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Aboriginal Australians Have Been 'Isolated' for 50000 Years: Scientists
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Aboriginal Australians were genetically isolated for 50,000 years according to researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, La Trobe University in Melbourne and other Australian institutes. The study, published online in the journal Current ...
Aboriginal Australians were isolated for 50000 years: Researchers find people did NOT mix with Southeast Asians as ...Daily Mail
Aboriginal genes unchangedThe Australian (subscription) (blog)
Aboriginal Australians 'have been genetically isolated for 50000 years'The Independent
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Victorian Government to begin talks with First Nations on Australia's first Indigenous treaty
ABC Online
The treaty would be a legal document over Aboriginal affairs and services and addressing past injustices. It would be the first such agreement in Australia and follow similar arrangements with First Peoples in Canada, the US and New Zealand. Victoria's ...

ABC Online
Victorian Government to begin talks with First Nations on Australia's first Indigenous treaty
ABC Online
The treaty would be a legal document over Aboriginal affairs and services and addressing past injustices. It would be the first such agreement in Australia and follow similar arrangements with First Peoples in Canada, the US and New Zealand. Victoria's ...

Daily Mail
Aboriginal Australians were isolated for 50000 years
Daily Mail
Five thousand years ago, dingos, the native dogs, somehow arrived in Australia, and changes in stone tool use and language around the same time raised the question of whether there were also associated genetic changes in the Australian Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal Australians Have Been 'Isolated' for 50000 Years: ScientistsAustralia Network News
Aboriginal Australians 'have been genetically isolated for 50000 years'The Independent
Genetics reveal 50000 years of independent history of aboriginal Australian peoplePhys.Org
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University of Virginia
During the class, students visited the Kluge-Ruhe Collection and held video calls with some of the artists to learn ...
University of Virginia
Artists hailed from four northern Australia arts centers: Babbarra Women's Centre, Injalak Arts and Crafts, Erub Erwer Meta and Merrepen Arts. Each is a community hub for some of Australia's most remote indigenous populations, often providing services ...

Aboriginal Australians were among the 'first out of Africa', study suggests
RedOrbit
Aboriginal Australians have an indigenous genetic history tracing all the way back to the earliest settlement of the continent 50,000 years ago, the first complete sequencing of Y chromosomes of Aboriginal Australian men has revealed. A new study ...

The Independent
Aboriginal Australians 'have been genetically isolated for 50000 years'
The Independent
Aboriginal Australians have been genetically isolated from the rest of humanity for 50,000 years with no direct evidence that they had ever intermarried with South-East Asians about 4,000 years ago, as some scholars have suggested, a DNA study has ...
Genetics reveal 50000 years of independent history of aboriginal Australian peoplePhys.Org
Aboriginal Australian Sequencing Study Points to 55K Years of Genetic HistoryGenomeWeb

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Phys.Org
Aboriginal Australian Sequencing Study Points to 55K Years of Genetic History
GenomeWeb
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A sequencing study of Y chromosomes from Aboriginal Australians suggests that today's indigenous people are genetically connected to the people who settled the continent 50,000 years ago, challenging a previous assumption ...
Aboriginal genes unchangedThe Australian (subscription) (blog)
Genetics reveal 50000 years of independent history of aboriginal Australian peoplePhys.Org
Aboriginal Australians were among the 'first out of Africa', study suggestsRedOrbit

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Aboriginal genes unchanged
The Australian (subscription) (blog)
Scientists have confirmed the deep roots of the Aboriginal race, suggesting Australia's original inhabitants remained genetically pure for 50,000 years. British and Australian researchers have ruled out a theory that an influx of people from the ...

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'Why should we go and apply for a permit when fisheries know that we've got a right to go out and get a feed,' Wally Stewart says. 'That's what we are saying—we don’t need to go and get a permit. As far as I'm concerned they are still trying to put a regulation on us, and that is what has destroyed our culture, all these regulations. If they pull me up I’m just going to say I’m exempt from the Fisheries Act and the Marine Park Act as a traditional owner.' Read More: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/aboriginal-fishers-report-harrassment-fishing-traditional-food/7180326

ABC Online
Dennis Jensen's 'noble savage' comments about Aboriginal communities residents 'unhelpful', Nigel Scullion says
ABC Online
"Does the Minister support the comments by the Member for Tangney, Mr Jensen, who describes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as 'noble savages' and says government services shouldn't be provided to remote communities because, and I ...
'Stuck in an era long before this one': Ken Wyatt criticises fellow Liberal's 'noble savage' commentsSBS
'Noble savage' comments unhelpful:Scullion9news.com.au

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Dennis Jensen's 'noble savage' comments about Aboriginal communities residents 'unhelpful', Nigel Scullion says
ABC Online
"Does the Minister support the comments by the Member for Tangney, Mr Jensen, who describes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as 'noble savages' and says government services shouldn't be provided to remote communities because, and I ...
'Stuck in an era long before this one': Ken Wyatt criticises fellow Liberal's 'noble savage' commentsSBS

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Huffington Post Australia
Josh Muir's Latest Work Tells Important Story In Indigenous Australian History
Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous artist Josh Muir's latest work will see escaped convict William Buckley resurrected in sculpture form as part of the bi-annual Lorne Sculpture Biennale happening in March. Buckley lived with the Wathaurong people for a number of years and ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australians and Canadians 'destroyed by same colonialism'
The Guardian
Two men walk past a mural depicting the Aboriginal flag in Sydney. 'If it's something people want, Aboriginal people have less of it, and if it's something people don't want Aboriginal people have more,' said Jonathan Rudin. Photograph: Torsten ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australians and Canadians 'destroyed by same colonialism'
The Guardian
Aboriginal peoples in Canada were grappling with record numbers of their children being placed in the child welfare system and a huge over-representation in the criminal justice system – the same issues that faced Australia, said Jonathan Rudin, head ...

SBS
Indigenous literacy program catches Cuba's eye
SBS
“In our communities, it can be anywhere from 45 to 65 per cent of Aboriginal people who have low literacy levels, but in the general population it's 14 per cent. So it's not just an issue that concerns Indigenous peoples in Australia, it belongs to ...

ABC Online
Turnbull under pressure to condemn MP over 'noble savage' speech on Indigenous communities
ABC Online
Mr Jensen, a West Australian MP, said he endorsed that position and did not think there should be specific policies singling out Indigenous Australians. "In essence, if the noble savage lifestyle, à la Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the same one often ...
Liberal MP Concedes 'British Australia Invaded', Then Demands End To Funding Black 'Lifestyle Choices'New Matilda
Liberal MP Dennis Jensen called remote Indigenous communities 'noble savages'Daily Mail

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australia: it's too late to redecorate; we need to demolish the crib
The Guardian
People don't see that it not only affects our Indigenous people but also Australia as a whole. I mean sure, we will keep breaking down the doors while matters get thrown out the window but does this country really need to keep acting like the house isn ...

New Matilda
Amnesty Report Blasts Australia's Detention Of Aboriginal People And Asylum Seekers
New Matilda
Australia has come in for a drubbing in Amnesty International's annual human rights report, with treatment of Aboriginal people and asylum seekers in particular being singled out for condemnation. The extremely high rate at which Indigenous people are ...
'Shameful': Australia must lift game on human rights, Amnesty saysSBS

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New Matilda
Amnesty Report Blasts Australia's Detention Of Aboriginal People And Asylum Seekers
New Matilda
Australia has come in for a drubbing in Amnesty International's annual human rights report, with treatment of Aboriginal people and asylum seekers in particular being singled out for condemnation. The extremely high rate at which Indigenous people are ...
Human rights under threat from government brutality around the world, Amnesty International reportsNEWS.com.au
'Shameful': Australia must lift game on human rights, Amnesty saysSBS

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