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Food security plan for South Australia's remote indigenous communities cut ...
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A long-term plan to improve food security in South Australia's remote indigenous communities has been cut short by two years, despite opposition from community groups. The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara (APY) Lands Food Security Strategy was ...

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Food security plan for South Australia's remote indigenous communities cut ...
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A long-term plan to improve food security in South Australia's remote indigenous communities has been cut short by two years, despite opposition from community groups. The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara (APY) Lands Food Security Strategy was ...
Disaster calls over 'rushed' APY billThe Australian
Greens argue against 'undemocratic' plan to suspend APY Lands management ...Yahoo!7 News

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NSW premier Mike Baird backs poll on Indigenous constitutional recognition
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“This state is home to more than 175,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – about a third of the national Indigenous population – so we have a responsibility to lead the national debate.” Baird acknowledged it would take time “before we ...
NSW first state to support referendum for indigenous rightsThe Age
NSW calls for constitutional recognition of indigenous peopleBBC News
Baird backs indigenous recognitionSBS

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Greens have trapped Aborigines in poverty says Warren Mundine
The Australian
“The Greens' agenda will keep indigenous Australians in poverty and is the greatest threat to the preservation of traditional language and culture. “Green groups in Australia want to keep indigenous Australians and their land frozen in time. “This is ...

Greens have trapped Aborigines in poverty says Warren Mundine
The Australian
“The Greens' agenda will keep indigenous Australians in poverty and is the greatest threat to the preservation of traditional language and culture. “Green groups in Australia want to keep indigenous Australians and their land frozen in time. “This is ...

The Guardian
Baird backs indigenous recognition
The West Australian
Premier Mike Baird wants NSW to lead the way in a national debate about recognising indigenous Australians in the constitution and has backed calls for a federal referendum. He has called on all the states and territories to formally endorse a campaign.
NSW premier Mike Baird backs poll on Indigenous constitutional recognitionThe Guardian
NSW calls for constitutional recognition of indigenous peopleBBC News
NSW first state to support referendum for indigenous rightsSydney Morning Herald
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Baird backs indigenous recognition
The Australian (blog)
PREMIER Mike Baird wants NSW to lead the way in a national debate about recognising indigenous Australians in the constitution and has backed calls for a federal referendum. HE has called on all the states and territories to formally endorse a campaign.
NSW premier Mike Baird backs poll on Indigenous constitutional recognitionThe Guardian
NSW first state to support referendum for indigenous rightsThe Age
NSW calls for constitutional recognition of indigenous peopleBBC News

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One of the most familiar names in the story of Australian colonisation is that of the Tasmanian Aboriginal woman 'Truganini'. But for most people the story begins and ends with a single, very famous photo, along with a label describing her simply as the last of the full-blood Tasmanian Aborigines. - Not only was that label deeply misleading, we now know that Truganini's life is one of the most significant foundation stories of European settlement in Australia. But there's still one story that few people know about and about which little has been written - it's the extraordinary tale of Truganini's time as a freedom fighter (named as a bushranger in this story). - ABC Radio National 'Hindsight' - Presented by Lorena Allam in 2009 Thomas Bock (c. 1790-1855) ... IMAGE: PORTRAIT OF TRUGANINI (THOMAS BOCK, C. 1790-1855)

Five of the last Tasmanian Aboriginal people were shipped to the Victorian mainland to help the 'Aboriginal Protector' civilise the blacks - instead they gave the settlers such a fright, burning their houses and their money etc, that many of the settlers families left their 'stolen properties' and moved closer to Melbourne for protection. After a major hunting spree with mobs of police and settlers, they were finally caught and after a court case that they were not even allowed to speak at, the two male warriors ended up being the first hangings in Victoria - public hangings in a carnival atmosphere. - Known in Victoria as 'The Freedom Fighters', the two who gave their lives for First Nations peoples freedom were Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner. On the 20th January each year, there is a commemoration on the site of where they were hung. - Listen to this - it paints an amazing picture. A story that would not be too dissimilar to hundreds of other lost stories across Australia.

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Indigenous culture must be free to grow, says Fred Chaney
The Australian
RECONCILIATION Australia founding co-chairman Fred Chaney has warned that however sympathetic white Australia is for ending indigenous disadvantage “we are in our hearts and instincts assimilationist” and this must change if we are to reconcile with ...
Fred Chaney, retiring Reconciliation Australia head, hopes future Indigenous ...ABC Online

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As iron ore price plunges, Marcia Langton urges Aboriginal businesses to diversify
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Professor Langton was a key speaker at an Indigenous business conference at the University of Western Australia in Perth on Monday. She said many of the successful Aboriginal businesses in WA were highly exposed to the iron ore price, which had ...
Marcia Langton lashes out at future fund silenceThe Australian

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Fred Chaney, retiring Reconciliation Australia head, hopes future Indigenous ...
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"I think there's an enormous challenge in getting us away from a totally assimilationist mindset and understanding that a continuing part of Australia is the Aboriginal tribes and nations that are such an important ongoing part of the fabric of ...

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Fred Chaney, retiring Reconciliation Australia head, hopes future Indigenous ...
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It broadly refers to the policy framework pursed by successive Australian governments throughout the first half of the 20th Century and well into the 1960s, when it was erroneously assumed that Indigenous Australians would benefit from adopting ...

The Guardian
Tony Abbott's visit to NT changed nothing, says Indigenous leader
The Guardian
Australia Post is looking to pull out of the town and is offering postal services to other businesses in town. The proposed $13m upgrade of the Gove district hospital, which services an Indigenous population of 16,000, has been cancelled by the ...

The Conversation AU
Stories from the sky: astronomy in indigenous knowledge
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australian practices, developed and honed over thousands of years, weave science with storytelling. In this Indigenous science series, we'll look at different aspects of First Australians' traditional life and uncover the knowledge behind ...

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Stories from the sky: astronomy in indigenous knowledge
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australian practices, developed and honed over thousands of years, weave science with storytelling. In this Indigenous science series, we'll look at different aspects of First Australians' traditional life and uncover the knowledge behind ...

Land trust 'failing Aborigines', says Ben Wyatt
The Australian
State Labor indigenous affairs spokesman Ben Wyatt will tell the Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference to be held at the University of Western Australia in Perth this week that divesting some of the 24 million hectares — about 10 ...

Independent Australia
Indigenous women behind bars: Persecuted by the system
Independent Australia
The treatment of criminalised women and girls in Australian prisons is deteriorating rapidly, but it is a whole lot worse if you happen to be Indigenous, writes Debbie Kilroy. The treatment of criminalised and imprisoned women and girls is ...

Australian Indigenous Fashion Week in Liquidation
Women's Wear Daily
A sophomore edition of Australian Indigenous Fashion Week looks unlikely. Australia's first indigenous fashion showcase debuted at the Sydney Town Hall on April 11; however the event's Sydney-based organizer All The Perks is in liquidation with 400,000 ...

The Guardian
New Indigenous Business Australia boss targets wealth, loans
The Australian
Edward Fry, named today as the new leader of the nation's main indigenous economic group for three years, has vowed to work with the IBA board to improve programs. The Abbott government will also today announce that Mr Fry, an indigenous Australian ...
Abbott's homogeneous approach to Indigenous affairs will not erase the stain ...The Guardian
First people's congress asks Tony Abbott to save 150 Indigenous communitiesThe Guardian
Indigenous leaders call for Tony Abbott to intervene on remote communitiesThe Age
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