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Time to talk about Indigenous treaty: Shorten - Sky News Australia

Mon, 2016/06/13 - 8:13pm

Sky News Australia

Time to talk about Indigenous treaty: Shorten
Sky News Australia
Australia needs to start talking about a possible treaty with Aboriginal people once they are recognised in the constitution, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says. Mr Shorten said both practical and symbolic recognition of indigenous people were important.
Bill Shorten grilled on Q&A about our indigenous people, housing, the gender pay gap, pension and moreHerald Sun
Shorten backs treaty, but won't call British settlement an 'invasion'The Sydney Morning Herald
Q&A: Bill Shorten raises prospect of Indigenous treaty and university fee capThe Guardian
The Australian -NEWS.com.au -The Australian Financial Review
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Bill Shorten grilled on Q&A about our indigenous people, housing, the gender pay gap, pension and more - Herald Sun

Mon, 2016/06/13 - 1:32pm

Herald Sun

Bill Shorten grilled on Q&A about our indigenous people, housing, the gender pay gap, pension and more
Herald Sun
He has also signalled a Labor Government could back a treaty with indigenous people in addition to indigenous recognition in the constitution. Mr Shorten last night declared Australia didn't “handle Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people well ...
Q&A: Bill Shorten raises prospect of Indigenous treaty and university fee capThe Guardian
Shorten backs treaty, but won't call British settlement an 'invasion'The Sydney Morning Herald
Q&A: Bill Shorten calls Coalition's cuts 'fake and bogus'The Australian
ABC Online -9news.com.au -The Australian Financial Review
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Australian Aboriginal Communities Are Still Threatened With Closure - Care2.com

Mon, 2016/06/13 - 11:05am

Care2.com

Australian Aboriginal Communities Are Still Threatened With Closure
Care2.com
In late 2014, Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett made the shocking announcement that 150 remote Aboriginal communities would soon be closed by the Government. Considering Australia's history of Indigenous human rights abuses, it was not ...

Mining downturn failing to hold back contracting company working with Indigenous communities in Western Australia - ABC Online

Mon, 2016/06/13 - 3:37am

ABC Online

Mining downturn failing to hold back contracting company working with Indigenous communities in Western Australia
ABC Online
The Indigenous Construction Resource Group (ICRG) has secured multi-million dollar contracts with major mining companies on iron ore mines in Western Australia's north west. With 150 Aboriginal workers, ICRG is one of the largest private employers of ...

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Mining downturn failing to hold back contracting company working with Indigenous communities in Western Australia - ABC Online

Mon, 2016/06/13 - 3:37am

ABC Online

Mining downturn failing to hold back contracting company working with Indigenous communities in Western Australia
ABC Online
The Indigenous Construction Resource Group (ICRG) has secured multi-million dollar contracts with major mining companies on iron ore mines in Western Australia's north west. With 150 Aboriginal workers, ICRG is one of the largest private employers of ...

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Eight Ways we Can Improve Indigenous Employment - Pro Bono Australia

Sun, 2016/06/12 - 10:31pm

Pro Bono Australia

Eight Ways we Can Improve Indigenous Employment
Pro Bono Australia
Non-standard recruitment agencies, more education and ongoing mentoring and support are key to improving the number of Indigenous people in the workforce write Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University fellow, Boyd Hunter, ANU Senior fellow, ...

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Queen's Birthday honours: Warren Mundine recognised for service to Indigenous Australians - ABC Online

Sun, 2016/06/12 - 2:05pm

ABC Online

Queen's Birthday honours: Warren Mundine recognised for service to Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Today he has been honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia for his more than 35 years of work dedicated to improving the lives of Indigenous Australians. "It makes you feel funny, " he said upon being named on the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Queen's birthday honours 2016: art's 'indigenous renaissance'The Australian

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Australian Aboriginal artists tell their story - Viet Nam News

Sat, 2016/06/11 - 2:01am

Viet Nam News

Australian Aboriginal artists tell their story
Viet Nam News
Some of them tell the story of how a long, long track along which cattle walked to market changed the lives of Aboriginal people. European settlers to Australia built the track through Australia's wide open spaces inland of the coast. This area of ...

Vandals Destroy 8000-Year-Old Aboriginal Art in Australia - Atlas Obscura

Fri, 2016/06/10 - 6:32pm

Atlas Obscura

Vandals Destroy 8000-Year-Old Aboriginal Art in Australia
Atlas Obscura
Aboriginal ochre stencils, believed to be up to 8,000 years old, were recently scratched out in Tasmania, in what the country's Aboriginal Affairs Minister is calling a "shameful act," according to the Guardian. Aboriginal peoples created the stencils ...

New evidence confirms Aboriginal people as first Australians - SBS

Fri, 2016/06/10 - 10:00am

SBS

New evidence confirms Aboriginal people as first Australians
SBS
An Australian-led team of scientists has found new evidence confirming Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit Australia. Scientists from Griffith University have used new DNA sequencing methods to re-analyse a previous study from 2001 suggesting ...

Australia's Youngest Generation is the Most Vulnerable Says Report - Pro Bono Australia

Fri, 2016/06/10 - 12:33am

Pro Bono Australia

Australia's Youngest Generation is the Most Vulnerable Says Report
Pro Bono Australia
Australia is not the lucky country for many children.” In particular, the report identifies that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children,lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI) children, children from rural areas, children with ...
Children In Poverty Report Shows One In Six Aussie Kids Live In PovertyHuffington Post Australia
For 1 in 6 children, Australia is not the lucky countryUNICEF Australia (blog)
Australian governments have failed children: UNICEF reportThe Sydney Morning Herald

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From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo - The Conversation AU

Thu, 2016/06/09 - 8:14pm

The Conversation AU

From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo
The Conversation AU
The report examined the interaction between two legal systems – one based in British law “received” at colonisation and the other in the customary laws of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. In a post-Mabo Australia, the significance of the core ...

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Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians - The Conversation AU

Thu, 2016/06/09 - 8:09pm

The Conversation AU

Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
The continual construction of Indigenous Australians as “failures” in the media and in policy is having unintended consequences. Media reporting and policies almost always focus on what is “wrong” with Indigenous Australians. They look at the problems ...

Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law - The Conversation AU

Thu, 2016/06/09 - 8:09pm

The Conversation AU

Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
The Conversation AU
While the Australian Law Reform Commissions's 1986 report on the use of customary law for Aboriginal people was a great initiative, it was, in hindsight, a notion well before its time. Although 30 years have elapsed since the report was published, ...
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agendaABC Local
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
We deserve better, say Aboriginal leadersSBS
Save The Children Australia -ABC Online -National Indigenous Times
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Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agenda - ABC Local

Thu, 2016/06/09 - 9:14am

ABC Local

Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agenda
ABC Local
They've appointed an Indigenous Advisory Council. But what we need is this relationship between our peoples and government. Not with our peoples and government agencies or departments, our people and government. Until that happens, we're still going ...
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
We deserve better, say Aboriginal leadersSBS
Election 2016: Calls for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to head new DepartmentABC Online
National Indigenous Times -Save The Children Australia -Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
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Camel economy: remote Aboriginal communities capitalise on feral export - ABC Online

Thu, 2016/06/09 - 8:46am

ABC Online

Camel economy: remote Aboriginal communities capitalise on feral export
ABC Online
Remote Aboriginal communities in the central desert have created their own camel export industry, and it is helping to generate locally driven economic opportunities in an isolated region of Australia. The Ngaanyatjarra Lands is a group of remote ...

Election 2016: Calls for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to head new Department - ABC Online

Thu, 2016/06/09 - 7:22am

ABC Online

Election 2016: Calls for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to head new Department
ABC Online
Ms Turner went further, however, suggesting senior staff working in the newly recreated department should be Indigenous. "[It should be] headed up by competent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in all of the senior executive positions so we ...
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
Jobs key to indigenous population living longer, healthier livesClarence Valley Daily Examiner
[ June 9, 2016 ] First Nations fight back in historic Redfern Statement NEWSNational Indigenous Times
Townsville Bulletin -ABC Message Stick -The Australian Financial Review
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Neil Thomson: champion for Aboriginal Australians - Brisbane Times

Thu, 2016/06/09 - 6:44am

Neil Thomson: champion for Aboriginal Australians
Brisbane Times
Professor Neil Thomson, who died earlier this year aged 73, worked tirelessly throughout his life to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in Australia. Among his many achievements, was the establishment of the groundbreaking Australian ...

An urgent call for a more just approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs - Save The Children Australia

Thu, 2016/06/09 - 5:15am

Save The Children Australia

An urgent call for a more just approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs
Save The Children Australia
In the past 25 years – a generation in fact – we have had the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Bringing them home Report and Reconciliation: Australia's Challenge: the final report of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary lawThe Conversation AU
Federal election 2016: ALP pledges $20m to Aboriginal legal servicesThe Australian
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agendaABC Local
ABC Online -Huffington Post Australia
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'We vote too': Indigenous groups warn both parties they want action - The Guardian

Thu, 2016/06/09 - 5:09am

The Guardian

'We vote too': Indigenous groups warn both parties they want action
The Guardian
They also warned the next government to reinstate funding for the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, which the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, said was unrepresentative. “What we've got done here today has been a united voice ...

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