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Let's join hands to eradicate a historical wrong
The Australian
Recognising indigenous Australians in our Constitution is one such issue. For too long, our nation's road map, the Constitution, has not acknowledged the extraordinary history, culture and contribution of the first Australians. With modern thinking ...

Aborigines repelled first white men in Qld
Yahoo!7 News
Aboriginal tribespeople peered out from behind palm trees, frightened but struck with wonder by the enormous floating creature on the horizon. The sighting, in 1606, is thought to be the first time indigenous Australians laid eyes on a European ship ...

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Aboriginal people's first ship sighting
BigPond News
Aboriginal tribespeople peered out from behind palm trees, frightened but struck with wonder by the enormous floating creature on the horizon. The sighting, in 1606, is thought to be the first time indigenous Australians laid eyes on a European ship ...

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Pulver accepts indigenous challenge
The Australian
Australia has produced some wonderful Aboriginal rugby players, including the Ella brothers and Kurtley Beale. But rugby lags behind the AFL and the NRL in Aboriginal participation. “Frankly, I think it has been a lost opportunity for Australian rugby ...
Australian Rugby Union celebrates National Reconciliation Week unveiling the ...ARU Rugby
ARU on front foot about racism: PulverThe West Australian

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ARU on front foot about racism: Pulver
Ninemsn
The Australian Rugby Union have shown they're on the front foot when it comes to tackling racism in sport with their timely announcement of an indigenous reconciliation plan, says the game's chief executive Bill Pulver. The ARU unveiled their maiden ...

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I am a racist and so are you
Crikey
Helen Razer is a horrid racist who selfishly fails to understand the pain of indigenous Australia. I make this declaration for two reasons. First, a simple cut'n'paste will now save several bloggers the trouble of typing it themselves. Second, it ...
Eddie McGuire, Adam Goodes and 'apes': a landmark moment in Australian race ...The Conversation
Eddie McGuire's comment reflected a serious problem in Australia, says Mick ...The Australian
Giving racism the bootThe Age
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Playwriting and Indigenous arts honoured this week
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The Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board presented Gulpilil with Australia's highest peer-assessed award for an Indigenous artist at the 6th annual National Indigenous Arts Awards at the Sydney Opera House this week.

Twists and turns on the path to reconciliation
Brisbane Times
When Fred Hollows and I travelled the country together for the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program in the 1970s, some attitudes towards indigenous Australians still resembled apartheid in South Africa. In my children's lifetimes there have been ...

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Twists and turns on the path to reconciliation
The Age
When Fred Hollows and I travelled the country together for the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program in the 1970s, some attitudes towards indigenous Australians still resembled apartheid in South Africa. In my children's lifetimes there have been ...

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Twists and turns on the path to reconciliation
Sydney Morning Herald
When Fred Hollows and I travelled the country together for the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program in the 1970s, some attitudes towards indigenous Australians still resembled apartheid in South Africa. In my children's lifetimes there have been ...

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Australia's Aborigines Launch a Bold Legal Push for Independence
TIME
Australia's Aboriginal-sovereignty movement can be traced back to 1972. That year, on Jan. 26 — celebrated nationally as Australia Day — a group of black militants planted a tent on the lawns of the Old Parliament House in Canberra. The Aboriginal ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous Australian creative leadership programme announced
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Kyle Morrison, a 2011 recipient and the Artistic Director of Perth's Yirra Yaakin Theatre, presented the first Aboriginal Australian performance of a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets in the Noongar language at the Globe Theatre as part of the ...
Service honours our indigenous servicemen and womenGladstone Observer
Racism has a long history we must all understandABC Online
Mind the gap on indigenous healthOn Line opinion
National Indigenous Times -ABC Message Stick
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TAFE courses may spurn Indigenous businesses
ABC Local
There is hope unique course being run by TAFE Western will help provide permanent markers at the graves of Aboriginal people across the region. The course, being run at Wellington and Bourke, teaches basic literacy and numeracy skills and how to cut ...

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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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Radio Australia (blog)
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
Yahoo!7 News
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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ABC Online
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 ...