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Indigenous Film Star & Director Visits Red Hill
Brisbane Broncos
A touch of Hollywood came to the NRMA Insurance Broncos yesterday when Indigenous Australian film and TV writer, actor and director Wayne Blair caught up with long-time acquaintance and Head Coach Anthony Griffin at Red Hill. The Taree born and ...

Close the gap: joint parly call
Courier Mail
"We don't just do this for the benefit of our Aboriginal brothers and sisters, we do this because it's what a dignified Australia offers to all its citizens," she said. She remembers her heart sinking while listening to last year's speech, when she was ...

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Close the gap: joint parly call
The Australian
Liberal MP Ken Wyatt, the first indigenous Australian elected to the lower house, said he was happy with the status quo. He would rather parliamentarians look at ways they could personally help close the gap in their own communities. "I would like to ...

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Electoral Commission seeks Indigenous voting boost for South Australian election
ABC Online
Concerted efforts are being made to get more people in remote Aboriginal communities to vote in the South Australian election next month. Information about candidates and issues will be broadcast and published in the local language. Nearly 3,000 people ...

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88: a story of Aboriginal survival
ABC Online (blog)
For many Australians 1988, the year of the bicentenary of white settlement, was an opportunity to celebrate the survival of Australia's indigenous people. Maybe you were a part of a group of people who travelled from the NT to Sydney to remind the rest ...

The Guardian (blog)
Melbourne Indigenous Arts festival: Deborah Cheetham's highlights
The Guardian (blog)
I'm often asked for advice on how to connect with Australia's Indigenous cultures. For some people a connection with the longest continuing culture in the world, whilst enticing, seems all too difficult and unnecessarily complicated. For others ...

The Guardian (blog)
Melbourne Indigenous Arts festival: Deborah Cheetham's highlights
The Guardian (blog)
I'm often asked for advice on how to connect with Australia's Indigenous cultures. For some people a connection with the longest continuing culture in the world, whilst enticing, seems all too difficult and unnecessarily complicated. For others ...
'BOABS' helps Indigenous people quit smokingHealthCanal.com

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The West Australian
Electoral Commission seeks Indigenous voting boost for South Australian election
The West Australian
Concerted efforts are being made to get more people in remote Aboriginal communities to vote in the South Australian election next month. Information about candidates and issues will be broadcast and published in the local language. Nearly 3,000 people ...

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A time to talk about realities of Aboriginal Australians
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
To the letter-writer "Please explain graffiti" (Your View, January 30), I too read the January 28 Leader item. However, nowhere did I read this damage was caused by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Adrian Newstead's new expose on the Aboriginal Art Market has everyone talking.
artsHub Australia (subscription)
There is no better person to tackle such a complex and layered topic as Newstead, founder of Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery (1981), Australia's oldest continuously operating Aboriginal art gallery, and former President of the Indigenous Art Trade ...
Art resale royalties an 'abject failure' for Indigenous artistsSydney Morning Herald

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Radio Australia
Federal Court rejects challenge by Aboriginal traditional owners to Rio Tinto ...
Radio Australia
The Federal Court has dismissed a legal challenge to a lease agreement between Aboriginal traditional land owners in the Northern Territory and mining giant Rio Tinto. In 2011, then prime minister Julia Gillard was part of a ceremony held in east ...

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The Age
Blak Cabaret: indigenous artists take the stage for the Indigenous Arts Festival
The Age
''The ideal is to develop it into a true sense of cabaret and get around Australia and the world.'' On the topic of who he expects in the audience, Tamiru knows that Aboriginal people will make up a major part, but given the playful nature of the work ...

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What happens to Aboriginal Australians after a stroke or traumatic brain injury?
HealthCanal.com
Professor Beth Armstrong is leading a research project examining communications disorders in Aboriginal Australians in WA. Indigenous Australians are twice as likely to suffer a stroke and 21 times as likely to suffer a traumatic brain injury as the ...

What happens to Aboriginal Australians after a stroke or traumatic brain injury?
HealthCanal.com
Professor Beth Armstrong is leading a research project examining communications disorders in Aboriginal Australians in WA. Indigenous Australians are twice as likely to suffer a stroke and 21 times as likely to suffer a traumatic brain injury as the ...

SBS
Call for compensation over 'stolen' Indigenous languages
SBS
Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann said money needed to be invested in helping Indigenous Australians reclaim their native tongues. "These Aboriginal people who suffered, whose language suffered linguicide, ought to receive compensation in the form of ...

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Call for compensation over 'stolen' Indigenous languages
SBS
Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann said money needed to be invested in helping Indigenous Australians reclaim their native tongues. "These Aboriginal people who suffered, whose language suffered linguicide, ought to receive compensation in the form of ...

jobs scheme central to Direct Action
The Australian
INDIGENOUS people could be given work planting trees and scrub and restoring degraded government-owned land in rural areas of Queensland, NSW and Western Australia, under the Coalition's Direct Action scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Indigenous woman looks at Australia Day
ChristianToday
Last Sunday (26th January) which to white Australians is known as Australia Day, and to mostly all Indigenous Australians its known as Invasion day or Survival day. To me growing up it was Invasion day. That's what my family taught me growing up, and ...

PM must tear up any thoughts of a treaty
The Daily Telegraph
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott reopened debate about recognition of Aboriginal Australians in the Australian Constitution when he chose Australia Day to reiterate his government's commitment to preparing a draft of a formal wording by September.

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NRL Indigenous leadership camp 2014: War cry to unite ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Every Australian team on Kangaroo tours from 1908 to 1967 performed an Aboriginal war cry, derived from Stradbroke Island, before matches but they never did so on home soil and it was decided in 1973 that the dance ''did not reflect being Australian''.