'Big Yam Dreaming' is on of the exhibition highlights.
Kngwarreye exhibition opens in Canberra
August 21, 2008 15:18:00
A unique exhibition of contemporary works by Aboriginal artist Emily Kngwarreye is on display at the National Museum of Australia (NMA) in Canberra.
The exhibition recently returned to Australia after being shown in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan.
Four jobs in Alice Springs will be lost when an organisation that provides volunteers to teach skills to Indigenous Australians moves its office to Darwin.
Canberra hosts a collection of 100 artworks by late Indigenous artist Emily Kngwarreye.
Aurukun has installed a camera system in response to increasing crime levels.
The SA Govt says remote Aboriginal communities have finally struck a deal to build new housing.
Aboriginal leader Warren Mundine's call for welfare payments to be linked to seasonal work has been rejected.
The chief executive of Northern Territory Cricket wants to forge relationships between the National Indigenous Cricket Championship and local non-Indigenous cricket organisations.
Claims that Pacific Guest Worker scheme will take potential jobs away from Indigenous Australians have been rejected.
As splits emerge in the federal Opposition over the Government's Pacific guest worker scheme, an advocacy group says the scheme will not take jobs away from Indigenous Australians.
An Aboriginal boomerang collected by Britain's Captain James Cook on his first trip to Australia - which was then New Holland - in 1770 but lost to public sight ever since goes on sale next month.
Key health and Indigenous research groups are calling for greater efforts to improve the health of Australian prisoners, with a new report saying a particular focus is needed to reduce Indigenous incarceration.
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