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Science Daily
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Science Daily
This earlier study was interpreted as evidence that Aboriginal people were not the first Australians, and that Mungo Man represented an extinct lineage of modern humans that occupied the continent before Aboriginal Australians. Scientists from Griffith ...
The first Australians WERE Aborigines: 'Mungo Man' DNA contradicts claims unknown race preceded indigenous peopleDaily Mail
Mungo Man DNA test settles row on Aborigines here firstThe Australian

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HeritageDaily
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
HeritageDaily
Griffith University researchers have found evidence that demonstrates Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit Australia, as reported in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal this week. The work refutes an earlier ...

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ABC Online
New DNA technology confirms Aboriginal people as first Australians
ABC Online
Researchers say the findings overturn a 2001 paper that argued the oldest known Australian human remains found near Lake Mungo in New South Wales were from an extinct lineage of modern humans that occupied the continent before Aboriginal ...
Conflicting theories of Mungo Man debunked: Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitantsPhys.Org
The first Australians WERE Aborigines: 'Mungo Man' DNA contradicts claims unknown race preceded indigenous peopleDaily Mail

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Phys.Org
Conflicting theories of Mungo Man debunked: Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Phys.Org
The original excavation of Mungo Man, found near Lake Mungo in southwestern New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Wilfred Shawcross. Griffith University researchers have found evidence that demonstrates Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit ...
The first Australians WERE Aborigines: 'Mungo Man' DNA contradicts claims unknown race preceded indigenous peopleDaily Mail
Mungo Man DNA test settles row on Aborigines here firstThe Australian

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The Australian
Fraud suspected in 44 remote indigenous programs
The Australian
Warren Mundine, chairman of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, said: “We wouldn't accept in the wider Australian community … people sitting on boards who have no financial or no business background. ” Reconciliation Australia chief ...
Indigenous organisations rocked by allegations of fraud and corruptionDaily Mail

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The Guardian
Indigenous health: Queensland's gulf in cancer survival rates fails to improve
The Guardian
Its findings, based on the cases of 214,000 cancer patients aged 20 to 89, will prompt further work by health authorities on how to better engage Indigenous patients with services and treatment. Survival rates among Indigenous people went from 53% over ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous organisations investigated amid allegations of fraud and corruption by senior figures
ABC Online
Ms Beacroft said the separate corporate regime for Aboriginal Australia was vital because it provided both the flexibility to deal with the nuances of Indigenous cultures across the country, but also sharp powers to crack down on unscrupulous operators.

ABC Online
Indigenous organisations investigated amid allegations of fraud and corruption by senior figures
ABC Online
Ms Beacroft said the separate corporate regime for Aboriginal Australia was vital because it provided both the flexibility to deal with the nuances of Indigenous cultures across the country, but also sharp powers to crack down on unscrupulous operators.

Independent Australia
Indigenous Australians are still dying 20 years younger
Independent Australia
Reports indicating that the life-expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is narrowing, are hopeful at best and do little to effect change, says Gerry Georgatos. THE LIFE EXPECTANCY gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
It's not all black and white in achieving equalityFraser Coast Chronicle

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Independent Australia
Indigenous Australians are still dying 20 years younger
Independent Australia
Reports indicating that the life-expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is narrowing, are hopeful at best and do little to effect change, says Gerry Georgatos. THE LIFE EXPECTANCY gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

The Sunshine Coast Daily
How Australia's first Indigenous cop turned whistle blower
The Sunshine Coast Daily
Code of Silence is the true story, incredible as it is, of Colin Dillon, the first indigenous policeman in Australia and the first serving policeman to testify at the Fitzgerald Inquiry. It has taken this long for Colin to tell his story because he ...

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Atlanta Black Star
DNA Study: Australian Aboriginal Gene Pool Has Remained Virtually Untouched for 50000 Years
Atlanta Black Star
Anthropologists have long suspected that modern day Australian Aborigines descend from one of the first waves of migrants out of Africa. The prehistoric humans reached the Pacific continent some 50,000 years ago and were left relatively isolated until ...

Voice of America
Aboriginal Superhero Makes Australian TV Debut
Voice of America
Australia has its first Indigenous superhero. Cleverman, a fantasy drama that has had its premiere on Australian television, blends Aboriginal mythology with modern superhuman style and cutting political commentary on racism and identity. It is set in ...

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Voice of America
Aboriginal Superhero Makes Australian TV Debut
Voice of America
Australia has its first Indigenous superhero. Cleverman, a fantasy drama that has had its premiere on Australian television, blends Aboriginal mythology with modern superhuman style and cutting political commentary on racism and identity. It is set in ...

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School closed in remote Australian indigenous community
World Socialist Web Site
Queensland's state Labor government last month withdrew teachers and shut down the only school in the remote Aboriginal township of Aurukun, blaming violence by local youth, while boosting the number of police in the town from five to 21. It was the ...

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School closed in remote Australian indigenous community
World Socialist Web Site
Queensland's state Labor government last month withdrew teachers and shut down the only school in the remote Aboriginal township of Aurukun, blaming violence by local youth, while boosting the number of police in the town from five to 21. It was the ...

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ABC Local
Why closing the gaps between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians is not black and white
Warwick Daily News
LONG-TERM and sustainable grassroots-backed job programs are the key to ensuring the Southern Downs's Aboriginal residents are better educated, healthier and live longer. That's the view from three of the nation's leading indigenous experts who have ...
Prominent Indigenous Australians throw weight behind constitutional change and treaty debateABC Local
Six inspiring Indigenous stories for Reconciliation WeekArtsHub (subscription)
Still a long way to go on Indigenous issuesThe Sunshine Coast Daily
The Australian -Pro Bono Australia -ABC Online
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ABC Local
Astronomy the centre point of Indigenous culture
ABC Local
Indigenous peoples' spiritual and physical connection to the land also extends to the stars, according to a Monash University astronomer Dr Duane Hamacher. According to Dr Hamacher, astronomy is centre point of Indigenous culture in Australia, playing ...

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Astronomy the centre point of Indigenous culture
ABC Online
Indigenous peoples' spiritual and physical connection to the land also extends to the stars, according to a Monash University astronomer Dr Duane Hamacher. According to Dr Hamacher, astronomy is centre point of Indigenous culture in Australia, playing ...

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Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal people vow to stop nuclear waste dumps
Green Left Weekly
In the plans of governments in Adelaide and Canberra, South Australia is to become the country's “nuclear waste dump state”. Most South Australians remain sceptical. And among the state's Aboriginal population — on whose ancestral lands the dumps ...