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Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Australians Have Said How They Want To Be Heard, But We're Not Listening
Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from across this vast and diverse nation met in Uluru for the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, having had a series of meetings around Australia over the previous six months. Two hundred and fifty ...

The Conversation AU
We need to know the true cost of Indigenous boarding school scholarships on communities
The Conversation AU
While many consider Indigenous boarding programs a “solution” generally aimed at remote students who don't have access to local high schools, most Indigenous students at boarding schools are not from remote Australia. Some come from cities, but the ...

Former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard announced Recognition during the same period of government where he significantly reduced the cultural and self-determination Rights in 'Native Title', strongly opposed the 'Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Strongly opposed a 'Treaty' and refused to apologise to the 'Stolen Generation'. Howard's government also introduced the 'Northern Territory Intervention' and shut down 'ATSIC'. Surely, any First Nations or non-Indigenous person cannot believe for one minute, that introducing 'Constitution Recognition' was done in the interests of First Nations and Peoples culture, aspirations, self-determination and well-being. It was specificaaly a 'trick' to dissolve Aboriginal Sovereignty and enforce assimilation, and is largely promoted and funded by the mining industry.

UQ News
Unfinished business: Adani, the State and Indigenous rights
UQ News
Dr Lyons said the Australian Senate was expected to debate amendments to the Native Title Act on Tuesday (13 June). “The report raises issues that are crucial to the important and timely debate about native title and the rights of Indigenous peoples in ...

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SBS
History textbooks still imply that Australians are white
SBS
There are also inconsistencies in who is considered Australian. Aboriginals are named as Australian in initial chapters on Aboriginal life. However, this description of Aboriginals as Australian is contradicted by the exclusion of Aboriginal and Torres ...

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The West Australian
Kimberley elder Since Ruth Abdullah gets Order of Australia medal for Aboriginal legal work
The West Australian
Since Ruth Abdullah became part of the Stolen Generation aged just seven, her focus has been preventing further injustices by helping Aboriginal people know their legal rights. Her dedication to this cause has on Monday led to her being awarded the ...

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The West Australian
Kimberley elder Since Ruth Abdullah gets Order of Australia medal for Aboriginal legal work
The West Australian
Since Ruth Abdullah became part of the Stolen Generation aged just seven, her focus has been preventing further injustices by helping Aboriginal people know their legal rights. Her dedication to this cause has on Monday led to her being awarded the ...

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The Mercury
Queen's Birthday Honours list for 2017 features 891 prominent Australians
The Mercury
RESPECTED Tasmanian Aboriginal elder Aunty Patsy Cameron and former Tassal managing director Peter Shelley have been recognised as Officers of the Order of Australia (AO) in today's Queen's Birthday Honours list. Governor-General Sir Peter ...
Fewer women recognised in Queens's Birthday honoursThe Australian
Migrants adding to Australian multiculturalism honoured in Queen's listSBS
Queen's honours list the most progressive since 1975The Sydney Morning Herald
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SBS
Queen's honours list awards diversity, multiculturalism and Indigenous service
SBS
The list of almost 900 Australians included a dozen honoured for their contribution to Indigenous Australia and fourteen honoured for their contribution to multiculturalism and diversity. Honours were also handed to several prominent supporters of same ...
Queen's Birthday honours: Order of Australia for Irish-born champion of a 'fair go'NEWS.com.au
Queen's birthday honours list: Cate Blanchett and Alan Joyce among Australians recognisedThe Guardian
Best and brightest named in Queen's Birthday Honours ListCourier Mail
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The Conversation AU
History textbooks still imply that Australians are white
The Conversation AU
Textbooks published in the White Australia era openly taught a celebratory version of history in which Aborigines were either absent or derided. White people were portrayed as the developers of the nation. This can be seen in the following extract from ...

ABC Online
Queen's birthday: Aboriginal elder 'from humble beginnings' among Tasmania's honourees
ABC Online
An Aboriginal Elder who has spent 45 years working to improve access to education for Indigenous Tasmanians has topped the state's list of Queen's birthday honours recipients. Patsy Cameron is now an officer of the Order of Australia, having been ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Queen's Birthday Honours list for 2017 features 891 prominent Australians
dailytelegraph.com.au
She was the co-founder of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Education Consultative Group and the Tasmanian Regional Aboriginal community Alliance. She has also served as the director of the Melythina Tiakana Warrana Aboriginal Corporation since 2000 and ...
Fewer women recognised in Queens's Birthday honoursThe Australian
Stonnington residents receive Queen's Birthday HonoursHerald Sun
Queen's honours list the most progressive since 1975The Sydney Morning Herald

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The Australian
Unions back Uluru Declaration on indigenous recognition
The Australian
The proposed amendment has the support of constitutional conservatives such as Liberal MP Julian Leeser and lawyer Damien Freeman, who also call for a form of words recognising indigenous Australians outside the Constitution. The Opposition Leader ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial
The Sydney Morning Herald
Photo: National Gallery of Australia. One of the arguments I have had with the two earlier shows and continue to have with the present one is with the concept of race-based segregation as the underlying basis for an art exhibition. Is indigenous art in ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Supplement crucial to viability of indigenous aged care
Australian Ageing Agenda
However, the targeting of viability supplements to providers under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program could be improved by refocusing towards remote and very remote locations. That's according to an Australian National ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Supplement crucial to viability of indigenous aged care - Australian ...
Australian Ageing Agenda
Without the viability supplement, most indigenous and indigenous-focused residential aged care providers would run at a loss, a national audit has found.

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Warrnambool Standard
Change gonna come, remembering the 1967 referendum
Warrnambool Standard
For Yanti Ropeyarn it was a moment of pure joy, when the significance of what was being attempted on behalf of Aboriginal Australia half a century ago was distilled into a single sentence in a hand-written note in the palm of her hand. The note was ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal women 'sick of being another domestic violence statistic'
ABC Online
A young mother from a town camp in Alice Springs says Aboriginal women are sick of being just another domestic violence statistic. Shirleen Campbell from Hoppy's Camp spoke at this week's inaugural Indigenous Family Violence Policing Conference in ...

ABC Online
Call for corporate Australia to invest in remote Indigenous art centres
ABC Online
The art of remote Australia can often be seen in the background when corporate giants and political leaders appear on the evening news. Depictions of waterholes, dreaming tracks and ancestral spirits animate the walls of many boardrooms and government ...

ABC Online
Call for corporate Australia to invest in remote Indigenous art centres
ABC Online
The art of remote Australia can often be seen in the background when corporate giants and political leaders appear on the evening news. Depictions of waterholes, dreaming tracks and ancestral spirits animate the walls of many boardrooms and government ...