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Pipeline of Indigenous Talent Leads to Social Enterprise Success
Pro Bono Australia
Western Sydney has the largest percentage of Aboriginal youth unemployment in Australia, while nationally, the unemployment rate for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population is 18 per cent, three times the national unemployment rate of 6.1 ...

Pro Bono Australia
Pipeline of Indigenous Talent Leads to Social Enterprise Success
Pro Bono Australia
Western Sydney has the largest percentage of Aboriginal youth unemployment in Australia, while nationally, the unemployment rate for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population is 18 per cent, three times the national unemployment rate of 6.1 ...

Daily Life
Australia's most shameful statistics
Daily Life
I've been writing and reporting on the data about male violence and female poverty for years now. And every single article I've written on those topics included (or should have) the sentence "Aboriginal women are disproportionately represented in this ...

Gulf Times
Jeering of Aboriginal player awkward for Australian football
Gulf Times
Having a thick skin is a handy attribute for top Australian Rules footballers, but incessant jeering of one of the game's greatest Aboriginal players has become an embarrassing distraction for the country's richest sporting competition. Adam Goodes, a ...
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Indigenous leaders reject Noel Pearson's call for new body
The Australian
Reconciliation Australia's co-chairman, Tom Calma, agreed that indigenous Australians were not represented in parliament as a population group, but said this could be addressed without constitutional change. A report he prepared as the country's ...

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The Australian
Plea to drive indigenous business
The Australian
“This reform would be part of a wider settlement that will empower our communities, provide us with control over our lands, and ensure we can use our land for economic development — just like everyone else in Australia.'' Cape York leader Noel Pearson ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson says government has work to do with indigenous
The Australian
The Cape York leader said indigenous leadership was strong and had the support of corporate Australia to pursue social and economic advancement, but government was falling short. “The government piece is still not right,” he said. He cited inaction ...

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Australian Football - Jeering of Aboriginal player awkward for Australian sport
Yahoo Eurosport UK
But the booing of Goodes has alarmed anti-racism advocates and shone the spotlight on race relations in Australia. A prominent and outspoken community leader, Goodes has been forthright in discussing race in a country where indigenous people lag ...
Sport-Jeering of Aboriginal player awkward for Australian footballYahoo Canada Sports
Jeering of Aboriginal player awkward for Australian footballGulf Times
Adam Goodes isn't booed for the colour of his skin. He is booed for acting ...The Daily Telegraph (blog)

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Jeering of Aboriginal player awkward for Australian sport
Eurosport.com AU
But the booing of Goodes has alarmed anti-racism advocates and shone the spotlight on race relations in Australia. A prominent and outspoken community leader, Goodes has been forthright in discussing race in a country where indigenous people lag ...
Sport-Jeering of Aboriginal player awkward for Australian footballDaily Mail
Adam Goodes isn't booed for the colour of his skin. He is booed for acting ...The Daily Telegraph (blog)
Don't pretend - booing Goodes is a racial issuePerth Now

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Gulf Times
Sport-Jeering of Aboriginal player awkward for Australian football
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MELBOURNE, June 16 (Reuters) - Having a thick skin is a handy attribute for top Australian Rules footballers, but incessant jeering of one of the game's greatest Aboriginal players has become an embarrassing distraction for the country's richest ...
Jeering of Aboriginal player awkward for Australian footballGulf Times
Don't pretend - booing Goodes is a racial issuePerth Now
Adam Goodes isn't booed for the colour of his skin. He is booed for acting ...The Daily Telegraph (blog)

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Antony and the Johnsons support Aboriginal artists
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Antony in the Western desert of Australia working on a project with elders from the Aboriginal Martu community in Parnngurr. Picture courtesy of Antony. Antony, best known as the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons, has announced that she ...

Good Food
Canberra's Indigenous gardener Adam Shipp reaps rewards at Greening Australia
Good Food
Adam Shipp has been working with Greening Australia in Aranda as the Indigenous restoration officer since 2012. He was born and raised in Canberra, spending all his school and working life here. His father is a Wiradjuri from central-west NSW; his ...

Good Food
Canberra's Indigenous gardener Adam Shipp reaps rewards at Greening Australia
Good Food
Adam Shipp has been working with Greening Australia in Aranda as the Indigenous restoration officer since 2012. He was born and raised in Canberra, spending all his school and working life here. His father is a Wiradjuri from central-west NSW; his ...

ABC Online
Indigenous community 'resilient' as mine closure talks continue
ABC Online
Residents from a remote Indigenous community in northern South Australia believe their town will suffer from, but ultimately survive, the Alinta Energy coal mine closure. The company announced last week its Leigh Creek mine and two Port Augusta power ...

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WA wants to go it alone on Aboriginal property reform
The Australian
Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee chairman has labelled “childish” and damaging to the push to create jobs and Aboriginal economic ...
Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WAABC Message Stick

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The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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WA wants to go it alone on Aboriginal property reform
The Australian
Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee chairman has labelled “childish” and damaging to the push to create jobs and Aboriginal economic ...
Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WAABC Message Stick

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The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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The Guardian
White supremacist accused of selling cannabis to Indigenous communities
The Guardian
A white supremacist and neo-Nazi supporter accused of running a large cannabis plantation is suspected of selling his product to members of an Indigenous community in north Queensland, say police. John Lee, who came to police attention through his ...

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Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WA
ABC Message Stick
The high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Australia are a blight on this country but head west and the number of Aboriginal children behind bars is truly disturbing. In fact the rates are so bad that after releasing a report on the national picture ...