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"Utopia" seeks change for Aboriginal Australians
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LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger accuses Australia of running a system of apartheid towards its Aboriginal communities in a new documentary released in cinemas in Britain this week. "Utopia", named after a large, dry ...
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Utopia seeks change for Aboriginal Australians
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Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger accuses Australia of running a system of apartheid towards its Aboriginal communities in a new documentary released in cinemas in Britain this week. Utopia, named after a large, dry region in the north of ...

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Tony Abbott dreams of an indigenous PM
The Australian
If Australia could achieve indigenous MPs, an indigenous chief minister in the Northern Territory with Adam Giles, Mr Abbott reflected, "we certainly can have in this parliament, or the next, full recognition of indigenous people in the Constitution of ...
Not long until Australia has Indigenous PM: AbbottSBS
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The Age
Treaty with Australia's indigenous people long overdue
The Age
Unfinished business: ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark, Nova Peris and federal minister for indigenous affairs Philip Ruddock at the opening ceremony for the National Aboriginal Conference called Treaty held in Canberra in August 2002. Photo: Andrew Taylor.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Treaty with Australia's indigenous people long overdue
Sydney Morning Herald
Indeed, in nations such as Canada, new treaties are still being made. Australia is the exception. We are now the only Commonwealth nation that does not have a treaty with its indigenous peoples. We have never entered into negotiations with them about ...

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Treaty with Australia's indigenous people long overdue
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Australia is the exception. We are now the only Commonwealth nation that does not have a treaty with its indigenous peoples. We have never entered into negotiations with them about the taking of their lands or their place in this nation. Rather than ...

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"Utopia" seeks change for Aboriginal Australians
Chicago Tribune
LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger accuses Australia of running a system of apartheid towards its Aboriginal communities in a new documentary released in cinemas in Britain this week. "Utopia", named after a large, dry ...
John Pilger's Utopia: an Australian film for British eyes firstThe Guardian

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"Utopia" seeks change for Aboriginal Australians
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger accuses Australia of running a system of apartheid towards its Aboriginal communities in a new documentary released in cinemas in Britain this week. "Utopia", named after a large, dry ...
John Pilger's Utopia: an Australian film for British eyes firstThe Guardian

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Radio Australia
Australian and British museums plan major indigenous exhibition
Radio Australia
The Australian National Museum and the British Museum are joining forces to present one of the most important exhibitions of indigenous Australian artifacts ever staged. A shield collected after a skirmish at Botany Bay in 1770. (Credit: ABC licensed).

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British museum preparing indigenous display for trip to Australia
Radio Australia
The British Museum's curator for Oceania and Australia, Gaye Sculthorpe, is an indigenous Australian from Tasmania, with a long career in museums and as a member of Australia's Native Title Tribunal. She took me to see the shield that was left on the ...

SBS
Australia will soon have first Indigenous PM: Abbott
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But now, Mr Abbott says, it won't be long until he has an Indigenous successor. "We have in Ken Wyatt, the first Indigenous member of the House of Representatives, and in this term of Parliament we have in Nova Peris the first female Indigenous member ...
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Australia's 44th parliament sits
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For only the third time in history, the Australian Parliament has opened with an Indigenous welcome to country and smoking ceremony. Local Ngambri-Ngunnawal elder Matilda House has given the Prime Minister a welcome gift - a fighting boomerang - which ...

PM's indigenous stand 'encouraging', says Tasmanian Aboriginal activist ...
The Daily Telegraph
Acknowledging the re-election of indigenous Liberal MP Ken Wyatt and new Labor senator Nova Peris, Australia's first female indigenous parliamentarian, Mr Abbott pledged to achieve recognition of indigenous people in the constitution "in this ...

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Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre legal director Michael Mansell Picture: Ross ...
Herald Sun
Acknowledging the re-election of indigenous Liberal MP Ken Wyatt and new Labor senator Nova Peris, Australia's first female indigenous parliamentarian, Mr Abbott pledged to achieve recognition of indigenous people in the constitution "in this ...

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The Guardian
John Pilger's Utopia: an Australian film for British eyes first
The Guardian
This time the subject is Australia and its treatment of Indigenous people. Utopia takes its name from the Northern Territory region believed to be the poorest place on Earth. Pilger follows a “trail of tears and betrayal and resistance”. His conclusion ...

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Bishop compared to Harry Potter witch
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Earlier, Tony Abbott declared it possible Australia will one day have an indigenous prime minister. The Prime Minister delivered a brief address at an indigenous "welcome to country" in Canberra. He acknowledged the re-elected Liberal MP Ken Wyatt as ...
First day 44th parliament marked by pomp and ceremonySBS
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Abbott hopes for future Indigenous PM
Sky News Australia
When Tony Abbott declared Australia will one day have an Aboriginal prime minister, that person may have been listening in the Great Hall of Parliament. Mr Abbott made the statement during a brief address at an indigenous 'welcome to country' ceremony, ...
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Opening day of the 44th parliament
Sky News Australia
Tony Abbott has declared it possible Australia will one day have an indigenous prime minister, at the opening day of the 44th parliament. The prime minister delivered a brief address at an indigenous 'welcome to country' in Canberra on Tuesday.
Indigenous recognition: Tony Abbott seeks change 'in this parliament or next'The Guardian
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Abbott says Aust can have indigenous PM
The West Australian
Tony Abbott has declared it possible Australia will one day have an indigenous prime minister, at the opening day of the 44th parliament. The prime minister delivered a brief address at an indigenous "welcome to country" in Canberra on Tuesday.

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Abbott says Aust can have indigenous PM
The Australian
TONY Abbott has declared it possible Australia will one day have an indigenous prime minister, at the opening day of the 44th parliament. The prime minister delivered a brief address at an indigenous "welcome to country" in Canberra on Tuesday.
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