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Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum?
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Professor Marcia Langton, one of Australia's most respected Indigenous academics, told Fact Check that the so-called flora and fauna act was first mentioned by pioneer Aboriginal filmmaker Lester Bostock during a council meeting in Canberra in the ...

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Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum?
ABC Online
Most recently, the Indigenous actor Shareena Clanton said on ABC TV's Q&A program: "My mother was born in 1965 and she was not considered a human being until the referendum came through from the flora and fauna act in 1967." Warren Mundine, a ...

Spear Hill site a 'spiritual centre': report
National Indigenous Times
Roland Coppin, Ronald Hicks and Terry Hughes take a break during a cultural evaluation of Ngajanha Kanyja. A cultural evaluation report for traditional owners has found the Eastern Guruma people of Western Australia's Pilbara used and occupied an area ...

Spear Hill site a 'spiritual centre': report
National Indigenous Times
Roland Coppin, Ronald Hicks and Terry Hughes take a break during a cultural evaluation of Ngajanha Kanyja. A cultural evaluation report for traditional owners has found the Eastern Guruma people of Western Australia's Pilbara used and occupied an area ...

National Indigenous Times
Multiple bids for SA salt lake fall over
National Indigenous Times
Three Aboriginal groups have failed in competing claims over Australia's second biggest salt lake, the 250km Lake Torrens in central South Australia. The Full Court of the Federal Court this month dismissed separate appeals by the Kokatha People, the ...

National Indigenous Times
New crop of rangers look out for country
National Indigenous Times
Mutitjulu elders have launched a new Central Land Council ranger group to manage the vast Katiti Petermann Indigenous Protected Area around the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park. Central Land Council chairman Francis Kelly said Mutitjulu's Tjakura rangers ...

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National Indigenous Times
New crop of rangers look out for country
National Indigenous Times
Mutitjulu elders have launched a new Central Land Council ranger group to manage the vast Katiti Petermann Indigenous Protected Area around the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park. Central Land Council chairman Francis Kelly said Mutitjulu's Tjakura rangers ...

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National Indigenous Times
Music's big guns set to ignite Karijini
National Indigenous Times
Some of Australia's biggest Aboriginal music stars will take to the red gorges of Karijini next month. Archie Roach, Deborah Cheetham and Gina Williams will be among the line-up at the sixth annual Karijini Experience, which will run from April 17-22 ...

National Indigenous Times
Music's big guns set to ignite Karijini
National Indigenous Times
Some of Australia's biggest Aboriginal music stars will take to the red gorges of Karijini next month. Archie Roach, Deborah Cheetham and Gina Williams will be among the line-up at the sixth annual Karijini Experience, which will run from April 17-22 ...

ABC Online
'There are bones all through our beaches': Why people are finding skeletons in the Kimberley
ABC Online
It is surprisingly common for historical skeletons to turn up in bushland and coastal cliffs in remote areas. That is because for thousands of years, Aboriginal people interred the remains of people who died in rock ledges, caves, sand dunes and even ...

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As ice use has climbed, so has the number of children removed from families
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I was homeless for so many years." Now, she has been clean for more than two years, is studying for a career in social work, and has set up a support group for other mums involved with child-protection services. Megan said the drug ice was "devastating ...

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'There are bones all through our beaches': Why people are finding skeletons in the Kimberley
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A human skull has surfaced at a beach in northern Western Australia, a discovery police say is not unusual in outback Australia, where the skeletons of Aboriginal people remain tucked in caves or trees from pre-colonial times. The skull was spotted by ...

The Australian
Syphilis spread sourced back to funding cut in Queensland
The Australian
The syphilis epidemic ravaging remote indigenous communities across northern and central Australia might have been averted if public sexual health services had survived 2012 spending cuts by the Newman government, it has been claimed. The outbreak ...

The Australian Financial Review
How FIFO activists are doing down Indigenous Australia
The Australian Financial Review
Here it also hurts the poorest Australians, people in remote and regional Australia and Indigenous people engaging in economic activities on their traditional lands. This was demonstrated by the weekend byelection in Batman, where mostly affluent Labor ...

The Australian Financial Review
How FIFO activists are doing down Indigenous Australia
The Australian Financial Review
Here it also hurts the poorest Australians, people in remote and regional Australia and Indigenous people engaging in economic activities on their traditional lands. This was demonstrated by the weekend byelection in Batman, where mostly affluent Labor ...

ABC Online
Police had 'no power' to wake sleeping Aboriginal man who suffered fatal fall, inquest told
ABC Online
Mr Young was not doing anything wrong at the time of the incident, but police and paramedics attended because a woman residing at the property had asked them to leave. The inquest heard Mr Young's family held concerns the officer responded in the ...

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Bilingual bilby tracking app to map endangered marsupial across central Australian desert
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A bilingual mobile app is at the centre of a huge effort by Indigenous rangers to track and record bilby movements in central Australia. The Bilby Blitz program, run by the Northern Territory-based Central Land Council, involves 20 ranger groups ...

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Israel in the Kimberley: How the Top End nearly became a global Jewish hub
ABC Online
Just before the outbreak of World War II, a bold plan was proposed by a former Soviet official which could have saved tens of thousands of Jewish lives. In 1939, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation identified the Kimberley in ...

ABC Online
Israel in the Kimberley: How the Top End nearly became a global Jewish hub
ABC Online
Just before the outbreak of World War II, a bold plan was proposed by a former Soviet official which could have saved tens of thousands of Jewish lives. In 1939, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation identified the Kimberley in ...

Herald Sun
Rita Panahi: Social media contributing to a culture of outrage, intolerance and hatred
Herald Sun
Aboriginal activist Tarneen Onus-Williams was among the triggered brigade, tweeting: “Sunrise never fails to surprise me. The Stolen Generation was an act of genocide and war. Sunrise and MSM are just trying to build their case to further justify ...

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