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Like many Australians, I am open to a change that will provide some ... of framing a referendum question is being seen solely as an Aboriginal issue, ...

More than 60 members of the local indigenous community turned up yesterday to watch the raising of the Torres Strait, Aboriginal and Australia ...

Australia moved closer to recognising Aboriginal people in its constitution yesterday after talks with indigenous leaders, Prime Minister Tony Abbott ...

Forty of the country's most gifted and respected Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders came ... It's time now to hear from Indigenous Australians.

MORE than a century after Australia became an independent nation, Aboriginal people are to be recognised in the constitution - but not until 2017, ...

Fraser Coast Chronicle
Constitution: Australia may finally recognise Aborigines
Fraser Coast Chronicle
MORE than a century after Australia became an independent nation, Aboriginal people are to be recognised in the constitution - but not until 2017, at the earliest, and only if a majority of people in a majority of states approve. The country's founding ...

Indigenous culture and astrophysics: a path to reconciliation
The Conversation AU
It has been my privilege over the last six years to work on a project that combines an Indigenous Australian perspective of the universe with astrophysics. This has led to an astonishing series of global art exhibitions and opened a dialogue that has ...

KIRSTIE Parker, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First ... supported by clear information, among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

SMOOTH: Edward Lampton and Wilfred Bowie entertain the crowd with some soulful tunes as part of NAIDOC Week at Fogarty Park yesterday.

The first is the Native Title Act, which came into existence in 1992 when the High Court of Australia ruled that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

He spent time researching and gathering symbolic references from the local Aboriginal community and even as far away as Western Australia. “I don't ...

Gympie's ceremony was one of many held around Australia to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

"Just like Australia Day is important to every Australian, NAIDOC day is important to every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person, but we are ...

Kirstie Parker, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, believes there was a ... ongoing dialogue, supported by clear information, among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about constitutional change.

The Independent
Australia may finally recognise Aborigines in its constitution - but not until ...
The Independent
Now Mr Abbott has taken a step forward, co-hosting with the opposition leader Bill Shorten a summit of the nation's foremost Aboriginal leaders at which a road map was set out. Constitutional change requires not only most Australians, but a majority of ...

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More than a century after Australia became an independent nation, Aboriginal people are to be recognised in the constitution – but not until 2017, ...

Adorable Samara Muir, from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia, was dressed as her Disney heroine when she queued up for an event in a shopping centre ...

In a joint statement after meeting indigenous leaders Monday, Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said “Our country has ...

The Age
Without genuine consultation, Aboriginal communities stuck in cycle of negativity
The Age
A clergyman, experienced in ministry to Aboriginal people in rural Australia, speaks to an assembled group of priests about the strains and stress often encountered in such ministry and the hurt that often emerges when faced with the senseless ...

... that would guarantee the issue came with the unequivocal imprimatur of Aboriginal Australia in the face of a small but vocal anti-recognition push.