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ABC Online
Confidence in democracy hits record low as Australians 'disaffected with political class'
ABC Online
"Australians' support for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians and for marriage equality suggests that any public votes on these issues will succeed," ANU researcher Dr Jill Sheppard said. "This should provide some relief to the ...

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ABC Online
Confidence in democracy hits record low as Australians 'disaffected with political class'
ABC Online
"Australians' support for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians and for marriage equality suggests that any public votes on these issues will succeed," ANU researcher Dr Jill Sheppard said. "This should provide some relief to the ...

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Indigenous leaders support Port Melville
The Australian
"We implore those out there that like to talk us down and tell us how to live our lives, to stay out of our Tiwi business... and at the same time give our already disadvantaged people the chance and opportunities of life that the rest of Australia take ...

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The Conversation AU
Will treaties with Indigenous Australians overtake constitutional recognition?
The Conversation AU
In Western Australia, the Liberal government signed the largest and most-comprehensive agreement to settle Aboriginal interests in land in Australian history with the Noongar people in 2015. The agreement involves 30,000 Noongar people and covers ...

The Conversation AU
Will treaties with Indigenous Australians overtake constitutional recognition?
The Conversation AU
Discussions have begun between the South Australian government and three Indigenous nations aimed at finalising a treaty. These negotiations follow recent developments toward treaties between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians across the ...

Sci-News.com
Researchers Obtain First Reliable Radiocarbon Dates for Australian Aboriginal Rock Art
Sci-News.com
“Indigenous Australian rock art is very interesting, it is believed to be among the most ancient in the world but it is one of the least dated,” said Dr. Vladimir Levchenko, a researcher at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation ...

Indigenous MPs call for sackings over Miss Dhu death
The Australian
Australia's first indigenous lower house member and Liberal MP Ken Wyatt has joined forces with state Labor MP Ben Wyatt, also an indigenous West Australian, to call for the sacking of police and nurses involved in the death of Aboriginal woman Miss Dhu.

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SBS
'Prosecute these inhumane people', calls for action against police after Dhu inquest
SBS
Ms Dhu's lawyer and family also weren't satisfied by the report, despite the coroner recommending no one should be jailed for the non-payment of fines in the future. Western Australia continues to have the highest Aboriginal imprisonment rate in Australia.

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ABC Online
Thursday Island: A complex melting pot at the edge of Australia
ABC Online
She was school captain of the first group of Year 12 students to graduate from the local high school, and was the first Torres Strait Islander to participate in the Indigenous Scholarship Program run by the United Nations in Geneva. For a time she ...

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The Japan Times
Aboriginal woman's slaying exposes Australia's racial divide
The Japan Times
YAMBA, AUSTRALIA – The life was long drained from Lynette Daley by the time the cops rolled up to the lonely beach where her naked body lay. Her blood was everywhere: between her legs and on the remains of the recently burned mattress partly hidden ...
Aboriginal woman's brutal slaying sheds light on Australia's continuing racial divideChicago Tribune

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In Every Mother’s Son is Guilty, Chris Owen provides a compelling account of policing in the Kimberley district from 1882, when police were established in the district, until 1905 when Dr. Walter Roth’s controversial Royal Commission into the treatment of Aboriginal people was released. Owen’s achievement is to take elements of the pre-existing historiography and test them against a rigorous archival investigation. In doing so a fuller understanding of the complex social, economic and political changes occurring in Western Australia during the period are exposed. The policing of Aboriginal people changed from one of protection under law to one of punishment and control. The subsequent violence of colonial settlement and the associated policing and criminal justice system that developed, often of questionable legality, was what Royal Commissioner Roth termed a ‘brutal and outrageous state of affairs’. Every Mother's Son is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905 Every Mother’s Son is Guilty is a significant contribution to Australian and colonial criminal justice history. UWA Publishing http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/every-mothers-son-is-guilty-policing-the-kimberley-frontier-of-western-australia-1882-1905

The Sydney Morning Herald
HEALS program gives Aboriginal children access to surgery, therapy for hearing loss
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal families, even in Australia's capital cities, struggled to access care, and waiting lists for speech therapists and surgery stretched into years, said Darryl Wright, the chief executive at Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation in Campbelltown. "I ...

The Guardian
Bold, brilliant Indigenous Australian women's art – in pictures
The Guardian
With more than 200 pieces by 118 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, Who's Afraid of Colour? features paintings, installations, sculpture and textural work from some of Australia's most important contemporary artists – some never before shown ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
HEALS program gives Aboriginal children access to surgery, therapy for hearing loss
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal families, even in Australia's capital cities, struggled to access care, and waiting lists for speech therapists and surgery stretched into years, said Darryl Wright, the chief executive at Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation in Campbelltown. "I ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
HEALS program gives Aboriginal children access to surgery ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
Five-year-old Saraya is one of the lucky ones to benefit from a hearing and language program that is transforming lives.

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ABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull calls for inclusive grassroots movement for Australian republic
ABC Online
In a speech to the Australian Republican Movement at its 25th anniversary dinner in Sydney on Saturday night, Mr Turnbull said the next referendum to make Australia a republic needs to be more inclusive and less confusing than the movement's failed bid ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Black comedy by broke, bogus state
dailytelegraph.com.au
South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher has said he expects initial negotiations with the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association, Far West Coast Aboriginal Corporation and Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority to be followed up by ...

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The Age
Aboriginal cricket legends win pride of place at the MCG, 150 years on
The Age
Cricket Australia will dedicate the Test to the memory of Australia's first Aboriginal cricket team, which played 150 years ago an MCC team at the MCG on Boxing Day, 1866. Photo: supplied. Her great-great grandfather was James "Jimmy Mosquito" Couzens​ ...

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The Age
Aboriginal cricket legends win pride of place at the MCG, 150 years on
The Age
Fiona Clarke, Indigenous artist from Warrnambool, who has designed the artwork to be used throughout the MCG during the 2016 Boxing Day Test between Australia and Pakistan. Cricket Australia will dedicate the Test to the memory of Australia's first ...

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