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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
Sydney Morning Herald
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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 ...

Call for end to 'perverted' race-based welfare
ABC Online
One of Australia's foremost Indigenous thinkers is calling for an end to race-based entitlement. In a landmark speech at the Melbourne Writers' Festival on Sunday night, the University of Melbourne's Chair of Indigenous Studies, Professor Marcia ...

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Indigenous voters tell NT ALP 'we matter' as Labor concedes defeat in election
NEWS.com.au
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 ...
CLP victory sends 'message from the bush'Radio Australia
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issuesThe Conversation
Federal Labor downplays NT lossThe Australian

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Brisbane Times
Indigenous voters tell NT ALP 'we matter'
Herald Sun
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 ...
CLP victory sends 'message from the bush'Radio Australia
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issuesThe Conversation
Federal Labor downplays NT lossThe Australian
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Labor brand damage among Christians in rural seats partly to blame for NT ...
The International News Magazine
CANBERRA 26 August 2012. The Australian Christian Lobby said the Northern Territory election outcome reinforced its prediction that the heavily Christian indigenous communities would reject the Labor brand when it is so tainted with its association ...

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The Age
CLP victory sends 'message from the bush'
Radio Australia
"People are really in a dire need of houses out in remote Aboriginal communities," she said. The biggest upset in Central Australia has been in the seat of Stuart. The result is still too close to call, and there is a possibility that the Country ...
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issuesThe Conversation
Country Liberal Party wins Northern Territory electionThe Australian
Gillard's Labor Loses Power in Australia's Northern TerritoryBloomberg
Sydney Morning Herald -Brisbane Times
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Australian Geographic
On this day: annulment of the Batman treaty
Australian Geographic
IN 2012, MOST MELBOURNIANS would be confused if you offered them a handful of tomahawks, a few handkerchiefs, some blankets and some scissors for their land. One hundred and seventy-seven years ago in the rough-shod days of early Australian ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Famous flyer: Tim Olsen
Sydney Morning Herald
It's an amazing oasis in the middle of a dry landscape full of Aboriginal cave paintings and an abundance of Australian wildlife, a tropical rainforest fed by an artesian stream. This beautiful river appears out of complete dryness, and a huge gorge ...

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Country Liberal Party wins Northern Territory election
The Australian
Indigenous Australians play lead hand. AUSTRALIA'S first people have played the main role in sweeping a major government from office for the first time in the nation's history. Yuendumu community ...
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issuesThe Conversation
CLP sweeps to power in Northern TerritorySydney Morning Herald
Comment: NT election, the build up to the stormSBS
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