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Royal wedding: Meghan Markle's race is not a question worth debating - ABC Online


ABC Online

Royal wedding: Meghan Markle's race is not a question worth debating
ABC Online
The Australian Law Reform Commission lists historically more than 60 different definitions of who was considered as Indigenous. Today, I am asked to tick a box on the census form identifying whether I am Aboriginal. It is an entirely invented category ...

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WA Is Finally Taking Steps To Help Prevent Indigenous Deaths In Custody - Junkee


Junkee

WA Is Finally Taking Steps To Help Prevent Indigenous Deaths In Custody
Junkee
After years of pressure and campaigning, Western Australia is finally getting a custody notification service to help prevent Indigenous deaths in police custody. Under the new system, which will be up and running before the end of the year, WA police ...

WA Is Finally Taking Steps To Help Prevent Indigenous Deaths In Custody - Junkee


Junkee

WA Is Finally Taking Steps To Help Prevent Indigenous Deaths In Custody
Junkee
After years of pressure and campaigning, Western Australia is finally getting a custody notification service to help prevent Indigenous deaths in police custody. Under the new system, which will be up and running before the end of the year, WA police ...

Puma Celebrates Indigenous Culture With New Range - Men's Health


Men's Health

Puma Celebrates Indigenous Culture With New Range
Men's Health
“The history and importance of the Indigenous culture is something that we at PUMA are honoured to be able to recognise and celebrate with this collection,” says PUMA Oceania General Manger, Pancho Gutstein. “Being able to support such a talented ...

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Do Indigenous cultural landscapes matter? - Architecture AU


Architecture AU

Do Indigenous cultural landscapes matter?
Architecture AU
Australians and visitors are exposed to Indigenous place attachments through Indigenous settlements, everyday encounters and highly stylized cultural presentations in tourism and community facilities. The Gold Coast conurbation forms a part of what was ...

Do Indigenous cultural landscapes matter? - Architecture AU


Architecture AU

Do Indigenous cultural landscapes matter?
Architecture AU
Australians and visitors are exposed to Indigenous place attachments through Indigenous settlements, everyday encounters and highly stylized cultural presentations in tourism and community facilities. The Gold Coast conurbation forms a part of what was ...

How Australia celebrated the bicentenary in 1988 - Herald Sun


Herald Sun

How Australia celebrated the bicentenary in 1988
Herald Sun
At the same time, an estimated 40,000 people marched through the streets of Sydney, with protests in other cities, demanding land rights for Aboriginal people. The Uniting Church urged Australians to boycott bicentennial events unless indigenous rights ...

How Australia celebrated the bicentenary in 1988 - Herald Sun


Herald Sun

How Australia celebrated the bicentenary in 1988
Herald Sun
At the same time, an estimated 40,000 people marched through the streets of Sydney, with protests in other cities, demanding land rights for Aboriginal people. The Uniting Church urged Australians to boycott bicentennial events unless indigenous rights ...

Morning mail: US threatens Iran with 'strongest sanctions in history' - The Guardian


The Guardian

Morning mail: US threatens Iran with 'strongest sanctions in history'
The Guardian
Women are still living in “a climate of fear and vigilance” more than three decades since Australia introduced the Sex Discrimination Act, gender researcher Prof Catharine Lumby says. Her comments follow the release of a report by Plan ... Victoria's ...

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Queensland Government launches lawsuit against Kingvale Station owners over Cape York land clearing - ABC Online


ABC Online

Queensland Government launches lawsuit against Kingvale Station owners over Cape York land clearing
ABC Online
The Queensland Government has launched legal action against the owner of a Cape York cattle station at the centre of a land-clearing controversy for allegedly breaching an obligation to care for Indigenous heritage. The owner of Kingvale Station on the ...

Queensland Government launches lawsuit against Kingvale Station owners over Cape York land clearing - ABC Online


ABC Online

Queensland Government launches lawsuit against Kingvale Station owners over Cape York land clearing
ABC Online
The Queensland Government has launched legal action against the owner of a Cape York cattle station at the centre of a land-clearing controversy for allegedly breaching an obligation to care for Indigenous heritage. The owner of Kingvale Station on the ...

Indigenous Greens MP Lidia Thorpe says she may oppose treaty legislation - The Guardian


The Guardian

Indigenous Greens MP Lidia Thorpe says she may oppose treaty legislation
The Guardian
she told Guardian Australia. “We are a patient people, it's taken us 200 years to get this far.” The legislation, titled the Advancing the treaty process with Aboriginal Victorians bill 2018, sets out the process for establishing an Aboriginal ...

Indigenous Greens MP Lidia Thorpe says she may oppose treaty legislation - The Guardian


The Guardian

Indigenous Greens MP Lidia Thorpe says she may oppose treaty legislation
The Guardian
she told Guardian Australia. “We are a patient people, it's taken us 200 years to get this far.” The legislation, titled the Advancing the treaty process with Aboriginal Victorians bill 2018, sets out the process for establishing an Aboriginal ...

Research reveals boat journey of the first Australians - The Australian


Research reveals boat journey of the first Australians
The Australian
Scientists from the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA in South Australia contributed genetic modelling from mitochondrial DNA from living indigenous Australian lineages to show that the original gene pool came from a founding population of up to 200 ...

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Research reveals boat journey of the first Australians - The Australian


Research reveals boat journey of the first Australians
The Australian
It can now be revealed that they were skilled navigators who executed a carefully planned voyage to Australia, island hopping in a group of 100-200 individuals whose genetic imprint has been left in the Aboriginal inhabitants of northern Australia. So ...

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Cheesemaker ups the anty and US says yes - The Australian


The Australian

Cheesemaker ups the anty and US says yes
The Australian
Weaver ants — a traditional indigenous foodstuff in far north Australia — may not be the next sheep's back for our nation but, for Lloyd and her company Woodside Cheesewrights, they have proven the catalyst for a whole new business exporting cheese ...

New 24-hour legal hotline aimed at reducing WA deaths in custody - WAtoday


WAtoday

New 24-hour legal hotline aimed at reducing WA deaths in custody
WAtoday
A 24-hour on-call legal service that will check the welfare of all Aboriginal people taken into police custody will be operational in Western Australia before the end of this year. The Custody Notification Service is a key recommendation from the ...
WA legal hotline to reduce custody deathsNEWS.com.au
Black deaths in custody rally demands justiceRed Flag

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Indigenous guernsey unveiled - Carlton Football Club


Carlton Football Club

Indigenous guernsey unveiled
Carlton Football Club
“The canoe tree is an important symbol for Aboriginal groups. It was used for transport, hunting and trade and provided many resources for Indigenous Australians, including the boomerang, which also features in the monogram,” Young said. “Each winding ...

Indigenous guernsey unveiled - Carlton Football Club


Carlton Football Club

Indigenous guernsey unveiled
Carlton Football Club
“The canoe tree is an important symbol for Aboriginal groups. It was used for transport, hunting and trade and provided many resources for Indigenous Australians, including the boomerang, which also features in the monogram,” Young said. “Each winding ...

Aboriginal settlement in Australia was planned migration: study - The Sydney Morning Herald

Aboriginal settlement in Australia was planned migration: study  The Sydney Morning Herald

Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows. Experts have made the ...

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