Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
From picket line to party room: Aboriginal leadership since 1967 referendum
The Sydney Morning Herald
On Saturday, we will commemorate 50 years since Australia's resounding "yes" vote in the 1967 referendum. A vote that enabled Aboriginal people to be counted in the census and gave the Parliament of Australia power to enact laws, for better or for ...

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The Guardian
Father Riley's message for Reconciliation Week
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
This year is especially significant for indigenous rights as May 27 is the 50-year anniversary of the 1967 referendum where Australians voted overwhelmingly to amend the constitution to include Aboriginal people in the census and allow the Commonwealth ...
'Unfinished business' of stolen generations puts more children at risk – reportThe Guardian

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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 ...
Explainer: why 300 Indigenous leaders are meeting at Uluru this weekThe Conversation AU
Not 'young and free': New inclusive version of Australian anthem proposedYahoo7 News

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The Conversation AU
Explainer: why 300 Indigenous leaders are meeting at Uluru this week
The Conversation AU
At Uluru, Indigenous representatives from across Australia will aim to reach consensus on what constitutional recognition means to them.
Indigenous rights still behind 50 years on - Yahoo7Yahoo7 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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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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The Age
Fifty years on, Melbourne priest charged with sexual assault of Aboriginal girls
The Age
A retired Catholic priest from Melbourne has been charged with the sexual assault of four Aboriginal girls at a West Australian orphanage more than 50 years ago. Father Allan Mithen, 78, was recently arrested in Clifton Hill over the sexual abuse that ...

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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.
Uluru convention must be visionary and not minimalist – otherwise the divide will not be between White and Black but ...The Stringer

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The Australian
Fifty years after 1967 referendum, indigenous recognition remains elusive
The Australian
It was the swinging 60s, the height of the American civil-rights era. International opposition to South African apartheid was growing. Post-war decolonisation was underway. A small group of activists hoped to win equal rights for Australian Aborigines.
Constitutional recognition: Aboriginal Tasmanians to argue for ... - ABCABC Online
Recognition 'won't change Aboriginal life'NEWS.com.au
Indigenous Australians Win Decades-Long Land Rights BattleVoice of America
The Conversation AU
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ABC Online
Recognition 'won't change Aboriginal life'
Yahoo7 News
An indigenous activist says constitutional recognition won't change the lives of Aboriginal Australians and he's sceptical a referendum on the issue would even succeed. This week hundreds of indigenous representatives from across the country will meet ...
Constitutional recognition: Aboriginal Tasmanians to argue for ... - ABCABC Online
1967 referendum: indigenous leaders' viewsThe Australian
Indigenous Australians Win Decades-Long Land Rights BattleVoice of America
Eureka Street (registration) -The Conversation AU -The Guardian
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ABC Online
Recognition 'won't change Aboriginal life'
NEWS.com.au
"It can't override parliament, it can't run programs for Aboriginal people, it can't further self determination," he said. Reconciliation Australia chief executive Justin Mohamed said the reforms need to be broader than just constitutional change. "We ...
Constitutional recognition: Aboriginal Tasmanians to argue for compensation deal at Uluru summitABC Online
Fifty years after 1967 referendum, indigenous recognition remains elusiveThe Australian
Lessons of 1967 referendum still apply to debates on constitutional recognitionThe Conversation 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 ...

Analysis came to a gloomy conclusion on Aboriginal recognition
The Australian
Rothwell sees constitutional change as the litmus test for a good or bad Australia. He points out that a confused public, and the refusal of Aborigines to accept minimal constitutional recognition, will result in a referendum defeat. But the ...

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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Voice of America
Indigenous Australians Win Decades-Long Land Rights Battle
Voice of America
Indigenous groups on Cape York peninsula celebrate the return of more than 160000 hectares of tribal land which has been handed back to three aboriginal ...
The real gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health in ...Ballarat Courier
Ethical art: how online entrepreneurs are selling Indigenous artists ...The Guardian

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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.

Tech Times
Artifacts Reveal Aboriginal Life On Australian Coast Existed Some 50000 Years Ago
Tech Times
Researchers found new evidence of Aboriginal occupation in a cave in northwestern Australia, and their findings date back the earliest Australian occupation to about 50,000 years ago. The international team of researchers from various universities ...

Perth Now
Welfare card increases crime
Perth Now
Aboriginal Health Council of WA chairwoman Michelle Nelson-Cox said no drop in meth use had been seen in the East Kimberley, one of two sites in Australia where the Turnbull Government has been trialling the initiative for the past year. She also said ...

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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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