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The Australian
Turnbull handed report on indigenous recognition
The Australian
The Business Council of Australia, the major corporate-indigenous secondment program Jawun — which involves some of the biggest corporations and a range of governments — the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and the National Congress of Australia's ...

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The Australian
Holmes a Court shares indigenous art trove in Sung Into Being
The Australian
Bulunbulun's work demonstrates the connection between north Australian indigenous people and the Macassan traders of Indonesia. “There were people coming back and forth to Australia from Indonesia for thousands of years,” Holmes a Court said.

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The Australian
Holmes a Court shares indigenous art trove in Sung Into Being
The Australian
Bulunbulun's work demonstrates the connection between north Australian indigenous people and the Macassan traders of Indonesia. “There were people coming back and forth to Australia from Indonesia for thousands of years,” Holmes a Court said.

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The Australian
UN indigenous rep Megan Davis set to join ARL body
The Australian
The Weekend Australian understands that Megan Davis, the first indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, is on the verge of being appointed to the commission after being sounded out by ARL chairman John Grant. Professor Davis is also a professor of ...

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Indigenous voice ideal option for constitutional change
The Australian
The Referendum Council's two simple recommendations this week break the impasse presented by previous reports on recognition of indigenous Australians. The report identifies a single proposition that can be guided through the narrow window of ...

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Indigenous voice ideal option for constitutional change
The Australian
The Referendum Council's two simple recommendations this week break the impasse presented by previous reports on recognition of indigenous Australians. The report identifies a single proposition that can be guided through the narrow window of ...

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The Mercury
Talking Point: Address our past for a better future
The Mercury
Ponder constitutional recognition at both the State and Federal level, the AFL's Dreamtime round and our national increasing pride in Aboriginal culture, art, music, dance, all of which arguably underpins our developing “Brand Australia”. Why else ...

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From little things
The Australian
The pair had earlier dropped by the office of Magabala Books, Australia's oldest independent indigenous publisher, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Among the numerous children's and adult titles on display in the office's light ...

From little things
The Australian
The pair had earlier dropped by the office of Magabala Books, Australia's oldest independent indigenous publisher, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Among the numerous children's and adult titles on display in the office's light ...

The Australian
Forever beginning
The Australian
The story unfolds in the here and now, unlike That Deadman Dance, set in early-19th-century Western Australia, or one of its predecessors, Benang, which focuses on the decades of forced removal of indigenous children, the people we now know as the ...

The Australian
Forever beginning
The Australian
The story unfolds in the here and now, unlike That Deadman Dance, set in early-19th-century Western Australia, or one of its predecessors, Benang, which focuses on the decades of forced removal of indigenous children, the people we now know as the ...

The Advertiser
The epic tale of a WWI Indigenous Anzac and his captor
The Advertiser
ROLAND Carter set off from his lands around South Australia's Lake Alexandrina to fight the Germans in WWI, the first Ngarrindjeri man to enlist. He could never have expected the remarkable journey to come, or that he would find among the enemy a man ...

The Advertiser
The epic tale of a WWI Indigenous Anzac and his captor
The Advertiser
An estimated 1500 Aborigines served on the Western Front in the Australian Imperial Force in WWI, but Roland turned out to be of special interest to the Germans. Some of his story has been told by the SA Museum in an exhibition Aboriginal Anzacs: From ...

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ABC Online
Waterloo Bay 'massacre' debate rages as Aboriginal community looks for 'closure'
ABC Online
For the past 170 years, an Aboriginal community in regional South Australia has been handing down the story of the "Waterloo Bay massacre". "Our history is an oral history, it's not written down," Wirangu elder Jack Johncock said. "In 1849, people were ...

National Geographic Australia
Aboriginal Artefacts sold Illegally in Hobart
National Geographic Australia
A member of Tasmania's Indigenous community reported the illegal trade after the artefacts were being offered for sale on the internet. Luke Bond, Chief enforcement officer from the Natural and Cultural Heritage Division found 38 potential indigenous ...

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National Geographic Australia
Aboriginal Artefacts sold Illegally in Hobart
National Geographic Australia
A member of Tasmania's Indigenous community reported the illegal trade after the artefacts were being offered for sale on the internet. Luke Bond, Chief enforcement officer from the Natural and Cultural Heritage Division found 38 potential indigenous ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Man Found Not Guilty Of Manslaughter Of WA Aboriginal Teenager
Huffington Post Australia
On Friday, the Western Australian Supreme Court in Perth found the accused not guilty of the manslaughter charge, but guilty of dangerous driving occasioning death following a four-day trial and more than six hours of jury deliberation. The verdict ...
Driver not guilty of Indigenous teen Elijah Doughty's manslaughterSBS
Three years' jail for Elijah's lifeThe Australian
Elijah Doughty trial: Man jailed for three years over death of Kalgoorlie teenagerABC Online
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SBS
Three years' jail for Elijah's life
The Australian
Elijah's death last August came as racial tensions were ratcheting up in his hometown in the West Australian goldfields, the twin cities of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. News that a non-Aboriginal man had run over an Aboriginal boy triggered a protest in the ...
Elijah Doughty verdict: Is Kalgoorlie facing more unrest after driver acquitted of manslaughter?Perth Now
Elijah Doughty trial: Man jailed for three years over death of Kalgoorlie teenagerABC Online
Driver not guilty of Indigenous teen Elijah Doughty's manslaughterSBS
The Guardian -Daily Mail -BuzzFeed News
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The Guardian (blog)
Politicians must face the truth: Indigenous Australia doesn't accept symbolic recognition
The Guardian (blog)
I announce that if I am re-elected, I will put to the Australian people within 18 months a referendum to formally recognise Indigenous Australians in our constitution, their history as the first inhabitants of our country, their unique heritage of ...
Let's give indigenous people a voice in parliamentThe Australian
Ken Wyatt disappointed over Council decisionSky News Australia

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The Guardian (blog)
Politicians must face the truth: Indigenous Australia doesn't accept symbolic recognition
The Guardian (blog)
I announce that if I am re-elected, I will put to the Australian people within 18 months a referendum to formally recognise Indigenous Australians in our constitution, their history as the first inhabitants of our country, their unique heritage of ...
PM puts 'cart before horse' on recognition modelThe Australian
Ken Wyatt disappointed over Council decisionSky News Australia

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