Indigenous Recognition

Style

11/11/2019 Oscar Hunt co-founder Chris Edwards, Benson Saulo and Indigenous artist Stan Yarramunua who have created silk linings for their suits from Stans artworks. Picture: David Geraghty, The Australian.

Armour with a splash of culture

Artist Stan Yarramunua brings indigenous culture to boardrooms with line of suits from Oscar Hunt.

Glynis Traill-Nash

Indigenous

Mabo cited as Wyatt makes his case

Ken Wyatt has invoked the story of Eddie Mabo in a bid to win backing for the legislated ‘voice to government’ co-design process.

Greg Brown

constitutional reformPolitics

Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock is seen under the Aboriginal flag during the official ceremony to celebrate the closure of the climb at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory, Sunday, October 27, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Equal billingDefence

Prime Minister Scott Morrison with 3RAR soldiers at Lavarack Barracks. Picture: Evan Morgan

PM’s Welcome to Country revamp

Scott Morrison has moved to give Australia’s veterans equal billing with indigenous elders at formal events and ceremonies.

Dennis Shanahan

Indigenous

Students meet the man in charge

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has met with Australian Indigenous Education Foundation scholarship students.

Rosie Lewis

commentaryIndigenous

Listen to community voice

I’ll be minister for all indigenous Australians — not only those with the loudest voices.

Ken Wyatt

Indigenous AffairsIndigenous

Victorian Treaty Advancement Commissioner Jill Gallagher poses for a photograph at Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, Monday, September 16, 2019. Voting is open for eligible Victorian Aborinal's to elect their representatives for the First Peoples, Assembly, which will work towards treaty. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

‘We have one go at this’

As polls open for the state’s First People’s Assembly, Aboriginal Victorians told they have a ‘responsibility’ to enrol.

Rachel Baxendale

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A Wednesday 27, 2017 supplied image obtained Friday, December 29, 2017 of Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson addresses the Woodford Folk Festival on Queensland Sunshine Coast. The Woodford Folk Festival is held annually over six days and six nights from Dec 27th through to January 1st north of Brisbane. (AAP Image/Woodford Folk Festival) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Path toward voice

Forty of Australia’s most powerful indigenous leaders will present Scott Morrison with a detailed pathway for an indigenous voice.

Paige Taylor

CommentaryCommentary

No call for divisive voice

Practical policies, not a race-based voice, will better assist indigenous Australians.

DANIEL WILD

commentaryMedia

03-08-19 - Garma Festival Noel Pearson and Galarrwuy Yunupingu. Picture by Melanie Faith Dove

‘Feel-good’ SMH missing

Why are some quiet when the debate over an Aboriginal voice gets serious?

Chris Mitchell

Indigenous

16/08/2019: Neerim Callope with his father Djunagur Callope, in Melbourne. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

An inspired choice to show power of learning

Neerim Callope grew up in Normanton where, after Year 7, students had to dial in to their classes.

JESSICA CORTIS

Politics

15/08/2019 Kenita-Lee McCartney with her children Spencer, 3 and Mackenzie-Lee, 2 on the banks of the Murray river at Swan Hill. Kenita-Lee is running for the treaty commission that will form the framework for treaty negotiations in Victoria. Voting starts next month. Picture : David Geraghty , The Australian.

First steps on the path to history

A 30-year-old entrepreneur, artist and mother of two is one of those seeking election to the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria.

John Ferguson

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Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt speaks during the Key Forum policy conference at the Garma Festival in northeast Arnhem Land, Saturday, August 3, 2019 (AAP Image/Supplied by Yothu Yindi Foundation, Melanie Faith Dove) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Indigenous voice not up for vote, says Wyatt

Australians will not be asked if they want an indigenous voice in the constitution when they go to a referendum in three years.

Paige Taylor

ExclusiveIndigenous

Labor Indigenous road trip - Very excited to arrive at Wiluna - t Labor MPs, Murray Watt, Linda Burney, Warren Snowdon, Sharon Claydon and Patrick Dodson. Supplied

Recognition message lost

Linda Burney says some people in very remote communities know nothing of the constitutional recognition debate.

Rosie Lewis

HIGHER EDHigher Education

Michael Yunupingu, grandson of Galarrwuy Yunupingu, at Garma 2019. Picture by Peter Eve

How lessons of Garma can shape the future

We can all learn from indigenous knowledge.

Duncan Maskell

CommentaryCommentary

How to make ‘voice’ case

Noel Pearson’s unworthy attack on young, white conservatives does nothing for his cause.

Janet Albrechtsen

ExclusiveNation

15/02/2017 CFMEU secretary Dave Noonan at a workers protest in Adelaide. Kelly Barnes/The Australian

Union’s push for ‘voice’

CFMEU pressures bosses to hold indigenous ceremonies as part of site induction procedures.

Geoff Chambers and Richard Ferguson

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Australian Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese speaks to the media during a press conference in Cairns, Friday, August 2, 2019. (AAP Image/Brian Cassey) NO ARCHIVING

Voice ‘consistent with fair go’

Anthony Albanese says the enshrining of an Aboriginal voice in the constitution is “vital”.

Olivia Caisley

‘insult’Indigenous

02/08/2019 Dr Galarrwuy Yunupingu and members of the Gumatj clan preparing to perform bunggul (traditional dance) at the opening ceremony of Garma Festival in Arnhem Land, NT. Photographer: Peter Eve

Yunupingu to sue

Prominent Aboriginal leader seeking mining royalties paid to the commonwealth since the 1960s.

Greg Roberts

garma festivalIndigenous

Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson at the Garma Festival near Nhulunbuy, East Arnhem Land, Saturday, August 4, 2018. The Garma gathering brings together business leaders, international political leaders, intellectuals, academics and journalists to discuss the most pressing issues facing Australia. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

‘Only lies can defeat us’

Noel Pearson says constitutional recognition has been ‘sucked into a cruel vortex’ of white culture wars.

Paige Taylor

Indigenous recognitionIndigenous

Governor General David Hurley meets Aurukun locals

G-G backs referendum soon

Governor-General David Hurley says Australia must move quickly to secure constitutional recognition of first peoples.

Colin Brinsden

Indigenous affairsIndigenous

Voice ‘first step’ to race harmony: Garma call

‘We cannot go on like this. But we can go forward,’ says Anthony Albanese in calling for an enshrined voice to parliament.

Greg Brown

commentaryInquirer

Schooling key to indigenous future

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids’ lives will help more than this generation.

KEN WYATT

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**HIGH RES** 02/08/2019 Dr Galarrwuy Yunupingu and members of the Gumatj clan preparing to perform bunggul (traditional dance) at the opening ceremony of Garma Festival in Arnhem Land, NT. Photographer: Peter Eve

‘We’ll throw it into the sea’

One of Australia’s most respected Aboriginal leaders, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, makes a final demand for constitutional recognition.

Paige Taylor

INDIGENOUS AFFAIRSIndigenous

Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt during his address to the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Wyatt wants local truths

A truth commission is not the way to hear the real truths of indigenous Australia, says Ken Wyatt.

Paige Taylor

indigenous voicePolitics

30/7/2019 Former High Court Chief Justice Robert French at his office in Perth pic Colin Murty The Australian

Ex-chief justice backs voice

Former High Court chief justice Robert French has laid out a way to enshrine an indigenous voice.

Paige Taylor

Legal Affairs

Cleanest way to establish a voice

Indigenous peoples can be afforded a voice in parliament without undermining the parliamentary process.

ANNE TWOMEY

CommentaryCommentary

We need bridges, not walls

Unconvincing arguments for an indigenous voice highlight the proposal’s dangers.

Henry Ergas

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