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Aboriginal Artist Beautifies the Australian Bush Country
Ketchum Keystone -- An e-newspaper for the greater Ketchum Idaho community
She wrote and delivered the inaugural Indigenous Art, Culture and Design course to the South Australian School of Art students before commencing as the first Indigenous Curator at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2008. Cumpston also curated and ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Racism on the rise in Australia: migrants report cultural shift
Sydney Morning Herald
The latest Mapping Social Cohesion survey by the Scanlon Foundation found 19 per cent of Australians were discriminated against because of their skin colour, ethnic origin or religious beliefs last year - up from 12 per cent in 2012. It was the highest ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Racism on the rise in Australia: migrants report cultural shift
Sydney Morning Herald
The government has sought to water down the act after conservative commentator Andrew Bolt was found to have broken the law in an article about ''fair-skinned Aboriginals''. When Attorney-General George Brandis defended the proposed changes by ...

Aboriginal group in Land and Environment Court over Calga sand mine
The Daily Telegraph
... in opposing the proposed expansion at the Rocla site. Residents have grace concerns regarding possible impacts on the water table and the nearby Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park faces job redundancies and possible closure if the project goes ahead.

Critic's choice
Sydney Morning Herald
Seeing Kelton Pell on screen is always a reason to be cheerful, and it is just one of many in this new local drama with a strong indigenous bent. Wheat Street is the creation of Jon Bell, ... THE BIGGEST LOSER CHALLENGE AUSTRALIA Season final ...

History textbooks in crosshairs of Australia's curriculum wars
Yahoo News
For Australians, the question is which nation they are studying: a territory invaded in 1788 by white colonialists who clashed violently with indigenous Aborigines or a land that was settled peacefully and where conflict with the inhabitants wasn't the ...

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Christian Science Monitor
History textbooks in crosshairs of Australia's curriculum wars
Christian Science Monitor
For Australians, the question is which nation they are studying: a territory invaded in 1788 by white colonialists who clashed violently with indigenous Aborigines or a land that was settled peacefully and where conflict with the inhabitants wasn't the ...

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The Canberra Times
Study of indigenous smokers provides new strategies for quit campaigns
The Canberra Times
''But a huge amount - 92 per cent - of the indigenous population want to quit smoking, so there is an opportunity for change.'' Dr Lovett said the indigenous community in Australia was very young, with half the population aged under 30. ''If you can ...

The Canberra Times
Study of indigenous smokers provides new strategies for quit campaigns
The Canberra Times
''But a huge amount - 92 per cent - of the indigenous population want to quit smoking, so there is an opportunity for change.'' Dr Lovett said the indigenous community in Australia was very young, with half the population aged under 30. ''If you can ...

Humanism, writ large at the Adelaide Biennial
The Australian
This is not an allusion to the culture of his city but to the history of Australia and the sense that there are still, within the national psyche, unhealed wounds that go back to the days of the convicts and early interaction with the Aborigines. One ...

Racist ideas are more effectively countered in debate, rather than in court or ...
The Australian
That's also true in Australia. Those who were around during the human rights and civil liberty battles in the 1950s and 60s will recall the vile insults thrown at Charlie Perkins, Ken Brindle, Faith Bandler, Kath Walker and many others. It's very rare ...

Australian Museum's new director Kim McKay is a rare find
The Australian
In a long career here and in the US, she has promoted everything from world pro surfing and Oprah Winfrey's 2010 visit to Australia to the National Geographic Society's groundbreaking scientific research on the history of human migration. The great ...

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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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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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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 ...

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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
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
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 ...

laws should be applied equally
The Australian
The majority of Australians are not racist — the majority embrace a moral code and know that racism is wrong. In a truly good society, a state-imposed sanction should be irrelevant; the punishment should reside within the conscience of an individual.

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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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