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In a way, the northern Queensland city could be called the heart of Australia. The country's Aboriginal population is believed to have entered the ...

After an Aboriginal girl was told she couldn't dress up as Queen Elsa ... trying to scrub her black skin off, her mom Rachel Muir told Australia's NITV.

... the local history pre (Captain) Cook and the aboriginal indigenous history." ... "We realise 9% of all visitors to Australia want to have the indigenous ...

It's 1973 and Australia's indigenous country music star Jimmy Little is ... challenges faced by Aboriginal artists in the 1970s and includes members of ...

The Stringer
Legal Service alert to save lives
The Australian
The practice of alerting the Aboriginal Legal Service each time an indigenous person is taken into police custody, a scheme credited with saving lives in NSW, will be rolled out in Western Australia as a direct response to the death last year of the ...
Western Australia to introduce Custody Notification Service – at long lastThe Stringer
Funding fears for vital lifeline to Indigenous detaineesThe Canberra Times

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The practice of alerting the Aboriginal Legal Service each time an ... will be rolled out in Western Australia as a direct response to the death last year of ...

An expert in Aboriginal health from James Cook University in Townsville, ... found a high level of ice use in remote and regional Australia, generally.

The Guardian
Bipartisan report calls for recognition of Indigenous Australians in constitution
The Guardian
A clause mentioning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be inserted into Australia's founding document and another that discriminates on the basis of race removed, a parliamentary report will recommend. The cross-party parliamentary committee ...
Indigenous recognition referendum: Report set to show Government, Labor ...ABC Online
Bold plan to break impasse over constitutional referendumSydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
Bipartisan report calls for recognition of Indigenous Australians in constitution
The Guardian
Guardian Australia understands the committee was unanimous in pushing for the the inclusion of a new clause recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution. Calls by some community leaders like Noel Pearson that recognition be “symbolic” in the ...
Bold plan to break impasse over constitutional referendumSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous recognition referendum: Report set to show Government, Labor ...ABC Online

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Australian and Aboriginal flags. A report recommending Indigenous Australians be recognised in the nation's constitution has cross-party backing.

The phone line alerts Aboriginal lawyers when an individual is taken into ... There have been no Aboriginal deaths in custody since it began in 2000. ... voiced his support for a similar model to operate in Western Australia in October.

The draft document further says a referendum should consider including a provision to recognise that Australia was first occupied by Aboriginal and ...

The Australian
Aboriginal medical service at risk
The Australian
“The Australian government acknowledges that this could be disruptive for patients, many of whom benefit by the community controlled model of care presently offered by AMSWS, but as this service is now no longer viable, every effort will be made to ...

The Australian
Aboriginal medical service at risk
The Australian
There were 32,075 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the greater western Sydney area at the 2011 census. The Australian understands the Department of Health administrators have been working with the AMSWS since January but a recent ...

Daily Mail
Frozen's Queen Elsa sends heartfelt message to racially abused Aboriginal girl
Daily Mail
Ms Hope, who has worked at Walt Disney World as a lifeguard while studying overseas, told Daily Mail Australia she had hoped Samara would see it. 'I was upset to hear that someone could be so hurtful to a young child trying to be a child,' Ms Hope said.
Samara Muir, 3, was racially abused at a Ballarat shopping centre last month ...NEWS.com.au
3-Year-Old Told She Couldn't Dress Up As Elsa Because "Elsa Isn't Black ...Refinery29
girl tried to 'scrub' her skin whiteStuff.co.nz
Metro -The Inquisitr
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The NSW/ACT Aboriginal Legal Services has campaigned strongly in ... However as the months passed I became frustrated that Western Australia ...

"This was the biggest cattle yard in Australia, we were shifting six trains a ... few industries in the remote outpost to provide steady work for Aboriginal ...

... section to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and to preserve the Australian government's ability to pass laws for their benefit.

ABC Online
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission giving Indigenous communities a voice
ABC Online
"The commissioner has made quite clear that it's important Indigenous communities particularly are involved and engaged in this process," he said. The royal commission into exploring South Australia's nuclear options started in March this year, with ...

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THE over-representation of Aboriginal people in the West Australian justice system and number of deaths in custody will be addressed in a ministerial ...