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Justice reinvestment offers chance to cut number of indigenous inmates
The Australian
Indigenous Australians represent 2.5 per cent of the population and 27 per cent of prisoners. About half of those behind bars are there for nonviolent offences, including driving offences, property offences and breaches of court orders. But we know ...

ZME Science
Genome study of Aboriginal Australians, consider the oldest living civilization, points to single exodus out of Africa
ZME Science
But the most extensive genome analysis of Australia's Aboriginal people might help settle it, or at least part of it. The results suggest all present-day non-African populations are descended from the same single wave of migrants, who left Africa ...
Your DNA May Be Traced Back To An Ancient African ExodusTech Times
Genetic studies reveal diversity of early human populations – and pin down when we left AfricaThe Conversation UK
Ancient Human Migrations Unraveled Through Population Genomics StudiesGenomeWeb
New York Times -The Verge -Discover Magazine (blog)
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The New Daily
World-first genome study reveals rich history of Aboriginal Australians
The New Daily
The most comprehensive genomic study of Indigenous Australians to date has revealed modern humans are all descendants of a single wave of migrants who left Africa about 72,000 years ago. It confirms modern Aboriginal Australians are the descendants ...
Aboriginal Australians Are Humanity's Oldest CivilizationGizmodo
New DNA Analysis Shows Aboriginal Australians Are the World's Oldest SocietySmithsonian
Unprecedented study of Aboriginal Australians points to one shared Out of Africa migration for modern humansPhys.Org
History -The Guardian -CNN -The Guardian
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ABC Online
First exhibition honouring Indigenous military service launches at Australian War Memorial
ABC Online
The first exhibition in honour of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' military service in times of war and peace launched today at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples fought in the Boer War ...
War memorial exhibition explores Indigenous military serviceBrisbane Times
Indigenous servicemen and women honoured at the Australian War MemorialSBS

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ABC Online
First exhibition honouring Indigenous military service launches at Australian War Memorial
ABC Online
The first exhibition in honour of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' military service in times of war and peace launched today at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples fought in the Boer War ...
War memorial exhibition explores Indigenous military serviceThe Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous servicemen and women honoured at the Australian War MemorialSBS
Indigenous service celebrated in new AWM exhibitionThe Canberra Times
Ballarat Courier
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The Canberra Times
Indigenous service celebrated in new AWM exhibition
The Canberra Times
While Australian War Memorial curator Amanda Jane Reynolds is passionate about all the exhibits she has drawn together for the first exhibition devoted solely to the military experience of Australia's first peoples, Len Waters' flying helmet speaks to ...
War memorial explores indigenous serviceNEWS.com.au

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ABC Message Stick
Cultural incompatibility hindering public policy in remote Western Australia, indigenous leaders say
ABC Message Stick
The current work for dole scheme, or the community development program (CDP), does not work, according to police and community leaders in remote Western Australia. There are huge language barriers, real jobs are scarce, and relocating is not an option ...

War memorial explores indigenous service
Courier Mail
As many as 1000 indigenous men fought for Australia during World War I, even though their enlistment was technically forbidden. They served in every conflict since, receiving the same pay and same treatment as every other soldier. Memorial director ...

War memorial explores indigenous service
9news.com.au
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experience of military service is explored in the new For Country, For Nation exhibition at the Australian War Memorial. Mr Mundine, a Bundjalung man from Grafton in northern NSW and brother of former Labor ...

The Age
'Heartbreaking' poll: Victorian Muslim leaders fed up
The Age
Unless an Indigenous Australian tells Betul Tuna to leave the country, she's not going anywhere. The Turkish-Australian lives in northern Victoria, in the federal seat of Murray, where Pauline Hanson's One Nation won more support than anywhere else in ...

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The Age
'Heartbreaking' poll: Victorian Muslim leaders fed up
The Age
Unless an Indigenous Australian tells Betul Tuna to leave the country, she's not going anywhere. The Turkish-Australian lives in northern Victoria, in the federal seat of Murray, where Pauline Hanson's One Nation won more support than anywhere else in ...

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NEWS.com.au
The NRL grand final has been dragged into the ongoing national anthem protest storm
NEWS.com.au
Indigenous greats of the game have called on indigenous players from the Sharks, Cowboys, Storm and Raiders to stage a protest when Advance Australia Fair is performed before kick-off at the NRL decider to be held at ANZ Stadium on October 2.
Former NRL player urges Indigenous stars to 'chuck a Kaepernick'The Roar

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The Inquisitr
Newly Discovered Kimberley, Australia, Aboriginal Rock Art Is 16000 Years Old
The Inquisitr
The worlds of archaeology and art have just grown even more exciting with the recent announcement that Kimberley Aboriginal art found in northwestern Australia may actually date from the last Ice Age, as new evidence suggests that the rock art is 16 ...

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Study leader Professor Eske Willersley said the study uncovered new evidence of human evolution and evidence of the theory humans left Africa in one wave to give rise to all present-day humans but notably Australian Aborigines, the planet's most ...

NEWS.com.au
DNA unearths mystery of new 'human'
NEWS.com.au
Study leader Professor Eske Willersley said the study uncovered new evidence of human evolution and evidence of the theory humans left Africa in one wave to give rise to all present-day humans but notably Australian Aborigines, the planet's most ...

ABC Online
John Mulvaney, former ANU professor and Australia's 'father of archaeology', dies aged 90
ABC Online
Professor Mulvaney was the first university-trained prehistorian to study Australia. He worked at the Australian National University and pioneered the study of the pre-history of Indigenous people. Professor Colin Groves, who worked with Professor ...

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ABC Online
John Mulvaney, former ANU professor and Australia's 'father of archaeology', dies aged 90
ABC Online
Professor Colin Groves, who worked with Professor Mulvaney, said one of his greatest legacies was the respect he gave to Indigenous people in Australia. "He was of course a person who treated Indigenous people as people, not as just study subjects," he ...

ABC Online
Justice denied: Indigenous women and children still face a legal system stacked against them
ABC Online
At a time when media attention is quite rightly focused on ending family violence, Aboriginal women and girls still face unacceptably high levels of assault, homicide and intimidation. Research shows that Aboriginal mothers in Western Australia are 17 ...

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ABC Online
Justice denied: Indigenous women and children still face a legal system stacked against them
ABC Online
At a time when media attention is quite rightly focused on ending family violence, Aboriginal women and girls still face unacceptably high levels of assault, homicide and intimidation. Research shows that Aboriginal mothers in Western Australia are 17 ...

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Australian Geographic
World-first genomic study of Aboriginal Australians
Australian Geographic
ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S most important genomic questions has been answered, with a new study finding that Aboriginal Australians and Papuans separated from Europeans and Asians thousands of years earlier than previously thought. The study, published ...
DNA study sheds new light on ancestry of Aboriginal AustraliansSBS
World-first genome study reveals rich history of Aboriginal AustraliansThe New Daily
Aboriginal Australians Are Humanity's Oldest CivilizationGizmodo
Smithsonian -Phys.Org -History -The Guardian
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