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Sacrifices made by indigenous remembered on Vets' Day
The Sunshine Coast Daily
DURING the first half of the 20th century all non-Europeans were banned from serving in the Australian Armed Forces. But thousands of Indigenous Australians fought, with the help of alias names, ethic backgrounds and changing birth years. The ...

Indigenous veterans honoured at ceremony
ABC Online
"Unfortunately, when they returned to Australia they were treated as second class citizens. "So, today is really about acknowledging the mistakes of the past but also in particular the contribution that Aboriginal people have made to the defence of our ...

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Service honours our indigenous servicemen and women
The Sunshine Coast Daily
Wing Commander Professor Lisa Jackson-Pulver told those attending the Indigenous Veterans' Day Ceremony about her unique family history in the Australian military. "My great uncle died on the battlefields of Gallipoli, my father was in the RAAF, and my ...

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Indigenous Australians seek constitutional recognition as original inhabitants
Radio Australia (blog)
This week is National Reconciliation Week in Australia, and this year the annual celebrations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and tradition take on additional significance as momentum gathers for constitutional change to recognise ...
Renewed push to recognise Indigenous Australians in ConstitutionABC Online
Abbott to complete constitutional journey of recognition for indigenousThe Australian
Abbott promises indigenous recognitionThe West Australian
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National food plan ignores Aboriginal interests
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The plan focuses on increasing food exports into Asia, and includes strategies for boosting production in northern Australia. But Joe Morrison from the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance says it should include more support for ...

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National food plan ignores Aboriginal interests
ABC Online
The Government's National Food Plan has been criticised for ignoring the interests of Indigenous people in the Northern Territory. The plan focuses on increasing food exports into Asia, and includes strategies for boosting production in northern Australia.

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Indigenous prison rates are a national shame
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians make up more than a quarter of Australia's prisoner population. It's a social policy disaster. Paul Simpson and Michael Doyle offer one solution. The continual rise in incarceration rates of Indigenous Australians represents ...

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Indigenous Australian: mama lo imas luksave long ol
Radio Australia
Dispela wik i National Reconciliation Week long Australia, na long dispela yar dispela selebresen blong ol Aboriginal na Torres Strait Islander culture na tubuna pasin blong ol bai go long narapela rot gen. Oli laik long Constitution oa mama lo blong ...

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David Gulpilil, The Journey of the Australian Aboriginal Actor
International Business Times AU
David Gulpilil had recently won the $50,000 Red Ochre Award for the Australia Council's National Indigenous Arts Award held at the Sydney Opera House. His son, Jida, was the one who nominated him for the award saying that his father's contribution to ...
Aboriginal artist David Gulpilil honoured at National Indigenous Arts AwardsABC Online
David Gulpilil wins top arts prizeThe Australian
Indigenous Musician Receives $45000 GranttheMusic
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New School To Lift Indigenous University Participation
DesignBuild Source
Global infrastructure and engineering consultancy Parsons Brinckerhoff has joined forces with the Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Oodgeroo Unit to increase Indigenous Australian university participation rates. The new Science and ...

Campaign for indigenous recognition - the next step
Ballarat Courier
It was seen as a turning point in bridging the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Now there is a campaign for a new referendum to insert a section recognising indigenous people in the constitution, something the founding document ...

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Australia: indigenous weekend blighted by racist slur after 13-year-old girl ...
The Independent
A weekend aimed at celebrating the contribution of Australia's indigenous community has been marred by an incident in which a 13-year-old girl called Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes an “ape”. The incident happened on Friday evening during a football ...
Goodes incident should lift Indigenous causeThe Roar
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Art show explores Aboriginal identity
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addthis_button_compact. Send EmailPrinter. Art show explores Aboriginal identity. VietNamNet Bridge – An Australian touring art exhibition called Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia opened on Friday at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

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Aboriginal artist David Gulpilil honoured at National Indigenous Arts Awards
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Artist David Gulpilil has won the prestigious Red Ochre prize at the National Indigenous Arts Awards. The awards, held at the Sydney Opera House, recognise outstanding Aboriginal artists and the contribution Indigenous artists make in Australia and on ...
David Gulpilil wins top arts prizeThe Australian
Indigenous Musician Receives $45000 GranttheMusic
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David Gulpilil wins top arts prize
The Australian
Previous recipients of the $50,000 prize have included Michael Leslie, Warren H Williams, Archie Roach and Jimmy Little. Fifty-nine-year-old Gulpilil says he will use some of the prize money to fund jobs programs for young Indigenous Australians living ...
David Gulpilil, OAM wins 2013 Red Ochre AwardArts Hub Australian (subscription)
Indigenous Musician Receives $45000 GranttheMusic
Actor David Gulpilil puts $50000 award towards a new life in the bushNEWS.com.au

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1200 gather for world-first Indigenous conference
ABC Online
PEW Environment Group director Barry Traill says the international forum is the first of its kind, looking at Indigenous people managing country. "Australian ranger groups are really leading the pack worldwide. A lot of people, be they from Finland or ...
The Indigenous history of Australia's railwaysSBS
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World Indigenous Network 5 Day Conference Underway In Australiaspyghana.com
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The Indigenous history of Australia's railways
SBS
"We're thinking of a time where the context was that Aboriginal people were only supposed to be suitable for certain types of work. There was this idea that people were under surveillance. You know you couldn't just choose to work in the railways, you ...

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Indigenous recording will prove history wrong
Arts Hub Australian (subscription)
For more than a century the wax cylinder recordings Horace Watson made of Fanny Cochrane Smith have been touted as the only sound recording of the traditional Tasmanian Aboriginal language. The recordings of Smith singing, made in 1899 and 1903, ...

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Indigenous stars play like brothers
Geelong Advertiser
If you wanted any more evidence that Geelong's indigenous stars will play a major part in future premiership success then you only needed to watch Saturday's game against Port Adelaide. Christensen was everywhere, racking up 28 touches. Stokes also ...

Winmar, McAdam open up on Open Mike
Fox Sports
Both McAdam and Winmar talk about what it was like to be racially abused, what forced them into action and their pride in seeing the AFL come so far to formally recognise indigenous Australians with their own round on the fixture. Winmar also sheds ...

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