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Financial Times
Traditional owners win native title fight with Fortescue
The Sydney Morning Herald
"Fortescue will continue its approach of providing training, employment and business development opportunities for Aboriginal people to ensure the strength of its business benefits the communities in which it operates." Western Australia's Aboriginal ...
Yindjibarndi seek Fortescue Metals compensation after 'exclusive rights' Federal Court winThe West Australian
Native title blow for Forrest's Pilbara mineThe Australian
Pilbara native title claim surrounding Solomon Hub mine owned by Andrew Forrest's FMG upheldABC Online
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The Guardian
Indigenous representative voice better enshrined in legislation – Ken Wyatt
The Guardian
The government frontbencher, minister for aged care and Indigenous health, said he would support a people's convention to consider ways forward, compromised of anyone who wanted to attend – both Indigenous people and non-Indigenous Australians.

The Guardian
Indigenous representative voice better enshrined in legislation – Ken Wyatt
The Guardian
The government frontbencher, minister for aged care and Indigenous health, said he would support a people's convention to consider ways forward, compromised of anyone who wanted to attend – both Indigenous people and non-Indigenous Australians.

Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 6 – the 1972 Larrakia Petition – The Northern Myth  Crikey

ABC Online
Pilbara native title claim surrounding $280b Solomon Hub mine owned by Andrew Forrest's FMG upheld
ABC Online
The Federal Court has recognised an exclusive native title claim in WA's ore-rich Pilbara, potentially allowing an Indigenous group to sue Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group for millions of dollars in compensation.
Native title blow for Forrest's Pilbara mineThe Australian
Fortescue Metals Group Limited share price sinks on native title decisionMotley Fool Australia

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ABC Online
Pilbara native title claim surrounding $280b Solomon Hub mine owned by Andrew Forrest's FMG upheld
ABC Online
The Federal Court has recognised an exclusive native title claim in WA's ore-rich Pilbara, potentially allowing an Indigenous group to sue Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group for millions of dollars in compensation.
Native title blow for Forrest's Pilbara mineThe Australian
Fortescue Metals Group Limited share price sinks on native title decisionMotley Fool Australia

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Australia's oldest human technology emerges from 65000 hidden years
Brisbane Times
Justin O'Brien, the CEO of the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation which represents the Mirrar, says archaeology is seen widely in Aboriginal Australia as exploitative. Some archaeologists held the view that ancient sites and artefacts were of universal ...

The Australian
Native title blow for Forrest's Pilbara mine
The Australian
The Federal Court has found a major indigenous group in the Pilbara is entitled to exclusive native title rights over land on which Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has built its multibillion-dollar Solomon iron ore mine, paving the way for a ...
Traditional owners win native title fight with FortescueThe Sydney Morning Herald
Federal Court ruling to end Andrew Forrest's Solomon mines native title fightABC Online
Native title winners seek Fortescue compoPerth Now
Motley Fool Australia
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The Guardian
Native title blow for Forrest's Pilbara mine
The Australian
The Federal Court has found a major indigenous group in the Pilbara is entitled to exclusive native title rights over land on which Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has built its multibillion-dollar Solomon iron ore mine, paving the way for a ...
Pilbara native title claim surrounding Solomon Hub mine owned by Andrew Forrest's FMG upheldABC Online
Big native title decisions could leave governments and companies exposedThe Australian Financial Review
Native title holders hail victories in Pilbara and Northern TerritoryThe Guardian
Motley Fool Australia
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WAtoday
Indigenous prison crisis: Ms Dhu a 'tragic consequence' of WA fine laws
WAtoday
"Stakeholders suggested that the Western Australian fines legislation has particularly significant consequences for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. The legislation provides for a series of escalating consequences that, when combined with ...

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The Advertiser
$4m Federal grant for Port Adelaide Football Club's new Aboriginal excellence centre
The Advertiser
“I am backing in the Port Adelaide Football Club because of its strong track record and partnership with Aboriginal communities across South Australia.” The Coalition Government is also investing $60,000 through the Regional Anangu Services Aboriginal ...

The Advertiser
$4m Federal grant for Port Adelaide Football Club's new Aboriginal excellence centre
The Advertiser
“I am pleased to be partnering with Port Adelaide Football Club to provide $4 million to establish a facility that will deliver residential and education support for young indigenous Australians,” Scullion said. “I am backing in the Port Adelaide ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
If Aboriginal culture was 24 hours old, white people have been in Australia five minutes
The Sydney Morning Herald
The discovery that Aboriginal people have lived in Australia at least 65,000 years, 18,000 years longer than was known previously, has blown the minds of archaeologists worldwide and challenged many previously held assumptions. It's a hard number to ...

The Guardian
Indigenous archaeological find in Kakadu recasts Australian history – video
The Guardian
A dig at Madjedbebe on the traditional lands of the Mirarr people in northern Australia has unearthed thousands of artefacts, some as old as 80,000 years. The discovery upends decades-old estimates about the human colonisation of the continent ...

The Guardian
Indigenous archaeological find in Kakadu recasts Australian history – video
The Guardian
A dig at Madjedbebe on the traditional lands of the Mirarr people in northern Australia has unearthed thousands of artefacts, some as old as 80,000 years. The discovery upends decades-old estimates about the human colonisation of the continent ...

The Canberra Times
Albert Namatjira paintings donated to National Gallery of Australia
The Canberra Times
At the same time as Margaret Preston was advocating the use of Aboriginal patterns in "civilised" applied arts, an Aboriginal artist appeared "who could paint like a white fella" and for a time he became the most famous living artist in Australia. Elea ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Innovation grants focus on improving indigenous home care
Australian Ageing Agenda
The fund targets six priority areas including adaptive technology, dementia, and support for indigenous Australians and older people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Among the successful applicants is the National Ageing Research Institute, which ...

Australian Ageing Agenda
Innovation grants focus on improving indigenous home care
Australian Ageing Agenda
Other successful projects include initiatives to improve the diagnosis of dementia among Aboriginal communities, boosting support for informal carers in rural Australia and a randomised controlled trial of the CSIRO's Smarter Safer Homes platform.

Gizmodo Australia
There Is Now 65000 Year Old Evidence Of Aboriginal Life
Gizmodo Australia
Once again, science is proving what Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always known. To put this evidence into context, this means people were here before the extinction of the Australian megafauna, the giant animals that ...
Indigenous rock shelter in Top End pushes Australia's human history back to 65000 yearsABC Online
Aboriginal archaeological discovery in Kakadu rewrites the history of AustraliaThe Sydney Morning Herald
Buried tools and pigments tell a new history of humans in Australia for 65000 yearsThe Conversation AU
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9news.com.au
Indigenous Australians roamed alongside giant kangaroos and wombats
9news.com.au
Indigenous Australians roamed alongside giant kangaroos and wombats An edge-ground hatched head found at the Madjedbebe rock shelter in the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory which is part of new proof showing Aboriginal people lived in ...