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Herald Sun
Under fire Darebin deputy mayor Oliver Walsh continues to deny Aboriginal genocide, despite apologising for ...
Herald Sun
Thornbury's Damien Kingsbury delivered a public question at this week's council meeting asking if councillors recognised Cr Oliver Walsh's comments as a “failure to represent the central concern of Australia's indigenous people, and the rest of the ...

The Conversation AU
How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
The Conversation AU
The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before Europeans came to Australia. And like today, they ...

BBC News
The pride and fury of Australia's Indigenous rappers
BBC News
Born in the United States, hip hop has developed a distinct Indigenous flavour in Australia that reflects both dispossession and hope. There is an unerringly provocative streak coursing through the music of Corey Webster, aka Nooky, a young firebrand ...

BBC News
The pride and fury of Australia's Indigenous rappers
BBC News
Born in the United States, hip hop has developed a distinct Indigenous flavour in Australia that reflects both dispossession and hope. There is an unerringly provocative streak coursing through the music of Corey Webster, aka Nooky, a young firebrand ...

ABC Online
Kenbi land claim finalised after 37 years, handback to NT Indigenous owners to follow
ABC Online
The claim's long history has divided more than 2,000 Aboriginal people from several family groups who wanted access to the land. Many Larrakia people were unable to legally prove their connection to the land, and left without any major rights to the land.
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NATIVE TITLENational Indigenous Times
Indigenous affairs: Kenbi land claim settled after 37-year battleThe Guardian
Darwin land rights deal 'a win for just four'The Australian
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ABC Online
Kenbi land claim finalised after 37 years, handback to NT Indigenous owners to follow
ABC Online
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said the result had been "innovative" and one that should be closely looked at by other groups around Australia. "Ten years ago I never thought part of the settlement would be a voluntary extinguishment of ...
Indigenous affairs: Kenbi land claim settled after 37-year battleThe Guardian
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NATIVE TITLENational Indigenous Times
NT land claim settled after 37 yearsSBS

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National Indigenous Times
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NATIVE TITLE
National Indigenous Times
Australia's longest running land claim – the Kenbi land claim across the Cox Peninsula on the western side of Darwin Harbour – has finally been settled, 37 years after it was lodged. As exclusively revealed by the NIT this morning, Northern Territory ...
Kenbi land claim finalised after 37 years, hand back to NT Indigenous owners to followABC Online

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National Indigenous Times
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NEWS
National Indigenous Times
The Kenbi Ranger group, funded by the Indigenous Land Council, is expected to be front and centre in any job opportunities that will arise from the agreement. The Northern Land Council, which helps Aboriginal people manage traditional lands, has been ...

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New Republic
Australia's Other “Flying Doctors”: The Spirits of Aboriginal Bush Healers
New Republic
It's Friday night and still over 35°C in the town of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory. It is market night, and the pubs and streets are full of people. I hear glass shattering and a man and woman yelling at each other in the front yard ...

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New Republic
Australia's Other “Flying Doctors”: The Spirits of Aboriginal Bush Healers
New Republic
It's Friday night and still over 35°C in the town of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory. It is market night, and the pubs and streets are full of people. I hear glass shattering and a man and woman yelling at each other in the front yard ...

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The Guardian
Closure of bush court near Uluru 'will hit Indigenous community'
The Guardian
Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT is an alliance of Aboriginal organisations including the Central Land Council, the Northern Land Council, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Central ...

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The Guardian
Closure of bush court near Uluru 'will hit Indigenous community'
The Guardian
Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT is an alliance of Aboriginal organisations including the Central Land Council, the Northern Land Council, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Central ...
Fears closure of Mutitjulu court near Uluru could trigger scale-back of bush courtsABC Online

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ABC Local
Campaign for Indigenous recognition in constitution focuses on southern NSW town
ABC Local
Now, Mr Grant is supporting the group Recognise, a campaign seeking constitutional recognition for Indigenous people. The group has visited 300 towns so far, to bring the conversation to town halls and gatherings across Australia. Its meeting has ...
Indigenous community in cashless welfare trial, but rehab centre seven hours awayABC Online
Indigenous recognition: there are some wounds that defy time and kindnessThe Guardian
Two causes collide as Tony Abbott rides into CootamundraThe Australian (subscription)

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The Australian (blog)
Northern Territory denies claim Aboriginal singer Gurrumul was mistreated in hospital
The Australian (blog)
There are large numbers of indigenous patients at the emergency department at RDH, said Dr Robert Parker, head of the Australian Medical Association NT. “The hospital is almost like an Aboriginal medical service because 60 per cent of the clients at ...
Claims Royal Darwin Hospital left musician Gurrumul Yunupingu untreated for hours despite serious internal bleedingNEWS.com.au

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The Guardian
Crime: Indigenous Australians and African Americans deserve a 'sentencing discount'
The Guardian
Indigenous people living in Australia in 2016 are 13 times more likely than non-Indigenous Australians to be imprisoned. African Americans are six times more likely to be imprisoned than other Americans. The US incarceration rate is 700 per 100,000 ...

NEWS.com.au
Claims Royal Darwin Hospital left musician Gurrumul Yunupingu untreated for hours despite serious internal bleeding
NEWS.com.au
“We know that Aboriginal people that are admitted to hospital are much less likely to get a procedure for that condition than non-Aboriginal people,” he told the ABC. “It's not that individual people are racist, but the whole system is designed for ...
Northern Territory denies claim Aboriginal singer Gurrumul was mistreated in hospitalThe Australian (blog)
Gurrumul racism claim 'disgraceful'Yahoo7 News
Gurrumul's Manager Accuses Darwin Hospital Of Racial ProfilingtheMusic

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Indigenous community in cashless welfare trial, but rehab centre seven hours away
ABC Online
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: The Aboriginal community of Yalata in South Australia's far west has long battled problems with drug and alcohol abuse. The area is being included in the roll-out of the Government's cashless welfare card trial. Senior community ...

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The Sunshine Coast Daily
LETTER: Australia's true history needs to be acknowledged
The Sunshine Coast Daily
Then followed decades of slavery, unspeakable violence, massacres that nearly wiped out our Aboriginal population. The older - and wiser - I get, it is obvious who the uncivilised savages are in Australia's history - and they are not the Aborigines ...

Investment Magazine
80% Indigenous workers won't have a comfortable retirement
Investment Magazine
Only 20 per cent of Indigenous workers in full-time employment will accumulate enough savings to achieve the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's comfortable standard of living in retirement, an academic report has revealed. Meanwhile, 33 ...

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Who speaks for Aboriginal Australia?
Red Flag
The responses to the Sydney Daily Telegraph's “discovery” that universities are acknowledging one or two facts about the British invasion of this land have revealed something else: who gets to speak for and about Aboriginal people. In the popular media ...

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