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"At its heart, reconciliation is about strengthening relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous peoples, for the benefit of all Australians ... "

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"More and more Australians want to learn about reconciliation with Aboriginal people: What's the meaning of reconciliation? How can you contribute? And what is a RAP? Here are your answers ... "

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"Despite showing significant strength and resilience in the face of colonial injustices, members of the Stolen Generations and their families continue to be affected by the trauma caused by forced removal. For many people, this trauma has had lasting, intergenerational, impacts ... "

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"Australia is being held back by its unresolved relationship with its Indigenous population. Drawing on attempts at reconciliation overseas, this series of articles explores different ways of addressing this unfinished business. Today, we survey where Australia is at."

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"Reconciliation Week logically throws up the question of ways forward for Indigenous Australians to address disadvantage and the attendant problems of under-education and under-employment. Responses to this have been increasingly split into two sides — one that essentially calls for Indigenous separatism, and the other looking for paths into a shared future with the rest of Australia ... "

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"Alice Springs Councilor Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has made headlines in mainstream media for voicing her strong opposition to calls for changing the date of Australia day. Despite taking part in the S.A.D. campaign, Ms Price has told NITV News she believes holding the debate is a positive step ... "

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"Treaty is a powerful song. The Yothu Yindi anthem never fails to raise fists in the air. It speaks to the heart and an unshakeable belief in justice. But for all that, it is just a song. "Treaty yeah, treaty now." In the end it is a slogan, no more than "give peace a chance" ... "

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"On Monday night on Four Corners, Stan Grant said it simply. “People always say to us, ‘Why are you so angry? Why are you so bitter?’ If they knew what our people had been through, they might just ask why we are not more angry. Why we are not more bitter’.” ... "

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"The Council believes that a key element of reconciliation is the recognition by all Australians of the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, firstly because of their status as the original peoples of the continent and the Torres Strait Islands and secondly as Australian citizens ... "

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"There are three key elements to the reforms set out in The Uluru Statement. Only one involves a change to the Australian Constitution."

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"The Uluru Statement from the Heart outlines the path forward for recognising Indigenous Australians in the nation's constitution. It was endorsed with a standing ovation by a gathering of 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders on May 26, 2017, following a four-day First Nations National Constitutional Convention held at Uluru "

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"Pope John Paul II wrote, “The Church’s social teaching finds its source in Sacred Scripture, beginning with the Book of Genesis and especially in the Gospel and the writings of the Apostles. From the beginning, it was part of the Church’s teaching…[It was] developed by the teaching of the Popes on the modern “social question,” beginning with the encyclical, Rerum Novarum." ... "

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" Peace, the beautiful gift of God, the name of which, as St. Augustine says, is the sweetest word to our hearing and the best and most desirable possession; peace, which was for more than four years implored by the ardent wishes of all good peoples, by the prayers of pious souls and the tears of mothers, begins at last to shine upon the nations ... "

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Click through the various resources provided by the Catholic Church to explain the sacrament of Reconciliation.

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"“It means standing together for justice,” a young indigenous Christian and Waka Waka descendant Brooke Prentis told an ecumenical service at Brisbane’s St Joseph’s Church in Bracken Ridge, during National Reconciliation Week ... "

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"Some of Australia's world famous national parks have been returned to the hands of Indigenous owners after a deal was negotiated with the government ... "

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"Rio Tinto ignored repeated requests from traditional owners for sacred Australian rockshelters to be protected in the months before the site was blasted during a mine expansion, an Indigenous group said on Friday ... "

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"If you needed any convincing the tragic destruction of the Juukan caves was not just a Rio Tinto issue but one for the entire resources industry, the remorse expressed by key mining players to federal parliamentarians on Thursday should have won you over ... "

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"The Queensland government is expected to unveil the steps it will take towards signing a treaty with First Nations peoples."