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chamber aims to increase contracts
The Australian
The First Australians Chamber of Commerce and Industry aims to lift the number of indigenous businesses operating in Australia from more than 2000 at present. With the backing of KPMG, Westpac and Telstra, it also hopes to help indigenous business reap ...

Controlled dogs kill as many rural Canadians as strays do — the crucial factor, there as in Aboriginal Australia, is their congregation in packs.

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How Aborigines' dingo dreaming turned into a nightmare
The Australian
There is, in fact, only one other Western country with a profile of dog attack fatalities similar to outback indigenous Australia — rural and remote Canada, where indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians also keep numerous dogs, due to the sledding ...
Indigenous adviser calls for database of Indigenous AustraliansSBS
SA Indigenous figures fear funding dispute could lead to 'cultural genocide'The Guardian

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Prince Harry stuns tiny Aboriginal township in outback Australia with ...
Telegraph.co.uk
The force patrols a remote 700,000 square-mile section of northern Australia that marks the largest area of operations of any military unit in the world. About 60 per cent of its members are Aborigines, who tend to have good local bush knowledge and ...
Prince Harry poses with locals in remote Kimberley communityABC Message Stick
Prince Harry poses with Indigenous community residents during Australian tourAustralian Times

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Prince Harry has surprised the residents of a tiny Aboriginal township in outback Australia by turning up unannounced in military uniform and ...

From the 1700s until as late as the 1970s, upwards of 50,000 aboriginal Australian children were forced out of their homes by missionaries and ...

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Indigenous adviser calls for database of Indigenous Australians
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I'm a citizen of Australia to get that passport," he said. "Why shouldn't we be up for the same scrutiny?" He said it would enable Indigenous Australians to prove their identity, which is required to access certain services or perform certain duties ...
SA Indigenous figures fear funding dispute could lead to 'cultural genocide'The Guardian

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Indigenous adviser calls for database of Indigenous Australians
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I'm a citizen of Australia to get that passport," he said. "Why shouldn't we be up for the same scrutiny?" He said it would enable Indigenous Australians to prove their identity, which is required to access certain services or perform certain duties ...
SA Indigenous figures fear funding dispute could lead to 'cultural genocide'The Guardian

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Last month, the New South Wales Aboriginal Housing Office stopped ... native title bodies around Australia, they've built up tremendous databases on ...

Prince Harry has visited a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia as part of his secondment with Indigenous NORFORCE soldiers.

The New South Wales government has made it harder for people to prove they have Aboriginal heritage to access funding and housing. The move ...

SBS
Indigenous advisor wants database of Indigenous Australians
SBS
The Australian government was accused of cultural genocide by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in its Bringing them Home report for assuming legal guardianship of Indigenous children to assimilate them into white culture.

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Indigenous advisor wants database of Indigenous Australians
SBS
The Australian government was accused of cultural genocide by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in its Bringing them Home report for assuming legal guardianship of Indigenous children to assimilate them into white culture.
“Take our words away”: Hyperbolic fear of Australia's Indigenous heritageCrikey (blog)
SA Indigenous figures fear funding dispute could lead to 'cultural genocide'The Guardian

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I'm a citizen of Australia to get that passport," he said. ... shouldn't be interfering about defining who is Aboriginal and who is not Aboriginal.".

The Guardian
Deborah Mailman on why mainstream Australia connected with Redfern Now
The Guardian
Over two seasons, ABC television series Redfern Now has depicted Indigenous Australian lives in the titular inner-city Sydney suburb. It has earned a reputation as a high-end drama that never shies away from confronting issues like domestic violence ...

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“People don't see these as stories that only happen in an Aboriginal ... Mailman, one of Australia's most successful actors, has previously worked with ...

Radio New Zealand
More Australian support for indigenous seats
Radio New Zealand
Chairperson of the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia, Michelle Nelson-Cox, said Ms Lambie continues to challenge the government about its treatment of indigenous Australians. "Jacqui... she's got my support 100 percent and I'll back Jacqui ...

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An Aboriginal leader in Western Australia is applauding a Tasmanian politician's call for dedicated indigenous seats, similar to those in New Zealand.

The Guardian
Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous ...
The Guardian
It's been less than a century since the world's leading collectors began acknowledging Indigenous Australian art as more than mere ethnographic artefact. Since then, the most enlightened, from Hong Kong to London, New York to Paris, have understood ...

The Guardian
Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous ...
The Guardian
It's been less than a century since the world's leading collectors began acknowledging Indigenous Australian art as more than mere ethnographic artefact. Since then, the most enlightened, from Hong Kong to London, New York to Paris, have understood ...