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Claire BickersNews Corp Australia - Herald Sun

Mon, 2017/05/22 - 8:33am

NEWS.com.au

Claire BickersNews Corp Australia
Herald Sun
Minderoo has supported more than 250 initiatives within Australia and internationally that aim to empower* indigenous Australians and aspire for all children in Australia to “thrive by five”. The Forrests and daughter Grace started the Walk Free ...
Forrest's $400m donation a game-changer: PMSky News Australia
Mining baron's $400m donation of love9news.com.au
Australian business giant Andrew Forrest to unveil biggest charitable donation in Australian historyNEWS.com.au
Shepparton News -The Australian Financial Review
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Letter: Reconciliation Week - Port Macquarie News

Mon, 2017/05/22 - 5:44am

Port Macquarie News

Letter: Reconciliation Week
Port Macquarie News
National Reconciliation Week is held annually on 27 May to 3 June in celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and to nurture and grow on the relationships shared by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians.

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Fifty years after 1967 referendum, indigenous recognition remains elusive - The Australian

Mon, 2017/05/22 - 5:05am

The Australian

Fifty years after 1967 referendum, indigenous recognition remains elusive
The Australian
A small group of activists hoped to win equal rights for Australian Aborigines. The Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement, later the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, ran a decade-long grassroots ...
Constitutional recognition: Aboriginal Tasmanians to argue for compensation deal at Uluru summitABC Online
The real gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health in Australia: it's worse than you thinkBallarat Courier
1967 referendum: indigenous leaders' viewsNEWS.com.au
Voice of America -National Indigenous Times -The Guardian
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The real gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health in Australia: it's worse than you think - Ballarat Courier

Sun, 2017/05/21 - 4:48pm

Ballarat Courier

The real gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health in Australia: it's worse than you think
Ballarat Courier
Indigenous Australians are losing 2.3 times the number of healthy years to death and disease than their non-Indigenous counterparts, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. In an alarming finding, the gap between ...

Constitutional recognition: Aboriginal Tasmanians to argue for compensation deal at Uluru summit - ABC Online

Sun, 2017/05/21 - 2:08pm

ABC Online

Constitutional recognition: Aboriginal Tasmanians to argue for compensation deal at Uluru summit
ABC Online
Mr Mansell said a referendum to "recognise" Indigenous people in the constitution did not have the potential to deliver economic empowerment. "Why are we mucking around with gestures when the Aboriginal people of Australia — when you look around at ...

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Indigenous Australians Win Decades-Long Land Rights Battle - Voice of America

Sun, 2017/05/21 - 2:04pm

Indigenous Australians Win Decades-Long Land Rights Battle
Voice of America
After a 30-year battle, indigenous groups on Australia's Cape York peninsula are celebrating the return of more than 160,000 hectares of tribal land. It has been handed back to three aboriginal clans by the Queensland state government. It was ...

UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detention - Bega District News

Sun, 2017/05/21 - 5:54am

UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detention
Bega District News
The vast majority of Aboriginal people had jobs, attended school and were not involved in the criminal justice system, Mr Scullion said. He acknowledged some Indigenous Australians "need additional support" and said the Coalition was committed to ...

Arnhem Land musician inspiring kids as first Aboriginal to rap in Indigenous language - ABC Online

Sat, 2017/05/20 - 11:29pm

ABC Online

Arnhem Land musician inspiring kids as first Aboriginal to rap in Indigenous language
ABC Online
Musician and dancer Baker Boy had a clear goal in mind: he wanted to be Australia's first Aboriginal artist to rap in an Indigenous language. And with the release of his track Cloud 9, which features the 20-year-old rapping in Yolngu Matha, he's on his ...

Constitutional recognition: Will it mean anything to Aboriginal families? - ABC Online

Sat, 2017/05/20 - 6:56pm

ABC Online

Constitutional recognition: Will it mean anything to Aboriginal families?
ABC Online
So could reforming Australia's constitution be of any use to families like Deborah Lonsdale's? Tasmanian Aboriginal writer Michael Mansell doubts that, and thinks many of his people will need convincing that constitutional recognition is a worthwhile step.

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Push to change names linked to Australia's violent colonial past - SBS

Sat, 2017/05/20 - 7:43am

SBS

Push to change names linked to Australia's violent colonial past
SBS
He also signed a so-called "treaty" with Aboriginal elders in 1835, believed to be the only such agreement of its kind in Australia. In exchange for items like knives, flour and blankets, Batman's treaty gave him access to around 60,000 acres of land.

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From model to role model: Lois Peeler on inspiring the next generation of Indigenous Australians - SBS

Sat, 2017/05/20 - 6:40am

SBS

From model to role model: Lois Peeler on inspiring the next generation of Indigenous Australians
SBS
In the 1960's she became Australia's first Aboriginal model, then joined the now famous band The Sapphires touring war-raved Vietnam, as imortalised in the 2012 film. Ms Peeler considers the production “mostly accurate – with some artistic licence” and ...

Indigenous leaders head to Uluru for 'historic' meeting on ... - The Guardian

Sat, 2017/05/20 - 2:16am

The Guardian

Indigenous leaders head to Uluru for 'historic' meeting on ...
The Guardian
Uluru will host a four-day summit on constitutional recognition that could change Australia's relationship with its first peoples. Photograph: Kristi O'Brien/Tourism ...
Renewing the faith of 67: Indigenous recognition remains elusiveThe Australian
Change gonna come, remembering the 1967 referendum | Illawarra ...Illawarra Mercury

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Renewing the faith of 67: Indigenous recognition remains elusive - The Australian

Fri, 2017/05/19 - 2:07pm

The Australian

Renewing the faith of 67: Indigenous recognition remains elusive
The Australian
It has helped to reshape Australia's self-image and the national approach to Aboriginal people and indigenous culture — so much so that today's proponents of a new referendum hope their proposals for constitutional reform also may have the potential ...
Change gonna come, remembering the 1967 referendumBrisbane Times

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PM, Shorten shun Uluru stop on road to indigenous recognition - The Australian

Fri, 2017/05/19 - 2:01pm

The Australian

PM, Shorten shun Uluru stop on road to indigenous recognition
The Australian
At each of those meetings 10 representatives were elected for the Uluru gathering, making it indigenous Australia's biggest formal gathering, particularly significant given there was no indigenous representation at the conventions that crafted the 1901 ...

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Mundine wants Indigenous voice in parliament - Sky News - Sky News Australia

Fri, 2017/05/19 - 8:02am

Sky News Australia

Mundine wants Indigenous voice in parliament - Sky News
Sky News Australia
Aboriginal leader Warren Mundine is calling for a constitutionally enshrined indigenous voice in parliament.
Warren Mundine: constitutional recognition profoundly important for ...The Sydney Morning Herald

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Earliest evidence found of Indigenous Australian life on coast 50000 years ago - The Guardian

Fri, 2017/05/19 - 5:11am

The Guardian

Earliest evidence found of Indigenous Australian life on coast 50000 years ago
The Guardian
Archaeologists led by the University of Western Australia found evidence of inhabitation on Barrow Island in the country's north west, discovering charcoal, animal remains and ancient artefacts that confirmed hunter-gatherer occupation. Located 60 ...
WA Pilbara coast occupied by Australian Aboriginal 50000 years agoPerth Now
Aust coastal occupation '50000 years old'9news.com.au

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'Noble compromise' will emerge on Indigenous recognition: Pearson - Illawarra Mercury

Fri, 2017/05/19 - 1:25am

Illawarra Mercury

'Noble compromise' will emerge on Indigenous recognition: Pearson
Illawarra Mercury
The Cape York leader believes a clear position will emerge from next week's Indigenous constitutional convention at Uluru and has challenged the nation's political leaders to have the courage to deal with it and "put a winnable proposition to the ...

Four Thousand Years Ago Indians Landed in Australia - National Geographic Australia

Fri, 2017/05/19 - 12:13am

National Geographic Australia

Four Thousand Years Ago Indians Landed in Australia
National Geographic Australia
Genetic evidence suggests that just over 4 millennia ago a group of Indian travellers landed in Australia and stayed. The evidence emerged a few years ago after a group of Aboriginal men's Y chromosomes matched with Y chromosomes typically found in ...

Warren Mundine: constitutional recognition profoundly important for ... - The Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2017/05/18 - 11:22pm

The Sydney Morning Herald

Warren Mundine: constitutional recognition profoundly important for ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
One of the first questions Indigenous people ask each other when we meet for the first time is, "who's your mob?"

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