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Australia's first Indigenous women's cricket team testing themselves on tour in India
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The pre-match chatter and sound of cricket shoes on a new pitch may seem very routine - but for this group of women, these steps are a milestone in themselves. Australia's first all-Indigenous female cricket team to go on tour is on a 10-day visit to ...

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AFL Indigenous round remembers remarkable life of Aboriginal footballer Sir Douglas Nicholls
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Sir Doug's work for the Aboriginal Advancement League made him a vocal advocate for social justice. In 1976, he was appointed governor of South Australia and, 40 years on, remains the only Indigenous person to have held a vice-regal post in Australia.
Rio Tinto supports AFL indigenous programsAFL.com.au
Swans help launch Indigenous RoundSydney Swans

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National Indigenous Times
Rio Tinto supports AFL indigenous programs
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Rio Tinto CEO Iron Ore and Australia Andrew Harding said: “Rio Tinto is proud to support the AFL's highly successful indigenous programs and encourage young Aboriginal men and women to achieve success in education, business, community life and sport ...
[ May 24, 2016 ] Footy 'empowering us', as Rioli names his top five SPORTNational Indigenous Times

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Brisbane Times
Aboriginal woman blocked from Parliament House over flag on T-shirt
Brisbane Times
An Aboriginal woman felt "like dirt" as she was turned away from Queensland's Parliament House for wearing her people's flag on a T-shirt. Janine Kelly was blocked from the state's democratic centre on Tuesday morning as she tried to show her support ...

The Indian Express
For a bunch of indigenous Australia women, a landmark cricket tour
The Indian Express
Instead, they cuddled up to the less discriminatory realm of Australian football, rugby and athletics. And it wasn't until Jason Gillepsie made his debut in 1996 that a cricketer of indigenous origin represented Australia. At least, the first time a ...

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The Indian Express
For a bunch of indigenous Australia women, a landmark cricket tour
The Indian Express
Instead, they cuddled up to the less discriminatory realm of Australian football, rugby and athletics. And it wasn't until Jason Gillepsie made his debut in 1996 that a cricketer of indigenous origin represented Australia. At least, the first time a ...
Sally Moylan tours India in Indigenous women's cricket teamThe Canberra Times
New Delhi welcomes first female First Nations women's cricket teamSBS

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The Age
Labor senator Nova Peris a frontrunner for AFL's top Indigenous job
The Age
Olympic gold medallist and Labor senator Nova Peris has emerged as a frontrunner for the AFL's top Indigenous job, a development that could affect the ALP's federal election campaign and fast-track the competition's push to promote Aboriginal ...

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The Age
Labor senator Nova Peris a frontrunner for AFL's top Indigenous job
The Age
Olympic gold medallist and Labor senator Nova Peris has emerged as a frontrunner for the AFL's top Indigenous job, a development that could affect the ALP's federal election campaign and fast-track the competition's push to promote Aboriginal ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal elder and servicewoman Marjorie Tripp remembered
ABC Online
She was awarded an Officer in the Order of Australia honour in 2014 for distinguished service to Aboriginal men and women in the armed services. Ms Tripp joined the Navy at 17 when Aboriginal people were still not recognised as Australian citizens.

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Push to recognise Aboriginal people in the Constitution
Ten Eyewitness News
Former AFL star and Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes, has met with the State Government as it threw its support behind a push to recognise Aboriginal people in the Australian Constitution. South Australia signed on as a formal partner of the ...
Former AFL star and Australian of the Year Adam Goodes backs South Australia in joining Recognise campaignThe Advertiser
Goodes diplomatic on SA dump idea9news.com.au

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Mashable
How to unlock the traditional science of Indigenous Australians
Mashable
The divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is still undeniably wide, with Indigenous Australians consistently losing out in health, employment, incarceration, life expectancy and education. Given the disadvantages faced by Indigenous ...
WA Government urged to fix contaminated water supplies in remote Indigenous communitiesABC Online
Indigenous youth to benefit from WA grants9news.com.au

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Mashable
How to unlock the traditional science of Indigenous Australians
Mashable
The divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is still undeniably wide, with Indigenous Australians consistently losing out in health, employment, incarceration, life expectancy and education. Given the disadvantages faced by Indigenous ...
Indigenous youth to benefit from WA grants9news.com.au
WA Government urged to fix contaminated water supplies in remote Indigenous communitiesABC Online

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The Advertiser
Former AFL star and Australian of the Year Adam Goodes backs South Australia in joining Recognise campaign
The Advertiser
Goodes said it was “an opportunity to rewrite that document in a couple of areas and acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people so in another 100, 200 years' time we know exactly the contribution those people had”. “Through the campaign ...

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The Guardian
'My relative was a mass murderer of Australia's Gunai people. Can I make amends?'
The Guardian
My relative has come to embody some of the very worst excesses of Australian colonial history. And that is saying a lot for a country in which 20,000 of its Indigenous people are estimated to have died during the “frontier wars”, and where, until ...
Only 188 sign petition in Australia to strip honour from Scottish murdererHerald Scotland
Explorer from Skye should not be honoured because he was a "ruthless murderer"Press and Journal

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The Guardian
'My relative was a mass murderer of Aborigines. Can I make amends?'
The Guardian
And that is saying a lot for a country in which 20,000 of its Indigenous people are estimated to have died during the “frontier wars”, and where, until relatively recent history, tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were separated forcibly from ...
Cal Flyn on how Scotland's bloody colonial legacy inspired family memoirHerald Scotland

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ABC Online
Doubts cast on likelihood of referendum to add Indigenous Australians to the constitution by 2017
ABC Online
Two members of the national Referendum Council have cast doubt on whether a referendum on recognising Indigenous people in the Australian constitution would be achievable by May 2017. The date for the vote was flagged by Recognise, the ...
First Nations senate candidate exposes the con in Constitutional RecognitionGreen Left Weekly

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ABC Online
Doubts cast on likelihood of referendum to add Indigenous Australians to the constitution by 2017
ABC Online
Two members of the national Referendum Council have cast doubt on whether a referendum on recognising Indigenous people in the Australian constitution would be achievable by May 2017. The date for the vote was flagged by Recognise, the ...
First Nations senate candidate exposes the con in Constitutional RecognitionGreen Left Weekly

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Supreme Court Chief Justice Chris Kourakis hits out at South Australia indigneous jail toll
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The Chief Justice said the conference would examine ways to improve basic health, education and employment prospects for young Aboriginal people, who he said were at a distinct sociological disadvantage. “I have described it as continued institutional ...

Supreme Court Chief Justice Chris Kourakis hits out at South Australia indigneous jail toll
The Advertiser
The conference has the long term aim of finding strategies to help reduce the Aboriginal incarceration rate to three per cent — in line with the number of indigenous people in the SA community. The Chief Justice said the conference would examine ways ...

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Australian indigenous artists depict culture and history
VietNamNet Bridge
The route, which runs 1,850km across Western Australia and follows waterholes where animals and people could access drinking water, crosses the boundaries of many Aboriginal language groups. Similar stock routes were established across aboriginal ...

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