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The Sydney Morning Herald
Call for people's body to push recognition
The Australian
(Tony) Abbott came in promising to sweat blood for indigenous Australia but never set up a proposal — we've had campaigning and we've had processes but we're not set up for a referendum, so my view is we need a convention as a way of focusing the ...
Constitutional convention would offer a way forward on Aboriginal recognitionThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Indigenous recognition steps outside Constitution
The Australian
“This declaration might be indigenous Australia's version of America's Declaration of Independence, celebrating the indigenous, British and multicultural aspects to our unified national identity,” said Mr Pearson. The idea was aimed at mollifying the ...

Indigenous recognition steps outside Constitution
The Australian
“This declaration might be indigenous Australia's version of America's Declaration of Independence, celebrating the indigenous, British and multicultural aspects to our unified national identity,” said Mr Pearson. The idea was aimed at mollifying the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Constitutional convention would offer a way forward on Aboriginal recognition
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal people have held a convention, and so too should the community at large. A constitutional convention representing all Australians will provide a platform to argue why an Indigenous advisory body is the right change. It will fill in the ...

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Courier Mail
Culture Club: Queensland arts, theatre and music news
Courier Mail
Moon flew to WA to select the pieces for this show which is quite a coup for QAGOMA and director Chris Saines says it's an important one that “offers audiences a unique opportunity to access works by a seminal group of indigenous Australian artists ...

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Inside Film
SBS launches interactive Indigenous doco My Grandmother's Lingo
Inside Film
SBS has launched an online interactive documentary, My Grandmother's Lingo, which highlights the endangered status of Indigenous languages in Australia. My Grandmother's Lingo tells the personal story of Angelina Joshua, a young Aboriginal woman ...

Big names to judge awards
The West Australian
Beetson's work includes all sorts of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and public art, and explores her identity as an indigenous Australian. City of Karratha Mayor Peter Long said the awards continued to attract ...

ABC Online
NSW Government considers cashless welfare card rollout across state
ABC Online
Billionaire founder of Fortescue Metals Group, Andrew Forrest has met with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to push for a cashless welfare card to be rolled out across New South Wales. Created by Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation, the income ...

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ABC Online
NSW Government considers cashless welfare card rollout across state
ABC Online
Billionaire founder of Fortescue Metals Group, Andrew Forrest has met with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to push for a cashless welfare card to be rolled out across New South Wales. Created by Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation, the income ...

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The Sunshine Coast Daily
Wallabies' Indigenous-inspired jersey for October Test
The Sunshine Coast Daily
The jersey, designed by Sydney artist Dennis Golding, incorporates symbols of the 14 Indigenous players who have represented Australia and will be worn in the Wallabies' third Bledisloe Cup Test against the All Blacks in Brisbane on October 21. Pulver ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous artist Jandamarra Cadd accuses Australian Border Force of racial profiling
ABC Online
A prominent Indigenous artist from Queensland has alleged he was racially profiled and "interrogated" by Australian Border Force staff on his return to Australia from a diplomatic trip to Indonesia. Jandamarra Cadd had been asked to attend NAIDOC week ...

The Singleton Argus
Singleton sisters gear up for University of Newcastle Larapinta challenge
The Singleton Argus
Currently, indigenous Australians have a significantly shorter life expectancy, are around five times more likely to die from diabetes and alcohol-related illnesses, and are severely under-represented in Australian universities. Working as a qualified ...

ABC Online
Ngadju native title: Federal court ruling determines last piece of WA claim the size of Tasmania
ABC Online
A Federal Court ruling has seen the last piece of a native title claim stretching from the Nullarbor to the Great Western Woodlands handed back to traditional Aboriginal owners. On Monday Australia's Federal Court ruled to hand back the final piece of ...

The Conversation AU
Response to Referendum Council report suggests a narrow path forward on Indigenous constitutional reform
The Conversation AU
The Referendum Council's final report, released on Monday, accepts and supports the calls for constitutional reform made by Indigenous delegates at regional dialogues across Australia, and agreed to at the First Nations Constitutional Convention at ...
Referendum Council 'limiting' scope of indigenous recognition: BurneyThe Australian

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The Australian
Referendum Council 'limiting' scope of indigenous recognition: Burney
The Australian
Asked whether she believed the Referendum Council process showed indigenous Australian's weren't especially exercised about constitutional recognition, Ms Burney said that while they were are very exercised about the social justice situation for ...

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Inside Film
Six Australian films set for world premieres at MIFF
Inside Film
Naina Sen's The Song Keepers chronicles the hidden musical legacy of ancient Aboriginal languages and German baroque songs that are being preserved by the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir. Eddie Martin's Have You Seen the Listers? is a ...

New York Times
A Solo Trek for Indigenous Rights in Australia Enters the Homestretch
New York Times
Meeting the prime minister might require some finagling, but one man is walking across Australia to try to do so. Clinton Pryor of Perth is heading toward Sydney on his way to Parliament in Canberra in a walk championing rights for Indigenous Australians.

Wide World of Sports
Kurtley Beale implores ARU to look after indigenous grassroots ...
Wide World of Sports
Kurtley Beale implores ARU to look after indigenous grassroots - Nine Wide World of Sports.

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Grassroots vital for indigenous rugby
SBS
Kurtley Beale hopes a special jersey will provide the inspiration that will boost the disappointingly small number of indigenous Wallabies. Australia will wear an indigenous jersey for the first time in their final Bledisloe Cup Test of the year ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous voice to parliament: a unifying idea
The Australian
The clearest take-out from the broader consultations is that non-indigenous Australians will not support a form of recognition that doesn't have the backing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This made our deliberations infinitely more ...
Referendum Council advises Government to hold vote on Indigenous 'Voice to Parliament'ABC Online
Referendum Council's final report calls for Indigenous voice to parliamentSBS
Referendum Council endorses Uluru call for Indigenous voice to parliamentThe Guardian
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