Career change gets Aboriginal rangers back to country
Career change gets Aboriginal rangers back to country

New federal funding will enable the Goldfields Aboriginal ranger program to expand local career opportunities.
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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
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Technology gives desert communities 'complete control of managing land'
Technology gives desert communities 'complete control of managing land'

Communities in the Western Desert of the Northern Territory say they are now in complete control of managing their land after creating an online storybook.
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How one school turned Indigenous performance on its head in two years
How one school turned Indigenous performance on its head in two years

This school turned its Indigenous students' performance around. Can the rest of the country follow suit?
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How a focus on failure blinds us to Indigenous ingenuity
How a focus on failure blinds us to Indigenous ingenuity

Indigenous people have always sought to improve their lot, and waves of government policies have created impediments to that.
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How a focus on failure blinds us to Indigenous ingenuity
How a focus on failure blinds us to Indigenous ingenuity

Indigenous people have always sought to improve their lot, and waves of government policies have created impediments to that.
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Teeth of rhinoceros-sized wombat found at swamp north of Melbourne
Teeth of rhinoceros-sized wombat found at swamp north of Melbourne

Archaeologists uncover teeth from the extinct Diprotodon, a giant wombat-like marsupial, and giant kangaroo bones during a dig at Lancefield Swamp, north of Melbourne.
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Is there such as thing as Aboriginal design?
Is there such as thing as Aboriginal design?

Designer Nicole Monks drew the inspiration for her new furniture range from an unlikely source.
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Bearing witness to the stolen generation
Bearing witness to the stolen generation

Amanda Webster's realisation that her childhood friends were part of the Stolen Generations led her on a journey to reconnect with her past and confront some hard truths.
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Aboriginal man demands British Museum return shield belonging to ancestor
Aboriginal man demands British Museum return shield belonging to ancestor

A descendant of an Aboriginal warrior shot by a member of Captain Cook's crew is demanding the British Museum hand back a shield he believes belongs to his people.
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Elder on toilet break finds rock shelter, rewrites Aboriginal history
Elder on toilet break finds rock shelter, rewrites Aboriginal history

A man getting out of the car to go to the toilet leads to the discovery of one of the most important sites in Australian prehistory — a rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges showing Aboriginal Australians settled the arid interior of the country 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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Big Sky
Big Sky

A journey into the near outback and the shores of a dry lake to find the compelling 40,000 year old story of human occupation and Aboriginal presence on the continent.
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Arnhem Land find proves to be rock art of ages
Arnhem Land find proves to be rock art of ages

Archaeologists say carbon dating shows Aboriginal rock art discovered at Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory is among the oldest in the world.
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Epic Warlpiri dance performance staged under desert skies
Epic Warlpiri dance performance staged under desert skies

Hundreds of Warlpiri people come together for an epic cultural dance performance under the stars on the North Tanami Desert in Central Australia.
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Comment: Ancient Australia as world's first nation of innovators
Comment: Ancient Australia as world's first nation of innovators

Australia's Indigenous people were truly pioneers in the global collective journey of humankind, writes palaeo-anthropologist Darren Curnoe.
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Restoring gravesites a window to past for Indigenous rangers
Restoring gravesites a window to past for Indigenous rangers

Indigenous rangers preserve history in far north Queensland while forging a pathway for the future.
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DNA Nation raises tough questions for Indigenous Australians
DNA Nation raises tough questions for Indigenous Australians

The SBS documentary DNA Nation tracks three people on their 'individual genetic journey'. But for Indigenous Australians in particular, genetic testing is a can of worms - politically, ethically and technically.
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World-first genome study reveals rich history of Aboriginal Australians
World-first genome study reveals rich history of Aboriginal Australians

The most comprehensive genomic study of Indigenous Australians to date not only confirms they are the descendants of the first people to inhabit Australia, but that there is remarkable genetic diversity across the continent.
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Aboriginal Genome Reveals New Insights into Early Humans | Australasian Science Magazine
Aboriginal Genome Reveals New Insights into Early Humans | Australasian Science Magazine

Australasian Science magazine online is an independent source of news and commentary on scientific developments. Each month scientists and science journalists write about the latest research in plain language and offer opinions and analysis of topical scientific issues
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Indigenous groups say ranger program is working, but needs more funding
Indigenous groups say ranger program is working, but needs more funding

A coalition of Indigenous groups says ranger program needs to be expanded in federal budget to help close gap on disadvantage
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Bruce Pascoe on pre-colonial Aboriginal agriculture
Bruce Pascoe on pre-colonial Aboriginal agriculture

Drawing from the accounts of early explorers, Bruce asks whether Australia's first people were really hunter-gatherers.
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Did Australia invent bread?
Did Australia invent bread?

Through his book Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe investigates if Indigenous Australians may have been baking cakes and loaves of bread long before any other civilisation in the world.
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'It's happening now': Indigenous rangers on the frontline of coral bleaching
'It's happening now': Indigenous rangers on the frontline of coral bleaching

In April this year Indigenous rangers from the Crocodile Islands received an alarming photograph of a coral reef off the coast of Arnhem Land.
ABC News
Not what you thought you'd see? | Australian Greens
Not what you thought you'd see? | Australian Greens
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Indigenous rangers call on Turnbull government to double their funding
Indigenous rangers call on Turnbull government to double their funding

The Prime Minister said it was "important we listen to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people when they tell us what is working". Now hear this, Malcolm.
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Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger program
Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger program

The Queensland Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger program cares for land and sea country and increases Indigenous participation in environmental management.
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Indigenous Land and Sea Rangers
Indigenous Land and Sea Rangers

Land and sea rangers care for Queensland's waterways and protected species and support national park management.
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