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In his new book, The Story of Australia's People, Geoffrey Blainey writes that one of the reasons aboriginal tribes didn’t effectively resist European settlement was that they were militarily weak. Indigenous tribes often fought with each other rather than launch coordinated attacks against settlers. An alternative view comes from expert in indigenous history, Dr Ray Kerkhove, who has done new research on indigenous warfare in Queensland in the 19th century.

Castlemaine State Festival: John Romeril and Jack Charles Radio National - Arts Today 12 March 2015 Going Through is a new production by playwright John Romeril, starring veteran actor; indigenous elder and activist, Uncle Jack Charles. - Based on a true story from Jack Charles' time as an inmate at 'Old Castlemaine Gaol,' it premieres at the Castlemaine State Festival on the grounds of the goal itself.

Abbott's commitment to be PM for Indigenous Australians questioned after ...
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JUSTIN MOHAMED: To frame Aboriginal peoples connection to land, the importance of responsibility they have to their traditional lands as a lifestyle choice shows that there is some form of misunderstanding or not enough understanding of Aboriginal and ...

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For the real story on Indigenous Australia, social beats old media
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Research has shown time and again that although it is held dear by journalists, Australian journalism's democratic watchdog role is severely lacking when it comes to representing the interests and perspectives of Indigenous Australians. The causes are ...
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony AbbottThe Australian
Indigenous Australians Still Not Thrilled About 'Lifestyle Choice' To Take ...SBS
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British Museum to Open New Exhibit by Aboriginal Australian Artist, Today
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This Asahi Shimbun display features work by contemporary Aboriginal Australian artist, Wukun Wanambi (b.1962). Wukun, an important Yolngu artist from Yirrkala in Eastern Arnhem Land, produces contemporary work firmly grounded in a traditional form.

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Of three remote communities here, why are only the two Aboriginal ones under ...
The Guardian
Two of the communities are Aboriginal. The third is not. It will not be closed. It has been six months since the federal government signed over funding responsibility for providing municipal and essential services to Western Australia's 274 remote ...
Outcry as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities 'lifestyle choice'Yahoo7 News
Australia PM Tony Abbott Under Fire For Remarks On Aborigines 'Lifestyle Choice'International Business Times AU
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
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Remote Aboriginal community closures: Return to country or risk losing ...
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The West Australian Government flagged last year that it may cut services to up to 150 remote Indigenous communities, after the Commonwealth announced it was withdrawing funding to the roughly two-thirds it supports. Ms Carter said Aboriginal groups ...
Aboriginal land rights in Western Australia – timelineThe Guardian
Lifestyle choice or cultural obligation? PM's comments spark debateABC Local

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Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony Abbott
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During the 1950s, Aboriginal Australians were forcibly absorbed into white society, leaving their culture and traditions behind. They did not enjoy equal legal rights, were excluded from the census and were not permitted to vote in Queensland or ...
Outcry as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities 'lifestyle choice'Yahoo7 News
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over 'lifestyle choice' comments on remote ...Sydney Morning Herald
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Outcry as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities 'lifestyle choice'
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Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 40,000 years and the comments drew stinging criticism, with Abbott's key indigenous advisor Warren Mundine saying Aborigines had a cultural connection to their land, and it was not simply a matter of ...
Of three remote communities here, why are only the two Aboriginal ones under ...The Guardian
Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony AbbottThe Australian
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
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Indigenous advisers slam Tony Abbott's 'lifestyle choice' comments as ...
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Tony Abbott's key Indigenous advisers have slammed his description of living in remote communities as a "lifestyle choice", saying the statement is "hopeless", "disrespectful" and simplistic. Yesterday, Mr Abbott backed a plan in Western Australia to ...
Tony Abbott's lifestyle comments highlight the lack of policy in Aboriginal ...Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott loses Aboriginal friends as disappointed expectations pile upThe Australian
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
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Aboriginal land rights in Western Australia – timeline
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1905 Western Australia introduces the Aborigines Act, allowing the forcible removal of children and the corralling of Aboriginal people on to reserves and making the “chief protector of Aborigines” the legal guardian of every Aboriginal person in the ...
Bigger is not necessarily better for indigenous communitiesSydney Morning Herald

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Fury as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities a 'lifestyle choice'
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Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 40,000 years and the comments drew stinging criticism, with Abbott's key indigenous advisor Warren Mundine saying Aboriginal people had a cultural connection to their land, and it was not simply a matter ...
Abbott stands by 'racist' gaffeNEWS.com.au
Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over 'lifestyle choice' comments on remote ...Sydney Morning Herald
Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony AbbottThe Australian
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Indigenous Australians Still Not Thrilled About 'Lifestyle Choice' To Take ...
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“I know every other time representatives of the Australian government have tried to take land off indigenous populations it's been horrific but maybe this time it'll be great and everyone will be super fine with it. Practice makes perfect, after all ...

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Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'
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Mr Mundine, a respected indigenous leader and the head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council said this morning Mr Abbott had failed to understand the connection indigenous Australians have with the land. He said it was not a lifestyle choice.
Tony Abbott opens gap with indigenous communityThe Australian
Remote Indigenous communities are vital for our fragile ecosystemsThe Conversation AU
Tony Abbott calling remote communities a 'lifestyle choice' exposes a crucial ...Business Insider Australia
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Aboriginal organisations feeling cost of Federal Government funding cuts call ...
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Peak Aboriginal organisations from Central Australia held an emergency meeting in Alice Springs on Tuesday to discuss expected cuts to frontline services following the announcement last week of who will share in $860 million of Commonwealth funding.

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Aboriginal organisations feeling cost of Federal Government funding cuts call ...
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Peak Aboriginal organisations from Central Australia held an emergency meeting in Alice Springs on Tuesday to discuss expected cuts to frontline services following the announcement last week of who will share in $860 million of Commonwealth funding.

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The Australian
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'
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“What we can't do is endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to the kind of full participation in Australian society that everyone should have.” Opposition indigenous affairs spokesman Shayne Neumann demanded ...
Indigenous remote living a lifestyle: PMThe Australian
Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over 'lifestyle choice' comments on remote ...Sydney Morning Herald
PM says Indigenous remote living a 'choice'Sky News Australia
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Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over 'lifestyle choice' comments on remote ...
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Speaking after the Aboriginal drama Charlie's Country won best film and best director at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards in Sydney, the director of such acclaimed indigenous dramas as The Tracker and Ten Canoes described the comment as ...
Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony AbbottThe Australian
Prime Minister Tony Abbott visits Kalgoorlie-Boulder amid calls to address ...ABC Local
Tony Abbott a 'disgrace', says Federal Opposition after comments that living ...Radio Australia

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Tony Abbott a 'disgrace', says Federal Opposition after comments that living ...
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"Any organisation with a Reconciliation Action Plan will hopefully appreciate the simplistic and disrespectful comments from the Prime Minister and understand the strategy he is pursuing to de-legitimise the cultural practices of Aboriginal Australians'.".
Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over 'lifestyle choice' comments on remote ...Sydney Morning Herald
Prime Minister Tony Abbott visits Kalgoorlie-Boulder amid calls to address ...ABC Local
Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony AbbottThe Australian
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Facility to help close gap in Indigenous health
The North West Star
IMPROVING the life expectancy of indigenous Australians will be among the priorities for a new research centre in Brisbane. A $10 million donation from Sydney couple Greg Poche and Kay van Norton Poche has helped establish the Poche Indigenous ...