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Bill Shorten: without more Indigenous Labor MPs, we can't be true to our ...
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Fewer than half the 16 Indigenous MPs in Australian parliaments are Labor members. We need affirmative action targets to increase this number by 2025. NSW deputy opposition leader Linda Burney addresses members at the launch of the State Labor ...

The Guardian
Warwick Thornton on his images of Indigenous children in 'fast-food suicide vests'
The Guardian
Politicians and policy-makers have begun to acknowledge the impact of this loss of heritage and culture on the lives of the first Australians, but Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders continue to bear a disproportionate burden of disease and ...
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...The Guardian (blog)
Patients fearful ahead of possible closure of western Sydney Aboriginal ...ABC Online
Coca Cola is more of a threat than terrorism, says Warwick ThorntonSydney Morning Herald
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Warwick Thornton on his images of Indigenous children in 'fast-food suicide vests'
The Guardian
Thornton told Guardian Australia that as he was putting the exhibition together, it occurred to him that at 45, he was fast approaching his life expectancy. Indigenous Australian men have an average lifespan of 69.1 years, which is 10.6 years less than ...
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...The Guardian (blog)
'Different laws' for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people: social justice ...ABC Online
Coca Cola is more of a threat than terrorism, says Warwick ThorntonSydney Morning Herald
Eureka Street (satire) (registration)
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It is also despite my firm belief that the Australian Labor party is more in tune with Aboriginal Australia and more deserving of Aboriginal votes than ...

"We've seen leaked drafts of their submissions to the Northern Australia white paper about compulsory acquisition of (Aboriginal) lands and freeing NT ...

WHEN the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander allied health clinic closed earlier this year, Elizabeth Doyle's diabetes went downhill with it. Much to Ms ...

Daily Mail
Were Aborigines the first AMERICANS? Native tribes in the Amazon found to be ...
Daily Mail
They found the Tupí-speaking Suruí people who first came into contact with the modern world in 1969, the Karitiana tribe, who live in western Amazon, and the Ge-speaking Xavante people in Eastern Brazil, all had genetic links to indigenous Australians.

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In the local aboriginal dialect, Coober Pedy, the name given to the opal mining town that emerges out of nowhere on the Stuart Highway, the long ...

The New Daily
Ancient DNA link connects Australians, South Americans
The New Daily
The skull, that of a young woman dubbed “Luzia”, yielded a radiocarbon age of 10,030 years. Its narrow, oval cranium with a projecting face and lower chin, resembled the skulls of modern Australoid peoples like Australia's Aborigines, Melanesians, and ...

These people, said to have left Africa 50,000 years ago, are related to Australia's Aborigines, the Onge people of India's Andaman Islands, and Papua ...

In 1933, my husband's uncle, Constable Albert McColl, was speared by an Aboriginal man whilst on duty on an island off Arnhem Land. Albert had ...

Politicians and policy-makers have begun to acknowledge the impact of this loss of heritage and culture on the lives of the first Australians, Aboriginal ...

The Guardian
Sussan Ley: we have not done enough to curb Indigenous suicide rate
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians have a suicide rate almost double that of non-Indigenous people. Many do not or cannot seek help from primary care providers and are therefore hospitalised or institutionalised at a much higher rate than non-Indigenous people.

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Distant DNA links have been discovered between Aboriginal Australians and tribes living deep within the Amazon rainforest. DID an ancient tribe of ...

... story; the burden of the historical injustices; and so clearly here, the power of the Aboriginal presence, with all its horror and beauty, in Australia.

AN Aboriginal-controlled alcohol rehabilitation service in Central Australia has told a parliamentary committee about the potential impact of ice on ...

The Guardian
The Australian curriculum offers hope for the future of Indigenous communities
The Guardian
The three areas – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, and sustainability – will provide opportunities for all students to gain personal and social benefits in addition to becoming ...
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...The Guardian (blog)
Patients fearful ahead of possible closure of western Sydney Aboriginal ...ABC Online
Coca Cola is more of a threat than terrorism, says Warwick ThorntonSydney Morning Herald
The Australian Financial Review -Eureka Street (satire) (registration) -The Guardian (Australia)
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The Guardian
The Australian curriculum offers hope for the future of Indigenous communities
The Guardian
The three areas – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, and sustainability – will provide opportunities for all students to gain personal and social benefits in addition to becoming ...
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...The Guardian (blog)
'Different laws' for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people: social justice ...ABC Online
Coca Cola is more of a threat than terrorism, says Warwick ThorntonSydney Morning Herald
The Australian Financial Review -Eureka Street (satire) (registration) -The Guardian (Australia)
all 12 news articles »

'Teachers and students should not be saying anymore, “I did that Aboriginal stuff last year. .... Produced with the assistance of Guardian Australia staff.

Inside Australia's most dangerous prison yard 'The Circle' at Goulburn prison
Daily Mail
Like all the yards on the Circle, which holds the greatest concentration of Australia's most depraved criminals crammed together in wedge-shaped pens smaller than zoo enclosures, 2 Yard was full of rapists and murderers. Also called 'the human zoo ...