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The Guardian
Indigenous inmate numbers a 'national embarrassment', says Keating minister
The Guardian
The former Indigenous affairs minister Robert Tickner has used the release of the 1992-93 cabinet documents to urge leaders to “command the authority of the nation” to improve Indigenous incarceration rates and end the “national embarrassment”. ... “I ...
Mabo passed in '93 after bitter debate9news.com.au

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The Advertiser
SA's ticks of approval
The Advertiser
More generally, I love that South Australians are increasingly embracing our indigenous heritage and culture – a crucial awakening that's been aided by the superb Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery at the South Australian Museum, the Our Mob ...

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The Guardian
Warren Mundine looks back: 'Tony Abbott was a whirlwind'
The Guardian
It's a curious quirk of Australian politics that, despite there being more than 200 distinct languages spoken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, the government usually listens to just one person. For the past three years, that person ...

The Guardian
Warren Mundine looks back: 'Tony Abbott was a whirlwind'
The Guardian
Included in his parting advice to Malcolm Turnbull is a recommendation that the prime minister fight the impulse to see Indigenous Australians as a single group, for which a single person – either himself or Noel Pearson or, perhaps lately, Stan Grant ...

3 indigenous groups on course to settle South Australian treaties
The Australian
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher has said the treaty process was the first time an Australian state had committed to negotiations with separate Aboriginal nations, to recognise their cultural authority, and to consider the consequences of settlement.

The Australian
Paul Keating ignored advice to do nothing over Mabo - The Australian
The Australian
Paul Keating rejected public service advice to say nothing about the High Courts Mabo judgment until its implications could be carefully analysed and instead ...

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Indigenous treaty talks have a long, rich history
The Australian
Almost every Australian interested in Aboriginal and Islander people can mentally conjure up the Tindale map of the Aboriginal tribes of Australia. Australia is a brightly coloured jigsaw of the tribal groups with their distinctive languages and ...

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The Australian
Sydney Festival puts William Dawes and Aboriginal language on the stage
The Australian
Anthropologist Norman Tindale's Tribal Boundaries in Aboriginal Australia, published in 1974, was hugely influential in demonstrating the ways in which the doctrine of terra nullius at the time of European arrival was a fiction, though it was to be ...

Indigenous treaty talks have a long, rich history
The Australian
Almost every Australian interested in Aboriginal and Islander people can mentally conjure up the Tindale map of the Aboriginal tribes of Australia. Australia is a brightly coloured jigsaw of the tribal groups with their distinctive languages and ...

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The Australian
The big push: Cricket Australia to focus on local clubs
The Australian
In an interview with The Weekend Australian during the Boxing Day Test, chairman David Peever revealed the CA's next five-year plan would have community cricket as its centrepiece. It will push to promote the game in indigenous communities and exploit ...

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The Australian
Sydney Festival puts William Dawes and Aboriginal language on the stage
The Australian
It starts with the “whole solidarity conversation”, as he puts it, of achieving overwhelming victory in the 1967 referendum, of winning land rights, “that indigenous Australia had to kind of step together, if we want change”. From there it morphs in ...

SBS
Uncovering the secret Thatcher files: What Britain thought about Australia
SBS
“Australian governments and others put a great deal of energy and resources into trying to solve the problems of the 230,000 Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia; but there are plenty of Australians who believe this effort to be excessive and ...

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ABC Online
Early Indigenous folk songs collated, promoted by Mission Songs project
ABC Online
From songs about Aboriginal men in Darwin on the lookout for Japanese ships during World War II to heartfelt songs of isolation, the Mission Songs project is providing a living historical archive, which Lloyd hopes will become cemented in Australia's ...

ABC Online
Early Indigenous folk songs collated, promoted by Mission Songs project
ABC Online
From songs about Aboriginal men in Darwin on the lookout for Japanese ships during World War II to heartfelt songs of isolation, the Mission Songs project is providing a living historical archive, which Lloyd hopes will become cemented in Australia's ...

Australia: Video reveals agonising death of Aboriginal woman in custody
World Socialist Web Site
On August 4, 2014, at Port Hedland in northwestern Australia, Julieka Dhu, a 22-year-old Aboriginal woman, died of a preventable illness while in police custody for unpaid fines of $3,622.34. Dhu had been imprisoned on August 2 for four days to “cut ...

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The Wire
More Indigenous Doctors Aim to Close Australia's Health Gap
The Wire
Sydney: Vinka Barunga was born in the Worrara tribe of the Mowanjum aboriginal community in the remote town of Derby in Western Australia. As a child, she witnessed disease and suicide amongst her people, which made her resolve to one day become a ...

The Wire
More Indigenous Doctors Aim to Close Australia's Health Gap
The Wire
Having more aboriginal doctors is definitely going to have a positive impact on aboriginal and Australian health”, says Vinka, who at 27 is hopeful that despite the challenges, the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people will reduce ...

10 Apps To Help You Learn A New Language
Lifehacker Australia
Welcome to Country This app educates you on the Traditional Owner' culture and heritage protocols right across the Australia. It gives the user a solid appreciation of the many cultures and languages groups that exist in Indigenous Australia. The app ...

Fish oil for mums may cut asthma in kids
NEWS.com.au
ASTHMA IN AUSTRALIA: * One in 10 Australians have asthma. * It is more common in boys aged up to 14 and females over 15. * Rates among indigenous Australians are almost twice that for non-indigenous Australians. * Asthma caused the deaths of 421 ...

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Herald Sun
Bob Hawke divides crowd at music festival with nuclear dumping ground idea
NEWS.com.au
Furthermore, it would allow us to address the indigenous divide in Australia — a situation he labelled “a great stain on our national character”. The previous night, Mr Hawke led the crowd in a rendition of Waltzing Matilda but his address yesterday ...
Bob Hawke at Woodford Folk Festival: Australia should be world's nuclear dumping groundHerald Sun
Bob Hawke pushes nuclear power at Woodford Folk FestivalABC Online
Bob Hawke blames decline in quality of politicians on intrusiveness of mediaThe Guardian

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