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Australia Is Not Closing the Gap on Aboriginal Life Expectancy, as ...
VICE
Australia released its annual "Closing the Gap" report on Aboriginal health and mortality on Wednesday. It revealed that Australia is failing to meet its goals of bringing equal quality of life to the first peoples on almost every front. And ...

Reno Gazette Journal
Nevada Art Museum features Aboriginal Australian exhibit
Reno Gazette Journal
The Nevada Museum of Art's newest exhibit "No Boundaries" comes from the farthest reaches of Australia's countryside. It is bold. It is colorful. It is abstract. And yet, the artists are some of the most unlikely suspects. All nine artists are men from ...

ABC Online
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96
ABC Online
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said in a statement that Australia had lost a champion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, while Opposition leader Bill Shorten said she would be remembered for her lifelong dedication and courage. Born to a ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96
The Guardian
She was named as a national living treasure and receiving the Order of Australia. “Her legacy lives on in our journey toward the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and opposition ...
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96Daily Life
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
State funeral offered to Bandler's familySBS
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The Guardian
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96
The Guardian
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler has died. She was 96. Bandler was instrumental in campaigning for the 1967 referendum to give Indigenous Australians rights under the constitution. A state funeral has been offered to her family. “Our country ...
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96Daily Life
Bandler's faith in people drove changeThe Australian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
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The Guardian (blog)
'It taunts us spiritually': the fight for Indigenous relics spirited off to the UK
The Guardian (blog)
Bark art is usually synonymous with Indigenous people from northern Australia and the three Dja Dja Wurrung pieces from the comparative far south are believed to be the only ones of their period in existence. They may be precious to the British Museum ...

Daily Life
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96
Daily Life
"Ms Bandler was a tireless social activist, best known for leading the political campaign which resulted in the landmark 1967 referendum that ensured Indigenous Australians were counted as full citizens and gave the Federal Government responsibility ...
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96The Guardian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
State funeral offered to Bandler's familySky News Australia

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SBS
Activist for Aboriginal rights Faith Bandler has died aged 96
SBS
Aboriginal Activist Faith Bandler at her home in Sydney in 2009. The Governor-General of Australia, Quentin Bryce (left), and Aboriginal rights campaigner Faith Bandler after she was presented with the Companion of the Order of Australia in 2009 ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96
Sydney Morning Herald
"Ms Bandler was a tireless social activist, best known for leading the political campaign which resulted in the landmark 1967 referendum that ensured Indigenous Australians were counted as full citizens and gave the Federal Government responsibility ...
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96The Guardian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
State funeral offered to Bandler's familySBS
The Australian
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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96
Sydney Morning Herald
"Ms Bandler was a tireless social activist, best known for leading the political campaign which resulted in the landmark 1967 referendum that ensured Indigenous Australians were counted as full citizens and gave the Federal Government responsibility ...
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96The Guardian
Bandler's faith in people drove changeThe Australian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96
Sydney Morning Herald
Former Fairfax Media journalist, Tony Stephens who interviewed Ms Bandler, called her a "great Australian" for promoting the rights and interests of Indigenous Australians. Ms Bandler was offered a MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for ...
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96The Guardian
Bandler's faith in people drove changeThe Australian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
The West Australian -SBS
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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96
Sydney Morning Herald
Her fight for Aboriginal rights started in 1956 when she co-founded the Aboriginal Australian Fellowship. In 1957, she and fellow activist Jessie Street launched a petition in support of the referendum culminating in the 1967 victory. After the ...
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96The Guardian
Activist for Aboriginal rights Faith Bandler has died aged 96SBS
Bandler's faith in people drove changeThe Australian
ABC Online -The West Australian
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The Australian
Bandler's faith in people drove change
The Australian
THE 1967 referendum, the representation of “blackbirded” South Sea Islanders and the differentiation of indigenous Australians from flora and fauna in the Constitution are all fights in which Faith Bandler threw many punches, if not some of the first.

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The Australian
jail creating more 'stolen' children
The Australian
“Australia is now facing an indigenous incarceration epidemic,” Mr Rudd told an anniversary breakfast in Sydney. “We are seeing the emergence of this new crisis in indigenous Australia beyond anything seen before; it is the subject of escalating ...

The Australian
Bandler's faith in people drove change
The Australian
THE 1967 referendum, the representation of “blackbirded” South Sea Islanders and the differentiation of indigenous Australians from flora and fauna in the Constitution are all fights in which Faith Bandler threw many punches, if not some of the first.

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Faith Bandler: Activist, author and inspiration
The Australian
Stirred by that episode, she would devote much of her life to improving life for Aborigines — a commitment that was instrumental in the successful 1967 referendum to give equal rights to native Australians. “To really understand what the situation is ...

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Aboriginal Affairs Minister keeps mum on Stolen Generations compo
The Australian
“All issues in Aboriginal affairs are important, and I intend to consult widely throughout South Australia's Aboriginal communities to listen to their views on a range of issues,” Mr Maher said yesterday. A Liberal bill for a compensation scheme last ...
Stolen Generations compensation bid stalled in SA ParliamentABC Online

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The Guardian
Scullion flags income control
The Australian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion told The Weekend Australian the government was fine-tuning a policy response to the mining magnate's Creating Parity review that called for “seismic change” to end disparity between black and white Australia.
Stolen generations: children still being removed, say Indigenous protestersThe Guardian
Rudd urging action on indigenous jail ratesSky News Australia
Indigenous counsellor reflects on Sorry DayABC Online
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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal stories of sea level rise preserved for thousands of years
Sydney Morning Herald
Long before Botany Bay became Sydney's main cargo seaport, and long before Captain Cook directed the HMS Endeavour to sail through its shallow waters, the iconic cove was a wetland used by the first Australians. Around this time, about 20,000 years ago ...

The Guardian
Stolen generations: children still being removed, say Indigenous protesters
The Guardian
He said more work needed to be done on closing the gap, and that the government must commit to implementing a new goal on stemming the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the country's jails. “Australia is now facing an Indigenous ...
Rudd urging action on indigenous jail ratesSky News Australia
Indigenous counsellor reflects on Sorry DayABC Online
Aust facing indigenous jail epidemic: RuddYahoo!7 News
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