Tag Archive 'indigenous'

Sep 15 2008

Fred Hollows, an inspiring man

Published by Susanna Duffy under Our People

I have a friend who spends at least an hour each day “clicking” for charity. She says it feeds some children, somewhere.  Apparently, if you click on a button some percentage of a cent will be forwarded to something, some group, some organisation  (some church?)  which feeds children.
Now I don’t know about you, but I  [...]

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Jul 01 2008

Flag of Red, Black and Gold

Published by Susanna Duffy under Culture on Friday

The Red, Black and Gold of the Indigenous Australian Flag sprang from passionate times.
It was a symbol of race and identity in the Land Rights struggles of the 1970s, when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fought their exclusion from proper education, health care, housing and employment.
For those who know the history of this [...]

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Jan 28 2008

Mungo Man

Have you heard about Mungo Man? No, I didn’t think so. Palaeontologists get hot under the collar when something upsets their Out-of-Africa theory. But the discovery in the desert of ancient bones can still fit in with the theory of African Genesis.
At Lake Mungo in New South Wales, the shifting sands exposed the skeletal [...]

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