Today Aborigines remain the poorest, sickest and most desperate group of people in the country.
This includes Martin Place, where annual protest Aborigines Day protest events took place from 1938 to 1955.
In future, he says, aborigines must be made to account for every public dollar they spend.
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Yet many aborigines support it, because at least in some places it has made things better.
His actions have divided urban liberals, the main champions of aborigines' rights to self-determination.
Once places where desert aborigines came looking for work, they degenerated into pools of despair.
Australia's 500, 000 aborigines (about five times their number in 1901) comprise about 2.5% of Australia's 23m people.
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All parties are committed to making the 2001 centenary an opportunity to promote reconciliation with Australia's aborigines.
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The Wik judgment, by overturning paternalistic notions of aborigines' status, may force Australia to try a new approach.
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Australians voted overwhelmingly then to repeal a clause that had excluded aborigines from being counted in the census.
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Kenneth Branagh is Mr. Neville, a predatory martinet with the title of chief protector of Aborigines in Western Australia.
But a new deal based on enhanced rights for aborigines, combined with greater self-reliance, could be a hard sell.
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One quarter of aborigines are unemployed, and life expectancy for blacks is almost 20 years less than for whites.
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And self-reliance will be a hard idea to grasp for some aborigines themselves.
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Cries of outrage from aborigines and artists had barely died down when an even more bizarre hoax was uncovered.
It is said to contain an apology to aborigines for past injustices and an acceptance by them of it.
Mr Howard's proposals stop short of this, but they do make it harder for aborigines to claim such rights.
Lacking strong leadership, and divided about the best practical measures to pursue, the aborigines are now mainly seeking legal rights.
Aborigines believe the spirits of their ancestors cannot rest in peace until their bones are buried in their native ground.
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Some Australians think aborigines are to blame for their own problems, and will resent more money being spent on them.
Its proponents, however, point to the shaming statistic that aborigines on average die almost 11 years younger than other Australians.
It is also a place revered by Aborigines, who conducted spiritual ceremonies on the rocky outcrop until the early 19th Century.
The prime minister is not under attack only for his reverence for mateship, but also for his preamble's section on aborigines.
Aborigines were mentioned cursorily in the constitution, and only to exclude them from the new country built on their tribal lands.
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It is applied in the Northern Territory, which is home to about an eighth of the country's 500, 000 or so aborigines.
Aborigines were not consulted in the writing of a document that ignored their occupation of Australia for more than 40, 000 years.
The Mabo and Wik judgments have changed Australia's notions of land ownership, which had frozen aborigines out since white settlement in 1788.
These and other upheavals, including losses of traditional lands, have left a legacy of trauma, poor health and high prison-custody rates among aborigines.
Two news items were removed from CNNI's newscasts in September: on Malaysian orang asli (aborigines) and the Pope's return to the Vatican from Paris.
At the 1998 convention, just under half the 152 delegates were women and five were aborigines (slightly more than their proportion in the population).
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