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Last night, the campaign for affordable housing for Aboriginal people in ... Aboriginal activists from the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy and a large ... to call themselves Australian must first stand with Australia's First Peoples.

"I'd feel like I'm not just carrying my two tribes but this is something that's for the whole of the Aboriginal...like, Aboriginal Australia." "I'm very proud and ...

SBS
Indigenous model tipped for global catwalk success
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... would mean a move away from the community and family she loves, but she said she was determined to do her people proud. "I'd feel like I'm not just carrying my two tribes but this is something that's for the whole of the Aboriginal...like ...

Take Aborigines for example. Australia's Indigenous population was systematically forced off the land it had occupied for 40,000 years by European ...

Indigenous rights campaigners protest about Aboriginal deaths in custody ... children make up 60% of all children under 12 detained in Australia.

The Guardian
Indigenous leaders suspect remote NT communities will be closed
The Guardian
There has been rising concern among remote Indigenous communities in the territory that they could face the same threat of closure as those over the border in Western Australia. Giles has indicated that the government is likely to accept an offer of ...
Adam Giles steps in to right indigenous inactionThe Australian
Buying policy aids remote communitiesThe Australian Financial Review

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Uncle Darby explained to us that the Aboriginal peoples who had been in Australia long before the white people came, had always had a religion ...

Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 40,000 years and are the nation's most disadvantaged, with a much shorter life expectancy than other ...

The daughter of Eddie Koiko Mabo says her late father would be proud of recent advances for Aboriginal Australia, but he would think the pace of ...

Commissioner Perkins said the brief noted that Aboriginal students continued to be the most educationally disadvantaged student group in Australia, ...

Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Peter Collier said the State Government was encouraging people to embrace Western Australia's Aboriginal culture.

Port Augusta's place as a melting pot for Aboriginal people brought diverse perspectives to a protest on remote community closures yesterday.

Daily Mail
'Australia is uniquely racist against Aboriginals': Aboriginal elder weighs in ...
Daily Mail
An Indigenous elder and activist has defended Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes' controversial and spontaneous performance of an Indigenous 'war dance' on the field and declared that Australia is racist against its Indigenous population. During his ...
Adam's got the Goodes to help AustraliaThe Roar
The backlash against Adam Goodes is the reason his war dance is importantThe Guardian
Adam Goodes' Indigenous celebration sparks boos for Sydney Swans star ...Radio Australia
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It's not only in the realm of sport that Australians tend to lose the plot when confronted with an assertion of Aboriginal pride or, heaven forbid, ...

ABC Online
Indigenous youths 24 times more likely to be in detention, Amnesty ...
ABC Online
The report, A Brighter Tomorrow, also states Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people make up about 5 per cent of the Australian population of 10 to 17 year olds, but comprise 59 per cent of those in detention. A Brighter Tomorrow was ...
Australia must set justice targets for Indigenous incarceration: Amnesty ...SBS
Indigenous youth imprisonment rate is highest in two decades, Amnesty saysThe Guardian
Amnesty slams Australia over detention of indigenous childrenThe Daily Star
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Independent Australia
Australia is racist: Reaction to Adam Goodes' dance is just more proof
Independent Australia
The judicial system in Australia targets Indigenous people more than any other group. Indigenous people are racially profiled, are killed in custody and are more likely to receive custodial sentences than their non-Indigenous counterparts. In fact ...

That's my observations, that's the observations of many other Aboriginals in Australia, and that's how it is. And so it's a long journey for us to undertake.

As Mental Health Australia said in its submission – the people impacted by ... This legislation will have a disproportionately impact on Aboriginal and ...

Indigenous youths 24 times more likely to be in detention, Amnesty ...
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The report, A Brighter Tomorrow, also states Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people make up about 5 per cent of the Australian population of 10 to 17 year olds, but comprise 59 per cent of those in detention. A Brighter Tomorrow will be ...

Australia is a nation that prides itself on freedom of speech and a strong ... in Australia: one for white Australians and one for Aboriginal Australians.