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Australia PM Abbott wants indigenous referendum in 2017
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Australian PM Tony Abbott has vowed to "sweat blood" to secure constitutional recognition for indigenous people, saying he wants a referendum in 2017. But Mr Abbott said he would not rush with the date until he was confident the referendum would succeed.
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Australia PM Abbott wants referendum to recognize Aboriginal people in ...
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday that he hopes to hold a vote in May 2017 on changing the country's constitution to finally recognize Australia's indigenous people. The constitution currently does not recognize Aboriginal and ...

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Australia PM Abbott wants referendum to recognize Aboriginal people in ...
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday that he hopes to hold a vote in May 2017 on changing the country's constitution to finally recognize Australia's indigenous people. The constitution currently does not recognize Aboriginal and ...

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Australian PM Tony Abbott vows historic change to recognise Aborigines by 2017
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Mr Abbott, a staunch conservative and monarchist, has a strong commitment to social justice and has taken on the cause of improving the lot of Australia's Aborigines as a personal commitment. In September, he spent a week in a tent on a remote ...
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Australian PM Tony Abbott to 'sweat blood' for Aboriginal recognition
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This file photo taken on Nov 12, 2013, shows Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (centre) speaking with Aboriginal performers at the opening of the 44th Parliament in Canberra. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared himself ready to ...

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Australian PM backs Aboriginal recognition
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that he was ready to "sweat blood" to hold a referendum in 2017 on constitutional recognition for indigenous people, according to Australian media reports. At a fundraising dinner for the RECOGNISE ...

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Australian PM backs Aboriginal recognition
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that he was ready to "sweat blood" to hold a referendum in 2017 on constitutional recognition for indigenous people, according to Australian media reports. At a fundraising dinner for the RECOGNISE ...
Australian PM Tony Abbott vows historic change to recognise Aborigines by 2017Telegraph.co.uk
Tony Abbott vows to 'sweat blood' for Indigenous referendumThe Age
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Aboriginal leaders question motives behind PM Tony Abbott's push on Constitution
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At a meeting of Australia's largest Aboriginal Land Council in Kakadu National Park, Joe Morrison said the Prime Minister's push for a referendum on Constitutional recognition would be threatened by the Government's handling of Aboriginal affairs in ...

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Aboriginal leaders question motives behind PM Tony Abbott's push on Constitution
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At a meeting of Australia's largest Aboriginal Land Council in Kakadu National Park, Joe Morrison said the Prime Minister's push for a referendum on Constitutional recognition would be threatened by the Government's handling of Aboriginal affairs in ...

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Aboriginal leaders question motives behind PM Tony Abbott's push on Constitution
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At a meeting of Australia's largest Aboriginal Land Council in Kakadu National Park, Joe Morrison said the Prime Minister's push for a referendum on Constitutional recognition would be threatened by the Government's handling of Aboriginal affairs in ...

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Australia PM Abbott wants indigenous referendum in 2017
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Australian PM Tony Abbott has vowed to "sweat blood" to secure constitutional recognition for indigenous people, saying he wants a referendum in 2017. But Mr Abbott said he would not rush with the date until he was confident the referendum would succeed.
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Don't aim too low on constitutional recognition of indigenous peoples, Kirstie ...
Sydney Morning Herald
One of indigenous Australia's elected leaders has expressed fears that Prime Minister Tony Abbott was "aiming too low" in his efforts to recognise the First Australians in the nation's founding document. Kirstie Parker, the co-chair of the National ...

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Australia's biggest native title claim filed in Queensland
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Australia's biggest native title claim - covering 14.6m ha (36m acres) of land and waters - has been lodged in a Brisbane court. The claim - filed on behalf of nine traditional owners - refers to much of the Cape York peninsula in the far-north of ...
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Huge native title claim lodged for Queensland's Cape York peninsulaThe Age
Cape York Land Council lodge native land claim for Queensland peninsulaDaily Mail

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Rundle: Warren Mundine's individual treaty idea a confused farrago
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One has to concede the whole indigenous issue has long been a farrago, but it seems that it's only when the dreamers encounter someone saying something which doesn't help their various noble causes that it's noticed. by Norman Hanscombe on Dec 12, ...

Rundle: Warren Mundine's individual treaty idea a confused farrago
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Australia pre-1778 saw different waves of arrivals from groups which set about dispossessing earlier arrivals. The Tasmanian aborigines [and Tasmanian Tigers which once roamed the mainland for that matter] survived with the protection of Bass Strait.

Tony Abbott continues to pussyfoot around Indigenous recognition
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“And when it comes, I suspect, that it will take the form of a pact – a heartfelt pact – between Indigenous people and conservative Australia.” In the immense old Carriageworks on the edge of Redfern in Sydney, big names in black and white Australia ...

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Australia eyes indigenous recognition vote
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More than a century after its constitution was drafted, Australia is edging closer to formally recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the nation's first people. Changing the constitution to recognise the nation's first people is not ...

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Australia eyes indigenous recognition vote
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More than a century after its constitution was drafted, Australia is edging closer to formally recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the nation's first people. Changing the constitution to recognise the nation's first people is not ...

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Australia PM Abbott wants indigenous referendum in 2017
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Australian PM Tony Abbott has vowed to "sweat blood" to secure constitutional recognition for indigenous people, saying he wants a referendum in 2017. But Mr Abbott said he would not rush with the date until he was confident the referendum would succeed.
Tony Abbott vows to 'sweat blood' for Indigenous referendumThe Age
Australia eyes indigenous recognition voteBBC News
Tony Abbott continues to pussyfoot around Indigenous recognitionThe Guardian
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The Guardian
Spending on targeted Indigenous services falling, says report
The Guardian
Spending on broader community services also used by Indigenous Australians, such as hospitals, has gone up, the productivity commission reports. But spending on dedicated Indigenous services has fallen. Photograph: Trevor Lush/Getty Images.
Number of indigenous in prison jumps 84pc in a decadeThe Australian
UN call for review of Australia's mandatory sentencing laws has backing of ...ABC Online
NT, WA to ignore UN calls for mandatory sentencing reviewABC Message Stick
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