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ABC Online
Mining downturn failing to hold back contracting company working with Indigenous communities in Western Australia
ABC Online
The Indigenous Construction Resource Group (ICRG) has secured multi-million dollar contracts with major mining companies on iron ore mines in Western Australia's north west. With 150 Aboriginal workers, ICRG is one of the largest private employers of ...

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The South Burnett Times
Photographic project aims to celebrate indigenous diversity
The South Burnett Times
LEVI-CRAIG Murray is on a mission to celebrate the diversity of indigenous Australia, and he needs your help. Mr Murray wants to create a more accurate representation of indigenous people through his photography project Modern Indigenous Australia.

Pro Bono Australia
Eight Ways we Can Improve Indigenous Employment
Pro Bono Australia
Non-standard recruitment agencies, more education and ongoing mentoring and support are key to improving the number of Indigenous people in the workforce write Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University fellow, Boyd Hunter, ANU Senior fellow, ...

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Eight Ways we Can Improve Indigenous Employment
Pro Bono Australia
Non-standard recruitment agencies, more education and ongoing mentoring and support are key to improving the number of Indigenous people in the workforce write Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University fellow, Boyd Hunter, ANU Senior fellow, ...

The Australian
Queen's birthday honours 2016: art's 'indigenous renaissance'
The Australian
“You always hear the worst statistics, but I'm seeing that we've moved into this renaissance,” the Sydney Opera House's head of indigenous programming said. “In film, in TV, in art; you've got nine indigenous people standing for parliament. Australia ...

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ABC Online
Queen's Birthday honours: Warren Mundine recognised for service to Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Today he has been honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia for his more than 35 years of work dedicated to improving the lives of Indigenous Australians. "It makes you feel funny, " he said upon being named on the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Queen's birthday honours 2016: art's 'indigenous renaissance'The Australian

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ABC Online
Queen's Birthday honours: Warren Mundine recognised for service to Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Today he has been honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia for his more than 35 years of work dedicated to improving the lives of Indigenous Australians. "It makes you feel funny, " he said upon being named on the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Queen's birthday honours 2016: art's 'indigenous renaissance'The Australian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Marathon Foundation runner John Leha is helping others to run City2Surf
The Sydney Morning Herald
"I saw the potential to address one of the greatest challenges that we face in Australia with our Indigenous people ... I went from trying to find an Olympic champion to realising this program had the potential to do something far more important," said ...

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Viet Nam News
Australian Aboriginal artists tell their story
Viet Nam News
Some of them tell the story of how a long, long track along which cattle walked to market changed the lives of Aboriginal people. European settlers to Australia built the track through Australia's wide open spaces inland of the coast. This area of ...

Viet Nam News
Australian Aboriginal artists tell their story
Viet Nam News
Some of them tell the story of how a long, long track along which cattle walked to market changed the lives of Aboriginal people. European settlers to Australia built the track through Australia's wide open spaces inland of the coast. This area of ...

Atlas Obscura
Vandals Destroy 8000-Year-Old Aboriginal Art in Australia
Atlas Obscura
Aboriginal ochre stencils, believed to be up to 8,000 years old, were recently scratched out in Tasmania, in what the country's Aboriginal Affairs Minister is calling a "shameful act," according to the Guardian. Aboriginal peoples created the stencils ...

SBS
New evidence confirms Aboriginal people as first Australians
SBS
An Australian-led team of scientists has found new evidence confirming Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit Australia. Scientists from Griffith University have used new DNA sequencing methods to re-analyse a previous study from 2001 suggesting ...

Why Indigenous culture and tourism need each other
ABC Message Stick
With Asian holidaymakers flocking to Australia, Indigenous tour operators are getting ready to reap the rewards. International short-term visitor arrivals to Australia hit the highest level on record in April, according to the most recent figures ...

Pro Bono Australia
Australia's Youngest Generation is the Most Vulnerable Says Report
Pro Bono Australia
The level of over-representation of Indigenous people aged 10 – 17 years in detention increased from 19 times the rate of non-Indigenous young people in 2011 to 26 times in 2015. Young people who have been homeless have a mental (79.9 per cent) or ...
Children In Poverty Report Shows One In Six Aussie Kids Live In PovertyHuffington Post Australia
Australian governments have failed children: UNICEF reportBrisbane Times

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Pro Bono Australia
Australia's Youngest Generation is the Most Vulnerable Says Report
Pro Bono Australia
“Australia is not the lucky country for many children.” In particular, the report identifies that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children,lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI) children, children from rural areas, children with ...
Children In Poverty Report Shows One In Six Aussie Kids Live In PovertyHuffington Post Australia
For 1 in 6 children, Australia is not the lucky countryUNICEF Australia (blog)
Australian governments have failed children: UNICEF reportThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation AU
From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo
The Conversation AU
The report examined the interaction between two legal systems – one based in British law “received” at colonisation and the other in the customary laws of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. In a post-Mabo Australia, the significance of the core ...

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The Conversation AU
Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
The continual construction of Indigenous Australians as “failures” in the media and in policy is having unintended consequences. Media reporting and policies almost always focus on what is “wrong” with Indigenous Australians. They look at the problems ...

The Conversation AU
Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
The Conversation AU
While the Australian Law Reform Commissions's 1986 report on the use of customary law for Aboriginal people was a great initiative, it was, in hindsight, a notion well before its time. Although 30 years have elapsed since the report was published, ...
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agendaABC Local
Election 2016: Calls for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to head new DepartmentABC Online
National Indigenous Times -ABC Message Stick -Save The Children Australia
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The Conversation AU
Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
The Conversation AU
While the Australian Law Reform Commissions's 1986 report on the use of customary law for Aboriginal people was a great initiative, it was, in hindsight, a notion well before its time. Although 30 years have elapsed since the report was published, ...
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agendaABC Local
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
We deserve better, say Aboriginal leadersSBS
Save The Children Australia -ABC Online -National Indigenous Times
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The Conversation AU
Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
The continual construction of Indigenous Australians as “failures” in the media and in policy is having unintended consequences. Media reporting and policies almost always focus on what is “wrong” with Indigenous Australians. They look at the problems ...