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The Guardian (blog)
Pecan Summer: an opera for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian (blog)
Photograph: Jorge de Araujo and Richard Jefferson. As Australia's first Indigenous opera, Pecan Summer, prepares to open at the Adelaide Festival Centre for its fourth season, creator and composer Deborah Cheetham well remembers the opera's premiere.

The Guardian (blog)
Pecan Summer: an opera for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian (blog)
Photograph: Jorge de Araujo and Richard Jefferson. As Australia's first Indigenous opera, Pecan Summer, prepares to open at the Adelaide Festival Centre for its fourth season, creator and composer Deborah Cheetham well remembers the opera's premiere.

Failing Aboriginal Australians
CounterPunch
Several recent events in Australia have served to again highlight how little the peoples and cultures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island nations feature on the national radar. Lack of formal education about Aborigines and a failure on the media ...

Failing Aboriginal Australians
CounterPunch
Several recent events in Australia have served to again highlight how little the peoples and cultures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island nations feature on the national radar. Lack of formal education about Aborigines and a failure on the media ...

Mine's 'rock art' just 3½ years old
The Australian
A report by engineering consultancy Aecom Australia for Coalpac says the “questionable” hand stencil is likely to be a “modern replica” of a traditional Aboriginal hand stencil and is at most 3½ years old. The “now obvious” rock stencil was not there ...

Gerry Georgatos, Correspondent - National Indigenous Radio - New South Wales – A tent embassy at North Lismore has gathered to protect a sacred plateau from a property development of over fifteen hundred houses. - Bundjalung Wyia-bal elder Mickey Ryan says the Department of Planning hasn't consulted on sacred sites and cultural heritage and he's lodged a writ in Court to prevent the development. - Mr Ryan says two sacred fires have been lit, one at the Embassy and another on the plateau. - He says traditional owners are happy to escort any Embassy visitors to the plateau.

Call for action on indigenous suicide
The Australian
Professor Chandler has been invited to address a roundtable of indigenous elders, youth leaders, health professionals, academics, social justice campaigners and government figures hosted by the University of Western Australia. One of the convenors, ...

Bureaucrat's last word on sites stirs anger
The Australian
But native title representative groups and anthropologists say the proposed changes to Australia's first set of laws covering Aboriginal sacred sites will concentrate power in the hands of a single bureaucrat, the chief executive of the Department of ...

Opinion: Teaching in mother tongue key to engaging indigenous students
Courier Mail
IT WAS reported last week that Australian jail populations have “risen sharply” in the past year. In among the statistical data was the fact indigenous prisoners now represent 28 per cent of the total jail population. What wasn't reported was this is ...

Sydney City News
Talk of protest and civil disobedience usually conjures thoughts of distant ...
Sydney City News
Featuring archival documents, letters and petitions alongside new works by contemporary Indigenous artists, Nicole Foreshew, Jacob Nash and Karla Dickens, the exhibition honours the legacy of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA) and ...

In the Anangu Pitjintjatjara Yangkunjatjara (APY) lands in northern South Australia, traditional health knowledge is alive and well, and working in a contemporary setting. - ABC AWAYE program - Presented by Rhianna Patrick Image: Ngangkari healers Rama Simpson (left) and Cyril McKenzie - More at: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/

Aboriginal health may be high on the policy agenda, but traditional Aboriginal healers hardly rate a mention in Australia’s official health policies. Annie Hastwell meets an Italian researcher who is determined to raise their profile and bring them into the mainstream. From the ABC AWAYE program - - Read More: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/first-nation-healers-working-keep-traditional-medicine-alive

Sydney Morning Herald
NBA star Patty Mills wants to revive his family club
Sydney Morning Herald
He is now an NBA championship-winning star with the San Antonio Spurs, but Patty Mills began basketball in Canberra as a four-year-old with the Shadows. Mills wants to help resurrect the multicultural and Australian indigenous basketball club founded ...
Australian basketball needs to take advantage of Patty Mills-maniaWarrnambool Standard

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No new term for Indigenous Business Australia chair Dawn Casey
The Australian
Dr Casey's five-year term at the head of the IBA, which promotes self-sufficiency and economic independence among indigenous Australians, ends on June 28. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion today paid tribute to Dr Casey, who The Australian ...

The West Australian
Australia drops planned Aborigine nuclear waste site
eco-business.com
Australia has dropped a plan to place its first nuclear waste dump on Aborigine land, after a long-running legal case ended. Aboriginal landowners had argued that the proposed site, at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory, was next to an area they ...
Nuclear waste dump plan on Aboriginal land abandonedThe West Australian
Explainer: Muckaty Station nuclear dumpSBS
Muckaty could still house nuclear dumpNinemsn
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Tasmanian Aboriginal skulls return from US
Ninemsn
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community's repatriation program has notched a string of successes since Australian museums began releasing remains in the 1970s. The British and Natural History museums in the UK, and institutions as far flung as Sweden, ...

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www.worldbulletin.net
Australia drops planned Aborigine nuclear waste site
www.worldbulletin.net
The Northern Land Council, an official body charged with representing Aboriginal interests, nominated a section of Muckaty Station in 2007 to store low and intermediate radioactive waste. The Council had negotiated the deal with the Aboriginal Ngapa ...

Blue & Green Tomorrow
Australian indigenous groups win legal battle to develop ecotourism hotspots
Blue & Green Tomorrow
Indigenous people in Australia have won a battle in the federal court to overturn legislation made in 2009 that restricted development around three rivers in Cape York, Queensland. A four-year legal battle to undo development restrictions, originally ...

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The West Australian
Nuclear waste dump plan on Aboriginal land abandoned
The West Australian
Sydney (AFP) - Plans to locate Australia's first nuclear waste dump in a remote outback area were dropped Thursday after a long battle with traditional Aboriginal landowners. Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory was nominated in early 2007 as a ...
Muckaty could still house nuclear dumpSydney Morning Herald
Explainer: Muckaty Station nuclear dumpSBS
Muckaty plan dumpedABC Online
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Australia's plans to locate nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land abandoned
The Voice of Russia
Plans to locate Australia's first nuclear waste dump in a remote outback area were dropped Thursday after a long battle with traditional Aboriginal landowners. Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory was nominated in early 2007 as a site to store low ...