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Health professionals deliver a first
National Indigenous Times
In a first for Australia, a handbook written with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals has answered the call for a comprehensive resource to help clinicians address alcohol and drug issues. The Handbook for Aboriginal ...

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Johnathan Thurston Recognised for Community Work
Brisbane Broncos
Throughout 2012, Johnathan has consistently used his profile as a role model to positively impact Indigenous communities across Australia. He runs inspirational workshops with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Secondary School students that promote ...
Thurston's care for the community honouredBrisbane Times
Johnathan Thurston lands Ken Stephen MedalThe Australian
Cowboys' Johnathan Thurston awarded Ken Stephens Medal for contribution to ...NEWS.com.au

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Werribee, Hoppers Crossing Star
Generation tries to bridge the gap
Werribee, Hoppers Crossing Star
STUDENTS from Manorvale Primary School have showcased their talents in a music video aimed at improving disparity for Indigenous Australians. The Werribee school will enter its video clip in the GenerationOne School Competition for a chance to win ...

Territory to demand more sway on funding
The Australian
"Jenny Macklin talks as though she's closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, but she's in 'La La Land' if she thinks that's the case," she said. "She's naive. She's not being informed properly, because the gap is widening.
Scathing report into Aboriginal service deliveryABC Online

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auDA Foundation funding indigenous community, youth projects
iTWire
The auDA Foundation board will this year fund a total of 12 projects, including a PhD thesis that enables indigenous communities to access and use three dimensional models of Australian landscapes, and another project that will explore the use of the ...

Thurston wins Ken Stephen Medal
NRL.COM
Throughout 2012, Johnathan has consistently used his profile as a role model to positively impact Indigenous communities across Australia. He runs inspirational workshops with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Secondary School students that promote ...

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The Canberra Times
Sport's power to help indigenous probed
Ninemsn
Last week, the Adelaide Crows received $300,000 of taxpayer funds to run an intensive leadership program for 30 Aboriginal students on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands in South Australia. Submissions to the inquiry are due by ...
The story behind the No Smokes multimedia campaign: spreading the anti ...Crikey (blog)
Call for indigenous Anglican bishopThe Canberra Times

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Hood opens Aboriginal art exhibit 'Crossing Cultures'
The Dartmouth
“Crossing Cultures” is the third exhibit of Aboriginal Australian art to premier at the Hood since 2006, according to exhibit curator Stephen Gilchrist, a former curator of indigenous art at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and a visiting ...

Indigenous students gather in Cairns for university games
ABC Message Stick
Hundreds of students from 14 universities across Australia have converged in Cairns for the week-long National Indigenous Tertiary Education Student Games (NITESG). The NITESG is an Indigenous sporting event which aims to help break down the barriers ...

Crikey (blog)
The story behind the No Smokes multimedia campaign: spreading the anti ...
Crikey (blog)
When the No Smokes multimedia campaign launched in May, it was the result of two years development work informed by focus groups with young Indigenous Australians, teachers and health workers. Dr Sheree Cairney, from the Menzies School of Health ...

Army musicians join Aboriginal assistance effort
ABC Online
The Australian Army's aboriginal community program has been running for 15 years with hundreds of soldiers posted to remote and disadvantaged areas to build roads and houses. The program known as AACAP has been expanded this year. In a remote ...

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Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Ingidenous Olympians given warm welcome in Redfern
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
The centre and the Australian Olympic Committee celebrated the success of Australia's indigenous athletes who competed in London by adding their names to the Australian Olympic honour board in the presence of 300 community supporters and ...

Remote indigenous funding 'spent on officials'
The Australian
A report by the Northern Territory's co-ordinator general for remote services, Olga Havnen, obtained by The Australian, says it is difficult to judge whether the myriad programs are working, and government agencies "appear indifferent" to their ...

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Remote indigenous funding 'spent on officials'
The Australian
A report by the Northern Territory's co-ordinator general for remote services, Olga Havnen, obtained by The Australian, says it is difficult to judge whether. the myriad programs are working, and government agencies "appear indifferent" to their ...

Call for indigenous Anglican bishop
The Canberra Times
Australian Anglicans have been urged by Anglicare's general manager indigenous services and education Karen Kime to pay for a full-time Aboriginal bishop. She told Anglicare's conference in Hobart recently that until the life chances of Aboriginal ...

Futures lost in translation
Herald Sun
Or hear it from the report itself: "It is ... important for all Australians to recognise the several hundred unique indigenous languages that were spoken for tens of thousands of years in Australia. The understanding and recognition of indigenous ...

The Canberra Times
Peachey backs new Blues coach to give indigenous talent a fair go
The Canberra Times
Peachey, who represented NSW and the Australian Super League team, said it was a constant source of frustration for him to think Queensland had a far better record of selecting indigenous players. Peachey said Daley, who boasts Aboriginal heritage ...

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Doc Reynolds now chairs Western Australian Indigenous Tourism Council
eTurboNews
Nudju man and Esperance resident Ronald (Doc) Reynolds has been elected as chair of the Western Australian Indigenous Tourism Operators' Council (WAITOC), to replace Neville Poelina who has served his maximum 4-year term. Mr Reynolds' past roles ...

DAWN.com
Australia, South Africa beat the rain
DAWN.com
-Daniel Christian is of Aboriginal decent and a graduate of Cricket Australia's indigenous cricket program. Jason Gillespie is the only Australian test cricketer to publicly acknowledge his Aboriginal heritage. -Fearing Tamil Tiger attacks in the 1996 ...

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Brisbane Times
Indigenous trailblazer poised to make history
Brisbane Times
It is the feel-good story of Australian golf. Scott Gardiner, a proud Aborigine, will next year become the first indigenous Australian to play on the USPGA Tour. Gardiner showed he had plenty of talent when he first introduced himself to the Australian ...

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