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With Paul Wiles CAAMA Radio Michael Gunner, the Alice Springs born and bred Territorian who returned Labor to Government after only one term in Opposition says he is prepared to negotiate with local Aboriginal people about a Treaty and that it will be a critical agenda item during his first term of government. Mr Gunner who has already visited a Top End Aboriginal community since being sworn in last week says he is also not averse to the transfer of housing assets as a means of growing financial security in remote communities.

ABC Online
John Howard, Tony Abbott lock in against treaty with Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Two former Liberal prime ministers have outright rejected a treaty with Indigenous Australians, as public debate continues about the merits of holding a referendum to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
One in Ten Young Aboriginal Men Rate Their Happiness at ZeroVICE

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John Howard, Tony Abbott lock in against treaty with Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Two former Liberal prime ministers have outright rejected a treaty with Indigenous Australians, as public debate continues about the merits of holding a referendum to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Let the market unchain indigenous communities
On Line opinion
The remote town of Warburton, Western Australia, gives us a glimpse into everyday life for many indigenous Australians. The average life expectancy in Warburton is 45. The population of 800 is mostly unemployed. Most young adults do not go to high school.

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Sung into her seat: Indigenous MP Linda Burney makes history as the world watches
ABC Online
Wiradjuri woman Lynette Riley has been "blown away" by the international interest in her Indigenous acknowledgement, sung from the public gallery of the Australian Parliament, to welcome her long-time friend Linda Burney as the first Aboriginal woman ...

Star Observer
Chansey Paech: Australia's first openly gay Aboriginal MP
Star Observer
ONLY a couple of months shy of his 29th birthday, Chansey Paech has managed to achieve a pretty incredible feat – he is the first openly gay and Aboriginal person elected to parliament at a state, territory or federal level. Paech was part of the ...

In Western Australia the government is facing a potential class action over its controversial stolen wages reparations scheme, which paid Aboriginal people a maximum of $2,000 each after decades of wages withheld by government, child labour, and in some cases slavery. Now a Background Briefing investigation has uncovered secret financial modelling, commissioned by government, on just how much the state of Western Australia owes its Aboriginal workers. At one workplace alone the documents put the amount of Aboriginal wages kept by government at $63 million.

Hyperallergic
Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
Hyperallergic
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia's Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics. They did so ...

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Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
Hyperallergic
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia's Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics. They did so ...
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happinessABC Online
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are IndigenousHuffington Post Australia
[ September 7, 2016 ] We can't let our young people despair and lose hope, says Calma NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are Indigenous
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Even though they only comprise 2.5 percent of the population.
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happiness - ABCABC Online

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25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are Indigenous
Huffington Post Australia
But alongside this evidence of progress are reminders of the wrongs of our colonial history, from the abuses at Don Dale to racism at the football ground and the ongoing disadvantages faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people today.
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happinessABC Online

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'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happiness - ABC
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Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men have lower rates of happiness than their non-Indigenous counterparts, with 10 percent rating their happiness as ...
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are IndigenousHuffington Post Australia
We can't let our young people despair and lose hope, says Calma ...National Indigenous Times
Report reveals alarming number of young Indigenous children are "unhappy"SBS
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ABC Online
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happiness
ABC Online
Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men have lower rates of happiness than their non-Indigenous counterparts, with 10 percent rating their happiness as zero out of ten, a new survey has found. The Mission Australia Youth Survey spoke to 18,727 ...
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are IndigenousHuffington Post Australia
Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian ArtHyperallergic
[ September 7, 2016 ] We can't let our young people despair and lose hope, says Calma NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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Press Council rules out action over Bill Leak's cartoon despite more than 700 complaints
SBS
After accusations of inflaming already heightened racial tensions, The Australian editor-in-chief Paul Whittaker doesn't say the cartoon is racist, but instead, insinuates that people often focus on the tough issues, suggesting Aboriginal adults need ...

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Vandenbergh: Help Australia's oldest Aboriginal footy club train longer than 30 minutes
Port Adelaide
Right now, the Roosters can only train for 30 minutes before the sun goes down, and by the time summer rolls around, the green grass we expect on a footy field is nowhere to be seen. Koonibba is the oldest surviving Aboriginal football club in ...

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Perth Now
Cockburn to vote on Australia Day fireworks
Perth Now
“In general, Aboriginal people would like to celebrate Australia Day on a different day of the year which is inclusive and respectful of all Australians, and the Fremantle decision has helped to raise the profile of this concern.” Cockburn already ...
Cockburn may host Australia Day fireworks after Fremantle cancellationThe West Australian
Cancelling fireworks will only widen gapCommunity Newspaper Group
Fireworks versus truth, reconciliation and justiceGreen Left Weekly

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Jon Faine ABC 747 'The conversation hour (Excerpt) with Karly Warner, Ruth Barson, Benson Saulo and Julian Cleary Karly Warner is the Executive Officer of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, and Chair of the Administrative Law & Human Rights Executive Committee at the Law Institute of Victoria. She also sits on the Aboriginal Advisory Council at Lander and Rogers. Ruth Barson is Director of Legal Advocacy at the Human Rights Law Centre, and sits on the board of the Women's Legal Service Victoria. Benson Saulo is Co-founder of The Man Cave, Benson is a descendant of the Wemba Wemba and Gundjitmara Australian Aboriginal nations of western Victoria and the New Ireland Provence of Papua New Guinea. He is a former Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations. Julian Cleary, who is an Indigenous Rights Campaigner with Amnesty International More: http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2016/09/05/4532950.htm

Huffington Post Australia
Q&A: Shakespeare's Sonnet 127 Was Read In An Indigenous Language And It Was Awesome
Huffington Post Australia
... translates Shakespeare into Indigenous languages, and on Monday night Q&A was treated to one of those performances. Farmer performed Sonnet 127 in Noongar, which is the indigenous language of her family in the south-west of Western Australia.
Q&A on Shakespeare's universal truths: 'This famous white fella who's dead now 400 years'ABC Online
Listen To Shakespeare Performed In An Indigenous Language On Last Night's 'Q&A'Junkee
Germaine Greer tells Q&A Shakespeare's timeless lesson is to make us thinkThe Guardian

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Researchers from the University of Western Australia have discovered what they believe to be the earliest "houses" in Australia dating back to almost 9000 years. Prof. Jo McDonald is the Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at UWA and the Rio Tinto Chair in Rock Art Studies. Her interests include rock art and information exchange, engendered rock art studies, arid zone rock art, direct-dating rock art and applied rock art research (Native Title, National Heritage and World Heritage). CAAMA RADIO with Paul Wiles

The Conversation AU
FactCheck Q&A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500000 Indigenous people in Australia?
The Conversation AU
Nicholas Biddle works in a centre at the ANU that receives funding from Commonwealth and State/Territory governments to research Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander demographic and socioeconomic outcomes. Dennis Foley is an Indigenous Australian ...
Ngaya Ngyamitjimitang. This is all I can say in my own language, and it is painful for meThe Guardian
Hurtful cartoon fails to help indigenous victims of injusticeThe Australian
In memory of so many, there must be a national custody notification serviceIndependent Australia

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