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Illawarra Mercury
Awkward question Australians must ask
Northern Star
TEN years ago on February 13, a small group of indigenous representatives walked uncertainly through security gates to the Prime Minister's courtyard inside Parliament House. They passed a low, sculptured representation of inland Australia with a ...
Did this seminal moment in Australia's history change anything?NEWS.com.au
New call for indigenous reparation schemeIllawarra Mercury
New call for Indigenous reparation scheme to resolve 'national tragedy'SBS

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Tasmania Examiner
Australia to commemorate tenth anniversary of national apology
Tasmania Examiner
In the lead up to last month's Australia Day celebrations, the Social Research Centre conducted a survey where people were asked to nominate 10 historic events that have had the greatest impact on the country. After last year's same-sex marriage ...
Awkward question Australians must askNorthern Star
Did this seminal moment in Australia's history change anything?NEWS.com.au
New call for Indigenous reparation scheme to resolve 'national tragedy'SBS

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Tasmania Examiner
Australia to commemorate tenth anniversary of national apology
Tasmania Examiner
In the lead up to last month's Australia Day celebrations, the Social Research Centre conducted a survey where people were asked to nominate 10 historic events that have had the greatest impact on the country. After last year's same-sex marriage ...
Awkward question Australians must askNorthern Star
New call for indigenous reparation schemeIllawarra Mercury
Did this seminal moment in Australia's history change anything?NEWS.com.au
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Radio Australia
Prominent Indigenous Australians urge Government not to abandon existing Closing the Gap targets
Radio Australia
More than 60 prominent Indigenous Australians urge the Government not to abandon existing Closing the Gap targets, with one saying healing historical trauma is vital. Delegates said the current, decade-old goals needed to be reviewed and retained ...

SBS
Did this seminal moment in Australia's history change anything?
NEWS.com.au
“Within the Australian Labor Party, of course, there are a bunch of people who have a conservative view of Indigenous policy,” he last week told NITV's Living Black. “I remember being cautioned by some of the right-wing bovver boys of the Australian ...
New call for Indigenous reparation scheme to resolve 'national tragedy'SBS
New call for indigenous reparation schemeThe Border Mail

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The Australian
Did this seminal moment in Australia's history change anything?
NEWS.com.au
... Therese Rein and Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin. It was a warm reception shorn of formal folderol, which underlined the importance the Rudd Government attached to the statement delivered later. And it was a historic occasion that nearly ...
Government might legislate indigenous 'voice'The Australian
Awkward question Australians must askToowoomba Chronicle

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The Guardian
Ken Wyatt says MPs could legislate Indigenous voice to parliament
The Guardian
Dodson said that, as the alternative government, Labor should be included in a bipartisan approach and there was a “serious question of trust” between the government and First Peoples – partly because of its stance on Indigenous recognition. “I think ...
Why can't we fix this and Close the Gap?Illawarra Mercury
Awkward question Australians must askThe Queensland Times

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ABC Online
Prominent Indigenous Australians urge Government not to abandon ...
ABC Online
More than 60 prominent Indigenous Australians urge the Government not to abandon existing Closing the Gap targets, with one saying healing historical trauma is vital.
Ken Wyatt says MPs could legislate Indigenous voice to parliament ...The Guardian
Government might legislate indigenous 'voice'The Australian
Why can't we fix this and Close the Gap?SBS
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SBS
Why can't we fix this and Close the Gap?
SBS
Mr Rudd won widespread acclaim for - and ignited great hopes with - his historic apology and strategy to improve the health, education and employment prospects of indigenous Australians. But a decade on little progress has been made towards achieving ...

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SBS
New call for Indigenous reparation scheme to resolve 'national tragedy'
SBS
The apology and reparation scheme, including financial compensation, were key recommendations in the 2007 'Bringing Them Home' report which found between one in 10 and one in three indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families over a ...
New call for indigenous reparation schemeArarat Advertiser

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SBS
New call for indigenous reparation scheme
SBS
Annual progress reports on the strategy's seven targets to close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in terms of health, education and employment have shown just one is on track to be met. The lack of progress sparked Mr Turnbull ...

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SBS
New call for indigenous reparation scheme
SBS
Annual progress reports on the strategy's seven targets to close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in terms of health, education and employment have shown just one is on track to be met. The lack of progress sparked Mr Turnbull ...

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ABC Online
Adviser to Malcolm Turnbull reveals Indigenous advisory body still 'very much' on table
ABC Online
One of the Prime Minister's chief advisers has revealed the establishment of an Indigenous advisory body is still "very much" on the table in negotiations with the Turnbull Government. On the eve of the Prime Minister's delivery of the tenth Closing ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Spirits unsettled: the apology to the stolen generations 10 years on
The Sydney Morning Herald
What exists is our people's spiritual world. Our existence as Aboriginal people is not a memory bank, it is a spirit. We carry the spirits of our ancestors. Our connection is before time began and so is the trauma of what's been happening since 1788 ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Spirits unsettled: the apology to the stolen generations 10 years on
The Sydney Morning Herald
What exists is our people's spiritual world. Our existence as Aboriginal people is not a memory bank, it is a spirit. We carry the spirits of our ancestors. Our connection is before time began and so is the trauma of what's been happening since 1788 ...

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SBS
Australia's Windsor ready to fly Aboriginal flag
SBS
While the Aboriginal flag of red, yellow and black is recognised officially in Australia, Windsor could risk the ire of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) which frowns on athletes making acts of "propaganda" at the Games. Raised with eight half ...
Olympics: Australia's Windsor ready to fly Aboriginal flagReuters
Windsor calls on skaters to get educatedYahoo7 Sport

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SBS
Australia's Windsor ready to fly Aboriginal flag
SBS
While the Aboriginal flag of red, yellow and black is recognised officially in Australia, Windsor could risk the ire of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) which frowns on athletes making acts of "propaganda" at the Games. Raised with eight half ...
Olympics: Australia's Windsor ready to fly Aboriginal flagReuters
Australia's indigenous Winter Olympian inspired by FreemanHerald-Whig
Australia's Indigenous Winter Olympian Impressed by FreemanLuxora Leader

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Action is needed for our First People, not words
Shepparton News
It is reasonable to suggest that indigenous people question the difference the National Apology made, and while the sentiment was definitely needed, 10 years of little action speaks volumes for the way our First Peoples have been catered for by ...

New Jersey Herald
Harley Windsor Is Making History as Australia's First Indigenous Winter Olympian. Here's What to Know About Him
TIME
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor of Australia perform their routine in the Gala exhibition during the ISU Junior & Senior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final at Nippon Gaishi Hall on December 10, 2017 in Nagoya, Japan. Atsushi Tomura - ISU ...
Australia's indigenous Winter Olympian inspired by FreemanNew Jersey Herald

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New Jersey Herald
Harley Windsor Is Making History as Australia's First Indigenous Winter Olympian. Here's What to Know About Him
TIME
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor of Australia perform their routine in the Gala exhibition during the ISU Junior & Senior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final at Nippon Gaishi Hall on December 10, 2017 in Nagoya, Japan. Atsushi Tomura - ISU ...
Australia's indigenous Winter Olympian inspired by FreemanNew Jersey Herald

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