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Sydney Writers' Festival: Author Brennan to focus on reconciliation in Kogarah talk

Tue, 2015/05/19 - 4:52am
He was awarded the Order of Australia (AO) for services to Aboriginal Australians, especially as an advocate in law, social justice and reconciliation.

Job cuts 'short-sighted'

Tue, 2015/05/19 - 2:15am
A new youth diversion program is aimed at helping young Aboriginal ... a long-term lease, announced in the Western Australian State Budget, will be ...

<b>Aboriginal</b> legends reveal ancient secrets to science

Tue, 2015/05/19 - 12:00am
Scientists are beginning to tap into a wellspring of knowledge buried in the ancient stories of Australia's Aboriginal peoples. But the loss of indigenous ...

Rare French paintings of Tasmanian <b>Aboriginal</b> life before colonisation to tour <b>Australia</b>

Mon, 2015/05/18 - 10:16pm
The French explorer's artists, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicholas-Martin Petit, meticulously documented their meetings with local Aboriginal ...

Kimberley campaigner Sam Cook at the May 1 rally with her cousin Kevin Stagg. Source: Supplied

Mon, 2015/05/18 - 1:07pm
Campaigners say we are heading for a crisis, and that Australia is failing its people. ... The WA government has since softened its language, but Mr Barnett says he expects “significantly less Aboriginal communities” in the years ...

Get out: <b>Australia&#39;s</b> greatest shame

Mon, 2015/05/18 - 1:07pm
The practice has already left many Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders ... Last November, Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett caused uproar ...

AIATSIS foundation for all <b>Australians</b>

Mon, 2015/05/18 - 11:48am
A new foundation has been established by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies (AIATSIS) to build and safeguard the ...

See <b>Australia&#39;s</b> koalas Chan, Idalia, Paddle and Pellita from noon on May 20 at Singapore Zoo

Mon, 2015/05/18 - 9:09am
There will also be 30-minute performances of the didgeridoo - an Australian aboriginal wind instrument - by The Earthtone Project. The performances ...

Frank Brennan aka &#39;the meddling priest&#39; renews calls for Indigenous recognition in constitution

Mon, 2015/05/18 - 4:18am
"The constitution is our constitution, it's the constitution of all Australians, ... and began as a volunteer in the first Aboriginal legal service in Australia.

From missions to homelands and back to assimilation

Mon, 2015/05/18 - 12:11am
It was a cynical public relations exercise. Western Australian Liberal premier Colin Barnett and Aboriginal affairs minister Peter Collier on 7 May ...

Slow progress in Constitutional recognition for Indigenous <b>Australians</b>

Mon, 2015/05/18 - 12:05am
No referendum will succeed unless the majority of Australians are ... continent and the islands of Australia were first occupied by Aboriginal and Torres ...

First crops for KAI

Sun, 2015/05/17 - 11:48pm
First crops for KAI Gooniyandi Aboriginal Corporation chairwoman Lynette Shaw, Miriuwung elder Ted Carlton, Gooniyandi elder Mervyn Street, ...

Majority of <b>Australians</b> would vote for Indigenous recognition in a referendum

Sun, 2015/05/17 - 8:15pm
The poll of 750 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, and 2,700 non-Indigenous Australians shows the majority of people in the majority of ...

Constitutional recognition of <b>Aboriginal</b> and Torres Strait Islander people referendum has majority <b>...</b>

Sun, 2015/05/17 - 3:11pm
"This confirms that when you ask them to make this decision in a democratic vote, our fellow Australians are prepared to say yes in the sort of ...

Girls at the Centre head south

Sun, 2015/05/17 - 2:15pm
Indigenous girls from central Australia visit two Melbourne independent schools under a program begun by The Smith Family.

Indigenous Land Council holdout puts Mount Tabor station in limbo

Sun, 2015/05/17 - 2:11pm
... back arrangement when traditional owners, the Yawuru in Western Australia, sought to acquire the 276,000ha Roebuck Plains station last year.

ANU scientists must win trust before building genome trail for <b>Aborigines</b>

Sun, 2015/05/17 - 1:41pm
Blood samples collected over 30 years from 7000 Aborigines in missions and settlements across Australia could be taken out of long-term storage at ...

&#39;Jedda&#39; returns to the Cannes Film Festival 60 years on

Sun, 2015/05/17 - 5:56am
"It was the first Australian film to ever be made in colour," explains ... "Jedda" tells the story of an Aboriginal girl in central Australia who's raised by a ...

Funding cut for remote <b>Aboriginal</b> domestic violence shelter will &#39;put lives at risk&#39;

Sun, 2015/05/17 - 5:03am
A domestic violence shelter servicing 50 Aboriginal communities in the remote north of Western Australia has emerged as the latest project to miss out ...

Truth, not lies, on <b>Aboriginal</b> and/or Torres Strait Islander suicide rates

Sat, 2015/05/16 - 11:15am
For non-Aboriginal Australians who have suicided the average estimated loss of life is about 30 years per person however for the First Peoples of this ...

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