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Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 1 – the 1963 Yirrkala Bark Petitions – The Northern Myth  Crikey

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Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 1 - the 1963 Yirrkala Bark Petitions
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This is the first of a series of posts looking at various foundational documents from Aboriginal Australians that variously call for land rights, constitutional recognition, redress for past injustices and more. It is no coincidence that these ...

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Backgrounder: Four statements from Aboriginal Australia. Part Two, the 1998 Barunga Statement
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This is the second of a series of posts looking at various foundational documents from Aboriginal Australians that variously call for land rights.constitutional recognition, redress for past injustices and more. It is no coincidence that these ...

Australian Jewish News
Straight from the heart | Barossa & Light Herald
Barossa & Light Herald
Darkinjung leader Sean Gordon says Australia needs a "truth" commission before reconciliation.
Reflections on reconciliationAustralian Jewish News

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Australian Jewish News
Newcastle-based Indigenous leader says it's time to talk truth about Australia's past
Newcastle Herald
Mr Gordon said many Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia had “stood up and taken on the challenge of coming up with better approaches” to relations with non-Indigenous Australians but “this needs to be acknowledged more widely ...
Reflections on reconciliationAustralian Jewish News

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Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Australians Celebrate 25 Years Of The Mabo Decision
Huffington Post Australia
It has been 25 years since the Mabo decision was passed and the Indigenous community continues to celebrate the significance of the case that challenged land ownership laws. The High Court overturned Terra Nullius, a doctrine claiming Australia was ...
Mabo anniversary: Aboriginal Tasmanians say land handback fight far from overABC Online
Black and white: warriors from two very different AustraliasThe Australian
Marking Mabo: How has Native Title changed since the landmark ruling?Pursuit
The West Australian -The Canberra Times -The Guardian (blog)
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ABC Online
Remote outback archaeology project unearths new stories about early Aboriginal lives
ABC Online
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following story contains images of the people who have died. While historical accounts have suggested Aboriginal Australians may have lived in permanent settlements, scientists say ...
Black and white: warriors from two very different AustraliasThe Australian

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Community Newspaper Group
Indigenous educator hopes to break down barriers
Community Newspaper Group
She is dedicated to helping break down the barriers between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. Mrs Cumming said she was driven by her desire to make sure her two daughters did not have to deal with the same problems she did growing up.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Uluru statement: Aborigines prefer the horizon to the foreground
The Sydney Morning Herald
Delegates to the Aboriginal constitutional convention probably did themselves, as well as indigenous Australians, a great favour last week by making some perfectly reasonable, but presently politically impossible, proposals about constitutional ...
Noel Pearson, I support recognition of Aboriginal cultureThe Australian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Noel Pearson, I support recognition of Aboriginal culture
The Australian
For as long as Noel Pearson has been a public figure, I have been an admirer of his. And on occasion he has been kind enough to say a nice word or two about ...
Uluru statement: Aborigines prefer the horizon to the foregroundThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Australian
Tasmanian Labor promises Aboriginal treaty talks
The Australian
SA has appointed an Aboriginal leader, Roger Thomas, as a treaty commissioner to help guide its talks. Ms Ogilvie, a lawyer, said Tasmanian treaty talks could address a range of “big ticket items” raised by the state's Aboriginal groups, including ...

Illawarra Mercury
Flinders teen calls for mandatory Indigenous studies in schools
Illawarra Mercury
I'd also like to see Aboriginal education or Indigenous studies as a mandatory subject within all schools all over Australia. - Tahlia King. Tahlia, who also recently participated in the Indigenous Solidarity conference at the University of Albany, New ...

NT players going to the inaugural Indigenous High Performance Camp
ABC Local
The youngsters are being mentored and coached by the likes of former Aboriginal Diamonds star and the first Aboriginal to play netball for Australia, Marcia Ella-Duncan. They join 20 other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander athletes from across ...

Bendigo Advertiser
Indigenous voice is unique and complex
Bendigo Advertiser
Thompson – the custodian of the endangered language Bidjara – creates highly-stylised performances using sound, photography and film commenting on cultural hybridity, identity and indigenous and colonial history. Currently at the Gallery we have an ...

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Calls for a treaty with Aboriginal Australia have a long and troubled history
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The Uluru statement, released late last week after three days of apparently tortuous negotiation, is the latest call from Aboriginal Australia to the dominant settler society for a re-setting of fundamental national relationships. It has been hailed as ...
Explainer: all the questions you were too afraid to ask about Indigenous constitutional recognitionThe Sydney Morning Herald
On Aboriginal land: seeking a place at the tableEureka Street (registration)
Indigenous sovereignty is on the rise. Can it shape the course of ...The Guardian
National Indigenous Times -Newcastle Herald -Northern Rivers Echo
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On Aboriginal land: seeking a place at the table
Eureka Street (registration)
It's a great honour for an Australian without any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander heritage to be asked by Lowitja O'Donoghue to deliver the Lowitja Oration marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum. It is also the 25th anniversary of the ...

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Time for Aborigines to run for elections
Riverine Herald
This year's event comes 50 years since Australians voted to include indigenous people in the Census, and 25 years since the Mabo decision recognised the land rights of native inhabitants. But the celebration comes as Australia continually fails to ...

Discovered print of lost painting of Aboriginal PoW sparks search for soldier's identity
ABC Online
Andrew McIntosh, a member of the Victorian Aboriginal Remembrance Committee, found a print of the painting on German eBay, which will be on display for the first time in Australia today. "When people see it, you can look into the eyes of that man and ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Let's take time to get indigenous recognition right
The Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait representatives have told us that “in 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard”. Australians of goodwill acknowledge that sovereignty is a spiritual notion for indigenous Australians and that Aboriginal and Torres ...
Indigenous treaty would divide Australia into two nations according to raceThe Sydney Morning Herald
Uluru Statement must deliver dignity and progress for Indigenous AustraliansThe Australian Financial Review
Indigenous makarrata topic of discussionNEWS.com.au
Herald Sun
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The Australian Financial Review
Uluru Statement must deliver dignity and progress for Indigenous Australians
The Australian Financial Review
Every Australian prime minister since John Howard has favoured a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australians in the nation's founding constitution. In late 2015 Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten jointly created a referendum council to advise them ...
Let's take time to get indigenous recognition rightThe Australian
Indigenous treaty would divide Australia into two nations according to raceThe Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous makarrata topic of discussion - News.com.auNEWS.com.au
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