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Assange to get Aboriginal passport
Perth Now
His father, John Shipton, accepted the document at a celebration at Darlington. He said his son had been jilted by the Australian government, and the passport ceremony - which follows Ecuador's decision to grant Mr Assange diplomatic asylum - was a ...

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Assange gets Aboriginal passport
SBS
"He's in a small room... and in that he has a treadmill and a sunlamp," he told AFP in Sydney's Redfern where he had accepted an Aboriginal Nations passport, for use when travelling within Australia, on behalf of his son. "But he faces his future with ...

Assange to get Aboriginal passport
Adelaide Now
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been offered an Aboriginal Nations passport in an inner-city Sydney ceremony after he was "abandoned" by Australian authorities. His father, John Shipton, accepted the document at a celebration at Darlington.

Sydney Morning Herald
Assange gets an Aboriginal passport
Sydney Morning Herald
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been offered an Aboriginal Nations passport in an inner-city Sydney ceremony after he was "abandoned" by Australian authorities. His father, John Shipton, accepted the document at a celebration in Darlington today.
Assange gets Aboriginal passportSBS
Julian Assange given Aboriginal passport in 'show of solidarity'VOXXI

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Sydney Morning Herald
Assange gets an Aboriginal passport
Sydney Morning Herald
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been offered an Aboriginal Nations passport in an inner-city Sydney ceremony after he was "abandoned" by Australian authorities. His father, John Shipton, accepted the document at a celebration in Darlington today.
Assange gets Aboriginal passportSBS

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Assange to get Aboriginal passport
Herald Sun
His father, John Shipton, accepted the document at a celebration at Darlington. He said his son had been jilted by the Australian government, and the passport ceremony - which follows Ecuador's decision to grant Mr Assange diplomatic asylum - was a ...
Statement, Indigenous Social Justice Association and Sydney Support Assange ...The Guardian (Australia)
Assange getting an Aboriginal passportThe Daily Telegraph
Julian Assange given Aboriginal passport in 'show of solidarity'VOXXI
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Assange getting an Aboriginal passport
Perth Now
His father, John Shipton, accepted the document at a celebration in Darlington on Saturday. He said his son had been jilted by the Australian government, and the passport ceremony - which follows Ecuador's decision to grant Mr Assange diplomatic asylum ...

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Assange getting an Aboriginal passport
The Australian
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been offered an Aboriginal Nations passport in an inner-city Sydney ceremony after he was "abandoned" by Australian authorities. His father, John Shipton, accepted the document at a celebration in Darlington on ...
Assange gets Aboriginal passportSBS

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Rewards for those who help themselves
The Australian
WESTERN Australia's East Kimberley is poised to become the first region outside of Cape York to institute a radical program of Aboriginal-led welfare reform, as community leaders push a social responsibility agenda that "rewards those who are willing ...

Welfare control gets thumbs up
The Australian
NEW research from a major study of indigenous children and their families in 11 sites around Australia shows overwhelming support for income management, with 77 per cent of respondents saying income management had led to positive changes to ...

Aborigines will bleed from cuts
The Australian
I was privileged and proud to be part of that process, which resulted in what arguably might have been the best population health and mental health services for remote indigenous Australia. During the past two decades there have been enormous changes ...

Make it an open day all round
The Australian
Inequality is evident already at school, with a Year 12 completion rate barely half that for non-indigenous Australians. The pattern continues through life - indigenous Australians remain poorly represented in the professions and managerial workforce.

Dry spell forces feral camels to water holes in Australian outback
Radio Australia
TERENCE ABBOTT: They're not only drinking it but pooing on it, pissing in it. You can smell it from long way too. It's a big problem out here in Central Australia. CADDIE BRAIN: Indigenous ranger Terence Abbott is standing beside a muddy spring, deep ...

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New NT chief settles into office
The Australian
He grew up on a farm in a remote part of Western Australia, but drought and low wool prices saw him leave the land in the late 1970s. He became a mature-age student and trained as an educator, working as a ... Last month's landslide win, in which the ...

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boosting Indigenous participation in the art world
ABC Online
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra is tackling that task head-on by inviting a group of artistically-minded Indigenous people from around the country to learn how things work at the top end of town. For many of the participants, it is ...

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Govt aims to lift indigenous uni enrolment
Perth Now
Professor Larissa Behrendt, whose father is an indigenous Australian, knows better than most what a difference an education can make. "I was lucky to be part of the first generation of indigenous Australians able to go straight from high school into ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Govt aims to lift indigenous uni enrolment
Herald Sun
"I was lucky to be part of the first generation of indigenous Australians able to go straight from high school into university," said Prof Behrendt, who chaired a review of higher education access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Call for doubling of Aboriginal university student numbersSydney Morning Herald
Make it an open day all roundThe Australian
Govt looks at Indigenous uni participationSBS
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Govt aims to lift indigenous uni enrolment
NEWS.com.au
Professor Larissa Behrendt, whose father is an indigenous Australian, knows better than most what a difference an education can make. "I was lucky to be part of the first generation of indigenous Australians able to go straight from high school into ...
Call for doubling of Aboriginal university student numbersSydney Morning Herald
Make it an open day all roundThe Australian
Govt to lift indigenous uni enrolmentSky News Australia
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Govt aims to lift indigenous uni enrolment
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"I was lucky to be part of the first generation of indigenous Australians able to go straight from high school into university," said Prof Behrendt, who chaired a review of higher education access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Govt aims to lift indigenous uni enrolment
The Australian
"I was lucky to be part of the first generation of indigenous Australians able to go straight from high school into university," said Prof Behrendt, who chaired a review of higher education access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Call for doubling of Aboriginal university student numbersSydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal higher education report set for releaseABC Online
UQ develops strategic roadmap for Indigenous educationUQ News

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