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The West Australian
Celebrating storylines of WA's First People
The West Australian
“The collections tell stories about the early colonisation and settlement of Western Australia and the impacts of this on Aboriginal people,” she said. “It is an area of our history that has traditionally been told from a European perspective but is ...

Center for Research on Globalization
Radioactive Waste and the “Nuclear War” against Australia's Aboriginal people
Center for Research on Globalization
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate ...

Irene Watson an Tanganekald and Meintangk woman from the Coorong region of the south east of South Australia, and one of the first Aboriginal people to graduate with a law degree. She has a long history in examining the legacy of colonialism, and the enduring doctrine of terra nullius in this country. She joined Amy McQuire to discuss many issues but in this excerpt why we have to start revitalising our connection to country, because there is no future in the Western idea of 'progress'. The complete discussion can be found on 98.9 FM 'Lets Talk'. www.989fm.com.au/podcasts/lets-talk/prof-irene-watson

SBS
Linda Burney to become first female Indigenous MP in Australia's history
SBS
Ms Burney told NITV she strongly supported constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, saying it did not preclude a treaty later being formed. “I know that there are diverse views in our community about this issue but it is unrealistic to ...
Australia looks set to get its first federal female Aboriginal MPBusiness Insider Australia
Linda Burney becomes first Indigenous woman elected to Australia's lower houseThe Guardian
Linda Burney Just Became The First Indigenous Woman In The House Of RepresentativesHuffington Post Australia
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SBS
Linda Burney to become first female Indigenous MP in Australia's history
SBS
Ms Burney told NITV she strongly supported constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, saying it did not preclude a treaty later being formed. “I know that there are diverse views in our community about this issue but it is unrealistic to ...
Linda Burney becomes first Indigenous woman elected to Australia's lower houseThe Guardian
Australia looks set to get its first federal female Aboriginal MPBusiness Insider Australia
Linda Burney Just Became The First Indigenous Woman In The House Of RepresentativesHuffington Post Australia
NEWS.com.au -The Sydney Morning Herald -National Indigenous Times
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Business Insider Australia
Australia looks set to get its first federal female Aboriginal MP
Business Insider Australia
Labor politician Linda Burney, who became the first Aboriginal person in the New South Wales parliament, looks set to make history again tonight as the first female Aboriginal woman in the lower house. The former MP for Canterbury resigned earlier this ...
Linda Burney to become first female Indigenous MP in Australia's historySBS
Linda Burney declares Barton win to become the first indigenous woman in House of RepresentativesNEWS.com.au
[ July 2, 2016 ] Burney packs her bags for Canberra after historic poll win NEWSNational Indigenous Times
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Aljazeera.com
Why is Australia's parliament so white?
Aljazeera.com
"Political parties might get Aboriginal people in there, but it is just window-dressing," he added. Mansell advocates that Australia adopt something similar to the system in New Zealand, where there are seven dedicated parliamentary seats for the ...

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The Ecologist
Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people
The Ecologist
From 1998-2004, the Australian federal government tried - but failed - to impose a national nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land in South Australia. Then the government tried to impose a dump on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory, but that also ...

The Ecologist
Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people
The Ecologist
From 1998-2004, the Australian federal government tried - but failed - to impose a national nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land in South Australia. Then the government tried to impose a dump on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory, but that also ...

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Daily Mail
Sydney woman Lorna Munroe makes an indigenous Australian version of Barbie and Bratz dolls
Daily Mail
Lorna Munro, from Redfern, is re-styling Barbie and Bratz dolls into gorgeous, indigenous creations. She calls her range 'Lorna's Tribe', explaining on her public Facebook page that: 'Lorna's Tribe celebrates the many shades of being black because we ...

ABC Online
Changes to Tasmania's Aboriginal identity test labelled outrageous
ABC Online
The change has been slammed by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre's (TAC) head, Heather Sculthorpe. "This is an outrageous attack on the Aboriginal community," she said. "You're going to have a whole bunch of Aborigines with no Aboriginal ancestry.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Next prime minister needs a new direction for Indigenous affairs
The Sydney Morning Herald
He stated his commitment to deliver a new future for Indigenous Australians, and that he would "honour that commitment not by delivering to Indigenous Australians, but by working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and their communities ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Next prime minister needs a new direction for Indigenous affairs
The Sydney Morning Herald
In February, Malcolm Turnbull delivered his first Closing the Gap statement as Prime Minister. He stated his commitment to deliver a new future for Indigenous Australians, and that he would "honour that commitment not by delivering to Indigenous ...

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ABC Message Stick
Indigenous students crowdfund new school shirts to promote NAIDOC week and awareness
ABC Message Stick
"It really showed that there's a deficit there that we needed to work on to get people to understand why NAIDOC is not just important for Indigenous people, but for all Australians." As the school's Indigenous students are of both Aboriginal and Torres ...

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The Straits Times
LiveBlogLast Updated 5:09PM AESTFederal Election 2016: Day 55
The Australian
With the backdrop of the indigenous health clinic at which he was speaking, Bill Shorten was quizzed on whether Aboriginal Australians could have any confidence in either of the major parties given neither party has an integrated policy to close the gap.
Election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten trade barbs over Medicare feesABC Online (blog)
Malcolm Turnbull: a prime minister on probation in search of a mandateThe Conversation AU
Some prominent political players as Australia goes to the polls on July 2The Straits Times

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The Guardian
Only 58% of Indigenous Australians are registered to vote. We should be asking why
The Guardian
Indeed, international opprobrium – which rightly lumped Australia's treatment of its first people in with South Africa's apartheid regime – were, together with the burgeoning civil rights movement, instrumental in delivering the federal vote to all ...
Songlines connect to ancestral spiritsNewcastle Herald
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Schools celebrate Naidoc Week| Photos, videoBega District News

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The Guardian
Only 58% of Indigenous Australians are registered to vote. We should be asking why
The Guardian
The last week of the federal election campaign opened with news that Indigenous people in Western Australia's Kimberley region are seven times more likely to commit suicide than other Australians. If ever a revelation might halt an election in its ...

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ABC Online
Election 2016: Indigenous Rangers program funding fears without beyond 2018
ABC Online
There are concerns about the future of the federally funded Indigenous Rangers program, which has provided more than 2,000 Aboriginal people with jobs and rehabilitated large swathes of land across Australia. The Indigenous Rangers - Working on ...

The Canberra Times
Indigenous schoolchildren explore science at Canberra institutions
The Canberra Times
The value of science and technology was on display in Canberra on Thursday, when four indigenous schoolchildren from South Australia had the chance to explore key institutions in the capital. The students, from Playford International College and ...

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The Guardian
Which is the world's most indigenous city?
The Guardian
But the flipside is equally telling: more than half of aboriginal Australians now dwell in the cities of the eastern seaboard. Long regarded as Australia's indigenous capital, Sydney has been surpassed by Brisbane as host to the greatest number of ...

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