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Now Australia's cricket tour of India has ended, attention is turning predominantly to the local football codes this weekend.   ()

Osteopathy student Markas Jacobsen, recipient of the Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship ()

The newly elected secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Sally McManus, has called for raising the country's minimum wage by $45 a week.   ()

In recognition of Budj Bims outstanding heritage value the Australian Government provided a submission to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in January 2017 to include it on the World Heritage Tentative List. ()

Indigenous Conversations: Weaving Aboriginal sounds and stories with yoga #WalkWithUS ()

Private Miller Mack has been brought home to rest ()

Cricket fans in Australia and in India will be looking forward to Saturday's (march 25) fourth test match in Dharamsala, while the return of A-F-L will have Aussie rules fans licking their lips in anticipation of the season ahead.  

The Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria is calling for ethnic communities to rise up against proposed changes to Section 18C of Australia's Racial Vilification Act. (In the next fortnight, the Government plans to introduce a bill to change the wording of section 18C, saying "insult" and "offend" are too subjective. The government wants to replace these two words with "harass", a more legal term   The Ethnic Communities of Victoria is urging Victoria's ethnic and multicultural communities to lobby the Federal Government to prevent the proposed changes from happening.   Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria chairman Eddie Micallef says his organization fully supports the principles and importance of freedom of speech. Which they see as an essential element in any truly democratic society.   However, according to Mr Micallef, the Federal Government's proposed changes to Section 18C of the Racial Vilification Act do nothing to promote free speech and will only increase hate speech.   In the next fortnight, the Government plans to introduce a bill to change the wording of section 18C, saying "insult" and "offend" are too subjective and the word "harass" is a more legal term  )

The annual Eel Festival at Elizabeth Farm celebrates the eel's significance to the local Burramattagal people. ()

Indigenous Conversations: How to make a healing garden? - Indigenous plant consultant and founder of Garawana Creative, Charles Solomon tells SBS how we can bring some Aboriginal knowledge into our garden to help us heal - mentally and physically.... ()

Researchers at the Australian Catholic University are investigating which individual and environmental factors contribute most to Indigenous Australians success in their chosen profession. The research team hopes that its findings well help close ... ()

A scientific study of Aboriginal DNA has discovered new details about the way in which the first inhabitants spread across the continent around 50,000 years ago.   ()

The Turnbull government has given its first hint as to what might be contained in the 2017 federal budget. Housing Affordability is set to be one of the key elements.   ()

According to a new report, those who are overweight are 1.5 times more likely to develop kidney disease. And First Nations Peoples are more affected that any other group.   ()

The Indigenous Hip Hop project dance troupe brings together young First Nations professional dancers from all corners of Australia. The troupe's objective is to promote good health trough music and creativity.   (The Indigenous Hip Hop Project is not just a project it is a professional troupe whose performers hail from First Nations communities in urban, rural and remote corners of Australia.   At the recent Yalukit Wilum Ngargee festival the Indigenous Hip Hop project captivated the audience with a show of gravity defying acrobatics and artistic beauty.   Michael Farah is director of the Project. Asked about the time it took to put together such a breathtaking performance Michael Farah says that one should not be fooled by the little time that it took them to put it together. Their performance is the result of years of enduring and persistent training the acrobatic stuff that is what the dancers come with. They come with their own training. They are all professional dancers that have done a lot of extensive training; am talking years and years, hours and hours of practice every day to get to that point.  )