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Australia's Aboriginal people heading into the next "wicked" land battle
The Guam Daily Post (press release) (registration)
LONDON – Nearly a quarter of a century after Australia's Aboriginal people won the legal right to make claims on their “country,” they are fighting a new battle – a complex network of red tape required to manage the lands, a leading lawyer has warned.

Australia's Aboriginal people heading into the next "wicked" land battle
The Guam Daily Post (press release) (registration)
LONDON – Nearly a quarter of a century after Australia's Aboriginal people won the legal right to make claims on their “country,” they are fighting a new battle – a complex network of red tape required to manage the lands, a leading lawyer has warned.

Aboriginal artwork for auction in London
SBS
More than 90 pieces of Aboriginal artwork, sculptures and early artefacts will go under the hammer in London this week in the biggest auction of its kind outside Australia. The curated auction of 92 lots have been on display at Sothebys in Central ...

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Recognition: Yes or No? The ABC asks the wrong questions of the wrong people
The Conversation AU
Tonight the ABC will broadcast Recognition: Yes or No?, a program following the joint travels of federal Labor MP Linda Burney and conservative commentator Andrew Bolt as they debate whether Indigenous peoples should be “recognised” in Australia's ...

The Conversation AU
To move forward on reconciliation, Australia must recognise it has a race relations problem
The Conversation AU
We know a lot about what Australia's non-Indigenous population thinks of Indigenous people, but not much is known about what Indigenous people think of the non-Indigenous population, or of how they experience race relations. This is an obstacle for ...

To move forward on reconciliation, Australia must recognise it has a race relations problem
The Conversation AU
The survey shows similar segregation between black and white Australians: 60% say they do not think white people choose to be around Aboriginal people much, and 45% say they themselves are not around white people much. More than three-quarters of ...

National Geographic
Boomerangs Were Lethal Weapons of War, Skeleton Suggests
National Geographic
When an Aboriginal man's skeleton was found beside an Australian river bank two years ago, the long gash in his skull indicated he'd been slashed to death by a sword or cutlass, probably during the turbulent years when Europeans were spreading across ...

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the AU review (blog)
Book review: 1787 by Nick Brodie
the AU review (blog)
Australia Day is a fairly contentious date in the calendar. The idea that Australia began with the arrival of the First Fleet on January 26th 1788 has long been offensive to descendants of the Indigenous Australians who already occupied the land.

Improving patient outcomes for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The modern history of Australia since colonisation has led to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples having a difficult relationship with the various institutions that exist within our society e.g. 'health, justice, education'. In today's ...

the AU review (blog)
First Kaldor Public Art Project led by an Australian Aboriginal artist unveiled in the Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden
the AU review (blog)
Of his piece, he said: “barrangal dyara is a response to the immense loss felt throughout Australia due to the destruction of countless culturally significant Aboriginal objects when the Palace was razed by fire on 22 September 1882. It represents an ...
SKIN & BONES MAP THE GARDEN PALACEAboriginal Art Directory News
Art Installation in Sydney Marks the Footprint of 19th Century Destroyed PalaceArchDaily

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the AU review (blog)
First Kaldor Public Art Project led by an Australian Aboriginal artist unveiled in the Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden
the AU review (blog)
Jones is the first Indigenous artist to head a Kaldor Public Art Project. Of his piece, he said: “barrangal dyara is a response to the immense loss felt throughout Australia due to the destruction of countless culturally significant Aboriginal objects ...
SKIN & BONES MAP THE GARDEN PALACEAboriginal Art Directory News

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The Sydney Morning Herald
No fireworks, only respect: Linda Burney and Andrew Bolt take on constitutional recognition
The Sydney Morning Herald
Ms Burney has long been a prominent voice for substantive change - removing and replacing the constitution's "race power" and recognising the history of Indigenous people in Australia - while Bolt prefers either the status quo or strictly the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
No fireworks, only respect: Linda Burney and Andrew Bolt take on constitutional recognition
The Sydney Morning Herald
Ms Burney has long been a prominent voice for substantive change - removing and replacing the constitution's "race power" and recognising the history of Indigenous people in Australia - while Bolt prefers either the status quo or strictly the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
With a new film, Ivan Sen wants to draw attention to Indigenous youth suicide
The Sydney Morning Herald
With his new film, which stars Ursula Yovich from Australia and The Code, and newcomer Brandon Waters, he wants to draw attention to what he calls an epidemic of suicide among young Indigenous people. "Because it's not reported in the media, ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
'Deep wounds sit in the soul of our country'
dailytelegraph.com.au
Controversial Australian politic figure Bob Santamaria. A book about him has been short-listed for The Nib award. “In many ways Aboriginal people are a product of that time and the failure of our politics to grapple with serious Indigenous issues ...

SBS
Celebration of Indigenous science heroes inspires young minds
SBS
This year marks the first time when Indigenous enthusiasts of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) will have their very own awards celebration, promoted by Australia's leading science agency. The CSIRO's Indigenous STEM Education ...

Echonetdaily
National indigenous photomedia works on show in Tweed
Echonetdaily
Work by some of the most significant Indigenous photographers and multimedia artists in the past five years have gone on a show in a travelling exhibition which opened at the Tweed Regional Gallery this week. The National Gallery of Australia's (NGA) ...

New Matilda
Kalgoorlie Uprising: Black Man's Victim. White Man's Culprit, And The Twisted Psychology Of Racially Motivated Crime ...
New Matilda
Why do Australians turn away when another justice fails Aboriginal people? Dr Lissa Johnson explains the psychology behind the great Australian silence. On Thursday evening a house rented by the man accused of killing Aboriginal teenager Elijah Doughty ...

ABC Online
Backing Bourke: How a radical new approach is saving young people from a life of crime
ABC Online
Just about all of them are committed by Aboriginal kids. But now Bourke is confronting its demons head on — and beginning an unique experiment in "justice reinvestment". Proponents of the scheme say it is about "spending more on communities and less ...
A Community Program In A Small NSW Town Could Reform The Justice SystemHuffington Post Australia

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Honi Soit
'Someone's got to give this country hope': Clinton Pryor begins journey across Australia
Honi Soit
Inspired by the walks of great activists across their country, but on a journey all of his own, Noongar man Clinton Pryor has set out on foot across Australia to seek justice for remote Aboriginal communities. The 26-year-old Wajuk, Balardung, Kija and ...