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National Indigenous Times
UN envoy urges Australia to speed up treaty
National Indigenous Times
The push for Constitutional change and a treaty in Australia has been backed in a United Nations report. The report to the UN Human Rights Council this month followed the March visit to Australia by its Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous ...

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National Indigenous Times
UN envoy urges Australia to speed up treaty
National Indigenous Times
The push for Constitutional change and a treaty in Australia has been backed in a United Nations report. The report to the UN Human Rights Council this month followed the March visit to Australia by its Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous ...
"Australia must change": UN human rights rapporteurABC Local

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National Indigenous Times
10-year-olds in Oz prisons 'deeply troubling': UN
National Indigenous Times
Meanwhile, Ms Tauli-Corpuz said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were 24 times more likely to be detained than other children in Australia. “In some detention facilities, such as in the Northern Territory and in the Cleveland Youth ...

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Kids bagging a good deal for nature
EducationHQ Australia
The class cast a wide net for ideas, taking inspiration from Indigenous cultures – including Maori and Aboriginal Australian carrying solutions – to create bags from plant-based materials, as well as experimenting with environmentally-friendly plastics ...

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The West Australian
Pilbara leaders to call on Treaty with State Govt
The West Australian
Debate about the implementation of a cashless welfare card is heating up in the Pilbara, as the trial prepares to roll out in Kalgoorlie and other regions across Australia. The card will likely be a hot topic at this week's Yule River bush meeting ...

"Australia must change": UN human rights rapporteur
ABC Local
While Australia's bid for a seat on the UN human rights council is all but assured of success, a new report prepared for that body is scathing of our human rights record at home. The UN's Special Rapporteur on Australia's Indigenous people, Victoria ...

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The West Australian
Freo tribute to mariners a win for sail legends
The West Australian
Mr Longley said Fremantle was a fitting home for the $2 million Australian Sailor Monument, a project driven by the Royal Australian Navy. The monument will pay tribute to all seafarers, from indigenous Australians in their “nawi” canoes to modern ...

ABC Online
Graduation day for first Indigenous Australian to complete archaeology PhD
ABC Online
The first Indigenous Australian to complete a PhD in archaeology will graduate from Flinders University in Adelaide today. Ngarrindjeri man Dr Christopher Wilson has developed new archaeological evidence of Ngarrindjeri occupation in the Lower Murray ...

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ABC Online
Graduation day for first Indigenous Australian to complete archaeology PhD
ABC Online
The first Indigenous Australian to complete a PhD in archaeology will graduate from Flinders University in Adelaide today. Ngarrindjeri man Dr Christopher Wilson has developed new archaeological evidence of Ngarrindjeri occupation in the Lower Murray ...
First indigenous PhD archaeology graduateThe Australian

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Labor want recognition of Aboriginal country at state parliament to bring WA in line with Australia
The West Australian
State Parliament could soon start each day with a recognition of Aboriginal country under a push by Labor, bringing WA into line with the rest of Australia. Under the proposal being investigated by the Procedures and Privileges parliamentary committee ...

Labor want recognition of Aboriginal country at state parliament to bring WA in line with Australia
The West Australian
State Parliament could soon start each day with a recognition of Aboriginal country under a push by Labor, bringing WA into line with the rest of Australia. Under the proposal being investigated by the Procedures and Privileges parliamentary committee ...

Townsville Bulletin
Indigenous leader slams 'dysfunctional' youth crime system
Townsville Bulletin
“Unfortunately there's a lot of it (crime) happening in regional and remote Australia. “What we have to do is very simply confront that it's a major issue. “We have to confront the dysfunctionality in the communities.” Mr Mundine said putting youth ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous archives provide window into hidden heritage of thousands of Australians
ABC Online
Lost in Australia's vast archive collection are records of Indigenous people, places and languages, once not seen as valuable enough to bother documenting — but now the forgotten stories are being unravelled. John Morseu is a Torres Strait Islander ...
'National shame': Push for courts to consider Aboriginal background in sentencingThe Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Indigenous archives provide window into hidden heritage of thousands of Australians
ABC Online
Lost in Australia's vast archive collection are records of Indigenous people, places and languages, once not seen as valuable enough to bother documenting — but now the forgotten stories are being unravelled. John Morseu is a Torres Strait Islander ...
'National shame': Push for courts to consider Aboriginal background in sentencingThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'National shame': Push for courts to consider Aboriginal background in sentencing
The Sydney Morning Herald
Attorney-General George Brandis announced an inquiry last year into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration rates, headed by the Australian Law Reform Commission. In its submission to the inquiry, the NSW Bar Association sets out a series ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'National shame': Push for courts to consider Aboriginal background in sentencing
The Sydney Morning Herald
Attorney-General George Brandis announced an inquiry last year into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration rates, headed by the Australian Law Reform Commission. In its submission to the inquiry, the NSW Bar Association sets out a series ...

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Western NSW Local Health District launches its first Reconciliation Action Plan.
Forbes Advocate
A RAP document released by the health district at a forum on Thursday has multiple and wide-ranging targets that form part of its “commitment to improving Aboriginal health”. Reconciliation Australia has provided the framework for the health district's ...

Christopher Wilson First Indigenous Australian Archaeology Doctrine
National Geographic Australia
Christopher Wilson, a Ngarrindjeri man, will be the first Indigenous Australian to receive a Ph.D. in archaeology. Wilson's work in South Australia's Lower Murray uncovered an 8,500-year occupancy by the Ngarrindjeri people, a site far older than the ...

ABC Online
Word 'massacre' approved by council to describe Waterloo Bay clifftop killing of Aboriginals
ABC Online
A regional council has voted to keep the word "massacre" on a memorial plaque marking the site of a 19th-century killing of Aboriginal people on South Australia's western Eyre Peninsula. But the plaque will not include the term "large" in its ...

Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous Australians Face Lack of Access to Cataract Surgery
Pro Bono Australia
The research paper said: “A considerable proportion of Indigenous Australians, particularly those of older age and those living in non-metropolitan areas, may be at higher risk for undiagnosed eye disease and vision loss due to the infrequency of eye ...