Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Weekly Times Now
Alternative version of Advance Australia Fair recognises indigenous
Weekly Times Now
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has offered the compromise after a prominent group of Australians failed to convince him to accept their new version of Advance Australia Fair, which includes a third verse to recognise indigenous history. Victorian ...
Not 'young and free': New inclusive version of Australian anthem given green lightYahoo7 News
'Hell no': government rejects push for revamp of Advance Australia Fair national anthemThe Sydney Morning Herald
Check Out The New Advance Australia FairTripleM Sydney
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The West Australian
Alternative version of Advance Australia Fair recognises Aboriginal culture
The West Australian
A new national anthem that strips out words offensive to indigenous Australians has been granted permission by the Federal Government to be sung as a "patriotic song". Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has offered the compromise after a prominent group ...
'Hell no': government rejects push for revamp of Advance Australia Fair national anthemThe Sydney Morning Herald
Not 'young and free': New inclusive version of Australian anthem given green lightYahoo7 News
Check Out The New Advance Australia FairTripleM Sydney
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The Conversation AU
Explainer: why 300 Indigenous leaders are meeting at Uluru this week
The Conversation AU
Running over four days, the meeting is the culmination of 12 regional dialogues held across the country on the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians. At Uluru, delegates from each dialogue will aim to reach consensus on whether and how ...
Indigenous rights still behind 50 years onYahoo7 News
Turnbull and Shorten: No leadership in Indigenous RecognitionIndependent Australia
SA Recognise campaigner draws on 50-year family legacy ahead of referendum anniversaryABC Online

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ABC Online
SA Recognise campaigner draws on 50-year family legacy ahead of referendum anniversary
ABC Online
Some six months after fronting the campaign in South Australia for constitutional recognition of Indigenous people, Ngarrindjeri man Luke Taylor hopes momentum will surge after the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum this weekend. The ...

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The Australian
Abbott's Indigenous Advancement Strategy backfired for stolen generations
The Australian
The review also says the ageing nature of the cohort of indigenous Australians removed from their families for decades up until the 1970s, usually forcibly, means there will be specific aged-care needs that have not yet been planned for. Attention to ...
Stolen Generations call for compoNEWS.com.au

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Courier Mail
'What it always should have been'
Courier Mail
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has offered the compromise after a prominent group of Australians failed to convince him to accept their new version of Advance Australia Fair, which includes a third verse to recognise indigenous history. Victorian ...

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NEWS.com.au
Claire BickersNews Corp Australia
Herald Sun
Minderoo has supported more than 250 initiatives within Australia and internationally that aim to empower* indigenous Australians and aspire for all children in Australia to “thrive by five”. The Forrests and daughter Grace started the Walk Free ...
Forrest's $400m donation a game-changer: PMSky News Australia
Mining baron's $400m donation of love9news.com.au
Australian business giant Andrew Forrest to unveil biggest charitable donation in Australian historyNEWS.com.au
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Port Macquarie News
Letter: Reconciliation Week
Port Macquarie News
National Reconciliation Week is held annually on 27 May to 3 June in celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and to nurture and grow on the relationships shared by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians.

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The Australian
Fifty years after 1967 referendum, indigenous recognition remains elusive
The Australian
A small group of activists hoped to win equal rights for Australian Aborigines. The Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement, later the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, ran a decade-long grassroots ...
Constitutional recognition: Aboriginal Tasmanians to argue for compensation deal at Uluru summitABC Online
The real gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health in Australia: it's worse than you thinkBallarat Courier
1967 referendum: indigenous leaders' viewsNEWS.com.au
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Ballarat Courier
The real gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health in Australia: it's worse than you think
Ballarat Courier
Indigenous Australians are losing 2.3 times the number of healthy years to death and disease than their non-Indigenous counterparts, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. In an alarming finding, the gap between ...

ABC Online
Constitutional recognition: Aboriginal Tasmanians to argue for compensation deal at Uluru summit
ABC Online
Mr Mansell said a referendum to "recognise" Indigenous people in the constitution did not have the potential to deliver economic empowerment. "Why are we mucking around with gestures when the Aboriginal people of Australia — when you look around at ...

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Indigenous Australians Win Decades-Long Land Rights Battle
Voice of America
After a 30-year battle, indigenous groups on Australia's Cape York peninsula are celebrating the return of more than 160,000 hectares of tribal land. It has been handed back to three aboriginal clans by the Queensland state government. It was ...

UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detention
Bega District News
The vast majority of Aboriginal people had jobs, attended school and were not involved in the criminal justice system, Mr Scullion said. He acknowledged some Indigenous Australians "need additional support" and said the Coalition was committed to ...

ABC Online
Arnhem Land musician inspiring kids as first Aboriginal to rap in Indigenous language
ABC Online
Musician and dancer Baker Boy had a clear goal in mind: he wanted to be Australia's first Aboriginal artist to rap in an Indigenous language. And with the release of his track Cloud 9, which features the 20-year-old rapping in Yolngu Matha, he's on his ...

ABC Online
Constitutional recognition: Will it mean anything to Aboriginal families?
ABC Online
So could reforming Australia's constitution be of any use to families like Deborah Lonsdale's? Tasmanian Aboriginal writer Michael Mansell doubts that, and thinks many of his people will need convincing that constitutional recognition is a worthwhile step.

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SBS
Push to change names linked to Australia's violent colonial past
SBS
He also signed a so-called "treaty" with Aboriginal elders in 1835, believed to be the only such agreement of its kind in Australia. In exchange for items like knives, flour and blankets, Batman's treaty gave him access to around 60,000 acres of land.

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SBS
From model to role model: Lois Peeler on inspiring the next generation of Indigenous Australians
SBS
In the 1960's she became Australia's first Aboriginal model, then joined the now famous band The Sapphires touring war-raved Vietnam, as imortalised in the 2012 film. Ms Peeler considers the production “mostly accurate – with some artistic licence” and ...

The Guardian
Indigenous leaders head to Uluru for 'historic' meeting on ...
The Guardian
Uluru will host a four-day summit on constitutional recognition that could change Australia's relationship with its first peoples. Photograph: Kristi O'Brien/Tourism ...
Renewing the faith of 67: Indigenous recognition remains elusiveThe Australian
Change gonna come, remembering the 1967 referendum | Illawarra ...Illawarra Mercury

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The Australian
Renewing the faith of 67: Indigenous recognition remains elusive
The Australian
It has helped to reshape Australia's self-image and the national approach to Aboriginal people and indigenous culture — so much so that today's proponents of a new referendum hope their proposals for constitutional reform also may have the potential ...
Change gonna come, remembering the 1967 referendumBrisbane Times

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The Australian
PM, Shorten shun Uluru stop on road to indigenous recognition
The Australian
At each of those meetings 10 representatives were elected for the Uluru gathering, making it indigenous Australia's biggest formal gathering, particularly significant given there was no indigenous representation at the conventions that crafted the 1901 ...

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