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The latest manufactured outrage from the Daily Telegraph and other rightwing groups ignores the experience of the continent’s Indigenous people
So, the arbiters of political correctness gone mad have apparently decided we need a quick top-up lesson on Australian Indigenous history. Or something.
It’s not quite clear what, precisely, they think.
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While some people have valued the opportunity to reconnect with the long lost objects of their ancestors, others are heartbroken that their sacred cultural property will soon be returned to the British Museum
Henrietta Fourmile Marrie stands at the podium, a diminutive figure at a lower corner of the cavernous stage.
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Australian writers, historians and amateurs for whom the digital aggregator is an invaluable resource have taken to social media to defend their treasure from budget cuts. Their simple message: #fundTrove
Walking along some of the beaches of north-east Arnhem Land you’ll notice, if you stop to look at your footprints, little terracotta shards.
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In 2014 the former press gallery journalist officially ‘quit’ Australia to form his own nation in Queensland. Almost two years later he is the Yidindji foreign minister, and it’s clear he’s doing much more than making a symbolic point
It’s not easy being a foreign affairs and trade minister when travelling overseas from the country most of us know as Australia is as complicated as it has become for Murrumu Walubara Yidindji.