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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott holds a fighting boomerang while talking to an Aboriginal performer at the opening of the 44th Parliament in ...

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Sunday kicked off a one-week stay with indigenous communities in the country's north as he sought to boost ...

Several weeks earlier, Mr Howard had clashed with Aboriginal leaders at a reconciliation convention in Melbourne, ... "We are completely different to mainland Australia, with a very strong belief in our cultural practices and beliefs.

The Australian (blog)
PM open to indigenous insights up north
The Australian (blog)
ON the way there, he stopped off in Broome and Kununurra, in Western Australia, where he spoke to indigenous leader Pat Dodson about the move that community has made to change native title areas into freehold land. "We can read all the briefing papers ...
PM fulfils indigenous community promiseNT News
PM to arrive in Torres Strait for weekYahoo7 News

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PM fulfils indigenous community promise
The Australian (blog)
AS proof, Mr Abbott will travel this week to the Torres Strait Islands, delivering for a second time on his pre-election promise to spend one week a year in a remote indigenous community. The prime minister touches down on Sunday evening, bringing with ...

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PM fulfils indigenous community promise
The Australian (blog)
AS proof, Mr Abbott will travel this week to the Torres Strait Islands, delivering for a second time on his pre-election promise to spend one week a year in a remote indigenous community. The prime minister touches down on Sunday evening, bringing with ...
PM to arrive in Torres Strait for weekSBS

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PM fulfils indigenous community promise
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It is also home to Australia's second indigenous people, whose culture more closely aligns with the Melanesian people of Papua New Guinea than mainland indigenous Australians. Federal government MP Warren Entsch, whose electorate of Leichhardt ...

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Sky News Australia
PM fulfils indigenous community promise
9news.com.au
It is also home to Australia's second indigenous people, whose culture more closely aligns with the Melanesian people of Papua New Guinea than mainland indigenous Australians. Federal government MP Warren Entsch, whose electorate of Leichhardt ...
PM to arrive in Torres Strait for weekSBS

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It is also home to Australia's second indigenous people, whose culture ... Torres Strait, warns against mixing islanders in with Aboriginal Australians.

TOURISTS in their thousands flock to watch the sun set against Australia's .... Aboriginal communities are guaranteed the money under terms of the ...

ALT tribal groups, who own Aboriginal freehold over a vast chunk of the ... as about 10,000 vehicles a year make the journey to the tip of Australia.

... telling of the cultural and linguistic diversity of Australia, and the Aboriginal people's connection with their homeland in the past, present and future.

Kumanjayi Langdon, 59, from Yuendumu in Central Australia, died of heart ... unfair" because they disproportionately targeted Aboriginal people.

BBC News
Emerging Australian artist Christian Thompson forges new path
BBC News
Australian artist Christian Thompson says education and a mixed heritage enable him to slide between cultures. In his video, Silence is Golden, Aboriginal artist Christian Thompson dances in slow motion against a jet-black background. Thompson isn't ...

While he was studying in Oxford in 2010, Thompson - one of the first of two Aboriginal Australians to attend the University of Oxford - caught his first ...

Having migrated Down Under from Africa via Asia between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago, Australia's aborigines are the custodians of the longest ...

“The Boomerang precinct at Bluesfest is all about cherishing culture and ending the disparity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia,” Noble ...

The Age
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairs
The Age
No prime minister came to the job with more exposure to Indigenous Australia, or promised more. Abbott, after all, was the country's first self-proclaimed Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Addressing the country's "national failure" in this area ...
Abbott denies an 'about face' on Indigenous forumsBulletin Leader

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The Canberra Times
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairs
The Canberra Times
No prime minister came to the job with more exposure to Indigenous Australia, or promised more. Abbott, after all, was the country's first self-proclaimed Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Addressing the country's "national failure" in this area ...
Abbott denies an 'about face' on Indigenous forumsBulletin Leader

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The Canberra Times
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairs
The Canberra Times
No prime minister came to the job with more exposure to Indigenous Australia, or promised more. Abbott, after all, was the country's first self-proclaimed Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Addressing the country's "national failure" in this area ...
Abbott denies an 'about face' on Indigenous forumsBulletin Leader

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