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Time to Recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution
Independent European Daily Express
SYDNEY, Dic 30 (IPS) - Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders comprise 2.5 per cent (some 548,370) of Australia’s 24-million strong population, but they are not recognised by the Constitution. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

The Australian
Alliance with Jacqui Lambie gives indigenous women a voice
The Australian
“From years of experience in Australia's biggest city, they have a good understanding of what will work best to protect our children from drugs, violence and unemployment.” One of the advisers will be Bronwyn Penrith, who chairs the Aboriginal women's ...

The Australian
Alliance with Jacqui Lambie gives indigenous women a voice
The Australian
“From years of experience in Australia's biggest city, they have a good understanding of what will work best to protect our children from drugs, violence and unemployment.” One of the advisers will be Bronwyn Penrith, who chairs the Aboriginal women's ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Cabinet papers 1988-89: lost in the space race; Aboriginal treaty; body ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"If manufacture were to occur in Australia it could generate considerable economic benefits. It would employ up to 800 people directly, involve capital expenditure of around $300 million and could generate significant export earnings," Button told cabinet.
Cabinet papers 1988-89: Deaths in custody outgrew cabinet's expectationsThe Australian
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The Australian (blog)
Tanya Hosch is an activist fighting for indigenous recognition. Source: News ...
The Australian (blog)
THE battle for indigenous Australians to be recognised in the Constitution took a tangible turn in the past year, with Tony Abbott announcing last month that he wanted the nation to vote on reform on May 27, 2017, on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 ...

The Guardian
Mining royalties may save WA's remote Indigenous communities from closure
The Guardian
Yu, who is now chairman of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, said moving Indigenous communities from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to Redman's Department of Regional Development was a “significant change of ...

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The Guardian
Mining royalties may save WA's remote Indigenous communities from closure
The Guardian
Yu, who is now chairman of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, said moving Indigenous communities from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to Redman's Department of Regional Development was a “significant change of ...

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The Australian
Cabinet papers 1988-89: Deaths in custody outgrew cabinet's expectations
The Australian
There was also outcry over deaths that followed physical struggles with authorities, including that of 16-year-old Aboriginal boy John Pat in the police lock-up at Roebourne in Western Australia's north. In Perth at Barton's Mill Prison the following ...

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Indigenous soldiers who hid their identity to serve: the untold story
ABC Message Stick
PETER COSTER: RSL Queensland aims to support Indigenous veterans and recognise their service to our country from not only recent times but also recognising that Indigenous Australians have been serving our country so well since before we even formed ...

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Indigenous soldiers who hid their identity to serve: the untold story
ABC Message Stick
PETER COSTER: RSL Queensland aims to support Indigenous veterans and recognise their service to our country from not only recent times but also recognising that Indigenous Australians have been serving our country so well since before we even formed ...

The Australian
Search for a defining centre
The Australian
There are already indigenous culture centres strewn across Australia, in every state capital and in places as far-flung as the Grampians, Mossman Gorge in far north Queensland, Kakadu, Tennant Creek, even Thursday Island in the Torres Strait — in fact ...

The Australian
Search for a defining centre
The Australian
There are already indigenous culture centres strewn across Australia, in every state capital and in places as far-flung as the Grampians, Mossman Gorge in far north Queensland, Kakadu, Tennant Creek, even Thursday Island in the Torres Strait — in fact ...

End tiptoeing on abuse: Mundine
The Australian
Figures obtained by The Australian reveal the number of Aboriginal children taken into care in NSW — which already had the highest rates of indigenous child removal — jumped almost 10 per cent over the past year. Warren Mundine, chairman of the Prime ...

End tiptoeing on abuse: Mundine
The Australian
Figures obtained by The Australian reveal the number of Aboriginal children taken into care in NSW — which already had the highest rates of indigenous child removal — jumped almost 10 per cent over the past year. Warren Mundine, chairman of the Prime ...

Black circle may prove missing link to lost first Aboriginal flag
The Australian (blog)
The circle was cut from black fabric used to make the first Aboriginal flag in the early 1970s, stitched at the South Australian Museum, where designer Harold Thomas was working. In place of the black circle, the museum's props department stitched the ...

New SBS documentary Prison Songs confronts issue of indigenous incarceration
Sydney Morning Herald
When it comes the vexed topic of incarceration rates for indigenous Australians, the statistics are blunt and often overwhelming. In the new SBS documentary Prison Songs, the numbers are no less confronting: 80 per cent of the inmates in Darwin's ...

How Aboriginal Australians Saw the Stars
Bharat Press
Indigenous Australia is the longest living continuous culture on earth, however trendy researchers have simply began to take a look at the knowledge that comes with 50,000 years of residency—and that is very true of astronomy. First Australians ...

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Australia Eyes Indigenous Recognition Vote
Fiji Sun Online
Unlike other settler nations such as Canada and New Zealand, Australia's constitution makes no mention of its indigenous people and still has two so-called “race provisions”, including one that allows the states to ban people from voting based on their ...

World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
ABC Online
There is a growing push for better recognition of Indigenous soldiers, many of whom had to lie about their identity to serve their country. Some of those soldiers' names are still not honoured in the Australian War Memorial, despite their active service.

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World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
ABC Online
There is a growing push for better recognition of Indigenous soldiers, many of whom had to lie about their identity to serve their country. Some of those soldiers' names are still not honoured in the Australian War Memorial, despite their active service.

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