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Turnbull's historic ministry as Ken Wyatt becomes Australia's first Indigenous ...
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The Member for Hasluck, Western Australia, will become Australia's first Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Federal Government frontbencher, taking up the role of assistant health minister. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced his front bench ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A powerfully-built athlete and an outspoken champion of Aboriginal rights, Australian Rules footballer Adam Goodes rarely ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A powerfully-built athlete and an outspoken champion of Aboriginal rights, Australian Rules footballer Adam Goodes rarely ...

MELBOURNE, Sept 20 (Reuters) - A powerfully-built athlete and an outspoken champion of Aboriginal rights, Australian Rules footballer Adam ...

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Turnbull's historic ministry as Ken Wyatt becomes Australia's first Indigenous ...
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The Member for Hasluck, Western Australia, will become Australia's first Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Federal Government frontbencher, taking up the role of assistant health minister. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced his front bench ...

Ian Trust, executive director of Wunan, an Aboriginal development ... Ceduna in South Australia last week signed up for the "almost cashless" card and ...

The northern West Australian regional centre of 7000 is also racked by high ... "I don't like what's going on in the Aboriginal community, too," he said.

Sydney (AFP) - One of Australia's most high-profile indigenous sportsmen Adam ... The 35-year-old former Australian of the Year played 372 games for the ... from spectators reportedly intensified after he performed an Aboriginal war ...

One of Australia's most high-profile indigenous sportsmen Adam Goodes, who was subject to repeated booing this season, has retired from Australian ...

Born in Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve and raised in Ipswich, Harold Blair ... In 1976, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), but ...

IT'S AN overcast morning outside Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and singer Jessica Mauboy is giving a performance of a different ...

The Daily Telegraph
Jessica Mauboy celebrates Indigenous artists at Primavera, the Museum of ...
The Daily Telegraph
But while she now travels the world mixing with the music-industry elite, her journey began in outback Australia with her family from the Indigenous KuKu Yalanji tribe in the Northern Territory. “I'm a bush kid from Darwin, but now I get to stand in ...

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... is in celebration of Primavera, the MCA's annual exhibition of Australian artists aged 35 and under, which this year features seven Aboriginal artists.

The Transcript - MARK COLVIN: Who'll be in charge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs in a Turnbull Government? Senator Nigel Scullion may stay as Indigenous Affairs Minister, but he's in the outer ministry - Tony Abbott always said Indigenous questions were his responsibility inside the Cabinet itself. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, wants Malcolm Turnbull to confirm that the Coalition will still go ahead with a referendum in May 2017. Mick Gooda says he's happy to continue working with Nigel Scullion, but has also suggested considering Aboriginal MP Ken Wyatt for the job. He's spoke to Anna Henderson. MICK GOODA: Everyone in Australia right now is waiting to see what happens over the next week or so with the new Cabinet, whether there's going to be any different ministry Government arrangements. ANNA HENDERSON: Do you feel like Nigel Scullion should remain in the portfolio? MICK GOODA: Oh look, it's not up to us to, or me in particular to determine, make any comment like that. I have a good working relationship with Minister Scullion, we have robust discussion, we have really really frank discussion - I'd like to see that continue. But whether Minister Scullion remains in his place is really a matter for the Prime Minister now. We do have an Indigenous member of Parliament, Ken Wyatt, maybe there could be something radical and he could be Aboriginal Affairs Minister if there is to be a change. ANNA HENDERSON: So, at this point do you feel like a change of leader might actually be a game-changer in a positive way? MICK GOODA: I don't know. I understand Malcolm Turnbull has been very positively talking about constitutional reform. Again, it's a wait and see over the next week or so where we can make contact with his office to start working out where we stand with constitutional recognition. I hope we just maintain the same timetable, you know, we've been at it now for - you know, I've been at it the whole time I've been in this job, getting onto six years of work. A lot of other people have been the same, or even longer. We've now got a timetable, we agreed with the Prime Minister and the Opposition leader about early 2017. I think we should stick to that timetable and I'd like to see a commitment from the new Prime Minister to that effect really, that he's committed to it, that we've got a process in place and that should just continue. ANNA HENDERSON: Now you heard Malcolm Turnbull's first remarks when he was elected by his party to the role of Prime Minister, among them he was talking about a more collegiate way of operating. Did you read anything into that for his engagement with Indigenous Australians? MICK GOODA: Well, when he talks about respecting the intelligence of the Australian community, I think he has to understand that and respect the intelligence within the Aboriginal community, that we do want to work through the problems that face us and face the country. I just hope that we're not just brushed to one side when this conversation happens with the new Prime Minister. As matter of fact, there'll be people who'll be very upfront about that, that we need this new relationship, we need proper engagement where both sides are respected, because that's the only way anything is going to change with our mob. Imposing solutions without the engagement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will work for a little while, but they won't produce sustainable results and that's the message again I will be giving to the Prime Minister's office when I get the chance. MARK COLVIN: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda speaking to Anna Henderson.

A quarter of those inside Australia's prisons are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, despite making up only around 2 per cent of the country's entire ...

The Australian
AdvanceAustralia fare: Indigenous food past, present and future
The Australian
Amanda Garner, chairwoman of Australian Native Food Industry Ltd (of which Torres is a director) seeks government funding for infrastructure and micro-industry within indigenous communities, with the aim of retaining knowledge and revenue where the ...

New York Times
An Aboriginal Artist's Dizzying New York Moment
New York Times
Until he was in his 20s, he and his family, part of the Pintupi Aboriginal group, lived in a part of the Western Australia desert so remote that even after other Pintupi were forcibly relocated into settlements in the 1950s and 1960s, his family ...

Until he was in his 20s, he and his family, part of the Pintupi Aboriginal group, lived in a part of the Western Australia desert so remote that even after ...

Indigenous Australians pass down stories that recall up to almost 10,000 ... describe Aboriginal stories from 21 places around Australia's coastline, ...

Aboriginal Stories Transmit Knowledge of Australia's Landscape
Archaeology
SIPPY DOWNS, AUSTRALIA—Geographer Patrick Nunn of the University of the Sunshine Coast and linguist Nick Reid of the University of New England studied Aboriginal stories from 21 different places around the coastline of Australia. The stories described ...
Oral histories found to go back almost 10000 years—often accuratelyWorld Science

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