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Indigenous recognition in Tasmanian constitution may go to committee
ABC Online
"They lead the way with land rights legislation in the 1990s and Tasmania remains the only state in Australia to compensate the Stolen Generation," he said. "Now it's time for Tasmania to once again take the lead by returning land or setting aside ...

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New Matilda
Aboriginal Group To Shadow ANZAC Day March And Highlight Frontier Wars
New Matilda
It's the war that Australia doesn't like to remember, but that has never deterred the group of Aboriginal people who have walked behind the official ANZAC Day march in Canberra each year since 2012, calling on the nation to remember the first people ...

The Japan Times
Australian-Chinese sniper was a hero at Gallipoli in WWI
The Japan Times
Under Australia's 1909 Defence Act, “those who are not substantially of European origin or descent” were blocked from active service. But some from minority backgrounds, including indigenous Australians, still stepped forward, trying multiple times ...
Chinese-Australian sniper Billy Sing shot dead 200 during Gallipoli campaignSouth China Morning Post (subscription)

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ABC Online
ACT Government signs agreement to improve health, education services for ...
ABC Online
The ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Agreement 2015-18 also aims to reduce the incarceration rates of Indigenous people, increase school retention rates and foster better relationships between the Government, the public service and the ...

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ABC Online
ACT Government signs agreement to improve health, education services for ...
ABC Online
The ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Agreement 2015-18 also aims to reduce the incarceration rates of Indigenous people, increase school retention rates and foster better relationships between the Government, the public service and the ...

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ABC Online
Anzac Day 2015: Australia's first Indigenous Returned Services League club set ...
ABC Online
He hoped the new club house, an old canteen donated by the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council, would not only be a hub for welfare support to veterans but a way to encourage the community's younger residents to sign up for careers in the Australian ...

ABC Online
Anzac Day 2015: Australia's first Indigenous Returned Services League club set ...
ABC Online
He hoped the new club house, an old canteen donated by the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council, would not only be a hub for welfare support to veterans but a way to encourage the community's younger residents to sign up for careers in the Australian ...

Sydney Morning Herald
British Museum exhibition an 'injustice' against Indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
A controversial exhibition of Indigenous Australian art and artefacts at the British Museum has been described by a critic as feeling like "yet another injustice" against Aboriginal people. The exhibition, which has an Indigenous curator, Gaye ...
Indigenous Australia exhibition at the British Museum is insider activism at ...The Conversation UK
Critic slams visitors to indigenous showThe Australian
Evicting Indigenous Australians from their homelands is a declaration of warThe Guardian
Aboriginal Art Directory News -Center for Research on Globalization -9news.com.au
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The Guardian
Adventures in Australia: journeys of discovery to Indigenous Australian sites
The Guardian
What Australians call the Red Centre is both a rusty wilderness, slap-bang in the middle of the country – and much else besides. Not least in colour: the dirty green of scrub that survives on 30 days rainfall a year, the unbroken blue of an outback day ...

Sydney Morning Herald
ABC's 8MMM Aboriginal Radio pushes racism boundaries
Sydney Morning Herald
His remark echoes through the culture clashes that we witness in the wry satirical comedy Morton-Thomas has co-written, co-produced and performs in, 8MMM Aboriginal Radio. "I think Australia is a country of people who are extremely lazy when it comes ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Black Diggers review: Uncompromising look at treatment of Indigenous soldiers
Sydney Morning Herald
At the outbreak of WWI, Australia was deeply racist. Aborigines were not citizens, couldn't vote, and Indigenous men were barred from enlisting in the nascent Australian Imperial Force. To join the army, they had to prove they were white enough. Still ...
World War One's forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous ArmyBBC News
Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...Courier Mail
Black Diggers: a forgotten historyNEWS.com.au

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NEWS.com.au
Fencing surrounding the new Darwin Correctional Precinct. Source: News Corp ...
NEWS.com.au
Even more concerning is the disproportionate rate in which indigenous communities are being jailed. Despite making up just 30 per cent of the population in the NT, indigenous Australians account for 86 per cent of the prison inmates. The problem is far ...

BBC News
World War One's forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous Army
BBC News
Anzac Day, 25 April, is probably Australia's most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during World War One, and commemorates all the conflicts ...
New song penned to celebrate Indigenous diggersThe Age
Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...Courier Mail
Black Diggers review: Uncompromising look at treatment of Indigenous soldiersBrisbane Times
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BBC News
World War One's forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous Army
BBC News
Anzac Day, 25 April, is probably Australia's most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during World War One, and commemorates all the conflicts ...
Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...Courier Mail
Stage show Black Diggers reveals the forgotten story of Indigenous soldiers in ...Herald Sun
Black Diggers: a forgotten historyNEWS.com.au

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The Australian
Charles Hutchins, centre with raised leg, wears his slouch hat while being ...
The Australian
One hundred years later, the Aboriginal identity of Hutchins and 12 other West Australian soldiers who fought at Gallipoli has been revealed in They Served with Honour: Untold Stories of West Australian Aboriginal Servicemen. Ms Brown says her ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous art faces flooding marketplace
ArtsHub (subscription)
Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre. Western Australia. Venues. The Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre brings the South West community the best of live music, theatre, film, dance and more!

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Sydney City News
8mmm Aboriginal Radio
Sydney City News
Trish recalls a mantra from her experiences with the Central Australian Mob “ if you don't laugh, you'll only cry.” 8mmm Aboriginal Radio was filmed on location in Alice Springs, taking advantage of local community involvement, which Trish mentions ...
Trisha Morton-Thomas prefers comedy to earnestness in the Indigenous comedy ...The Age

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Courier Mail
Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...
Courier Mail
“Indigenous Australian men went to fight and yet were not recognised by the constitution,” he said. This meant that indigenous soldiers fought and died for a country they were not defined by as citizens. But, as Enoch made clear, the parameters of ...
Stage show Black Diggers reveals the forgotten story of Indigenous soldiers in ...Herald Sun
Black Diggers: a forgotten historyNEWS.com.au

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The Guardian
Indigenous heritage site safe after miner drops plans to drill for gas
The Guardian
A mining company has retreated from plans to drill for gas at one of Australia's oldest Indigenous heritage sites, prompting celebrations among traditional landholders. Representatives of the Djungan people of north Queensland in a statement said they ...

The Conversation UK
Indigenous Australia exhibition at the British Museum is insider activism at ...
The Conversation UK
The British Museum is about to its open doors to the first ever major exhibition in Britain devoted to the history of Indigenous Australia. Enduring Civilisation will showcase more than 170 startling and mostly never previously exhibited Aboriginal and ...
British Museum to feature Australia's Aboriginal mastersPanARMENIAN.Net

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