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Chris Masters, Nick McKenzie and Kate McClymont were among the journalists from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age recognised.

By Patrick Quinn

"We are not shy to learn in this area, and we realize how important it is," the companys Vice President on Federal and Regional Programs Andrey Grachev added

When anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arévalo won Guatemala’s presidency in August, his urban supporters took to the streets in celebration. Two months later, they are still there, not in celebration but in protest against challenges to Arévalo’s election led by the country’s attorney general. This month, the protests went national when Indigenous authorities called a strike demanding the attorney general’s resignation. The participation of Guatemala’s marginalized Indigenous peopl...

The result of the referendum was decisive, and at the same time, divisive. It bruised Indigenous Australians who for decades had hoped that a conciliatory...

Last weekend, as news channels and social media were inundated with tragic reports out of Gaza, Australia’s electorate voted down a key referendum of vital concern to Indigenous Peoples the world over. The referendum would have created a national advisory board to counsel parliament on Indigenous issues, but 60 percent of the Australian electorate rejected what could have been an important advancement for Indigenous representation at the highest levels of government. The board...

The rejection of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is likely to lead to an irreversible shift in the nation’s relationship with its first peoples.

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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made a last-ditch appeal on Saturday for his fellow Australians to back a referendum to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution, as the country went to the polls to decide on the historic measure. "I sincerely hope that Australians, when they walk into that ballot box today, vote 'Yes'," Albanese said in Sydney, according to a transcript. Australians must write "Yes" or "No" on the ballot to the que...

STRINGERAustralians have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to recognize Aboriginal people in the country’s constitution and create a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues. Saturday’s ‘Voice to Parliament’ referendum failed with AP reporting that more than 59 percent of voters opposed the move with almost half the votes counted. The loss is unofficial but is not contested. The yes campaign needed to secure both a majority of the national vote, as well as majo...