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Aboriginal remains to be retrieved from Germany
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Ancestral Aboriginal remains currently housed in a German museum will be returned to Australia next week.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, grafton-2460, copmanhurst-2460, atherton-4883, sydney-2000, germany
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Australia Wide March 18 Video
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One of Australia’s most talked-about neighbourhoods faces a dramatic change to its skyline. How ancient wonders are helping South Australia’s bid for World Heritage status. The rare underworld catapulting an Aussie photographer onto the global stage. The Tasmanian artist celebrating Australia’s richest landscape painting prize. #AustraliaWide
Topics: painting, aboriginal, earth-sciences, palaeontology, photography, australia
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University of New South Wales researcher Aidan Alexander with elders from the Dharriwa Elders Group image
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Topics: research, electricity-energy-and-utilities, aboriginal, community-organisations, community-development
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Dumping cheaper appliances could save power and money
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People in a remote NSW Aboriginal community who have been sacrificing other needs to pay their electricity bills are shown how inefficient appliances contribute to skyrocketing energy bills.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, solar-energy, research, poverty, aboriginal, walgett-2832
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Massive jump in penalty for defacing Tasmanian Aboriginal relics
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The maximum fine for damaging Aboriginal relics in Tasmania will jump from $1,500 to $1.57 million under changes designed to strengthen their protection.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, tas
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Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-culture, oenpelli-0822
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Farewell to Aboriginal leader and Noonkanbah stockman Dickey Cox
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One of the Kimberley's most respected Indigenous stockmen and Aboriginal leaders has died.
Topics: rural, mining-rural, death, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, people, human-interest, community-and-society, history, indigenous-protocols, indigenous-policy, beef-cattle, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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For Aboriginal women, International Women's Day is not a celebration Opinion
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This year we're calling on all Australian women to stand in solidarity with us, writes Hannah McGlade. We have a long way to go in our fight to ensure the human rights of Aboriginal women are respected.
Topics: domestic-violence, black-deaths-in-custody, aboriginal, women, australia
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Subsidised accommodation a boost for Sydney Indigenous students
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander undergraduate students starting classes at the University of Sydney this week are being provided with guaranteed and subsidised accommodation.
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, the-university-of-sydney-2006
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'Aboriginalia' and the politics of Aboriginal kitsch Opinion
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What are we to make of "Aboriginalia": bric-a-brac, tiles, ornaments and artworks — once hugely popular — depicting caricatures of Indigenous people?
Topics: aboriginal, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia
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Proposal for Aboriginal Upper House seat rejected by Tasmanian Government
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The State Government and some Aboriginal groups reject a push for a separate Upper House electorate for Tasmania's Indigenous community.
Topics: government-and-politics, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, launceston-7250, tas
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Aboriginal land claims removed to make way for cemetery expansion
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The trust that operates Sydney's sprawling Botany Cemetery negotiates a deal that will allow the park to expand onto land significant to Aboriginal people.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, botany-2019, nsw
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NT assistant minister sits out press conference amid 'frustrations'
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The Northern Territory's Assistant Minister for Remote Housing declines to join his colleagues in a press conference promoting government spending on housing in the bush.
Topics: housing, aboriginal, hermannsburg-0872, nt
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The missing kids of the 'second stolen generation'
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Maningrida is a remote community living with heartbreak and shame, as the Department of Territory Families continues to remove Aboriginal children at a rate almost 10 times higher than non-Indigenous children.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, stolen-generations, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, maningrida-0822
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Aboriginal Basketball Academy boosts school attendance
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Playing basketball might be the key to more Indigenous students obtaining their Certificate of Education, with a South Australian school establishing a sports program which is enticing students to come to class.
Topics: education, secondary, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, woodville-5011, adelaide-5000, sa
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Tasmania on track to get Aboriginal reconciliation council, but not all are happy
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The push for Tasmania's own Aboriginal reconciliation council is welcomed as a step towards "black and white coming together", but not all see the move as necessary.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, indigenous-protocols, indigenous-culture, government-and-politics, tas
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'Crisis of violence in Aboriginal families' must stop, judge says in murder sentencing
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The "crisis of violence in Aboriginal families" must stop with the current teenage generation, says a judge who has sentenced a young man for murdering his girlfriend.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, port-augusta-5700, yalata-5690, sa, australia
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VicRoads slammed for Western Highway blunder
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The Opposition demands to know what led to an error that has caused construction on the Western Highway duplication in the state's west to halt.
Topics: road-transport, environmental-impact, environmental-management, aboriginal, ballarat-3350, buangor-3375, ararat-3377
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SA woman plans to open support service for displaced Aboriginal youth
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A South Australian woman who was taken away from her Indigenous family as a child and moved between foster care homes hopes to establish a refuge for youth that embraces Aboriginal culture.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa
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Ngadjuri and Nukunu traditional owner, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Kyam Maher and representatives from Siemens Australia were on site to celebrate the milestone event. image
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Topics: wind-energy, aboriginal, jamestown-5491
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Ngadjuri and Nukunu Traditional Owners speaking at the unveiling of the world's first wind towers featuring indigenous art at Hornsdale Wind Farm. Audio
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Ngadjuri and Nukunu Traditional Owners speaking at the unveiling of the world's first wind towers featuring indigenous art at Hornsdale Wind Farm.
Topics: wind-energy, aboriginal, jamestown-5491
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The artwork by Ngadjuri artists Chris Angrave and Louise Brown showcases how the Mungiura were found in the hilly country. image
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Topics: wind-energy, aboriginal, jamestown-5491
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The Nukunu people refer to themselves as ‘snake people’. Artist Jessica Turner has illustrated the the dreamtime story of the serpent and its role in forming aspects of the landscape in this mural. image
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Topics: wind-energy, aboriginal, jamestown-5491
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World's first wind towers featuring Indigenous art unveiled in SA
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The Hornsdale wind farm has murals on two towers that tell of the connection the land has to the indigenous people of the region.
Topics: wind-energy, aboriginal, community-development, jamestown-5491
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Aurukun school unwittingly received up to $815k in overpayments
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The Indigenous Aurukun primary school run in partnership with Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools organisation routinely overstated enrolments because there was a misunderstanding of policy, netting up to $815,000 in extra payments, a report finds.
Topics: education, access-to-education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, aboriginal, activism-and-lobbying, schools, public-sector, aurukun-4871, qld, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000
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