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For the first time the British Museum is bringing their collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural art​ifacts back home to Australia.

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British Museum exhibit reignites call for return of Indigenous relics
ArtsHub (subscription)
The collaborative exhibit to be displayed in London this week and at the National Museum of Australia (NMA) in November, answers decades of calls for the return of Indigenous artifacts from the British Museum, with materials from 1770 to present day ...

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The Maori Party has sent an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott condemning the forced closure of Aboriginal communities. "The Maori ...

We write to you to voice our condemnation at the forced closure of Aboriginal communities in Australia as a result of your government's policies.

At this point, all fair-minded Australians have to hope so. The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (congress) continues to ... The second of these bipartisan committees, led by Coalition MP and Aboriginal man Ken Wyatt, ...

White Australian governments happily dumped Aboriginals into the outback, out of sight and out of mind - until they realised that they had inadvertently ...

Brisbane Times
Aboriginal man `hassled' at Brisbane Airport
ABC Online (blog)
A Nyaywana man claims to have been hassled by customs officials in Brisbane over the weekend, after he presented an Aboriginal passport when returning to Australia from New Zealand. Callum Clayton-Dixon is the Chair of the Aboriginal Provisional ...
Aboriginal passport refused at Brisbane AirportBrisbane Times
Officials At Brisbane Airport Refuse To Consider Aboriginal Passport As 'Valid ...International Business Times AU

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Aboriginal man `hassled' at Brisbane Airport ... the weekend, after he presented an Aboriginal passport when returning to Australia from New Zealand.

An Aboriginal sovereignty campaigner who tried to enter Australia on an Aboriginal passport says the document should be recognised as valid.

International Business Times AU
Aboriginal passport refused in Brisbane
The Australian (blog)
"We as Aboriginal people collectively have the fundamental human right as recognised by the United Nations to determine our own political independence and our own political status and the Aboriginal passport is a statement and an assertion of this ...
Aboriginal man `hassled' at Brisbane AirportABC Online (blog)
Officials At Brisbane Airport Refuse To Consider Aboriginal Passport As 'Valid ...International Business Times AU
Aboriginal passport refusedStuff.co.nz

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Aboriginal passport refused in Brisbane
The Australian (blog)
"We as Aboriginal people collectively have the fundamental human right as recognised by the United Nations to determine our own political independence and our own political status and the Aboriginal passport is a statement and an assertion of this ...

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AN Aboriginal sovereignty campaigner says he is frustrated he was "hassled" by customs officers when he tried to enter Australia on an Aboriginal ...

Much of the trouble - exposed last week in a Federal Court of Australia judgment - implicates part-time telephone psychic Sonia Murray, the former ...

Fortunately for Australia's Aborigines, they were dragged into the modern world by the Brits, a people who at the time were largely influenced by ideas ...

Canberra's Aboriginal Tent Embassy won't be given extra protection ... rights and equality for Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has been left off the ACT heritage list ... rights and equality for Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Herald Sun
Recognition of Aborigines in Constitution only serves to divide
Herald Sun
Pearson does still want the Constitution changed, so that Parliament — which represents all Australians — must always consult other representatives, Aboriginal ones, about any matter affecting them. “Parliament should hear the views of indigenous ...
Recognition? In your dreamsCourier Mail

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THE Abbott Government and Labor agree on one thing — this country's Constitution must be changed to honour Aborigines as the First Australians.

“There have been substantial campaigns in the media and in schools sponsored by various organisations to educate non-Aboriginal Australians that ...

Crikey (blog)
Djambawa Marawili: On Homelands, Art and Caring for Indigenous Knowledge
Crikey (blog)
I urge the government and wider Australia to respect our Indigenous cultural knowledge base as an asset of inestimable value for Australia and the world; for building strong and healthy livelihoods for my peoples; and fostering effective empowered ...