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The big problem with legalising euthanasia - The Advertiser

Tue, 2018/08/07 - 2:26am

The Advertiser

The big problem with legalising euthanasia
The Advertiser
In 2013, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released data showing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are 2.6 times more likely to die by suicide compared with non-Indigenous Australians. Suicide rates among young indigenous ...

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Aboriginal teen being punched in face among claims of police mistreatment in Broken Hill - ABC News

Mon, 2018/08/06 - 8:17pm

ABC News

Aboriginal teen being punched in face among claims of police mistreatment in Broken Hill
ABC News
Allegations that police punched an Aboriginal teenager in the face and released him without charge are among claims of police misbehaviour in far west New South Wales. Community members in Broken Hill are concerned about the impact of what they say ...

When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia? - The Conversation AU

Mon, 2018/08/06 - 7:46pm

When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?
The Conversation AU
Many Aboriginal Australians would say with conviction that they have always been here. Their ancestors and traditional learnings tell them of this history, and their precise place within it. Our review of the scientific evidence, published today in ...

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Bathurst, where the spirits prowl and whisper painful, bloody truths - The Guardian

Mon, 2018/08/06 - 6:01pm

The Guardian

Bathurst, where the spirits prowl and whisper painful, bloody truths
The Guardian
But it is amazing how very closely, when it comes to the Bathurst war – like so many others on the Australian frontier – various Indigenous and European records accord. ***. The country all around is drought-stricken and bone dry, dusty and desperate ...

Ninety years on, no justice for Australia's last Aboriginal massacre - The New Daily

Mon, 2018/08/06 - 12:29pm

The New Daily

Ninety years on, no justice for Australia's last Aboriginal massacre
The New Daily
Tuesday marks 90 years since the last recorded massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia. The murder of a white dingo hunter by a Warlpiri tribesman led to a spate of revenge killings of Aboriginal people in Central Australia in 1928. Officially, 31 ...

When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia? - The Conversation AU

Mon, 2018/08/06 - 7:00am
When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?  The Conversation AU

Aboriginal Australians have effectively been on their country for as long as modern human populations have been outside of Africa. We have a limit as to how ...

When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia? - The Conversation AU

Mon, 2018/08/06 - 7:00am
When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?  The Conversation AU

Aboriginal Australians have effectively been on their country for as long as modern human populations have been outside of Africa. We have a limit as to how ...

Experience Australia's Aboriginal past in Northern Territory - Irish Times

Mon, 2018/08/06 - 5:03am

Irish Times

Experience Australia's Aboriginal past in Northern Territory
Irish Times
Travelling here is a privilege permitted by Aboriginal people, descendants of the oldest surviving culture in the world, who remain owners of the land. It's not surprising to find that wildlife outnumbers people – across the 2,000km square of the ...

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Tim Winton joins push for World Heritage listing of ancient rock art on WA's Dampier Archipelago - ABC Message Stick

Sun, 2018/08/05 - 8:56pm

ABC Message Stick

Tim Winton joins push for World Heritage listing of ancient rock art on WA's Dampier Archipelago
ABC Message Stick
Across the islands of Western Australia's remote Dampier Archipelago are more than a million ancient Aboriginal rock carvings known as petroglyphs. Indigenous people who coexisted with now extinct species have left an indelible record in the hard rock ...

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Summit to canvass world heritage for Burrup's beauty - The Australian

Sun, 2018/08/05 - 2:02pm

The Australian

Summit to canvass world heritage for Burrup's beauty
The Australian
The Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation has requested the West Australian government to initiate World Heritage listing, which if granted would give UNESCO-sanctioned protection for Australia's pre-eminent rock art treasure. The McGowan government made ...

Prime Minister accused of 'humiliating' Aboriginal leaders with ... - ABC - ABC News

Sun, 2018/08/05 - 6:52am

ABC News

Prime Minister accused of 'humiliating' Aboriginal leaders with ... - ABC
ABC News
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he will not call a referendum to establish an Indigenous voice to parliament, despite leaders saying the survival of their ...
Noel Pearson vows fight for Indigenous voice will go onSBS
Empowered Aboriginals to succeed: PearsonThe Australian
Pearson vows fight for voice will go on - 9News9news.com.au

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Celebrating 25 years of Indigenous stories on screen - SBS

Sun, 2018/08/05 - 5:22am

SBS

Celebrating 25 years of Indigenous stories on screen
SBS
There were once very few Indigenous Australians in lead roles on television and in cinema. That changed with the establishment of the Indigenous Department at Screen Australia, 25 years ago. A quarter of a century on, Aboriginal writer, director and ...

The world is being undone before us. If we do not reimagine Australia, we will be undone too - The Guardian

Sat, 2018/08/04 - 10:01pm

The Sydney Morning Herald

The world is being undone before us. If we do not reimagine Australia, we will be undone too
The Guardian
Australia has achieved many great things as a state. But it will fail as a nation if it cannot find a way of admitting our Indigenous people, and with them, our continent's extraordinary patrimony: 60,000 years of civilisation. When the first corals ...
Australia must confront the brutal truths of its history, says Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthyThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Australia must confront the brutal truths of its history, says Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy - The Sydney Morning Herald

Sat, 2018/08/04 - 1:02pm

The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia must confront the brutal truths of its history, says Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy
The Sydney Morning Herald
"It is time for truth-telling in this country," declares a sombre but hopeful Malarndirri McCarthy. Truths about the darker episodes of Australian history – particularly the massacres of Indigenous people at the hands of European settlers – must be ...
The world is being undone before us. If we do not reimagine Australia, we will be undone tooThe Guardian

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Noel Pearson vows fight for Indigenous voice will go on - SBS

Sat, 2018/08/04 - 8:48am

SBS

Noel Pearson vows fight for Indigenous voice will go on
SBS
Aboriginal people's presence in Australia for 60,000 years gave them a moral and historical right to an independent advisory body, Mr Pearson told the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land on Saturday. "If the Prime Minister tells you 'no, it can't be done ...
Pearson pushes constitution-first line on indigenous treatyThe Australian

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Noel Pearson says Indigenous Australians must not be intimidated by 'ordinary' Malcolm Turnbull - ABC News

Sat, 2018/08/04 - 4:36am

ABC News

Noel Pearson says Indigenous Australians must not be intimidated by 'ordinary' Malcolm Turnbull
ABC News
A referendum to give Indigenous people more power to run their own affairs is a "life and death matter", Indigenous leaders say. At the Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land, Gumatj clan leaders Dr Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Djawa Yunupingu said they ...
'Two peoples side by side'The Australian
Garma festival: Australians need to 'recognise colonisation was wrong'SBS
Aboriginal-Oriented Garma Festival Opens in AustraliaLatin American Herald Tribune
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Pearson pushes constitution-first line on indigenous treaty - The Australian

Sat, 2018/08/04 - 3:52am

The Australian

Pearson pushes constitution-first line on indigenous treaty
The Australian
“The Uluru Statement from the Heart anticipated that following the constitutional voice, there will be a process of treaty, a process of national, regional and local agreement-making, of Makarrata, and we seek a commission to be established in ...
Pearson vows fight for voice will go on9news.com.au

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