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'This is not a fishing trip gone wrong' – study uncovers planned colonisation
National Indigenous Times
Science has officially proven what most Australian Aboriginal people have always known — that their ties to country are age-old, stretching back a massive 50,000 years. Now scientists are trying to establish how many early Australians were in the ...

Eternity News
His search for justice is taking him 5500km through the Australian outback
Eternity News
Clinton began his walk to Parliament House to confront Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull about the forced closures of Indigenous communities in Western Australia but his campaign has since expanded to include justice for non-Aboriginal Australians too.

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Project uses DNA in hair to scientifically prove 50000 years of Aboriginal history
SBS - The World Game
"We're hoping this project leads to a rewriting of Australia's history texts to include detailed Aboriginal history and what it means to have been on their land for 50,000 years – that's around 10 times as long as all of the European history we're ...

SBS
Adelaide Uni project uses DNA in hair to scientifically prove 50000 years of Aboriginal history
SBS
"We're hoping this project leads to a rewriting of Australia's history texts to include detailed Aboriginal history and what it means to have been on their land for 50,000 years – that's around 10 times as long as all of the European history we're ...
Aboriginal DNA Shows 50000 Year Connection To CountryGizmodo Australia
DNA reveals Aboriginal people had a long and settled connection to countryThe Conversation AU
DNA confirms Aboriginal people have a long-lasting connection to countryABC Online
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The Guardian
Indigenous groups criticise Liberals and Labor in WA over custody ...
The Guardian
Della Roe, Ms Dhu's mother, Carol Roe, her grandmother, and the Human Rights Law Centre's Ruth Barson outside the inquest into Ms Dhu's death in 2016.

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The Conversation AU
DNA reveals Aboriginal people had a long and settled connection to country
The Conversation AU
On expedition with Norman Tindale and local Aboriginal group at a rock shelter at Bathurst Head (Thartali) in eastern Cape York Peninsula, 1927. Photo by Herbert Hale/South Australian Museum, Archives Norman Tindale Collection (AA 338/5/4/41) , Author ...
Adelaide Uni project uses DNA in hair to scientifically prove 50000 years of Aboriginal historySBS
Aboriginal DNA Shows 50000 Year Connection To CountryGizmodo Australia
DNA confirms Aboriginal people have a long-lasting connection to countryABC Online
Herald Sun -The Australian -The Guardian
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The Conversation AU
DNA reveals Aboriginal people had a long and settled connection to country
The Conversation AU
On expedition with Norman Tindale and local Aboriginal group at a rock shelter at Bathurst Head (Thartali) in eastern Cape York Peninsula, 1927. Photo by Herbert Hale/South Australian Museum, Archives Norman Tindale Collection (AA 338/5/4/41) , Author ...
DNA confirms Aboriginal people have a long-lasting connection to countryABC Online
DNA study reveals Indigenous land connectionSky News Australia
Aboriginal DNA Shows 50000 Year Connection To CountryGizmodo Australia
The Australian -The Guardian -International Business Times
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Aboriginal hair shows 50000 years connection to Australia
Science Daily
Published in the journal Nature, the findings reinforce Aboriginal communities' strong connection to country and represent the first detailed genetic map of Aboriginal Australia prior to the arrival of Europeans. These are the first results from the ...

ABC Online
DNA confirms Aboriginal people have a long-lasting connection to country
ABC Online
The discovery is based on analysis of mitochondrial DNA found in hair samples taken from Aboriginal people during expeditions run between 1928 and the 1970s. The DNA analysis, published today in Nature, again confirms modern Aboriginal Australians ...
Aboriginal DNA study reveals 50000-year story of sacred ties to landThe Guardian
How Did Aborigines Get to Australia? DNA Helps Solve a MysteryNew York Times
Australian aboriginal hair shows 50000 years connection to countryPopular Archaeology
The Australian -International Business Times UK
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ABC Online
DNA confirms Aboriginal people have a long-lasting connection to country
ABC Online
The discovery is based on analysis of mitochondrial DNA found in hair samples taken from Aboriginal people during expeditions run between 1928 and the 1970s. The DNA analysis, published today in Nature, again confirms modern Aboriginal Australians ...
DNA research proves long-term Aboriginal connection to countryThe Australian
Australian aboriginal hair shows 50000 years connection to countryPopular Archaeology
Aboriginal hair shows 50000 years connection to countryMedical Xpress

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DNA shows modern Aboriginal Australians descended from one founding population which arrived 50000 years ago
NT News
Their tracing of maternal ancestry, which is published today in the prestigious Nature journal, concludes that modern Aboriginal Australians are descended from one founding population which arrived 50,000 years ago, while Australia was still connected ...

DNA shows modern Aboriginal Australians descended from one ...
NT News
UNIVERSITY of Adelaide research that started with men riding out on camels to study far-flung Aboriginal populations confirms indigenous connection to country ...

The Australian
DNA research proves long-term Aboriginal connection to country
The Australian
... at the University of Adelaide were able to extract mitochondrial DNA from hair samples collected over 50 years from 111 people across three different Aboriginal communities: Cherbourg in Queensland and Point Pearce and Koonibba in South Australia.

Most People Move Around, the Australian Aborigines Stayed Put for 50000 Years
Haaretz
The forefathers of the aborigines reached Australia around 50,000 years ago, scattered around the continent's coasts for about 1,500 to 2,000 years and then, having settled down wherever they settled down, they didn't budge for the next 50,000 years, ...

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National Indigenous Times
Costly driver's licences put lives at risk: report
National Indigenous Times
Researchers at the University of Wollongong and The George Institute for Global Health in New South Wales found that Aboriginal people were 25 percent less likely to have a driver's licence than other Australians. “Low licensing rates have a ...

National Indigenous Times
Costly driver's licences put lives at risk: report
National Indigenous Times
Researchers at the University of Wollongong and The George Institute for Global Health in New South Wales found that Aboriginal people were 25 percent less likely to have a driver's licence than other Australians. “Low licensing rates have a ...

National Indigenous Times
Roger Thomas assumes SA Treaty role
National Indigenous Times
A senior Aboriginal leader with a successful career in both the private and public sectors, Dr Thomas will spend the next three years leading the consultation process between the South Australian government and Aboriginal South Australians to establish ...

National Indigenous Times
Tasmania's Michael Mansell wants Aboriginal electorate
National Indigenous Times
Last year Mr Mansell released a book, Treaty and Statehood, in which he proposed Central Australia could become a seventh, Aboriginal state, taking in land from the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland. He said an ...

WAtoday
WA Judge slams 'handwringers in Canberra' over handling of Aboriginal offenders
WAtoday
In 1991 Indigenous Australians made up 14 per cent of the nation's prison population. By 2015, this had increased to 27 per cent. Photo: Andrew Meares. "So that's how to make the community safe, that's how to deal with Mr Ward. We can't just lock him ...

WAtoday
WA Judge slams 'handwringers in Canberra' over handling of Aboriginal offenders
WAtoday
Judge McCann said he had come to the conclusion after working in Port Hedland, what was happening to Aboriginal people in a country as rich as Australia was an "international disgrace." "Existing settings have done nothing to protect the community," he ...