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The Guardian
Indigenous recognition will help redress discrimination, says Nova Peris
The Guardian
Recognition in the country's founding document will go some way to redressing the racial discrimination Indigenous Australians “live, eat and breathe”, Labor senator Nova Peris has said. A bipartisan parliamentary committee looking into constitutional ...

The Guardian
Indigenous recognition will help redress discrimination, says Nova Peris
The Guardian
Recognition in the country's founding document will go some way to redressing the racial discrimination Indigenous Australians “live, eat and breathe”, Labor senator Nova Peris has said. A bipartisan parliamentary committee looking into constitutional ...

The report will form the basis of Australia's next referendum question. ... “We're talking about a document that makes laws for Aboriginal and Torres ...

He said using the Gwion Gwion rock paintings as evidence of a different race that pre-dated Aboriginal Australians was an “old chestnut that gets ...

"The problem is drink driving programs in Australia have underestimated the significance ... Fitts also developed a drink driving program for regional and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, which was piloted in ...

[The story covers] only two weeks into the supposed landings and he said 'I have to devote enough time to the story of the Aboriginal people to do it ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Time to end the constitution's silence on Australia's first people: report
Sydney Morning Herald
An ambitious model for "substantive" recognition of Indigenous Australians in the country's founding document and a pathway to achieve it are proposed in the unanimous final report of an all-party committee. Committee chairman Ken Wyatt has made an ...
Bipartisan report calls for recognition of Indigenous Australians in constitutionThe Guardian
Lawmakers Call for Recognition of Indigenous AustraliansteleSUR English
Indigenous recognition report to be tabled in parliamentSBS
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Mr Wyatt, a Liberal MP and the only Aboriginal member of the House of Representatives, has also warned against branding those opposed to ...

LOUISE YAXLEY: Liberal MP Ken Wyatt is the first Aboriginal person ... for the last 114 years Australia's founding document, the constitution, has been ...

ABC Online
Senator David Leyonhjelm questions if Aboriginals were first occupants of ...
ABC Online
Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm says there are doubts about whether Aboriginal people were the first occupants of Australia. "There are some anthropologists who argue that," he said this morning, when asked his view on a referendum to ...
A senator just said Aboriginal people shouldn't be in the Constitution because ...Business Insider Australia
Experts dismiss David Leyonhjelm's claims about Australia's first peopleThe Guardian
Leyonhjelm casts doubt over first AussiesYahoo7 News

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ABC Online
Senator David Leyonhjelm questions if Aboriginals were first occupants of ...
ABC Online
Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm says there are doubts about whether Aboriginal people were the first occupants of Australia. "There are some anthropologists who argue that," he said this morning, when asked his view on a referendum to ...
A senator just said Aboriginal people shouldn't be in the Constitution because ...Business Insider Australia
Leyonhjelm casts doubt over first Aussies9news.com.au

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Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm says there are doubts about whether Aboriginal people were the first occupants of Australia. "There are ...

It's time to right a large, unspoken wrong in Australia's founding document to recognise indigenous Australians, indigenous Liberal MP Ken Wyatt says ...

David Leyonhjelm says there "may have been people in Australia prior to the Aborigines" as a report is set to be tabled on a recognition referendum.

“There may have been people in Australia prior to the Aborigines,” he said, pointing to the famed Bradshaw paintings in Western Australia, as well as ...

About five years ago they shut down MASH—Moree Aboriginal Sobriety ... of being the most vibrant and prestigious student publication in Australia.

I commend the artists featured in TARNANTHI to anyone seeking to better understand the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians."

There is a photo of the 1949 Convention of the National Union of Australian ... Frank's early ministry as a priest was with Aboriginal Australians in the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous people in West Australia's prisons to get 24/7 legal advice
The Guardian
Indigenous people brought into prison in Western Australia are to be given immediate access to an around-the-clock phone helpline, as part of a promise made to the family of an Aboriginal woman who died in custody. The premier, Colin Barnett, made a ...
Legal Service alert to save livesThe Australian
Western Australia to introduce Custody Notification Service – at long lastThe Stringer
Funding fears for vital lifeline to Indigenous detaineesThe Age

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The Guardian
Indigenous people in West Australia's prisons to get 24/7 legal advice
The Guardian
Indigenous people brought into prison in Western Australia are to be given immediate access to an around-the-clock phone helpline, as part of a promise made to the family of an Aboriginal woman who died in custody. The premier, Colin Barnett, made a ...
Western Australia to introduce Custody Notification Service – at long lastThe Stringer
Legal Service alert to save livesThe Australian
Funding fears for vital lifeline to Indigenous detaineesThe Age

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