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The Guardian
Baird backs indigenous recognition
The West Australian
Premier Mike Baird wants NSW to lead the way in a national debate about recognising indigenous Australians in the constitution and has backed calls for a federal referendum. He has called on all the states and territories to formally endorse a campaign.
NSW premier Mike Baird backs poll on Indigenous constitutional recognitionThe Guardian
NSW calls for constitutional recognition of indigenous peopleBBC News
NSW first state to support referendum for indigenous rightsSydney Morning Herald
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The Guardian
Baird backs indigenous recognition
The Australian (blog)
PREMIER Mike Baird wants NSW to lead the way in a national debate about recognising indigenous Australians in the constitution and has backed calls for a federal referendum. HE has called on all the states and territories to formally endorse a campaign.
NSW premier Mike Baird backs poll on Indigenous constitutional recognitionThe Guardian
NSW first state to support referendum for indigenous rightsThe Age
NSW calls for constitutional recognition of indigenous peopleBBC News

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ABC Online
Indigenous culture must be free to grow, says Fred Chaney
The Australian
RECONCILIATION Australia founding co-chairman Fred Chaney has warned that however sympathetic white Australia is for ending indigenous disadvantage “we are in our hearts and instincts assimilationist” and this must change if we are to reconcile with ...
Fred Chaney, retiring Reconciliation Australia head, hopes future Indigenous ...ABC Online

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ABC Online
As iron ore price plunges, Marcia Langton urges Aboriginal businesses to diversify
ABC Online
Professor Langton was a key speaker at an Indigenous business conference at the University of Western Australia in Perth on Monday. She said many of the successful Aboriginal businesses in WA were highly exposed to the iron ore price, which had ...
Marcia Langton lashes out at future fund silenceThe Australian

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ABC Online
Fred Chaney, retiring Reconciliation Australia head, hopes future Indigenous ...
ABC Online
"I think there's an enormous challenge in getting us away from a totally assimilationist mindset and understanding that a continuing part of Australia is the Aboriginal tribes and nations that are such an important ongoing part of the fabric of ...

ABC Online
Fred Chaney, retiring Reconciliation Australia head, hopes future Indigenous ...
ABC Online
It broadly refers to the policy framework pursed by successive Australian governments throughout the first half of the 20th Century and well into the 1960s, when it was erroneously assumed that Indigenous Australians would benefit from adopting ...

The Guardian
Tony Abbott's visit to NT changed nothing, says Indigenous leader
The Guardian
Australia Post is looking to pull out of the town and is offering postal services to other businesses in town. The proposed $13m upgrade of the Gove district hospital, which services an Indigenous population of 16,000, has been cancelled by the ...

The Conversation AU
Stories from the sky: astronomy in indigenous knowledge
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australian practices, developed and honed over thousands of years, weave science with storytelling. In this Indigenous science series, we'll look at different aspects of First Australians' traditional life and uncover the knowledge behind ...

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The Conversation AU
Stories from the sky: astronomy in indigenous knowledge
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australian practices, developed and honed over thousands of years, weave science with storytelling. In this Indigenous science series, we'll look at different aspects of First Australians' traditional life and uncover the knowledge behind ...

Land trust 'failing Aborigines', says Ben Wyatt
The Australian
State Labor indigenous affairs spokesman Ben Wyatt will tell the Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference to be held at the University of Western Australia in Perth this week that divesting some of the 24 million hectares — about 10 ...

Independent Australia
Indigenous women behind bars: Persecuted by the system
Independent Australia
The treatment of criminalised women and girls in Australian prisons is deteriorating rapidly, but it is a whole lot worse if you happen to be Indigenous, writes Debbie Kilroy. The treatment of criminalised and imprisoned women and girls is ...

Australian Indigenous Fashion Week in Liquidation
Women's Wear Daily
A sophomore edition of Australian Indigenous Fashion Week looks unlikely. Australia's first indigenous fashion showcase debuted at the Sydney Town Hall on April 11; however the event's Sydney-based organizer All The Perks is in liquidation with 400,000 ...

The Guardian
New Indigenous Business Australia boss targets wealth, loans
The Australian
Edward Fry, named today as the new leader of the nation's main indigenous economic group for three years, has vowed to work with the IBA board to improve programs. The Abbott government will also today announce that Mr Fry, an indigenous Australian ...
Abbott's homogeneous approach to Indigenous affairs will not erase the stain ...The Guardian
First people's congress asks Tony Abbott to save 150 Indigenous communitiesThe Guardian
Indigenous leaders call for Tony Abbott to intervene on remote communitiesThe Age
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The Guardian
New Indigenous Business Australia boss targets wealth, loans
The Australian
Edward Fry, named today as the new leader of the nation's main indigenous economic group for three years, has vowed to work with the IBA board to improve programs. The Abbott government will also today announce that Mr Fry, an indigenous Australian ...
Abbott's homogeneous approach to Indigenous affairs will not erase the stain ...The Guardian
Indigenous leaders call for Tony Abbott to intervene on remote communitiesThe Age
First people's congress asks Tony Abbott to save 150 Indigenous communitiesThe Guardian
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Health advocates shine a light on Indigenous HIV infection
ABC Online
MARK COLVIN: Community health advocates say it'll need a community-led campaign and government support to tackle increasing rates of HIV among Indigenous Australians. They launched the inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HIV Awareness ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australia reeling from policy changes and cutbacks – commissioner
The Guardian
Despite the prime minister's assurances to the contrary, Australia is witnessing one of the largest upheavals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs thanks to large-scale funding cuts, policy changes and reviews by the Abbott government, the ...
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
Federal Government urged to act on 'national emergency' of Indigenous ...ABC Online
The untold story of Indigenous Australians and disability: five questions to ...The Guardian
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The Guardian
Indigenous Australia reeling from policy changes and cutbacks – commissioner
The Guardian
Despite the prime minister's assurances to the contrary, Australia is witnessing one of the largest upheavals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs thanks to large-scale funding cuts, policy changes and reviews by the Abbott government, the ...
Funding cuts to indigenous legal aid will be 'devastating'The Australian
The untold story of Indigenous Australians and disability: five questions to ...The Guardian
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
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Illawarra riders cycle the state for Aboriginal health
ABC Local
Recent reports have estimated a life expectancy gap of 10.6 years for Aboriginal males and 9.5 years for Aboriginal females compared to non-Aboriginal Australians. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, type two diabetes, cancer and respiratory ...

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Illawarra riders cycle the state for Aboriginal health
ABC Local
Recent reports have estimated a life expectancy gap of 10.6 years for Aboriginal males and 9.5 years for Aboriginal females compared to non-Aboriginal Australians. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, type two diabetes, cancer and respiratory ...

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More options needed for Aboriginal mothers
The West Australian
Sarah Ireland, a Menzies School of Health researcher, said her study showed about 10 per cent of women in a Northern Territory Aboriginal community, which was not identified, chose to give birth outside hospital, compared with 0.7 per cent of the wider ...

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