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'Hollow words' from PM on gap
The Australian
BILL Shorten has accused Tony Abbott of betraying Aborigines after having promised to be the Prime Minister for indigenous Australians and then cutting more than $500 million of related funding in the budget. He warns that Labor would no longer offer ...

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Paul Wiles from CAAMA News interviewing Paddy Gibson. - IMAGE: Warlmanpa ladies dance at Manuwangku court hearings - no Muckaty nuke dump! photo Paddy Gibson - via @IndigenousX pic.twitter.com/eRZMfSwLXs

Sydney Morning Herald
Flying 3 Flags and Seeking One Banner
New York Times
His turn on basketball's biggest stage is a source of pride for sports-mad Australians, but being the first indigenous Australian to play in the N.B.A. finals — his mother is Aboriginal and his father is a Torres Strait Islander — is immensely ...
Documentary to raise awareness of NBA star Patrick Mills' indigenous heritageSydney Morning Herald
Australia's Patty Mills is on the brink of an NBA title and he's got the US ...The Daily Telegraph
Why Patty Mills is in my hall of fameThe Roar
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Australia aboriginals protest land seizure
Press TV
The wealthy nation's impoverished Aboriginals gathered on Saturday in Sydney's suburb of Redfern to vent their anger and frustration at a scheme by the Australian government to take away their land for commercial uses. The group, which has set up a ...

'This is not right': Aboriginal boy in nappies locked in police van
The Daily Telegraph
THIS should not happen in Australia: a 15-month-old Aboriginal boy, still in nappies, locked in the back of a Northern Territory police paddy wagon. A photographer from News Corp Australia's Centralian Advocate, Justin Brierty, took this photo outside ...

Sydney Morning Herald
indigenous good gets lost in the bad
Sydney Morning Herald
But her stories gave me an understanding of the inherent resilience she possessed, a quality I now recognise in every indigenous Australian. Our first nations communities have not only survived 226 years of enforced, institutionalised and entrenched ...
The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's pastThe Guardian
Killer budget bad news for Aboriginal peopleGreen Left Weekly

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The Guardian
The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's past
The Guardian
Other remains from collections in Berlin, at Washington's Smithsonian Museum, Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum have been repatriated directly to Australian Indigenous communities. The federal government, through the Ministry for ...
Killer budget bad news for Aboriginal peopleGreen Left Weekly

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The Guardian
The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's past
The Guardian
Other remains from collections in Berlin, at Washington's Smithsonian Museum, Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum have been repatriated directly to Australian Indigenous communities. The federal government, through the Ministry for ...

It has long been thought that prior to white settlement, Indigenous Australians lived a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Now some scholars argue that the first Australians practised forms of agriculture and aquaculture ... More http://www.sovereignunion.mobi

Indigenous kids score in 'round ball' program
The Australian
The first indigenous soccer player selected for Australia, who once tried out with Everton and Tottenham Hotspur, Moriarty was born in the remote Northern Territory indigenous community of Borroloola and says football changed his life. It was with this ...

Transcript - CHRIS UHLMANN: Thirty-three years ago today, a young Aboriginal man was picked up by police in the town of Wee Waa in north-west New South Wales. Ninety minutes later he was dead. - The death of 21 year old Eddie Murray was one of the cases that led to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Today his family are holding a national day of action and calling for another inquiry. - Lindy Kerin reports: - LINDY KERIN: Twenty-one year old Eddie Murray was on his way to becoming a first grade rugby league star. In 1981 he'd been out celebrating an upcoming football trip and was picked up by police for being drunk and disorderly. An hour and a half later he was found hanged in the Wee Waa police cell. - ANNE MURRAY: He was a happy go lucky, typical brother, who loved his family dearly. - LINDY KERIN: Eddie Murray's sister Anne was just 15 when her brother died. His death was one of 99 investigated by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The inquiry was critical of police evidence but found suicide was likely in the case of Eddie Murray. - The Murray family refused to accept the finding and they exhumed the young man's body and discovered he had a fractured sternum, which wasn't identified at the inquest or Royal Commission. Anne Murray says three decades on, there are still many unanswered questions. - ANNE MURRAY: The truth what really happened to my brother, and I'm out here to seek justice for my brother and let his spirit free, and my mother and father rest in peace, because they're not going rest till the truth comes out. - LINDY KERIN: Today the family will call on the state's new Police Minister and Attorney-General to re-open the case and hold a new inquest. They'll be supported by Ray Jackson from the Indigenous Social Justice Association. - RAY JACKSON: We're hoping that somewhere along the line we're going to get some real justice for the Murray family. - LINDY KERIN: There has been an inquest, there's been the Royal Commission and an independent investigation. What more can be done on this case though, really? - RAY JACKSON: Well, we can come to the truth. Like I mean the original coroner found that Eddie was too drunk to suicide, but he died at the hand or hands of persons unknown. Now he's in a Wee Waa police cell. The only people who have access to Eddie in that cell, he was by himself, are the police. - LINDY KERIN: Ray Jackson says despite the Royal Commission in 1991, the incarceration rates of Indigenous people have skyrocketed. Indigenous people make up more than a quarter of the national prison population. - RAY JACKSON: The 339 recommendations that were handed down by the Royal Commission were to stop the increase in incarceration, to stop deaths in custody. Yet because of lack of implementation of those recommendations, things have only got worse. - We have now since 1980 had over 450 Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody. No police officer, no prison officer, no custodial health officer has ever been found guilty. - CHRIS UHLMANN: Ray Jackson from the Indigenous Social Justice Association speaking to Lindy Kerin. - And the New South Wales Attorney-General says he would like to meet the Murray family to discuss their concerns.

Sydney Morning Herald
Documentary to raise awareness of NBA star Patrick Mills' indigenous heritage
Sydney Morning Herald
"That would open up a whole can of worms, they'd be like 'what do you mean Indigenous Australians? There's black people in Australia? "What's really good is they want to learn about it and they're fascinated about hearing about it." Mills, in his fifth ...
Patty Mills Riding an Aussie Hoops Explosion, and the NBA Finals Is Just a StartBleacher Report

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The rise of methamphetamine use in Aboriginal communities
ABC Online
While the Australian Crime Commission's Illicit Drug Data Report 2012-13 detailed record rates of methamphetamine use and the impacts in Australian cities, the meth or 'ice' story in the Kimberley has mostly been limited to quietly spoken rumours of a ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
New Indigenous Fund to Tackle Budget Cuts
Pro Bono Australia
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has revealed at the ACOSS National Conference that it will set up a public fund in response to the Federal Government cutting its cash commitment to the advocacy peak body. At the conference, in ...
Honoured for service to Indigenous aged careAustralian Ageing Agenda
Indigenous body 'victim of cruel funding game'The Australian
Indigenous housing may be left out of The BlockABC Online
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Peter Coleman, White Supremacist and non believer in global warming uttered out loud what many Neo-Liberals in Australia believe but are rarely game to say. The majority of Australians are extremely racist and the fundamental issue behind the suppression of First Nations Peoples.

San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich recognises indigenous Australians, Patty ...
Herald Sun
In his fifth season, Mills is the first Australian of indigenous heritage to play in the NBA Finals and continues to play a key part in the team as Tony Parker's back-up. One of Mills' uncles Danny Morseau was the first indigenous basketball player for ...

San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich recognises indigenous Australians, Patty ...
Herald Sun
In his fifth season, Mills is the first Australian of indigenous heritage to play in the NBA Finals and continues to play a key part in the team as Tony Parker's back-up. One of Mills's uncles Danny Morseau was the first indigenous basketball player ...
Spurs coach's emotional Mabo speechFox Sports

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Aboriginal recognition in WA constitution long overdue: Opposition
ABC Online
"It's an opportunity for every West Australian to buy into the amazing history that we have in Western Australia, the long connections of Aboriginal people from the Kimberley to the Great Southern. "So it is a chance to correct a historical wrong." In ...

Covered by Paul Wiles, CAAMA News A Central Australian Aboriginal Elder challenged the moral conscience of the nation when she told a pro assimilationist championing the integration of her people that she is not “the problem” that white Australians have been trying to solve since colonization.

The granddaughter of Northern Territory Arrernte rights campaigner Rosalie Kunoth-Monks says she was inspired to see her grandmother take a stand against assimilationist policies. The Utopia elder appeared on the ABC's Q&A program this week, saying her culture had survived despite colonisation. She also praised the documentary film 'Utopia' for bringing Indigenous issues to light. Amelia Kunoth-Monks (pictured) says she was pleased to see her grandmother be able to speak in a widely-view forum. Source: Gerry Georgatos and Warren Barnsley - National Indigenous Radio