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Noel Pearson's eulogy for Gough Whitlam praised as one for the ages
Sydney Morning Herald
"When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians." Thousands of those gathered outside Sydney's Town Hall sang along to From Little Things, Big Things Grow, about the Indigenous ...
Gurindji people from Wave Hill to farewell friend Gough Whitlam at Sydney ...ABC Online
Thousands pay tribute to 'visionary' Australian ex-PM WhitlamYahoo!7 News
Tributes flow for Gough Whitlam in SydneyThe New Daily
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Outback British nuclear test site handed back to Aborigines in Australia
Telegraph.co.uk
Ian Hunter, the Aboriginal affairs minister in the state of South Australia, said the British conducted a "cursory" clean-up of the area in the 1960s but the area remained dangerously radioactive for decades. "At the instigation of the Maralinga ...
Defence force releases last Maralinga ancestral lands to traditional ownersThe Guardian
Maralinga traditional owners get land backSky News Australia
British atomic test site returned to Aboriginal ownersZee News
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'Best political speech of our time'
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He labelled Whitlam “Australia's greatest white elder” and emphasised the former leader's enduring legacy on indigenous affairs, highlighting the Racial Discrimination Act and progress on land rights. “Only those who have known discrimination truly ...
Noel Pearson Gave Possibly One Of Australia's Greatest Speeches In Honour Of ...Junkee
Gough Whitlam memorial: The great man would have loved itSydney Morning Herald
Gurindji people from Wave Hill to farewell friend Gough Whitlam at Sydney ...ABC Online
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NEWS.com.au
'Best political speech of our time'
NEWS.com.au
He labelled Whitlam “Australia's greatest white elder” and emphasised the former leader's enduring legacy on indigenous affairs, highlighting the Racial Discrimination Act and progress on land rights. “Only those who have known discrimination truly ...
Farewell comrade, Whitlam rememberedSky News Australia
We are forever indebted to the vision of Gough WhitlamHerald Sun
Australia to farewell Gough WhitlamSydney Morning Herald
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Indigenous activist Rosalie Kunoth-Monks awarded NT Australian of the Year
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Central Australian Indigenous woman Rosalie Kunoth-Monks has been named the Northern Territory Australian of the Year for 2015. In her varied career Ms Kunoth-Monks has worked as an actor, a nun, a political adviser, a shire president, an environmental ...
Kunoth-Monks named NT Australian of the YearSky News Australia

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Indigenous activist Rosalie Kunoth-Monks awarded NT Australian of the Year
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Central Australian Indigenous woman Rosalie Kunoth-Monks has been named the Northern Territory Australian of the Year for 2015. In her varied career Ms Kunoth-Monks has worked as an actor, a nun, a political adviser, a shire president, an environmental ...

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Indigenous activist Rosalie Kunoth-Monks awarded NT Australian of the Year
ABC Online
Central Australian Indigenous woman Rosalie Kunoth-Monks has been named the Northern Territory Australian of the Year for 2015. In her varied career Ms Kunoth-Monks has worked as an actor, a nun, a political adviser, a shire president, an environmental ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous activist Rosalie Kunoth-Monks awarded NT Australian of the Year
ABC Online
Central Australian Indigenous woman Rosalie Kunoth-Monks has been named the Northern Territory Australian of the Year for 2015. In her varied career Ms Kunoth-Monks has worked as an actor, a nun, a political adviser, a shire president, an environmental ...
Kunoth-Monks named NT Australian of the YearSky News Australia

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The Guardian
Gough Whitlam's Indigenous and reforming legacy hailed at memorial
The Guardian
“Apart from Medibank and the Trade Practices Act, cutting tariff protections and no-fault divorce and the Family Law Act, the Australia Council, the federal court, the Order of Australia, federal legal aid, the Racial Discrimination Act, needs-based ...
Pearson's incredible eulogy for GoughThe Canberra Times
Gough Whitlam memorial: Tony Abbott, former PMs and dignitaries farewell titan ...ABC Online

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The Guardian
Gough Whitlam's Indigenous and reforming legacy hailed at memorial
The Guardian
“Apart from Medibank and the Trade Practices Act, cutting tariff protections and no-fault divorce and the Family Law Act, the Australia Council, the federal court, the Order of Australia, federal legal aid, the Racial Discrimination Act, needs-based ...
Farewell comrade, Whitlam rememberedThe Australian
Indigenous people pay respects to Whitlam, the prime minister who cared about ...Sydney Morning Herald

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Sky News Australia
Farewell comrade, Whitlam remembered
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Indigenous leader Noel Pearson said Mr Whitlam transformed the lives of indigenous Australians. 'This old man was one of those rare people who never suffered discrimination but understood the importance of protection from its malice. 'He harboured not ...
'Best political speech of our time'NEWS.com.au
We are forever indebted to the vision of Gough WhitlamHerald Sun
Gough Whitlam memorial: The great man would have loved itThe Canberra Times
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The Conversation AU
Nutrition is key to closing the Aboriginal life expectancy gap
The Conversation AU
Recent reports estimated a life expectancy gap of 11.5 years for Aboriginal males and 9.7 years for Aboriginal females compared to non-Aboriginal Australians. About 80% of this difference is due preventable chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes ...

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The Guardian
Defence force releases last Maralinga ancestral lands to traditional owners
The Guardian
South Australia's Aboriginal affairs and reconciliation minister, Ian Hunter, said the land was as significant to the Maralinga Tjarutja people as any other part of their country. “When the British completed their testing program a cursory clean-up of ...
Maralinga traditional owners get land backSky News Australia
From nuclear test site to SA tourist meccaYahoo!7 News
British atomic test site returned to Aboriginal ownersGlobalPost

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Australia's top Aboriginal organisations announced
National Indigenous Times
p 11_IGA A leading Central Australian women's group and an up-and-coming theatre troupe from country Victoria have received top honours at the 2014 Indigenous Governance Awards. At a gala dinner at BHP Billiton's headquarters in Melbourne, Waltja ...

Australia's top Aboriginal organisations announced
National Indigenous Times
p 11_IGA A leading Central Australian women's group and an up-and-coming theatre troupe from country Victoria have received top honours at the 2014 Indigenous Governance Awards. At a gala dinner at BHP Billiton's headquarters in Melbourne, Waltja ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous people pay respects to Whitlam, the prime minister who cared about ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"He was a man who sat down with our people and treated them with respect," said Kirstie Parker, a co-chairwoman of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, the latest of a number of Aboriginal representative bodies that followed the council ...
Australia to farewell Gough WhitlamSBS
Gough service to commemorate 'giant'The Australian
So long, Gough, a giant who helped us stand tall in the arts and educationThe Age

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous people pay respects to Whitlam, the prime minister who cared about ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"He was a man who sat down with our people and treated them with respect," said Kirstie Parker, a co-chairwoman of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, the latest of a number of Aboriginal representative bodies that followed the council ...
Gurindji people from Wave Hill to farewell friend Gough Whitlam at Sydney ...ABC Online
Australia: How and why the Gough Whitlam government's far-reaching reforms ...Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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Sydney Morning Herald
Martu indigenous corporation in turmoil over mining money scrutiny in Western ...
Sydney Morning Herald
WDLAC, which is responsible for the Martu people and has been associated with some of indigenous Australia's most influential business leaders, said in a statement last week that its board had not authorised "both the terms of this inquiry and the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Martu indigenous corporation in turmoil over mining money scrutiny in Western ...
Sydney Morning Herald
WDLAC, which is responsible for the Martu people and has been associated with some of indigenous Australia's most influential business leaders, said in a statement last week that its board had not authorised "both the terms of this inquiry and the ...

The Guardian
Plan to boost northern Australia farming 'must involve Indigenous groups'
The Guardian
In a panel discussion on Indigenous participation, Leigh “Tracker” Tilmouth, the former CEO of the Central Land Council, said Australia needed a “segregated economy”. “An economy [in which] we can develop our own systems of trade, our own systems and ...