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Queensland's Indigenous designers bring a love of the land to fashion week  - Her story is far from atypical among Australia's Indigenous fashion designers. Lee says they are often distinguished from the broader industry by the ...

Indigenous soldiers who hid their identity to serve: the untold story  - Hello and welcome to a Radio Current Affairs Summer Special. I'm Mark Colvin. Once forgotten, the Aboriginal and Islander people who went off to fight for Australia in the First World War have been getting increasing recognition a hundred years later. But many of the stories of soldiers who had to hide their true identity to fight are still untold.

Show to tell story of Indigenous pioneers - The group went head-to-head with the Aboriginal Protection Board to achieve a simple, but revolutionary goal. They wanted to be allowed to continue the brilliant experiment in self-determination they had pioneered for themselves on the scrap of country left to them. Coranderrk  recreates the parliamentary inquiry. It is a production that provides both great theatre and great history.

Indigenous soldiers out of the shadows - Punch's story is no different from the individual tragedies of the 210,000 Australians killed or wounded in the First World War – but for one key aspect.

We'll never Close the Gap until we start again with Indigenous policy  - Every year it's the same story: some minor improvements in the lives of Australia's first peoples. The big picture doesn't change though: dismal failure.

Tuberculosis: a good news story from PNG with thorns - This was a decision that cut to the quick of Australia's own national interest. Under the Torres Strait Treaty, free movement of indigenous peoples living on either side of the border is guaranteed. After some heated criticism by supporters of the cross-border approach, the Australian Government stepped ...

Celebrating 20 years of Indigenous protected areas, a good news story in a week of turmoil - IPAs work in conjunction with the Indigenous ranger program, Working on ... “[ Australians ] should work more closely with rangers around Australia to ...

Black Diggers: the untold story of our Indigenous soldiers  - When Wesley Enoch started investigating Indigenous soldiers' stories a few years ago, the Australian War Memorial listed about 400 of their names.

The Guardian Draws Attention To Colonial Attitude Towards West Papua  - In many respects, the West Papuan struggle is the story of Indigenous peoples the world over: exploitation. Few people know that George Orwell, ...

New Movie Highlights Racism, Tension in Inter-War Australia -  Set in the red dust of the outback, "Sweet Country" is the story of an Aboriginal herder who goes on the run after killing a white landowner in self-defense. The film is a historical, Western-style epic that has at its heart racist aggression between white colonialists and Australia's indigenous population they ...

A teenage thrash metal band from New Zealand is preserving Maori culture - Their name is Alien Weaponry, the same name given to the British colonial arsenal that attacked the natives of New Zealand . Three youngsters between the ages of 15 and 17 play thrash metal music and sing in the language of their Maori ancestors, te reo, to tell their story and keep a dying indigenous ...

Screen Australia invests AUD$3.2MN in ten documentaries The Waler: Australia's Great War Horse is the story of the 135,000 Australian ... exploring and celebrating the diversity of contemporary Indigenous Australia . Our mission is to provide the best information on social exclusion worldwide

Indigenous artist wins prestigious prize : She rose above 840 other entrants to become the first indigenous artist to win the $50000 Waterhouse Natural History art prize, hosted by the South Australian museum. Her canvas depicts a dreaming story she learned from her father, about digging for ... SBS

For indigenous communities, fish mean much more than food - This is a familiar story for almost 30 million coastal indigenous peoples around the world from the Arctic to the South Pacific. But until recently no one ...

Rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class in Australia  - Here, Joanna Mendelssohn examines the links between Indigenous art and class. The great story of recent Australian art has been the resurgence of  ...

Cannes Film Festival 2014 selects The Rover, Charlie's Country   - Two Australian films – the new hard-core drama from Animal Kingdom director David Michod and an indigenous story from Ten Canoes director Rolf ...

Unveiling the uncomfortable truth of Indigenous youth suicide - The confronting story of Indigenous youth suicide in new play Brothers Wreck was so personal for its cast members that they were left shaking and ...

We can revive our story if we blend Indigenous knowledge with western nutrition - We can revive our story if we blend Indigenous knowledge with western .... Guardian Australia is proud to partner with IndigenousX to showcase the ...

Indigenous soldiers who hid their identity to serve: the untold story  - Once forgotten, the Aboriginal and Islander people who went off to fight for Australia in the First World War have been getting increasing recognition a ...

Don't make smokes your story  - The Australian Government has strengthened its commitment to closing the gap in Indigenous life expectancy, with the launch of the latest phase of ...