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Sydney Morning Herald
Virtual dreaming - Indigenous Australia restored in the digital world
Sydney Morning Herald
Now he's part of an ambitious artificial intelligence project to digitally recreate Indigenous pre-settlement Australia – and in the process preserve Aboriginal culture in a virtually living state. In the first stage of the project – run by the Digital ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Virtual dreaming - Indigenous Australia restored in the digital world
Sydney Morning Herald
Williams, a NSW local council Citizen of the Year and volunteer working to engage Aboriginal men with their communities, is caught between optimism – that non-Indigenous Australians might take an interest in Aboriginal culture – and concerns that ...

ABC Online
proud Aboriginal elder dances with granddaughter at graduation
ABC Online
She plans to complete year 11 and 12 at Clontarf Aboriginal College in WA and dreams of becoming a nurse, working in her own community and in Melbourne. "I would still love to practice culture and teach people my culture," she says. "I also want to be ...

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Indigenous peoples locked into disadvantage
The Saturday Paper (subscription)
This was conducted under the baton of the Law Council of Australia. At the same time another coalition of interested parties, called Change the Record, has come up with a “Blueprint for Change”, with measures to address disproportionate rates of ...

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The Australian
Patrick Dodson's shift on racial discrimination ban in referendum
The Australian
... replace outdated constitutional elements with a new head of powers for parliament to make laws for the benefit of indigenous people, while Aboriginal leaders would forgo a racial discrimination clause that could impose far-reaching effects upon ...

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ABC Online
String of 78 Christmas cards hung outside Parliament House to symbolise ...
ABC Online
... violence than non-indigenous women. "Violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is not an Indigenous problem, but an Australian problem," she said. "And the response to support our Indigenous sisters has not been adequate to date ...

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The Conversation AU
New Aboriginal languages course should count towards ATARs
The Conversation AU
The new subject offers students the opportunity to engage in a meaningful way with Australia's first languages and to learn to communicate, speak, read and write an Aboriginal language. Schools will work with communities to help design a course for the ...

The Guardian
I can't call myself an Indigenous Australian and also say sovereignty never ceded
The Guardian
The task of Australian colonialism is to convince us that our identity and national interest is within the confines of Australian colonialism. The Australian government calls us “Indigenous Australians”, “Aboriginal Australians”, and “First Australians ...
Take stock of your human rights record, Catholic Bishop tells governmentSBS

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The Guardian
I can't call myself an Indigenous Australian and also say sovereignty never ceded
The Guardian
I cannot on one hand call myself an “Indigenous Australian” and then say “sovereignty never ceded” in the same breath. The two are incompatible. We will never hear Palestinian liberation fighters call themselves “Palestinian Israelis” or hear members ...
Take stock of your human rights record, Catholic Bishop tells governmentSBS

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Take stock of your human rights record, Catholic Bishop tells government
SBS
Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Bishop Vincent Long, has used International Human Rights Day on Thursday to call out the nation's current social ills and urge governments to lift their game in working with Aboriginal and ...

Here's What It's Like To Grow Up Gay And Indigenous In Australia
BuzzFeed News
“When I was coming out and trying to reconcile being gay with my Aboriginal culture I was told by an elder very close to me that being gay didn't exist traditionally. He told me it's bad and all these awful things would happen to me,” Gregory Phillips ...

New South Wales Rugby League
A Trip To Remember
New South Wales Rugby League
It was a momentous tour, headlined by a visit to Villiers-Bretonneux on Armistice Day followed by an historic match as the first Aboriginal side to play on the Somme Battlefields – in addition to visits to the Australian embassies in Paris and Rome ...

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New South Wales Rugby League
A Trip To Remember
New South Wales Rugby League
It was a momentous tour, headlined by a visit to Villiers-Bretonneux on Armistice Day followed by an historic match as the first Aboriginal side to play on the Somme Battlefields – in addition to visits to the Australian embassies in Paris and Rome ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australia through Aboriginal eyes: the only way to understand our land
Sydney Morning Herald
In 1992, the United Nations International Year for the World's Indigenous People, I did not want to see out the year without saying something definitive about the general plight of indigenous people around the world and most particularly of our own.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australia through Aboriginal eyes: the only way to understand our land
Sydney Morning Herald
In 1992, the United Nations International Year for the World's Indigenous People, I did not want to see out the year without saying something definitive about the general plight of indigenous people around the world and most particularly of our own.

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Press TV
Rare indigenous artifacts return to Australia on loan from Britain
Press TV
Islamabad is hosting a show where hunters and gun enthusiasts check out the latest locally made weapons. The 3-day event is called Target and Outdoor Shooting Sports. A new study suggests that people who tend to have negative perceptions may be more ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Keating's Redfern Park speech
Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty-three years after he confronted Australians with the truth of Indigenous dispossession, Paul Keating has delivered another profound message on reconciliation, this time in more nuanced language. Back in 1992, the then prime minister said the ...
Australia through Aboriginal eyes: the only way to understand our landBrisbane Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Keating's Redfern Park speech
Sydney Morning Herald
"Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share." Rather than re-enter the debate on constitutional recognition and his ...
Australia through Aboriginal eyes: the only way to understand our landThe Age

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ABC Online
Healing ceremony held for former and fallen Indigenous servicemen of both ...
ABC Online
Lia Pootah Indigenous man Keith Farrell was 18 years old when he joined the armed services during World War II, even though officially Tasmanian Indigenous Australians were regarded as extinct and all Aboriginal people were banned from enlisting.

SBS
Adam Goodes up for Human Rights Medal
SBS
She is a Bardi woman from the Kimberley in Western Australia and was the first Aboriginal psychologist to graduate in the country. Currently working as a professor at the University of Western Australia, her research aims to improve outcomes for ...

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