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Coombs calls for indigenous recognition
SBS
Australia's first indigenous Paralympian has called for constitutional recognition to make sure young athletes don't face the hurdles he did. Kevin Coombs, a former wheelchair basketball player who competed at the inaugural Paralympic games as an ...

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Indigenous women subject to horrifying levels of violence
The Australian
In its bid for a position on the Human Rights Council, Australia must increase its efforts to prevent violence against indigenous women and girls. The council is made of 47 member states, elected by the majority of members of the UN General Assembly ...

The Northern Daily Leader
Closing the gap - $24m for Indigenous schooling
The Northern Daily Leader
Organisations to be supported through the funding package include The Clontarf Foundation, Role Models and Leaders Australia, Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, Cathy Freeman Foundation, AFL ...
Investing in the future of Indigenous YouthMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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A dispute has broken out between the West Australian and Northern Territory Governments over the movement of Aboriginal people across northern Australia. The Territory's Chief Minister, Adam Giles, has written to WA calling on it to take back homeless Indigenous people living on the outskirts of Darwin. Across the border, his comments have not been welcomed. ABC Radio 'PM' Repoprt

ABC Online
Mosaic helps Muslim and Aboriginal communities piece together old and new connections
ABC Online
The piece will be at the centre of Ilim College's commemorations for the National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration (NAIDOC) in July and celebrates the shared history of Aboriginal and Muslim people in Australia — dating back to the arrival ...

Indigenous treaty: Langton, Davis look to Canadian model
The Australian
“The word 'recognition' proves problematic (in the Australian context),” they write in From Recognition to Reconciliation, “because of the non-specific nature of the commitment it implies, juxtaposed against the very specific and concrete ...

How a Dreamtime colouring book is bringing Australians closer together
SBS
'Colouring Country' creator Ros Moriarty told NITV News her art therapy book, which features Indigenous colouring-in templates, brings Indigenous and other Australians closer together because it provides a calming experience. Ms Moriarty says she ...

How a Dreamtime colouring book is bringing Australians closer together
SBS
Australia comprises more than 250 Indigenous tribes, according to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. But the book is a good place to start in the effort to grow people's appreciation of Australia's Indigenous ...

The Australian Financial Review
Aurukun review is shameful and disgusting, says Noel Pearson
The Australian Financial Review
Six weeks ago the school principal was car-jacked and other teachers in the school, run by Noel Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy, were seriously threatened. Teachers were evacuated to Cairns, the school was temporarily closed, and the ...

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Policy Forum
Australia needs bipartisanship on recognition
Policy Forum
Comments by Bill Shorten this week in support of a treaty with Indigenous Australians brought back memories of the republican referendum of some years ago. At that time, the Chairman of The Australian Republican Movement, Malcolm Turnbull, was warned ...
Talk of a treaty on recognition is not going to disappear quietlyThe Australian
Shorten's treaty talk reflects impact of Indigenous activismEureka Street (registration)
Men of few deedsThe Saturday Paper (subscription)

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ABC Online
Farmers in WA banking on native vegetables becoming Australian staple
ABC Online
While kangaroo and emu meat is becoming a more common feature on Australian dinner tables, a meal of meat and three vegetables is still reliant on traditional staples such as peas, potatoes and carrots.

Broadsheet
Australian Native Foods: To Forage or Not To Forage?
Broadsheet
It's a question many of us have wondered when dining at a top-flight Australian restaurant and presented with a carefully-created, incredibly delicious meal of native ingredients: How on earth do they forage so much in the wild? The answer is; they don't.

Perth Now
No evidence of Aboriginal exodus to NT: Barnett
Perth Now
I just simply wrote back to Adam and said `listen mate, that's a normal course of events ... we've got no evidence of an exodus of Aboriginal people from Western Australia'.” In 2014, Mr Barnett flagged the closure of up to 150 remote indigenous ...
Colin Barnett dismisses NT Chief Minister's comments about Aboriginal people being 'misplaced'ABC Online
Darwin's homeless problems spark dispute between NT and WA GovernmentsABC Local
No evidence of homeless NT exodus: Barnett9news.com.au

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Herald Sun
No evidence of Aboriginal exodus to NT: WA Premier Colin Barnett
Herald Sun
I just simply wrote back to Adam and said `listen mate, that's a normal course of events ... we've got no evidence of an exodus of Aboriginal people from Western Australia'.” In 2014, Mr Barnett flagged the closure of up to 150 remote indigenous ...
Colin Barnett dismisses NT Chief Minister's comments about Aboriginal people being 'misplaced'ABC Online
No evidence of homeless NT exodus: Barnett9news.com.au

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ABC Online
Colin Barnett dismisses NT Chief Minister's comments about Aboriginal people being 'misplaced'
ABC Online
Western Australia's Premier has brushed off calls for his state to "take back" hundreds of homeless Aboriginal people in Darwin, describing comments from Northern Territory's Chief Minister as "misplaced". Chief Minister Adam Giles yesterday said he ...
No evidence of homeless NT exodus: BarnettWAtoday

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The Australian
Federal election 2016: Labor to restore funds to indigenous affairs budget
The Australian
Labor would restore funding to the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, stripped in the 2014 budget, dismantle the Coalition's controversial indigenous Advancement Strategy funding arrangement and fund a range of programs focusing ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Federal election 2016: 'treaty talk doom indigenous referendum'
The Australian
“And the path towards a proper settlement of equality and an equal go, a fair-go all around for Aboriginal Australians, has to involve constitutional recognition.” Mr Shorten cited the views of Labor's new senator for Western Australia, indigenous ...
Federal election 2016: Indigenous leaders push for treaty negotiations as Malcolm Turnbull agrees with 'invasion'The Sydney Morning Herald
Bill Shorten 'Up For' Treaty With Indigenous AustraliansHuffington Post Australia
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull describes British colonisation of Australia as invasionDaily Mail
The Guardian -The Australian Financial Review -Australia Network News
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The Australian
Federal election 2016: 'treaty talk doom indigenous referendum'
The Australian
The debate about symbolism, history, practical reconciliation and indigenous recognition has created a diversion in the election campaign, with Barnaby Joyce yesterday disagreeing with the Prime Minister's concession that the British landing in ...
Australia Can Have An Indigenous Treaty And Constitutional RecognitionHuffington Post Australia
Federal election 2016: Indigenous leaders push for treaty negotiations as Malcolm Turnbull agrees with 'invasion'The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous poll to fail without support9news.com.au
Business Insider Australia -Herald Sun
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The Source
Meet Briggs, The Groundbreaking Indigenous Rapper From Australia
The Source
Briggs is an Indigenous Australian rapper, record label owner, comedy writer, actor as well as a political and current affairs commentator who's been breaking new ground in Hip Hop and beyond Down Under through his uniquely conscious, comedic, ...

Federal election 2016: Reconciliation Australia backs Malcolm Turnbull over 'invasion' comments
The Canberra Times
"Well, I think it can be fairly described as that and I've got no doubt, obviously, our first Aboriginal Australians describe it as an invasion," he said. Ms Cilento said she was pleased Mr Turnbull has publicly confirmed his view on what she described ...