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Storylines exhibition explores WA Indigenous history through photographs - ABC ...
ABC Local
The Koort, Karlup, Kaartdijin: Heart, Home and Story exhibition has been launched at the State Library of Western Australia to coincide with NAIDOC Week. At the exhibition's heart are selected images from the library's Storylines project, which aims to ...

Westpac Shapes Its Supply Chain for Social Change | Pro Bono Australia
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With a supply chain comprising 30,000+ service providers, Westpac Group is using its procurement spend to support opportunities for social change. This includes diversifying to include traditionally underrepresented business groups, such as Indigenous ...

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The Conversation AU
What can Australia learn from indigenous recognition in other countries?
The Conversation AU
The bipartisan push to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia's Constitution is in line with recent international practice. However, the Australian proposals will likely be much less substantive than those of many other countries.
Australia: The political fraud of constitutional “recognition” for Aborigines ...World Socialist Web Site
Indigenous leaders debate Australia's constitution - BBC NewsBBC News
Indigenous recognition: Make haste slowly to avoid pitfalls and build consensusSydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation AU
What can Australia learn from indigenous recognition in other countries?
The Conversation AU
However, the Australian proposals will likely be much less substantive than those of many other countries. Most specific proposals, such as those of the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians, avoid any language of ...
Indigenous recognition: Make haste slowly to avoid pitfalls and build consensusSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous leaders debate Australia's constitution - BBC NewsBBC News
Australia: The political fraud of constitutional “recognition” for Aborigines ...World Socialist Web Site

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The Australian
Stick to indigenous recognition or risk rejection: Ruddock | The Australian
The Australian
Tasmanian MP Andrew Nikolic said indigenous Australians should be recognised in the Constitution, but warned an anti-discrimination prohibition would transfer power from the parliament and executive to the courts. “I don't believe we should be ...

Daily Mail
First Australians WERE Aborigines and arrived there 55000 years ago
Daily Mail
In an interview with ABC Sydney, he said: 'The DNA evidence is extraordinary. We know that they moved out of Africa over 60,000 years ago. 'We have this remarkable trail that has been recovered for the genomic sequence of the first Australians.

NDTV
How to Cook Meat and Veg the Indigenous Way
NDTV
“Sometimes we struggle to understand what it means to be, as Tony Abbott says, 'Team Australia',” he says. “As First Nations people we have made so many contributions and achievements over tens of thousands of years to this continent that is now called ...

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WA Indigenous Art Award Winners Announced
theMusic
The 2015 Western Australian Indigenous Art Award of $50,000 was this week awarded to Melbourne artist and Noonucca/Ngugi woman Megan Cope by judges Amy Barrett-Lennard (Director of PICA), Kimberly Moulton (Curator/Project Officer at Birrarung ...

ABC Online
Indigenous affairs adviser to PM 'sorry' for Confederate flag costume
ABC Online
An Indigenous affairs adviser to Prime Minister Tony Abbott has apologised for wearing a Confederate flag costume to an event, saying he was "unaware" of the flag's connection to racial tensions after a mass shooting in the United States. Mark Coffey ...
Adviser to Australia PM Tony Abbott apologises for wearing Confederate flagTelegraph.co.uk
Indigenous affairs bureaucrat criticized for wearing Confederate flag shirtGlobalPost

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Australia: The political fraud of constitutional “recognition” for Aborigines
World Socialist Web Site
In a joint media release, Abbott and Shorten declared: “Our country has moved closer to recognising the First Australians in our constitution and ending the great silence about indigenous people in our founding document. There will be more steps in ...

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The Guardian (blog)
How to cook meat and veg the Indigenous way
The Guardian (blog)
But get close, and it's warm to the touch and emanates a wonderfully smoky fragrance of meat that has been marinated in native Australian spices. David Beaumont is a community engagement co-ordinator from the City of Sydney and a Wiradjuri man, “born ...

The Guardian
elders urge reconnection with Indigenous culture – video - The Guardian
The Guardian
Walking With Us explores a collection of connected stories about the importance of cultural protocol as told by elders from Indigenous groups in South Australia. They share teachings of their past and propose ways forward by coming together to ...

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The Guardian
Nova Peris supports Indigenous plebiscite on constitutional recognition
The Guardian
“After all, we've been here for more than 40,000 years and to change this nation's founding document [to be] inclusive of our cultures and our peoples, we have to ensure that whatever is put to the Australian public is what Australia's Aboriginal and ...
Hopes recognition in constitution for indigenous Australians isn't tokenisticCentral Western Daily
Darwin's Bagot Community hosts start of NAIDOC Week celebrating Indigenous ...ABC Online
Once in a generation chance to change the constitutionThe Daily Telegraph
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The Guardian
Michael Kirby: Indigenous disadvantage bigger problem than recognition
The Guardian
Decolonisation was being spoken about it many other countries, she said, and it was a discussion Australia needed to participate in. Panellist Greg Davison, Aboriginal health manager with the NSW Justice Health network, quoted widely from a 2009 ...

The Guardian
Michael Kirby: Indigenous disadvantage bigger problem than recognition
The Guardian
But Davison said incarceration represented “an opportunity to engage people in their health care journey” and for many Indigenous Australian inmates it was the first time they accessed a health service. He said those who came in contact with the ...

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A time for all Australians to nurture Indigenous heritage
Eureka Street (satire) (registration)
The most publicised event of NAIDOC Week this year has been the meeting of Indigenous leaders with the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. It initiated a process that all hope will lead to the recognition of Indigenous Australians and ...

Constitutional referendum: Nixon goes to China fits indigenous change
The Australian
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has employed it several times regarding the possible referendum to recognise indigenous Australians: it can only happen under a Liberal prime minister. But does the metaphor stand up to scrutiny? It can be made to work ...

Inside Film
Banished resonates despite non-Indigenous criticism
Inside Film
McGovern wrote, “Ï have had the pleasure of working with a number of Indigenous writers over the years, including as story editor on Redfern Now, and I know how important their story is and how important it is to get the portrayal of Indigenous ...

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The Guardian
Kimberley Indigenous community 'devastated' after camels killed with arrows
The Guardian
Harry Watson's nephew, Anthony Watson, told Guardian Australia some of the camels had apparently been shot with arrows. “They used bows and arrows and shoot them through the stomach, it's not a clean kill,” Watson said. “I hope the police charge those ...

ABC Online
Rural leadership training reveals Indigenous misconceptions
ABC Online
Indigenous workers may be key players in Australia's northern agricultural industry, but their valuable contributions often go unrecognised. It was an observation made by Darwin businesswoman and crocodile farmer, Giovanna Webb, while taking part in a ...