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How Aboriginal Australians Saw the Stars
Bharat Press
Indigenous Australia is the longest living continuous culture on earth, however trendy researchers have simply began to take a look at the knowledge that comes with 50,000 years of residency—and that is very true of astronomy. First Australians ...

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Australia Eyes Indigenous Recognition Vote
Fiji Sun Online
Unlike other settler nations such as Canada and New Zealand, Australia's constitution makes no mention of its indigenous people and still has two so-called “race provisions”, including one that allows the states to ban people from voting based on their ...

World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
ABC Online
There is a growing push for better recognition of Indigenous soldiers, many of whom had to lie about their identity to serve their country. Some of those soldiers' names are still not honoured in the Australian War Memorial, despite their active service.

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World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
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There is a growing push for better recognition of Indigenous soldiers, many of whom had to lie about their identity to serve their country. Some of those soldiers' names are still not honoured in the Australian War Memorial, despite their active service.

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World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
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"There's sometimes a forgetting, a very convenient forgetting of what Indigenous Australians have done and I think World War I is one of those things when we have this commemoration to say, in fact this nation has been a very diverse nation for a very ...

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World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
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"There's sometimes a forgetting, a very convenient forgetting of what Indigenous Australians have done and I think World War I is one of those things when we have this commemoration to say, in fact this nation has been a very diverse nation for a very ...

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Aboriginal villages in Australia under threat
Financial Times
Dickie Bedford was born in the 1960s at a time when thousands of aboriginal people were being evicted from pastoral cattle stations. Half a century later a new generation of indigenous Australians faces a similar fate as budget cuts threaten to close ...

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Aboriginal villages in Australia under threat
Financial Times
Dickie Bedford was born in the 1960s at a time when thousands of aboriginal people were being evicted from pastoral cattle stations. Half a century later a new generation of indigenous Australians faces a similar fate as budget cuts threaten to close ...

Pigments and palettes from the past – science of Indigenous art
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australian practices, honed over thousands of years, weave science with storytelling. In this Indigenous science series, we look at different aspects of First Australians' traditional life and uncover the knowledge behind them. Here we ...

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Cyclone Tracy: Aboriginal people foresaw 'bad event' in Darwin
ABC Online
It is Darwin folklore that right before Cyclone Tracy hit the city on Christmas Eve 1974, Aboriginal people had already deserted the town. Historians have struggled to find facts to back up the rumour, and even suggested it may have been a way ...

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Australia's second National Aboriginal Bishop highlights justice and ...
CT Australia
Chris McLeod is still awaiting the official consecration ceremony at which he will become the Assistant Bishop in the Adelaide Diocese—located in the Australian state of South Australia (SA)—but through an interview with the Bible Society this week ...
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Anglican Aboriginal Bishop announced for South Australia
Anglicannews
The Rev'd Chris McLeod, a Gurindji man who has been involved in ministry among and beside Aboriginal people in Anglican orders for more than 20 years, will be consecrated as an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Adelaide early next year. The Adelaide ...

Families urged to look after each other as Kimberley region records seven ...
ABC Online
Professor Dudgeon is head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention project, which is trying to identify the most effective ways to bring down the extraordinarily high suicide rates in Indigenous Australia. Indigenous Australians ...

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Women and kids suffer most pain
The Australian
Long before white Australia “discovered” that men should be “part of the solution”, Aboriginal women were asking men to walk with them. But it's not working. Why not? Because it's simplistic; for Aboriginal women, disadvantage is compounded by race as ...

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The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world
BBC News
In 1984 a group of Australian Aboriginal people living a traditional nomadic life were encountered in the heart of the Gibson desert in Western Australia. They had been unaware of the arrival of Europeans on the continent, let alone cars - or even clothes.

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The long struggle to improve Indigenous health in Australia just got a bit easier
ABC Online
Six Indigenous medical students have graduated as doctors from the University of NSW adding to the barely 200 Aboriginal doctors across Australia, and we joined one of those graduating to see what her aims are.

The long struggle to improve Indigenous health in Australia just got a bit easier
ABC Online
Six Indigenous medical students have graduated as doctors from the University of NSW adding to the barely 200 Aboriginal doctors across Australia, and we joined one of those graduating to see what her aims are.

Sussan Ley vows to focus on indigenous health and GP co-payment
Sydney Morning Herald
Incoming Health Minister Sussan Ley has vowed to put more focus on the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, while also listening to crossbench senators to ensure the country gets a "sustainable health policy". Ms Ley will take over ...

Urban living beats benefits
The Australian
... and education cannot be brought to the people, then serious consideration needs to be given to bringing the people to where the opportunities are. The alternative is yet another lost generation. This is not just the Aboriginal people's loss but ...

The Guardian
Queensland police charge Cairns mother with murder of eight children
The Guardian
On Sunday a congregation from the nearby St Luke's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican church, which is attended by relatives of the children, visited the Murray Street shrine of flowers, soft toys and messages left by well-wishers from all ...
8 children stabbed to death in Australia 0Woodstock Sentinel Review

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