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Crikey
Mundine's proposal for remote Indigenous Australia poses more questions than answers
Crikey
With one more ad hoc solution piled on another, it's desperate times for the Mundine-Pearson model of remote-area development. Guy Rundle — Correspondent-at-large · Guy Rundle. Correspondent-at-large. Share. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to ...

NEWS.com.au
Intertwining indigenous art for Festival 2018 on the Gold Coast
NEWS.com.au
At the weekend, local Indigenous models took part in workshops to prepare for the show. Ms Lee has been working with six artists from the Gold Coast to transform their artwork into wearable art. ''The collection is quite tropical,'' Ms Lee said, noting ...
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NEWS.com.au
Intertwining indigenous art for Festival 2018 on the Gold Coast
NEWS.com.au
At the weekend, local Indigenous models took part in workshops to prepare for the show. Ms Lee has been working with six artists from the Gold Coast to transform their artwork into wearable art. ''The collection is quite tropical,'' Ms Lee said, noting ...

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The Guardian
Progress made on Indigenous retention rates masks growing racial divide at schools
The Guardian
While the proportion of Indigenous enrolments is growing in all sectors, the pace of growth is significantly faster in the poorest schools. Photograph: Peter Hendrie/Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images. Indigenous students are disproportionately ...

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The Guardian
Progress made on Indigenous retention rates masks growing racial divide at schools
The Guardian
While the proportion of Indigenous enrolments is growing in all sectors, the pace of growth is significantly faster in the poorest schools. Photograph: Peter Hendrie/Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images. Indigenous students are disproportionately ...

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The Guardian
Most Indigenous students consigned to schools with least capacity to help
The Guardian
Most concerning is how we are consigning most Indigenous students, especially the strugglers, to the schools with the least capacity to address their pre-existing disadvantage. These are the schools at the bottom end of the school socio-educational ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Pushing Indigenous business policy past picking winners
The Australian Financial Review
Another big Indigenous affairs announcement got much less attention: the release of the Indigenous Business Sector Strategy (IBSS). The Indigenous-owned business sector is growing faster than the rest of the economy. This is good news. Increasing ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
A second nod to Aboriginal tradition prompts debates over its place
The Sydney Morning Herald
But he did say that he felt MPs' favoured option would be for it to be on the table on special occasions but displayed inside a specially fitted glass case that stood above the doors to the chamber, which was founded in 1823 and was Australia's first ...

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Asia Times
Why Indigenous Australians aren't 'closing the gap'
Asia Times
This year's Closing the Gap report tells a more positive story than the 2017 report on the seven measurable gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in the areas of health, education and employment. According to the government's figures ...

New Matilda
BEHIND BARS PART 2: Australia's Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities; In Their Own Words
New Matilda
The abuse of Aboriginal prisoners with disabilities in Australian jails is confronting, and ongoing. In Part 2 of this special three part series for New Matilda, Michael Brull gives voice to the victims detailed in a report written by Human Rights ...

South Coast Register
Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services
South Coast Register
Jacob Keed believes he's invented a "one stop shop" for Australians looking to find local Indigenous services. Mr Keed's app, Nations Connect, allows people to search near them for local elders or businesses and nearby health, cultural and social ...
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South Coast Register
Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services
South Coast Register
Jacob Keed believes he's invented a "one stop shop" for Australians looking to find local Indigenous services. Mr Keed's app, Nations Connect, allows people to search near them for local elders or businesses and nearby health, cultural and social ...

ABC Local
Why Australia's fishy history is reely important to us all
ABC Local
Australia's wealth may have ridden on a sheep's back in the early 20th century, but for many their very survival has weighed on the scales of fish. People have been wetting a line across this vast land as long as it has been inhabited. Anna Clark from ...

The Canberra Times
Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services
The Canberra Times
He said the inspiration for the project was his mother, a "very hardworking single mother" who was always looking for Indigenous programs for him and his brother to take part in. "What if there was something that held all the information in one spot ...

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The Canberra Times
Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services
The Canberra Times
He said the inspiration for the project was his mother, a "very hardworking single mother" who was always looking for Indigenous programs for him and his brother to take part in. "What if there was something that held all the information in one spot ...

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WAtoday
Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services
WAtoday
That's why it's called 'Nations Connect'," Mr Keed said. He recently presented the app to the Canberra Business Yarning Circle, a forum for Indigenous entrepeneurs, the brainchild of ACT Australian of the Year, Dion Devow. Darkies Design founder and ...

ABC Online
Closing the gap: Marketing firm and Indigenous community team up for bottled water campaign
ABC Online
But a remote Northern Territory Indigenous family and a Sydney marketing firm have teamed up for an ambitious plan to bottle water from an Arnhem Land spring for distribution across Australia. It is one of the latest projects resulting from renewed ...

SBS
Historic Buthera agreement first step towards Indigenous treaty in South Australia
SBS
SA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher and Narungga Elders sign the Buthera Agreement. Source: SBS News. Efforts between the South Australian government and Indigenous leaders to reach a treaty agreement took a step forward in Adelaide on Friday ...

SBS
Historic Buthera agreement first step towards Indigenous treaty in South Australia
SBS
SA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher and Narungga Elders sign the Buthera Agreement. Source: SBS News. Efforts between the South Australian government and Indigenous leaders to reach a treaty agreement took a step forward in Adelaide on Friday ...

The Mandarin
Aboriginals of Australia: Ten Years from the Apology – How Much Has Changed?
UNPO (press release)
Tuesday, 13 February 2018, marked 10 years since former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations of Australia and launched the Closing the Gap initiative. Both marked a 'new era' in indigenous affairs in Australia but in the ...
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