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Frank Brennan argues for small change to recognise Indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
A referendum, with its simple yes/no premise, would appear to be a simple proposal to sell, but history tells us Australians are reluctant to change the status quo. It's a reality Jesuit priest Father Frank Brennan is acutely aware of – it's the topic ...

... Brennan argues for small change to recognise Indigenous Australians ... hopes indigenous Australians agree to defer "high ideals" for an Aboriginal ...

A creative arts Perth business with Aboriginal links has attracted the ... to do it all within Australia, and to provide a sustainable income for Aboriginal ...

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Indigenous alternate history explored through artist's eyes
ABC Message Stick
"[Michael] approached the National Library of Australia and got permission to use their archival images of all the Prime Ministers," said Trudie Leigo, exhibitions officer at BRAG. "Then he has gone and taken his own photographic portraits of ...

ABC Message Stick
Indigenous alternate history explored through artist's eyes
ABC Message Stick
The work on display in Gallery 2 uses portraits of two people - a prime minister and an Indigenous person - combined into one image. "[Michael] approached the National Library of Australia and got permission to use their archival images of all the ...

A new exhibition in Bundaberg is asking the question, what if? What if Australia's prime ministers had been able to view the world through Indigenous ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Regional Australia's women drought (and nine other facts you should know)
Sydney Morning Herald
Halls Creek, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia's north-east, has the country's highest death rate. At 16.4 deaths per 1000, the people of this roadhouse town (eight in 10 of whom are Indigenous) die at three times the rate of other ...

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He thinks the problem is that Australians believe NAIDOC is for Aboriginal people only. “For me, personally, I see it as us sharing who we are, and it's ...

The barramundi is an iconic table fish revered as a quintessential Australian brand. Its name is derived from an Australian Aboriginal name meaning ...

... don't think there's enough recognition for lots of things in Australia for Aboriginal ... I think for Aboriginal people, Torres Strait Islander people to have ...

1797: Following Aboriginal attacks on farms in the Hawkesbury region, Hunter dispatches a party of soldiers from the New South Wales Corps to ...

The Guardian (blog)
Anthony Martin Fernando: the Aboriginal activist who took his people's fight ...
The Guardian (blog)
They see an elderly, longhaired, Australian Aboriginal man. He is dressed in a black greatcoat. The only contrast to his dark appearance is a full, silver beard and a cape upon which are attached dozens of small white rubber skeletons. He also wears a ...

The Guardian (blog)
Anthony Martin Fernando: the Aboriginal activist who took his people's fight ...
The Guardian (blog)
They see an elderly, longhaired, Australian Aboriginal man. He is dressed in a black greatcoat. The only contrast to his dark appearance is a full, silver beard and a cape upon which are attached dozens of small white rubber skeletons. He also wears a ...

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A century ago, Fernando travelled to Europe in self-imposed exile to protest the massacres of Indigenous people in Australia. Once there he was ...

"I think what we need to have happen is that we all agree — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the ...

Aboriginal Australians hold or claim much northern land under laws which recognise their traditional links to it. Other swathes of the north, known as ...

... while artists joined in a march through the township to protest against the threatened closure of Western Australia's Aboriginal remote communities.

The inaugural president was the eminent scholar of Aboriginal Australia, A.P. Elkin, and the ethno-linguist Arthur Capell the senior vice-president, both ...

The lifestyle, culture and political program covers issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia produced and presented by ...

The current push for Australia's Indigenous people to be recognised in the constitution dates back to the dying days of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...