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Wyatt's tribute to Aboriginal leader dad
The Australian
WEST Australian Labor member Ben Wyatt has paid tribute to his late father, describing him as a man who fought for the advancement of the Aboriginal community. CEDRIC Wyatt, 74, died on Thursday night following an illness. Mr Wyatt, who is the Member ...

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The Australian (blog)
Ancient Aboriginal sites at risk in the Pilbara
The Australian (blog)
The sites now needed protection, Willesee noted, as “important records of the history of early settlement of Australia” and the only physical evidence of the region's Aboriginal past. Today the landscapes of the Pilbara and Kimberley regions are being ...

Welfare flaws clear in Arnhem Land
The Australian (blog)
Our commitment to indigenous Australians is we will engage, just as eight ministers and departmental secretaries did in East Arnhem Land. We will work with you to change the culture of hand-outs. We will work with you to get kids in school, adults into ...

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Child abuse commission broadens scope to focus on indigenous kids
The Australian
Across Australia, research shows “many indigenous children who had been removed from their families were cruelly treated — many suffered physical and sexual abuse,” commission chair Peter McClellan said this week. More than 800 Aboriginal people had ...
Abuse hearings for Tiwi IslandersThe West Australian

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The Guardian
Child abuse commission broadens scope to focus on indigenous kids
The Australian
Across Australia, research shows “many indigenous children who had been removed from their families were cruelly treated — many suffered physical and sexual abuse,” commission chair Peter McClellan said this week. More than 800 Aboriginal people had ...
Indigenous recognition: the concerns of those opposed must be taken seriouslyThe Guardian

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CANBERRA OBSERVED Forrest's bold plan for indigenous Australians
News Weekly
Last October, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, commissioned a report from Andrew Forrest, one of Australia's leading business leaders with an unrivalled record of working for the advancement of indigenous Australians, to prepare a report on how ...

CANBERRA OBSERVED Forrest's bold plan for indigenous Australians
News Weekly
Last October, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, commissioned a report from Andrew Forrest, one of Australia's leading business leaders with an unrivalled record of working for the advancement of indigenous Australians, to prepare a report on how ...

CANBERRA OBSERVED Forrest's bold plan for indigenous Australians
News Weekly
Last October, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, commissioned a report from Andrew Forrest, one of Australia's leading business leaders with an unrivalled record of working for the advancement of indigenous Australians, to prepare a report on how ...

The West Australian
Canberra cuts funds for Aboriginal communities
The West Australian
Mr Scullion said: "Providing essential and municipal services in towns and cities across Australia has always been the responsibility of State and local governments and it should be no different in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.".

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The West Australian
Canberra cuts funds for Aboriginal communities
The West Australian
Mr Scullion said: "Providing essential and municipal services in towns and cities across Australia has always been the responsibility of State and local governments and it should be no different in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.".

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Federal Government reaches $100 million deal with states to provide services ...
ABC Online
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said there had been an ad-hoc approach to the issue in the past and the new deal would make it clearer who was responsible. "In every other town and city across Australia, essential municipal services are the ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Can a DNA test reveal if you're an indigenous Australian?
Sydney Morning Herald
The question of whether indigenous, racial or ethnic identity could be determined by genetic testing was considered in a landmark inquiry by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) in 2003, which I chaired and which culminated in the report ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Can a DNA test reveal if you're an indigenous Australian?
Sydney Morning Herald
The ALRC heard from genetic counsellors and others about the positive uses of genetic testing in Australia to re-establish links between individuals and their Aboriginal family members that had been severed by adoption, circumstance, or past government ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Early British settlement 'all bad' for indigenous Australians: Tony Abbott
Sydney Morning Herald
The arrival of British settlers in Australia was "all bad" for indigenous Australians, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared, as the federal government prepares to set the timeline for a referendum on indigenous recognition in the constitution. Mr ...
British settlement 'all bad' for Indigenous Australians, Abbott saysSBS
John Howard: there was no genocide against Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Out in the Bush, Abbott attacks Britain's Aboriginal sinsTelegraph.co.uk
Echonetdaily -The Australian -Fair Observer
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Sydney Morning Herald
Early British settlement 'all bad' for indigenous Australians: Tony Abbott
Sydney Morning Herald
The arrival of British settlers in Australia was "all bad" for indigenous Australians, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared, as the federal government prepares to set the timeline for a referendum on indigenous recognition in the constitution. Mr ...
John Howard: there was no genocide against Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Out in the Bush, Abbott attacks Britain's Aboriginal sinsTelegraph.co.uk
Eyes wide shut to blackfellasThe Australian
SBS -Yahoo News UK -Echonetdaily
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Don't go too far in advocating constitutional recognition for Aborigines
The Australian (blog)
My colleague Joe Lane has established that in South Australia between 1840 and early last century, the total number of full-time staff in the Aboriginal department was one: the protector. Presently, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet ...

Indigenous workers 'ready for north jobs', Warren Mundine says
The Australian
“Here is a source of human capital in northern Australia right under our noses.” Mr Mundine said if the government's northern development white paper did not put indigenous education and employment at the centre of its policy, “we'll still be talking ...

SBS
Is Australia's modelling world ready to see black as beautiful?
SBS
Today, she has her own not-for-profit organisation aimed at helping other Indigenous people break into the fashion and beauty industry. But for all the headway she has made, Ms Dargin says Australia has a long way to go. "Until you can walk down the ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Out in the Bush, Abbott attacks Britain's Aboriginal sins
Telegraph.co.uk
Such remote Aboriginal communities, scattered across regional Australia, are notorious for high rates of infant mortality, disease, unemployment and crime and drug problems; Australia's 700,000 Aborigines on average die some 10 years younger than ...

John Howard: there was no genocide of Aboriginal Australians – video
The Guardian
The former Australian prime minister John Howard has reiterated his belief that there was no genocide of Indigenous Australians during the stolen generations era. In an interview with the Seven network, Howard said that modern governments should not be ...

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