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- Indigenous studies, Indigenous knowledge Conference (ISIK) 2009 This conference will be held from 30 NOV - 1 DEC 2009 at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle campus.
- From little things big things grow : fighting for Indigenous rights 1920 - 1970. An exhibition at the National Museum of Australia (SEP 2009 - MAR 2010) tells the largely unknown story of a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians who fought together for justice and equal rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- 27/8/09 Release of "Our future in our hands" report Report of the Steering Committee for the creation of a new National Representative Body
- National Health and Hospital Reform Commission Report A Healthier Future For All Australians – Final Report of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC).
- 5-12 July 2009: NAIDOC WEEK
- 11/7/09 WA elder wins NAIDOC award Doris Eaton, an elder of the Nyamal people of the North East Pilbara, has been named Female Elder of the Year at the National Naidoc Awards.
- 27 May - 3 June 2009 National Reconciliation Week
- 26 May 2009: National Sorry Day
- 25 May 2009 New estimates of Indigenous life expectancy Estimates released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
- 25 May 2009 "Samson and Delilah" wins Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
- 21 May 2009: Release of Discussion Paper on NTER Federal Government's Discussion Paper on Future Directions for the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER)
- 2009 Archibald Prize: People's Choice Prize Portrait of child actor Brandon Walters. by Vincent Fantauzzo wins the 2009 Archibald People’s Choice Prize.
- 30 April 2009: release of Native Title Report 2008
- 2009 Archibald Prize Winning portrait of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu by Guy Maestri
- 2 April 2009 National Close the Gap Day (Oxfam web site)
- National Close the Gap Day (Amnesty International web site)
- 13/02/2009 : The First Anniversary of the Apology to Australia's Indigenous People The Prime Minister's Apology to the Stolen Generations
- Apology Song
- 2009 Australian of the Year 25/1/09 Professor Michael Dodson AM named as the 2009 Australian of the Year.
- 21/3/09 Harmony Day
Harmony Day is honouring the contributions to Australian society of Indigenous Australians, recent arrivals to Australia and long-established ethnic communities.
Try These First
- Academic OneFile (Gale)

A large full text database with articles from academic journals. - APA-FT - Australian Public Affairs – Full Text

APA-FT - Australian Public Affairs – Full Text (Full text available for considerable content) is produced by the National Library of Australia. - Australia New Zealand Reference Centre

Australasian Material which includes Australasian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books plus biographies and images. - Informit databases and collections (all)
- Informit Humanities and Social Sciences Collection
In addition to Indigenous studies, this collection covers agriculture, arts, Asian studies, business, cultural studies, education, history, law, media, political science, reference, social sciences, science and technology. - JSTOR

JSTOR offers a high-quality, international, interdisciplinary and expanding archive to support scholarship, research and teaching globally and is full-text searchable. - TVNews

An index to Australian television news with links to digitised format
New resources
Some new resources you might want to use:
- An appreciation of difference : WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia / edited by Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett.
- Black politics : inside the complexity of Aboriginal culture / Sarah Maddison.
- Portraits from a land without people : a pictorial anthology of indigenous Australia 1847-2008
- Mowanjum : 50 years community history / compiled and edited by Mary Anne Jebb.
- First Australians : an illustrated history

This is a landmark illustrated history of Australia that accompanies a major nine-part television series broadcast on SBS TV. - Geoffrey Robertson's hypotheticals : closing the gap. This is an off-air recording of a NITV broadcast discussing the social conditions of Aboriginal Australians.
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Alicja WieszczeczynskaContact Info:
Broome Campus Library
Tel. +61 8 9192 0645
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Subjects:
Aboriginal Studies, Education, Nursing
Broome Campus Library
Tel. +61 8 9192 0645
Fax: +61 8 9192 1247
Send Email
Subjects:
Aboriginal Studies, Education, Nursing
 

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