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The Guardian
Leeanne Enoch's election in Queensland a huge milestone for Indigenous people
The Guardian
Enoch, who won Algester in Brisbane, and Gordon, who took the far northern seat of Cook 2,000km away, were part of a Labor surge on Saturday that has the party poised to take government just three years after suffering the worst defeat in Australian ...
The QLD election result is a win for Australian womenDaily Life

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The Guardian
Leeanne Enoch's election in Queensland a huge milestone for Indigenous people
The Guardian
Enoch, who won Algester in Brisbane, and Gordon, who took the far northern seat of Cook 2,000km away, were part of a Labor surge on Saturday that has the party poised to take government just three years after suffering the worst defeat in Australian ...
The QLD election result is a win for Australian womenDaily Life

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Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'
The Australian
CRUCIAL bipartisanship on a move to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution risks being “squandered” and the momentum exhausted if a form of words and a voting date are not released this year, the Business Council of Australia says.

Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'
The Australian
CRUCIAL bipartisanship on a move to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution risks being “squandered” and the momentum exhausted if a form of words and a voting date are not released this year, the Business Council of Australia says.

The stunning Northern Flinders Ranges Country belongs to the Adnyamathanha people. 'Adnya' means rock and 'mathana' means people - the Adnyamathana people are ‘the people of the rocks’. -- Adnyamathanha songs, stories and Law are all part of the Yuramuda. This program is about the journey of one of the major Adnyamathanha Creation Ancestors, Yulu the Kingfisher Man. Yulu’s Coal, explores the travels of Yulu as he moved across Country, followed by two Arkurra , Giant Rainbow Serpents and why the coal mined at Leigh Creek Coal Mine today belongs, from an Adnyamathanha perspective, to Yulu, the Kingfisher Man. -- In the first of this two part series, we will move through Country with Senior Cultural Custodians learning about important features of the landscape brought into existence by these Ancestral Beings and why there are deep implications for the digging of Yulu’s Coal or Muda (Dreaming) from the ground. -- ABC Radio National 23 January 2015 Program: Earshot - Producer: Liz Thompson Sound engineer: Russell Stapleton. Image: Copley -- The two Arkurra Abina (Serpents) that followed Yulu down to Wilpena pound in the Yulu’s Coal story were called Ngarnangarrinha and Wartawinha. They became these two hills at Copley in South Australia.

The Australian
Pathways to indigenous empowerment
The Australian
DESPITE a decade of ever more concerted interventions across remote Aboriginal Australia, there has been little change in the landscape of the bush communities. Indigenous men and women know the truth; outsiders with clear eyes can see it as well.
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...The Guardian

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The Australian
Pathways to indigenous empowerment
The Australian
DESPITE a decade of ever more concerted interventions across remote Aboriginal Australia, there has been little change in the landscape of the bush communities. Indigenous men and women know the truth; outsiders with clear eyes can see it as well.
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...The Guardian

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The Australian
Arthur Boyd's Bride series explores issues beyond indigenous affairs
The Australian
After all, the series is the one with which Boyd established himself as one of the handful of defining Australian painters of the postwar years, and it is one whose originality and evocative power was never surpassed and perhaps not equalled in his ...

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The Australian
Arthur Boyd's Bride series explores issues beyond indigenous affairs
The Australian
After all, the series is the one with which Boyd established himself as one of the handful of defining Australian painters of the postwar years, and it is one whose originality and evocative power was never surpassed and perhaps not equalled in his ...
Arthur Boyd's Brides paintings reunited at Melbourne's Heide MuseumBrisbane Times

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The Guardian
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...
The Guardian
High profile Australians supportive of positive change have put their hand up to support the concept. Organisations such as Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (Antar), Reconciliation Australia and the National Congress of Australia's First ...

NEWS.com.au
Why we're among worst of the worst
NEWS.com.au
The government's decision to establish an indigenous advisory council while defending the Congress of Australia's First Peoples was also criticised as was the high numbers of indigenous people in jail. “While some health and socio-economic indicators ...
The reasons Australia is sharing a Human Rights Watch list with Syria, China ...9news.com.au

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The Stringer
In Australia, there is the Aboriginal rights struggle
The Stringer
In Australia there is no greater rights struggle than the Aboriginal rights struggle. It is a human rights struggle where not only the First Peoples of this continent were violently and murderously dispossessed of their lands but since the advent of ...

Australia Slammed for Human Rights Failings
Pro Bono Australia
“While Indigenous Australians account for only three per cent of Australia's population, they account for 27 per cent of Australia's prison population. In part because they are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, Indigenous ...
Our human rights rating undermined by refugee treatmentRockhampton Morning Bulletin

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9news.com.au
The reasons Australia is sharing a Human Rights Watch list with Syria, China ...
9news.com.au
Along with the country's treatment of asylum seekers, Indigenous Australians and same-sex citizens, the strict new anti-terror laws were enough to land Australia on the list from Human Rights Watch alongside nations such as Syria, China and Cuba. The ...
Australia Slammed for Human Rights FailingsPro Bono Australia
Our shame: Why we're among worst of the worstNEWS.com.au

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Haaretz
Aboriginal leader identifies with Jewish suffering on Holocaust Day
Haaretz
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Jews from the Auschwitz death camp, the chairman of Australia's first and largest community-controlled Aboriginal health service expressed his people's identification with "the injustice ...

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The Guardian
Australia's treatment of asylum seekers 'diminishes human rights record'
The Guardian
Australia's global reputation as a defender of human rights is being undermined by its continued “harsh” treatment of asylum seekers, persistently high Indigenous incarceration rates, and “draconian” new anti-terrorism laws that restrict citizens ...

teleSUR English
Indigenous Australians Face Poor Housing Conditions
teleSUR English
Indigenous Australians continue to face poor housing conditions and overcrowding, according to a report released Tuesday. The latest report on housing conditions from Australia's Productivity Commission found over 34 percent of Aboriginal and Torres ...

MAJOR INDIGENOUS EXHIBITION AT BRITISH MUSEUM
Aboriginal Art Directory News
The Australian National Museum and the British Museum are joining forces to present one of the most important exhibitions of Indigenous Australian art and artefacts ever staged. 'Enduring Civilisation', as it's called, will open in London in April and ...

Holocaust anniversary acknowledged by Aboriginal community
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
The service is Australia's first and largest community-controlled Aboriginal facility of this kind. Chairman of the Aboriginal Medical Service Redfern, Sol Bellear said Aboriginal Australians have always felt strongly about the injustice wrought on the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous use of aged care services far less than that of wider population
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians typically require aged care facilities earlier due to higher rates of disability and chronic disease. Because of this, the commission collects data for Indigenous people in aged care from the age of 50, which is 15 years lower ...