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Sydney Morning Herald
Cabinet papers: How the deaths in custody royal commission changed policy
Sydney Morning Herald
Ninety years after federation the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody changed the way that government shaped policies affecting Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Robert Tickner told the cabinet in early April 1991 that ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Hawkes says he's grateful to Keating
SBS
He didn't achieve as much as he would like to improve the lot of Aboriginal people. States still exist. Hawke argued passionately for Australia's federation to be reformed through abolishing them, leaving a central government and strengthened local ...
Cabinet papers: War, a leadership challenge and the 'Granny Killer' collaredSydney Morning Herald
Cabinet papers 1990-91: Hawke's fight to keep mining out of Kakadu helped ...The Guardian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Hawkes says he's grateful to Keating
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He didn't achieve as much as he would like to improve the lot of Aboriginal people. States still exist. Hawke argued passionately for Australia's federation to be reformed through abolishing them, leaving a central government and strengthened local ...
Cabinet papers: War, a leadership challenge and the 'Granny Killer' collaredSydney Morning Herald
Cabinet papers 1990-91: Hawke's fight to keep mining out of Kakadu helped ...The Guardian

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Huffington Post Australia
Cabinet papers 1990-91: lingering indigenous remorse for Hawke
The Australian
He declared “there is still so much to be done'' for indigenous Australians “and I wished I could have done more''. Documents show that in 1991 cabinet agreed to establish a council for Aboriginal reconciliation, anticipated the final report into the ...
Hawke Government Cabinet Papers Grapple With Same Issues As Modern AustraliaHuffington Post Australia
Hawke admits he's 'grateful' to KeatingSky News Australia
Hawke grateful for being dumped as PMYahoo7 News
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The Australian
Cabinet papers 1990-91: lingering indigenous remorse for Hawke
The Australian
He declared “there is still so much to be done'' for indigenous Australians “and I wished I could have done more''. Documents show that in 1991 cabinet agreed to establish a council for Aboriginal reconciliation, anticipated the final report into the ...
Hawke Government Cabinet Papers Grapple With Same Issues As Modern AustraliaHuffington Post Australia
Cabinet papers 1990-91: Hawke's fight to keep mining out of Kakadu helped ...The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull a menace to the Labor Social gathering: Bob HawkeThe Times (subscription)

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The Australian (blog)
June Oscar: taking a courageous stand for the benefit of others
The Australian (blog)
She took a stand in her Kimberley community in Western Australia's far north for the lasting benefit of its residents and especially for children. Now she is working to ensure a ... Working with researchers and doctors from the George Institute and the ...

Huffington Post Australia
First Nations honoured with Welcome to Country
SBS
Sydney has honoured the First Nations Australians of Sydney Harbour – the Gadigal, Wangal and Gamaragal clans of the Eora Nation – with a beautiful Welcome to Country ahead of the New Years Eve fireworks. ... Nathan Moran, the CEO of the Metropolitan ...
Sydney New Year's Eve 2015: Welcome to Country ceremony to be seen around the ...Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Harbour's New Year 2016 celebration explodes with City of Colour ...Daily Mail
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First Nations honoured with Welcome to Country
SBS
Indigenous Australians have been looking to the heavens intuitively for direction from the Sun, Moon and stars for thousands of years. In Dreamtime astrology 2016 marks the year of the Lizard. Here are your Dreamtime animal signs and 'destiny ...
Happy New Year From The Huffington Post AustraliaHuffington Post Australia
Australia set to ring in 2016 in styleSky News Australia
Australia rings in new year, with Sydney's spectacular firework display at the ...The Guardian
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SBS
Special Indigenous welcome to country for Sydney NYE
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Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council chief executive Nathan Moran said the organisation was "depply honoured and overjoyed that the Sydney New Year's Eve celebration will have a specific focus on respecting the First Nations Australians of Sydney ...

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Gizmodo Australia
Australian Researchers Investigate How Cigarette Packaging Fools You
Gizmodo Australia
They found that Aboriginal and Torres Island people certainly did know that smoking was bad. What plain packaging did was reduce was the perception that certain kinds of cigarettes were “less bad” for people. Packages depicting healthy icons with words ...

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The Australian (blog)
Sydney New Year's Eve 2015: Welcome to Country ceremony to be seen around the ...
Sydney Morning Herald
For the first time, Sydney's New Year's Eve fireworks will be ushered in with a vast and proud Aboriginal Welcome to Country ceremony, putting local Gadigal, Wangal and Gamaragal traditions front and centre in global new year celebrations. ... $7 ...
Australians flock for 'biggest, best' New Year's Eve celebrationsThe Australian (blog)
Special Indigenous welcome to country for Sydney NYESBS
Fireworks to kick off global New Year party despite terror fearsYahoo7 News
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The Australian (blog)
Australians flock for 'biggest, best' New Year's Eve celebrations
The Australian (blog)
With temperatures reaching a temperate 25C, the bridge will tonight become a giant Aboriginal flag, with red fireworks and yellow flares, while specially choreographed Welcome to Country will be projected onto the pylons. Security forces are flooding ...
Sydney to usher in 2016 with massive welcome to country tributeGay News Network

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SBS
Australian cultural festival aims to deepen ties with Brazil
SBS
The goal of 'Australia now' is to broaden and deepen that image." Bromilow is confident he knows what aspects of Australian culture will "speak" to Brazilians. "One is expressions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. This is something that ...

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Aussies target Brazil in cultural festival
SBS
The goal of 'Australia now' is to broaden and deepen that image." Bromilow is confident he knows what aspects of Australian culture will "speak" to Brazilians. "One is expressions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. This is something that ...

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The West Australian
Anzac Day means so much
The West Australian
They can laugh about it now, but both men fought against the Japanese when the war was threatening to reach Australia. In 1942, Mr Goldie, a signalman, was sent from Victoria to WA to defend against a possible invasion. “When we got on the train they ...

The Stringer
What is the Western Australian Government's problem?
The Stringer
He is the third Aboriginal man to take his life this year while in custody in Western Australia. He was presented to the Magistrates Court in Perth by teleconference. His bail was renewed to the end of March but surety had to be presented. An uncle ...

Generations yet to be born will be lost to the prison system & to suicide
The Stringer
However Australia per capita is wealthier than America. Australia in general is nowhere near as punishing of its poorest with the exception of the descendants of its First Peoples, the cultures of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders. From a ...

The Border Mail
GALLERY: Best Pictures of 2015
The Border Mail
Peter Sutherland from Thologolong in Victoria owns 39 year old Shah who was once ridden by Australia's first female jockey June Lossius who now is 84 years old. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG. Annual Gerogery Field Day at ..... Beverley King, of Wodonga ...

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Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Artefacts: Saltwater Country
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Historically the beaches of Australia were the site of first contact between the colonisers and the Indigenous inhabitants and more recently the site of the arrival of asylum seekers. Michael Aird, whose traditional country includes the Gold Coast ...

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The Age
We need to fund the ABC to tell Australian stories
The Age
To produce the show in a different location around Australia each week, as the BBC produces Question Time around Britain, would be vastly more expensive. But if Brown and Martin's recommendations are accepted, it's money that the ABC's News Division, ...

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