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BBC's Banished: How I tried and failed to get Indigenous characters on TV
The Age
I can also understand how people would find it strange that a drama about British settlement of Australia wouldn't show any Aboriginal people. But Banished is not a drama about the settlement of Australia, it is not a broad, sweeping colonial history ...

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I can also understand how people would find it strange that a drama about British settlement of Australia wouldn't show any Aboriginal people.

“The government will consult Indigenous Australians and industry on possible amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage ...

The Guardian
Northern Australia plan aims to make region an 'economic powerhouse'
The Guardian
“The government will consult Indigenous Australians and industry on possible amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act to reduce duplication in the heritage protection regimes across jurisdictions, while ...
Northern Australia plan: China backs 'economic powerhouse'The Australian Financial Review
Agriculture seen as big winner in Northern Australia white paperBeef Central
Politics Live: June 18, 2015Sydney Morning Herald

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That government has agreed indicates how desperate the lot of Australia's first ... The Alice Edwards village, a former Aboriginal reserve into which 21 ...

MELBOURNE, June 18 (Xinhua) -- A landmark bill to recognize the Aboriginal people as the first inhabitants of Western Australia ( WA) will receive ...

In an effort to improve access to land and water for northern Australia's ... for agricultural use across pastoral leasehold land, Aboriginal Land Trusts, ...

'People embraced those mines on the basis that there was going to be employment, and Western Desert did in fact employ a lot of Aboriginal people ...

SYDNEY - Australian aboriginal people who lived around the now-arid area at Lake Mungo 24,000 years ago were likely to have been skilled inland ...

Australian aboriginal people who lived around the now-arid area at Lake Mungo 24,000 years ago were likely to have been skilled inland seafarers, ...

ABC Online
WA Indigenous recognition bill receives bipartisan support
ABC Online
A bill recognising Indigenous people as Western Australia's first inhabitants and traditional custodians will receive bipartisan support. Indigenous Member for the Kimberley, Labor MP Josie Farrer, said she was nearly moved to tears after receiving a ...
Western Australia to recognize Aboriginals as first land owners: landmark bill ...GlobalPost

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ABC Online
WA Indigenous recognition bill receives bipartisan support
ABC Online
A bill recognising Indigenous people as Western Australia's first inhabitants and traditional custodians will receive bipartisan support. Indigenous Member for the Kimberley, Labor MP Josie Farrer, said she was nearly moved to tears after receiving a ...

A bill recognising Indigenous people as Western Australia's first inhabitants and ... to recognise Aboriginal people as first inhabitants and traditional custodians. ... "Despite all our differences I believe West Australian people and all ...

Northern Land Council CEO Joe Morrison says Aboriginal people counting on them for work have been left frustrated. ... "How much can the residents of northern Australia put up with this kind of development is the question we need ...

The collapse of two iron ore mines in the Top End has devastated the aspirations of Aboriginal traditional owners and scuppered job and economic ...

theMusic
MCs Announced For National Indigenous Music Awards
theMusic
With the National Indigenous Music Awards fast approaching in Darwin, the MCs hosting the night's festivities have been announced — SBS and National Indigenous TV (NITV) presenter and journalist Malarndirri McCarthy along with cabaret comedian ...

The Palaszczuk Government has thrown its support behind Australia's leading Aboriginal dance festival to ensure event-goers have a great ...

The disrespect of the First Peoples makes me ashamed to see 'Australia' embossed ... Where is the fair go for Aboriginal people whose land this is?

TO be told “you are too nice to be an Aborigine” would seem like an infuriating comment to indigenous and non-indigenous Australians alike.

... the traditional owners who are opposing the company's 16.5 billion dollar project in Australia's Queensland state. ... Colin McLennan, Chair of Bulganunna Aboriginal Corporation Registered (Jangga) Native Title Body Corporate, ...