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The Sydney Morning Herald
MIFF 2017: The Song Keepers is a remarkable tale of culture surviving and thriving
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Song Keepers is a remarkable and enormously enjoyable documentary about a rather improbable concert tour. In 2015, the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir went to Germany, to sing the hymns that had been brought to this country in the 19th ...

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NEWS.com.au
Labor backs indigenous referendum at the Garma Festival
NEWS.com.au
Mr Shorten called for a joint parliamentary select committee to finalise a question to put to voters, but Ms Anderson said indigenous Australians needed another expert panel “like a hole in the head”. She said Mr Turnbull, who delivered some of his ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sally McManus ratchets up campaign against 'racist' work-for-the-dole program
The Sydney Morning Herald
A $1.5 billion work-for-the-dole program that overwhelmingly targets Indigenous communities has been labelled racist by Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus, with the prominent unionist arguing the government's policy denies ...

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Eastern Riverina Chronicle
ACTU ratchets up work-for-the-dole campaign
Eastern Riverina Chronicle
A $1.5 billion work-for-the-dole program that overwhelmingly targets Indigenous communities has been labelled racist by Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus, with the prominent unionist arguing the government's policy denies ...

The Australian
Labor backs indigenous voice referendum
The Australian
The largest population of Aboriginal peoples in Australia? Is our highest aspiration to have indigenous people outside the parliament providing advice to the parliament?” “Or is it to have as many indigenous voices elected within our parliament? What ...
Indigenous recognition: Turnbull refuses commit to referendum council's proposalThe Guardian
Garma festival: Turnbull, Shorten criticised for 'empty platitudes' over Indigenous recognitionABC Online
Turnbull remembers Yunupingu at Garma - News.com.auNEWS.com.au

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Newcastle Herald
Victor Perry removed as chair of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee over native title bungle.
Newcastle Herald
... the committee had an important role in overseeing reform and it was crucial its representatives met the relevant criteria. “This questions the due diligence in the department,” he said. “It's almost as though matters concerning Aboriginal Australia ...

First 1000 Days Australia: Save the Children and University of Melbourne partner to improve life outcomes for ...
Save The Children Australia
First 1000 Days Australia will see Save the Children and the University of Melbourne collaborate to create transformational change with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples for their health and wellbeing. While international evidence on the life ...

Sky News Australia
Shorten backs indigenous voice referendum
Sky News Australia
Bill Shorten has backed a referendum question on an indigenous voice to parliament, but the prime minister has failed to commit bipartisan support, warning that Australians are 'constitutionally conservative'. During a speech at the Garma Festival in ...
Labor backs indigenous voice referendumThe Australian
Sally McManus ratchets up campaign against 'racist' work-for-the-dole programThe Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous leaders push for constitutional recognition as Turnbull delays official responseThe New Daily
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Sky News Australia
Labor backs indigenous voice referendum
NEWS.com.au
Prominent Aboriginal Australian Noel Pearson on Friday delivered a scathing assessment of the "miserable" political leadership shown by Mr Turnbull and Mr Shorten towards constitutional reform. Many senior Aboriginal figures had hoped for a bipartisan ...
Shorten backs indigenous voice referendumSky News Australia
Garma festival: Turnbull, Shorten criticised for 'empty platitudes' over Indigenous recognitionABC Online
Indigenous recognition: Turnbull refuses commit to referendum council's proposalThe Guardian
The Australian -9news.com.au
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The Guardian
Labor backs indigenous voice referendum
NEWS.com.au
Prominent Aboriginal Australian Noel Pearson on Friday delivered a scathing assessment of the "miserable" political leadership shown by Mr Turnbull and Mr Shorten towards constitutional reform. Many senior Aboriginal figures had hoped for a bipartisan ...
Indigenous recognition: Turnbull refuses commit to referendum council's proposalThe Guardian
Shorten backs indigenous voice referendumSky News Australia
Garma festival: Turnbull, Shorten criticised for 'empty platitudes' over Indigenous recognitionABC Online
The Australian
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Woman nabbed for cocaine at Sydney airport
The Australian
The 49-year-old woman arrived in Sydney from Los Angeles on Friday and officers chose to search her baggage. Australian Federal Police say cocaine was hidden among clothing and make-up products in her suitcase and she was charged with importing a ...

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Misleading fuel price signs to be banned
The Australian
Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan, right, and New South Wales state Police SIMON BENSON. A dramatic security clampdown will be imposed at domestic airport terminals, similar to those for international flights.

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The West Australian
PM, Shorten 'miserable' leaders: Pearson
The Australian
Mr Shorten called for a joint parliamentary select committee to finalise a referendum question on the Aboriginal voice proposal, but Mr Turnbull is yet to commit bipartisan support. Ms Anderson said indigenous Australians needed another expert panel ...
Yunupingu remembered, Turnbull slammedThe West Australian
Garma festival: Turnbull, Shorten criticised for 'empty platitudes' over Indigenous recognitionABC Online
Turnbull remembers Yunupingu at GarmaNEWS.com.au
The Guardian
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ABC Online
PM, Shorten 'miserable' leaders: Pearson
The Australian
Mr Shorten called for a joint parliamentary select committee to finalise a referendum question on the Aboriginal voice proposal, but Mr Turnbull is yet to commit bipartisan support. Ms Anderson said indigenous Australians needed another expert panel ...
Garma festival: Turnbull, Shorten criticised for 'empty platitudes' over Indigenous recognitionABC Online
Yunupingu remembered, Turnbull slammedThe West Australian
Turnbull remembers Yunupingu at Garma - News.com.auNEWS.com.au
The Guardian
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The West Australian
Looking back to go forward
The West Australian
How can Australia's built heritage, such as a disused sewerage vent in East Perth, be easier to protect than a 5000-year-old Aboriginal sacred site? This is one of the questions Roebourne writer, director and Ngarluma man Tyson Mowarin found himself ...

The West Australian
Looking back to go forward
The West Australian
How can Australia's built heritage, such as a disused sewerage vent in East Perth, be easier to protect than a 5000-year-old Aboriginal sacred site? This is one of the questions Roebourne writer, director and Ngarluma man Tyson Mowarin found himself ...

Anger at Ord-inary report
The West Australian
Kununurra farmers and WA politicians have been quick to lambaste a report from a Canberra think tank critical of historical spending on the Ord Irrigation Scheme. The Australia Institute's report, Dam the Expense: New Research on Ord River Irrigation ...

ABC Online
Yunupingu remembered, Turnbull slammed
SBS
This year's Garma Festival has opened to emotional scenes: grief at the loss of indigenous musician Dr G Yunupingu, hope that Australia can pave a future towards reconciliation and outrage at a "lack of leadership" from politicians on constitutional ...
Garma: Dr G Yunupingu remembered in festival's opening ceremonyABC Online
Turnbull's bid to unite the nation as Garma festival opensThe Australian
Turnbull remembers Yunupingu at GarmaNEWS.com.au
The Guardian
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Cartoon's anniversary a time for the AHRC to talk to dissenting voices
The Australian
Anthony Dillon's disclosure that his father was an Aboriginal police officer who congratulated Bill Leak on the cartoon that the Australian Human Rights Commission found so offensive is surely a defining moment in this affair (“Cartoon's message still ...

In Taboo, Kim Scott revisits Australia's history of conflict
The Australian
The story starts with Dan Horton, an old farmer in the West Australian town of Kepalup. His property takes in a 19th century Aboriginal massacre site. A reconciliation-themed Peace Park is soon to be opened in Kepalup and when Dan learns the Noongar ...