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WA Indigenous recognition bill receives bipartisan support
ABC Online
A bill recognising Indigenous people as Western Australia's first inhabitants and traditional custodians will receive bipartisan support. Indigenous Member for the Kimberley, Labor MP Josie Farrer, said she was nearly moved to tears after receiving a ...

A bill recognising Indigenous people as Western Australia's first inhabitants and ... to recognise Aboriginal people as first inhabitants and traditional custodians. ... "Despite all our differences I believe West Australian people and all ...

Northern Land Council CEO Joe Morrison says Aboriginal people counting on them for work have been left frustrated. ... "How much can the residents of northern Australia put up with this kind of development is the question we need ...

The collapse of two iron ore mines in the Top End has devastated the aspirations of Aboriginal traditional owners and scuppered job and economic ...

theMusic
MCs Announced For National Indigenous Music Awards
theMusic
With the National Indigenous Music Awards fast approaching in Darwin, the MCs hosting the night's festivities have been announced — SBS and National Indigenous TV (NITV) presenter and journalist Malarndirri McCarthy along with cabaret comedian ...

The Palaszczuk Government has thrown its support behind Australia's leading Aboriginal dance festival to ensure event-goers have a great ...

The disrespect of the First Peoples makes me ashamed to see 'Australia' embossed ... Where is the fair go for Aboriginal people whose land this is?

TO be told “you are too nice to be an Aborigine” would seem like an infuriating comment to indigenous and non-indigenous Australians alike.

... the traditional owners who are opposing the company's 16.5 billion dollar project in Australia's Queensland state. ... Colin McLennan, Chair of Bulganunna Aboriginal Corporation Registered (Jangga) Native Title Body Corporate, ...

Around 1920 Aboriginal rights groups boycotted Australia Day (January 26) in protest against the status and treatment of Indigenous Australians.

... groups spanning Adani's operations over the half-life of the company's projects (30 years)," Adani Australia said. ... Colin McLennan, Chair of Bulganunna Aboriginal Corporation Registered (Jangga) Native Title Body Corporate, ...

... the traditional owners who are opposing the company's 16.5 billion dollar project in Australia's Queensland state. ... Colin McLennan, Chair of Bulganunna Aboriginal Corporation-Registered (Jangga) Native Title Body Corporate, ...

... groups spanning Adani's operations over the half-life of the company's projects (30 years)," Adani Australia said. ... Colin McLennan, Chair of Bulganunna Aboriginal Corporation-Registered (Jangga) Native Title Body Corporate, ...

The Guardian
Antony Hegarty condemns 'genocide' of indigenous peoples in Australia and US
The Guardian
Antony Hegarty has condemned the “genocide” of indigenous peoples in the US and Australia during an appearance at Dark Mofo festival in Tasmania, where she issued a powerful call to arms for action on Aboriginal rights and climate change. “There is ...
Antony & The Johnsons Singer Donates Dark Mofo Fee To WA Aboriginal CausetheMusic
Dark Mofo audience swoons over ...Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
Antony Hegarty condemns 'genocide' of indigenous peoples in Australia and US
The Guardian
Antony Hegarty said in the US 'there are just giant spots of the country where the genocide was so complete … there are places I can barely step on the land because I just feel it's this freshly slaughtered country'. Photograph: Alejandro Garcia/EPA.
Dark Mofo audience swoons over ...Sydney Morning Herald
Antony & The Johnsons Singer Donates Dark Mofo Fee To WA Aboriginal CausetheMusic

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SBS
Pearson's 'zero voice' comments anger Indigenous leaders
SBS
These comments are inaccurate according to Les Malezer, Co-Chair of The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples which advocates at a national level for Indigenous Australians. "The fact is that there is a very good national representative body ...

"Ancient Australia needs to have a voice in this parliament, to this ... a very good national representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

... where she issued a powerful call to arms for action on Aboriginal rights and ... “I know there has been a lot of conversation in Australia in recent months ... Australia's Indigenous people were a “precious resource”, said Hegarty, ...

The Member for Durack, Melissa Price, said the program would be particularly beneficial for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. "We've all ...

Rowley drew the line across a map of Australia to mark the point at which 'settled' Australia gave way to 'colonial' Australia. Aboriginal people were ...