Aborigines

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• SOURCE: Abc News
  11-26-15
  

  Letters collection offers unique glimpse into ordeal of Australian aborigines

  Letters by Noongar people pleading for the return of their stolen children or requesting access to the old age pension after a lifetime's work will come together in a new project aimed at uncovering a hidden side of Indigenous history.

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• SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald
  9-18-13
  

  Tracking the first Australians

• SOURCE: The Australian (AU)
  8-2-13
  

  Desecrated site a loss for all Australians

  THE desecration of an Aboriginal sacred site in the Northern Territory is a loss of heritage for all Australians, a magistrate says. Magistrate Sue Oliver on Friday found that OM (Manganese) Ltd damaged and desecrated a sacred site known in English as Two Women Sitting Down, at Bootu Creek, about 170km north of Tennant Creek.This is the first desecration conviction in Australia.The company blasted and mined 40 metres away from the site, causing it to collapse in 2011."What has been there for many thousands of years has been lost forever," Ms Oliver said....

• SOURCE: LiveScience
  4-23-13
  

  Australia not found accidentally, study suggests

  Australia's colonization may have been an organized affair rather than an accident, a new analysis suggests.Some 50,000 years ago, aboriginal human settlers arrived on the continent, but how many people it took to found Australia's population is unknown. The new study, published Tuesday (April 23) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, suggests that about 1,000 to 3,000 individuals originally landed on Australia's shores.