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Fans push to get AB Original's anti-Australia Day protest into Hottest 100 - The Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2016/12/20 - 4:42am

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Fans push to get AB Original's anti-Australia Day protest into Hottest 100
The Sydney Morning Herald
... instantly beloved new album Reclaim Australia – throws a head-shaking middle finger at those who'd wilfully choose to drape themselves in the Southern Cross and celebrate on January 26, a day that represents dispossession and genocide to Aboriginal ...
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Confidence in democracy hits record low as Australians 'disaffected with political class' - ABC Online

Mon, 2016/12/19 - 11:46pm

ABC Online

Confidence in democracy hits record low as Australians 'disaffected with political class'
ABC Online
"Australians' support for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians and for marriage equality suggests that any public votes on these issues will succeed," ANU researcher Dr Jill Sheppard said. "This should provide some relief to the ...

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Confidence in democracy hits record low as Australians 'disaffected with political class' - ABC Online

Mon, 2016/12/19 - 11:46pm

ABC Online

Confidence in democracy hits record low as Australians 'disaffected with political class'
ABC Online
"Australians' support for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians and for marriage equality suggests that any public votes on these issues will succeed," ANU researcher Dr Jill Sheppard said. "This should provide some relief to the ...

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Indigenous leaders support Port Melville - The Australian

Mon, 2016/12/19 - 11:31pm

Indigenous leaders support Port Melville
The Australian
"We implore those out there that like to talk us down and tell us how to live our lives, to stay out of our Tiwi business... and at the same time give our already disadvantaged people the chance and opportunities of life that the rest of Australia take ...

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Will treaties with Indigenous Australians overtake constitutional recognition? - The Conversation AU

Mon, 2016/12/19 - 7:48pm

The Conversation AU

Will treaties with Indigenous Australians overtake constitutional recognition?
The Conversation AU
Discussions have begun between the South Australian government and three Indigenous nations aimed at finalising a treaty. These negotiations follow recent developments toward treaties between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians across the ...

Indigenous MPs call for sackings over Miss Dhu death - The Australian

Mon, 2016/12/19 - 1:00pm

Indigenous MPs call for sackings over Miss Dhu death
The Australian
Australia's first indigenous lower house member and Liberal MP Ken Wyatt has joined forces with state Labor MP Ben Wyatt, also an indigenous West Australian, to call for the sacking of police and nurses involved in the death of Aboriginal woman Miss Dhu.

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Thursday Island: A complex melting pot at the edge of Australia - ABC Online

Sun, 2016/12/18 - 11:04pm

ABC Online

Thursday Island: A complex melting pot at the edge of Australia
ABC Online
She was school captain of the first group of Year 12 students to graduate from the local high school, and was the first Torres Strait Islander to participate in the Indigenous Scholarship Program run by the United Nations in Geneva. For a time she ...

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Bold, brilliant Indigenous Australian women's art – in pictures - The Guardian

Sat, 2016/12/17 - 9:04pm

The Guardian

Bold, brilliant Indigenous Australian women's art – in pictures
The Guardian
With more than 200 pieces by 118 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, Who's Afraid of Colour? features paintings, installations, sculpture and textural work from some of Australia's most important contemporary artists – some never before shown ...

HEALS program gives Aboriginal children access to surgery ... - The Sydney Morning Herald

Sat, 2016/12/17 - 9:00pm

The Sydney Morning Herald

HEALS program gives Aboriginal children access to surgery ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
Five-year-old Saraya is one of the lucky ones to benefit from a hearing and language program that is transforming lives.

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Malcolm Turnbull calls for inclusive grassroots movement for Australian republic - ABC Online

Sat, 2016/12/17 - 12:18pm

ABC Online

Malcolm Turnbull calls for inclusive grassroots movement for Australian republic
ABC Online
In a speech to the Australian Republican Movement at its 25th anniversary dinner in Sydney on Saturday night, Mr Turnbull said the next referendum to make Australia a republic needs to be more inclusive and less confusing than the movement's failed bid ...

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Aboriginal cricket legends win pride of place at the MCG, 150 years on - The Age

Sat, 2016/12/17 - 4:05am

The Age

Aboriginal cricket legends win pride of place at the MCG, 150 years on
The Age
Fiona Clarke, Indigenous artist from Warrnambool, who has designed the artwork to be used throughout the MCG during the 2016 Boxing Day Test between Australia and Pakistan. Cricket Australia will dedicate the Test to the memory of Australia's first ...

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Booderee National Park one step closer to sole Indigenous management - ABC Online

Fri, 2016/12/16 - 9:19pm

ABC Online

Booderee National Park one step closer to sole Indigenous management
ABC Online
Booderee National Park, on the New South Wales South Coast, is one step closer to sole Indigenous management with the appointment of an Aboriginal woman as park manager. In a first for Parks Australia, the role was specifically designated for an ...

Aboriginal woman's brutal slaying sheds light on Australia's continuing racial divide - Chicago Tribune

Fri, 2016/12/16 - 3:42pm

Chicago Tribune

Aboriginal woman's brutal slaying sheds light on Australia's continuing racial divide
Chicago Tribune
When the British claimed Australia in the 1700s, they did so by declaring it "terra nullius" — owned by no one — ignoring the fact that Aboriginal people had lived there for at least 50,000 years. Forced off the land by colonists and exposed to new ...

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False promise of indigenous 'treaty' could derail recognition - The Australian

Fri, 2016/12/16 - 1:00pm

The Australian

False promise of indigenous 'treaty' could derail recognition
The Australian
Constitutional recognition of indigenous people has come to this point. After years of talk and tears, it has never seemed more desperately vulnerable. Ironically, its greatest threat comes from the Left. Moves by states such as Victoria and South ...

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Footage of 'inhumane' treatment of jailed Aboriginal woman rattles Australia - Mashable

Fri, 2016/12/16 - 7:50am

Mashable

Footage of 'inhumane' treatment of jailed Aboriginal woman rattles Australia
Mashable
A coronial inquest released CCTV footage of 22-year-old Julieka Dhu's time in lock-up before her death in police custody on Friday. The Indigenous Yamatji woman passed away in August 2014, but her family requested for the footage to be made public.

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The untold story of the ancient Aboriginal bone ornament that upended historical record - SBS

Fri, 2016/12/16 - 5:23am

SBS

The untold story of the ancient Aboriginal bone ornament that upended historical record
SBS
Despite being unearthed almost 25 years ago, Australia's oldest-known piece of Indigenous jewelry is finally shining under the spotlight - and making history. The 13cm-long kangaroo bone point was excavated in the Kimberly region of northern Australia ...

Aboriginal woman's slaying exposes Australia's racial divide - Jakarta Post

Fri, 2016/12/16 - 5:06am

Jakarta Post

Aboriginal woman's slaying exposes Australia's racial divide
Jakarta Post
Aboriginal woman's slaying exposes Australia's racial divide The family of Lynette Daley walks along Ten Mile Beach after visiting the site where she died near Yamba, Australia, Aug. 15, 2016. The brutal death of Daley, an Aboriginal woman, and the ...

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Noel Pearson complains to CCC over Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy audit release - ABC Online

Thu, 2016/12/15 - 11:22pm

ABC Online

Noel Pearson complains to CCC over Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy audit release
ABC Online
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he will lodge a complaint with Queensland's corruption watchdog over the release of an audit into his Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy. The Academy, led by an independent board and chaired by Noel Pearson, ...

Indigenous treaties 'just playing games with words' - The Australian

Thu, 2016/12/15 - 1:01pm

The Australian

Indigenous treaties 'just playing games with words'
The Australian
This assessment, from constitutional lawyers Greg Craven and Anne Twomey, comes after moves toward state-based treaties with Aboriginal communities emerged in Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Professor Craven, vice-chancellor of ...

Sovereignty: Same indigenous stories, fresh telling - The Australian

Thu, 2016/12/15 - 1:00pm

The Australian

Sovereignty: Same indigenous stories, fresh telling
The Australian
Clarke's work Born of the Land features in Sovereignty, an exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne that focuses on the contemporary art of indigenous people from southeast Australia. Born of the Land represents death and ...

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