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There will also be 30-minute performances of the didgeridoo - an Australian aboriginal wind instrument - by The Earthtone Project. The performances ...

"The constitution is our constitution, it's the constitution of all Australians, ... and began as a volunteer in the first Aboriginal legal service in Australia.

It was a cynical public relations exercise. Western Australian Liberal premier Colin Barnett and Aboriginal affairs minister Peter Collier on 7 May ...

No referendum will succeed unless the majority of Australians are ... continent and the islands of Australia were first occupied by Aboriginal and Torres ...

Eureka Street (satire) (registration)
Slow progress in Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians
Eureka Street (satire) (registration)
Cover of 'No Small Change: The Road to Recognition for Indigenous Australia' It is now more than three years since the Expert Panel set up by the Gillard Government reported on how the Constitution might be amended providing recognition of Aboriginal ...
Majority of Australians 'would vote for Indigenous recognition' in a referendumThe Guardian
Indigenous referendum would pass: pollThe Australian (blog)
Frank Brennan aka 'the meddling priest' renews calls for Indigenous ...ABC Online
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First crops for KAI Gooniyandi Aboriginal Corporation chairwoman Lynette Shaw, Miriuwung elder Ted Carlton, Gooniyandi elder Mervyn Street, ...

Indigenous referendum would pass: poll
The West Australian
A referendum on indigenous recognition in Australia s constitution would pass if it was held now A referendum on indigenous recognition in Australia's constitution would pass if it was held now. A referendum on indigenous recognition in Australia's ...

The Guardian
Majority of Australians 'would vote for Indigenous recognition' in a referendum
The Guardian
The overwhelming majority of voters, including two-thirds of Coalition voters, would support a referendum on recognising Indigenous Australians if a poll was held today, a survey by advocacy group Recognise reveals. The poll of 750 Aboriginal and ...
Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...Radio Australia

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The Guardian
Majority of Australians would vote for Indigenous recognition in a referendum
The Guardian
The overwhelming majority of voters, including two-thirds of Coalition voters, would support a referendum on recognising Indigenous Australians if a poll was held today, a survey by advocacy group Recognise reveals. The poll of 750 Aboriginal and ...
Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...Radio Australia

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The poll of 750 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, and 2,700 non-Indigenous Australians shows the majority of people in the majority of ...

ABC Online
Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...
ABC Online
Advocacy group Recognise has released a poll that suggests 75 per cent of Australians would back a yes vote if the referendum was held now. The poll was conducted by Polity Research in March and took responses from 2,700 voters. To be successful the ...
Majority of Australians 'would vote for Indigenous recognition' in a referendumThe Guardian
Slow progress in Constitutional recognition for Indigenous AustraliansEureka Street (satire) (registration)

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"This confirms that when you ask them to make this decision in a democratic vote, our fellow Australians are prepared to say yes in the sort of ...

Indigenous girls from central Australia visit two Melbourne independent schools under a program begun by The Smith Family.

... back arrangement when traditional owners, the Yawuru in Western Australia, sought to acquire the 276,000ha Roebuck Plains station last year.

Blood samples collected over 30 years from 7000 Aborigines in missions and settlements across Australia could be taken out of long-term storage at ...

Kintore community elder Irene Nangala says Tony Abbott doesn't understand the lifestyles of Aboriginal people living remotely - Ms Nangala said she moved to the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore in the 1980s. Kintore is 500 kilometres west of Alice Springs and around 50 kilometres from the Western Australian border.

ABC Online
Funding cut for remote Aboriginal domestic violence shelter will 'put lives at ...
ABC Online
phA domestic violence shelter servicing 50 Aboriginal communities in the remote north of Western Australia has emerged as the latest project to miss out on funding under the Federal Government's overhaul of Indigenous funding. The women who run the ...

"It was the first Australian film to ever be made in colour," explains ... "Jedda" tells the story of an Aboriginal girl in central Australia who's raised by a ...

A domestic violence shelter servicing 50 Aboriginal communities in the remote north of Western Australia has emerged as the latest project to miss out ...

The Stringer
Truth, not lies, on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicide rates
The Stringer
For non-Aboriginal Australians who have suicided the average estimated loss of life is about 30 years per person however for the First Peoples of this continent who take their lives the average loss per person in years is more than 50 years. To put ...