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Camel economy: remote Aboriginal communities capitalise on feral export
ABC Online
Remote Aboriginal communities in the central desert have created their own camel export industry, and it is helping to generate locally driven economic opportunities in an isolated region of Australia. The Ngaanyatjarra Lands is a group of remote ...

ABC Online
Election 2016: Calls for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to head new Department
ABC Online
Ms Turner went further, however, suggesting senior staff working in the newly recreated department should be Indigenous. "[It should be] headed up by competent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in all of the senior executive positions so we ...
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
Jobs key to indigenous population living longer, healthier livesClarence Valley Daily Examiner
[ June 9, 2016 ] First Nations fight back in historic Redfern Statement NEWSNational Indigenous Times
Townsville Bulletin -ABC Message Stick -The Australian Financial Review
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Neil Thomson: champion for Aboriginal Australians
Brisbane Times
Professor Neil Thomson, who died earlier this year aged 73, worked tirelessly throughout his life to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in Australia. Among his many achievements, was the establishment of the groundbreaking Australian ...

Neil Thomson: champion for Aboriginal Australians
Brisbane Times
Professor Neil Thomson, who died earlier this year aged 73, worked tirelessly throughout his life to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in Australia. Among his many achievements, was the establishment of the groundbreaking Australian ...

Save The Children Australia
An urgent call for a more just approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs
Save The Children Australia
In the past 25 years – a generation in fact – we have had the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Bringing them home Report and Reconciliation: Australia's Challenge: the final report of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary lawThe Conversation AU
Federal election 2016: ALP pledges $20m to Aboriginal legal servicesThe Australian
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agendaABC Local
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The Guardian
'We vote too': Indigenous groups warn both parties they want action
The Guardian
They also warned the next government to reinstate funding for the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, which the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, said was unrepresentative. “What we've got done here today has been a united voice ...

The Guardian
'We vote too': Indigenous groups warn both parties they want action
The Guardian
They also warned the next government to reinstate funding for the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, which the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, said was unrepresentative. “What we've got done here today has been a united voice ...

The Australian Financial Review
The NAB Indigenous associate who could be CEO one day
The Australian Financial Review
"It's not easier or harder being an Indigenous Australian," he said. "Location wise it can be. You're also not being exposed to as many opportunities. But I grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales so I was probably lucky. The best part is I ...

Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Jobs key to indigenous population living longer, healthier lives
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Aboriginal people make up 7% of the Clarence Valley's population compared to 1.7% of Brisbane's population and 3.3% of all Australians. Australia's national labour force participation rate - that is the number of people working or looking for work ...
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
Unions weigh into retirement debateThe Advertiser

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The Australian
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treaty
The Australian
They will express “deep concern” that indigenous Australians continue to experience unacceptable disadvantage, are isolated to the margins of the national debate and suffer because of policies that “continue to be made for and to, rather than with ...
Election 2016: Indigenous divide growing says Labor as parties make pitches to Cairns Aboriginal leadersABC Message Stick
We deserve better, say Aboriginal leadersNEWS.com.au
Indigenous education: Government programs have done nothing to improve situationThe Australian Financial Review
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The Australian
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treaty
The Australian
They will express “deep concern” that indigenous Australians continue to experience unacceptable disadvantage, are isolated to the margins of the national debate and suffer because of policies that “continue to be made for and to, rather than with ...
Unions weigh into retirement debateGold Coast Bulletin

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Smithsonian
Vandals Destroyed 8000-Year-Old Aboriginal Artworks in Tasmania
Smithsonian
For millennia, Tasmania's Nirmena Nala rock shelter has preserved a set of stenciled handprints made by the ancestors of Australia's Aboriginal people. The delicate ocher handprints have withstood the test of time for thousands of years, yet they ...

The Conversation AU
New DNA study confirms ancient Aborigines were the First Australians
The Conversation AU
One of the most important landmark claims by the authors was that the ancient DNA sequence of Mungo Man showed high divergence from the sequences of contemporary humans, including those from Aboriginal Australians. Hence they suggested that ...
New DNA sequencing has proven Aboriginal people really were the first to inhabit Australia.Australian Geographic
New research proves Aboriginal people were Australia's first inhabitantsNEWS.com.au
'Compelling' science reveals Indigenous people the first AustraliansSBS
Business Insider Australia -Clarence Valley Daily Examiner -Australia Network News
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Daily Mail
Mikayla George, 16, becomes the first Indigenous Winter Olympian for Australia
Daily Mail
[Because aerial skiing is high risk] everything has to be practiced until it's absolutely perfect,' Mikayla told the Australia Indigenous Alpine Sport Foundation, for which she is an ambassador. 'Just a boot can be several kilos. Then you carry your ...

The Sunshine Coast Daily
New study proves Aboriginal people were first Australians
The Sunshine Coast Daily
SCIENTISTS have confirmed Australia's first inhabitants were Aboriginal. Their evidence disproves an earlier study that claimed DNA showed Europeans were Australia's first inhabitants. Griffith University researchers used new DNA sequencing to re ...

New study proves Aboriginal people were first Australians
The Queensland Times
SCIENTISTS have confirmed Australia's first inhabitants were Aboriginal. Their evidence disproves an earlier study that claimed DNA showed Europeans were Australia's first inhabitants. Griffith University researchers used new DNA sequencing to re ...

Aboriginal Australians were in fact the original inhabitants of Australia contrary to the assumptions made in a 2001 ...
The Marshalltown
In a latest Australian-led study, professor David Lambert from Griffith University and his colleagues used new DNA sequencing methods to look at ancient bones at Lake Mungo. They confirmed that Aboriginal Australians were the continent's first people.

Weekly Times Now
Rural Victoria offers a peek into Aboriginal Australian history
Weekly Times Now
The Bangerang Cultural Centre, originally the Shepparton Arts Council, is the first Aboriginal cultural “keeping place or museum” to be developed and managed by the Aboriginal community in Australia. The centre houses an important collection of ...

Weekly Times Now
Rural Victoria offers a peek into Aboriginal Australian history
Weekly Times Now
The Bangerang Cultural Centre, originally the Shepparton Arts Council, is the first Aboriginal cultural “keeping place or museum” to be developed and managed by the Aboriginal community in Australia. The centre houses an important collection of ...

Illawarra Mercury
South Australia dining: Getting the indigenous food experience at Adelaide's Orana restaurant
Illawarra Mercury
The menu at Orana is a confluence of indigenous produce and classical technique and is the brainchild of Scottish expat Jock Zonfrillo, who after arriving in Australia in the mid–90s has made it his mission to prove that native ingredients have a place ...

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