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Crocodile eggs measure river health: New land management tool using ...
Phys.Org
A Darwin-based scientist has converted this link and other intimate Aboriginal knowledge of Australia's landscape into an environmental management tool. CSIRO's Emma Woodward worked with Aboriginal elders as part of the Tropical Rivers and Coastal ...

Last words? Phone app bids to save dying aboriginal language
CNN
"There has been an enthusiastic uptake of mobile phone technology in indigenous communities in Australia, so the idea is to capitalize on that," says linguist Bruce Birch, coordinator of the Minjilang Endangered Languages Publication project, which ...

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Elder should shrug off Aitken white man remark, says MP
The Australian
Northern Territory MP Bess Nungarrayi Price labelled as "silly" Mr Mortimer's concerns over the comments by former University of Canberra vice-chancellor Don Aitkin. "I've got grandsons who are white and everybody loves them and acknowledges them, and ...

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Indigenous drama gets second season
The Australian
Before the first season even reaches its halfway point, Screen Australia yesterday announced that it would invest $5.5 million in a second instalment of the series, co-produced by Blackfella Films and ABC TV, as well as two feature films. Miranda Dear ...
Redfern Now to return for series twoSydney Morning Herald
Screen Aus invests in My Mistress, Son of a Gun and second series of Redfern ...Inside Film
Screen Oz funds another series of Redfern Now plus two filmsMuMbrella
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Abbott 'misread' Anderson
The Australian
Mr Mills yesterday threw his support behind Ms Anderson, declaring there had been "no conspiracy" and that she would retain her cabinet role as NT Minister for Indigenous Advancement and Regional Development. But failed attempts by the federal ...

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Indigenous activist Isabel Coe dies at 61 (mp3)

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Mundine: 'I didn't think about what I was saying'
SBS
In an interview with Living Black Presenter Karla Grant, boxer Anthony Mundine said he did not intend to offend Tasmania's Aboriginal Australians with his remarks on boxer Daniel Geale last month. Mundine was asked how he felt about his next opponent, ...

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Brisbane Times
Redfern Now to return for series two
Brisbane Times
The second series will centre on contemporary inner-city Indigenous life and will once again, in six stand-alone episodes, tell the stories of six ordinary families whose lives are changed by a seemingly insignificant incident, a statement from Screen ...
Screen Aus invests in My Mistress, Son of a Gun and second series of Redfern ...Inside Film

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Sydney Morning Herald
Redfern Now to return for series two
Sydney Morning Herald
The second series will centre on contemporary inner-city Indigenous life and will once again, in six stand-alone episodes, tell the stories of six ordinary families whose lives are changed by a seemingly insignificant incident, a statement from Screen ...
Screen Aus invests in My Mistress, Son of a Gun and second series of Redfern ...Inside Film
Screen Oz funds another series of Redfern Now plus two filmsMuMbrella

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SBS
Mundine clarifies stand on Tasmanian Indigenous
SBS
In an interview with Living Black Presenter Karla Grant, boxer Anthony Mundine said he did not intend to offend Tasmania's Aboriginal Australians with his remarks on boxer Daniel Geale last month. Mundine was asked how he felt about his next opponent, ...

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'Determined' Aboriginal campaigner Isabel Coe dies
ABC Online
Australians are today mourning the death of one the country's most prominent Indigenous leaders, Isabel Coe. For decades, Ms Coe played a key role in the campaign for Indigenous sovereignty and was instrumental in keeping the Aboriginal Tent Embassy ...

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Hamilton historian proves Aboriginal soldier served in Boer War
ABC Local
Peter Bakker has spent the past five years researching and documenting the contribution of indigenous Australians in past conflicts. During that time, the number of aboriginal soldiers recognised by the Australian War Memorial as having served the ...

Aboriginal campaigner Isabel Coe dies
ABC Message Stick
Australians are today mourning the death of one the country's most prominent Indigenous leaders, Isabel Coe. For decades, Ms Coe played a key role in the campaign for Indigenous sovereignty and was instrumental in keeping the Aboriginal Tent Embassy ...

Garth and Kurt open Kurt's contact book
ABC Online (blog)
He kicked off the week with former Australian marathon runner Rob De Castella, who brought Indigenous Australians over to New York to run as a part of his Indigenous Marathon Project. Aged between 18-30, those involved in the program come from all ...

indigenous identity back in court
The Australian
SHANE Mortimer was wearing a possum-skin coat when he conducted a welcome-to-country ceremony at Parliament House in late August. But in the eyes of former National Capital Authority chairman Don Aitkin, he looked "about as Aboriginal as I do".

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Sydney Morning Herald
'Grog' hits indigenous babies
Sydney Morning Herald
Federal Liberal MP Sharman Stone, a member of the inquiry, said the rates of alcohol foetal damage on unborn children in indigenous communities were possibly the highest in the world. ''Australia lags behind the United States, Canada and Poland in ...

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Eclipse fans follow moon shadow to Oz
The Australian
ABORIGINAL myths, tropical Australia and the Great Barrier Reef provide a stunning backdrop this week to an eagerly awaited total eclipse of the sun. For more than three hours on Wednesday, the alignment of our sun, our moon and our planet will create ...
Total Solar Eclipse to Wow Australia, South PacificIndian Country Today Media Network.com
Solar eclipse to be broadcast on digital radioRadioinfo (subscription)

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Community 'abandoned' as school closes
The Australian
THE chairman of Watarru in South Australia's remote Aboriginal lands says the tiny community feels abandoned by the state government after the closure of its school, health clinic and store. Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara executive member for ...

Yolngu dreaming, 'doing it our way'
The Australian
Mr Gambung and Mr Lulpamgi are among about 120 delegates - including industry leaders such as Tourism Australia chairman Geoff Dixon and broadcaster George Negus - to the Mulwat tourism conference organised by the Lirrwi Tourism Aboriginal ...

indigenous identity back in court
The Australian
SHANE Mortimer was wearing a possum-skin coat when he conducted a welcome-to-country ceremony at Parliament House in late August. But in the eyes of former National Capital Authority chairman Don Aitkin, he looked "about as Aboriginal as I do".