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Uproar as students dress as 'traditional' Aboriginal people - Brisbane Times

Thu, 2012/10/11 - 4:22am

Brisbane Times

Uproar as students dress as 'traditional' Aboriginal people
Brisbane Times
The publication of a photograph of university students at an official college function dressed up to look like "traditional" Aboriginal people, with their faces and limbs painted brown, has forced an internal investigation and rapid re-education ...
Students dressed as 'traditional aboriginal people' cause outrage down underTNT Magazine

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Uproar as students dress as 'traditional' Aboriginal people - Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2012/10/11 - 4:19am

Sydney Morning Herald

Uproar as students dress as 'traditional' Aboriginal people
Sydney Morning Herald
The publication of a photograph of university students at an official college function dressed up to look like "traditional" Aboriginal people, with their faces and limbs painted brown, has forced an internal investigation and rapid re-education ...

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APY lands out of loop on disability scheme - The Australian

Thu, 2012/10/11 - 3:23am

APY lands out of loop on disability scheme
The Australian
A SOUTH Australian politician is concerned Aboriginal people living in the remote APY lands have been left in the dark about details of the state's trial of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Unlike other states where trials will happen in ...

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South Australia continues its assault on Indigenous rights - National Indigenous Times

Thu, 2012/10/11 - 2:04am

South Australia continues its assault on Indigenous rights
National Indigenous Times
South Australian leaders are both despondent and outraged at the State Government's ram raid on the Aboriginal Heritage Act and they are being supported by the SA Greens however the changes to the Act will get... More of this story can be read in the ...

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“Australia doesn't deserve a seat on United Nations” - National Indigenous Times

Thu, 2012/10/11 - 1:46am

Australia doesn't deserve a seat on United Nations”
National Indigenous Times
Michael Anderson, the surviving member of the founders of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, has written to the United Nations urging it reject Australia's bid for a temporary seat on the Security Council because of Australia's treatment of ...

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Housing development plan shines light on LDC - ABC Message Stick

Thu, 2012/10/11 - 12:30am

Housing development plan shines light on LDC
ABC Message Stick
The Heights at Durack is a joint venture between the corporation and CIC Australia to develop a housing estate on the Charles Darwin University campus in Palmerston. It comes after a long, difficult period for the Darwin-based LDC. Federal Indigenous ...

Housing development plan shines light on LDC - ABC Online

Thu, 2012/10/11 - 12:25am

Housing development plan shines light on LDC
ABC Online
The Heights at Durack is a joint venture between the corporation and CIC Australia to develop a housing estate on the Charles Darwin University campus in Palmerston. It comes after a long, difficult period for the Darwin-based LDC. Federal Indigenous ...

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Cubbie sale prompts Indigenous job fears - ABC Online

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 11:01pm

Cubbie sale prompts Indigenous job fears
ABC Online
An Aboriginal elder in south-west Queensland says she fears the sale of Cubbie Station to overseas investors because they are unlikely to continue schemes to encourage Indigenous job creation. Australia's largest cotton grower at Dirranbandi in the ...

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Gillard on passage to India to cement ties - Sydney Morning Herald

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 8:11pm

Gillard on passage to India to cement ties
Sydney Morning Herald
Four Aboriginal cricketers from the Australian indigenous cricket development squad, captain Josh Lalor, from Victoria, Benjamin Abbatengelo (Victoria), Dylan Fuller (Northern Territory), and D'Arcy Short (Western Australia) will be with her. The team ...

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Australia's development cricket squad to tour India - Firstpost

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 5:19pm

Australia's development cricket squad to tour India
Firstpost
Melbourne, Oct 10 (IANS) Cricket Australia's (CA) National Indigenous Development Squad departs for India this week to attend the country's Global Cricket Schools and play a series of matches against the representative sides. Selected by former Test ...

Councillor calls to extend ban to pokies - Herald Sun

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 2:14pm

Councillor calls to extend ban to pokies
Herald Sun
AUSTRALIA'S biggest Aboriginal community want gambling - such as "one-arm bandit" pokie machines - to be part of the state's grog ban review. Yarrabah, home to idyllic beach views and 80 per cent unemployment in the former Anglican mission 50km ...

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NGA unveils new plans to cure cringe - The Canberra Times

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 1:06pm

NGA unveils new plans to cure cringe
The Canberra Times
''The 1970 decision to relegate Australian art to the attic was a terrible display of cultural cringe,'' he said. ''In stark contrast, stage one of our building program provided a showcase for our Indigenous Australian art collection, at the front of ...

James Packer rolls the dice for indigenous prosperity - The Australian

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 1:04pm

James Packer rolls the dice for indigenous prosperity
The Australian
The first time, earlier this year, was for a really good look around the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence set up three years ago at the old Redfern public school. Yesterday's visit was to announce a partnership between his Crown gambling empire ...

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Women, kids my priority: Macklin - The Australian

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 1:04pm

Sky News Australia

Women, kids my priority: Macklin
The Australian
"My fundamental concern around alcohol management is the protection of vulnerable women and children," she told The Australian. "Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory have been very clear with me that they do not want to see the destruction of ...
Dry Aboriginal community guidelines still brewingABC Online
Aboriginal alcohol ban not solution, says Member for Cook David KemptonNEWS.com.au
Lifting prohibition sweeps grog abuse off city streetsThe Daily Telegraph
Herald Sun -Courier Mail -Yahoo!7 News
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Gillard on passage to India to cement ties - The Age

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 12:48pm

Gillard on passage to India to cement ties
The Age
Four Aboriginal cricketers from the Australian indigenous cricket development squad, captain Josh Lalor, from Victoria, Benjamin Abbatengelo (Victoria), Dylan Fuller (Northern Territory), and D'Arcy Short (Western Australia) will be with her. The team ...

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Australia's development cricket squad to tour India - Times of India

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 8:46am

Australia's development cricket squad to tour India
Times of India
MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia's (CA) National Indigenous Development Squad departs for India this week to attend the country's Global Cricket Schools and play a series of matches against the representative sides. Selected by former Test and one-day ...

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Australia's development cricket squad to tour India - IBNLive

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 8:16am

Australia's development cricket squad to tour India
IBNLive
Melbourne: Cricket Australia's (CA) National Indigenous Development Squad departs for India this week to attend the country's Global Cricket Schools and play a series of matches against the representative sides. Selected by former Test and one-day ...

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The National Gallery of Australia looks to the future - The Australian

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 6:22am

Sydney Morning Herald

The National Gallery of Australia looks to the future
The Australian
For a nation only two centuries old, but with an ancient Indigenous past, Australia's new National Gallery should not try to emulate the national museums of Old World Europe, formed from princely and aristocratic collections, or the museums already ...
Cultural cringe cured, Aussie art to come out of the atticSydney Morning Herald

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Cultural cringe cured, Aussie art to come out of the attic - Sydney Morning Herald

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 4:54am

Sydney Morning Herald

Cultural cringe cured, Aussie art to come out of the attic
Sydney Morning Herald
Stage Two would do the same for non-Indigenous Australian and Pacific arts, allowing much of it to come out of storage and onto public display. "Our current small and arkward space for contemporary art is an insult to living Australian artists," Dr ...

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Celebration of Indigenous writers - UQ News

Wed, 2012/10/10 - 3:12am

Celebration of Indigenous writers
UQ News
AustLit partners with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and other university partners to expand BlackWords' coverage of this dynamic and exciting part of Australia's literary culture. The BlackWords ...

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