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The department added that they had contacted the Local Aboriginal Council, but ... "People who have exhausted all outstanding avenues to remain in Australia and ... It's hard to believe this could occur in Australia in the 21st century.

"It's hard to believe this could occur in Australia in the 21st century. ... "As part of this investigation, the Local Aboriginal Council did not affirm his claims ...

A man held inside an immigration detention centre in Western Australia says ... "I am Aboriginal, I am an Australian citizen, born and bred of this land.

And it quotes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice ... The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

ABC Online
Man claiming to be Indigenous held in WA immigration detention centre
ABC Online
A man being held in Western Australia's Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre says he is an Indigenous Australian and not a visa overstayer or asylum seeker. Eddie David, 39, has been held in the centre since Friday. He said he was born on Murray ...
Indigenous man 'locked up with asylum-seekers'The Australian
Man inside WA immigration detention centre claims to be IndigenousSBS
Indigenous man 'falsely detained as refugee'The New Daily

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I am Aboriginal, an Australian, born and bred of this land. ... in Western Australia since Friday, despite proving intimate knowledge of Aboriginal culture ...

ABC Online
Man claiming to be Indigenous held in WA immigration detention centre
ABC Online
A man being held in Western Australia's Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre says he is an Indigenous Australian and not a visa overstayer or asylum seeker. Eddie David, 39, has been held in the centre since Friday. He said he was born on Murray ...

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Ms Nelson-Cox said Mr David displayed knowledge of Aboriginal cultural protocols and knowledge about a mission in South Australia he claimed to ...

ADAM Goodes is a great Australian. I am in awe of this AFL champion — a champion of Aboriginal Australia. This sporting hero has put up with the ...

Touring local aboriginal sites while in Port Fairy on the weekend were ... Steve Brown; Australia ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and ...

Indigenous man 'locked up with asylum-seekers'
The Australian
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has denied the claim of prominent refugee lawyer George Newhouse that an indigenous Australian man has been mistakenly detained in Yongah Hill immigration detention centre built to hold ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum – Vote Yes for Aborigines. They did so in such numbers that no referendum before or since has ever matched ...

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A $1.3 billion land-and-cash deal secured by the Noongar people of Western Australia has been hailed as a watershed that addresses the inability of ...

The Australian (blog)
Noongar deal lays path to indigenous future
The Australian (blog)
Mr Barnett's original 2012 offer fuelled outrage in some quarters because it compelled the Noongar people of the state's southwest, including Perth, to relinquish their native title claims. In exchange the new Noongar Boodja Trust and six regional ...
Massive WA native title deal edges closerSky News Australia
Massive $1.3 billion WA native title deal edges closerNEWS.com.au

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VVN Music
Indigenous Australian Singer Archie Roach Receives Queen's Honors
VVN Music
Indigenous singer songwriter Archie Roach and entertainer, singer and broadcaster Denis Walter have been honoured in the Queen's Birthday List for 2015. For the past 25 years Archie Roach has articulated the need for social justice and indigenous ...
Migrant, refugees and an Indigenous musical icon among Queen's Birthday ...SBS
Queen's Birthday honours: Archie Roach, Victorian singer song-writer who told ...ABC Online
Renowned Aboriginal musician honoured9news.com.au
The Australian
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The Australian
Massive $1.3 billion WA native title deal edges closer
The Australian
Under the deal, Noongar people will surrender native title rights in a 200,000 square kilometre area spanning from Jurien north of Perth to Ravensthorpe in the Goldfields-Esperance region in exchange for $1.3 billion worth of land, finance and benefits ...
Massive WA native title deal edges closerSky News Australia

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Dean was one of the first loud and proud Brotherboys, and the first Indigenous transgender man to get married in Australia. He grew up in a very ...

Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum – Vote Yes for Aborigines. They did so in such numbers that no referendum before or since has ever matched ...

and more »

Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum – Vote Yes for Aborigines. They did so in such numbers that no referendum before or since has ever matched ...

and more »

Brisbane Times
Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...
Brisbane Times
Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum – Vote Yes for Aborigines. They did so in such numbers that no referendum before or since has ever matched ...

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