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Movie review: The Sapphires (+trailer)
The Bay of Plenty Times
Australia's "Lost Generation" of Aboriginal children is one of such shame, as is the way the country's indigenous people have been treated through the years by White Australia. The Sapphires touches on these issues and delivers its message strongly but ...

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Smoking in the spotlight as Aborigines share their battles to quit
The Daily Telegraph
And her story will be told as part of a social marketing campaign aimed at reducing the high smoking rate among indigenous Australians. If she had not become addicted, the former basketball player believes she could have followed in her father's ...

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Smoking in the spotlight as Aborigines share their battles to quit
Herald Sun
And her story will be told as part of a social marketing campaign aimed at reducing the high smoking rate among indigenous Australians. If she had not become addicted, the former basketball player believes she could have followed in her father's ...

Former Origin Greats promote jobs in Toowoomba
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Setting the record straight on Nyungar South West place names
ABC Local
Setting the record straight on Nyungar South West place names. By Annie Newton. An Indigenous expert from The University of Western Australia is working to unravel generations of confusion over the true meaning of South West Aboriginal place names.

$117m injection helps 'close gap' in Indigenous health
ABC Online
Western Australia's Health Minister says a $117 million investment in Aboriginal health has created more than 400 new jobs in the sector. In 2008, the State Government adopted the Closing the Gap National Partnership Agreement which aimed to improve ...

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Inspiring indigenous lawyers recognised
The New Lawyer
Intellectual property lawyer Terri Janke was this year's recipient of an award that highlights valuable contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lawyers to the legal profession. The Indigenous Professional of the Year Award and Indigenous ...
Indigenous artists vie for prizeABC Local

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Opposition seizes on tent embassy riot
The Australian
The ugly scenes had given the public an inaccurate impression of indigenous people, he said. "We will not see at the next election a referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in our constitution. I think that event, as much as any event, has ...

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Brisbane Times
Australia's Julia Gillard is no feminist hero
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I have just spent several months in Aboriginal Australia; and the views I have gathered from remarkable, despairing, eloquent indigenous women of Gillard and her "feminisim" are mostly unknown or ignored or dismissed in this country. Watching Gillard ...
Australia PM and team stage cricket clinicTimes of India
Australia honours TendulkarBrisbane Times
PM displays a straight bat by playing the cricket cardSydney Morning Herald
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Gillard staffer 'did not act alone'
The Australian
The ugly scenes had given the public an inaccurate impression of indigenous people, he said. "We will not see at the next election a referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in our constitution. I think that event, as much as any event, has ...

Sustainable Indigenous Housing Forum
Nine to Five
Do you know that less than 10% of repairs needed in Aboriginal Housing in Australia are because of damage caused by the occupants? Would you like every Australian to be able to have a daily shower by 2017? Find out how to provide healthy, safe housing ...

Australia PM and team stage cricket clinic
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Accompanied by members of her country's Indigenous Cricket Development Squad, Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard Tuesday attended a cricket clinic for the disadvantaged children run in Indian capital by Cricket Australia (CA) and a local ...

Screen Australia Media releases – 2012: Quality Indigenous storytelling ...
Invest in Australia
Screen Australia today announced its investment in two outstanding Indigenous productions: the television drama series The Gods of Wheat Street and Inside AFL (working title). To be produced for ABC television, the projects are funded through Screen ...

Charles Darwin University
Esteemed kidney specialist appointed as new Director of Menzies School of ...
Charles Darwin University
“The burden of chronic disease amongst Indigenous Australians remains extremely heavy,” says Prof Cass. My clinical research career has been about seeing whether I could be part of the solution – working particularly with Indigenous researchers and ...

2012 Indigenous Governance Awards Announced
Pro Bono Australia
One of Australia's oldest Aboriginal organisations, the NPY Women's Council, and the West Kimberley youth program, the Yiriman Project have won the top two Indigenous Governance Awards (IGAs) for 2012. A record number of over 100 applications from ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Lucky? Maybe for some
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous living and health conditions continue to be pitiful in many parts of Australia and, in many sad aspects, world-beating - take for instance indigenous children's hearing loss ranking as the worst in the world of any given population. Two ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Julia Gillard is no feminist hero
The Guardian (blog)
I have just spent several months in Aboriginal Australia; and the views I have gathered from remarkable, despairing, eloquent indigenous women of Gillard and her "feminism" are mostly unknown, ignored or dismissed in this country. Watching Gillard ...
India, Aus may finalize uranium safeguards agreement next weekINDOlink
Julia Gillard starts long-haul talks on sale of uranium to IndiaThe Australian
It's once more into the speechThe Canberra Times

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Just 53 of the 110 lots offered at auction found buyers of important ...
The Australian
Just 53 of the 110 lots offered at auction found buyers at Sotheby's Australia's sale of Important Aboriginal and Oceanic Art. The auction house reported sales of $668,400, including buyer's premium, well short of its lower estimate of $1.3 million ...

Brisbane Times
Lucky? Maybe for some
Brisbane Times
Indigenous living and health conditions continue to be pitiful in many parts of Australia and, in many sad aspects, world-beating - take for instance indigenous children's hearing loss ranking as the worst in the world of any given population. Two ...

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Swimming pools don't help Indigenous children's hearing
HealthCanal.com
The Federally-funded study, conducted in South Australia's Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands and Yalata from 2009-2011, found chlorinated saltwater pools have no direct benefit on the ear health and hearing of school-aged Indigenous ...
Pool policy 'no help to child ear disease'The Australian

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