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Cabinet papers look back on the Keating era
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As complex as our contemporary identity was, it could not be separated from Aboriginal Australia, he said. 'We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our ...
Cabinet papers 1992-93: victory for 'True Believers' kicks off lasting debatesThe Guardian
Keating's worst fear revealed — sinking back into recessiondailytelegraph.com.au
Keating era documents offer glimpse into 1992 AustraliaSatellite PR News (press release)

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Cabinet papers look back on the Keating era
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The campaign featured two events which have gone down in Australian election lore, both involving the coalition's proposed GST and cake. Perhaps Keating's enduring achievements from this era relate to indigenous affairs. On December 10, 1992, Keating ...
Cabinet documents from Keating era offer glimpse into 1992 AustraliaABC Online

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Cabinet papers 1992-93: Malcolm Turnbull must right the wrongs for Aboriginal Australians
Bombala Times
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull must use May's 50th anniversary of the referendum recognising Australian Aborigines to finally deliver the promises that have been broken by governments since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Illawarra Mercury
Cabinet papers 1992-93: Malcolm Turnbull must right the wrongs for Aboriginal Australians
Illawarra Mercury
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull must use May's 50th anniversary of the referendum recognising Australian Aborigines to finally deliver the promises that have been broken by governments since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

ABC Online
How Keating won Libs' unlosable election
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On December 10, 1992, Keating made his watershed Redfern Speech in a park in inner-city Sydney, marking a fundamental shift in the troubled relationship between indigenous and white Australia. As complex as our contemporary identity was, it could not ...
Cabinet documents from Keating era offer glimpse into 1992 AustraliaABC Online

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How Keating won Libs' unlosable election
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As complex as our contemporary identity was, it could not be separated from Aboriginal Australia, he said. "We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our ...
Cabinet papers 1992-93: victory for 'True Believers' kicks off lasting debatesThe Guardian
Keating's worst fear revealed — sinking back into recessiondailytelegraph.com.au
Keating era documents offer glimpse into 1992 AustraliaSatellite PR News (press release)

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The Canberra Times
Immunisation rates for some of Canberra's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children fall to lowest in the country
The Canberra Times
Immunisation rates for some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the ACT have fallen to be the lowest in the country, while rates for the overall population stayed relatively in line with national averages. Statistics from the Australian ...
Warren Mundine looks back: 'Tony Abbott was a whirlwind'The Guardian

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The Guardian
Paul Keating's response to talkback caller over Mabo a reminder of ...
The Guardian
Indigenous representatives, ministers and Paul Keating meet in April 1993 to discuss the Mabo native title decision. The painting is by W Rubuntja, who was ...
Mabo passed in '93 after bitter debate - 9news.com.au9news.com.au

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The Guardian
Indigenous inmate numbers a 'national embarrassment', says Keating minister
The Guardian
The former Indigenous affairs minister Robert Tickner has used the release of the 1992-93 cabinet documents to urge leaders to “command the authority of the nation” to improve Indigenous incarceration rates and end the “national embarrassment”. ... “I ...
Mabo passed in '93 after bitter debate9news.com.au

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SA's ticks of approval
The Advertiser
More generally, I love that South Australians are increasingly embracing our indigenous heritage and culture – a crucial awakening that's been aided by the superb Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery at the South Australian Museum, the Our Mob ...

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The Guardian
Warren Mundine looks back: 'Tony Abbott was a whirlwind'
The Guardian
It's a curious quirk of Australian politics that, despite there being more than 200 distinct languages spoken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, the government usually listens to just one person. For the past three years, that person ...

The Guardian
Warren Mundine looks back: 'Tony Abbott was a whirlwind'
The Guardian
Included in his parting advice to Malcolm Turnbull is a recommendation that the prime minister fight the impulse to see Indigenous Australians as a single group, for which a single person – either himself or Noel Pearson or, perhaps lately, Stan Grant ...

3 indigenous groups on course to settle South Australian treaties
The Australian
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher has said the treaty process was the first time an Australian state had committed to negotiations with separate Aboriginal nations, to recognise their cultural authority, and to consider the consequences of settlement.

The Australian
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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