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Experts reveal how Aboriginal people survived central Australian climate - ABC Message Stick

Wed, 2014/01/29 - 3:17am

Experts reveal how Aboriginal people survived central Australian climate
ABC Message Stick
ELEANOR HALL: Researchers at the University of Cambridge say data collected in the 1980s helps reveal how Aboriginal people survived the tough climate of central Australia. The researchers found that half of the Indigenous population of Western ...
Genetic modification helps Aboriginal people survive tough climate, research findsYahoo!7 News

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Experts reveal how Aboriginal people survived central Australian climate - ABC Message Stick

Wed, 2014/01/29 - 3:17am

Experts reveal how Aboriginal people survived central Australian climate
ABC Message Stick
ELEANOR HALL: Researchers at the University of Cambridge say data collected in the 1980s helps reveal how Aboriginal people survived the tough climate of central Australia. The researchers found that half of the Indigenous population of Western ...

Indigenous boxing star Anthony Mundine's story in black and white - Courier Mail

Wed, 2014/01/29 - 1:08am

Indigenous boxing star Anthony Mundine's story in black and white
Courier Mail
Lionel Rose, the first indigenous Australian of the Year, almost half a century before Adam Goodes, was lending support in Mundine's dressingroom just moments before The Man's victory over Danny Green in 2006. Mundine's fight with unheralded Kiwi ...

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Aborigines to be recognised as Australia's first people - The Times (subscription)

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 11:33pm

Aborigines to be recognised as Australia's first people
The Times (subscription)
Tony Abbott is set to hasten the formal recognition of Aboriginal people as Australia's first occupants in a move that monarchists claimed yesterday would lead to violence. The Prime Minister used his Australia Day address on Sunday to accelerate the ...

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Australia Day Honours 2014: Aboriginal education Bridges forte - St George and Sutherland Shire Leader

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 11:31pm

Australia Day Honours 2014: Aboriginal education Bridges forte
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
With an Aboriginal father who went to school only until the end of primary school, Ms Bridges said that the OAM was an honour to her parents, whose six children all achieved a tertiary education. "It also honours the families I work with, the ...

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Australia Day Honours 2014: Aboriginal education Bridges forte - St George and Sutherland Shire Leader

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 11:31pm

Australia Day Honours 2014: Aboriginal education Bridges forte
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
With an Aboriginal father who went to school only until the end of primary school, Ms Bridges said that the OAM was an honour to her parents, whose six children all achieved a tertiary education. "It also honours the families I work with, the ...

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Australia Day ceremony minus Aboriginal voice - Central Western Daily

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 5:14pm

Australia Day ceremony minus Aboriginal voice
Central Western Daily
ORANGE'S Australia Day ceremony went ahead on Sunday without one important element - the welcome to country by a member of the Aboriginal community. Head of the Australia Day committee Helen Corby said she was disappointed no one represented ...

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Australia Day ceremony minus Aboriginal voice - Central Western Daily

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 5:04pm

Australia Day ceremony minus Aboriginal voice
Central Western Daily
Head of the Australia Day committee Helen Corby said she was disappointed no one represented the Aboriginal community despite the committee being ready to pay the required $200 fee that goes towards Aboriginal youth services. “In the last few years it ...

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Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ... - ABC Online

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 10:23am

Sky News Australia

Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The 2014 Senior Australian of the Year has accused the Monarchists League of peddling prejudice for suggesting that a referendum to recognise Aboriginal people would be accompanied by "almost certain violence". The group has warned that there is a real ...
Indigenous recognition 'achievable'Sky News Australia

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Mundine calls for Indigenous treaties - SBS

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 6:05am

Mundine calls for Indigenous treaties
SBS
Mr Mundine is now urging Mr Abbott to do what decades of Prime Ministers before him have either been unable or unwilling to: negotiate treaties with Australia's Indigenous people. He says there should be separate treaties with each of what he calls the ...

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Monarchists warn of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous recognition ... - ABC Online

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 3:38am

Sky News Australia

Monarchists warn of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous recognition ...
ABC Online
"The appalling desecration of Captain Cook's cottage in Melbourne by anti-Australia Day vandals will cause many people to resile from the very thought of a referendum and the now almost certain violence that will accompany it," the group's national ...
Indigenous recognition 'achievable'Sky News Australia
Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ...Radio Australia

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Labor ridicules proposal by Warren Mundine for indigenous treaties - The Australian

Mon, 2014/01/27 - 2:44am

Labor ridicules proposal by Warren Mundine for indigenous treaties
The Australian
Tony Abbott's chief adviser on Aboriginal affairs, Warren Mundine, proposed the idea in an Australia Day address, saying the treaties could allow indigenous Australians to "forgive'', while resolving drawn-out native title cases. But Labor's spokesman ...

Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievable - The Australian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 11:44pm

Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievable
The Australian
Mr Chaney, co-founder of Reconciliation Australia, says Australia is now a very different place to the Australia of the 1960s, when it took a decade of campaigning to ensure the successful 1967 referendum to count indigenous Australians in the national ...

Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible - The Guardian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 11:08pm

The Guardian

Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible
The Guardian
Australians may want us to "get over it", to stop being so "sensitive". But then, why do we still set aside a day of remembrance on ANZAC day to commemorate those who risked their lives at war? And why don't we acknowledge the brave Aboriginal fighters ...

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award - The West Australian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 9:51pm

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
The West Australian
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award - The West Australian

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 9:51pm

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
The West Australian
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

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Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award - Yahoo!7 News

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 9:50pm

Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell criticises Goodes' Australia Day award
Yahoo!7 News
The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is calling on Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes to push for a new national day of celebration. About 200 people gathered in Hobart calling for for a change to the date of Australia Day. Speakers included Aboriginal ...

Tony Abbott promises to recognise Aborigines as nation's first people - Sydney Morning Herald

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 7:48pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Abbott promises to recognise Aborigines as nation's first people
Sydney Morning Herald
The Senior Australian of the Year, former federal politician and founding co-chairman of Reconciliation Australia, Fred Chaney, said it was important to work in partnership with the indigenous community to ''enable the Aboriginal people of Australia to ...
Indigenous recognition 'achievable'Sky News Australia
First nations need to sign treatiesThe Australian
Australia Day is a time for mourning, not celebrationThe Guardian
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Aboriginal Athlete Receives Australia's Top Civic Honor - Voice of America

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 5:08pm

Voice of America

Aboriginal Athlete Receives Australia's Top Civic Honor
Voice of America
"But in the last five years, you know, I have really changed my perception of what is Australia Day, what it is to be Australian, and for me it is about celebrating the positives that, you know, we are still here as indigenous people.” Goodes is also ...

Goodes great choice, say Australia Day revellers - Sydney Morning Herald

Sun, 2014/01/26 - 1:29pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Goodes great choice, say Australia Day revellers
Sydney Morning Herald
Australians celebrating in Circular Quay on Sunday described Adam Goodes as a wonderful ambassador and a rightful winner of the coveted Australian of the Year award. Goodes, an AFL champion and indigenous community leader, said he wanted to use ...

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