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'Hollow words' from PM on gap
The Australian
BILL Shorten has accused Tony Abbott of betraying Aborigines after having promised to be the Prime Minister for indigenous Australians and then cutting more than $500 million of related funding in the budget. He warns that Labor would no longer offer ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Flying 3 Flags and Seeking One Banner
New York Times
His turn on basketball's biggest stage is a source of pride for sports-mad Australians, but being the first indigenous Australian to play in the N.B.A. finals — his mother is Aboriginal and his father is a Torres Strait Islander — is immensely ...
Documentary to raise awareness of NBA star Patrick Mills' indigenous heritageSydney Morning Herald
Australia's Patty Mills is on the brink of an NBA title and he's got the US ...The Daily Telegraph
Why Patty Mills is in my hall of fameThe Roar
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Australia aboriginals protest land seizure
Press TV
The wealthy nation's impoverished Aboriginals gathered on Saturday in Sydney's suburb of Redfern to vent their anger and frustration at a scheme by the Australian government to take away their land for commercial uses. The group, which has set up a ...

'This is not right': Aboriginal boy in nappies locked in police van
The Daily Telegraph
THIS should not happen in Australia: a 15-month-old Aboriginal boy, still in nappies, locked in the back of a Northern Territory police paddy wagon. A photographer from News Corp Australia's Centralian Advocate, Justin Brierty, took this photo outside ...

Sydney Morning Herald
indigenous good gets lost in the bad
Sydney Morning Herald
But her stories gave me an understanding of the inherent resilience she possessed, a quality I now recognise in every indigenous Australian. Our first nations communities have not only survived 226 years of enforced, institutionalised and entrenched ...
The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's pastThe Guardian
Killer budget bad news for Aboriginal peopleGreen Left Weekly

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The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's past
The Guardian
Other remains from collections in Berlin, at Washington's Smithsonian Museum, Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum have been repatriated directly to Australian Indigenous communities. The federal government, through the Ministry for ...
Killer budget bad news for Aboriginal peopleGreen Left Weekly

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The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's past
The Guardian
Other remains from collections in Berlin, at Washington's Smithsonian Museum, Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum have been repatriated directly to Australian Indigenous communities. The federal government, through the Ministry for ...

Indigenous kids score in 'round ball' program
The Australian
The first indigenous soccer player selected for Australia, who once tried out with Everton and Tottenham Hotspur, Moriarty was born in the remote Northern Territory indigenous community of Borroloola and says football changed his life. It was with this ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Documentary to raise awareness of NBA star Patrick Mills' indigenous heritage
Sydney Morning Herald
"That would open up a whole can of worms, they'd be like 'what do you mean Indigenous Australians? There's black people in Australia? "What's really good is they want to learn about it and they're fascinated about hearing about it." Mills, in his fifth ...
Patty Mills Riding an Aussie Hoops Explosion, and the NBA Finals Is Just a StartBleacher Report

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The rise of methamphetamine use in Aboriginal communities
ABC Online
While the Australian Crime Commission's Illicit Drug Data Report 2012-13 detailed record rates of methamphetamine use and the impacts in Australian cities, the meth or 'ice' story in the Kimberley has mostly been limited to quietly spoken rumours of a ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
New Indigenous Fund to Tackle Budget Cuts
Pro Bono Australia
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has revealed at the ACOSS National Conference that it will set up a public fund in response to the Federal Government cutting its cash commitment to the advocacy peak body. At the conference, in ...
Honoured for service to Indigenous aged careAustralian Ageing Agenda
Indigenous body 'victim of cruel funding game'The Australian
Indigenous housing may be left out of The BlockABC Online
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San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich recognises indigenous Australians, Patty ...
Herald Sun
In his fifth season, Mills is the first Australian of indigenous heritage to play in the NBA Finals and continues to play a key part in the team as Tony Parker's back-up. One of Mills' uncles Danny Morseau was the first indigenous basketball player for ...

San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich recognises indigenous Australians, Patty ...
Herald Sun
In his fifth season, Mills is the first Australian of indigenous heritage to play in the NBA Finals and continues to play a key part in the team as Tony Parker's back-up. One of Mills's uncles Danny Morseau was the first indigenous basketball player ...
Spurs coach's emotional Mabo speechFox Sports

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Aboriginal recognition in WA constitution long overdue: Opposition
ABC Online
"It's an opportunity for every West Australian to buy into the amazing history that we have in Western Australia, the long connections of Aboriginal people from the Kimberley to the Great Southern. "So it is a chance to correct a historical wrong." In ...

Calls for proper recognition of Indigenous veterans
ABC Local
NANCE HAXTON: Reconciliation Australia co-chair and University of Canberra chancellor Dr Tom Calma is calling for better recognition of Indigenous veterans in the lead-up to centenary commemorations of World War I in August. For the past year the ...

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Calls for proper recognition of Indigenous veterans
ABC Local
A Queensland council is collating an honour roll of Aboriginals who fought in Australian wars and will hold a ceremony honouring their service during NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week. It's hoped that will be a ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Honoured for service to Indigenous aged care
Australian Ageing Agenda
Marjorie Tripp, a Ngarrindjeri elder from South Australia who has spent decades working for aged care equality for Aboriginal Australians, says she hopes the progress made in service provision continues over the coming decades. Her services to the ...
Indigenous housing may be left out of The BlockABC Online
Mundine lashes out at social mediaThe Australian

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Honoured for service to Indigenous aged care
Australian Ageing Agenda
Marjorie Tripp, a Ngarrindjeri elder from South Australia who has spent decades working for aged care equality for Aboriginal Australians, says she hopes the progress made in service provision continues over the coming decades. Her services to the ...
Indigenous housing may be left out of The BlockABC Online

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Honour roll set up for Australia's indigenous veterans
Radio Australia
There is an increasing push for better recognition of Australia's indigenous veterans in the lead-up to commemorations in August marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. Honour roll set up for Australia's indigenous veterans ...
Calls for proper recognition of Indigenous veteransABC Online

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Calls for proper recognition of Indigenous veterans
ABC Online
A Queensland council is collating an honour roll of Aboriginals who fought in Australian wars and will hold a ceremony honouring their service during NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week. It's hoped that will be a ...

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