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Bill Shorten set to promise national vote on becoming a republic
SBS
Queen Elizabeth II would farewell Australia with affection and good grace, the country could still compete at the Commonwealth Games and fawn over the royal babies. Mr Shorten says enshrining a voice for indigenous Australians is the first priority for ...
Inequality not just about wealth but also about powerIndependent Australia

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Sky News Australia
Shorten to make republic vote promise
Sky News Australia
Queen Elizabeth II would farewell Australia with affection and good grace, the country could still compete at the Commonwealth Games and fawn over the royal babies. Mr Shorten says enshrining a voice for indigenous Australians is the first priority for ...
Inequality not just about wealth but also about powerIndependent Australia

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The West Australian
Shorten promises national republic vote
The West Australian
Queen Elizabeth II would farewell Australia with affection and good grace, the country could still compete at the Commonwealth Games and fawn over the royal babies. Mr Shorten says enshrining a voice for indigenous Australians is the first priority for ...
Inequality not just about wealth but also about powerIndependent Australia

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The Australian
No hiding place
The Australian
But with indigenous Australia's numbers expected to hit a million in little more than a decade, the old narrative that deaths by disease, deprivation and straight-up murderous intent were simply the end of the story for entire communities, starting ...

The Australian
No hiding place
The Australian
But with indigenous Australia's numbers expected to hit a million in little more than a decade, the old narrative that deaths by disease, deprivation and straight-up murderous intent were simply the end of the story for entire communities, starting ...

The Australian
A matter of perspective
The Australian
The subjects of these photographs are almost all drawn from the life of Aboriginal Australia, mostly from the 1960s and 70s, although a couple of shots included in the exhibition are from as late as 1988. Bishop's images are engaging in their sincerity ...

The $450 monthly super threshold hurts indigenous workers: experts
The New Daily
The gap in financial welfare between indigenous and other Australians is not changing and is actually being accentuated by the $450-per-month threshold for compulsory superannuation payments. So the Indigenous Superannuation Working Group of the ...

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The $450 monthly super threshold hurts indigenous workers: experts
The New Daily
The gap in financial welfare between indigenous and other Australians is not changing and is actually being accentuated by the $450-per-month threshold for compulsory superannuation payments. So the Indigenous Superannuation Working Group of the ...

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Sky News Australia
Shorten to pledge republic vote if elected
Sky News Australia
Queen Elizabeth II would farewell Australia with affection and good grace, the country could still compete at the Commonwealth Games and fawn over the royal babies. Mr Shorten says enshrining a voice for indigenous Australians is the first priority for ...
Inequality not just about wealth but also about powerIndependent Australia

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Telegraph.co.uk
Dr G Yunupingu, Australian Aboriginal singer – obituary
Telegraph.co.uk
When his debut album, Gurrumul, was released that year, the shy 38-year old from Elcho Island in Arnhem Land, northern Australia, was hailed as one of the brightest talents ever to emerge from the country's indigenous population. The album went ...

ABC Online
Gene Gibson: Wrongful conviction shines light on lack of translators
ABC Online
Mr Gibson, like many Indigenous Australians who do not speak English as a first language, is somewhat like a foreigner in his own justice system. It is something which concerns WA's chief justice Wayne Martin. Earlier this month, he told a conference ...

Green Left Weekly
Melbourne CBD standstill: Rally for Elijah Doughty halts peak-hour traffic, trams
The Age
Melbourne's CBD was brought to a standstill on Friday night by protesters rallying over the death of Indigenous teenager Elijah Doughty in Western Australia. Traffic and trams were brought to a halt by protesters, who staged a peaceful sit-in in the ...
Justice for Elijah DoughtyGreen Left Weekly
Elijah Doughty: Melbourne brought to standstill as protesters march against sentenceABC Online
Hundreds rally in Melbourne to protest after Elijah Doughty court outcomeThe West Australian

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Melbourne CBD standstill: Rally for Elijah Doughty halts peak-hour traffic, trams
The Age
Melbourne's CBD was brought to a standstill on Friday night by protesters rallying over the death of Indigenous teenager Elijah Doughty in Western Australia. Traffic and trams were brought to a halt by protesters, who staged a peaceful sit-in in the ...

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Perth Now
Diggers and Dealers conference cancel Aboriginal ceremony
Perth Now
It is a sensitive time in Kalgoorlie after a 56-year-old man who ran down and killed 14-year-old Aboriginal boy Elijah Doughty was acquitted of manslaughter in the WA Supreme Court and was instead jailed for three years for dangerous driving causing death.

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Green Left Weekly
Vale Yami Lester: Aboriginal activist, elder and anti-nuclear campaigner
Green Left Weekly
As a young man Lester joined the Aboriginal Advancement League in Adelaide, fighting to gain recognition of the human cost of the British nuclear tests in South Australia, and an acknowledgement of the 1800 Aboriginal people affected. His campaign for ...

Inside Film
You Are Here: “Our culture and heritage is still alive; it has never died and it never will die.”
Inside Film
The initiative was launched last year in the lead up to the proposed referendum on constitutional recognition, and aimed to showcase stories about the place of Indigenous Australians today. Connection to Country will screen on NITV on August 6. Mowarin ...

Inside Film
You Are Here: “Our culture and heritage is still alive; it has never died and it never will die.”
Inside Film
Adult illiteracy among Indigenous Australians – 45-65 per cent of Aboriginal Australians are functionally illiterate in English – was something Glynn tells IF she wanted to explore for some years, whether in drama or documentary, with the aims of ...

What happens when two singing cultures meet?
ABC Online
In the obscure churches of remote Central Australia, a 140-year musical legacy of ancient Aboriginal languages, German sacred poetry and baroque music is being preserved by four generations of song women. The Song Keepers tells the unknown story of ...

We want truth: Aboriginal man's family
The Australian
The family and supporters of an Aboriginal man who died in custody have marched to NSW parliament demanding a date be set for an inquest into the incident and the release of CCTV footage. David Dungay, a 26-year-old diabetic, died in December 2015 at ...

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Giving voice to creation songs
ArtsHub (subscription) (blog)
Sung into Being gives notable focus to renowned artist Rover Joolama Thomas, Moon added. 'Thomas was one of the first Indigenous Australian artists acquired for the Holmes à Court Collection. He forged new conventions in Aboriginal art and created new ...