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You Are Here: Indigenous television that tells it like it is
The New Daily
She uses her film to call for a full version of Australian history to be taught in all schools – reflecting the fact that 36,000 years ago, indigenous people were making bread, building houses and dams. “I'm not an expert in Australian history but this ...

The Advertiser
Liberal leader Steven Marshall reveals his plans to help Aboriginal communities in the APY Lands
The Advertiser
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher last year announced the State Government would begin treaty discussions with Aboriginal South Australians as the next step towards reconciliation. But Mr Marshall, who has vowed to become the first SA Premier to ...

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9news.com.au
Harold Holt's friend sheds light on mystery disappearance 50 years ago
9news.com.au
It was a summer's day in 1967, when a Prime Minister went for a swim, and vanished. Harold Holt, a keen swimmer, and spear fisherman ventured into the waters off Victoria's Cheviot Beach, at the back of Portsea on the Mornington Peninsula. Today, those ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal leader Yami Lester dies at 75 - The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
Yami Lester, who was left blind by the Maralinga atomic tests and went on to become a tireless campaigner for Aboriginal rights, has died aged 75.

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ABC Online
SA Aboriginal leader Yami Lester dies
NEWS.com.au
He joined the Aboriginal Advancement League in Adelaide, fighting to gain recognition for the British atomic tests in South Australia, and an acknowledgement for the 1800 Aboriginal people affected. His work lead to the McClelland Royal Commission in ...
Yami Lester: Aboriginal activist, elder and nuclear campaigner dies aged 75ABC Online
Yankunytjatjara elder and Maralinga nuclear test survivor Yami Lester OAM passes away, aged 75The Advertiser

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UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detention
Daily Advertiser
The vast majority of Aboriginal people had jobs, attended school and were not involved in the criminal justice system, Mr Scullion said. He acknowledged some Indigenous Australians "need additional support" and said the Coalition was committed to ...

ABC Online
Yami Lester: Aboriginal activist, elder and nuclear campaigner dies aged 75
ABC Online
Mr Lester suffered vision impairment after being blinded by a nuclear test bomb that blew though his homelands in the far north of South Australia during the 1950s. He spent his early years working on pastoral properties across South Australia, until ...

NT News
Kakadu artefacts discovery rewriting the history books
NT News
Professor Jacobs said the discovery set a new minimum age for evidence of human habitation of Australia, although debate would probably still continue. “It's not over, there will be a new debate,” she said. While Aboriginal habitation had now been ...

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'Aboriginal Australia' at JCOGS on Sunday
Stowe Today
“Aboriginal Australia,” an interactive slide show and natural history display, will be presented Sunday, July 30, at 4 p.m. at the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe. Denise Ashman Krause will introduce guests to images and insights she gleaned from ...

The Roar
Why the Wallabies' Indigenous jersey should be permanent
The Roar
Beale's reaction demonstrates the huge symbolic meaning of the jersey, not only to our Indigenous people, but to all patriotic Australians who recognise the crimes committed against Australia's Indigenous population since European colonisation. Anyone ...

The Roar
Why the Wallabies' Indigenous jersey should be permanent
The Roar
Beale's reaction demonstrates the huge symbolic meaning of the jersey, not only to our Indigenous people, but to all patriotic Australians who recognise the crimes committed against Australia's Indigenous population since European colonisation. Anyone ...

The Australian
Turnbull handed report on indigenous recognition
The Australian
The Business Council of Australia, the major corporate-indigenous secondment program Jawun — which involves some of the biggest corporations and a range of governments — the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and the National Congress of Australia's ...

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The Australian
Holmes a Court shares indigenous art trove in Sung Into Being
The Australian
Bulunbulun's work demonstrates the connection between north Australian indigenous people and the Macassan traders of Indonesia. “There were people coming back and forth to Australia from Indonesia for thousands of years,” Holmes a Court said.

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The Australian
Holmes a Court shares indigenous art trove in Sung Into Being
The Australian
Bulunbulun's work demonstrates the connection between north Australian indigenous people and the Macassan traders of Indonesia. “There were people coming back and forth to Australia from Indonesia for thousands of years,” Holmes a Court said.

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The Australian
UN indigenous rep Megan Davis set to join ARL body
The Australian
The Weekend Australian understands that Megan Davis, the first indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, is on the verge of being appointed to the commission after being sounded out by ARL chairman John Grant. Professor Davis is also a professor of ...

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Indigenous voice ideal option for constitutional change
The Australian
The Referendum Council's two simple recommendations this week break the impasse presented by previous reports on recognition of indigenous Australians. The report identifies a single proposition that can be guided through the narrow window of ...

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Indigenous voice ideal option for constitutional change
The Australian
The Referendum Council's two simple recommendations this week break the impasse presented by previous reports on recognition of indigenous Australians. The report identifies a single proposition that can be guided through the narrow window of ...

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The Mercury
Talking Point: Address our past for a better future
The Mercury
Ponder constitutional recognition at both the State and Federal level, the AFL's Dreamtime round and our national increasing pride in Aboriginal culture, art, music, dance, all of which arguably underpins our developing “Brand Australia”. Why else ...

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From little things
The Australian
The pair had earlier dropped by the office of Magabala Books, Australia's oldest independent indigenous publisher, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Among the numerous children's and adult titles on display in the office's light ...

From little things
The Australian
The pair had earlier dropped by the office of Magabala Books, Australia's oldest independent indigenous publisher, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Among the numerous children's and adult titles on display in the office's light ...