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The Conversation AU
Celebrating the songs of Australia's civil rights movement
The Conversation AU
Neil Murray's My Island Home was a shining example of Australia's Civil Rights songs – or perhaps Land Rights songs is a better term, since a large portion were written in the 1980s when native title was a hot political issue and historians were first ...

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The Conversation AU
Celebrating the songs of Australia's civil rights movement
The Conversation AU
Fifty years ago this May, Australians went to the polls and in overwhelming numbers, voted Yes to remove two discriminatory references in the constitution. The changes allowed the federal government make laws affecting Aboriginal people and include the ...

Queensland Country Life
Lamb ad controversy leads to record views
Queensland Country Life
The MLA ad confronts the controversy around hosting the national day on January 26 - a date marking the start of colonialism and the dispossession of Indigenous Australians. The ad starts with three Indigenous Australians who remark on being the "first ...

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Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous federal minister after Turnbull reshuffle
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"As an Indigenous Australian, it's an incredible privilege to serve the people of Hasluck in the Parliament and it's an honour to serve as the Minster for Aged Care and the Minister for Indigenous Health under Prime Minister Turnbull." The West ...

SBS
Ken Wyatt becomes first Indigenous federal minister after Turnbull reshuffle
SBS
It makes Mr Wyatt not only the first Aboriginal Australian elected to the House of Representatives and first to the frontbench; now, he will be the first to lead a major portfolio. "As an Indigenous Australian, it's an incredible privilege to serve the ...

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Australia names first indigenous minister
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Sydney (AFP) - Australia on Wednesday appointed its first indigenous minister, a former labourer who has credited education for his rise from humble beginnings in a country where Aborigines remain among the most disadvantaged. Ken Wyatt became ...
Greg Hunt replaces Sussan Ley as health ministerThe Australian
First Indigenous minister appointed in Turnbull Government shake-upSBS
Australia PM Turnbull names new health minister, first indigenous minister in Cabinet tweakThe Straits Times
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Australia names first indigenous minister
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Sydney (AFP) - Australia on Wednesday appointed its first indigenous minister, a former labourer who has credited education for his rise from humble beginnings in a country where Aborigines remain among the most disadvantaged. Ken Wyatt became ...
Australia PM Turnbull names new health minister, first indigenous minister in Cabinet tweakThe Straits Times
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Internationally renowned Aboriginal artist Uncle Richard Campbell for Project Compassion 2017
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Running each year throughout Lent, Project Compassion is Caritas Australia's annual fundraising and awareness-raising appeal. It links thousands of Australians to the women, children and men most vulnerable to poverty and injustice, who are rich in the ...

Border Chronicle
Celebrate Australia Day
Border Chronicle
However, In recent years, efforts have been made to include all Australians, and in 2013, the Australian flag and Aboriginal flag were raised together on the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the first time on Australia Day. “Australia Day is a time to come ...

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Queensland Country Life
Lamb ad controversy leads to record views
Queensland Country Life
The MLA ad confronts the controversy around hosting the national day on January 26 - a date marking the start of colonialism and the dispossession of Indigenous Australians. The ad starts with three Indigenous Australians who remark on being the "first ...

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The Guardian
Ken Wyatt to become Australia's first Indigenous minister
The Guardian
“Any Indigenous Australian has the capacity and capability of achieving their aspirations,” he said. “There are a whole lot of barriers that impact on each of us individually, but you work to rise above those. And so the symbolism of being on the ...

SBS
First Indigenous Minister appointed in Turnbull Government shake-up
SBS
Malcolm Turnbull has appointed the first Indigenous government Minister in Australian history as part of a wider ministerial reshuffle. West Australian MP Ken Wyatt has been promoted to the position of Minister for Aged Care and Indigenous Health, in ...
Greg Hunt replaces Sussan Ley as health ministerThe Australian
Greg Hunt announced as Sussan Ley's replacement as Health MinisterABC Online
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ABC Online
1967 referendum concert: 50th anniversary event celebrates the power of music
ABC Online
The concert, 1967: Music In The Key Of Yes, was a tribute to songs of the civil rights movement, reinterpreted by some of Australia's leading Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander artists. Singer-songwriter David Leha, who performs under the name ...

Barossa & Light Herald
Celebrate Australia Day
Barossa & Light Herald
However, In recent years, efforts have been made to include all Australians, and in 2013, the Australian flag and Aboriginal flag were raised together on the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the first time on Australia Day. “Australia Day is a time to come ...

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Barossa & Light Herald
Celebrate Australia Day
Barossa & Light Herald
Traditionally, Australia Day commemorates the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, NSW and the raising of the flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip. Because it marks the day of colonisation ...

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RT
Australia Day Muslim themed billboard removed after threats
RT
The Muslim themed billboard in Melbourne is not the only controversy surrounding Australia Day this year. The national holiday is also a contentious issue among Aboriginal Australians, who regard it as a celebration of their conquest and subjugation.

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Aboriginal Murder Mystery: What Killed Kaakutja?
National Geographic Australia
Header image: Nicknamed Kaakutja, meaning “older brother,” this skeleton of an Aboriginal man (right) rested for some 800 years near a southern Australian riverbank before being found in 2014. Scientists determined Kaakutja died from a blow to the head ...

Aboriginal Murder Mystery: What Killed Kaakutja?
National Geographic Australia
In most murder mysteries, establishing the time of death is one of the first things detectives do, and in the course of an initial study, researchers assumed he had been killed during the bloodshed between British colonisers and Australia's indigenous ...

Indigenous Research Assistant
The Conversation AU
Diabetes is a major problem in Indigenous Australians, with about 1 in 3 Indigenous Australians having diabetes. The prevalence and incidence of end stage kidney disease is much higher in Indigenous than non-Indigenous Australians. This project ...

ABC Online
Fight for compensation over land Aboriginal war veteran Herbert Lovett was refused
ABC Online
An Aboriginal man whose father served in both world wars is suing the Victorian Government for millions of dollars in compensation, alleging his father's historical request for a soldier settlement block was knocked back on the grounds of race.