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marketer spruiks 'Aboriginal exit'
The Australian
An Australia-based agent who assisted in marketing the units told The Australian that Great Fortune Investments was a group employed by DeiCorp to market them “to local and international Chinese investors … I don't know of any indigenous buyers who ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal people are entitled to be treated as human beings, not just as a ...
The Guardian
And former federal minister for Aboriginal affairs and this year's senior Australian of the year, Fred Chaney, has said that proceeding to de-fund and dissolve remote communities will have catastrophic impacts on the lives of Indigenous men, women and ...
Remote Aboriginal communities face closure, leaders voice concernsABC Message Stick
City to consider dual indigenous names for Sydney streets, suburbsThe Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous infant mortality rate higher than anticipated in Australia's Victoria
Xinhua
MELBOURNE, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The gap in indigenous infant mortality rate Australia's Victoria state has not closed over the last decade but is still higher than anticipated, researcher said on Tuesday. A six-year report on research by fellows from the ...
Victoria's Indigenous infant mortality rate 'has not improved in a decade'The Guardian

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The Guardian
Victoria's Indigenous infant mortality rate 'has not improved in a decade'
The Guardian
“We now have data that shows there has been no significant change in the rate of deaths between 1999 and 2008 of Aboriginal babies in Victoria and the risk of Aboriginal infant deaths in the first year of life remains twice as high as for non ...

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Remote Aboriginal communities face closure, leaders voice concerns
ABC Message Stick
The West Australian Government says it can't afford to maintain power and water to all 274 remote communities across the state now that the Commonwealth has transferred those costs back to WA. The Premier has flagged up to 150 communities will be ...

SBS
Abbott Government 'deliberately targeting' indigenous people in welfare changes
SBS
The new scheme is the Government's first official moves in response to the Forrest Review of Indigenous employment and training – the report by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest. It contrasts with the Work for the Dole Programme in Australia's urban areas.

Australia: Eleven-year-old Aboriginal boy commits suicide
World Socialist Web Site
Two months ago, Peter Little, an 11-year-old Aboriginal boy, tragically committed suicide in the Western Australian city of Geraldton. While the death was met with shock and an outpouring of grief from his family, friends and Aboriginal community, the ...

Australia: Eleven-year-old Aboriginal boy commits suicide
World Socialist Web Site
Two months ago, Peter Little, an 11-year-old Aboriginal boy, tragically committed suicide in the Western Australian city of Geraldton. While the death was met with shock and an outpouring of grief from his family, friends and Aboriginal community, the ...

Indigenous Australians can take pride in disability policy gains
Crikey (blog)
Along with other Indigenous peoples worldwide, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have much to celebrate. At the same time, the Australian disability services sector is undergoing its most [...] significant reform since the Disability ...
Call to address custody disparityThe West Australian

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Indigenous Australians can take pride in disability policy gains
Crikey (blog)
Along with other Indigenous peoples worldwide, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have much to celebrate. At the same time, the Australian disability services sector is undergoing its most [...] significant reform since the Disability ...
Call to address custody disparityThe West Australian

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Aljazeera.com
Shutting down Australia's Aboriginal areas
Aljazeera.com
A recent Productivity Commission report found that despite some success, Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples still face serious issues in areas of mental health and suicide, disability and over-representation in the country's ...

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Aljazeera.com
Shutting down Australia's Aboriginal areas
Aljazeera.com
A recent Productivity Commission report found that despite some success, Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples still face serious issues in areas of mental health and suicide, disability and over-representation in the country's ...

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The Age
Indigenous Australian dance looks beyond the big Bangarra
The Age
"We only have one mainstream indigenous contemporary dance company in Australia - that's Bangarra Dance Theatre - but there is room for another one," Rings says. "I'm hoping that in the next few years there will be a place for that. The students coming ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australian dance looks beyond the big Bangarra
Sydney Morning Herald
"We only have one mainstream indigenous contemporary dance company in Australia - that's Bangarra Dance Theatre - but there is room for another one," Rings says. "I'm hoping that in the next few years there will be a place for that. The students coming ...

Call to address custody disparity
The West Australian
Mr Barnett said a team within his department comprising representatives from the Department of Corrective Services, WA Police and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs was reviewing deaths in custody and the high representation of Aboriginal people in ...

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Indigenous art at Australian embassy showcases fluidity of form
Washington Post
The idea of water haunts the exhibition gallery at the Embassy of Australia. It ebbs and flows around Judy Watson's installation “dead littoral,” made up of cast-bronze versions of objects washed up on the Australian coast. It eddies along the floor ...

ABC Online
Cricket's Indigenous team The Invincibles remembered for their crushing victories
ABC Online
Not many Australians know about The Invincibles - an Indigenous cricket team in the late 19th century which won most of the matches they played. Initially captained by a future West Australian premier, the New Norcians team won their matches in WA by ...

Indigenous art at Australian embassy showcases fluidity of form
Washington Post
The idea of water haunts the exhibition gallery at the Embassy of Australia. It ebbs and flows around Judy Watson's installation “dead littoral,” made up of cast-bronze versions of objects washed up on the Australian coast. It eddies along the floor ...

The Australian
Doctor's Dream an insight into indigenous disadvantage
The Australian
THE genre is well established, if unique to Australia: the memoir of discovery and self-discovery written by outside helpers after a spell of bush life in the remote Aboriginal communities of the centre or the north. It is a literary form that provides ...

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Remembering Aboriginal service in the Great War, one century on
The Australian
Among the thousands of those first Anzacs were a number of First Australians, Aboriginal men who were prohibited from joining but did so anyway — Aboriginal men who answered a call that wasn't to them, to fight for a nation that didn't recognise them.