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Sons of guns: Old soldiers never back down
The Sydney Morning Herald
Anyhoo, it is why I have been more than usually interested in the SBS series First Contact, which sees six famous Australians spending 28 days learning about Aboriginal Australia, as the cameras roll. Most staggering is that even 150 years on from ...

Courier Mail
Footy star's bikie dad wants to return to Oz
Courier Mail
Gary Paynter, another ASG board member, said the weight of evidence proved Mr Martin to be a descendant of Aboriginal Australians. But Aboriginal descent does not provide an automatic pathway to citizenship, though Mr Martin believes his history proves ...
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claimSky News Australia

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Herald Sun
Richmond star Dustin Martin's bikie dad claims Aboriginal heritage ...
Herald Sun
THE deported bikie dad of footy star Dustin Martin has made an astonishing bid to return to Australia — by claiming he has Aboriginal heritage.
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Herald Sun
Richmond star Dustin Martin's bikie dad claims Aboriginal heritage ...
Herald Sun
THE deported bikie dad of footy star Dustin Martin has made an astonishing bid to return to Australia — by claiming he has Aboriginal heritage.
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim - Sky NewsSky News Australia

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The New Daily
Should we celebrate Australia Day? Debate over backlash builds
The New Daily
“It's a clarification of history, because celebrating the day the first gunshots ploughed our blood into the earth is horrific for Aboriginal people.” The Fremantle controversy has reignited debate on the appropriateness of Australia Day celebrations ...
Government threatens Fremantle Council's power after Australia Day change9news.com.au
Govt, Fremantle row over Australia DaySky News Australia
Federal Government threatens to revoke citizenship ceremonies from Fremantle CouncilDaily Mail
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The New Daily
Should we celebrate Australia Day? Debate over backlash builds
The New Daily
The Fremantle controversy has reignited debate on the appropriateness of Australia Day celebrations, a subject that attracted international headlines back in 1988. On that occasion, Australian Bicentenary Day, revered Indigenous figure Burnum Burnum ...
The Federal Government Is Threatening Fremantle Over Its Australia Day Ceremony Date ChangeJunkee
Federal Government in major stoush over Australia DayStarts at 60

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Indigenous Fire Management in Savannah
ABC Online (blog)
At a recent symposium conducted by the Institute of Foresters in Mount Gambier two women presented a paper on indigenous management of fire in savannah grasslands, particularly in the Tiwi islands. Dr Hilary Smith and PhD candidate Michelle Freeman ...

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Green Left Weekly
New study shows how Aboriginal people view white Australians
Green Left Weekly
As someone who lives in Darwin, surrounded by Aboriginal people speaking their own languages and inevitably confronted almost daily by the racist attitudes that abound in towns with high populations of Aboriginal people, reading the report is ...

Sky News Australia
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim - Sky News
Sky News Australia
A man deported to New Zealand over links to biker gangs now believes he has Aboriginal heritage.
AFL player Dustin Martin's bikie dad wants to return to Australia ...Daily Mail
Racism banned, except the legal kindHerald Sun (blog)

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Sky News Australia
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim
Sky News Australia
One of the most high-profile people deported under section 501 of the Immigration Act says he should be allowed back into Australia because he is of Aboriginal descent. Shane Martin, born in New Zealand, had his visa cancelled in March this year over ...

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Sky News Australia
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim
Sky News Australia
One of the most high-profile people deported under section 501 of the Immigration Act says he should be allowed back into Australia because he is of Aboriginal descent. Shane Martin, born in New Zealand, had his visa cancelled in March this year over ...

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Sky News Australia
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim
Sky News Australia
One of the most high-profile people deported under section 501 of the Immigration Act says he should be allowed back into Australia because he is of Aboriginal descent. Shane Martin, born in New Zealand, had his visa cancelled in March this year over ...

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NT News
Hey Dave, please piss off home
NT News
His views on Aboriginal Australia were as shocking as the fact that he's still deemed relevant enough to be invited on a reality TV program to begin with. I guess Hotdogs from Big Brother wasn't available. Here's one of his more disgusting comments ...

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The Guardian
Lack of progress on Aboriginal deaths in custody 'unforgivable'
The Guardian
... put into the commission, which ran from 1987 to 1991. “It's really unforgivable, I think, that we have seen the failure to commit to implementing the recommendations of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody,” she told Guardian ...

The Saturday Paper (subscription)
AB Original's 'Reclaim Australia'
The Saturday Paper (subscription)
Reclaim Australia by A. B. Original is the most exciting record released by an Australian artist this year. An incendiary album of agit-prop hip-hop, the beats slam hard and the raps slam even harder. This aggressive, uncompromising and brutally honest ...

ABC Local
Reviving Australia's Indigenous Languages
ABC Local
While most of Australia speaks English today, there was a time when hundreds of different languages were spoken across the continent. Only around 20 indigenous languages are still spoken in Australia but teachers and linguists around the country are ...

The Australian
Windschuttle takes detour on Constitutional recognition for Aborigines
The Australian
Windschuttle's main thrust in The Break-Up of Australia is that the call for a reconciliation with the indigenous people through a national treaty and recognition of them in an amendment to the Constitution would be so difficult and risk so many bad ...

The Australian
Newsmen honoured for indigenous deaths stories
The Australian
Three journalists from The Australian have been recognised as the country's best in their fields, winning Walkley Awards for a radio podcast and series of newspaper articles about the unsolved murders of three indigenous children in Bowraville, NSW.

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The Australian
Stan Grant's Quarterly Essay tackles the definition of Aboriginal Australia
The Australian
In his recent memoir Talking to My Country, indigenous journalist Stan Grant let fly with a barely contained fury, an anguished, laser-sharp attack on the forcible silencing of his people: names, languages, whole nations disappeared in a relatively ...

The Australian
Stan Grant's Quarterly Essay tackles the definition of Aboriginal Australia
The Australian
That address, in which he levelled the simple charge that the Australian Dream was “rooted in racism”, resonated so deeply with both black and white Australia, it became a “weight” for him to bear. Many indigenous people felt that in telling his family ...