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Sydney Morning Herald
Share in Fortescue riches a step closer for people of Pilbara
Sydney Morning Herald
He was here last week at the invitation of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, whose co-chairwoman Jody Broun said: ''We want Aboriginal people to be able to negotiate from positions of power with extractive industries.'' Anaya has seen ...

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A zealot's fight to lift people up
The Australian
Shy about something as personal as a disease of the blood that wreaked havoc upon his body, he would have preferred not to be giving an interview but, just as time waits for no man, the brutal politics of Aboriginal Australia cuts no slack for cancer ...

Passionate about the power of learning
The Australian
From three indigenous students in 1995, Nudgee College had 14 by the time Ms O'Neill joined the school about five years ago and numbers have continued to grow, jumping markedly in 2010 when the school started working with the Australian Indigenous ...

Desire to end the welfare drip-feed takes pride of place
The Australian
In this set of indigenous communities, in one remote region of the outback, social transformation can be seen in action each day, step by step: in the streets, in the classrooms, in the budgeting of households, in children's faces, in men's and women's ...

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Serious side to indigenous swim program
The Canberra Times
It teaches them to swim and provides basic water safety and rescue skills. The Royal Life Saving Society and ACT Health established the program in 2007 after research showed indigenous Australians are four times more likely to drown than non-indigenous ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous pool program still going swimmingly after 5 years
The Canberra Times
The Royal Life Saving Society and ACT Health established the program in 2007 after research showed Indigenous Australians are four times more likely to drown than non-Indigenous Australians. "The majority of the kids and even the adults and elders had ...

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CLC backs land lease snub
ABC Message Stick
The Central Land Council (CLC) says it supports moves by an Indigenous community in central Australia to reclaim control of its land and services. Compulsory five-year land leases, part of the federal intervention, ended earlier this month and the ...
Indigenous community refuses to sign land leaseABC Online

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Human Rights Commission's new anti-racism strategy ignores ...
The Australian
A NEW anti-racism strategy from the Australian Human Rights Commission has ignored calls made throughout its consultation process for constitutional recognition of indigenous people and affirmative action programs to lift the number of culturally ...
Racist outbreaks threat to Australia's 'brand'Sydney Morning Herald
NFPs Support National Anti-Racism StrategyPro Bono Australia

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Aboriginal elders want more government consultations on relocation
Radio Australia
Representatives from three Aboriginal homelands in Australia's Northern Territory have called for more consultation with the Federal Government on policies affecting indigenous peopleThey've just returned from visiting Canberra, where they raised ...

NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issues
The Conversation
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issues. The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is unique among Australia's parliaments for its proportion of Indigenous members. They are drawn from both the Labor (ALP) and ...

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Lock in the investment pipeline now
The Australian Financial Review
The Pilbara also provides an example of how Australian employers can engage traditional indigenous owners. For example, Fortescue has established dedicated Vocational Training and Employment Centres (VTECs) in Port Hedland and Roebourne.

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The Sapphires join launch of media jobs for Indigenous Australians
Invest in Australia
Stars of the blockbuster Australian film The Sapphires have joined Arts Minister Simon Crean and Indigenous Employment and Economic Development Minister Julie Collins to launch a new work and training program that will create jobs for Indigenous ...
Sapphires stars launch indigenous media programThe Australian
Government launches Indigenous work program for screen and printMuMbrella
New media jobs to be created for Indigenous AustraliansSBS

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Child Rights Taskforce in Geneva
UNICEF Australia (blog)
Indigenous children are 24 times more likely to be in juvenile detention between the ages of 10 and 17 and are 10 times more likely to be in out-of-home care. Considering Indigenous Australians make up only 2.5 of Australia's population, these are ...

ABC Local
Terrain of Lake Eyre comes to life on stage
ABC Local
Australia's leading Indigenous performing arts company returns to Wollongong as they bring the mood of Lake Eyre to the stage. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. It's been described as a 'hymn to country', and this one goes into central ...

Biography of indigenous Anglican priest wins top literature award
Anglican Media Melbourne
​A biography of Northern Territory indigenous leader and Anglican priest, Gumbuli of Ngukurr, has been chosen as Australian Christian Book of the Year from more than 40 entrants – and given Melbourne publishing house Acorn Press, co-founded by the ...

Our Identity is not disadvantage
National Indigenous Times
I can only hope that in the lifetime of my grandchildren, Australia will see a more positive change. Having recently joined GenerationOne as the new CEO, I can confidently say that we, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians are living in a climate ...

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Racism: The Scourge of Aboriginal People
National Indigenous Times
I have written about the concepts of race and racism in my Doctorate thesis and I would like to share with you the research carried out in the late 1990s. What I had written then still remains relevant in the current climate of racial turmoil in ...

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Government launches Indigenous work program for screen and print
MuMbrella
Erica Glynn, head of Screen Australia's Indigenous department said: “This initiative will contribute to creating an Indigenous labour force that paves the way for a sustainable media industry inclusive of Indigenous Australians. We are pleased to be ...

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We Will Rock You - Next Gen Leadership
Pro Bono Australia
This year we established the National Indigenous Youth Leadership Academy to identify and develop the next generation of young indigenous leaders in Australia while they are still at school. The three founding partners in this venture are FYA and two ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Dark clouds and red dirt
Sydney Morning Herald
Monks, with her Order of Australia, is akin to royalty in remote arid Utopia, an Aboriginal homeland 260 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs where about 1200 people subsist on some 16 outstations, some of them with just one or two families. He knows ...

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