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The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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WA wants to go it alone on Aboriginal property reform
The Australian
Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee chairman has labelled “childish” and damaging to the push to create jobs and Aboriginal economic ...
Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WAABC Message Stick

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The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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Both are said to be seven times the rate experienced in non-Aboriginal society. When is someone going to put two and two together? Childhood ...

Aboriginal art collection amasses over £1 million at Sotheby's London ... “It was a bit of a risk to put a sale of Aboriginal art outside Australia and I ...

Victoria Gallagher added: “Aboriginal Australians living in the suburbs of Brisbane had their relationship with the land severed when it was taken from ...

The Guardian
White supremacist accused of selling cannabis to Indigenous communities
The Guardian
A white supremacist and neo-Nazi supporter accused of running a large cannabis plantation is suspected of selling his product to members of an Indigenous community in north Queensland, say police. John Lee, who came to police attention through his ...

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This is a question that remains a live one for contemporary Australian .... the rate of detention of Aboriginal Australians and deaths in custody continue, ...

Australian Associated Press ... Cameron Costello, the chief executive of the Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation, said Indigenous ...

The University of Western Australia's eminent paediatric ear, nose and ... inflammation) causes in Aboriginal children in regional Western Australia.

Unknowingly, the first European artists to Australia painted works that ... of camping and living on Aboriginal country in the tropical climes of the Cape.

The Secret River is a two-part ABC television drama that tackles the chilling fundamentals of Australian white settlement: Europeans invaded, ...

OPINION: A BBC mini-series about the first settlement in Australia that has not one Aboriginal person. No, not one. And nor did any Aboriginal people ...

Instead, Western Australian Attorney-General Michael Mischin publicly ... Many Aboriginal community members and elders are already involved in ...

... of Indigenous culture during his inaugural visit to Uluru in Central Australia. ... is vital to the happiness and wellbeing of the local Aboriginal people.

Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WA
ABC Message Stick
The high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Australia are a blight on this country but head west and the number of Aboriginal children behind bars is truly disturbing. In fact the rates are so bad that after releasing a report on the national picture ...

Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WA
ABC Message Stick
The high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Australia are a blight on this country but head west and the number of Aboriginal children behind bars is truly disturbing. In fact the rates are so bad that after releasing a report on the national picture ...

The high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Australia are a blight on this country but head west and the number of Aboriginal children behind bars is ...

ABC Online
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67
ABC Online
Indigenous advocate and co-founder of the national Landcare program, Phillip Toyne, has died aged 67. Mr Toyne established the environmental organisation with Rick Farley in 1989 when he was head of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Prior to that ...
Phillip Toyne, environmentalist and champion of indigenous land rights, diesThe Australian
Tributes for Phillip Toyne, the quiet giant of environmental leadershipThe Fifth Estate
Co-founder of Landcare Australia program Phillip Toyne dies at 67The Guardian
Northern Rivers Echo
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Although climbing Uluru is not illegal, Aboriginal Australians ask visitors not to climb the rock as it is sacred to their religion. Climbing the rock is also ...