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In Australia, an estimated 50,000 children were forcibly removed from their Aboriginal families between 1910 and the 1970s. An annual National Day ...

In May he celebrated a goal with an Aboriginal war dance that featured a ... The debate has divided the country, many Australians insisting that their ...

The Australian
Elders reject 'embroidery'
The Australian
Indigenous leaders Noel Pearson and Patrick Dodson have united behind calls for substantive change to the main body of Australia's Constitution, with Mr Pearson warning that most indigenous Australians would reject mere “preambular embroidery”.
Galarrwuy Yunupingu presented with honorary doctorate at Garma festivalThe Guardian
Garma Festival 2015: Galarrwuy Yunupingu awarded honorary doctorate by ...ABC Online

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He said he would be “guided by what indigenous Australia has to say” on ... improve education, and encourage all Australians to value Aboriginal ...

Almost all these initiatives are the fruit of Queensland and Australian ... in the creative economy does not presage a happy future for Aboriginal art.

The fact that a man walks away with such a light sentence over the death of an Aboriginal child, and Australia stays largely silent about it, says a lot ...

In May he celebrated a goal with an Aboriginal war dance that featured a ... On Sunday, former Australian of the Year Ita Buttrose -- one of Australia's ...

THIS cannot be Australia — this country that journalists scream is full of racists booing footballer Adam Goodes just for being Aboriginal. It's rotten with ...

For too long, Australia has been too quick to tell Indigenous people what to do, ... and negatively geared pontificate on matters Aboriginal, hear their plans to fix ... But the message will be heard by Indigenous people across Australia ...

Presentations reviewing the history of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory ...

The Guardian
Nova Peris says government language around Indigenous people is patronising
The Guardian
Federal senator Nova Peris has excoriated white Australia's relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, saying the government just gives “hope and aspiration on three-year funding cycles” and won't allow Indigenous people to drive ...
Peris says Aboriginal wounds still rawSBS
Andrew Bolt's claim Stolen Generations a 'myth' spurs Press Council complaintSydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
Nova Peris says government language around Indigenous people is patronising
The Guardian
Federal senator Nova Peris has excoriated white Australia's relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, saying the government just gives “hope and aspiration on three-year funding cycles” and won't allow Indigenous people to drive ...
Andrew Bolt's claim Stolen Generations a 'myth' spurs Press Council complaintSydney Morning Herald

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This has shocked everyone out of their comfort zones about Australia's ... "Adam Goodes has been booed relentlessly because he's Aboriginal and ...

Federal senator Nova Peris has excoriated white Australia's relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, saying the government just ...

Speaking on a political panel at the Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory on Sunday, the Senator said Australia would ...

The federal government's intervention into central Australian Aboriginal communities was a "gross imposition" and the Labor Party was wrong to ...

... to Indigenous leaders in Arnhem Land, declaring the Adam Goodes booing saga has revealed Australia "has a problem with the truth of Aboriginal ...

The Australian (blog)
Peris says Aboriginal wounds still raw
The Australian (blog)
She said her mother and grandparents were taken from their families, and her grandfather "had chains around his goddamned neck", but Aboriginal people still have to justify themselves to the rest of the country when talking about Australia's past.
Garma Festival 2015: Adam Goodes told to 'get back in his box' by booers, Nova ...ABC Online
Andrew Bolt's claim Stolen Generations a 'myth' spurs Press Council complaintSydney Morning Herald

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... Land on Sunday, she said Aboriginal people were repeatedly told to be quiet when they should be allowed to discuss Australia's bloody past.

She shared personal stories of how painful and damaging the Northern Territory intervention was, saying at the time Aboriginal people 'felt like they ...