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Welcome to Aboriginal Australia in the 21st Century – John Pilger's Utopia.
Lankaweb
It was more than two decades ago when I saw John Pilger's 1986 documentary The Secret Country for the first time. I was a 17-year-old Aboriginal male suffering the indignity of public housing Australia. My identity came with a sense of collective ...

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'PM for indigenous affairs' has his task cut out on that front
The Australian (blog)
The quote opens the Australian Medical Association's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Report Card 2012-2013, with Steve Hambleton, president of the AMA, commenting in the introduction on "gaps in preventive child health care, the promotion ...
Home-schooling program helps Indigenous kids get aheadSBS

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The Guardian
Andrew Bolt, Indigenous Australian? Come off it
The Guardian
Bolt also plays mischief-maker, claiming to be an Indigenous Australian. Like Pauline Hanson did in her maiden speech to the parliament in 1996, Bolt makes his claim based on a technical view that everyone born in Australia is legally, but not socially ...

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Andrew Bolt, Indigenous Australian? Come off it
The Guardian
Bolt also plays mischief-maker, claiming to be an Indigenous Australian. Like Pauline Hanson did in her maiden speech to the parliament in 1996, Bolt makes his claim based on a technical view that everyone born in Australia is legally, but not socially ...

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Australia. The modern Aboriginal Art Movement and Art Market
Yareah Magazine
The Dealer is the Devil – An Insider's History of the Aboriginal Art Trade. Written by Adrian Newstead. Release Date: February 2014. Published by Brandl & Schlesinger. BOOK LAUNCH Tuesday 04 February, 2014 6- 8pm. Australian Galleries, 15 Roylston ...

Leightons in for 10 years
The Australian
Reconciliation Australia chief executive Leah Armstrong, who is on Tony Abbott's indigenous council, said the Leightons deal was a huge, long-term commitment for one of the biggest corporations in Australia that raised the hopes and aspirations of ...

Christchurch lags behind Australia on Indigenous issues
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Christchurch lags behind Australia on Indigenous issues. "In Australia, the norm is for the Koori (Aboriginal) flag to fly from council buildings all year long – at head offices, at libraries etc." Earlier today, Chch City Council voted against flying ...

Polemicist Andrew Bolt Declares Himself 'Indigenous' And Accuses PM Of ...
Business Insider Australia
Provocative Melbourne columnist Andrew Bolt has done it again, starting his Herald-Sun column today with the claim “I am an indigenous Australian” and warning that Prime Minister Tony Abbott's plan to recognise Aboriginal Australians in the ...

Polemicist Andrew Bolt Declares Himself 'Indigenous' And Accuses PM Of ...
Business Insider Australia
Provocative Melbourne columnist Andrew Bolt has done it again, starting his Herald-Sun column today with the claim “I am an indigenous Australian” and warning that Prime Minister Tony Abbott's plan to recognise Aboriginal Australians in the ...

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I am, you are, we are Australian
Herald Sun
But this Australia is now under severe threat. Most incredibly, that threat is now led by Prime Minister Abbott, a Liberal. Abbott says he wants a “national crusade” to change the Constitution to recognise Aborigines as the “first Australians”. “If we ...
Utopia review: Shocking treatment of Aborigines revealedThe Age
It's time to commemorate the Frontier WarsOn Line opinion
Lessons from the 1967 referendumNinemsn
The Sunshine Coast Daily
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I am, you are, we are Australian
Herald Sun
Abbott says he wants a “national crusade” to change the Constitution to recognise Aborigines as the “first Australians”. “If we had known in 1901 what we know now, if our hearts had been as big then as now, we would have acknowledged indigenous people ...
Lessons from the 1967 referendumNinemsn
It's time to commemorate the Frontier WarsOn Line opinion
Utopia review: Shocking treatment of Aborigines revealedThe Age
The Sunshine Coast Daily
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Key MP hopeful of Indigenous recognition referendum by end of this Parliament
ABC Message Stick
MARK COLVIN: The push for Indigenous recognition picked up steam over the weekend, as Adam Goodes was named Australian of the year and the Prime Minister restated his commitment to constitutional change. But with Australia's history of voting down ...
Key MP hopeful Indigenous recognition referendum will pass by end of this ...ABC Online

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Key MP hopeful of Indigenous recognition referendum by end of this Parliament
ABC Message Stick
MARK COLVIN: The push for Indigenous recognition picked up steam over the weekend, as Adam Goodes was named Australian of the year and the Prime Minister restated his commitment to constitutional change. But with Australia's history of voting down ...
Key MP hopeful Indigenous recognition referendum will pass by end of this ...ABC Online

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Genetic modification helps Aboriginal people survive tough climate, research finds
Yahoo!7 News
Half of Western Australia's Indigenous population has a genetic modification that has helped them survive the tough central Australian climate for generations, researchers say. A team of scientist from the University of Cambridge examined data from the ...

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Genetic modification helps Aboriginal people survive tough climate, research finds
ABC Online
Half of Western Australia's Indigenous population has a genetic modification that has helped them survive the tough central Australian climate for generations, researchers say. A team of scientist from the University of Cambridge examined data from the ...
Protein modifies thyroid hormone levels according to body temperaturePhys.Org

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Australia through a scientific eye
ABC Online
The indigenous name for the river in parts of the Northern Territory is Larapinta, which lends its name to the Larapinta walking trail and Larapinta Drive, which runs west from Alice Springs. John Martin's wonderful CD of Australian piano music, titled ...

Experts reveal how Aboriginal people survived central Australian climate
ABC Message Stick
ELEANOR HALL: Researchers at the University of Cambridge say data collected in the 1980s helps reveal how Aboriginal people survived the tough climate of central Australia. The researchers found that half of the Indigenous population of Western ...
Genetic modification helps Aboriginal people survive tough climate, research findsYahoo!7 News

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Experts reveal how Aboriginal people survived central Australian climate
ABC Message Stick
ELEANOR HALL: Researchers at the University of Cambridge say data collected in the 1980s helps reveal how Aboriginal people survived the tough climate of central Australia. The researchers found that half of the Indigenous population of Western ...

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Robert de Castella searches for first Indigenous marathon champ
SBS
Mr Castella set a marathon record in 1981 and won gold for Australia at two Commonwealth games. He was also named Australian of the Year in 1983. Since then, he has become well-known for his work in Indigenous communities and health promotion.

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Indigenous boxing star Anthony Mundine's story in black and white
Courier Mail
Lionel Rose, the first indigenous Australian of the Year, almost half a century before Adam Goodes, was lending support in Mundine's dressingroom just moments before The Man's victory over Danny Green in 2006. Mundine's fight with unheralded Kiwi ...

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