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The Conversation AU
What can Australia learn from indigenous recognition in other countries?
The Conversation AU
The bipartisan push to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia's Constitution is in line with recent international practice. However, the Australian proposals will likely be much less substantive than those of many other countries.
Australia: The political fraud of constitutional “recognition” for Aborigines ...World Socialist Web Site
Indigenous leaders debate Australia's constitution - BBC NewsBBC News
Indigenous recognition: Make haste slowly to avoid pitfalls and build consensusSydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation AU
What can Australia learn from indigenous recognition in other countries?
The Conversation AU
However, the Australian proposals will likely be much less substantive than those of many other countries. Most specific proposals, such as those of the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians, avoid any language of ...
Indigenous recognition: Make haste slowly to avoid pitfalls and build consensusSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous leaders debate Australia's constitution - BBC NewsBBC News
Australia: The political fraud of constitutional “recognition” for Aborigines ...World Socialist Web Site

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The bipartisan push to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia's Constitution is in line with recent international practice. However ...

THERE is unspoken agreement among many Aboriginal people across Australia that NAIDOC week should be for sharing culture and celebrating ...

The Australian
Stick to indigenous recognition or risk rejection: Ruddock | The Australian
The Australian
Tasmanian MP Andrew Nikolic said indigenous Australians should be recognised in the Constitution, but warned an anti-discrimination prohibition would transfer power from the parliament and executive to the courts. “I don't believe we should be ...

While Indigenous people account for 3 per cent of the Australian population, 28 per cent of those incarcerated in Australia are Indigenous.

Daily Mail
First Australians WERE Aborigines and arrived there 55000 years ago
Daily Mail
In an interview with ABC Sydney, he said: 'The DNA evidence is extraordinary. We know that they moved out of Africa over 60,000 years ago. 'We have this remarkable trail that has been recovered for the genomic sequence of the first Australians.

Traditional stories passed down through generations by Australian Aborigines may be among the oldest accurate oral histories in the world.

Indigenous Australians are not recognised in the constitution. ... The 1967 referendum removed the words "other than the Aboriginal people in any ...

NDTV
How to Cook Meat and Veg the Indigenous Way
NDTV
“Sometimes we struggle to understand what it means to be, as Tony Abbott says, 'Team Australia',” he says. “As First Nations people we have made so many contributions and achievements over tens of thousands of years to this continent that is now called ...

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... has doubts about the benefits of a yes vote for Indigenous Australians. ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian Constitution ...

theMusic
WA Indigenous Art Award Winners Announced
theMusic
The 2015 Western Australian Indigenous Art Award of $50,000 was this week awarded to Melbourne artist and Noonucca/Ngugi woman Megan Cope by judges Amy Barrett-Lennard (Director of PICA), Kimberly Moulton (Curator/Project Officer at Birrarung ...

The program hopes to tackle the low levels of participation in education and employment by Aboriginal men in comparison to Australia's general ...

ABC Online
Indigenous affairs adviser to PM 'sorry' for Confederate flag costume
ABC Online
An Indigenous affairs adviser to Prime Minister Tony Abbott has apologised for wearing a Confederate flag costume to an event, saying he was "unaware" of the flag's connection to racial tensions after a mass shooting in the United States. Mark Coffey ...
Adviser to Australia PM Tony Abbott apologises for wearing Confederate flagTelegraph.co.uk
Indigenous affairs bureaucrat criticized for wearing Confederate flag shirtGlobalPost

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For NAIDOC week 2015, the ABC spoke to seven Indigenous West Australians about their connection to country. These stories take us across the ...

Australia: The political fraud of constitutional “recognition” for Aborigines
World Socialist Web Site
In a joint media release, Abbott and Shorten declared: “Our country has moved closer to recognising the First Australians in our constitution and ending the great silence about indigenous people in our founding document. There will be more steps in ...

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The over-worked medical service had tried to meet the many health needs of Australia's largest single Aboriginal community—the more than 32,000 ...

The Guardian (blog)
How to cook meat and veg the Indigenous way
The Guardian (blog)
But get close, and it's warm to the touch and emanates a wonderfully smoky fragrance of meat that has been marinated in native Australian spices. David Beaumont is a community engagement co-ordinator from the City of Sydney and a Wiradjuri man, “born ...

To the untrained eye, an Aboriginal earth oven appears to be a simple mound ... fragrance of meat that has been marinated in native Australian spices.

The Guardian
elders urge reconnection with Indigenous culture – video - The Guardian
The Guardian
Walking With Us explores a collection of connected stories about the importance of cultural protocol as told by elders from Indigenous groups in South Australia. They share teachings of their past and propose ways forward by coming together to ...

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