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First Nations group takes action over groundwater plan

A First Nations group is challenging approval of the NSW Murray-Darling Basin Fractured Rock Water Resource plan in court, saying it wasn't properly consulted.

AAP

Beyond Juukan Gorge: how First Nations people are taking charge of clean energy projects on their land

This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australia’s energy transition.

The Conversation

‘Digital inclusion’ and closing the gap: how First Nations leadership is key to getting remote communities online

There are more than 1,500 remote First Nations communities and homelands around Australia, and about 670 of them have no mobile phone coverage. In research with 495 people from ten remote communities, we found 45.9% were “highly excluded” from increasingly important digital services and tools.

The Conversation

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Dutch king and queen are confronted by angry protesters on visit to a slavery museum in South Africa

Angry protesters in Cape Town have confronted the king and queen of the Netherlands as they visited a museum that traces part of their country's 150-year involvement in slavery in South Africa

The Independent UK

Afternoon Update: Biden’s Oval Office address on Israel-Hamas; Australia eyes improved relations with China; and the push to ban cruise ships

The US president has urged Americans to support tens of billions of dollars of funding for Israel and Ukraine

The Guardian - AU

First Nations groups reject Peter Dutton’s call for royal commission into child abuse

More than 100 community Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations say safety of Indigenous children ‘should not be politicised’

The Guardian - AU

Traditional owners take gas objections to super funds

Traditional owners from three First Nations have been fighting gas giant Santos for years and now they're asking super funds to act on their objections.

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Barkindji custodians near Broken Hill continue to care for ancestral dingo remains with help from archaeologists

Just as people bury their pets today, First Nations groups across south-eastern Australia often buried their companion dingos. These companion animals were given ancestral burials – similar to family members.

The Conversation

Government won't rush next steps after voice

The coalition has questioned the government's commitment to Indigenous people, as Labor lets community leaders digest the referendum result.

AAP

The referendum did not divide this country: it exposed it. Now the racism and ignorance must be urgently addressed

My heart is broken. But that so many white people finally saw and acknowledged our country’s racism, is one of the few positives to emerge from this damaging process

The Guardian - AU

‘Now Is The Time For Silence’: Indigenous Leaders Call For A Week Of Mourning After Voice Defeat

In a statement, First Nations leaders called for "A Week of Silence" to "grieve this outcome and reflect on its meaning and significance".

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The political subjugation of First Nations peoples is no longer historical legacy

There has never been a decade without a significant Indigenous-led movement in Australia. These movements have centred on the reinstatement of Indigenous peoples’ rights as self-determining peoples, and demands for justice arising from our brutal dispossession and its contemporary fingerprints.

The Conversation

Rejecting the voice shows Australia is still in denial, its history of forgetting a festering wrong

The referendum became by proxy a vote on Indigenous peoples’ right to exist in our own land. Imagine – just try – how that feels today

The Guardian - AU

‘Our hearts are open’: Australians head to the polls for historic voice to parliament referendum

Despite surveys favouring the no campaign, yes backers remained hopeful as they battled for votes at polling booths on Saturday

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First Nations lawyers voice their cases for 'yes' vote

On the eve of the referendum on a First Nations voice to parliament, two respected Indigenous legal experts have prosecuted their arguments for 'yes'.

The Conversation

Some states already have Indigenous advisory bodies. What are they, and how would the Voice be different?

This weekend, Australia will vote on the enshrinement in the Constitution of the Voice to Parliament.

The Guardian - AU

Change is slow, but once in a while there is a tipping point. The voice is one of those moments

The Uluru Statement from the Heart came with an invitation to walk with First Nations people. A couple of years ago I set off on a journey to do just that

The Walrus

Canada’s National Parks Are Colonial Crime Scenes

Many see wilderness as a right of citizenship. But the concept of Canada as untouched nature is unrecognizable to Indigenous people

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The Guardian - AU

What is Australia’s historic voice to parliament proposal?

The country will head to the polls to decide whether to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution with a First Nations advisory body. So how did Australia get here?

AAP

Voice misinformation like Mabo scaremongering: Grant

For Western Arrernte journalist Karla Grant, covering constitutional recognition is nothing new but she says the voice referendum has brought out an ugly side.

The Guardian - AU

‘The history of the climate movement is very white’: how youth campaigners took on a mining giant and won

Murrawah Johnson and Monique Jeffs have been awarded a Young Voltaire human rights award for their victory over Waratah Coal’s Galilee basin coal project

The Conversation

The Voice could advise on how to address natural disasters like bushfires

After three wet years, bushfire season has begun again. We have been warned this season could be a bad one.

Al Jazeera

Who is Wab Kinew, Canada’s first First Nations premier of Manitoba?

In a historical first, a member of Canada’s First Nations community has become the leader of Manitoba province.

The Guardian - US

Canada’s first First Nations provincial premier elected in Manitoba

Voters elect Wab Kinew, 41-year-old leader of the leftwing New Democratic party and a former rapper and broadcast journalist

The Conversation

How might the First Nations Voice to Parliament referendum affect Australia's international reputation?

In late September, American rap legend MC Hammer made a spectacular intervention into Australia’s upcoming referendum to establish a Voice to Parliament for First Nations people. In a tweet, he urged Australians to “repair the breach”.

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