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Sydney Morning Herald
Art's man of reckoning
Sydney Morning Herald
To arrive at this bay in Sydney Harbour, first we needed to trace the circumnavigation of Australia by Matthew Flinders and his Aboriginal shipmate Bungaree, via the Mosman Art Gallery. The man behind the gallery's present exhibition - the Aboriginal ...

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Amid the politics of fear, steps to reconciliation
The Canberra Times (blog)
Many people assumed that this had been done in the referendum of 1967, when a proposal that resulted in indigenous Australians being counted in population statistics received 90.8 per cent approval. But, as Noel Pearson has noted, the original ...

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ABC Online
Tom Keneally at his home in Sydney yesterday. Picture: James Croucher Source ...
The Australian
The best-selling author and rugby league buff met Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, as she prepared to make her first official visit to Australia with Charles and found her to be "absolutely charming". Keneally is not the only ... The Prince of Wales ...
Royal Sydney: Rain, hail and shineABC Online
Royals reign in the rain during their Sydney visitHerald Sun
Sydney turns on weather for RoyalsSydney Morning Herald
NEWS.com.au -Brisbane Times
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Mixed awareness of push in preamble
The Australian
THERE are fewer people in the mainstream community now aware of the national push to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution than there were in March. Only 31 per cent of non-indigenous Australians had heard about the referendum in a ...

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Images reflect mission studies
ABC Online
They started in 1938 and worked right through 1939 and they documented I think somewhere in the order of about 5,000 aboriginal people from throughout Australia documenting essentially their sort of racial backgrounds. (MORE FOOTAGE OF PHOTOS OF ...

Grog fight to beat a fetal error
The Australian
There is no reason to believe that the picture is very much different in the east or west Kimberley, or in some communities of the western desert or the Pitjantjatjara lands, or several other corners of remote Aboriginal Australia. These Fitzroy Valley ...

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The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts, by Mike Smith. Source: Supplied
The Australian
In this way it marks a new intellectual approach to occupying the Aboriginal inland. Here we are, at the outset of The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts, gazing at the country through Smith's eyes. What can we see? A desert palimpsest, a manuscript ...

Into the Bloodstream (Archie Roach)
The Australian
It's an entirely apposite quirk of fate, then, that sees the simultaneous release of landmark works from two of Aboriginal Australia's deadliest singer-songwriters. Strengthening the parallel is the fact Into the Bloodstream and Blak & Blu are ...

Evening Standard
Prince Charles visits a rugby league exhibition at Bondi Beach, unsettling ...
NEWS.com.au
The NSW and Australia representative met Prince Charles as rugby league showed off its indigenous roots - via a game on the beach involving NRL stars Greg Inglis, Willie Tonga and Bird. And despite being coached in how to present himself to His Royal ...
Royal Sydney: Rain, hail and shineABC Online
Prince Charles the football fanHerald Sun
Prince Charles caught out by Sydney stormThe Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Prince Charles leaves his mark on NRL
Sydney Morning Herald
The NSW and Australia representative met Prince Charles as rugby league showed off its indigenous roots - via a game on the beach involving NRL stars Greg Inglis, Willie Tonga and Bird. And despite being coached in how to present himself to His Royal ...
Royal Sydney: Rain, hail and shineABC Online
Prince Charles caught out by Sydney stormThe Australian
Prince Charles the football fanHerald Sun
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
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Language may contribute to Indigenous disadvantage
UQ News
“We noticed that although most Indigenous children in Australia do not speak a traditional language, neither do they speak Standard Australian English in their homes and communities,” Dr Mushin said. “Teachers may assume that their children already ...

Indigenous music mentors rewarded with award
ABC Online
Two Indigenous music mentors have been jointly named as the Northern Territory Australian of the Year. Mark Grose and Michael Hohnen are the co-founders of Darwin-based record label Skinnyfish music, which has promoted and connected Indigenous ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australian life just keeps getting longer
Sydney Morning Herald
''You are still spritely and you think you've been frugal, but the money's just not there.'' Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to die in any age as non-indigenous people. Tweet · Pin It · Email article · Print · Reprints ...

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Federal recognition for the Wet Tropics
The Cairns Post
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke will today announce the indigenous heritage values of the region will be added to the existing Wet Tropics national heritage listing. The region, which stretches from Cooktown to Townsville, includes the Barron ...
Cape York owners to decide heritage statusThe Australian
'Unanswered questions' over Cape's UNESCO bidABC Online

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Telegraph.co.uk
The Sapphires, review
Telegraph.co.uk
Tony Briggs's script is based on the experiences of his mother and aunt, who toured Vietnam as singers in the late 1960s, and it dares to raise two murky issues from Australia's past: Aboriginal land rights and the state-enforced adoption of indigenous ...
Jessica Mauboy Exclusive InterviewFemaleFirst.co.uk

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Millions spent on deserted township
The Australian
THE demise of a tiny Aboriginal community in remote South Australia has exposed concerns over the viability of service delivery to isolated outback communities. Watarru, a small community on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert in the Anangu ...

Aboriginal bodies 'ignored violence against women'
The Australian
In a territory "with more Aboriginal controlled land and autonomy or self-determination than any other place in Australia'', the intervention "brought to the surface the (once unspoken) tension between indigenous self-determination and Aboriginal women ...

The Age
Catch 82: we're all living longer … but can we afford to?
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to die at any age as non-indigenous. Australians in cities are the least likely to die, suffering only 5.6 deaths per 1000 compared with 8.2 per thousand in very remote places. In NSW the death rate ...
Australian life just keeps getting longerThe Age

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Australian life just keeps getting longer
The Age
... until it runs out. ''What they hell do you do when you turn 87?'' he said. ''You are still spritely and you think you've been frugal, but the money's just not there.'' Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to die in any age as non ...

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Indigenous health clinic nearly finished
ABC Online
Western Australian Health Minister Kim Hames says final works on an Aboriginal health clinic in Wiluna are set to be completed by this month. The facility faced months of delays when funds ran short during construction in June. Months later, a deal was ...

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