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Verity Johnson: One thing we beat Australia at is the indigenous thing
New Zealand Herald
asked my Aussie friend, steam rising from around her head, "New Zealand loves its indigenous culture. Australia doesn't." We were standing over the majesty of Rotorua's Te Puia. I too should have been inspired into deep reflection. Instead I was ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott to announce indigenous recognition referendum date soon
Sydney Morning Herald
Mr Abbott, a firm backer of the yes case along with other government leaders, said he hoped that naming a date would help crystallise the discussion and lead to a form of words capable of drawing majority support among Australian voters. "I am ...
John Pilger: War, circus and injustice down underGreen Left Weekly
COAG talks terrorism, indigenous affairsSky News Australia
States and territories will introduce new laws in effort to catch homegrown ...NEWS.com.au

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COAG puts focus on land rights to get Territory moving on jobs
The Australian
“But one of the things that was coming through to me loud and clear from my recent visit to East Arnhem Land is that the vast majority of indigenous people, at least in East Arnhem Land, and I would say in Cape York as well ... they want land to be an ...
COAG talks terrorism, indigenous affairsSky News Australia
COAG beefs up counter-terrorismSBS
States unite on anti-terror lawsCourier Mail

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COAG talks terrorism, indigenous affairs
Sky News Australia
Counter-terrorism measures and indigenous affairs have pushed school funding off the agenda at today's meeting of the nation's leaders. The Council of Australian Governments meeting will focus on national security and enhanced co-operation between the ...

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The Guardian
Andrew Forrest's Indigenous job plans are a 'massive social experiment'
The Guardian
“Alcohol, gambling and illegal drugs are destroying vulnerable Indigenous and other families and communities across Australia. The other 26 recommendations of the Forrest review are empowered by the card and together will end disparity while promoting ...

TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific
New film project to highlight Australia's Indigenous tourism offering
TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific
Tourism Australia is partnering with an award winning team for a new film project which will see renowned Director/Cinematographer Warwick Thornton direct a three-minute film promoting Australia's Indigenous tourism experiences to international visitors.

COAG talks terrorism, indigenous affairs
The Australian
THE Council of Australian Governments meeting on Friday will focus on national security and enhanced co-operation between the states and commonwealth on counter-terrorism matters. ASIO has already briefed attorneys-general and police and emergency ...

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Australian Mining
More respect needed in negotiations with aboriginal landholders
Australian Mining
An indigenous consulting firm has advised mining companies wishing to negotiate with indigenous landholders to listen first, and negotiate later. Indigenous Services Australia director Tony Shaw has suggested that when seeking permission from ...

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Australian Mining
More respect needed in negotiations with aboriginal landholders
Australian Mining
An indigenous consulting firm has advised mining companies wishing to negotiate with indigenous landholders to listen first, and negotiate later. Indigenous Services Australia director Tony Shaw has suggested that when seeking permission from ...

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New indigenous Trans-Tasman series slated to become an annual event ...
Courier Mail
And organisers also are looking to add a women's series in conjunction with the men's games. The New Zealand Maori National Team beat the Coles Australian Indigenous Invitation team on points differential after they split the inaugural two-match series.

ABC Online
Aboriginal playwright and composer Jimmy Chi on the strength to live with ...
ABC Online
For Broome's Jimmy Chi, writing and composition gave him the strength to not just survive his own mental illness, but to take on some of Australia's biggest issues and move the nation towards a more sophisticated understanding of Aboriginal reconciliation.

Crikey (blog)
“Our organs are sacred”: how we fail Aboriginal Australians with Chronic ...
Crikey (blog)
This post is an extract from the catalogue for the exhibition “Get Well Soon: A Diagnosis” by Therese Ritchie and Chips Mackinolty currently showing at David Hancock's Gallery Two Six in Darwin through 11 October 2014. The statistics around chronic ...

Constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians not about race
The Australian
He believes we can “renounce our ethnic identity, because I have done that myself”. That's his choice. But Bolt's circumstances aren't the same as those of indigenous Australians. My ancestors didn't immigrate to Australia a generation ago. They've ...

Constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians not about race
The Australian
He believes we can “renounce our ethnic identity, because I have done that myself”. That's his choice. But Bolt's circumstances aren't the same as those of indigenous Australians. My ancestors didn't immigrate to Australia a generation ago. They've ...

ABC Online
Architecture: The next bastion of Indigenous creativity says architect Jefa ...
ABC Online
One of Victoria's few Indigenous Australian architects says architecture is one of the last bastions of Indigenous creative endeavour and participation is low. Jefa Greenaway, director of Greenaway Architects, cited a lack of understanding in the ...

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Brisbane Times
Fred Hollows Foundation funds Australia's first indigenous ophthalmologist
Brisbane Times
Kris will soon become Australia's first fully qualified indigenous ophthalmologist. It is an extraordinary achievement for this young Queenslander. His graduation will, for those of us who work in eye health, rank alongside the 1959 graduation of ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Fred Hollows Foundation funds Australia's first indigenous ophthalmologist
Sydney Morning Herald
His graduation will, for those of us who work in eye health, rank alongside the 1959 graduation of Australia's first Aboriginal university graduate, Margaret Williams, and that of indigenous leader Charles Perkins – a great mate of Fred Hollows – who ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Fred Hollows Foundation funds Australia's first indigenous ophthalmologist
Sydney Morning Herald
Kris will soon become Australia's first fully qualified indigenous ophthalmologist. It is an extraordinary achievement for this young Queenslander. His graduation will, for those of us who work in eye health, rank alongside the 1959 graduation of ...

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Crikey (blog)
“Our organs are sacred”: how we fail Aboriginal Australians with Chronic ...
Crikey (blog)
In simple terms, and all other things being equal, this means over 1,000 Territorian and tri-state Aboriginal people will be “on the machine” in the Territory in 14 years. In Central Australia alone, at worst case by 2020, there will be 479 people ...

To Find Meteorites, Listen to the Legends of Australian Aborigines
Smithsonian
The Aboriginal warning is perhaps one of the clearest examples of an oral tradition that has preserved the memory of an ancient meteorite strike, argues Duane Hamacher at the University of New South Wales in Australia. According to Hamacher, such tales ...

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