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Another day in the election without end
Brisbane Times
Shorten stakes leadership claim. Bill Shorten reveals his plans for a quota for indigenous candidates, Labor's relationship with unions and the end to division within the party. PT1M19S ... Going on for three weeks after exhausted Australian voters ...

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NTNews.com.au
Change Constitution to recognise indigenous: Giles
NTNews.com.au
IF conservatives claim a special place in safeguarding the country's heritage and traditions, they have a special responsibility to back indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution. Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles, Australia's ...

Adam Giles backs Australian Constitution change
The Daily Telegraph
Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles, Australia's first indigenous state of territory leader, made the remarks at a forum organised by Recognise, which is leading the campaign to correct the discriminatory absence of any mention of our first ...

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Adam Giles backs Australian Constitution change
NEWS.com.au
Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles, Australia's first indigenous state of territory leader, made the remarks at a forum organised by Recognise, which is leading the campaign to correct the discriminatory absence of any mention of our first ...

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The Guardian
'Cascade of diarrhoea': UK critic savages Australian art exhibition
The Age
In a searing review of the Royal Academy's new 'Australia' exhibition which opened this weekend in London, the Sunday Times' Waldemar Januszczak describes indigenous art as “tourist tat”, Frederick McCubbin's famous The Pioneer as “poverty porn”, and ...
Life's a beach, unless you're aboriginal in Australia show at the Royal AcademyCulture24
Australian art show in London – the reviews are inThe Guardian
UK critic slams Australian art as 'a cascade of diarrhoea'SBS
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The Age
Aboriginal voices are the key to real change
The Age
Tony Abbott wants to be Australia's first ''Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs''. He has allocated his own department responsibility for Aboriginal policy and service delivery. He also said that he wanted his first day in the job to include ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal voices are the key to real change
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott wants to be Australia's first ''Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs''. He has allocated his own department responsibility for Aboriginal policy and service delivery. He also said that he wanted his first day in the job to include ...

The Guardian
Life's a beach, unless you're aboriginal in Australia show at the Royal Academy
Culture24
Speaking in the 1960s, artist Russell Drysdale said of his home turf that in Australia there is a “quality of strangeness you do not find anywhere else”. So in an act of QED, Drysdale has painted a warped and burnt out sheep station which has attracted ...
'Cascade of diarrhoea': UK critic savages Australian art exhibitionSydney Morning Herald
Australian art show in London – the reviews are inThe Guardian
UK critic slams Australian art as 'a cascade of diarrhoea'SBS
The Independent
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National Geographic
Employment and Indigenous Empowerment in Mining: Australia and South Africa
National Geographic
I recently supervised the Master's degree thesis project of Richard W Roeder, a German lawyer and Rotary Peace Studies Scholar at the University of Queensland who sought to ask the following research question: “How do Public Governance and Private ...

Spotlight on indigenous affairs today
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
2013 marks the 30th anniversary of the passing of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 ('the Act'), recently celebrated as part of NAIDOC week. The 1983 Act, passed by the Wran Labor Government, was New South Wales' first piece of land ...

1997: Lowitja O'Donoghue
The Australian
PRIME minister John Howard was struggling through his address to the Australian Reconciliation Convention when Aboriginal leader Lowitja O'Donoghue sprang to her feet and turned her back on him. Now 81 and retired from public life, she still remembers ...

1997: Lowitja O'Donoghue
The Australian
PRIME Minister John Howard was struggling through his address to the Australian Reconciliation Convention when Aboriginal leader Lowitja O'Donoghue sprang to her feet and turned her back on him. Now 81 and retired from public life, she still remembers ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
I still call Australia home
The Australian
A graduate of the University of Southern Queensland and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, he became in 2010 one of the first Aboriginal Australians to be accepted into Oxford University. He was awarded an inaugural Charles Perkins ...
The best Australian art, home and awayTelegraph.co.uk
How many more suicides will it take?Sydney Indymedia
Royal Academy's major survey of Australian art is 'powerfully atmospheric' and ...The Week UK
Art Daily
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Sydney Celebrates Aboriginal Culture
CRIENGLISH.com
Sydney's connection to the aboriginal "dreaming" will be celebrated for the first time this year, in a new event that organizers hope will celebrate and inspire visitors from around the world and reconnect Australia's largest city with the meaning and ...

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Sydney Celebrates Aboriginal Culture
CRIENGLISH.com
Sydney's connection to the aboriginal "dreaming" will be celebrated for the first time this year, in a new event that organizers hope will celebrate and inspire visitors from around the world and reconnect Australia's largest city with the meaning and ...

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Shoalhaven students in national Indigenous prime minister challenge
ABC Local
'The Other Election', run by the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), features over 600 Indigenous kids from around Australia in years 10-12 putting themselves into the hypothetical role of delivering a speech as Australia's first ...

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Shoalhaven students in national Indigenous prime minister challenge
ABC Local
'The Other Election', run by the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), features over 600 Indigenous kids from around Australia in years 10-12 putting themselves into the hypothetical role of delivering a speech as Australia's first ...

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Sydney launches summer celebration of aboriginal culture
Xinhua
20 (Xinhua) -- Sydney's connection to the aboriginal "dreaming," will be celebrated for the first time this year, in a new event that organizers hope will celebrate and inspire visitors form around the world and reconnect Australia's largest city with ...

WA today
Two festivals showcase indigenous culture
WA today
Yet the Boomerang Festival, curated by Rhoda Roberts and touted as Australia's most ambitious indigenous arts event, has struggled to sell tickets, despite a line-up led by Gurrumul Yunupingu and Archie Roach. Poor ticket sales for the festival, which ...

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Sky News Australia
Abbott's indigenous team to be named
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's new team to instigate a radical shake-up of indigenous affairs will be named within 10 days. The incoming chairman of Mr Abbott's new indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, has flagged the announcement of the panel's ...
Portfolio details spell out Tony Abbott's role as women's ministerThe Guardian
Abbott sworn in as 28th Prime MinisterABC Online
Five reasons Tony Abbott shouldn't be women's ministerNew Statesman
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