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'They call us Australians': Vanuatu descendants of Indigenous Australians search for long lost family  ABC News

A small group of men from Vanuatu with Aboriginal ancestry have travelled to Australia on a mission to reconnect with their long lost family, and to push for better ...

WAtoday
Parliamentary inquiry to recommend referendum allowing MPs be dual citizens
WAtoday
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said Senator Reynolds had "pointed to a real problem in the constitution" that wouldn't be included if the document was being drafted today. "But I have to say that when it comes to updating our constitution, my first ...

J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Descendants of Indigenous WWI Light Horse soldiers honour their ancestors
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
... Peter Allen- National Co-ordinator of the Centenary of Anzac Jewish Program & individual sponsors Deirdre Bear, Sylvia Leeser, Roland Gridiger and Nick Schoulal. The Rona Tranby Trust was established in 1991, from a bequest in the will of Thomas ...

ArtsHub
Expressions of Interest for National Aboriginal Art Gallery Reference Group
ArtsHub
The Gallery will showcase and celebrate a globally significant, Australia-wide art collection from the world's oldest continuous culture, which will be brought together under one roof. Expressions of interest are now called for membership of a new ...

ABC Online
Keeping Indigenous foster kids connected to culture and country at camp
ABC Online
In January Australia's Aboriginal children's commissioner declared a rise in the number of children being removed from Indigenous communities a "national disaster". Michelle Kelley said she was confident the camps, along with ongoing support from FACS ...

Business Insider
In New Caledonia, Macron confronts the past and prepares the future
The Sydney Morning Herald
It's unlikely that Macron will buy into that statement, although he can be expected to defend the spirit of the Noumea Accord in ongoing discussions between local parties. Meanwhile, another group of independence supporters is watching the preparation ...
No harm done as Australia responds to Macron's 'delicious' faux pasBusiness Insider

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ArtsHub
Expressions of Interest for National Aboriginal Art
ArtsHub
The Gallery will showcase and celebrate a globally significant, Australia-wide art collection from the world's oldest continuous culture, which will be brought together under one roof. Expressions of interest are now called for membership of a new ...

WAtoday
Don't they get it? Those once mocked are having the last laugh
WAtoday
Australia's best contemporary comedy is being produced by women, gay men and Aboriginal Australians - I'm thinking of comedians like Becky Lucas and Tom Ballard, and writers like Nakkiah Lui, Ben Law and Kate McCartney and Kate McClennan (the pair ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Don't they get it? Those once mocked are having the last laugh
The Sydney Morning Herald
Did you hear the one about the welfare-bludging Aboriginal family who moved in next door to the millionaire? It's a scream. They claimed the property as a sacred site and then used their government payments to buy themselves a car and a boat. They ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous group launches nation's first private carbon trading fund
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal Carbon Fund general manager Rowan Foley said the creation of the private carbon credit trading fund gave the market an option other than standard offsets. It would allow companies buying Australian carbon credit units to make an impact ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous group launches nation's first private carbon trading fund
The Sydney Morning Herald
An indigenous group has launched a new carbon fund that will support social and cultural causes, calling it the 'boutique restaurant' option to the government's cheaper 'McDonald's' offsets. The Reducing Carbon Building Communities fund (RCBC), backed ...

Katherine Times
Land clearing laws pass Qld parliament
Katherine Times
The Turnbull government is seeking to use indigenous land rights and the Great Barrier Reef to block the laws. "These laws are Terra Nullius 2.0, they are effectively taking the rights of indigenous Australians off them again and we will do whatever we ...
NewsGoondiwindi Argus
Tightening of Queensland's land-clearing laws prompts farmers' fears for future generationsABC Local

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Katherine Times
Land clearing laws pass Qld parliament
Katherine Times
The Turnbull government is seeking to use indigenous land rights and the Great Barrier Reef to block the laws. "These laws are Terra Nullius 2.0, they are effectively taking the rights of indigenous Australians off them again and we will do whatever we ...

The Conversation AU
The Dreamtime, science and narratives of Indigenous Australia
The Conversation AU
But Australia is very different. Here, human remains are very old, and many are recovered from very hot environments. While ancient DNA studies have played an important role in informing understanding of the evolution of our species worldwide, little ...

The Conversation AU
The Dreamtime, science and narratives of Indigenous Australia
The Conversation AU
Six years later, after heavy rain, Bowler was riding his motorbike around the lake and again found human remains, this time of a man. From an Indigenous perspective, it was not that Jim Bowler discovered these ancient people but that they found him ...

BBC News
The indigenous cricketers honouring Australia's 1868 'heroes'
BBC News
When cricketer Nick Boland walks out on to The Oval in London next month he will be wearing the Aboriginal flag on his sleeve and the name of another player on his back. That player, Grongarrong, was a batsman in Australia's first international ...

BBC News
The indigenous cricketers honouring Australia's 1868 'heroes'
BBC News
When cricketer Nick Boland walks out on to The Oval in London next month he will be wearing the Aboriginal flag on his sleeve and the name of another player on his back. That player, Grongarrong, was a batsman in Australia's first international ...

The Mercury
Talking Point: Sacrifice will ensure justice can be done
The Mercury
I remember exactly where I was the morning then prime minister Kevin Rudd made the historic apology to the Aboriginal people of Australia. I remember the tears that flowed down my face, and how proud I was at that moment to call myself an Australian ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia review: The trials, tribulations - and pride
The Sydney Morning Herald
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia Ed., Anita Heiss Black Inc., $29.99. In the wake of the controversial segment on Channel Seven's morning show, Sunrise, when a panel of all-white "experts" advocated for the return of child-removal policies echoing ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia review: The trials, tribulations - and pride
The Sydney Morning Herald
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia Ed., Anita Heiss Black Inc., $29.99. In the wake of the controversial segment on Channel Seven's morning show, Sunrise, when a panel of all-white "experts" advocated for the return of child-removal policies echoing ...