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The West Australian
Indigenous leaders call for treaty
The West Australian
Australia is the only country in the Commonwealth that doesn't have a treaty.” Mr Cole said a formal voice in Parliament could take the form of some designated seats for indigenous people, as occurs in New Zealand, or a permanent body which feeds into ...
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The Australian
Stan Grant urges ABC to show more Aboriginal success stories
The Australian
Grant also backed Noel Pearson's recent attack on the “soft bigotry of low expectations” in ABC coverage of indigenous Australia, saying it was “important to provide a different context, a bit more nuance, to try to represent the diversity of the ...

The Australian
Stan Grant urges ABC to show more Aboriginal success stories
The Australian
Grant also backed Noel Pearson's recent attack on the “soft bigotry of low expectations” in ABC coverage of indigenous Australia, saying it was “important to provide a different context, a bit more nuance, to try to represent the diversity of the ...

CNN
Linda Burney: Diversifying Australia's political system
CNN
She was one of the first Aboriginal graduates of her university, one of the country's first Aboriginal teachers, the first Aboriginal person to serve in the New South Wales Parliament, and the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the House of ...

CNN
A brief history of Aboriginal Australians
CNN
Photos: A brief history of Aboriginal Australians. This photo of European settlers surrounded by Aboriginals is believed to be the earliest photograph taken in Australia. Hide Caption. 5 of 9. European colonization<a href="http://www ...

The Advertiser
Remains of World War I digger Miller Mack to return to the Coorong after 98 years
The Advertiser
His reburial has been made possible by a $2500 State Government grant to the Aboriginal Veterans of South Australia, will include a special service with full military honours. Veterans Affairs Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith said Private Mack was a true ...

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The Guardian
Gentrification or marginalisation? Indigenous residents split over Redfern plan
The Guardian
The suburb's historic Block – the first urban Indigenous land rights claim in Australia – has been earmarked for a dramatic new extension to an already contentious development, which some residents say will hasten the gentrification of a suburb with a ...

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The Guardian
Gentrification or marginalisation? Indigenous residents split over Redfern plan
The Guardian
The suburb's historic Block – the first urban Indigenous land rights claim in Australia – has been earmarked for a dramatic new extension to an already contentious development, which some residents say will hasten the gentrification of a suburb with a ...

ABC Online
'Aboriginalia' and the politics of Aboriginal kitsch
ABC Online
But after a display of Aboriginal motifs and emblems in David Jones, prompted by a scientific expedition to Central Australia in 1940, Aboriginalia was taken up with gusto for use as homewares and souvenirs in the rapidly expanding tourism market.

ABC Online
'Aboriginalia' and the politics of Aboriginal kitsch
ABC Online
But after a display of Aboriginal motifs and emblems in David Jones, prompted by a scientific expedition to Central Australia in 1940, Aboriginalia was taken up with gusto for use as homewares and souvenirs in the rapidly expanding tourism market.

Voice of America
Aboriginal Trans-women to Debut at Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras
Voice of America
About 30 transgender women from the islands off the coast of Australia's Northern Territory will march Saturday for the first time with thousands of other participants in outfits colored with glow-in-the-dark paint emblazoned with traditional patterns ...
The remote Aussie islands with the highest transgender population in the countryNEWS.com.au
Mardi Gras revellers gather in Sydney to celebrate LGBTIQ rightsABC Online
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The Guardian
Reuniting Indigenous 'sticks' with their stories: the museum on a mission to give back
The Guardian
It's the biggest single collection of Australian Indigenous material culture in the world. And much if it is here in storage for the South Australian Museum, Australia's second oldest – and one of its most traditional – collecting institutions. Most of ...

The Guardian
Reuniting Indigenous 'sticks' with their stories: the museum on a mission to give back
The Guardian
The legacy of Tindale and his vast ethnographic collection – including hair samples, face casts, drawings and family trees – with which he “mapped” Aboriginal Australia – looms large here. “I didn't know him and I don't call him 'Tinny' because I feel ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Experience Australia's indigenous culture
Telegraph.co.uk
As such, more than a million visitors took part in indigenous tourism experiences during their time in Australia in the year to June 2016, and the allure of Aboriginal Australia means that there is a rapidly increasing number of operators specialising ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Experience Australia's indigenous culture
Telegraph.co.uk
As such, more than a million visitors took part in indigenous tourism experiences during their time in Australia in the year to June 2016, and the allure of Aboriginal Australia means that there is a rapidly increasing number of operators specialising ...

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The Canberra Times
Justice should mean more than 'just us' for indigenous Australians
The Canberra Times
Twenty-five years and six weeks after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its final report, Steven Freeman died in Canberra's Alexander Maconochie Centre. Freeman's life was book-ended by milestones in indigenous ...

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'A national shame': Spike in Indigenous STI rates prompts call for urgent action
The Sydney Morning Herald
A syphilis outbreak in northern Australia caused the number of diagnoses Australia-wide to rise to 2736 in 2015, with 16 per cent of those among Aboriginal people. The rate was six times higher than for non-Indigenous people, and up to 132 times higher ...

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'A national shame': Spike in Indigenous STI rates prompts call for urgent action
The Sydney Morning Herald
A syphilis outbreak in northern Australia caused the number of diagnoses Australia-wide to rise to 2736 in 2015, with 16 per cent of those among Aboriginal people. The rate was six times higher than for non-Indigenous people, and up to 132 times higher ...

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Senator livid about Recognise paper cost
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A Liberal senator is fuming about the $30,000 price tag dangling from a 15-page discussion paper on the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. West Australian Dean Smith, a vocal opponent of constitutional recognition, pressed ...
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ABC Online
Aboriginal Upper House seat proposal rejected by Tasmanian Government, Indigenous group
ABC Online
He suggested an Aboriginal electorate would be more beneficial on a federal level. "State Government doesn't fund very much in Tasmania, and I think the Federal Government is where they do fund the Aboriginal organisations throughout Australia," he said.