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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 49 events ...
Sydney Indymedia
'WGAR News' gives priority to grassroots Aboriginal voices and grassroots voices in solidarity with Aboriginal peoples' rights. The role of 'WGAR News' is to facilitate the voices of others, and as such, 'WGAR News' rarely writes its own articles ...

SBS
What future for migration and Indigenous studies?
SBS
"There are two aspects to Australia's history that are paramount. The first, of course, is our Indigenous history, because, for thousands of years, Indigenous Australians have lived on this continent. The second aspect of our history is our beginnings ...

New ANU centre to research Indigenous genetic information
ABC Online
A new Indigenous centre focusing on health has been launched today at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. The National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG) will analyse the genetic composition of Indigenous people to help improve ...

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Eben Love is the first ever ArtsReady Indigenous trainee
artsHub Australia (subscription)
Heide benefits from Sister City Association. Heide Museum of Modern art becomes the first to offer forward-thinking teaching method in Australia. ... 'For Indigenous employment in ArtsReady, when we did the consultations and thought of the young ...

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New ANU centre to research Indigenous genetic information
Yahoo!7 News
Mr Gooda has described the new centre as a watershed moment for indigenous health research. ANU vice-chancellor Ian Young says the research will add to the university's commitment to indigenous health. "It will give researchers around Australia a new ...

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Peris to fight for referendum campaign funds
The Australian
Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten used Australia Day to reaffirm their commitment to advancing the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. The Prime Minister said recognition was a “national crusade”. “It is very important to me, it is very ...

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Peris to fight for referendum campaign funds
The Australian
Her call comes as new polling revealed half of all Australians were now aware of the push to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Constitution — up from 31 per cent 18 months ago. Labor nominated Senator Peris to be deputy ...

Move to reunite Mungo Man
The Australian
The skeleton remains the oldest human discovered in Australia, doubling the known anthropological history of the continent — thought to date back 20,000 years at the time — and revealing Aborigines as belonging to the oldest surviving culture in the ...

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SBS
Move to reunite Mungo Man
The Australian
The skeleton remains the oldest human discovered in Australia, doubling the known anthropological history of the continent — thought to date back 20,000 years at the time — and revealing Aborigines as belonging to the oldest surviving culture in the ...
Mungo Man's possible return to Lake Mungo after 40 yearsABC Online
Move to return Mungo Man homeSBS

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Peris to fight for referendum campaign funds
The Australian
Her call comes as new polling revealed half of all Australians were now aware of the push to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Constitution — up from 31 per cent 18 months ago. Labor nominated Senator Peris to be deputy ...

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Australian Aboriginal Western Desert paintings exhibit opens
New Canaan Advertiser
New Canaan Library will present Ritual Abstractions: Australian Aboriginal Western Desert Paintings and Papua New Guinea Masks, at a lecture given by Annie MacDougall, curator and owner of the collection, on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 4 in the Adrian Lamb ...

The Aboriginal community the law forgot
ABC Local
A bureaucratic tangle has left the Aboriginal community of Djarindjin, on the Dampier Peninsula north of Broome in the north of Western Australia, having the legal status of a large private property. Chairman of the DAC, Brian Lee, says the legal ...

The Aboriginal community the law forgot
ABC Local
A bureaucratic tangle has left the Aboriginal community of Djarindjin, on the Dampier Peninsula north of Broome in the north of Western Australia, having the legal status of a large private property. Chairman of the DAC, Brian Lee, says the legal ...

Over-imprisonment of indigenous peoples a 'national emergency'
The Australian
“As the peak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander justice body in Australia, we are well-placed and committed to working together with all Australian governments to develop justice targets and an ongoing strategy to address the unacceptably high ...

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Over-imprisonment of indigenous peoples a 'national emergency'
The Australian
“As the peak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander justice body in Australia, we are well-placed and committed to working together with all Australian governments to develop justice targets and an ongoing strategy to address the unacceptably high ...

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Sky News Australia
Row over rare indigenous disease grant
Sky News Australia
The previous Labor government had pledged the money to the foundation from the Aboriginal Benefit Account, which holds mining royalties generated from indigenous land in order to benefit communities. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has ...
Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct ...CounterCurrents.org
Aboriginal Genocide by Apartheid AustraliaMWC News
Time to mind the gap well overdueSydney Morning Herald
The Australian -The Monthly (subscription) (blog)
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The Guardian
Investigation into Indigenous worker safety allegations at Inpex project
The Guardian
Macmahon Holdings entered into a $3.4m contract with the federal government through the Indigenous Employment Program (IEP) to deliver hundreds of jobs to Indigenous Australians. However, Guardian Australia revealed on Friday that some Rockstar ...

Indigenous business is Australia's sleeping giant
PRWire (press release)
Colin Coverdale, Opportune's director, said over the past week, 20 indigenous business owners from across Australia had travelled to the Gold Coast to learn how to build stronger businesses. “The program supports Closing the Gap. However, we are going ...

The Vine
'Utopia' does exist but it's far from idyllic in Australia
The Vine
White Australia is painted as a haven of comfortable luxury (Canberra has “wide clean streets”, and “excellent schools”) while Utopia and Aboriginal Australia as a whole is a wasteland built from scraps. Pilger's argument is blunt – Australia is a ...

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MWC News
Aboriginal Genocide by Apartheid Australia
MWC News
However this wealth does not extend to the Indigenous Australian community that is subject to a continuing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide that commenced with European Invasion in 1788. Yet Australia no more acknowledges the Aboriginal ...
Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct ...CounterCurrents.org
Time to mind the gap well overdueSydney Morning Herald

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