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Australian Jewish News
Newcastle-based Indigenous leader says it's time to talk truth about Australia's past
Newcastle Herald
Mr Gordon said many Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia had “stood up and taken on the challenge of coming up with better approaches” to relations with non-Indigenous Australians but “this needs to be acknowledged more widely ...
Reflections on reconciliationAustralian Jewish News

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Australian Jewish News
Newcastle-based Indigenous leader says it's time to talk truth about Australia's past
Newcastle Herald
Mr Gordon said many Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia had “stood up and taken on the challenge of coming up with better approaches” to relations with non-Indigenous Australians but “this needs to be acknowledged more widely ...
Reflections on reconciliationAustralian Jewish News

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Australian Jewish News
Indigenous contribution to Charge
Australian Jewish News
TWO major projects will result in groups of Indigenous Australians travelling to Israel in October to participate in the re-enactment of the Australian Light Horse Charge that resulted in the capture of Beersheva from the Turks 100 years ago. The Rona ...

Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Australians Celebrate 25 Years Of The Mabo Decision
Huffington Post Australia
It has been 25 years since the Mabo decision was passed and the Indigenous community continues to celebrate the significance of the case that challenged land ownership laws. The High Court overturned Terra Nullius, a doctrine claiming Australia was ...
Mabo anniversary: Aboriginal Tasmanians say land handback fight far from overABC Online
Black and white: warriors from two very different AustraliasThe Australian
Marking Mabo: How has Native Title changed since the landmark ruling?Pursuit
The West Australian -The Canberra Times -The Guardian (blog)
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Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Australians Celebrate 25 Years Of The Mabo Decision
Huffington Post Australia
It has been 25 years since the Mabo decision was passed and the Indigenous community continues to celebrate the significance of the case that challenged land ownership laws. The High Court overturned Terra Nullius, a doctrine claiming Australia was ...
'Dad, all of Australia knows your name': 25 years since landmark Mabo decisionThe West Australian
Ryan Adams: US singer battled ear disease on Australian tourThe Australian
Marking Mabo: How has Native Title changed since the landmark ruling?Pursuit
ABC Online -The Canberra Times -The Cairns Post
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NEWS.com.au
Australia's top 10 political figures
NEWS.com.au
During his tenure as Governor, Gipps was the first governor in Australian history to take aggressive unpopular action to punish white perpetrators of the mass murder of Indigenous Australians and to prevent further mass murders from occurring. Governor ...

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ABC Online
Remote outback archaeology project unearths new stories about early Aboriginal lives
ABC Online
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following story contains images of the people who have died. While historical accounts have suggested Aboriginal Australians may have lived in permanent settlements, scientists say ...
Black and white: warriors from two very different AustraliasThe Australian

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Community Newspaper Group
Indigenous educator hopes to break down barriers
Community Newspaper Group
She is dedicated to helping break down the barriers between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. Mrs Cumming said she was driven by her desire to make sure her two daughters did not have to deal with the same problems she did growing up.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Why New Zealand's Maori got a treaty, and Australia's Indigenous peoples didn't
The Sydney Morning Herald
The 1840 Treaty of Waitangi rests proudly in New Zealand's National Archives Constitution Room, close to the celebrated 1893 petition, which gave women the vote, before Australia (which followed in 1902). In Canberra, there are memorials to Captain ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Uluru statement: why are our leaders so scared of acknowledging Indigenous history?
The Sydney Morning Herald
Delegates at the First Nations constitutional convention at Uluru rejected symbolic constitutional recognition with some justification. In 1999, Australians rejected (55 per cent to 45 per cent) a proposal to insert a preamble in the constitution that ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Uluru statement: Aborigines prefer the horizon to the foreground
The Sydney Morning Herald
Delegates to the Aboriginal constitutional convention probably did themselves, as well as indigenous Australians, a great favour last week by making some perfectly reasonable, but presently politically impossible, proposals about constitutional ...
Noel Pearson, I support recognition of Aboriginal cultureThe Australian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Noel Pearson, I support recognition of Aboriginal culture
The Australian
For as long as Noel Pearson has been a public figure, I have been an admirer of his. And on occasion he has been kind enough to say a nice word or two about ...
Uluru statement: Aborigines prefer the horizon to the foregroundThe Sydney Morning Herald

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FourFourTwo Australia
Wanderers to host Indigenous football trials
FourFourTwo Australia
Supporters of the elite program include: the Johnny Warren Football Foundation, the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation, Football NSW, the Western Sydney Wanderers and Football Federation Australia. Director, Lawrence Gilbert ...

Politicians putting indigenous body at risk, says academic
The Australian
The indigenous body was one of two concrete proposals to come out of last week's constitutional convention in central Australia and the only one that would need to be put to a referendum. The other one, a “makarrata” commission, would be responsible ...

Herald Sun
Our Constitution already gives First Nations a say
The Australian
Indigenous leaders at the summit and those who participated in the consultations around Australia leading up to Uluru, in the words of Referendum Council co-chairwoman Pat Anderson, “rejected totally outright having some sort of an acknowledgment in ...
No place for race in our constitutiondailytelegraph.com.au
Confronting the pastNewcastle Herald
After Uluru, we must focus on a treaty ahead of constitutional recognitionThe Conversation AU
Rugby.com.au
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The Australian
NSW Bar pushes for indigenous court as part of system reform
The Australian
The commission “may wish to have regard to the extent to which factors such as institutional racism and a lack of cultural competency at all levels of law enforcement contribute to the increasing rate of incarceration of indigenous Australians”, he said.

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The Australian Financial Review
Adani fix will fall short of full Mabo revisit
The Australian Financial Review
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark High Court ruling in Mabo v Queensland which drove a stake through the heart of the notion of terra nullius – "nobody's land" – and recognised the ongoing existence of Indigenous land rights in ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
No place for race in our constitution
dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous Australians have made a significant contribution to the success of modern Australia. The first British settlers of the 18th century, and the waves of migrants that have followed from all corners of the globe, have also helped to make ...
Our Constitution already gives First Nations a sayThe Australian
Confronting the pastNewcastle Herald
After Uluru, we must focus on a treaty ahead of constitutional recognitionThe Conversation AU
Rugby.com.au -Northern Rivers Echo
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The Australian
Tasmanian Labor promises Aboriginal treaty talks
The Australian
SA has appointed an Aboriginal leader, Roger Thomas, as a treaty commissioner to help guide its talks. Ms Ogilvie, a lawyer, said Tasmanian treaty talks could address a range of “big ticket items” raised by the state's Aboriginal groups, including ...

Illawarra Mercury
Flinders teen calls for mandatory Indigenous studies in schools
Illawarra Mercury
I'd also like to see Aboriginal education or Indigenous studies as a mandatory subject within all schools all over Australia. - Tahlia King. Tahlia, who also recently participated in the Indigenous Solidarity conference at the University of Albany, New ...