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Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-15/volunteers-save-thousands-of-books-from-mosul-library/8949496?section=good-news

Volunteers rescue thousands of books from Mosul library destroyed by Islamic State

By Linda Mottram and Connie Agius

Poste

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Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-24/sacred-aboriginal-objects-returned-to-central-australia/8736876

Sacred Aboriginal objects returned to Central Australia, century after collected by museums

ABC News - AM, by Steven Schubert, 24 July 20

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Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-24/tasmanian-school-children-lacking-in-digital-literacy/8737842

Kindergarteners should learn coding, amid Tasmania's struggles with digital literacy: expert

ABC News, 24 July 2017, By Linda Hunt

Children

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Quoting from http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/internal-audit-reveals-incomplete-inadequate-reporting-of-incidents-at-canberra-hospital-20170511-gw2oo2.html

MAY 15 2017 - 12:25 PM

 

Internal audit reveals incomplete, inadequate reporting of incid

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Quoting from  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-13/historian-reveals-marngrook-influence-on-afl/8439748

 

Indigenous influence on AFL creation confirmed by historical transcripts, historian says

By Malcolm Sutton

Updated Thu at 9:04 am

 

PHOTO: Marlene Gi

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Quoting from http://aiatsis.gov.au/news-and-events/news/warlpiri-drawings-included-memory-world-register

Warlpiri Drawings included in Memory of the World Register

Thursday, 9 February 2017 - 12:15 pm

 

Photograph: (L-R) David Jeffery, AIATSIS, Gerald Wa

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State Library NSW gets $15 million facelift to help transform into 'global cultural destination'

FEBRUARY 1 2017 - 7:42AM

Andrew Taylor

The State Library of NSW has long provided a sandstone sanctuary for readers and researchers.

Millionaire industrialis

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Quoting from http://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2016/november/hebrew-manuscripts

PRESS RELEASE

From a 52-metre scroll to the Golden Haggadah: 1,300 British Library Hebrew manuscript treasures now online

Mon 21 Nov 2016

A major project to digitise some of th

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A group of young Indigenous people, who grew up in foster care, have travelled to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to discover and reconnect with their kin and culture.

The trip to Canberra was organi

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Quoting from http://www.nma.gov.au/about_us/indigenous_scholarships#bc=indigenous-scholarships

 

Indigenous scholarships program

Encounters Indigenous Cultural Workers Scholarships

The creation of the Encounters Indigenous Cultural Workers Scholarships

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Indigenous graduate John Morseu holds history in his hands at National Library

 

J

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Quoting from http://www.nfsa.gov.au/preservation/research/survey-audiovisual-archiving-papua-new-guinea/

Surveying the state of audiovisual archiving in Papua New Guinea

Mick Newnham, Senior Researcher

One of the directions the NFSA is actively pursuing

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Torres Strait Islander uncovers ancestry gems during graduate research project at National Library

666 ABC Canberra 

By Louise Maher

Updated Mon at 11:32am

PHOTO: John Morseu has found an 1890 photograph of one of his ancestors, Edward (Ned) Mosby, an Am

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Quoting from https://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/web-archiving/2016/01/29/old-ti

JOHN MORSEAU 

A TORRES STRAIT COLLECTION

 

UNPACKING THE 'OLD TI' RESEARCH GUIDE

3 FEBRUARY 2016

 As the 2015 Indigenous graduate for the Library, it is an enormous privilege and equ

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