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THIS NAIDOC Week Queenslanders are being encouraged to make a real effort to learn about Australia's indigenous history and culture. Treasurer ...

The article cites an Australian National Council on Drugs report which ... “In the Northern Territory the Aboriginal prison population is huge, and it runs ...

A new poll shows 85 per cent of Australians back recognising indigenous ... Opposition leader Bill Shorten says Australians are big enough and ... out a form of words for a referendum on Aboriginal recognition in the constitution.

There is no mention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution, and no recognition they were the first Australians. Today Prime ...

Residents of the Northern Territory consistently drink more than the average Australian. Alcohol consumption for each person is about 50% higher ...

NAIDOC, which stands for National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Day Observance Committee, is an Australia-wide movement to reflect on ...

Opposition leader Bill Shorten says Australians are big enough and ... a form of words for a referendum on Aboriginal recognition in the constitution.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten says Australians are big enough and ... out a form of words for a referendum on Aboriginal recognition in the constitution. ... The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples on Sunday told the ABC it ...

Noel Pearson believes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should have been ... How many drug-related deaths in Australia in the past 12 months?

Mr Shorten said it was time to correct the great silence of the Australian ... "But until we include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in our ...

He told Sky News that while many aboriginal people wanted to see such a ... However, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples says it will ...

The Australian
Megan Cope's 'Blaktism' video wins top indigenous art award
The Australian
Australia's richest indigenous art prize, established in 2008, is awarded every two years at the AGWA. The 14 finalists were selected this year from 118 artists. The finalists' exhibition, showing at AGWA until October 12, contains a dense blend of ...
WA Indigenous Art Award: Megan Cope's The Blaktism questions authenticity ...Sydney Morning Herald
Megan Cope Wins 2015 Western Australian Indigenous Art AwardBLOUIN ARTINFO

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With other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from around the ... The choice of venue, the Museum of Sydney, the site of Australia's first ...

Consensus is demanded of the Aboriginal community but many are asking: if symbolism ... “I believe it's to appease the conscience of White Australia.

Australia's richest indigenous art prize, established in 2008, is awarded ... The Blaktism emerged after Cope, a member of the urban Aboriginal art ...

Business Insider Australia
Doctors: Mandatory alcohol rehab laws are discriminating against indigenous ...
Business Insider Australia
There's little evidence that the Northern Territory laws for mandatory alcohol rehabilitation are working, according to US and Australian experts writing in the Medical Journal of Australia. And they say the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act 2013 is ...

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And they say the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act 2013 is discriminatory against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, isn't cost effective and only ...

... on Monday to discuss Indigenous recognition in Australia's constitution. ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first inhabitants of Australia in ...

Support for recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution has ... of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first inhabitants of Australia in ...

Megan Cope Wins 2015 Western Australian Indigenous Art Award ... by the artist's experience, as a “fair-skinned” Aboriginal woman, of obtaining her ...