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Paul Keating ignored advice to do nothing over Mabo - The Australian
The Australian
Paul Keating rejected public service advice to say nothing about the High Courts Mabo judgment until its implications could be carefully analysed and instead ...

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Indigenous treaty talks have a long, rich history
The Australian
Almost every Australian interested in Aboriginal and Islander people can mentally conjure up the Tindale map of the Aboriginal tribes of Australia. Australia is a brightly coloured jigsaw of the tribal groups with their distinctive languages and ...

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The Australian
Sydney Festival puts William Dawes and Aboriginal language on the stage
The Australian
Anthropologist Norman Tindale's Tribal Boundaries in Aboriginal Australia, published in 1974, was hugely influential in demonstrating the ways in which the doctrine of terra nullius at the time of European arrival was a fiction, though it was to be ...

Indigenous treaty talks have a long, rich history
The Australian
Almost every Australian interested in Aboriginal and Islander people can mentally conjure up the Tindale map of the Aboriginal tribes of Australia. Australia is a brightly coloured jigsaw of the tribal groups with their distinctive languages and ...

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The Australian
The big push: Cricket Australia to focus on local clubs
The Australian
In an interview with The Weekend Australian during the Boxing Day Test, chairman David Peever revealed the CA's next five-year plan would have community cricket as its centrepiece. It will push to promote the game in indigenous communities and exploit ...

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The Australian
Sydney Festival puts William Dawes and Aboriginal language on the stage
The Australian
It starts with the “whole solidarity conversation”, as he puts it, of achieving overwhelming victory in the 1967 referendum, of winning land rights, “that indigenous Australia had to kind of step together, if we want change”. From there it morphs in ...

SBS
Uncovering the secret Thatcher files: What Britain thought about Australia
SBS
“Australian governments and others put a great deal of energy and resources into trying to solve the problems of the 230,000 Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia; but there are plenty of Australians who believe this effort to be excessive and ...

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ABC Online
Early Indigenous folk songs collated, promoted by Mission Songs project
ABC Online
From songs about Aboriginal men in Darwin on the lookout for Japanese ships during World War II to heartfelt songs of isolation, the Mission Songs project is providing a living historical archive, which Lloyd hopes will become cemented in Australia's ...

ABC Online
Early Indigenous folk songs collated, promoted by Mission Songs project
ABC Online
From songs about Aboriginal men in Darwin on the lookout for Japanese ships during World War II to heartfelt songs of isolation, the Mission Songs project is providing a living historical archive, which Lloyd hopes will become cemented in Australia's ...

Australia: Video reveals agonising death of Aboriginal woman in custody
World Socialist Web Site
On August 4, 2014, at Port Hedland in northwestern Australia, Julieka Dhu, a 22-year-old Aboriginal woman, died of a preventable illness while in police custody for unpaid fines of $3,622.34. Dhu had been imprisoned on August 2 for four days to “cut ...

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The Wire
More Indigenous Doctors Aim to Close Australia's Health Gap
The Wire
Sydney: Vinka Barunga was born in the Worrara tribe of the Mowanjum aboriginal community in the remote town of Derby in Western Australia. As a child, she witnessed disease and suicide amongst her people, which made her resolve to one day become a ...

The Wire
More Indigenous Doctors Aim to Close Australia's Health Gap
The Wire
Having more aboriginal doctors is definitely going to have a positive impact on aboriginal and Australian health”, says Vinka, who at 27 is hopeful that despite the challenges, the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people will reduce ...

10 Apps To Help You Learn A New Language
Lifehacker Australia
Welcome to Country This app educates you on the Traditional Owner' culture and heritage protocols right across the Australia. It gives the user a solid appreciation of the many cultures and languages groups that exist in Indigenous Australia. The app ...

Fish oil for mums may cut asthma in kids
NEWS.com.au
ASTHMA IN AUSTRALIA: * One in 10 Australians have asthma. * It is more common in boys aged up to 14 and females over 15. * Rates among indigenous Australians are almost twice that for non-indigenous Australians. * Asthma caused the deaths of 421 ...

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Herald Sun
Bob Hawke divides crowd at music festival with nuclear dumping ground idea
NEWS.com.au
Furthermore, it would allow us to address the indigenous divide in Australia — a situation he labelled “a great stain on our national character”. The previous night, Mr Hawke led the crowd in a rendition of Waltzing Matilda but his address yesterday ...
Bob Hawke at Woodford Folk Festival: Australia should be world's nuclear dumping groundHerald Sun
Bob Hawke pushes nuclear power at Woodford Folk FestivalABC Online
Bob Hawke blames decline in quality of politicians on intrusiveness of mediaThe Guardian

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Townsville Bulletin
Former PM divides music festival
Townsville Bulletin
The former PM said a non-negotiable part of Australia becoming the world's nuclear dump would be using revenue to address the “great stain on our national character” — the gap between indigenous Australians and mainstream society. He said many ...

Express.co.uk
Pair safe after three days escaping desert floods
The Australian
Their progress through the Western Desert near the Northern Territory-Western Australia border was described by police Superintendent Brendan Muldoon as “quite extraordinary”. The 30-year-old man and the 27-year-old woman, both Aboriginal people ...
Record heavy rainfall sparks sudden waterfalls off Uluru, park closureThe Australian Financial Review
Australia's Uluru reopens after rains turned rock into cascading waterfallsDaily Mail
WATCH: Torrential downpour turns Australia's national PARK into waterfallsExpress.co.uk
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dailytelegraph.com.au
The highs and lows of SA great
dailytelegraph.com.au
1929: SA writer David Unaipon became the first published Australian Aboriginal author. The Port Augusta to Alice Springs railway was completed and Adelaide to Glenelg tramway completed. It is not until 2004 that the line continues to Darwin and the ...

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The Advertiser
SA weathers the storm for Proclamation Day
The Advertiser
A shout of “Aboriginal land rights” and a no to nuclear dumping cry marked minor dissent amid the proceedings. The Premier later remarked that South Australians should be mindful of the balance between commemoration of the first landings and indigenous ...

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The Advertiser
The highs and lows of SA great
The Advertiser
1929: SA writer David Unaipon became the first published Australian Aboriginal author. The Port Augusta to Alice Springs railway was completed and Adelaide to Glenelg tramway completed. It is not until 2004 that the line continues to Darwin and the ...

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