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Recognise campaign: Tony Abbott sparks fury among Aboriginal leaders
The Australian
The Australian today exclusively revealed a letter Mr Abbott had written to Yawuru leader Patrick Dodson and Mr Pearson over the weekend rebuffing their plan for indigenous conferences in the lead up to a referendum question being decided. Mr Abbott ...
Indigenous people want 'substantive changeABC Online
PM against indigenous constitution planNEWS.com.au
Tony Abbott rejects proposal to hold Indigenous conventions on recognitionThe Guardian

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The Australian
Recognise campaign: Tony Abbott sparks fury among Aboriginal leaders
The Australian
Mr Pearson said it was not for mainstream Australia to confer recognition upon indigenous people, but for indigenous people to decide whether that type of recognition was something they wanted first. Mr Dodson said symbolism throughout the process was ...
Indigenous people want 'substantive changeABC Online
Tony Abbott rejects proposal to hold Indigenous conventions on recognitionThe Guardian
Tony Abbott rejects Pearson, Dodson planThe Australian Financial Review
SBS -Sky News Australia
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Dempsey spoke on Monday in his role as ambassador for this year's National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day – an initiative of ...

SYDNEY - One of Australia's most high-profile indigenous sportsmen is set to play on, his coach said Monday, with ... Sydney Swans coach John Longmire told reporters of the Aboriginal player, who had been given indefinite leave.

The Guardian
Indigenous activist Murrumu detained after refusing to recognise former name
The Guardian
An Indigenous man who renounced his Australian citizenship to head a self-declared sovereign nation has been remanded in custody in Queensland after refusing to acknowledge his former name. Murrumu Walubara Yidindji – formerly press gallery ...

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... conventions be held around Australia before a referendum on recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Constitution.

ABC Online
Garma 2015: Tony Abbott knockback to Indigenous-led consultations plan makes ...
ABC Online
"The question that is unanswered in his letter, how do we go to town hall style meetings without some clarity about where Indigenous Australia stands in relations to the propositions that have been aired over the last three years," Mr Pearson said ...
PM against indigenous constitution planNEWS.com.au
Recognise campaign: Tony Abbott sparks fury among Aboriginal leadersThe Australian
Tony Abbott rejects Pearson, Dodson planThe Australian Financial Review
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ABC Online
Garma 2015: Tony Abbott knockback to Indigenous-led consultations plan makes ...
ABC Online
"The question that is unanswered in his letter, how do we go to town hall style meetings without some clarity about where Indigenous Australia stands in relations to the propositions that have been aired over the last three years," Mr Pearson said ...
Recognise campaign: Tony Abbott sparks fury among Aboriginal leadersThe Australian
Australian PM knocks back Indigenous constitution planBBC News
Tony Abbott rejects proposal to hold Indigenous conventions on recognitionThe Guardian
Xinhua -9news.com.au
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Aboriginal leader Patrick Dodson says "it's not a question of my model or ... meetings without some clarity about where Indigenous Australia stands?

"Adam said to the boys, 'You are the first guys to have taught me an Aboriginal dance'. Those 15-year-old boys just felt so proud, you know, they left ...

But Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner Mick Gooda says racial abuse remains the most pressing issue facing ...

We can breathe a sigh of relief believing that we are not complicit in the abuse of a great Aboriginal Australian to the extent that he is now considering ...

NEWS.com.au
Senator Nova Peris tearfully shared the story at the Garma Festival. Source ...
NEWS.com.au
In a rousing speech about the government's treatment of indigenous Australians, Senator Nova Peris yesterday relayed the story of a Northern Territory man who had returned to a rehabilitation facility where he was treated for alcohol abuse, even though ...
Nova Peris says government language around Indigenous people is patronisingThe Guardian
Garma Festival 2015: Adam Goodes told to 'get back in his box' by booers, Nova ...ABC Online

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ABORIGINAL people are opting to stay in residential rehab over returning to impoverished communities to avoid homelessness and the temptation of ...

ABORIGINAL people are opting to stay in residential rehab over returning to ... Australia's first indigenous female parliamentarian used the shocking ...

Australia's first female Indigenous MP has said the country cannot recognise Aboriginal people in the constitution until its racist past is acknowledged.

Celebrated since 1988, Children's Day is Australia's premier event in celebrating the strengths and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

He said Aboriginal Australians risked being sidelined from the recognition process and he believed the PM harboured a reservation about the idea ...

Bagu jinman sculptures from the Girringun Aboriginal Arts Centre. ... affected by the invasion by Isis forces and parallels with Aboriginal Australia.

A spokesman for Shorten told Guardian Australia the opposition leader ... Mick Gooda questioned how consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...