboriginal people and their supporters gathered in solidarity at the steps of South Australia's Parliament House on June 17 to protest against the proposed federal budget. Included in the budget is $534 million in cuts to Aboriginal programs ...

Indigenous authors explore Twitter fiction and new literary genres
ABC Online
When you think of Indigenous Australian literature, you might not immediately think of horror, fantasy or even Twitter fiction. Indigenous authors are exploring new genres and many of their works are slowly finding mainstream readership, writes Rhianna ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Gordon Bennett explored indigenous past through his conceptual art
Sydney Morning Herald
GORDON BENNETT, 1955-2014. "I am an indigenous Australian. My mother is an indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out of small town and suburban Australia.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Gordon Bennett explored indigenous past through his conceptual art
Sydney Morning Herald
GORDON BENNETT, 1955-2014. "I am an indigenous Australian. My mother is an indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out of small town and suburban Australia.

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
'Abstraction (Citizen)' 2010, A late Gordon Bennett work on canvas ...
Aboriginal Art Directory News
“I am an Indigenous Australian. My mother is an Indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out of small town and suburban Australia. I was socialised into an essentially ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
GORDON BENNETT 1955 to 3 June 2014
Aboriginal Art Directory News
“I am an Indigenous Australian. My mother is an Indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out of small town and suburban Australia. I was socialised into an essentially ...

New focus for Indigenous suicide prevention
ABC Online
ANNA VIDOT: The disturbingly high rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is bad enough, but according to psychologist and professor, Pat Dudgeon, from the University of Western Australia's School of Indigenous Studies, the ...

New focus for Indigenous suicide prevention
ABC Online
ANNA VIDOT: The disturbingly high rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is bad enough, but according to psychologist and professor, Pat Dudgeon, from the University of Western Australia's School of Indigenous Studies, the ...
Concern over suicide rates in indigenous AustraliansRadio Australia
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...ABC Message Stick

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Employing Indigenous Australians
WA today
You can enhance your business with the different perspectives, experience and knowledge of Indigenous employees. They can contribute to the development of cross-cultural awareness in your workplace, which is vital in communicating with suppliers and ...

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Employing Indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
... workplace open to diversity when you consider that: 56% of Indigenous Australians are under 25 years old, compared with about 33% in the rest of the population. the Indigenous population in Australia is growing faster than the non-Indigenous ...

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Photo exhibition remembers 2000 Aboriginal Reconcilation Walk
The Daily Telegraph
Around About 250,000 people turned out for the walk – the largest political demonstration held in Australian history – marking a milestone in the process of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. “The walk exceeded all ...

Radio Australia
Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
Radio Australia
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.
Tasmania wecoming back Aboriginal remains after traders scattered them ...Australian Times

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Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
Radio Australia
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.

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Aboriginal heritage takes a contemporary twist in Western Australia
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The Western Australian Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Hon Peter Collier, has released the Aboriginal Heritage Amendment Bill 2014 (WA) (the Bill). The Bill proposes a number of amendments to the current Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA) (Act) and the ...

Australian Times
Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
ABC Online
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.
Tasmania wecoming back Aboriginal remains after traders scattered them ...Australian Times

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