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Australia's indigenous population take up cricket
Cricket Country
Australia's indigenous population, known as the aboriginals, are gradually taking up cricket. In this video by Cricket Australia, one can see how measures are being taken to help the indigenous population take up cricket. Australia has a National ...

Indigenous groups win extension
The Australian
The Australian has spoken to indigenous groups who would not speak on the record because they feared their funding would be compromised, but said the new criteria in the first round of the $4.8 billion Indigenous Advancement Strategy was not clear.

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Indigenous groups win extension
The Australian
The Australian has spoken to indigenous groups who would not speak on the record because they feared their funding would be compromised, but said the new criteria in the first round of the $4.8 billion Indigenous Advancement Strategy was not clear.

Daily Life
Why is Australian TV still so white?
Daily Life
That stunt was still making international headlines when Karl's interview with Natalie Ahmat for the Indigenous TV network, NITV News, was released last Friday. In the wake of the screening of First Contact, the SBS show in which six white Australians ...

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Aboriginal protesters target Labor Party convention
Green Left Weekly
They were protesting against South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill's endorsement of mining magnate Andrew Forrest's controversial Indigenous Employment and Training Review. The report's proposals went beyond the narrow terms of reference ...

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Protests against closure of 150 Aboriginal communities
Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal activists rallied on the steps of parliament house in Perth on November 12 to protest against the Western Australian government's plan to close 150 remote Aboriginal communities. The rally also condemned the federal government's plan to cut ...

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Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal disadvantage worsens
Green Left Weekly
In August, Abbott declared the arrival of the British First Fleet to be the “defining moment” for Australia. “It was the moment this continent became part of the modern world,” he said. The mainstream media widely described Abbott's latest insult to ...

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Colin Barnett 'hell-bent' on destroying communities
Green Left Weekly
Recently the Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, committed to closing down approximately 150 remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. The premier has claimed that the closures would be in the best interests of Aboriginal people in ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Poetic injustice as bid for Indigenous Recognition stalls
The Saturday Paper
Offer Indigenous Australians only the bare minimum – a little poetry and scouring the constitution of racist language – and their leaders will walk. “You would have people like me campaign against it,” says Dodson. “Quite seriously. In my view it would ...
Challenging ideas about indigenous AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Abbott, Hollande reach agreement over Indigenous remainsSBS
Nigel Scullion criticised for not setting goal to cut Indigenous incarcerationThe Guardian

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The Age
Western Australia to close down Aboriginal communities
Journal of Turkish Weekly
State government planning to shut 150 out of 274 remote indigenous communities. More than half of Western Australia's Aboriginal communities have been earmarked for closure, local media reported, in a policy that some have condemned as racist.
Patrick Dodson warns Aboriginal people will be refugees in their own country ...The Age
Closures worry WA Aboriginal communitiesWA today

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Indigenous heritage to be embraced in AOC constitution
The Australian
Australia's indigenous athletes have a rich history of competing and winning at the Olympic Games. From our first indigenous Olympians, Frank Roberts, Michael Ah Matt and Adrian Blair, to Cathy Freeman's legendary sprint at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, ...

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Western Australia to close down Aboriginal communities
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More than half of Western Australia's Aboriginal communities have been earmarked for closure, local media reported, in a policy that some have condemned as racist. Up to 150 of the 274 remote communities are due to be shut down with the state ...
Patrick Dodson warns Aboriginal people will be refugees in their own country ...Brisbane Times
Closures worry WA Aboriginal communitiesNEWS.com.au

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Aboriginal communities kicking goals
The Australian (blog)
THE statistics for suicide in Australia are frightening and alarming. Not only because of how prevalent it is, but also because of its indiscriminate nature and the marked and distinct increase in indigenous communities. The statistics speak for ...

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The Australian
hope as state mourns lost children
The Australian
As the funerals took place, an investigation by The Weekend Australian revealed Western Australia was again a suicide hotspot, with at least 12 young Aborigines having committed suicide in the state this year, twice the number shown in state government ...

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ABC Online
WA Government, Fortescue sign agreement to train, employ Aboriginal prisoners
ABC Message Stick
It became quite easy to determine why 3 per cent of Australia's population which are Indigenous make up around a third of our jails and it's often quite minor offences. It's often driving without licenses, you know, assault related to drugs and alcohol ...
Prisoners guaranteed work through job training scheme in WA's North WestABC Online

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ABC Online
Kimberley Aboriginal communities condemn Colin Barnett's plan to close small ...
ABC Online
Plans by the WA government to close at least 100 remote Indigenous communities have been greeted with dismay. There are more than 270 remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia and between them they are home to 12,000 people.
Traditional owners rally against changes to WA Aboriginal Heritage ActThe Guardian
Traditional owners fight planned Aboriginal Heritage Act changesPerth Now

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Courier Mail
Closures worry WA Aboriginal communities
NEWS.com.au
PREMIER Colin Barnett dropped a bombshell last week, saying the state had no option but to review the viability of 274 small indigenous communities. That was because the federal government had cut off their essential services funding, leaving a ...
WA Government promises close consultation over remote Aboriginal community ...ABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australia's HIV crisis never happened: five questions to James Ward
The Guardian
My focus while hosting IndigenousX will be on raising HIV and related conditions awareness in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. In the early days of HIV when it first hit Australia 30 years ago, we were told a catastrophe would occur ...

ABC Online
AOC changes constitution to recognise Australia's Indigenous heritage
ABC Online
Olympian Cathy Freeman has welcomed a decision by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to recognise Australia's Indigenous heritage in its constitution. The AOC constitution and Olympic team values will now recognise the contribution of Australia's ...

Australian Olympic Committee
AOC to recognise indigenous heritage
The Australian
“Australia's indigenous athletes have a rich history of competing and winning at the Olympic Games. From our first indigenous Olympians, Frank Roberts, Michael Ah Matt and Adrian Blair, to Cathy Freeman's legendary sprint at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, ...
Indigenous heritage recognised in AOC ConstitutionAustralian Olympic Committee
AOC changes constitution to recognise Australia's Indigenous heritageABC Online

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