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Indigenous Recognition in the Australian Constitution : Recognizing Australia's indigenous peoples in the Australian Constitution would seem to be a relatively straightforward task, but the challenge is a large one. This is in part due to the constitutional complexity of proposals to do so and the need to ... JURIST

On Indigenous Recognition: Four Winds Radical Voice Talk Series - Professor Mick Dodson AM, Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies and professor of law at ANU College of Law will give a keynote address at the Four Winds Festival in Bermagui. As part of the festival’s Radical Voice Talk Series, Professor Dodson will explore the current dialogue around recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution and more.

Aboriginals of Australia: Call To Remove Discrimination From Constitution : DARUG elders met with senior politicians in Hornsby last month to discuss proposed changes to the Australian constitution. Aboriginal elders used the community forum to raise concerns about the lack of indigenous recognition in the constitution and an ...

Towards Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians - The ... : The Australian Government today received the expert panel's report on the recognition of Indigenous people in the Australian Constitution. Over the past year, ...

Support for Indigenous constitutional recognition drops below 60%  - Although Indigenous recognition in the Australian constitution enjoys majority support, the referendum council has not approved a particular proposal ...

The recognition movement must unify or it will fail  - The most recent petition, presented in 2008, requested "full recognition of indigenous rights in the Australian Constitution." In the ensuing six years that ...

Reconciliation of the reckless and brave Keating's brave but reckless pursuit of reconciliation contrasts with Julia Gillard's calculated timidity in proposing and abandoning the referendum this term on indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution. The contrast is illuminating ...

Push to recognise indigenous Australians in constitution : Labor has promised to hold a national referendum on the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians on or before the next federal election. INDIGENOUS Australians should be recognised in the body of the constitution and racist sections should ... Australian Times

It's time for indigenous recognition MORE than a century after Federation, indigenous peoples still aren't recognised in the Australian Constitution and it's time for that to change, says Aboriginal   ...

Constitutional recognition dead in the water, says Mick Gooda 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 ...

Constitutional recognition dead in the water, says Mick Gooda "Defining Aboriginal people as a 'race', as the Constitution does, sets up the conditions for indigenous people to be treated not just as different but exceptional, and inherently incapable of joining the Australian polity and society,"she said. "In ...

The irony of Australia's constitutional crisis - Indeed, at the very same time as the dual citizenship palaver was really gathering pace, the Australian government outright rejected a proposal, that they had invited, for substantive recognition in the constitution for Indigenous peoples. The "Uluru Statement" called for "the establishment of a First Nations ...

 The Australian government is "miles away" from supporting a proposed indigenous advisory body to Parliament, ... View article...

Delay in indigenous recognition ballot 'a boon for Yes vote'  The Australian . SOCIAL justice commissioner Mick Gooda says delaying a referendum on changing the Constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been a boon for the Yes vote. Mr Gooda yesterday  ...

Constitution meeting well attended : Page MP Janelle Saffin listens to community input regarding constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians at a meeting at Grafton's Quality Inn on Monday night. More than 60 people attended. WHEN the Australian Constitution was drafted in the ... 日本(Japan) | 中国 (China) 한국 (Korea) | ราชอาณาจักรไทย (Thailand) Malaysia | Tiếng Việt (Vietnam) EN - ASIA | English

Aboriginal leaders say PM Malcolm Turnbull was 'deceitful' over recognition dialogue -  Aboriginal leaders have accused the Prime Minister of being "deceitful" and duplicitous for privately encouraging them to consult the Australian public on enshrining an Indigenous voice in the constitution before publicly rejecting the proposal.

Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a-generation contribution to our ...  - Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum ...

Try harder to fix the constitution: West Australian chief justice Wayne Martin - Formal recognition and enunciation of an appropriate relationship between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians could provide the circuit breaker we need to end the intergenerational cycles of trauma, disadvantage and dysfunction, and empower our First Nations peoples," he said. In October ...

Australia took a step on Thursday towards a historical referendum to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders recognition in the constitution ... View article...

Recognising Aboriginal Australians in constitution 'perverse racism': Senator David Leyonhjelm  - Senator David Leyonhjelm has become the first Australian politician to break with the bipartisan push for constitutional recognition for Indigenous  ...