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Indigenous Australians are not recognised in the constitution. ... The 1967 referendum removed the words "other than the Aboriginal people in any ...

NDTV
How to Cook Meat and Veg the Indigenous Way
NDTV
“Sometimes we struggle to understand what it means to be, as Tony Abbott says, 'Team Australia',” he says. “As First Nations people we have made so many contributions and achievements over tens of thousands of years to this continent that is now called ...

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... has doubts about the benefits of a yes vote for Indigenous Australians. ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian Constitution ...

theMusic
WA Indigenous Art Award Winners Announced
theMusic
The 2015 Western Australian Indigenous Art Award of $50,000 was this week awarded to Melbourne artist and Noonucca/Ngugi woman Megan Cope by judges Amy Barrett-Lennard (Director of PICA), Kimberly Moulton (Curator/Project Officer at Birrarung ...

The program hopes to tackle the low levels of participation in education and employment by Aboriginal men in comparison to Australia's general ...

ABC Online
Indigenous affairs adviser to PM 'sorry' for Confederate flag costume
ABC Online
An Indigenous affairs adviser to Prime Minister Tony Abbott has apologised for wearing a Confederate flag costume to an event, saying he was "unaware" of the flag's connection to racial tensions after a mass shooting in the United States. Mark Coffey ...
Adviser to Australia PM Tony Abbott apologises for wearing Confederate flagTelegraph.co.uk
Indigenous affairs bureaucrat criticized for wearing Confederate flag shirtGlobalPost

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For NAIDOC week 2015, the ABC spoke to seven Indigenous West Australians about their connection to country. These stories take us across the ...

Australia: The political fraud of constitutional “recognition” for Aborigines
World Socialist Web Site
In a joint media release, Abbott and Shorten declared: “Our country has moved closer to recognising the First Australians in our constitution and ending the great silence about indigenous people in our founding document. There will be more steps in ...

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The over-worked medical service had tried to meet the many health needs of Australia's largest single Aboriginal community—the more than 32,000 ...

The Guardian (blog)
How to cook meat and veg the Indigenous way
The Guardian (blog)
But get close, and it's warm to the touch and emanates a wonderfully smoky fragrance of meat that has been marinated in native Australian spices. David Beaumont is a community engagement co-ordinator from the City of Sydney and a Wiradjuri man, “born ...

To the untrained eye, an Aboriginal earth oven appears to be a simple mound ... fragrance of meat that has been marinated in native Australian spices.

The Guardian
elders urge reconnection with Indigenous culture – video - The Guardian
The Guardian
Walking With Us explores a collection of connected stories about the importance of cultural protocol as told by elders from Indigenous groups in South Australia. They share teachings of their past and propose ways forward by coming together to ...

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The Guardian
Nova Peris supports Indigenous plebiscite on constitutional recognition
The Guardian
“After all, we've been here for more than 40,000 years and to change this nation's founding document [to be] inclusive of our cultures and our peoples, we have to ensure that whatever is put to the Australian public is what Australia's Aboriginal and ...
Hopes recognition in constitution for indigenous Australians isn't tokenisticCentral Western Daily
Darwin's Bagot Community hosts start of NAIDOC Week celebrating Indigenous ...ABC Online
Once in a generation chance to change the constitutionThe Daily Telegraph
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Nova Peris: 'We have to ensure that whatever is put to the Australian public is what Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want.

... about the challenges of Indigenous life in contemporary Australia. ... She also coordinates the University Preparatory Program for Aboriginal and ...

The Guardian
Michael Kirby: Indigenous disadvantage bigger problem than recognition
The Guardian
Decolonisation was being spoken about it many other countries, she said, and it was a discussion Australia needed to participate in. Panellist Greg Davison, Aboriginal health manager with the NSW Justice Health network, quoted widely from a 2009 ...

The Guardian
Michael Kirby: Indigenous disadvantage bigger problem than recognition
The Guardian
But Davison said incarceration represented “an opportunity to engage people in their health care journey” and for many Indigenous Australian inmates it was the first time they accessed a health service. He said those who came in contact with the ...

On Monday, Australia's top two politicians and 40 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island leaders met to discuss changing Australia's constitution to ...

However, a fellow panellist and head of the university's Aboriginal and ... health care journey” and for many Indigenous Australian inmates it was the ...

Long stori blong ol Aboriginal na Torrest Strait islands pipol blong Australia long Naidoc Wik tede, stori i lukluk long hau kostitusen or mama loa blong ...