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Yarrabah and Opera Australia puts history on stage
The Cairns Post
YARRABAH has had its first taste of a landmark collaboration with Opera Australia which documents the indigenous township's history through music. A performance of Yarrabah! The Musical was held in the community for residents last night, and local star ...
Painful past inspires musical presenceThe Australian

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Aboriginal voters throw out Labor Party in Australia. What could we do in Canada?
Canada First Perspective
The Aboriginal vote which was in the hands of the Labour Party for years gave the 11 year government the heave-ho and established the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia as a political powerhouse. Much like Canada, Australia is a country rich in natural ...

Incidence and causes of end-stage renal disease among Aboriginal children ...
Canada First Perspective
The Aboriginal vote which was in the hands of the Labour Party for years gave the 11 year government the heave-ho and established the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia as a political powerhouse. Much like Canada, Australia is a country rich in natural ...

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He served in two world wars but only white soldiers got land: a son's $5m bill ...
The Australian
Lovett, who grew up at Lake Condah, had been a machine-gunner on the Western Front during World War I and served in Australia during World War II. He did not receive a reply, and the land was sold off to non-Aboriginal farmers. Sixty-seven years later, ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Under the skin of an enigmatic pioneer
Sydney Morning Herald
It is late April and a dozen of Australia's leading Aboriginal artists have gathered inside a former naval cottage at Georges Heights above Sydney Harbour for some brainstorming. Master of ceremonies is indigenous curator Djon Mundine, his signature ...

Cairns athlete uses New York Marathon experience to inspire others to run
The Cairns Post
A CAIRNS woman who was the first indigenous Australian female to cross the line in the world's most famous marathon is using the experience to inspire others. Nadine Hunt, 24, was a member of an 11-person squad that took part in the New York Marathon ...

Extracting the best for indigenous communities
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous Australians make up 2.5 per cent of the Australian population and have the highest comparative unemployment rate in the country. If we are going to label anything as the biggest challenge facing our people, it should be employment and ...

The Age
A progressive decline
The Australian
Asked what implications the vote will have, Price tells The Australian, "It's a lesson that Aboriginal people out in the communities do want to be included in being part of the Territory, and to be acknowledged as part of the Territory. You just can't ...
Northern Territory Labor blames federal colleagues for election lossRadio Australia
Arrogant Indigenous policies that toppled NT Labor is a lesson for FedsThe Conversation
NT POLL-DANCE: CLP won the battle of the bush but could federal Labor win ...VEXNEWS
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Constitutional recognition dead in the water, says Mick Gooda
The Australian
Professor Langton, the chairwoman of Australian indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne, aired during her speech the explosive theory that the race power embedded in Australia's Constitution had engendered the rise of an "era of indigenous ...
Call for end to race-based social entitlementsSBS
Call for end to 'perverted' race-based welfareABC Online

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Australian, Nigerian Arts Showcased in Abuja
AllAfrica.com
The Australian High Commission in Nigeria recently showcased its indigenous cultural heritage through an art exhibition in partnership with National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Abuja. The exhibition featured both countries indigenous arts work and crafts.

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Call for end to race-based welfare
SBS
Professor Marcia Langton, chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, has called for an end to race-based entitlement, saying it's actually damaging Indigenous Australians. In a landmark speech at the Melbourne Writers ...

Race power leads to discrimination, indigenous culture of entitlement, says ...
The Australian
ABORIGINAL professor Marcia Langton has ignited a far-reaching debate on Australia's historical recognition of Aboriginal people in the constitution, arguing that the existence of race power has allowed discriminatory policy-making but has also created ...
Call for end to 'perverted' race-based welfareABC Online

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Indigenous snub a 'lesson for fed govt'
The Daily Telegraph
THE Northern Territory's new chief minister has warned the federal government needs to show more respect to Aboriginal people, accusing Labor of "sucking the life out of communities" in its handling of the intervention program. The Labor Party seems ...

Indigenous groups seeking Polynesian Leaders' membership
Radio Australia
Australia Network's Pacific correspondent, Sean Dorney, reports from the Cook Islands where the Polynesian leaders met on the eve of this year's Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting. DORNEY: The Polynesian Leaders Group was established only a few ...

Addressing lupus in Indigenous Australian communities
The Conversation
That means lupus is between two to four times more frequent in Indigenous Australians compared to other Australians (referring predominantly to European Caucasians), depending on the region of Australia. This prevalence figure is most likely an ...

Left sent message as Northern Territory Labor rule ends
The Australian
Retired West Australian magistrate Sue Gordon said while there was a widespread push within remote indigenous communities to take charge of their own affairs, Labor had remained stuck in a paternalistic - "we're here to look after you" - mindset.

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Labor told to look elsewhere to explain election result
The Australian
"Aboriginal voters have been taken for granted -- across Australia there is a view that Labor would get their vote," Dr Gordon said. "But in the last five years you've had a movement in the bush and in WA and Queensland of people who have been speaking ...
Indigenous voters tell NT ALP 'we matter' as Labor concedes defeat in electionNEWS.com.au
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issuesThe Conversation
CLP victory sends 'message from the bush'Radio Australia
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Link welfare to need, not race: Langton
The Australian
... the recognition of indigenous people in the Constitution to be delayed as a defeat would mean the question would not be put to voters again in her lifetime. "There is also the . . . bitterness that such a defeat would engender throughout Aboriginal ...
Call for end to 'perverted' race-based welfareABC Online

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Indigenous voters tell NT ALP 'we matter' as Labor concedes defeat in election
Perth Now
Labor will now try and come to grips with huge swings against it in seats that have been safe territory for years and work out a strategy to win them back. A swing of more than 50 per cent against an ALP candidate who stood unopposed four years earlier ...

Indigenous voters tell NT ALP 'we matter' as Labor concedes defeat in election
The Daily Telegraph
Labor will now try and come to grips with huge swings against it in seats that have been safe territory for years and work out a strategy to win them back. A swing of more than 50 per cent against an ALP candidate who stood unopposed four years earlier ...