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The Guardian
Deadly Questions: ask Aboriginal champions anything about being Indigenous
The Guardian
“This is an opportunity for any Australian to ask that question and say the thing that they are too scared to ask, or too afraid to ask,” he told Guardian Australia. “Not every Aboriginal person will agree with this and neither should they have to ...
Victoria launches campaign in support of indigenous treatyThe Australian

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ABC News
Life in Irons: Brisbane's convict stories highlight role of Aboriginal people in penal colony
ABC News
"These seven long years I've been serving now and seven long more have to stay, all for bashing a block down our alley and taking his ticker away." The song may be about Botany Bay, but Brisbane did not escape the tide of convicts transported to ...

ABC News
Life in Irons: Brisbane's convict stories highlight role of Aboriginal people in penal colony
ABC News
"These seven long years I've been serving now and seven long more have to stay, all for bashing a block down our alley and taking his ticker away." The song may be about Botany Bay, but Brisbane did not escape the tide of convicts transported to ...

ABC News
American 'love affair' with Australian Indigenous art brings artists together for a US exhibition
ABC News
Two American philanthropists, a museum director and nine female artists have come together to showcase Australian Aboriginal art in Washington DC. The show has just opened at the Phillips Collection museum in the United States capital where artist ...

ABC News
American 'love affair' with Australian Indigenous art brings artists together for a US exhibition
ABC News
Two American philanthropists, a museum director and nine female artists have come together to showcase Australian Aboriginal art in Washington DC. The show has just opened at the Phillips Collection museum in the United States capital where artist ...

ABC News
Tiwi Islands footy, art and family in the fabric of AFL Indigenous Round designs
ABC News
Jennifer "Lulu" Coombes is an artist from the islands north of Darwin whose work, and the culture it depicts, will soon be witnessed by spectators around Australia. She is one of the handful of artists to have designed the guernseys worn in the AFL ...

ABC News
Australian Medical Association endorses Uluru Statement on Indigenous constitutional change
ABC News
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is vowing to push for Indigenous constitutional change after endorsing the Uluru Statement. The powerful doctors lobby declared it would get on the "front foot" during any referendum campaign, raising the ...

The Macleay Argus
Cricket prodigy Brock Larance to pad up for historic Indigenous tour
The Macleay Argus
The tour will commemorate 150 years since an Aboriginal cricket side became the first sporting team from Australia to tour internationally. The Rovers Cricket Club junior was picked to replace D'Arcy Short, who has been selected into the Australian One ...

The Saturday Paper
Fighting spirit: Tai Tuivasa, 25, mixed martial artist
The Saturday Paper
I'm the first Indigenous Australian to win a UFC fight. [Tuivasa's mother is an Indigenous Australian and his father is Samoan.] It's a tradition that didn't just start with me. Indigenous Australia has produced great boxers. I think they're just the ...
The UFC contender who was born to fightThe Australian

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Newcastle Herald
Opinion | First anniversary of the signing of the Uluru Statement from the Heart | John Sutton
Newcastle Herald
Australia has just marked the first anniversary of the signing of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, at a historic First Nations Convention. That gathering in May 2017 of about 250 indigenous delegates from throughout the country was the culmination ...

In the spirit of getting the ball rolling, Noel Pearson offers this 'Declaration of Australia and the Australian People'
The Australian
And whereas Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the First Nations of the Australian continent and its islands, possessed under ancient laws and customs, according to the reckoning of culture, from the Creation, according to the common law ...

Symbolic indigenous recognition for all of us
The Australian
We stand on the cusp of bringing these three parts of our national story together … with constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. This reconciliation will make a more complete commonwealth. The following year, Julian Leeser, now Liberal ...

Symbolic indigenous recognition for all of us
The Australian
We stand on the cusp of bringing these three parts of our national story together … with constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. This reconciliation will make a more complete commonwealth. The following year, Julian Leeser, now Liberal ...

The Australian
Indigenous, Muslim leaders urge tolerance
The Australian
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and the Islamic Council of Victoria have signed a joint commitment to increasing religious and racial tolerance in Australia and announced they will co-fund a scholarship for refugees at La Trobe ...

The Australian
Victoria launches campaign in support of indigenous treaty
The Australian
The five-time Paralympian had to apply for an honorary British passport to attend his first Paralympics, in Rome in 1960, because Aboriginal people were not able to apply for an Australian one. He said a lot has changed since then, but a treaty would ...

The Australian
Victoria launches campaign in support of indigenous treaty
The Australian
The five-time Paralympian had to apply for an honorary British passport to attend his first Paralympics, in Rome in 1960, because Aboriginal people were not able to apply for an Australian one. He said a lot has changed since then, but a treaty would ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson's stories from the heart of Australia
The Australian
The indigenous leader's proposed declaration is specific in recognising “ancient indigenous heritage” as the foundation of Australia, followed by “British institutions” that built upon it and the “gift of multicultural migration”. Referring to ...

The Australian
Hieu Van Le's story: one thread in Australia's rich tapestry
The Australian
“At the end of Noel's oration, he outlined his vision for a Declaration of Australia, which focused on the 'three stories that make Australia': our ancient indigenous heritage, British institutions, and an enduring gift of multiculturalism brought ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson's stories from the heart of Australia
The Australian
The indigenous leader's proposed declaration is specific in recognising “ancient indigenous heritage” as the foundation of Australia, followed by “British institutions” that built upon it and the “gift of multicultural migration”. Referring to ...

The Advertiser
AFL Indigenous Round highlights the best and worst of the social problems facing our native Australians
The Advertiser
SO it is the AFL's indigenous round. It's a celebration of the contribution that indigenous players have made to Australian football. Great names, great memories. The AFL trot them out: Farmer, Cable, Nicholls, Winmar, Rioli, Long, McLeod although they ...

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