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Titjikala banks on its occupy movement
The Australian
In one of Australia's most disadvantaged communities, Titjikala's modest art centre has become a vital lifeline, drawing in tourists and generating a modest income outside the cycles of government funding that often fail to address the traditional ...

Champion of Aborigines Gummi Fridriksson 'evicts' PNG's poor
The Australian
A CHAMPION of indigenous communities in Australia has been accused of human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea after settlers' homes were bulldozed to make way for a multi-million-dollar hotel and marina development. Gummi Fridriksson, who is ...

Cape York mayors call grog bans for indigenous communities racist
The Australian
"What other race in Australia has restrictions put on them for alcohol? No-one else, only Aborigines; it seems racist to me." Professor Peter d'Abbs, of the Menzies School of Health Research, is one opponent of re-opening canteens. He cited Tony ...

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Aboriginal groups to challenge SA Govt's legislation on oil, gas licences on ...
Adelaide Now
Aboriginal groups representative, the South Australian Native Title Services (SANTS), will file an appeal to this effect in an ongoing matter set for hearing early next year. Late last month, Mineral Resources Minister Tom Koutsantonis initiated the ...

The Australian Ballet company has welcomed its first Aboriginal dancer Ella ...
Herald Sun
Ella Havelka will join the company next month after four years with Australia's top indigenous dance troupe Bangarra. It brings the Dubbo-born dancer full circle. She graduated from the Australian Ballet School in 2007 and performed with the company's ...

ABC Online
Academic backs alcohol bans in Aboriginal communities
ABC Online
MARCIA LANGTON, CHAIR, INDIGENOUS STUDIES, UNI. OF MELBOURNE: Leigh, this is a very important question because lives hang in the balance. The fact of the matter is is that all Australians are subject to alcohol restrictions in one form or another.
Don't lift drink restrictions - academicNEWS.com.au
Too soon to revisit a painful pastThe Australian

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Don't lift drink restrictions - academic
Ninemsn
Professor Marcia Langton, head of Australian Indigenous Studies at Melbourne University, said hoteliers and the distilled spirits group were lobbying the government to ease the drink bans. "It's a cheap electoral trick for the big men in the Aboriginal ...

Aboriginals urged return of Maori, Moriori remains
Radio New Zealand
Updated 23 minutes ago. The campaign to return ancestral remains of Maori and Moriori to New Zealand from Australian museums was led by indigenous Australians, says Te Papa's Karanga Aotearoa repatriation team manager, Te Herekiekie Herewini.

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Anglican Media Melbourne
First woman elected Chair of Anglican national indigenous body
Anglican Media Melbourne
“The work achieved since the inception of the Council in 1992 is testimony to the previous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members and leaders within the Anglican Church of Australia,” she said. Gloria has been a part of NATSIAC since its ...

Report spotlights indigenous rights
The New Lawyer
Australia endorsed UNDRIP in 2009. A UN press release clarifies that as a General Assembly Declaration it is not a legally-binding instrument under international law but, according to the UN, it sets “an important standard for the treatment of ...

Swinburne University Media Centre
Indigenous student to visit elite unis
Swinburne University Media Centre
Swinburne University of Technology media and communications student Megan Kelleher has been granted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit five of the world's top universities to explore postgraduate study opportunities. As part of the 2012 Aurora ...

No funds for Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council footy program
Herald Sun
The council is calling on the LNP to help them become the first community in Queensland to establish a Clontarf Academy - a joint football and education initiative that is changing boys' lives across Australia. Cherbourg council CEO Warren Collins said ...

Dance space improving their leaps and bounds
The Australian
Dancing in the car park is now a thing of the past for Pearce-Thompson and the other students at Australia's largest indigenous arts training organisation, which launched its new premises at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane on Friday. State Arts Minister Ros ...

Mining the system for hope
The Australian Financial Review
Now a new chapter in the economic history of indigenous Australians is being written. One legacy of this phase of the mining boom, particularly in the north-west of WA, will be a generation of indigenous Australians who have experienced life at the ...

Action to dry up remote indigenous funding 'leaks'
The Australian
THE Northern Territory government will seek an end to waste and mismanagement of money spent in indigenous communities by conducting audits to identify where money is "leaking", and why it is failing to improve the lives of the nation's most ...
Mining the system for hopeThe Australian Financial Review

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Booze ban puts people on the water
The Australian
THE mayor of a tiny cluster of indigenous communities at the northern tip of Australia blames Queensland's grog restrictions for forcing his people to risk dangerous journeys by sea and road, just to get a drink. Bernard Charlie, mayor of the Northern ...

Too soon to revisit a painful past
The Australian
Before the push for the premature winding back of restrictions gains further momentum, those involved should examine the metrics that reveal the long, slow process of "closing the gap" between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in child safety, ...

Daily Mail (blog)
Glittering Sapphires: The incredible story of an Aboriginal band who overcame racism to become Australia's Supremes
Daily Mail (blog)
An inspiring new film tells the unlikely story of four young Aboriginal singers who rose to fame in the face of racial prejudice as Australia's answer to The Supremes. A favourite at Cannes and a box office smash Down Under, The Sapphires follows the ...

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The Guardian
How Aboriginal 'Supremes' beat racism to inspire box office hit
The Guardian
"The Sapphires are four black twentysomething women who for one brief period of time have an opportunity to transcend the circumstances they're born into and reach their full potential," said Blair, who is also of Aboriginal descent. "In Australia in ...

Ruth Harley, Screen Australia
The Australian
REVIEWING her fourth year heading Screen Australia, it is the strong slate of indigenous productions that stands out for Ruth Harley, headlined by feel-good flick The Sapphires, which had its world premiere in Cannes in May, debuted in North America at ...