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Rare French paintings of Tasmanian Aboriginal life before colonisation to tour ... - ABC Online


ABC Online

Rare French paintings of Tasmanian Aboriginal life before colonisation to tour ...
ABC Online
The pictures are owned by France's Museum of Natural History in La Havre and will tour the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), Launceston's Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, the National Museum of Australia in Canberra and several other ...

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Support for indigenous constitutional recognition - The Sunshine Coast Daily


The Sunshine Coast Daily

Support for indigenous constitutional recognition
The Sunshine Coast Daily
NEW polling revealing broad support for constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians shows the time has come to act, according to a Sunshine Coast lawyer and member of the Prime Minister's expert panel. Glenn Ferguson has served since 2010 on ...
Slow progress in Constitutional recognition for Indigenous AustraliansEureka Street (satire) (registration)
Majority of Australians 'would vote for Indigenous recognition' in a referendumThe Guardian
Indigenous referendum would passSky News Australia
ABC Online -Yahoo7 News
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Slow progress in Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians - Eureka Street (satire) (registration)


Eureka Street (satire) (registration)

Slow progress in Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians
Eureka Street (satire) (registration)
Cover of 'No Small Change: The Road to Recognition for Indigenous Australia' It is now more than three years since the Expert Panel set up by the Gillard Government reported on how the Constitution might be amended providing recognition of Aboriginal ...
Majority of Australians 'would vote for Indigenous recognition' in a referendumThe Guardian
Indigenous referendum would pass: pollThe Australian (blog)
Frank Brennan aka 'the meddling priest' renews calls for Indigenous ...ABC Online
SBS -Radio Australia
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Indigenous referendum would pass: poll - The West Australian


Indigenous referendum would pass: poll
The West Australian
A referendum on indigenous recognition in Australia s constitution would pass if it was held now A referendum on indigenous recognition in Australia's constitution would pass if it was held now. A referendum on indigenous recognition in Australia's ...

Majority of Australians 'would vote for Indigenous recognition' in a referendum - The Guardian


The Guardian

Majority of Australians 'would vote for Indigenous recognition' in a referendum
The Guardian
The overwhelming majority of voters, including two-thirds of Coalition voters, would support a referendum on recognising Indigenous Australians if a poll was held today, a survey by advocacy group Recognise reveals. The poll of 750 Aboriginal and ...
Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...Radio Australia

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Majority of Australians would vote for Indigenous recognition in a referendum - The Guardian


The Guardian

Majority of Australians would vote for Indigenous recognition in a referendum
The Guardian
The overwhelming majority of voters, including two-thirds of Coalition voters, would support a referendum on recognising Indigenous Australians if a poll was held today, a survey by advocacy group Recognise reveals. The poll of 750 Aboriginal and ...
Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...Radio Australia

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Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ... - ABC Online


ABC Online

Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...
ABC Online
Advocacy group Recognise has released a poll that suggests 75 per cent of Australians would back a yes vote if the referendum was held now. The poll was conducted by Polity Research in March and took responses from 2,700 voters. To be successful the ...
Majority of Australians 'would vote for Indigenous recognition' in a referendumThe Guardian
Slow progress in Constitutional recognition for Indigenous AustraliansEureka Street (satire) (registration)

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Funding cut for remote Aboriginal domestic violence shelter will 'put lives at ... - ABC Online


ABC Online

Funding cut for remote Aboriginal domestic violence shelter will 'put lives at ...
ABC Online
phA domestic violence shelter servicing 50 Aboriginal communities in the remote north of Western Australia has emerged as the latest project to miss out on funding under the Federal Government's overhaul of Indigenous funding. The women who run the ...

Truth, not lies, on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicide rates - The Stringer


The Stringer

Truth, not lies, on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicide rates
The Stringer
For non-Aboriginal Australians who have suicided the average estimated loss of life is about 30 years per person however for the First Peoples of this continent who take their lives the average loss per person in years is more than 50 years. To put ...

Four Corners' fishbowl journalism does more damage to Aboriginal people - Green Left Weekly


Green Left Weekly

Four Corners' fishbowl journalism does more damage to Aboriginal people
Green Left Weekly
Particularly when it comes to responsible reporting of Aboriginal poverty. Last week, Four Corners pointed its lens into a few Aboriginal communities in Western Australia and produced a beautiful piece of promotion for the WA government and its plans ...
Coffs Harbour rallies against forced closure of remote Aboriginal communitiesABC Online
Hear A Melbourne Muso's Heartfelt Protest Song Against Aboriginal Community ...theMusic

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Indigenous education program to build sustainable careers - The Australian (blog)


Indigenous education program to build sustainable careers
The Australian (blog)
There are many approaches to improving outcomes in indigenous education. At the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, we don't pretend to have all the answers. But we have one. And with a success rate of 92 per cent for indigenous students on ...

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Acknowledging indigenous heritage a good beginning - The Australian


The Australian

Acknowledging indigenous heritage a good beginning
The Australian
That would best be done if and when Australians decide to become a republic. The urgent need is not for a comprehensive preamble but for an acknowledgment of the assured place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in our history and as part ...
Save the date: #IHMayDay15 is coming your way, soon…Crikey (blog)

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Acknowledging indigenous heritage a good beginning - The Australian


The Australian

Acknowledging indigenous heritage a good beginning
The Australian
All Australians could be surer of our distinctive national identity and place in the world if the Constitution were to acknowledge indisputable facts unique to indigenous Australians. Adapting the language used by the expert panel and adopted ...
Save the date: #IHMayDay15 is coming your way, soon…Crikey (blog)

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Tears of pride as Aboriginal elder Timothy Nadjowh honoured with Order of ... - ABC Online


ABC Online

Tears of pride as Aboriginal elder Timothy Nadjowh honoured with Order of ...
ABC Online
Hundreds of people from the West Arnhem community of Gunbalanya celebrated as elder Timothy Nadjowh was appointed a member of the Order of Australia. NT Administrator John Hardy said Mr Nadjowh's courage "to do his own thing, his determination to ...

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Judge slams indigenous jail rates - The Australian


ABC Online

Judge slams indigenous jail rates
The Australian
“The failure to bring the Aboriginal incarceration rate anywhere near proportionate levels represents a continuing institutional degradation of Australia's indigenous people,” Justice Kourakis told the South Australian Press Club. He warned that budget ...
Indigenous jailing rate shameful, SA Chief Justice Chris Kourakis saysABC Online

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Judge slams indigenous jail rates - The Australian


ABC Online

Judge slams indigenous jail rates
The Australian
“The failure to bring the Aboriginal incarceration rate anywhere near proportionate levels represents a continuing institutional degradation of Australia's indigenous people,” Justice Kourakis told the South Australian Press Club. He warned that budget ...
Indigenous jailing rate shameful, SA Chief Justice Chris Kourakis saysABC Online

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Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival launches in Cairns - ABC Local


ABC Local

Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival launches in Cairns
ABC Local
"It gives not only the indigenous children of Cape York the opportunity to speak to the elders, but also the spectators and visitors that come from all around Australia and overseas an opportunity to sit around the campfire and yarn with the elders ...

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Budget 2015: Indigenous shortfall 'puts services at risk' - The Australian


The Australian

Budget 2015: Indigenous shortfall 'puts services at risk'
The Australian
Patrick Green, from Western Australia's remote community of Fitzroy Crossing, said those working to improve the lives of indigenous Australians were frustrated at government waste and bureaucratic inefficiency. “If it's $1 that leaves Canberra, what is ...

Indigenous activist accuses government of 'racist budget' - SBS


SBS

Indigenous activist accuses government of 'racist budget'
SBS
Indigenous Australian imprisonment rates are around 12 times more than non-Indigenous Australians, even though they comprise less than three percent of the overall Australian population, according to the government's Australian Institute of Criminology.
Indigenous Groups Question Budget StrategyPro Bono Australia
Remote Indigenous communities could close if NT government takes full controlThe Guardian
'Dysfunctional' NT Government must not run Indigenous outstations, Northern ...ABC Online

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Alice Springs retains Imparja Cup - NT News


NT News

Alice Springs retains Imparja Cup
NT News
Imparja Cup. Mayor Damien Ryan, Cricket Australia Andrew Ingleton, and Minister for Sport and Recreation Gary Higgins. PIC: REX NICHOLSON Source: Supplied. THE future of indigenous cricket will be Alice Springs until 2018. As flagged in the NT News ...

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