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The Canberra Times
Aboriginal legal group lobbies to raise age of criminal responsibility
The Canberra Times
The Aboriginal Legal Service has called on ACT Attorney-General Gordon Ramsay to raise Canberra's age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years old. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows Aboriginal children in the ACT between 10 and 14 years ...

Eternity News
The battle Australians don't want to remember
Eternity News
He's not saying we shouldn't commemorate Gallipoli, of course. He's just drawing a big red circle around our nation's collective hypocrisy when it comes to commemorating the loss of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives in Australia's own ...

The Guardian
The inflatable screen taking Indigenous film back to the Top End
The Guardian
He more recently starred in a critically acclaimed Aboriginal King Lear titled The Shadow King, was a regular on the Melbourne theatre scene, and toured Australia and the globe with his jazz duo Lewis & Young. Yet too often his work, and that of other ...

The Guardian
The inflatable screen taking Indigenous film back to the Top End
The Guardian
He more recently starred in a critically acclaimed Aboriginal King Lear titled The Shadow King, was a regular on the Melbourne theatre scene, and toured Australia and the globe with his jazz duo Lewis & Young. Yet too often his work, and that of other ...

The Guardian
Historic Northern Territory treaty agreement means 'the old way is finished'
The Guardian
The Institute of Aboriginal and Islander Studies (AIATSIS) helped curate the exhibition. The chief executive of AIATSIS, Craig Ritchie, told Guardian Australia: “The Barunga statement is an enduring declaration of the power of Aboriginal peoples ...

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Independent Australia
1868 Indigenous XI and the colonising game of cricket
Independent Australia
In 1868, the game of settlement and invasion returned in the visage of an all-Aboriginal cricket team. It was a curious business, given that the first Australian team to tour England in any official capacity was distinctly lacking in the white ...

ABC Message Stick
Australia's long-lost agricultural history explored in Bangarra Dance Theatre's new production
ABC Message Stick
Iconic dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre has brought to life an award-winning book aiming to debunk myths about Indigenous history. "I reckon we're going to get into the spiritual consciousness of people," Bangarra Dance Theatre's creative director ...

BBC News
Stumped
BBC News
150 years ago, 13 Aboriginal cricketers became the first sporting side from Australia to embark on a tour overeseas when they travelled to England. Greg de Moore has spent years researching the history of Aboriginal cricket and he believes the ...

Daily Telegraph
Lane Cove gets its own creative arts precinct thanks to artist Guy Warren
Daily Telegraph
Travis De Vries won the NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellowship this year and has already started work. The new creative arts centre is supported by Lane Cove Council and managed by not-for-profit, community arts organisation Centrehouse Incorporated.

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NT News
Treaty: Why has it taken so long?
NT News
Addressing the crowd after that meeting, Hawke said it wasn't until a treaty was in place that “we will have an Australia within which the Aboriginal and the non-Aboriginal Australia will be able to live together truly in peace and in dignity”. People ...

Daily Telegraph
David Speers: Shorten deserves credit for tackling thorny issue
Daily Telegraph
The Labor leader is willing to respond to the call from indigenous Australia, even if it means a political fight, which there surely will be. In the 30 years since the Barunga Statement, the call for a treaty has evolved. The past three decades has ...

Newcastle Herald
Opinion | Is Australia still land of the fair go?
Newcastle Herald
Cilento, CEO of CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) cited figures from their recently released report on inequality. They show that 13 per cent of Australia's population are living below the poverty line. Cilento argued that growing ...

ABC News
SA Government decides not to go ahead with Aboriginal treaties
ABC News
The South Australian Government has scrapped a process to negotiate treaties with the state's Aboriginal nations. It comes on the same day the Northern Territory pledged to work towards a treaty with its Indigenous peoples. Premier Steven Marshall said ...
NT signs historic Barunga agreement to begin Indigenous treaty talksThe Guardian
Aboriginal treaties: Australian states at 'beginning of journey' - BBC ...BBC News
NT a step closer to an indigenous treaty9news.com.au

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The Guardian
Aboriginal man sues over three months' solitary in adult prison when he was 16
The Guardian
In January Guardian Australia reported that a teenager in Western Australia had been held in solitary confinement for more than 10 months. In 2017, a court in Victoria heard that children transferred to an adult prison following riots at Parkville ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney University academics label Ramsay Centre 'European supremacism'
The Sydney Morning Herald
More than 100 academics have signed an open letter opposing the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation's involvement with Sydney University, saying the institution was not a "training institute for a future political cadre". Sydney University is in ...

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Aboriginal treaties: Australian states at 'beginning of journey'  BBC News

Australian states have taken steps towards the nation's first treaties with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Australia is the only Commonwealth ...

NT News
NT signs historic Barunga agreement to begin Indigenous treaty talks
NT News
The NT Labor Government and the Territory's four land councils signed a Treaty Memorandum of Understanding in Barunga on Friday, marking the 30 year anniversary of Prime Minister Bob Hawke's unfulfilled promise of a treaty with indigenous Australians.

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The West Australian
Indigenous voice in Parliament pushed
The West Australian
The next step in constitutional recognition of indigenous people in Australia will be made in the Kimberley. It has been a year since Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from across the country came up with the Uluru Statement as the way ...

West Coast Sentinel
Ceduna invited to comment on Aboriginal strategy
West Coast Sentinel
The Department for Education is developing the new strategy in an effort to improve learning outcomes for Aboriginal students and young people across South Australia as well as improve attendance and retention rates and provide training to ensure ...

The Guardian
NT signs historic Barunga agreement to begin Indigenous treaty talks
The Guardian
The Labor senator Pat Dodson, in Barunga to reboot bipartisan talks on an Indigenous voice to parliament and constitutional recognition, told Guardian Australia: “I was sitting in the dust 30 years ago at Barunga, helping to craft the words that went ...
Victorian Parliament to vote on first indigenous treatyBest in Australia

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