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Pauline Hanson unloads on labor over 'grubby deal'
The Australian
8 HOURS AGO | 2.15pm Tributes for Rudd's indigenous apology. Malcolm Turnbull has opened Question Time by paying tribute to the apology to indigenous Australians made by Kevin Rudd in 2008, saying it was a “remarkable and historic moment.”.

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Politics live: Turnbull marks ninth anniversary of National Apology to Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull marks the ninth anniversary of National Apology to Indigenous Australians, saying it will "echo for centuries to come". Follow live. Live blog. Note: This is a blog. Posts are organised by date with the newest posts at ...

The Guardian
10 things you should know about the National Apology
SBS
The anniversary of the National Apology is a day which commemorates the event which Kevin Rudd - The Prime Minister of Australia - made a formal apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples' and those whose lives had been blighted by past government ...
Stolen generation survivors still suffering, says Uncle Jack CharlesThe Guardian

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The Australian
Land rights Native Title Act faces urgent changes after Adani move
The Australian
On Friday, the National Native Title Tribunal confirmed it was freezing all new land use agreements across Australia because of the ruling. The Weekend Australian revealed that Adani's $16 billion coal project in central Queensland had stalled after ...

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MP plans to curb fake Aboriginal art sales
The Australian
"If there be one thing that first Australians be allowed to keep and own it is their own culture." Mr Katter claimed up to 80 per cent of tourist shops and markets sold 'Aboriginal style' souvenirs, many of which were imported from overseas. He ...

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MP plans to curb fake Aboriginal art sales
NEWS.com.au
"If there be one thing that first Australians be allowed to keep and own it is their own culture." Mr Katter claimed up to 80 per cent of tourist shops and markets sold 'Aboriginal style' souvenirs, many of which were imported from overseas. He ...

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Central Western Daily
Letters to the Editor: If we want a celebration for all the date must change
Central Western Daily
Australia Day was set in 1935, well prior to the time the first Australian people were permitted to vote, participate in our democracy and indeed be counted in the Census. It was also a time when non-aboriginal Australia happily accepted the handed ...

MP plans to curb fake Aboriginal art sales
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"If there be one thing that first Australians be allowed to keep and own it is their own culture." Mr Katter claimed up to 80 per cent of tourist shops and markets sold 'Aboriginal style' souvenirs, many of which were imported from overseas. He ...

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MP plans to curb fake Aboriginal art sales
SBS
"If there be one thing that first Australians be allowed to keep and own it is their own culture." Mr Katter claimed up to 80 per cent of tourist shops and markets sold 'Aboriginal style' souvenirs, many of which were imported from overseas. He ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Australia Just Made A Significant Advance In The Protection Of Human Rights
Huffington Post Australia
The treatment in detention of those in juvenile detention -- overwhelmingly of indigenous Australians -- has been the subject of numerous reports, including by the AHRC to Parliament. So too the Commission and others have drawn attention to the plight ...
Praise for Australia's OPCAT pledgeLawyers Weekly

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Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration issue
Radio Australia
But it does not include any targets around incarceration rates — despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people making up a quarter of Australia's prison population. Greens' spokeswoman Rachel Siewert has written to Mr Turnbull calling for him ...

ABC Online
Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration issue
ABC Online
But it does not include any targets around incarceration rates — despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people making up a quarter of Australia's prison population. Greens' spokeswoman Rachel Siewert has written to Mr Turnbull calling for him ...

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ABC Online
Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration issue
ABC Online
But it does not include any targets around incarceration rates — despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people making up a quarter of Australia's prison population. Greens' spokeswoman Rachel Siewert has written to Mr Turnbull calling for him ...

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The Australian
Thurston backs indigenous team for World Cup warm-up games
The Australian
The Australian understands an Emerging Indigenous side could play an Emerging Maori side, or an indigenous team could play Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France or other northern hemisphere nations looking for a warm-up game ahead of the cup competition ...

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The Guardian
Stolen generation survivors still suffering, says Uncle Jack Charles
The Guardian
The Indigenous actor Uncle Jack Charles says Australia is on the verge of creating “an island prison for the next generation of Aboriginal people” because of a failure to bring about redress for victims and survivors of the stolen generations and ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
CSIRO errors put 30000-year-old indigenous rock art at risk
The Sydney Morning Herald
Photo: Australian Geographic/Nick Rains. "The rock carvings are on the Burrup today to teach people ... Exactly the same as how a priest has to be trained, the Aboriginal people train their children to do exactly what they've been taught." The CSIRO ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
CSIRO errors put 30,000-year-old indigenous rock art at risk
The Sydney Morning Herald
A series of errors by the CSIRO has placed the world's largest collection of indigenous rock art at risk. Burrup Peninsula has more than one million rock art ...

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WAtoday
Lunch with Shane Howard
WAtoday
I remember talking to people at the time about the injustice I saw towards Aboriginal Australia and people would glaze over. "The first time I heard Solid Rock on the radio I was driving to the Grampians; it was phasing in and out and it was an ...

The Australian
Adani coalmine project frozen by shock land rights ruling
The Australian
Cancellation of yesterday's scheduled registration of the deal by the National Native Title Tribunal is the first consequence of a shock Federal Court decision last week that has invalidated native title deals across Australia. More than 120 indigenous ...

The Australian
Qantas logo creator Gert Sellheim put Australia on tourism map
The Australian
Following his release, he applied for Australian citizenship and moved in 1947 to Sydney, where he continued his design work for clients such as Qantas. During this time he was particularly keen on using Aboriginal motifs, as in his prize-winning ...