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The Guardian
Mining royalties may save WA's remote Indigenous communities from closure
The Guardian
Yu, who is now chairman of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, said moving Indigenous communities from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to Redman's Department of Regional Development was a “significant change of ...

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The Australian
Cabinet papers 1988-89: Deaths in custody outgrew cabinet's expectations
The Australian
There was also outcry over deaths that followed physical struggles with authorities, including that of 16-year-old Aboriginal boy John Pat in the police lock-up at Roebourne in Western Australia's north. In Perth at Barton's Mill Prison the following ...

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Indigenous soldiers who hid their identity to serve: the untold story
ABC Message Stick
PETER COSTER: RSL Queensland aims to support Indigenous veterans and recognise their service to our country from not only recent times but also recognising that Indigenous Australians have been serving our country so well since before we even formed ...

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Indigenous soldiers who hid their identity to serve: the untold story
ABC Message Stick
PETER COSTER: RSL Queensland aims to support Indigenous veterans and recognise their service to our country from not only recent times but also recognising that Indigenous Australians have been serving our country so well since before we even formed ...

The Australian
Search for a defining centre
The Australian
There are already indigenous culture centres strewn across Australia, in every state capital and in places as far-flung as the Grampians, Mossman Gorge in far north Queensland, Kakadu, Tennant Creek, even Thursday Island in the Torres Strait — in fact ...

The Australian
Search for a defining centre
The Australian
There are already indigenous culture centres strewn across Australia, in every state capital and in places as far-flung as the Grampians, Mossman Gorge in far north Queensland, Kakadu, Tennant Creek, even Thursday Island in the Torres Strait — in fact ...

End tiptoeing on abuse: Mundine
The Australian
Figures obtained by The Australian reveal the number of Aboriginal children taken into care in NSW — which already had the highest rates of indigenous child removal — jumped almost 10 per cent over the past year. Warren Mundine, chairman of the Prime ...

End tiptoeing on abuse: Mundine
The Australian
Figures obtained by The Australian reveal the number of Aboriginal children taken into care in NSW — which already had the highest rates of indigenous child removal — jumped almost 10 per cent over the past year. Warren Mundine, chairman of the Prime ...

Audio source: ABC Radio National 'Hindsight' 2013 marked two hundred years since the death of Bennelong - that well known Wanggal leader and 'ambassador' to the Sydney colony. - Bennelong has long been cast as a tragic figure, a traitor to his people, a damaged character from countless Australian histories, novels and narratives. But as more information about him and his contemporaries comes to light, Bennelong is sometimes being recast as an adventurer, a politician, a diplomat … with documents that have come to light, he is still speaking to us across the centuries, in words and song. - Historian and curator, Keith Vincent Smith, has been investigating Bennelong’s life and his long, traumatic voyage to Britain in 1792. He found the copy of the letter we have today, in an obscure German astronomy journal. - Bennelong and Yemmerawanne's song, performed in London in 1792, as notated and published by musician Edward Jones in 1811. This version is performed by Clarence Slockee and Matthew Doyle at the State Library of NSW, August 2010. - http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/extra/2011/hht_20110403_BennelongYemmerrawanneLivePerformance.mp3 (02'01", 1.85MB)

Indigenous convicts: Khoisan, Maori and Aboriginal exiles - ABC Radio National - Hindsight --- The convicts left to rot in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) didn't all hail from Britain. There were Australian Aboriginal freedom fighters, South African and even Moari convicts. - If you hang the Freedom Fighters (Trouble-makers) you are left with a body (evidence), but if you transport them to a penal colony, they can disappear without trace. - ... tried and convicted in courts, and because of their perceived 'pagan' nature, they couldn't swear on a bible and thus give evidence. - --- How did a Maori man come to be buried on tiny, windswept Maria Island off Tasmania, way back in 1840? - Hohepa Te Umuroa was a convict, transported for joining the uprising of Te Rangiheata and other Wanganui Maori against settlers in the Hutt Valley. Hohepa was one of five Maori men who arrived as convicts, but they were among dozens of Indigenous people from across the Empire who were transported for waging war against the Crown. - Most Indigenous convicts didn't survive the harsh conditions of prisons like Norfolk Island, but some did. They often went to work in the service of the colony as trackers, bullock drivers, translators. They had been tried and convicted in courts, even though their 'pagan' natures meant they could not swear on a bible and thus give evidence. Gamaregal warrior, Musquito led a resistance against settlers in the Hawkesbury until he was caught and sent to Norfolk Island and then Van Diemen's Land. --- Full size Image Link: Hoheps:- http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/hohepa/5283380 Gamareagal warrior, Musquito http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/musquito/5283120 Article link: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/aboriginal-convicts/5984106

Black circle may prove missing link to lost first Aboriginal flag
The Australian (blog)
The circle was cut from black fabric used to make the first Aboriginal flag in the early 1970s, stitched at the South Australian Museum, where designer Harold Thomas was working. In place of the black circle, the museum's props department stitched the ...

New SBS documentary Prison Songs confronts issue of indigenous incarceration
Sydney Morning Herald
When it comes the vexed topic of incarceration rates for indigenous Australians, the statistics are blunt and often overwhelming. In the new SBS documentary Prison Songs, the numbers are no less confronting: 80 per cent of the inmates in Darwin's ...

How Aboriginal Australians Saw the Stars
Bharat Press
Indigenous Australia is the longest living continuous culture on earth, however trendy researchers have simply began to take a look at the knowledge that comes with 50,000 years of residency—and that is very true of astronomy. First Australians ...

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Australia Eyes Indigenous Recognition Vote
Fiji Sun Online
Unlike other settler nations such as Canada and New Zealand, Australia's constitution makes no mention of its indigenous people and still has two so-called “race provisions”, including one that allows the states to ban people from voting based on their ...

World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
ABC Online
There is a growing push for better recognition of Indigenous soldiers, many of whom had to lie about their identity to serve their country. Some of those soldiers' names are still not honoured in the Australian War Memorial, despite their active service.

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World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
ABC Online
There is a growing push for better recognition of Indigenous soldiers, many of whom had to lie about their identity to serve their country. Some of those soldiers' names are still not honoured in the Australian War Memorial, despite their active service.

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World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
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"There's sometimes a forgetting, a very convenient forgetting of what Indigenous Australians have done and I think World War I is one of those things when we have this commemoration to say, in fact this nation has been a very diverse nation for a very ...

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World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
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"There's sometimes a forgetting, a very convenient forgetting of what Indigenous Australians have done and I think World War I is one of those things when we have this commemoration to say, in fact this nation has been a very diverse nation for a very ...

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Financial Times
Aboriginal villages in Australia under threat
Financial Times
Dickie Bedford was born in the 1960s at a time when thousands of aboriginal people were being evicted from pastoral cattle stations. Half a century later a new generation of indigenous Australians faces a similar fate as budget cuts threaten to close ...

Financial Times
Aboriginal villages in Australia under threat
Financial Times
Dickie Bedford was born in the 1960s at a time when thousands of aboriginal people were being evicted from pastoral cattle stations. Half a century later a new generation of indigenous Australians faces a similar fate as budget cuts threaten to close ...