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Indigenous meeting brings people together
ABC Online
The women, from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands, travelled from the remote corner of north-east South Australia to meet in Dareton, in south west New South Wales. The event was called 'Desert Meets River', and was aimed at ...

The first interactive Indigenous comic book
SBS
A group of teenagers from Roebourne in Western Australia have created the first interactive Aboriginal comic book. The year is 2076 and the land has been destroyed by radiation, the future of the world depends on 14 teenagers called the Love Punks.

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The first interactive Indigneous comic book
SBS
A group of teenagers from Roebourne in Western Australia have created the first interactive Aboriginal comic book. The year is 2076 and the land has been destroyed by radiation, the future of the world depends on 14 teenagers called the Love Punks.

Susanne Chauvel Carlsson on preserving Charles Chauvel's legacy
Inside Film
Australian producer/director Charles Chauvel's 1955 film Jedda was not only the first colour feature in Australia, but the first to cast Indigenous Australians in leading roles. Five decades later, Chauvel's only daughter, Susanne Chauvel Carlsson ...

Opposition Says Taxpayers "Ripped Off" on Indigenous Housing Renos
DesignBuild Source
The federal opposition says taxpayers in Australia are being ripped off, with a large number of refurbishments completed under an indigenous housing program in the Northern Territory having mismatched tiles and “paint jobs a six-year-old would not be ...

ABC Online
self-determination in action
ABC Online
The Secretariat for National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care's (SNAICC) vision is of "an Australian society in which our communities are empowered to determine their own future, where the rights of our children, young people and families are ...
NFPs called to break down employment barriersThird Sector Magazine

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Criticism of First Peoples Congress
SBS
When the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission was axed by the former Howard government in 2005, the Labor Party was in opposition and vowed to provide Indigenous Australians with a new national representative body if elected. Labor was ...

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Prime Minister Gillard on the call for Treaty: “THERE WILL BE NO BITS OF ...
Sydney Indymedia
Ms Crocker said to The National Indigenous Times, “I called upon Julia Gillard to recognise the need for a Bill of Rights or Treaty with Aboriginal peoples however she rejected this, and said to me 'there will be no bits of paper'. That Australia does ...

Green Left Weekly
Julia Gillard is no feminist hero
Green Left Weekly
I have just spent several months in Aboriginal Australia; and the views I have gathered from remarkable, despairing, eloquent Indigenous women of Gillard and her “feminism” are mostly unknown or ignored or dismissed in this country. Watching Gillard ...

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Brisbane Times
Boxer Anthony Mundine has finally apologised to Daniel Geale for mocking his ...
The Australian
The controversial boxer caused a storm earlier this week when he attacked Geale, a Tasmanian of indigenous heritage and the current IBF and WBA middleweight champion. "I thought they wiped all the Aborigines from Tasmania out. He's got a white woman, ...
Mundine attempts to unite Indigenous AustraliansABC Online
Mundine and Mansell agree that government benefits need tighteningHerald Sun
Anthony Mundine shuns Daniel Geale apology, instead calls for changes to ...NEWS.com.au
Tasmania Mercury -ABC Message Stick
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Australian Indigenous cricket team tours India
India Education Diary
New Delhi: Australia's High Commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, welcomed Cricket Australia's National Indigenous Development Squad on their first tour of India as part of Oz Fest, the biggest Australian cultural festival ever staged in India. Mr ...

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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, launched Oz Fest
Orissadiary.com
The opening night concert celebrated the meeting of Australia and India as two contemporary cultures grounded in ancient tradition. Iconic Aboriginal Australian singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Indian sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar, ...

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Mundine racism row takes new turn
The Australian
THE war of words between outspoken boxer Anthony Mundine and Aboriginal leader Michael Mansell has taken another twist, with the pair now seeming to agree that government benefits for people claiming indigenous heritage should be tightened. Mr Mansell ...

Mundine apologises to Tasmanian Aborigines but no such deal for Geale
Devonport Times
... questioned the Aboriginality of Geale yesterday, then embarked on a political campaign, claiming Australia is a racist country and maintaining that the Australian flag and national anthem should be changed to be more representative of Aboriginal ...

Poisonous Australian Spider on the loose, antivenom expired
The Japan Daily Press
A venomous spider indigenous to Australia is in Japan and its population is growing in large numbers, striking fear in the hearts of the residents of Fukuoka prefecture. There have been 68 reported sightings of the redback spider in September of this ...

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Elders snare quarry in land title handover
The Australian
"Greenstone axes from Mount William were traditionally traded by Aboriginal people over a wide area of southeastern Australia before European settlers arrived in the area," Ms Macklin said. "The site contains the remains of hundreds of mining pits ...

No action on waste risks for water
The Australian
WARNINGS that two community water sources in South Australia's remote Aboriginal lands may be contaminated have not been acted upon, despite a government report from more than a year ago advising "immediate" action to remedy the problem. The state ...

Government and employers closing the gap at local level
Invest in Australia
The Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development, Julie Collins, today met with staff at Rio Tinto Weipa as part of the Government's ongoing commitment to boosting local employment prospects for Indigenous Australians in remote areas.

NEWS.com.au
Anthony Mundine claimed Australia was a racist country at a press conference ...
NEWS.com.au
ANTHONY Mundine further infuriated boxing rival Daniel Geale by refusing to apologise for questioning his Aboriginal heritage and had more explosive words for a country he says is one of the most racist in the world. A press conference in Redfern today ...

NHMRC funds UQ research into kidney disease, cystic fibrosis and more
UQ News
UQ Researchers awarded NHMRC Career Development Fellowships were Dr Kerry-Ann O'Grady, who will research acute respiratory illness in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children and the pathways to chronic lung disease. Dr Jason Roberts's ...

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