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The Conversation AU
Who we should recognise as First Australians in the constitution
The Conversation AU
Writing in the magazine Quadrant, the historian Keith Windschuttle claimed that Indigenous Australians should not have Native Title rights because they were not the first to occupy Australia. He claimed that over most of the continent they had wiped ...

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The Conversation AU
Who we should recognise as First Australians in the constitution
The Conversation AU
Setting the question of legislating fact to one side, it's worth looking at Senator Leyonhjelm's question of who were the “first Australians” and what evidence exists to suggest they were the ancestors of modern day Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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'Soft totalitarianism?' What Rundle gets wrong about constitutional recognition
Crikey
That's why, in 1967, more than 90% of Australians voted to remove two clauses from the constitution. Those sections excluded Aboriginal people from a federal law-making power and from being counted in the population. So complete was the exclusion of my ...

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The Age
Closing the divide between all Australians
The Age
Aboriginal people negotiate daily the terrain between the requirements of non-Indigenous Australia and the requirements of their own communities, cultures and laws. This is not a simple task, and requires respect and support of Australian governments ...
'Soft totalitarianism?' What Rundle gets wrong about constitutional recognitionCrikey
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The Age
Closing the divide between all Australians
The Age
Only through meaningful engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities can governments fully understand the tensions Aboriginal Australians face in today's society. Aboriginal people negotiate daily the terrain between the ...
'Soft totalitarianism?' What Rundle gets wrong about constitutional recognitionCrikey
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...ABC Message Stick

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Subaru pulls TV ad deemed “highly offensive” to indigenous Australians
SmartCompany.com.au
Subaru Australia has pulled a television advertisement after the advertising watchdog found it would be likely to offend people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. The Advertising Standards Board ruled an ad promoting the company's new ...

Subaru pulls TV ad deemed “highly offensive” to indigenous Australians
SmartCompany.com.au
Subaru Australia has pulled a television advertisement after the advertising watchdog found it would be likely to offend people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. The Advertising Standards Board ruled an ad promoting the company's new ...

Abbott sparks anger on Aboriginal “lifestyle choices”
InDaily
Canberra | Senior government ministers have come to the defence of Tony Abbott after the prime minister suggested indigenous Australians were making “lifestyle choices” to live in remote communities. Abbott is resisting Opposition calls he apologise ...

Abbott sparks anger on Aboriginal “lifestyle choices”
InDaily
Canberra | Senior government ministers have come to the defence of Tony Abbott after the prime minister suggested indigenous Australians were making “lifestyle choices” to live in remote communities. Abbott is resisting Opposition calls he apologise ...

Briggs plans to widen AFL's indigenous engagement
ABC Local
... Briggs has been appointed the inaugural Chair of the AFL Indigenous Advisory Group. Briggs told ABC Goulburn Murray's Joseph Thomsen that he is honoured by the opportunity to help determine the future of indigenous engagement across Australia.

Briggs plans to widen AFL's indigenous engagement
ABC Local
... Briggs has been appointed the inaugural Chair of the AFL Indigenous Advisory Group. Briggs told ABC Goulburn Murray's Joseph Thomsen that he is honoured by the opportunity to help determine the future of indigenous engagement across Australia.

BBC News
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closure
BBC News
Derby Aboriginal elder Lorna Hudson was a child when government authorities in the 1960s moved her people from tiny Sunday Island off the remote north-west coast of Western Australia to the mainland. For a time most of the Sunday Island "saltwater" ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's lifestyle comments highlight the lack of policy in Aboriginal ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The Prime Minister's comments in Kalgoorlie on the "closing" of 150 Aboriginal communities have been rightly rejected by many. It is not just that the comments reflect Tony Abbott's worldview – which belongs in a time capsule of Australian political ...
Of three remote communities here, why are only the two Aboriginal ones under ...The Guardian
Outcry as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities 'lifestyle choice'Yahoo7 News
Australia PM Tony Abbott Under Fire For Remarks On Aborigines 'Lifestyle Choice'International Business Times AU
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International Business Times UK
Western Australia Home Burglary Bill will put 'even more Indigenous children ...
International Business Times UK
The Western Australia (WA) state is trying to implement an anti-burglary bill that will target youths, particularly indigenous ones, Amnesty has warned. According to the rights group, indigenous young people are already 58 times more likely to go to ...

Campers at the Nyoongar Tent Embassy on Perth’s Heirisson Island has been given until midday today (Thursday) to pack up and leave. Last week the Embassy declared the site a refuge for homeless people being displaced from their communities… but W.A. Today reports the City of Perth has arranged for welfare support agencies to visit the camp and offer support to homeless individuals. The paper reports the city is planning for the worst case scenario of forced eviction. Marianne McKay tells CAAMA the W.A. Government is breaking its own laws by forcibly removing her people from the island.

In his new book, The Story of Australia's People, Geoffrey Blainey writes that one of the reasons aboriginal tribes didn’t effectively resist European settlement was that they were militarily weak. Indigenous tribes often fought with each other rather than launch coordinated attacks against settlers. An alternative view comes from expert in indigenous history, Dr Ray Kerkhove, who has done new research on indigenous warfare in Queensland in the 19th century.

Castlemaine State Festival: John Romeril and Jack Charles Radio National - Arts Today 12 March 2015 Going Through is a new production by playwright John Romeril, starring veteran actor; indigenous elder and activist, Uncle Jack Charles. - Based on a true story from Jack Charles' time as an inmate at 'Old Castlemaine Gaol,' it premieres at the Castlemaine State Festival on the grounds of the goal itself.

Abbott's commitment to be PM for Indigenous Australians questioned after ...
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JUSTIN MOHAMED: To frame Aboriginal peoples connection to land, the importance of responsibility they have to their traditional lands as a lifestyle choice shows that there is some form of misunderstanding or not enough understanding of Aboriginal and ...

The Conversation AU
For the real story on Indigenous Australia, social beats old media
The Conversation AU
Research has shown time and again that although it is held dear by journalists, Australian journalism's democratic watchdog role is severely lacking when it comes to representing the interests and perspectives of Indigenous Australians. The causes are ...
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony AbbottThe Australian
Indigenous Australians Still Not Thrilled About 'Lifestyle Choice' To Take ...SBS
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British Museum to Open New Exhibit by Aboriginal Australian Artist, Today
Broadway World
This Asahi Shimbun display features work by contemporary Aboriginal Australian artist, Wukun Wanambi (b.1962). Wukun, an important Yolngu artist from Yirrkala in Eastern Arnhem Land, produces contemporary work firmly grounded in a traditional form.