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The Indian Express
For a bunch of indigenous Australia women, a landmark cricket tour
The Indian Express
Instead, they cuddled up to the less discriminatory realm of Australian football, rugby and athletics. And it wasn't until Jason Gillepsie made his debut in 1996 that a cricketer of indigenous origin represented Australia. At least, the first time a ...
Sally Moylan tours India in Indigenous women's cricket teamThe Canberra Times
New Delhi welcomes first female First Nations women's cricket teamSBS

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The Age
Labor senator Nova Peris a frontrunner for AFL's top Indigenous job
The Age
Olympic gold medallist and Labor senator Nova Peris has emerged as a frontrunner for the AFL's top Indigenous job, a development that could affect the ALP's federal election campaign and fast-track the competition's push to promote Aboriginal ...

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The Age
Labor senator Nova Peris a frontrunner for AFL's top Indigenous job
The Age
Olympic gold medallist and Labor senator Nova Peris has emerged as a frontrunner for the AFL's top Indigenous job, a development that could affect the ALP's federal election campaign and fast-track the competition's push to promote Aboriginal ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal elder and servicewoman Marjorie Tripp remembered
ABC Online
She was awarded an Officer in the Order of Australia honour in 2014 for distinguished service to Aboriginal men and women in the armed services. Ms Tripp joined the Navy at 17 when Aboriginal people were still not recognised as Australian citizens.

Ten Eyewitness News
Push to recognise Aboriginal people in the Constitution
Ten Eyewitness News
Former AFL star and Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes, has met with the State Government as it threw its support behind a push to recognise Aboriginal people in the Australian Constitution. South Australia signed on as a formal partner of the ...
Former AFL star and Australian of the Year Adam Goodes backs South Australia in joining Recognise campaignThe Advertiser
Goodes diplomatic on SA dump idea9news.com.au

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Mashable
How to unlock the traditional science of Indigenous Australians
Mashable
The divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is still undeniably wide, with Indigenous Australians consistently losing out in health, employment, incarceration, life expectancy and education. Given the disadvantages faced by Indigenous ...
WA Government urged to fix contaminated water supplies in remote Indigenous communitiesABC Online
Indigenous youth to benefit from WA grants9news.com.au

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Mashable
How to unlock the traditional science of Indigenous Australians
Mashable
The divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is still undeniably wide, with Indigenous Australians consistently losing out in health, employment, incarceration, life expectancy and education. Given the disadvantages faced by Indigenous ...
Indigenous youth to benefit from WA grants9news.com.au
WA Government urged to fix contaminated water supplies in remote Indigenous communitiesABC Online

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The Advertiser
Former AFL star and Australian of the Year Adam Goodes backs South Australia in joining Recognise campaign
The Advertiser
Goodes said it was “an opportunity to rewrite that document in a couple of areas and acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people so in another 100, 200 years' time we know exactly the contribution those people had”. “Through the campaign ...

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The Guardian
'My relative was a mass murderer of Australia's Gunai people. Can I make amends?'
The Guardian
My relative has come to embody some of the very worst excesses of Australian colonial history. And that is saying a lot for a country in which 20,000 of its Indigenous people are estimated to have died during the “frontier wars”, and where, until ...
Only 188 sign petition in Australia to strip honour from Scottish murdererHerald Scotland
Explorer from Skye should not be honoured because he was a "ruthless murderer"Press and Journal

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The Guardian
'My relative was a mass murderer of Aborigines. Can I make amends?'
The Guardian
And that is saying a lot for a country in which 20,000 of its Indigenous people are estimated to have died during the “frontier wars”, and where, until relatively recent history, tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were separated forcibly from ...
Cal Flyn on how Scotland's bloody colonial legacy inspired family memoirHerald Scotland

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At the heart of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu is a bold assertion which explodes a foundational myth of white Australia: that Aboriginal people were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Dark Emu was recently named Book of the Year and joint winner of the biennial Indigenous Writing Prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Bruce Pascoe convincingly argues the hunter-gatherer myth was a convenient lie that enabled dispossession - at least in the colonial mind. His evidence though is drawn from records that even the most conservative historian wouldn't argue with: the journals and diaries of explorers such as Sir Thomas Mitchell and Charles Sturt. Some publishers found the premise of the book - that Aboriginal people had an agricultural economy - too challenging and some even questioned whether the terms Aboriginal and agriculture could be used in the same sentence. Now in it's sixth print run, Dark Emu has been such a popular success that it may even be adapted for the screen. Bruce tells the AWAYE program on ABC RN that he is currently working on the screen writing of a film relating to Dark Emu/

ABC Online
Doubts cast on likelihood of referendum to add Indigenous Australians to the constitution by 2017
ABC Online
Two members of the national Referendum Council have cast doubt on whether a referendum on recognising Indigenous people in the Australian constitution would be achievable by May 2017. The date for the vote was flagged by Recognise, the ...
First Nations senate candidate exposes the con in Constitutional RecognitionGreen Left Weekly

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ABC Online
Doubts cast on likelihood of referendum to add Indigenous Australians to the constitution by 2017
ABC Online
Two members of the national Referendum Council have cast doubt on whether a referendum on recognising Indigenous people in the Australian constitution would be achievable by May 2017. The date for the vote was flagged by Recognise, the ...
First Nations senate candidate exposes the con in Constitutional RecognitionGreen Left Weekly

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Supreme Court Chief Justice Chris Kourakis hits out at South Australia indigneous jail toll
The Advertiser
The Chief Justice said the conference would examine ways to improve basic health, education and employment prospects for young Aboriginal people, who he said were at a distinct sociological disadvantage. “I have described it as continued institutional ...

Supreme Court Chief Justice Chris Kourakis hits out at South Australia indigneous jail toll
The Advertiser
The conference has the long term aim of finding strategies to help reduce the Aboriginal incarceration rate to three per cent — in line with the number of indigenous people in the SA community. The Chief Justice said the conference would examine ways ...

VietNamNet Bridge
Australian indigenous artists depict culture and history
VietNamNet Bridge
The route, which runs 1,850km across Western Australia and follows waterholes where animals and people could access drinking water, crosses the boundaries of many Aboriginal language groups. Similar stock routes were established across aboriginal ...

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The Australian
Indigenous violence: police must act for children's sake
The Australian
Since Martin's work, others have written about violence in Aurukun including, controversially, Peter Sutton (The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus, 2009), who observed the tragic consequences for child ...

ABC Online
Indigenous surfers head to culturally significant site of Bells Beach to compete
ABC Online
"Indigenous people have an amazing connection to the ocean and Bells Beach is a very significant place for the local Indigenous people as there was a lot of trading that went on down here, a lot of history," Jordie Campbell, one of Surfing Victoria's ...

ABC Online
Indigenous surfers head to culturally significant site of Bells Beach to compete
ABC Online
"Indigenous people have an amazing connection to the ocean and Bells Beach is a very significant place for the local Indigenous people as there was a lot of trading that went on down here, a lot of history," Jordie Campbell, one of Surfing Victoria's ...

The West Australian
Indigenous Albany cricketer to represent Australia in India - The West Australian
The West Australian
Albany cricket product Samara Williams' dream of representing her country will be realised over the next week with the all-rounder part of the national indigenous women's squad touring India. Williams, who grew up in Albany and has since moved to Perth ...