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Soul Down Under
The Voice Online
EVERY SO often a movie or documentary is released that highlights the plight of indigenous Australians and the hardships they faced throughout history. These films often depict aboriginal people especially the women as passive, weak willed and more ...
IoS film review: The Sapphire AlpsThe Independent

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IoS film review: The Sapphire Alps
The Independent
It's adapted from a stage musical, which isn't necessarily encouraging, but it's also inspired by the life story of the writer's own mother, a member of an Australian Aboriginal girl group which entertained American infantrymen in Vietnam. You couldn't ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
St John's patron in racial outrage
Sydney Morning Herald
The comment was made in the presence of several indigenous students, one of whom has lodged a formal complaint and, according to senior staff, remains ''deeply traumatised''. Geoff Phillips and Christine Liddy. Good times ... Jeffrey Phillips with the ...

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Prince Charles pays tribute to 'marvellous culture'
Sydney Morning Herald
Political leaders, present and past, Indigenous leaders, business representatives, academics, Olympians, artists and community leaders were served barbecued prawns and lamb cutlets, as the heir to the British throne paid tribute to Australia's ...
Tom Keneally at his home in Sydney yesterday. Picture: James Croucher Source ...The Australian
Royal Sydney: Rain, hail and shineABC Online
Prince Charles thanks multicultural AustraliaYahoo!7 News
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Brisbane Times
Pollies not public blocking reform to the constitution
Brisbane Times
NOEL Pearson has appealed to both sides of politics to back all of an expert panel's recommendations for recognising indigenous Australians in the constitution, insisting politicians - not public opinion - are the biggest threat to a successful referendum.
Amid the politics of fear, steps to reconciliationSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
Pollies not public blocking reform to the constitution
Sydney Morning Herald
NOEL Pearson has appealed to both sides of politics to back all of an expert panel's recommendations for recognising indigenous Australians in the constitution, insisting politicians - not public opinion - are the biggest threat to a successful referendum.
Amid the politics of fear, steps to reconciliationBrisbane Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
Art's man of reckoning
Sydney Morning Herald
To arrive at this bay in Sydney Harbour, first we needed to trace the circumnavigation of Australia by Matthew Flinders and his Aboriginal shipmate Bungaree, via the Mosman Art Gallery. The man behind the gallery's present exhibition - the Aboriginal ...

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Amid the politics of fear, steps to reconciliation
The Canberra Times (blog)
Many people assumed that this had been done in the referendum of 1967, when a proposal that resulted in indigenous Australians being counted in population statistics received 90.8 per cent approval. But, as Noel Pearson has noted, the original ...

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ABC Online
Tom Keneally at his home in Sydney yesterday. Picture: James Croucher Source ...
The Australian
The best-selling author and rugby league buff met Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, as she prepared to make her first official visit to Australia with Charles and found her to be "absolutely charming". Keneally is not the only ... The Prince of Wales ...
Royal Sydney: Rain, hail and shineABC Online
Royals reign in the rain during their Sydney visitHerald Sun
Sydney turns on weather for RoyalsSydney Morning Herald
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Mixed awareness of push in preamble
The Australian
THERE are fewer people in the mainstream community now aware of the national push to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution than there were in March. Only 31 per cent of non-indigenous Australians had heard about the referendum in a ...

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Images reflect mission studies
ABC Online
They started in 1938 and worked right through 1939 and they documented I think somewhere in the order of about 5,000 aboriginal people from throughout Australia documenting essentially their sort of racial backgrounds. (MORE FOOTAGE OF PHOTOS OF ...

Grog fight to beat a fetal error
The Australian
There is no reason to believe that the picture is very much different in the east or west Kimberley, or in some communities of the western desert or the Pitjantjatjara lands, or several other corners of remote Aboriginal Australia. These Fitzroy Valley ...

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The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts, by Mike Smith. Source: Supplied
The Australian
In this way it marks a new intellectual approach to occupying the Aboriginal inland. Here we are, at the outset of The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts, gazing at the country through Smith's eyes. What can we see? A desert palimpsest, a manuscript ...

Into the Bloodstream (Archie Roach)
The Australian
It's an entirely apposite quirk of fate, then, that sees the simultaneous release of landmark works from two of Aboriginal Australia's deadliest singer-songwriters. Strengthening the parallel is the fact Into the Bloodstream and Blak & Blu are ...

Evening Standard
Prince Charles visits a rugby league exhibition at Bondi Beach, unsettling ...
NEWS.com.au
The NSW and Australia representative met Prince Charles as rugby league showed off its indigenous roots - via a game on the beach involving NRL stars Greg Inglis, Willie Tonga and Bird. And despite being coached in how to present himself to His Royal ...
Royal Sydney: Rain, hail and shineABC Online
Prince Charles the football fanHerald Sun
Prince Charles caught out by Sydney stormThe Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Prince Charles leaves his mark on NRL
Sydney Morning Herald
The NSW and Australia representative met Prince Charles as rugby league showed off its indigenous roots - via a game on the beach involving NRL stars Greg Inglis, Willie Tonga and Bird. And despite being coached in how to present himself to His Royal ...
Royal Sydney: Rain, hail and shineABC Online
Prince Charles caught out by Sydney stormThe Australian
Prince Charles the football fanHerald Sun
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
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Language may contribute to Indigenous disadvantage
UQ News
“We noticed that although most Indigenous children in Australia do not speak a traditional language, neither do they speak Standard Australian English in their homes and communities,” Dr Mushin said. “Teachers may assume that their children already ...

Indigenous music mentors rewarded with award
ABC Online
Two Indigenous music mentors have been jointly named as the Northern Territory Australian of the Year. Mark Grose and Michael Hohnen are the co-founders of Darwin-based record label Skinnyfish music, which has promoted and connected Indigenous ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australian life just keeps getting longer
Sydney Morning Herald
''You are still spritely and you think you've been frugal, but the money's just not there.'' Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to die in any age as non-indigenous people. Tweet · Pin It · Email article · Print · Reprints ...

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Federal recognition for the Wet Tropics
The Cairns Post
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke will today announce the indigenous heritage values of the region will be added to the existing Wet Tropics national heritage listing. The region, which stretches from Cooktown to Townsville, includes the Barron ...
Cape York owners to decide heritage statusThe Australian
'Unanswered questions' over Cape's UNESCO bidABC Online

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