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Australia mulls vote on Aboriginal recognition
Gulf Times
Police stand in front of protesters as they chant slogans and hold placards outside the venue for a meeting between Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott and 40 of the nation's most influential indigenous representatives in Sydney. AFP/Sydney ...

Gulf Times
Australia mulls vote on Aboriginal recognition
Gulf Times
Police stand in front of protesters as they chant slogans and hold placards outside the venue for a meeting between Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott and 40 of the nation's most influential indigenous representatives in Sydney. AFP/Sydney ...

Cr Gash paid credit to the unique role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have played and still play in Australia's history. She has made ...

Legendary Aboriginal jockey Darby McCarthy presents jockey Dale Smith with a trophy after winning the Darby McCarthy Handicap. Picture: Mitch ...

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten are ... And most importantly, is it actually what Aboriginal people want?

... that McCarthy, who rode more than 1000 winners in Australia and overseas in ... McCarthy's only real rival as the greatest Aboriginal jockey is the late Darby ... “He was Aboriginal, absolutely no question,” says McCarthy, who was ...

This, she explains, is why she wants to learn Dharug, the first Aboriginal ... for everybody in Australia to have a chance to hear Aboriginal languages.".

ABC Online
The Indigenous health gap: social factors hit hard
ABC Online
But this isn't the case for all of us. Indigenous Australians have a ten-year lower life expectancy than non-Indigenous Australians. For Indigenous men, that figure is even worse. In theory, we all have access to all the same amenities, so why the ...

Indigenous Australians have a ten-year lower life expectancy than ... But if you look at Indigenous Australia and look at the overcrowding that's there – and ... "Some recent research done in the Northern Territory looked at Aboriginal ...

The Guardian
Noel Pearson claims Indigenous summit on referendum 'stage-managed'
The Guardian
Cape York Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has criticised a historic summit on recognising Australia's first peoples in the constitution as “stage-managed”, saying he should have sent a “cardboard cut-out” of himself to the event. Prime minister Tony ...

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The Guardian
Noel Pearson claims Indigenous summit on referendum 'stage-managed'
The Guardian
Cape York Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has criticised a historic summit on recognising Australia's first peoples in the constitution as “stage-managed”, saying he should have sent a “cardboard cut-out” of himself to the event. Prime minister Tony ...
Noel Pearson says Indigenous summit 'largely redundant'The Australian Financial Review

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Several Aboriginal AFL Academy players represented both South Australia and the Northern Territory in this year's national championships.

Port Adelaide
Aboriginal Academy player named in U18 All-Australian team
Port Adelaide
THE ABORIGINAL AFL Academy run out of Alberton has passed another major milestone, with its first product being named in the NAB AFL Under-18 All-Australian team. Brandon Parfitt played for the Northern Territory in the recent Under-18 National ...

Many of the participants told Guardian Australia that they were happy with ... “It must lay the foundation for the fair treatment of Aboriginal and Torres ...

It includes works by a number of prominent Aboriginal artists, including Megan Cope, (who this week won the Western Australian Indigenous Art ...

Polls have found the vast majority of Australians are behind constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia's first ...

CANBERRA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Indigenous leaders have lashed out at the Australian government, accusing Prime Minister Tony Abbott and ...

... and more accurate diagnosis of diabetes for Aboriginal people and other high-risk remote populations in Australia and elsewhere in the world.".

The modelling also highlighted the concerns for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, who on average have lower superannuation ...

Australia is home to one of the world's great art treasures in the form of ... claims that some Kimberley rock art was not made by Aboriginal people.