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Aboriginal stockmen and rural workers played a vital part in developing the cattle industry in the Kimberley, but until 1972 the West Australian Government withheld up to three quarters of the wages earned by some workers. Warning: Aboriginal and ...

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Indigenous opera tells 'a truth that deserves to be known' Singing out. Charlotte Hamlyn. Pecan Summer, the first opera written by an Indigenous Australian, will open in Perth later this year. Mitt Romney In with a chance. Mitt Romney is finally within ...

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Australia's First Indeginous Fashion Week Launches, Aboriginal Model ...
Fashionista
This week in Sydney, Australia's first indigenous fashion week opened its door for business. Called Australian Indigenous Fashion Week (AIFW), the organization will be a platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designers to showcase high ...

Australia's bush push for Chinese tourists
Herald Sun
Voyages Indigenous Tourism's executive general manager of sales and marketing Ray Stone says about half of the tourists at Ayers Rock Resort were Australian, followed by North America, Japan and Germany. But he says China is growing fast. "It's true to ...

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Australia's bush push for Chinese tourists
The Australian
Voyages Indigenous Tourism's executive general manager of sales and marketing Ray Stone says about half of the tourists at Ayers Rock Resort were Australian, followed by North America, Japan and Germany. But he says China is growing fast. "It's true to ...

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'Indigenous exceptionalism' bars realisation of potential
The Australian
ON a school bus in Coffs Harbour on the NSW north coast, in the mid-1980s three sisters sit side by side. They are the progeny of the same parents, yet one is lily-white, one exotically olive, the other shy and black. In the words of their schoolmates ...

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WA under fire over stolen wages compensation
ABC Online
The West Australian Government is under fire over its compensation offer to pay lost wages to thousands of the state's Indigenous workers. In March, the state government announced a six-month time period for former workers to apply for wages withheld ...

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Posters speak out about power safety
ABC Local
Map: Warmun 6743. Western Australia's northern power supplier has begun recording safety messages in Aboriginal languages in a bid to overcome language barriers in remote communities. Horizon Power yesterday launched the talking posters in the East ...

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Indigenous tell NT ALP 'we matter'
Sky News Australia
The ALP in the Northern Territory received a political bloody nose last weekend, courtesy of a backlash from indigenous voters. Labor will now try and come to grips with huge swings against it in seats that have been safe territory for years and work ...
Mills goes bush to meet the new faithfulThe Australian
Was the NT election outcome a shockwave or a regional ripple?The Conversation
Aboriginal voters punish NT LaborGreen Left Weekly
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Kauanui Speaks at Indigenous Peoples Commemoration
Wesleyan Connection (blog)
Edward John, the Grand Chief of the Tl'azt'en First Nation in Canada and Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues opened the event. Official representatives from the U.K., Mexico, Israel, Sweden, Australia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and ...

Council shuns Hayes show
The Australian
The council says it removed the event because it contravenes the council's code of practice for galleries and retailers of indigenous art. A spokeswoman says there have been seven complaints. In a statement to The Australian, the council says: "The ...

WA's top judge Wayne Martin slams child protection policies as harmful to ...
The Australian
In a wide-ranging speech examining the ethical dilemmas of bridging the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, WA's Chief Justice Wayne Martin said there was no doubt some Aboriginal children were living in appalling conditions by ...

Get rid of race to stop racism
The Australian
DEFINING Aboriginal people as a race, as the Constitution does, sets up the conditions for indigenous people to be treated, not just as different but exceptional, and inherently incapable of joining the Australian polity and society. The legislation ...

Mentoring puts indigenous teens on positive life path
NEWS.com.au
Some of the game's big names have signed on as ambassadors for the Learn Earn Legend Program, which, according to a federal Department of Education website, aims to motivate young indigenous Australians to "stay at school, get that job and be a ...

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Mills goes bush to meet the new faithful
The Australian
The first stop was Wadeye, the largest indigenous settlement in the Territory and situated in the seat of Daly, southwest of Darwin, which the CLP's Gary Higgins stole from Labor. Local leader Matthew Pultchen said the community had voted against Labor ...
Was the NT election outcome a shockwave or a regional ripple?The Conversation
Aboriginal voters punish NT LaborGreen Left Weekly
NT election loss another blow to ALPLand
National Indigenous Times
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Mentoring puts indigenous teens on positive life path
Herald Sun
Some of the game's big names have signed on as ambassadors for the Learn Earn Legend Program, which, according to a federal Department of Education website, aims to motivate young indigenous Australians to "stay at school, get that job and be a ...

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Indigenous welfare attitudes 'unbalanced'
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Prominent Aboriginal leader Gracelyn Smallwood has hit out at her fellow indigenous academics, describing some positions on welfare as "unbalanced". In a keynote speech to a conference on racism in Cairns on Thursday, Professor Smallwood took issue ...

Stories close to home
NEWS.com.au
Some of the indigenous Pacific writers will explore the influence of European colonists on their cultural stories, others study the interaction among indigenous writers from Pacific nations including Australia, and some compare travelogues of exotic ...

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Stories close to home
Herald Sun
Some of the indigenous Pacific writers will explore the influence of European colonists on their cultural stories, others study the interaction among indigenous writers from Pacific nations including Australia, and some compare travelogues of exotic ...

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Rip-offs spark plea to return Aboriginal land permits
ABC Message Stick
The Central Land Council (CLC) is calling on the Northern Territory and federal governments to bring back mandatory permits to enter remote Aboriginal communities. Under the federal intervention in the Northern Territory, entering an Aboriginal ...

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