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champion of indigenous poor
The Australian
He was 66 and retired when he learned that the Aboriginal Legal Service could not find a court officer for remote Laverton, 955km northeast of Perth. Although he was once the boss of the ALS in Western Australia, Mr Wyatt moved to the town and did the ...

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champion of indigenous poor
The Australian
He was 66 and retired when he learned that the Aboriginal Legal Service could not find a court officer for remote Laverton, 955km northeast of Perth. Although he was once the boss of the ALS in Western Australia, Mr Wyatt moved to the town and did the ...
WA Labor MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to dadABC Message Stick

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Astronomy project unites indigenous artists from WA and South Africa
The Australian
The fact the SKA will straddle two continents means it will impact on the lands of two indigenous peoples — the Yamaji of Western Australia, and the San people of South Africa's Karoo region in Eastern Cape Province. It has led to the Shared Sky ...

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MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to father, Cedric Wyatt, who died Thursday
ABC Online
West Australian Labor MP Ben Wyatt has paid tribute to his father, Aboriginal rights activist Cedric Wyatt, who died on Thursday night after suffering an illness. Cedric Wyatt, 74, was remembered by his son as a much-respected leader who fought for the ...
Wyatt's tribute to Aboriginal leader dadCourier Mail
'A leader who forged the path for many'Perth Now

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Wyatt's tribute to Aboriginal leader dad
NEWS.com.au
WEST Australian Labor member Ben Wyatt has paid tribute to his late father, describing him as a man who fought for the advancement of the Aboriginal community. CEDRIC Wyatt, 74, died on Thursday night following an illness. Mr Wyatt, who is the Member ...
MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to father, Cedric Wyatt, who died ThursdayABC Online
WA Labor MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to his late father CedricHerald Sun

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Wyatt's tribute to Aboriginal leader dad
The Australian
WEST Australian Labor member Ben Wyatt has paid tribute to his late father, describing him as a man who fought for the advancement of the Aboriginal community. CEDRIC Wyatt, 74, died on Thursday night following an illness. Mr Wyatt, who is the Member ...

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The Australian (blog)
Ancient Aboriginal sites at risk in the Pilbara
The Australian (blog)
The sites now needed protection, Willesee noted, as “important records of the history of early settlement of Australia” and the only physical evidence of the region's Aboriginal past. Today the landscapes of the Pilbara and Kimberley regions are being ...

Welfare flaws clear in Arnhem Land
The Australian (blog)
Our commitment to indigenous Australians is we will engage, just as eight ministers and departmental secretaries did in East Arnhem Land. We will work with you to change the culture of hand-outs. We will work with you to get kids in school, adults into ...

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Child abuse commission broadens scope to focus on indigenous kids
The Australian
Across Australia, research shows “many indigenous children who had been removed from their families were cruelly treated — many suffered physical and sexual abuse,” commission chair Peter McClellan said this week. More than 800 Aboriginal people had ...
Abuse hearings for Tiwi IslandersThe West Australian

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Child abuse commission broadens scope to focus on indigenous kids
The Australian
Across Australia, research shows “many indigenous children who had been removed from their families were cruelly treated — many suffered physical and sexual abuse,” commission chair Peter McClellan said this week. More than 800 Aboriginal people had ...
Indigenous recognition: the concerns of those opposed must be taken seriouslyThe Guardian

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CANBERRA OBSERVED Forrest's bold plan for indigenous Australians
News Weekly
Last October, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, commissioned a report from Andrew Forrest, one of Australia's leading business leaders with an unrivalled record of working for the advancement of indigenous Australians, to prepare a report on how ...

CANBERRA OBSERVED Forrest's bold plan for indigenous Australians
News Weekly
Last October, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, commissioned a report from Andrew Forrest, one of Australia's leading business leaders with an unrivalled record of working for the advancement of indigenous Australians, to prepare a report on how ...

CANBERRA OBSERVED Forrest's bold plan for indigenous Australians
News Weekly
Last October, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, commissioned a report from Andrew Forrest, one of Australia's leading business leaders with an unrivalled record of working for the advancement of indigenous Australians, to prepare a report on how ...

The West Australian
Canberra cuts funds for Aboriginal communities
The West Australian
Mr Scullion said: "Providing essential and municipal services in towns and cities across Australia has always been the responsibility of State and local governments and it should be no different in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.".

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Canberra cuts funds for Aboriginal communities
The West Australian
Mr Scullion said: "Providing essential and municipal services in towns and cities across Australia has always been the responsibility of State and local governments and it should be no different in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.".

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Federal Government reaches $100 million deal with states to provide services ...
ABC Online
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said there had been an ad-hoc approach to the issue in the past and the new deal would make it clearer who was responsible. "In every other town and city across Australia, essential municipal services are the ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Can a DNA test reveal if you're an indigenous Australian?
Sydney Morning Herald
The question of whether indigenous, racial or ethnic identity could be determined by genetic testing was considered in a landmark inquiry by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) in 2003, which I chaired and which culminated in the report ...

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Can a DNA test reveal if you're an indigenous Australian?
Sydney Morning Herald
The ALRC heard from genetic counsellors and others about the positive uses of genetic testing in Australia to re-establish links between individuals and their Aboriginal family members that had been severed by adoption, circumstance, or past government ...

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Early British settlement 'all bad' for indigenous Australians: Tony Abbott
Sydney Morning Herald
The arrival of British settlers in Australia was "all bad" for indigenous Australians, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared, as the federal government prepares to set the timeline for a referendum on indigenous recognition in the constitution. Mr ...
British settlement 'all bad' for Indigenous Australians, Abbott saysSBS
John Howard: there was no genocide against Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Out in the Bush, Abbott attacks Britain's Aboriginal sinsTelegraph.co.uk
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Sydney Morning Herald
Early British settlement 'all bad' for indigenous Australians: Tony Abbott
Sydney Morning Herald
The arrival of British settlers in Australia was "all bad" for indigenous Australians, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared, as the federal government prepares to set the timeline for a referendum on indigenous recognition in the constitution. Mr ...
John Howard: there was no genocide against Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Out in the Bush, Abbott attacks Britain's Aboriginal sinsTelegraph.co.uk
Eyes wide shut to blackfellasThe Australian
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