Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Aljazeera.com
Australian PM backs Aboriginal recognition
Aljazeera.com
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that he was ready to "sweat blood" to hold a referendum in 2017 on constitutional recognition for indigenous people, according to Australian media reports. At a fundraising dinner for the RECOGNISE ...
Australian PM Tony Abbott vows historic change to recognise Aborigines by 2017Telegraph.co.uk
Tony Abbott vows to 'sweat blood' for Indigenous referendumThe Age
Australian PM to `sweat blood` for Aboriginal recognitionZee News
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ABC Online
Aboriginal leaders question motives behind PM Tony Abbott's push on Constitution
ABC Online
At a meeting of Australia's largest Aboriginal Land Council in Kakadu National Park, Joe Morrison said the Prime Minister's push for a referendum on Constitutional recognition would be threatened by the Government's handling of Aboriginal affairs in ...

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Yahoo!7 News
Aboriginal leaders question motives behind PM Tony Abbott's push on Constitution
Yahoo!7 News
At a meeting of Australia's largest Aboriginal Land Council in Kakadu National Park, Joe Morrison said the Prime Minister's push for a referendum on Constitutional recognition would be threatened by the Government's handling of Aboriginal affairs in ...

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BBC News
Australia PM Abbott wants indigenous referendum in 2017
BBC News
Australian PM Tony Abbott has vowed to "sweat blood" to secure constitutional recognition for indigenous people, saying he wants a referendum in 2017. But Mr Abbott said he would not rush with the date until he was confident the referendum would succeed.
Australia eyes indigenous recognition voteBBC News

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Rundle: Warren Mundine's individual treaty idea a confused farrago
Crikey
Australia pre-1778 saw different waves of arrivals from groups which set about dispossessing earlier arrivals. The Tasmanian aborigines [and Tasmanian Tigers which once roamed the mainland for that matter] survived with the protection of Bass Strait.

BBC News
Australia eyes indigenous recognition vote
BBC News
More than a century after its constitution was drafted, Australia is edging closer to formally recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the nation's first people. Changing the constitution to recognise the nation's first people is not ...

BBC News
Australia PM Abbott wants indigenous referendum in 2017
BBC News
Australian PM Tony Abbott has vowed to "sweat blood" to secure constitutional recognition for indigenous people, saying he wants a referendum in 2017. But Mr Abbott said he would not rush with the date until he was confident the referendum would succeed.
Tony Abbott vows to 'sweat blood' for Indigenous referendumThe Age
Australia eyes indigenous recognition voteBBC News
Tony Abbott continues to pussyfoot around Indigenous recognitionThe Guardian
SBS -The Conversation AU
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Number of indigenous in prison jumps 84pc in a decade
The Australian
A spokeswoman for Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said: “ We're tackling underlying disadvantages which increase the likelihood of indigenous Australians coming into contact with the criminal justice system, particularly poor education and ...

The Conversation AU
Tony Abbott vows to 'sweat blood'
The Age
Tony Abbott wants a referendum to be held in May 2017 to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution, but won't commit to a date until he is confident it will succeed. "I am prepared to sweat blood on this," the Prime Minister declared at a ...
A people's convention can make Indigenous recognition a realityThe Conversation AU
PM wants indigenous recognitionSky News Australia

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ABC Online
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoner numbers soar, ABS reports
The Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners accounted for 27 per cent of the total Australian prisoner population. In 2004 there were 5048 ATSI people in prison, a figure that leapt to 9264 in 2014 — an increase of 83.52 per cent over 10 years ...
UN call for review of Australia's mandatory sentencing laws has backing of ...ABC Online
Gooda ReappointedPro Bono Australia
Comment: A long way to go for the Prime Minister for Aboriginal AffairsSBS (blog)
ABC Message Stick -The West Australian -The Guardian
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Telegraph.co.uk
'The aboriginals have moved out': property promotion sparks outrage in Australia
Telegraph.co.uk
“I'm just outraged a company would use the removal of Aboriginal people from a suburb as a promotion to sell their properties in that same suburb,” he told The Australian newspaper. The apartments are being built on a controversial site known as The ...

Daily Mail
The Aboriginal hunters who spend their days tracking down crocodiles to eat
Daily Mail
Deep in a forest crowded by Australian paperback trees, Aboriginal hunters Roy and Marcus Gaykamangu, a father and son team, are doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the world – they're out tracking crocodiles. It's eerily silent, save for the ...
Hunting for pictures, and crocodiles, in remote Aboriginal countryChicago Tribune
Aborigines Hunt Crocodiles in Australian OutbackNBCNews.com

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Yahoo News
Hunting for pictures, and crocodiles, in remote Aboriginal country
Reuters
Massacres are still tearfully remembered and today the majority of Aborigines live in abject poverty. Last year, while on patrol with the Indigenous Australian Army unit known as NORFORCE, I met Sergeant Norman Daymirringu, a Yolngu Aborigine, who ...
Aboriginal crocodile huntersBaltimore Sun
A job that's not for the faint-hearted: The Aboriginal hunters who spend their ...Daily Mail

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Chicago Tribune
Hunting for pictures, and crocodiles, in remote Aboriginal country
Chicago Tribune
We are deep in a forest crowded by Australian paperback trees, the air thick with humidity but eerily silent save for the screeching of tropical birds, when Marcus shouts: "Look, crocodiles!" As a Reuters photojournalist, I'm a trained observer, but I ...

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ABC Online
UN call for review of Australia's mandatory sentencing laws has backing of ...
ABC Online
North Australia Aboriginal Justice Agency chief executive Priscilla Collins said mandatory sentencing laws were a major reason why Indigenous Australians comprised nearly 30 per cent of the prison population. "This is a significant thing for us because ...
Comment: A long way to go for the Prime Minister for Aboriginal AffairsSBS (blog)

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Advocate.com
WATCH: Meet Australia's Indigenous Trans Men, 'Brotherboys'
Advocate.com
WATCH: Meet Australia's Indigenous Trans Men, 'Brotherboys'. A community of Australia's aboriginal trans men is finding its voice through telling 'yarns' and raising awareness of life at the intersections of trans and indigenous identities.

The Australian
marketer spruiks 'Aboriginal exit'
The Australian
An Australia-based agent who assisted in marketing the units told The Australian that Great Fortune Investments was a group employed by DeiCorp to market them “to local and international Chinese investors … I don't know of any indigenous buyers who ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal people are entitled to be treated as human beings, not just as a ...
The Guardian
And former federal minister for Aboriginal affairs and this year's senior Australian of the year, Fred Chaney, has said that proceeding to de-fund and dissolve remote communities will have catastrophic impacts on the lives of Indigenous men, women and ...
Remote Aboriginal communities face closure, leaders voice concernsABC Message Stick
City to consider dual indigenous names for Sydney streets, suburbsThe Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous infant mortality rate higher than anticipated in Australia's Victoria
Xinhua
MELBOURNE, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The gap in indigenous infant mortality rate Australia's Victoria state has not closed over the last decade but is still higher than anticipated, researcher said on Tuesday. A six-year report on research by fellows from the ...
Victoria's Indigenous infant mortality rate 'has not improved in a decade'The Guardian

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Remote Aboriginal communities face closure, leaders voice concerns
ABC Message Stick
The West Australian Government says it can't afford to maintain power and water to all 274 remote communities across the state now that the Commonwealth has transferred those costs back to WA. The Premier has flagged up to 150 communities will be ...