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Blackbird descendants track down their families
ABC Online
And last week, Indigenous Australian MP Carol Martin travelled to Vanuatu for a workshop to discuss broadening efforts to link ni-Vanuatu descendents in Australia with their extended families in the Pacific. CAROL MARTIN: People were kidnapped from the ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Beaten but unbowed, Hooper flags turning pro
Sydney Morning Herald
After his second-round exit at the hands of Mekhontcev, he stood by the stunt but intimated it was done less in protest at plight of indigenous Australians but in opposition to the existence of the Union Jack on the Australian flag. Damien Hooper sits ...
Aboriginal Boxer Will Not Be Punished for Wearing Native Flag at Olympics ...Indian Country Today Media Network.com
Damien Hooper, strikes trouble for wearing T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag to ...National Indigenous Times
Canadian aboriginal athletes back Australian boxer's T-shirt stuntCanada First Perspective
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Aboriginal or not
SBS
While Australians may personally identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, not everyone has a document to prove it. This becomes problematic when Indigenous-specific services (for things like housing and education) require people to provide a ...

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Brisbane Times
Working bee just the start for Abbott
Brisbane Times
When Brough had it (and before), and under Jenny Macklin, it has combined with other, demanding, duties. Without reflecting on previous or current occupants, the problems of Australia's indigenous people demand and deserve a minister's total attention.

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Rugby League honours wartime service of Murray Islander Enemarki Zaro
NEWS.com.au
What made them unique was that almost all of the enlisted men were Torres Strait Islanders, making them the only Indigenous Australian battalion ever formed by the Australian Army. Murray Island elder Enemarki Zaro, who now lives in Townsville, was one ...

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Rugby League honours wartime service of Murray Islander Enemarki Zaro
Herald Sun
What made them unique was that almost all of the enlisted men were Torres Strait Islanders, making them the only Indigenous Australian battalion ever formed by the Australian Army. Murray Island elder Enemarki Zaro, who now lives in Townsville, was one ...

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Damien Hooper, strikes trouble for wearing T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag to ...
National Indigenous Times
Australian boxer Damien Hooper said it was worth the risk of getting into trouble with Olympic Games officials on Monday when he wore a t-shirt bearing the Aboriginal flag to the ring before his debut fight. The exciting light heavyweight said he was ...
Australian Olympic Boxer May Be Punished for Wearing Aboriginal FlagNew America Media
Canadian aboriginal athletes back Australian boxer's T-shirt stuntCanada First Perspective

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How do we turn a palette of colours into picture perfect?
Sydney Morning Herald
When I got back to Australia and started working as a journalist, my life changed further because I started meeting Aboriginal people and talking to them. I thought they would see me as their enemy. They didn't – or, at least, they didn't if I ...

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Australian Olympic Boxer May Be Punished for Wearing Aboriginal Flag
New America Media
“I'm an Aborigine representing my culture and my people here at the Olympic Games,” Hooper told World News Australia. Under International Olympic Committee rules no flags can be brought into stadia of nations not competing at the Games. The Aboriginal ...
Canadian aboriginal athletes back Australian boxer's T-shirt stuntCanada First Perspective

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Rugby league tackling equality
NEWS.com.au
This is what makes our game great for Aboriginal Australians, and for all Australians. It represents an aspiration of what our society should look like. In rugby league, if an Aboriginal person is prepared to show a level of determination to succeed ...

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mosaic of success and failure
The Australian
by: Nicolas Rothwell; From: The Australian; August 04, 2012 12:00AM ... When prime minister John Howard and his indigenous affairs minister, Mal Brough, first stepped forward with their grand plan, both the blueprint and the timeframe were very different.

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Rugby league tackling equality
Herald Sun
This is what makes our game great for Aboriginal Australians, and for all Australians. It represents an aspiration of what our society should look like. In rugby league, if an Aboriginal person is prepared to show a level of determination to succeed ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Screening for inspiration, film uncovers pure gems
Sydney Morning Herald
The American troops they performed for, Robinson and Peeler say, knew nothing about Aboriginal Australia. Performing at the Tiki Village, remembers Robinson, ''We'd sing Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We loved it so much, and they loved our harmonies ...
Our own soul sisters now gems on the big screenThe Canberra Times

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War duty for Aboriginal servicemen honoured at last
Adelaide Now
THE call to create Australia's first memorial to Aboriginal servicemen and women in Adelaide has sparked an overwhelming response that has guaranteed it will be built. The appeal committee announced yesterday it had taken just four months to raise the ...

War duty for Aboriginal servicemen honoured at last
NEWS.com.au
THE call to create Australia's first memorial to Aboriginal servicemen and women in Adelaide has sparked an overwhelming response that has guaranteed it will be built. The appeal committee announced yesterday it had taken just four months to raise the ...

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War duty for Aboriginal servicemen honoured at last
Herald Sun
THE call to create Australia's first memorial to Aboriginal servicemen and women in Adelaide has sparked an overwhelming response that has guaranteed it will be built. The appeal committee announced yesterday it had taken just four months to raise the ...

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Canadian aboriginal athletes back Australian boxer's T-shirt stunt
Canada First Perspective
Boxer Damien Hooper, an aboriginal and Australia's best hope for a gold medal in boxing, won his bout against American Marcus Browne, but also apologized later for sporting the T-shirt, which he took off before the actual fight began. The Olympic ...
Indigenous support for Hooper flag actionNinemsn

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Reel deal: singing Sapphires shine in the afterglow
Sydney Morning Herald
The American troops they performed for, Robinson and Peeler say, knew nothing about Aboriginal Australia. Performing at the Tiki Village, Robinson says: ''We'd sing Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We loved it so much and they loved our harmonies.'' ...
Our own soul sisters now gems on the big screenThe Canberra Times

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Petrol sniffing fears fuel support for Opal switch
ABC Online
The number of people in remote South Australian Aboriginal communities sniffing petrol has declined but there are fears access to unleaded fuel could cause a resurgence. Uniting Communities' manager of Indigenous policy and advocacy, Jonathan Nicholls ...

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Cowboys helping to 'close the gap'
North Queensland Cowboys
Rugby League was the first sporting code in Australia to join the 'Close the Gap' campaign with an inaugural 'Close the Gap' round in 2009, and this year's game-wide activities will again highlight the importance of working to improve Indigenous health ...