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ESPN
For Patty Mills, giving voice to indigenous Australians comes naturally
ESPN
As one of Australia's highest-profile active indigenous athletes, Mills has become an ambassador of sorts for his culture, a path he never dreamed he would navigate when he entered the NBA with the Portland Trail Blazers in 2009. It was unimaginable to ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Rappers AB Original Win Australian Music Prize
Huffington Post Australia
Incendiary indigenous rap duo A.B. Original have won the prestigious Australian Music Prize, taking home a $30,000 cheque. The group, of rappers Briggs and Trials, burst into the spotlight last year with their debut album Reclaim Australia. The album's ...
The winner of the Australian Music Prize has been announcedFasterLouder

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Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Rappers AB Original Win Australian Music Prize
Huffington Post Australia
Incendiary indigenous rap duo A.B. Original have won the prestigious Australian Music Prize, taking home a $30,000 cheque. The group, of rappers Briggs and Trials, burst into the spotlight last year with their debut album Reclaim Australia. The album's ...
Briggs Rubbishes The Australian's Shit Take On AB Original's Historic WinPedestrian TV
AB Original win Best Album of Year for 'Reclaim'Daily Review
The winner of the Australian Music Prize has been announcedFasterLouder
Rolling Stone Australia
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The Conversation AU
Why 'green-black' alliances are less simple than they seem
The Conversation AU
In Australia and across the world, Indigenous people are resisting developments that threaten their lands. Wangan and Jagalingou people stand in opposition to the planned Carmichael coalmine in Queensland, while the Sioux people are holding firm in ...

The Marshalltown
Hair DNA Offers Strong Clues On 50000-Year Aboriginal Presence In Australia
The Marshalltown
DNA from Aboriginal people gathered during expeditions from 1928 to the 1970s revealed that modern Aboriginal Australians descended from a certain group populating the same regions for up to 50,000 years, around which time the continent was still ...

HeritageDaily
Aboriginal hair shows 50000 years connection to country
HeritageDaily
DNA in hair samples collected from Aboriginal people across Australia in the early to mid-1900s has revealed that populations have been continuously present in the same regions for up to 50,000 years – soon after the peopling of Australia. Published ...

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ABC Science Online
Indigenous DNA study reconfirms Aboriginal knowledge on connection to country
ABC Science Online
NICK GRIMM: Australia's Indigenous peoples talk about their lasting connection to ancestral land. Now, ground-breaking new research confirms that distinct Aboriginal populations established their territories some 50,000 years ago, soon after they ...

Technology Networks
Aboriginal Hair shows 50000 Years Connection to Australia
Technology Networks
Published today in the journal Nature, the findings reinforce Aboriginal communities' strong connection to country and represent the first detailed genetic map of Aboriginal Australia prior to the arrival of Europeans. These are the first results from ...

ABC Online
Potential workforce untapped, says OECD study
Herald Sun
UNEMPLOYED single mothers, people with a mental illnesses and indigenous Australians are the missing pieces to the nation's productivity puzzle, a report has found. But overly generous benefits and poorly targeted policies are deterring would-be ...
Young women 'greatest untapped potential' in Australia: OECD reportABC Online
Mums are economy's greatest untapped resource, and we need to fix thatNEWS.com.au

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The Australian
Indigenous hip-hop act AB Original wins Australian Music Prize
The Australian
Indigenous hip-hop act A.B. Original has won this year's Australian Music Prize. The Melbourne duo of rapper Briggs and producer Trials took the $30,000 prize for their debut album Reclaim Australia, which earned critical acclaim when it was released ...

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The Australian
Indigenous hip-hop act AB Original wins Australian Music Prize
The Australian
Indigenous hip-hop act A.B. Original has won this year's Australian Music Prize. The Melbourne duo of rapper Briggs and producer Trials took the $30,000 prize for their debut album Reclaim Australia, which earned critical acclaim when it was released ...
Australian Music prize: AB Original become first Indigenous act to win $30000 awardThe Guardian
AB Original win Australian Music PriceNEWS.com.au
AB Original Keep Crushing It, Secure The $30K Australian Music PrizePedestrian TV

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The West Australian
Aborigines confront Hanson in Geraldton
The West Australian
A small groups of Aborigines has protested against Pauline Hanson as she tours regional WA. Pauline Hanson has been confronted by a small group of Aboriginal protesters who've objected to her campaign visit to Geraldton in regional Western Australia.

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International Business Times AU
Mining services provider Programmed signs contract to employ 5000 Indigenous Australians
International Business Times AU
Mining services provider Programmed is looking to employ 5,000 Indigenous Australians. The development comes as part of a 10-year plan announced in Canberra last week with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Fortescue Metals Group chairman ...

NT News
High Court of Australia rules NT Police had reasonable grounds to put intoxicated indigenous man in protective custody
NT News
The years-long legal challenge stemmed from the arrest of Anthony Prior on the afternoon of New Year's Eve 2013 and was backed by the Northern Territory Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Australian Human Rights Law Centre. The case, had it been ...

NT News
High Court of Australia rules NT Police had reasonable grounds to put intoxicated indigenous man in protective custody
NT News
The years-long legal challenge stemmed from the arrest of Anthony Prior on the afternoon of New Year's Eve 2013 and was backed by the Northern Territory Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Australian Human Rights Law Centre. The case, had it been ...

The Advertiser
DNA shows modern Aboriginal Australians descended from one founding population which arrived 50000 years ago
The Advertiser
Their tracing of maternal ancestry, which is published today in the prestigious Nature journal, concludes that modern Aboriginal Australians are descended from one founding population which arrived 50,000 years ago, while Australia was still connected ...

Gizmodo Australia
Aboriginal DNA Shows 50000 Year Connection To Country
Gizmodo Australia
DNA in hair samples collected from Aboriginal people across Australia in the early to mid-1900s has revealed that populations have been continuously present in the same regions for up to 50,000 years. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
DNA reveals Aboriginal people had a long and settled connection to countryThe Conversation AU
Adelaide Uni project uses DNA in hair to scientifically prove 50000 years of Aboriginal historySBS
DNA confirms Aboriginal people have a long-lasting connection to countryABC Online
The Australian -The Guardian
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'This is not a fishing trip gone wrong' – study uncovers planned colonisation
National Indigenous Times
Science has officially proven what most Australian Aboriginal people have always known — that their ties to country are age-old, stretching back a massive 50,000 years. Now scientists are trying to establish how many early Australians were in the ...

Eternity News
His search for justice is taking him 5500km through the Australian outback
Eternity News
Clinton began his walk to Parliament House to confront Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull about the forced closures of Indigenous communities in Western Australia but his campaign has since expanded to include justice for non-Aboriginal Australians too.

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SBS - The World Game
Project uses DNA in hair to scientifically prove 50000 years of Aboriginal history
SBS - The World Game
"We're hoping this project leads to a rewriting of Australia's history texts to include detailed Aboriginal history and what it means to have been on their land for 50,000 years – that's around 10 times as long as all of the European history we're ...