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NEWS.com.au
Aust breaching standards: Indigenous group
NEWS.com.au
A submission by the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations group, representing traditional owner organisations across the Murray-Darling Basin, says the Water Act is inconsistent with Australia's international obligations under the Biodiversity ...

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NEWS.com.au
Aust breaching standards: Indigenous group
NEWS.com.au
A submission by the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations group, representing traditional owner organisations across the Murray-Darling Basin, says the Water Act is inconsistent with Australia's international obligations under the Biodiversity ...
Call for Water Act to further recognise Indigenous rights, interestsABC News

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Aust breaching standards: Indigenous group
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A submission by the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations group, representing traditional owner organisations across the Murray-Darling Basin, says the Water Act is inconsistent with Australia's international obligations under the Biodiversity ...

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The Australian
Aust breaching standards: Indigenous group
The Australian
"After decades of advocacy, Basin governments are beginning to acknowledge First Nations' rights and interests in water, yet Australia's Water Act and the Murray-Darling Basin Plan fall far short of international standards of recognising Aboriginal ...

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InDaily
Marshall aims to build 'stronger' relationship with APY communities
InDaily
He said last week a number of senior Aboriginal leaders in South Australia had questioned him about Marshall's commitment to Aboriginal affairs, including on issues relating to the treaty process – which Marshall has ended – and remote Indigenous housing.

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The Conversation AU
Ten classics of Indigenous design
The Conversation AU
Blak Design Matters is the first exhibition in Australia specifically dedicated to contemporary Indigenous design. Its curator, architect and academic Jefa Greenaway, describes the show as a snapshot that “takes the pulse of what's happening now ...

The Conversation AU
Ten classics of Indigenous design
The Conversation AU
Blak Design Matters is the first exhibition in Australia specifically dedicated to contemporary Indigenous design. Its curator, architect and academic Jefa Greenaway, describes the show as a snapshot that “takes the pulse of what's happening now ...

The Australian
'White feminists' blame colonisation for indigenous domestic violence
The Australian
Aboriginal women victims of domestic violence are ending up in jail at astonishing rates.” The latest statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, released in February, show that indigenous women are 32 times more likely than non ...

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The Australian
'White feminists' blame colonisation for indigenous domestic violence
The Australian
Aboriginal women victims of domestic violence are ending up in jail at astonishing rates.” The latest statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, released in February, show that indigenous women are 32 times more likely than non ...

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Pursuit
Q&A: The Indigenous design perspective
Pursuit
In Australia, and many other countries with colonial pasts, mainstream design - including architecture, town planning, as well as fashion, interior, product and landscape design - has largely eshewed both Indigenous design and designers. But, with ...

The West Australian
Kununurra women celebrated at NAIDOC Week march
The West Australian
WA Premier Mark McGowan was welcomed to Miriwoong country and said the State appreciated the role and importance of Aboriginal people in Australia. “It's important we acknowledge Aboriginal people here in the Kimberley but also Aboriginal people ...

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EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous boarding students face great challenges but reap big rewards
EducationHQ Australia
More than 4000 secondary Indigenous students received ABSTUDY boarding payments in 2015, and Indigenous boarding school scholarships receive major government and philanthropic funding. One of Australia's largest funding providers, the Australian ...

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EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous boarding students face great challenges but reap big rewards
EducationHQ Australia
More than 4000 secondary Indigenous students received ABSTUDY boarding payments in 2015, and Indigenous boarding school scholarships receive major government and philanthropic funding. One of Australia's largest funding providers, the Australian ...

Travel+Leisure
Australia's Uluru Is Back in the Hands of the Aboriginal People — and There's Never Been a Better Time to Visit
Travel+Leisure
Australia's more than 500 Aboriginal tribes are like individual nations, each with its own language and customs. But one belief unites them all: the idea of an ancestral tie to Mother Earth. For the Anangu people who live around Uluru, the rock is the ...

Travel+Leisure
Australia's Uluru Is Back in the Hands of the Aboriginal People — and There's Never Been a Better Time to Visit
Travel+Leisure
But since 1993, when the government reinstated the rock's local name, Uluru, and awareness began growing that the indigenous community considers it sacred, clambering to the summit has been controversial. Australia's more than 500 Aboriginal tribes are ...

Daily Telegraph
Australia campaigned for Nelson Mandela's freedom but disappointed indigenous Australians by not wanting to 'interfere'
Daily Telegraph
But the Australian visit was not without controversy. Indigenous leaders, many of whom regarded Mandela as a hero and had been active anti-apartheid campaigners, were hopeful Mandela would champion issues relating to the treatment of Aborigines.

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Daily Telegraph
Australia campaigned for Nelson Mandela's freedom but disappointed indigenous Australians by not wanting to 'interfere'
Daily Telegraph
During his visit to Australia in 1990 Mandela was presented with a cricket bat signed by Bradman. But the Australian visit was not without controversy. Indigenous leaders, many of whom regarded Mandela as a hero and had been active anti-apartheid ...

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Cashless cards' success could extend to most welfare recipients
The Australian
However, a significant proportion of indigenous people would be considered “mainstream”, in that they live like other Australians. This group is lifting the averages for the indigenous population, meaning the gaps for indigenous people who are ...

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The Guardian
Cashless welfare card's effectiveness unclear, auditor general says
The Guardian
... Australia and East Kimberley in Western Australia, but have been criticised as an overly punitive, paternal and blunt tool for addressing complex social problems. The program is not targeted at Indigenous Australians, but they are ...
Inadequate monitoring system casts doubt on cashless card trialsThe Australian
'Evidence lacking': Auditor-General criticises cashless welfare card trialThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Herald Sun
Michael Long's journey captured in bronze as Essendon pay tribute to on and off-field great
Herald Sun
“It is a tremendous tribute to him and his work for both the indigenous community and the wider Australian community.'' Three years after he retired, in 2004, Long set out to walk from Melbourne to Canberra to talk to the Prime Minister about improving ...
Michael Long's legacy forged in bronzeThe Canberra Times
AFL indigenous hero Long gets statueSports News

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