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Viet Nam News
Australian Aboriginal artists tell their story
Viet Nam News
Some of them tell the story of how a long, long track along which cattle walked to market changed the lives of Aboriginal people. European settlers to Australia built the track through Australia's wide open spaces inland of the coast. This area of ...

Atlas Obscura
Vandals Destroy 8000-Year-Old Aboriginal Art in Australia
Atlas Obscura
Aboriginal ochre stencils, believed to be up to 8,000 years old, were recently scratched out in Tasmania, in what the country's Aboriginal Affairs Minister is calling a "shameful act," according to the Guardian. Aboriginal peoples created the stencils ...

SBS
New evidence confirms Aboriginal people as first Australians
SBS
An Australian-led team of scientists has found new evidence confirming Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit Australia. Scientists from Griffith University have used new DNA sequencing methods to re-analyse a previous study from 2001 suggesting ...

Why Indigenous culture and tourism need each other
ABC Message Stick
With Asian holidaymakers flocking to Australia, Indigenous tour operators are getting ready to reap the rewards. International short-term visitor arrivals to Australia hit the highest level on record in April, according to the most recent figures ...

Steve Widders, an Anawain Elder has questioned comments by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce that Aboriginal people and their issues have always been a part of his life. Speaking on CAAMA Radio during a quick visit to Central Australia the Deputy Prime Minister told listeners he is not oblivious to Aboriginal issues. Steve Widders has a different opinion ... adding that Aboriginal issues appear to be getting little coverage in the lead up to the Federal election. Interview with Pixie Jenkins from Caama Radio

Pro Bono Australia
Australia's Youngest Generation is the Most Vulnerable Says Report
Pro Bono Australia
The level of over-representation of Indigenous people aged 10 – 17 years in detention increased from 19 times the rate of non-Indigenous young people in 2011 to 26 times in 2015. Young people who have been homeless have a mental (79.9 per cent) or ...
Children In Poverty Report Shows One In Six Aussie Kids Live In PovertyHuffington Post Australia
Australian governments have failed children: UNICEF reportBrisbane Times

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Pro Bono Australia
Australia's Youngest Generation is the Most Vulnerable Says Report
Pro Bono Australia
“Australia is not the lucky country for many children.” In particular, the report identifies that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children,lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI) children, children from rural areas, children with ...
Children In Poverty Report Shows One In Six Aussie Kids Live In PovertyHuffington Post Australia
For 1 in 6 children, Australia is not the lucky countryUNICEF Australia (blog)
Australian governments have failed children: UNICEF reportThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation AU
From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo
The Conversation AU
The report examined the interaction between two legal systems – one based in British law “received” at colonisation and the other in the customary laws of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. In a post-Mabo Australia, the significance of the core ...

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The Conversation AU
Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
The continual construction of Indigenous Australians as “failures” in the media and in policy is having unintended consequences. Media reporting and policies almost always focus on what is “wrong” with Indigenous Australians. They look at the problems ...

The Conversation AU
Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
The Conversation AU
While the Australian Law Reform Commissions's 1986 report on the use of customary law for Aboriginal people was a great initiative, it was, in hindsight, a notion well before its time. Although 30 years have elapsed since the report was published, ...
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agendaABC Local
Election 2016: Calls for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to head new DepartmentABC Online
National Indigenous Times -ABC Message Stick -Save The Children Australia
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The Conversation AU
Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
The Conversation AU
While the Australian Law Reform Commissions's 1986 report on the use of customary law for Aboriginal people was a great initiative, it was, in hindsight, a notion well before its time. Although 30 years have elapsed since the report was published, ...
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agendaABC Local
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
We deserve better, say Aboriginal leadersSBS
Save The Children Australia -ABC Online -National Indigenous Times
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The Conversation AU
Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
The continual construction of Indigenous Australians as “failures” in the media and in policy is having unintended consequences. Media reporting and policies almost always focus on what is “wrong” with Indigenous Australians. They look at the problems ...

ABC Local
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agenda
ABC Local
They've appointed an Indigenous Advisory Council. But what we need is this relationship between our peoples and government. Not with our peoples and government agencies or departments, our people and government. Until that happens, we're still going ...
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
We deserve better, say Aboriginal leadersSBS
Election 2016: Calls for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to head new DepartmentABC Online
National Indigenous Times -Save The Children Australia -Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
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ABC Online
Camel economy: remote Aboriginal communities capitalise on feral export
ABC Online
Remote Aboriginal communities in the central desert have created their own camel export industry, and it is helping to generate locally driven economic opportunities in an isolated region of Australia. The Ngaanyatjarra Lands is a group of remote ...

ABC Online
Election 2016: Calls for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to head new Department
ABC Online
Ms Turner went further, however, suggesting senior staff working in the newly recreated department should be Indigenous. "[It should be] headed up by competent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in all of the senior executive positions so we ...
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
Jobs key to indigenous population living longer, healthier livesClarence Valley Daily Examiner
[ June 9, 2016 ] First Nations fight back in historic Redfern Statement NEWSNational Indigenous Times
Townsville Bulletin -ABC Message Stick -The Australian Financial Review
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Neil Thomson: champion for Aboriginal Australians
Brisbane Times
Professor Neil Thomson, who died earlier this year aged 73, worked tirelessly throughout his life to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in Australia. Among his many achievements, was the establishment of the groundbreaking Australian ...

Neil Thomson: champion for Aboriginal Australians
Brisbane Times
Professor Neil Thomson, who died earlier this year aged 73, worked tirelessly throughout his life to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in Australia. Among his many achievements, was the establishment of the groundbreaking Australian ...

Save The Children Australia
An urgent call for a more just approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs
Save The Children Australia
In the past 25 years – a generation in fact – we have had the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Bringing them home Report and Reconciliation: Australia's Challenge: the final report of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary lawThe Conversation AU
Federal election 2016: ALP pledges $20m to Aboriginal legal servicesThe Australian
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agendaABC Local
ABC Online -Huffington Post Australia
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The Guardian
'We vote too': Indigenous groups warn both parties they want action
The Guardian
They also warned the next government to reinstate funding for the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, which the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, said was unrepresentative. “What we've got done here today has been a united voice ...

The Guardian
'We vote too': Indigenous groups warn both parties they want action
The Guardian
They also warned the next government to reinstate funding for the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, which the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, said was unrepresentative. “What we've got done here today has been a united voice ...