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The Guardian
Indigenous recognition: Patrick Dodson and Mark Leibler to lead council
The Guardian
In 2012, the previous expert panel recommended the removal of a section of the constitution that allowed states to disqualify someone from voting on racial grounds; the insertion of a section recognising Australia was first occupied by Aboriginal and ...
Andrew Demetriou, Amanda Vanstone to help decide on constitution and ...Sydney Morning Herald

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Huffington Post Australia
Recognition: The Greatest Gift For All Australia's Children
Huffington Post Australia
In doing so they not only committed a grave injustice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, they did all Australians a huge disservice. They robbed us of this rich and unimaginably long history and cultural legacy, in which, as modern ...

The Australian
Indigenous gymnast Mikayla George eyes Olympic skiing glory
The Australian
George was approached to join the VIS talent transfer program, which recruits young acrobatic athletes to become aerial skiers. Australia's success in the sport is built on the premise established by Olympic Winter Institute boss Geoff Lipshut that it ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Defying all statistics, he saved a generation of Aboriginal youngsters from ...
Sydney Morning Herald
You won't find his methodology in any drug service manual, but the results were stunningly clear – half the teenage population of Yuendumu (Central Australia's largest Aboriginal community) in 1994 were sniffing petrol but eight years later no one ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Japangardi Miller: Saved a generation of Aboriginal youngsters from ruined lives
Sydney Morning Herald
You won't find his methodology in any drug service manual, but the results were stunningly clear – half the teenage population of Yuendumu (Central Australia's largest Aboriginal community) in 1994 were sniffing petrol but eight years later no one ...

The Canberra Times
ACT and Australia fare badly in indigenous report card
The Canberra Times
While the ACT is a largely healthy and highly educated population, the Aboriginal community continues to be left behind, with little or no progress in five years, a new report finds. The Productivity Commission reported this week on progress towards ...

The Canberra Times
ACT and Australia fare badly in indigenous report card
The Canberra Times
While the ACT is a largely healthy and highly educated population, the Aboriginal community continues to be left behind, with little or no progress in five years, a new report finds. The Productivity Commission reported this week on progress towards ...

Green Left Weekly
Racism in Australia: from 1788 to stopping the boats
Green Left Weekly
The white settlers in Australia after 1788 might never have heard of or cared about Voltaire and Locke, but their mental universe owed much to them. The government in faraway London might have prescribed vague fair treatment for the Aboriginal people ...

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The West Australian
Progress on Rottnest Aboriginal burial grounds
The West Australian
Progress on Rottnest Aboriginal burial grounds The Quod on Rottnest will stop being used for accommodation from 2018. Picture: Simon Santi/The West Australian. Work has begun on the formal recognition of Australia's biggest unmarked burial ground.

Young Indigenous Australians wanted
Circular Head Chronicle
Marathon. Young Indigenous Australians are being encouraged to apply for the 2016 Indigenous Marathon Project (IMP) team. Established in 2010 by world champion marathon runner, Robert de Castella, the IMP – a program of the Indigenous Marathon ...

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SBS
Why my daughter won't study Aboriginal languages in her HSC
SBS
As passionate she is about her language, Professor Jakelin Troy is planning to discourage her daughter from studying an Aboriginal language at high school. The University of Sydney academic explains why the move is currently in her daughter's best ...

The Guardian (blog)
Marriage equality in Australia is a final step on a long march from 1788
The Guardian (blog)
The marriages of all convicts were controlled by the government, as were, in later times, the marriages of some immigrants, Australian soldiers and others. But the group that has suffered longest has been Aboriginal Australians who, up until the 1960s ...

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The Australian
Tony McAvoy SC says the justice system needs more Aboriginal lawyers. Picture ...
The Australian
He is one of only 25 barristers who identify as indigenous and are practising in Australia against a backdrop of over-representation of indigenous prisoners, cause enough, he says, for a greater focus on increasing the number of Aboriginal students in ...

The Guardian
Stan Grant wins Walkley award for Guardian columns on Indigenous affairs
The Guardian
Guardian Australia columnist Stan Grant has won the 2015 Walkley award for coverage of Indigenous affairs. The television broadcaster and writer won the award at a ceremony in Melbourne on Thursday night for a collection of three opinion pieces about ...

Indigenous Imprisonment Symposium communique  Law Council of Australia

SBS
Aboriginal Australia goes back even further than we thought, new evidence reveals
SBS
Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of artefacts in a cave on an island off the coast of Western Australia that date back 53,000 years ago. The Australian newspaper reports that an Oxford University Laboratory found that grains mixed with a ...

InDaily
The preventable scandal of Aboriginal incarceration
InDaily
That there was a greater likelihood of your child being incarcerated than completing year 12 schooling? Welcome to the world of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous people in Australia represent 2% of our population but 27% of our ...

InDaily
The preventable scandal of Aboriginal incarceration
InDaily
Welcome to the world of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous people in Australia represent 2% of our population but 27% of our prison population. In the case of indigenous women, the numbers are even more disturbing. Indigenous ...

Huffington Post Australia
Kakadu Plum -- Australia's Native Vitamin C Bomb Everyone Wants A Piece Of
Huffington Post Australia
It's the richest known source of Vitamin C, richer than the blueberry in antioxidants and is native to Australia. So why haven't we heard more about the kakadu plum? Grown across the top end of Northern Australia, the kakadu plum (also known as the ...

Brisbane Times
Anzac Square Diggers: Shortlist for first Australians' military memorial
Brisbane Times
"This monument will give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a more inclusive military history within Australia." The winning design would be selected following consultation with several stakeholders, including community elders, Brisbane City ...

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