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Committee releases key report on Indigenous constitutional recognition

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 10:30am
A woman is silhouetted behind the Aboriginal flag during an event to mark ... The co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, Lez ...

CBD rally to stop closure of remote <b>Aboriginal</b> communities

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 8:26am
The protest's organisers, Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia, posted a statement on their Facebook page, denouncing ...

Indigenous recognition will help redress discrimination, says Nova Peris

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 7:41am
The report will form the basis of Australia's next referendum question. ... “We're talking about a document that makes laws for Aboriginal and Torres ...

Experts dismiss David Leyonhjelm&#39;s claims about <b>Australia&#39;s</b> first people

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 7:18am
He said using the Gwion Gwion rock paintings as evidence of a different race that pre-dated Aboriginal Australians was an “old chestnut that gets ...

Study explores motivations that influence Indigenous people to drink drive in regional and remote <b>...</b>

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 6:33am
"The problem is drink driving programs in Australia have underestimated the significance ... Fitts also developed a drink driving program for regional and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, which was piloted in ...

Ryan Corr on Banished, Holding the Man and gay marriage in <b>Australia</b>

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 5:49am
[The story covers] only two weeks into the supposed landings and he said 'I have to devote enough time to the story of the Aboriginal people to do it ...

Time to end the constitution&#39;s silence on <b>Australia&#39;s</b> first people: report

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 5:26am
Mr Wyatt, a Liberal MP and the only Aboriginal member of the House of Representatives, has also warned against branding those opposed to ...

Ken Wyatt says referendum recognising Indigenous peoples in constitution &#39;must not fail&#39;

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 4:30am
LOUISE YAXLEY: Liberal MP Ken Wyatt is the first Aboriginal person ... for the last 114 years Australia's founding document, the constitution, has been ...

Senator David Leyonhjelm questions if <b>Aboriginals</b> were first occupants of <b>Australia</b>; says it would <b>...</b>

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 4:07am
Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm says there are doubts about whether Aboriginal people were the first occupants of Australia. "There are ...

Recognition &#39;not owned by any party&#39;: MP | SBS News

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 3:11am
It's time to right a large, unspoken wrong in Australia's founding document to recognise indigenous Australians, indigenous Liberal MP Ken Wyatt says ...

Crossbench senator says <b>Aborigines</b> may not be first <b>Australians</b>

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 3:11am
David Leyonhjelm says there "may have been people in Australia prior to the Aborigines" as a report is set to be tabled on a recognition referendum.

A senator just said <b>Aboriginal</b> people shouldn&#39;t be in the Constitution because they may not be &#39;first <b>...</b>

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 3:00am
“There may have been people in Australia prior to the Aborigines,” he said, pointing to the famed Bradshaw paintings in Western Australia, as well as ...

Things People Told Us – Honi Soit

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 2:48am
About five years ago they shut down MASH—Moree Aboriginal Sobriety ... of being the most vibrant and prestigious student publication in Australia.

TARNANTHI Festival Heads to Art Gallery of South <b>Australia</b>, Oct 8-18

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 2:15am
I commend the artists featured in TARNANTHI to anyone seeking to better understand the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians."

Ambassador of conscience

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 2:15am
There is a photo of the 1949 Convention of the National Union of Australian ... Frank's early ministry as a priest was with Aboriginal Australians in the ...

Indigenous people in West <b>Australia&#39;s</b> prisons to get 24/7 legal advice

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 2:03am
There have been three deaths in custody in WA since 4 August 2014, and at least one was an Aboriginal death in custody. Photograph: Dave Hunt/ ...

Senator Raises Doubts Of Indigenous <b>Australians</b> As First Inhabitants As Reform Gains Pace

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 1:38am
"There is a serious debate in anthropological circles, as to whether or not the Aborigines were the first culture in Australia. It's not something on which ...

Recognition not owned by any party : MP - Yahoo7

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 12:53am
It's owned by all of Australia - black and white, urban and regional, rich and poor," the indigenous MP told the lower house. ... "The needs and aspirations, dreams and desires of Aboriginal people be protected from governments ...

Recognition &#39;not owned by any party&#39;: MP | Daily Mail Online

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 12:50am
By Australian Associated Press ... "The needs and aspirations, dreams and desires of Aboriginal people be protected from governments passing laws ...

Politics Live: June 25, 2015

Thu, 2015/06/25 - 12:49am
... circles" about whether Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit Australia and constitutional reform should be put on hold until it's resolved.

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