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Kenbi land claim: Hand-back to Aboriginal owners 37 years in the making
ABC Online
The Kenbi claim, which covers most of Cox Peninsula - 130 kilometres by road and 10 kilometres by ferry from Darwin - was the longest-running Aboriginal land claim case in Australia's history. Today, at a beach looking across the water back to the ...
'At last': Kenbi land returned to Aboriginal owners after 37-year fightThe Guardian
Australian PM ends longest running Aboriginal land claimReuters
Turnbull's message to First Australians: we want to do things with youThe Conversation AU
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The Guardian
'At last': Kenbi land returned to Aboriginal owners after 37-year fight
The Guardian
“Prior to European arrival, this land, Australia, was cared for by hundreds of nations of Aboriginal people. Yours are the oldest continuing cultures on Earth. Our nation is as old as humanity itself, and Larrakia people were, and are, the Aboriginal ...
Malcolm Turnbull hands over land as Kenbi native title claim settled after 37 yearsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australian PM ends longest running Aboriginal land claimReuters
Turnbull makes pitch for more Indigenous MPsSBS
ABC Online -The Australian -The Conversation AU
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The Guardian
'At last': Kenbi land returned to Aboriginal owners after 37-year fight
The Guardian
“Prior to European arrival, this land, Australia, was cared for by hundreds of nations of Aboriginal people. Yours are the oldest continuing cultures on Earth. Our nation is as old as humanity itself, and Larrakia people were, and are, the Aboriginal ...
Australian PM ends longest running Aboriginal land claimReuters
Kenbi land claim: Hand-back to Aboriginal owners 37 years in the makingABC Online
Turnbull hands over deeds to historic Kenbi land claimSBS
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ABC Technology and Games
Tablet app tries to shed light on Indigenous drinking issues
ABC Technology and Games
NICK GRIMM: Groups trying to curb alcohol addiction in Australia's Indigenous communities say they've been hamstrung by a lack of good information about the scale of the problem. The most reliable data on the issue is two decades old but as Tom ...
'Grog Survey' app trial in SA, Queensland seeks new data to curb Indigenous alcohol addictionABC Online

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ABC Online
Plans to develop northern Australia not embracing Indigenous population, says Peter Yu
ABC Online
Speaking at this week's Developing Northern Australia conference in Darwin, Mr Yu said the Government was focussing on traditional industries such as mining and irrigated agriculture, but was "practically silent" on economic activities where Indigenous ...

The Guardian
Australian election 2016: First Nations' trauma and suffering can't be denied, says Turnbull, handing back Kenbi ...
The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull is surrounded by aboriginal dancers as he attends the Kenbi Native land claim ceremony near Darwin, Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Turnbull is in Darwin today to attend the deed handover ceremony settling Australia's oldest Aboriginal land ...
Turnbull hands over deeds to historic Kenbi land claimSBS
Title deeds handed over in Kenbi land claimSky News Australia
Federal election 2016: after 37 years, Kenbi deed handed overThe Australian
Crikey (registration) (blog)
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The Guardian
LiveBlogLast Updated 12:50PM AESTFederal election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull in NT, Bill Shorten in Melbourne
The Australian
It would provide a foundation to promote and attract visitors to the northwest coast from around Australia and the world.” The Gillard government was criticised in 2013 for protecting only about 15,000 hectares of the Tarkine for its rich Aboriginal ...
Labor's campaign launch: Bill Shorten's promises at a glanceThe Guardian

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National Indigenous Times
[ June 20, 2016 ] Voting open in the backblocks of Australia NEWS
National Indigenous Times
As well as improved accessibility, remote polling arrangements for this election are providing employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians to work as AEC polling officers in their communities. Remote mobile polling visits are being promoted by ...

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Oxonian Review
Landscape and Politics from Reef to Desert
Oxonian Review
This movement must necessarily take a different form: as a land traditionally known not by the Bronze Age ancestors of Macfarlane's Old Ways, but stolen within living memory from the stewardship of Australia's Aboriginal people; and as a country whose ...

Broadsheet
Australian Native Foods: To Forage or Not To Forage?
Broadsheet
It's a question many of us have wondered when dining at a top-flight Australian restaurant and presented with a carefully-created, incredibly delicious meal of native ingredients: How on earth do they forage so much in the wild? The answer is, they don't.

Coombs calls for indigenous recognition
SBS
Australia's first indigenous Paralympian has called for constitutional recognition to make sure young athletes don't face the hurdles he did. Kevin Coombs, a former wheelchair basketball player who competed at the inaugural Paralympic games as an ...

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Indigenous women subject to horrifying levels of violence
The Australian
In its bid for a position on the Human Rights Council, Australia must increase its efforts to prevent violence against indigenous women and girls. The council is made of 47 member states, elected by the majority of members of the UN General Assembly ...

The Northern Daily Leader
Closing the gap - $24m for Indigenous schooling
The Northern Daily Leader
Organisations to be supported through the funding package include The Clontarf Foundation, Role Models and Leaders Australia, Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, Cathy Freeman Foundation, AFL ...
Investing in the future of Indigenous YouthMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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ABC Online
Mosaic helps Muslim and Aboriginal communities piece together old and new connections
ABC Online
The piece will be at the centre of Ilim College's commemorations for the National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration (NAIDOC) in July and celebrates the shared history of Aboriginal and Muslim people in Australia — dating back to the arrival ...

Indigenous treaty: Langton, Davis look to Canadian model
The Australian
“The word 'recognition' proves problematic (in the Australian context),” they write in From Recognition to Reconciliation, “because of the non-specific nature of the commitment it implies, juxtaposed against the very specific and concrete ...

How a Dreamtime colouring book is bringing Australians closer together
SBS
'Colouring Country' creator Ros Moriarty told NITV News her art therapy book, which features Indigenous colouring-in templates, brings Indigenous and other Australians closer together because it provides a calming experience. Ms Moriarty says she ...

How a Dreamtime colouring book is bringing Australians closer together
SBS
Australia comprises more than 250 Indigenous tribes, according to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. But the book is a good place to start in the effort to grow people's appreciation of Australia's Indigenous ...

The Australian Financial Review
Aurukun review is shameful and disgusting, says Noel Pearson
The Australian Financial Review
Six weeks ago the school principal was car-jacked and other teachers in the school, run by Noel Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy, were seriously threatened. Teachers were evacuated to Cairns, the school was temporarily closed, and the ...

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Policy Forum
Australia needs bipartisanship on recognition
Policy Forum
Comments by Bill Shorten this week in support of a treaty with Indigenous Australians brought back memories of the republican referendum of some years ago. At that time, the Chairman of The Australian Republican Movement, Malcolm Turnbull, was warned ...
Talk of a treaty on recognition is not going to disappear quietlyThe Australian
Shorten's treaty talk reflects impact of Indigenous activismEureka Street (registration)
Men of few deedsThe Saturday Paper (subscription)

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ABC Online
Farmers in WA banking on native vegetables becoming Australian staple
ABC Online
While kangaroo and emu meat is becoming a more common feature on Australian dinner tables, a meal of meat and three vegetables is still reliant on traditional staples such as peas, potatoes and carrots.