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AFL boss Gillon McLachlan says game will grow by targetting multicultural and ...
ABC Online
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has made a bold pitch to strengthen the game's place as Australia's number one sport by targeting the next generation of talent within multicultural and indigenous communities. Armed with a $2.5 billion war chest ...
Twilight time nearingAFL.com.au

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The Australian (blog)
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...
Xinhua
CANBERRA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called for renewed talks about recognizing Indigenous Australians as the country's "first people", just weeks after rejecting the issue. Abbott on Wednesday asked prominent ...
PM to meet indigenous leadersYahoo7 News
PM calls meeting to address impasse on referendum ahead of week in remote ...ABC Online
Indigenous group to meet PM on recognitionThe Australian (blog)
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The Australian
Same-sex: Wayne Bergmann says aboriginals should back marriage equality
The Australian
... opposed to same-sex marriage last week signed a bark petition and presented it to the Abbott government last week. The so-called Uluru bark petition was signed by about 30 indigenous people, but claimed to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia.

The Guardian
Indigenous leaders to meet Tony Abbott over constitutional recognition
The Guardian
“You cannot have constitutional recognition without the support of Indigenous people,” Labor's indigenous affairs spokesman, Shayne Neumann, told Guardian Australia. “I'm hoping that the prime minister will listen to the voices of well-respected ...
PM to meet indigenous leadersYahoo7 News
PM calls meeting to address impasse on referendum ahead of week in remote ...ABC Online

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Aboriginal community in SA escape fire
The Australian
EIGHT people have escaped a fire in an Aboriginal community in South Australia, while a heater is believed to have caused a family home to burn to the ground in a separate blaze in Adelaide. THE fire at the Aboriginal community broke out in a building ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
PM calls meeting to address impasse on referendum ahead of week in remote ...
ABC Online
Cape York representative Noel Pearson, West Australian Indigenous leader Patrick Dodson, Indigenous lawyer and constitutional expert Megan Davis and National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chair Kirstie Parker have been invited. There is ...
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...Xinhua
PM to meet indigenous leadersYahoo7 News
Tony Abbott moves to heal rift on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
PM to meet indigenous leaders
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Noel Pearson, Patrick Dodson, Megan Davis and Kirstie Parker will meet with Mr Abbott on Thursday. They want the federal government to fund special indigenous consultations on how to recognise Aboriginal people in Australia's founding document but Mr ...
Tony Abbott moves to heal rift on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald

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Independent Australia
Ignorance, cruelty, racism and bigotry in Australia
Independent Australia
The racism that occurs against Indigenous people in Australia, is particularly castigatory. It is offensive, because not only does the system seek to undermine the cultural sovereignty of Indigenous people, but the societal norms – and stemming racism ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal elders who signed anti-marriage equality petition don't speak on my ...
The Guardian
Late last week, a group of 30 Indigenous Australians, backed by evangelical Christian groups, presented an “Uluru bark petition” opposing marriage equality to the federal government via Senator Eric Abetz. The petition reads, in part: “Although ...
Aboriginal community members say Uluru Bark Petition doesn't represent their ...Gay News Network

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The Guardian
Mick Gooda to head Queensland taskforce to pay stolen Aboriginal wages
The Guardian
Australia's social justice commissioner, Mick Gooda, will lead a Queensland government taskforce responsible for paying $21m in damages to Indigenous people who had their wages systematically stolen by the state last century. Gooda and the taskforce ...
Mick Gooda to head Stolen Wages TaskforceBrisbane Times

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The Guardian
Mick Gooda to head Queensland taskforce to pay stolen Aboriginal wages
The Guardian
The Queensland treasurer and minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander partnerships, Curtis Pitt, said Gooda was “one of Australia's most respected Indigenous leaders and we're lucky to have him performing this important role”. “Mick ...
Mick Gooda to head Stolen Wages TaskforceBrisbane Times
Mick Gooda to head up Stolen Wages TaskforceMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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Aboriginal LGBTQIs voice their views on Aboriginal petition against same-sex ...
SBS
"Which is less than 0.05 percent of the Aboriginal population of Australia", said Indigilez leadership and support group's Tanya Quakawoot. "So a very small percentage of Aboriginal people oppose gay marriage without any consultation with Indigenous ...

Aboriginal LGBTQIs voice their views on Aboriginal petition against same-sex ...
SBS
"Which is less than 0.05 percent of the Aboriginal population of Australia", said Indigilez leadership and support group's Tanya Quakawoot. "So a very small percentage of Aboriginal people oppose gay marriage without any consultation with Indigenous ...

Brisbane Times
Qantas stops Aboriginal actor Alec Doomadgee from carrying boomerangs on plane
Brisbane Times
"I don't see anyone pulling up the Pope when he walks on with his thing of beads because he might choke someone on the plane." Mr Doomadgee said the incident was what racism in Australia looked like, not the "in your face KKK sh-t" but "snide, smartass ...

PS News
DFAT launches Indigenous strategy
PS News
He said a young Indigenous Policy Officer in the Department, Sara-Kate Goltz-Wharton last month joined Australian Indigenous Leaders at the Human Rights Council in Geneva for the annual session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous ...

Business Insider Australia
An Aboriginal company is on the verge of selling Australian camel meat to the ...
Business Insider Australia
The people of the Ngaanyatjarra lands in central Australia are on the verge of opening up a market in China for wild camel meat. The Ngaanyatjarra Camel Company is half-owned by the Ngaanyatjarra people and half owned by Central Livestock ...

International Business Times AU
Strategy proposed to increase prospects for indigenous Australians
International Business Times AU
“Australia has a leadership role to play in shaping the international agenda on indigenous issues,” Bishop said. She further ensured that this strategy would inspire the native Australians to participate and aid the programs and thereby build on their ...

The Guardian
Message from Mungo: mother of all battles to bring Aboriginal ancestors home
The Guardian
Overseas, that connection to the past is broken, but in Australia it is still there and it's very strong.” Pike says his interviews with Aboriginal people about Lady Mungo were often emotional, tearful conversations. “They talk about her as their queen ...

Partnership Creates Indigenous Jobs
Pro Bono Australia
A partnership between a Victorian university and the largest Indigenous employer in Australia is working to create jobs in the Northern Territory. Swinburne University of Technology has teamed up with the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation ...

Group highlights indigenous super troubles
Yahoo7 News
Indigenous Australians have less retirement savings and greater difficulty in accessing their superannuation funds than the rest of the population. They also have less opportunity to benefit from their compulsory savings because they have lower life ...

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