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Push to change names linked to Australia's violent colonial past
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He also signed a so-called "treaty" with Aboriginal elders in 1835, believed to be the only such agreement of its kind in Australia. In exchange for items like knives, flour and blankets, Batman's treaty gave him access to around 60,000 acres of land.

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SBS
Push to change names linked to Australia's violent colonial past
SBS
He also signed a so-called "treaty" with Aboriginal elders in 1835, believed to be the only such agreement of its kind in Australia. In exchange for items like knives, flour and blankets, Batman's treaty gave him access to around 60,000 acres of land.

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SBS
From model to role model: Lois Peeler on inspiring the next generation of Indigenous Australians
SBS
In the 1960's she became Australia's first Aboriginal model, then joined the now famous band The Sapphires touring war-raved Vietnam, as imortalised in the 2012 film. Ms Peeler considers the production “mostly accurate – with some artistic licence” and ...

SBS
From model to role model: Lois Peeler on inspiring the next generation of Indigenous Australians
SBS
In the 1960's she became Australia's first Aboriginal model, then joined the now famous band The Sapphires touring war-raved Vietnam, as imortalised in the 2012 film. Ms Peeler considers the production “mostly accurate – with some artistic licence” and ...

The Guardian
Indigenous leaders head to Uluru for 'historic' meeting on ...
The Guardian
Uluru will host a four-day summit on constitutional recognition that could change Australia's relationship with its first peoples. Photograph: Kristi O'Brien/Tourism ...
Renewing the faith of 67: Indigenous recognition remains elusiveThe Australian
Change gonna come, remembering the 1967 referendum | Illawarra ...Illawarra Mercury

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders head to Uluru for 'historic' meeting on constitutional recognition
The Guardian
Anderson said the message from the community dialogues was that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples would reject any purely symbolic attempts at recognition and demanded substantive, structural reforms dictating how the Australian parliament, ...
PM, Shorten shun Uluru stop on road to indigenous recognitionThe Australian

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The Australian
Forrest failed to deliver on promises, says Aboriginal dealmaker
The Australian
Tony Shaw tells The Weekend Australian Magazine today that he regrets his role in the Murrin Murrin nickel project in the West Australian Goldfields that launched Mr Forrest's mining career in the late 1990s. Mr Shaw is now a leading Perth-based native ...

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The Australian
Renewing the faith of 67: Indigenous recognition remains elusive
The Australian
It has helped to reshape Australia's self-image and the national approach to Aboriginal people and indigenous culture — so much so that today's proponents of a new referendum hope their proposals for constitutional reform also may have the potential ...
Change gonna come, remembering the 1967 referendumBrisbane Times

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The Australian
Renewing the faith of 67: Indigenous recognition remains elusive
The Australian
It has helped to reshape Australia's self-image and the national approach to Aboriginal people and indigenous culture — so much so that today's proponents of a new referendum hope their proposals for constitutional reform also may have the potential ...
Change gonna come, remembering the 1967 referendumThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Australian
PM, Shorten shun Uluru stop on road to indigenous recognition
The Australian
At each of those meetings 10 representatives were elected for the Uluru gathering, making it indigenous Australia's biggest formal gathering, particularly significant given there was no indigenous representation at the conventions that crafted the 1901 ...

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Sky News Australia
Mundine wants Indigenous voice in parliament
Sky News Australia
Mr Mundine previously believed effective representation for all Australians already existed in parliaments and has rubbished plans to have dedicated seats in parliament for Aboriginal people or other constitutionally protected bodies. He said ...
Anthony Mundine hints at a future in politicsDaily Mail

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Sky News Australia
Mundine wants Indigenous voice in parliament - Sky News
Sky News Australia
Aboriginal leader Warren Mundine is calling for a constitutionally enshrined indigenous voice in parliament.
Warren Mundine: constitutional recognition profoundly important for ...The Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
Earliest evidence found of Indigenous Australian life on coast 50000 years ago
The Guardian
Archaeologists led by the University of Western Australia found evidence of inhabitation on Barrow Island in the country's north west, discovering charcoal, animal remains and ancient artefacts that confirmed hunter-gatherer occupation. Located 60 ...
WA Pilbara coast occupied by Australian Aboriginal 50000 years agoPerth Now
Aust coastal occupation '50000 years old'9news.com.au

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ABC Online
Artefacts found in Pilbara cave show Aboriginal life in northern WA ...
ABC Online
Artefacts found in a remote cave near Western Australia's Pilbara show Aboriginal people were living in the now largely submerged northern coast 50000 years ...
Coastal occupation goes back 50000 yearsPerth Now
Aust coastal occupation '50,000 years old' - 9news.com.au9news.com.au
Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia - ScienceDirectScienceDirect

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ABC Online
Artefacts found in Pilbara cave show Aboriginal life in northern WA dates back 50000 years
ABC Online
Testing of artefacts in an island cave in northern WA has established some of the oldest occupation dates recorded in Australia, proving Aboriginal Australians were living in the now largely submerged northern coast 50,000 years ago. Professor Peter ...
Cave dig shows the earliest Australians enjoyed a coastal lifestyleThe Conversation AU
Remote cave reveals earliest Australians lived around 50000 years agoUQ News

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Illawarra Mercury
'Noble compromise' will emerge on Indigenous recognition: Pearson
Illawarra Mercury
The Cape York leader believes a clear position will emerge from next week's Indigenous constitutional convention at Uluru and has challenged the nation's political leaders to have the courage to deal with it and "put a winnable proposition to the ...

National Geographic Australia
Four Thousand Years Ago Indians Landed in Australia
National Geographic Australia
Genetic evidence suggests that just over 4 millennia ago a group of Indian travellers landed in Australia and stayed. The evidence emerged a few years ago after a group of Aboriginal men's Y chromosomes matched with Y chromosomes typically found in ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Warren Mundine: constitutional recognition profoundly important for ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
One of the first questions Indigenous people ask each other when we meet for the first time is, "who's your mob?"

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The Guardian
It's 50 years since Indigenous Australians first 'counted'. Why has so little changed?
The Guardian
Indigenous people had never previously been officially included among the Australian citizenry, nor counted in the Commonwealth census – so the federal government could not legislate for them. But on 27 May 1967, more than 90% of the Australian ...

The Guardian
It's 50 years since Indigenous Australians first 'counted'. Why has so little changed?
The Guardian
Indigenous people had never previously been officially included among the Australian citizenry, nor counted in the Commonwealth census – so the federal government could not legislate for them. But on 27 May 1967, more than 90% of the Australian ...