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Mundine tells fellow Indigenous councillors to prepare to be 'hated' after May ...
The West Australian
The head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, has warned his fellow councillors to be prepared to be among the most hated people in Australia after next month's federal budget. Mr Mundine has told the ABC he expects ...

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How David Unaipon (Almost) Changed Our Nation
Lifehacker Australia
Unaipon was said to be “the best-known Aborigine in Australia” during his lifetime. But having researched his life and his scientific investigations, it's impossible to avoid the conclusion that he would have been much better-known and more influential ...

How David Unaipon (Almost) Changed Our Nation
Lifehacker Australia
Born David Ngunaitponi at South Australia's Point McLeay Mission in 1872, his name was reputed to mean “I go forward”. He undoubtedly went further forward than most of his contemporaries — he remains the only Indigenous Australian on a current ...

Ray McMinn, Australia's first indigenous submariner, had choice of jail or the ...
Herald Sun
“I was in a spot of bother at the time and was actually found in a car that belonged to someone else,” the Aboriginal elder and Australia's first indigenous submariner told News Corp Australia. “Fortunately I chose to join the navy where I got educated ...

Ray McMinn, Australia's first indigenous submariner, had choice of jail or the ...
Herald Sun
“I was in a spot of bother at the time and was actually found in a car that belonged to someone else,” the Aboriginal elder and Australia's first indigenous submariner told News Corp Australia. “Fortunately I chose to join the navy where I got educated ...

SBS
Record crowds at Anzac Day services
SBS
Lietenant-General Morrison told the ABC the sacrifices of Indigenous Australians in wartime have been enormous. "Aboriginal men and women have served in the armed services of the country for over a hundred years. Of course for a large part of that time ...
What would alternatives to Anzac day look like?The Guardian
ANZAC – a time to remember all veteransMy Sunshine Coast (press release)
Sacrifice of war — the pain of never knowing if their boys were okayCourier Mail
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Calls for greater investment in Aboriginal community controlled health sector
Crikey (blog)
In a recent article worth reading in full, Professor Ian Ring, a professorial fellow at the Australian Health Services Research Institute at the University of Wollongong, says Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations run by and for ...

The Australian Da Vinci: How David Unaipon (Almost) Changed Our Nation
Lifehacker Australia
Unaipon was said to be “the best-known Aborigine in Australia” during his lifetime. But having researched his life and his scientific investigations, it's impossible to avoid the conclusion that he would have been much better-known and more influential ...

The Australian Da Vinci: How David Unaipon (Almost) Changed Our Nation
Lifehacker Australia
Born David Ngunaitponi at South Australia's Point McLeay Mission in 1872, his name was reputed to mean “I go forward”. He undoubtedly went further forward than most of his contemporaries — he remains the only Indigenous Australian on a current ...

The West Australian
Historians plea for Tasmania's Aboriginal soldiers not to be forgotten
The West Australian
"So they claimed they had at least one European parent and could therefore get around that clause. "While Aboriginal soldiers were in the trenches alongside other Australian soldiers, there was an equality that hadn't been experienced before between ...

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Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties
Aboriginal Art Directory News
... relies on manipulating British imagery from the 18th and 19th centuries, specifically iconography borrowed from blue and white Spode china, which he layers with his own record of the cultural differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...

The Guardian
What would alternatives to Anzac day look like?
The Guardian
The undeniable facts of Indigenous dispossession and oppression, which underpin this country's prosperity, are smothered beneath the more palatable origin stories white Australians have created for themselves. One such tale is told by Paul Keating, who ...
Sacrifice of war — the pain of never knowing if their boys were okayCourier Mail
ANZAC DayNeos Kosmos

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Brisbane Times
Remember indigenous Queenslanders who have fought for our nation
Brisbane Times
Another was Warrant Officer Leonard Waters, the first Indigenous Australian to earn his "wings" as a pilot, and whose Kittyhawk aircraft was named 'Black Magic'. For most of the twentieth century, Australia's Indigenous servicemen and women weren't ...
Minister Elmes Urges Respect For Indigenous War HeroesThe Cairns Post
OPINION: Aboriginal servicemen ignored for far too longNewcastle Herald
Comment: On Anzac Day, we remember the Great War but forget our first warSBS (blog)

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SBS (blog)
Comment: On Anzac Day, we remember the Great War but forget our first war
SBS (blog)
On a day when stories of the Great War will be retold, Australia seems unable to incorporate the story of its first war - the war for possession of the continent - into its military history. Source. The Conversation. UPDATED 1 HOUR AGO. By Peter ...
What would alternatives to Anzac day look like?The Guardian
Sacrifice of war — the pain of never knowing if their boys were okayCourier Mail
ANZAC DayNeos Kosmos

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Minister Elmes Urges Respect For Indigenous War Heroes
The Cairns Post
“Indigenous Australians have served the country in conflicts going back to the Boer War, and many have died protecting Australian and Commonwealth interests,” Mr Elmes said. “Many of them had been treated as equals for the first time in their lives as ...
OPINION: Aboriginal servicemen ignored for far too longNewcastle Herald

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Minister Elmes Urges Respect For Indigenous War Heroes
The Cairns Post
“Indigenous Australians have served the country in conflicts going back to the Boer War, and many have died protecting Australian and Commonwealth interests,” Mr Elmes said. “Many of them had been treated as equals for the first time in their lives as ...
OPINION: Aboriginal servicemen ignored for far too longNewcastle Herald

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Brisbane Times
OPINION: Aboriginal servicemen ignored for far too long
Newcastle Herald
This related to the hoary myth that indigenous people had made no contribution to service of the nation in the many overseas wars that have involved Australia since the 19th century. Professor Langton also spoke that evening about the importance of ...
Remember indigenous Queenslanders who have fought for our nationBrisbane Times

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Brisbane Times
OPINION: Aboriginal servicemen ignored for far too long
Newcastle Herald
This related to the hoary myth that indigenous people had made no contribution to service of the nation in the many overseas wars that have involved Australia since the 19th century. Professor Langton also spoke that evening about the importance of ...
Minister Elmes Urges Respect For Indigenous War HeroesThe Cairns Post
Remember indigenous Queenslanders who have fought for our nationBrisbane Times

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The Canberra Times
Lest we forget, wars undeclared
The Canberra Times
We are uncertain of the size of the indigenous population when settlement began. We have no idea how many people died in the smallpox epidemic that swept across south-eastern Australia in advance of settlement. We are unsure what the population was ...

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Royal couple receive traditional Aboriginal welcome in Australian Outback ...
StarPhoenix
SYDNEY - Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, have received a traditional Aboriginal welcome during a visit to the Australian Outback. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived Tuesday in the tiny town of Yulara, near the bright red sandstone ...

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