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New Matilda
To Close The Gap, Australia Must Address The 'Coloniser In The Room'
New Matilda
Life expectancy is still on average 10 years lower for an Indigenous Australian compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. A person of Aboriginal descent is more than three times as likely to have diabetes and four times as likely to have chronic ...

New Matilda
To Close The Gap, Australia Must Address The 'Coloniser In The Room'
New Matilda
Life expectancy is still on average 10 years lower for an Indigenous Australian compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. A person of Aboriginal descent is more than three times as likely to have diabetes and four times as likely to have chronic ...

The Advertiser
Aboriginal leader Malcolm 'Tiger' McKenzie pushing for nuclear waste dump built near his home in the Flinders Ranges
The Advertiser
Some local Aboriginal people are strongly opposed to the storage of radioactive waste in the district but Mr McKenzie said the project would create jobs for indigenous people. “This is modern Australia now, we've got to part of it — native title doesn ...

The Advertiser
Aboriginal leader Malcolm 'Tiger' McKenzie pushing for nuclear waste dump built near his home in the Flinders Ranges
The Advertiser
Some local Aboriginal people are strongly opposed to the storage of radioactive waste in the district but Mr McKenzie said the project would create jobs for indigenous people. “This is modern Australia now, we've got to part of it — native title doesn ...

ABC Online
Arnhem Land rangers blending traditional and high-tech methods to earn carbon credits
ABC Online
Here in this remote pocket of Arnhem Land, Warddeken rangers are doing what Aboriginal people have done for thousands of years, but are now combining traditional knowledge of fire management with new technology to protect the landscape. Through this ...

ABC Online
Arnhem Land rangers blending traditional and high-tech methods to earn carbon credits
ABC Online
Here in this remote pocket of Arnhem Land, Warddeken rangers are doing what Aboriginal people have done for thousands of years, but are now combining traditional knowledge of fire management with new technology to protect the landscape. Through this ...

Daily Telegraph
Tough new laws including jail time and fines for vandals who damage Captain Cook monuments
Daily Telegraph
“Australian history contains many painful chapters — particularly for indigenous Australians — but a free society debates its past, it does not deny it. It builds new monuments as it preserves old ones.” As part of the plan, the Government will today ...

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The Advertiser
Adelaide DNA study shows first Australians came together in today's SA 2000 years after their arrival
The Advertiser
This is just one of the astounding findings that has emerged from a groundbreaking study into Aboriginal DNA being carried out by the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum. The research also backs up Aboriginal beliefs that the ...

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The Advertiser
Adelaide DNA study shows first Australians came together in today's SA 2000 years after their arrival
The Advertiser
This is just one of the astounding findings that has emerged from a groundbreaking study into Aboriginal DNA being carried out by the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum. The research also backs up Aboriginal beliefs that the ...

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cricket.com.au
Dizzy: I'd love to work with Indigenous XI
cricket.com.au
He's worked in distant locales such as Zimbabwe and Yorkshire, and now current Papua New Guinea coach Jason Gillespie says he would love to do something a little closer to home by helping out Australia's National Indigenous squad during his coaching ...

cricket.com.au
Dizzy: I'd love to work with Indigenous XI
cricket.com.au
He's worked in distant locales such as Zimbabwe and Yorkshire, and now current Papua New Guinea coach Jason Gillespie says he would love to do something a little closer to home by helping out Australia's National Indigenous squad during his coaching ...

SBS
Why hasn't Australia developed more diverse regional accents?
SBS
While Indigenous Australians had developed over 250 different languages at the time of European colonisation, he says Australia is a relatively young country in terms of white settlement. "It's limited mainly because we're a young country, we're only ...

ABC Online
Bid to reopen Tarkine four-wheel drive tracks angers Aboriginal, green groups
ABC Online
Conservationists and Aboriginal groups say they will be fighting to stop a fresh bid to reopen four-wheel drive tracks in Tasmania's Tarkine region. The Tasmanian Government is pushing ahead with plans to re-open controversial tracks on the state's ...
Tarkine tracks move sparks backlashThe Mercury

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No plans to change date
Riverine Herald
Benalla Rural City Council has no plans to jump on the Australia Day ''change the date'' bandwagon and members of the local Aboriginal community think that is the right decision. Chris Thorne, who was the first Aboriginal person to win Benalla citizen ...

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No plans to change date
Shepparton News
Benalla Rural City Council has no plans to jump on the Australia Day ''change the date'' bandwagon and members of the local Aboriginal community think that is the right decision. Chris Thorne, who was the first Aboriginal person to win Benalla citizen ...

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Sky News Australia
Aboriginal groups put forward job scheme
Sky News Australia
The Northern Territory plan comes after new West Australian treasurer Ben Wyatt was accused of 'declaring war' on country areas after announcing a major restructure of Royalties for Regions but he denies the program is 'dead'. Australia's first ...
Royalties for Regions fund due for a financial rethink: WyattNEWS.com.au

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Sky News Australia
Aboriginal groups put forward job scheme
Sky News Australia
The Northern Territory plan comes after new West Australian treasurer Ben Wyatt was accused of 'declaring war' on country areas after announcing a major restructure of Royalties for Regions but he denies the program is 'dead'. Australia's first ...

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The Guardian
'6000km for only 20 minutes with the PM.' Clinton Pryor relives his epic walk across Australia
The Guardian
It was roughly the halfway mark of his epic journey for justice, a 5,800km (3,600 miles) walk over 360 days from Perth in the far west of Australia to Canberra in the east. His walk was to highlight the plight of Indigenous Australians and it was here ...

The Advertiser
The Advertiser, Letters to the Editor, September 9
The Advertiser
Our Lord Mayor Martin Haese sees this as a way to bring both indigenous and other Australians together on this issue (The Advertiser, 7/9/17). The council has supported the motion put forward by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ivan-Tiwu Copley to ...

The Australian
We're all dual citizens – sometimes treble or quadruple
The Australian
Even an Aboriginal Australian descended from ancestors with an unbroken history on this land stretching back 700 centuries has many identities. Yes, he or she is an Australian citizen, a designation belatedly conceded following a referendum conducted ...