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Indigenous Risk for Complacent Companies
Pro Bono Australia
The research also ranked countries based on the risks posed to indigenous people, with the report showing that poor governance and negligible policies for Indigenous peoples in host countries was bad for business. Australia was ranked in the lower risk ...

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That would mean three per cent of Australians would identify as indigenous. However, few Australian local government areas had a proportion of indigenous people around three per cent. In parts of Western Australia, some council areas had no people who ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Report Card: The Wellbeing Of Aboriginal Australians Is Improving But Jail ...
Business Insider Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have seen some improvement in health, education and economic wellbeing. However, justice and mental health issues continue to cause concern, according to the 2014 Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage ...
Overcoming Disadvantage Report shows disadvantage not overcomeThe Stringer
Landmark report reveals scale of indigenous disadvantageSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous employment on the rise: reportSBS
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Landmark report reveals scale of indigenous disadvantage
Sydney Morning Herald
Levels of self-harm and incarceration for indigenous Australians have increased at alarming levels despite the efforts of both sides of politics to 'close the gap', the most comprehensive report on indigenous wellbeing has found. The landmark report ...

The Age
Indigenous disadvantage report is a wake-up call for Australia
The Age
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday became the first foreign leader to begin an address to the Australian Parliament by paying his respects to the traditional owners of the land on which he stood, and their elders past and present. If this ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous disadvantage report is a wake-up call for Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
If this was a modest, but welcome, sign of progress, the landmark Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report released on Wednesday is a sobering reality check on a bipartisan project that began more than a decade ago. It started with a move to obtain ...
Australian indigenous disadvantage reportThe Age
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Productivity Commission report identifies ...ABC Online
PM's “Nothing but bush” & threats from WA and SA to close down remote ...Crikey (blog)
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Self-harm in indigenous Australians has increased almost 50% in the past 10 ...
Daily Mail
Self-harm in indigenous Australians has increased almost 50 per cent in the past 10 years while juveniles are 24 times more likely to be sentenced to detention than their non-indigenous counterparts, according to a new government report. These were ...

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Political editor, The Age
Sydney Morning Herald
If this was a modest, but welcome, sign of progress, the landmark Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report released on Wednesday is a sobering reality check on a bipartisan project that began more than a decade ago. It started with a move to obtain ...
More indigenous Australians at workNEWS.com.au
Self-harm in indigenous Australians has increased almost 50% in the past 10 ...Daily Mail
Overcoming Disadvantage Report shows disadvantage not overcomeThe Stringer

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Big business encourages smallfirms to forge indigenous links
The Australian
THE biggest businesses in Australia are putting pressure on their smaller counterparts to buy or contract from indigenous enterprises in a bid to dramatically increase the economic prospects of the nation's first people, a new survey from the Business ...

NEWS.com.au
More indigenous Australians at work
NEWS.com.au
A landmark Productivity Commission report on overcoming indigenous disadvantage, to be released today, will deliver a mixed report card on efforts to close the gap between the health, education, justice and employment outcomes of indigenous Australians ...
Australian indigenous disadvantage reportThe Age
Indigenous disadvantage report is a wake-up call for AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous affairs minister taking little comfort in report card on disadvantageThe Guardian

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First Contact's Sandy sparks Twitter fury with racist comments
Sydney Morning Herald
The show's producers chose six white Australians who had articulated strong opinions about Aboriginal Australians without meeting any, and placed them into Aboriginal communities. Following in the footsteps of three-part documentary Go Back to Where ...
Sandy talks about her time on SBS First Contact and why she leftCourier Mail

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Aboriginal leader Kwementyaye Stuart, whose life sparked royal commission ...
Yahoo!7 News
Kwementyaye Stuart went from being convicted of murder to one of Australia's most respected Aboriginal leaders. A Central Australian identity, sentenced to death for a crime that sparked a royal commission, has died of lung disease at his home at an ...
Aboriginal leader Kwementyaye Stuart diesABC Message Stick
Land rights fighter diesNEWS.com.au

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Courier Mail
Sandy talks about her time on SBS First Contact and why she left
Courier Mail
In the program hosted by Ray Martin, Aussies with little or no experience of indigenous communities had their views — mostly negative — challenged. Sandy had been vocal in sharing her opinions from the start. FIRST CONTACT: Six Australians experience ...
First Contact's Sandy sparks Twitter fury with racist commentsSydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
WA plan to close 100 remote and Indigenous communities 'devastating'
The Guardian
Plans by the West Australian government to close more than 100 remote and primarily Indigenous communities is the “biggest threat to our people since the shocking events of the 1960s”, traditional owners and native title holders of the Fitzroy Valley ...
Terra nullius never went awayThe Guardian (Australia)

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The Guardian
WA plan to close 100 remote and Indigenous communities 'devastating'
The Guardian
Plans by the West Australian government to close more than 100 remote and primarily Indigenous communities is the “biggest threat to our people since the shocking events of the 1960s”, traditional owners and native title holders of the Fitzroy Valley ...
Terra nullius never went awayThe Guardian (Australia)

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SBS premieres First Contact
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"It all came from the starting point of the Reconciliation Australia (finding of) six out of 10 -- six out of 10 Australians have had little or no contact with Aboriginal people. So I think what we're hoping to achieve is starting a new discussion. I ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the dead
The Conversation AU
Beliefs and ceremonies associated with death in Indigenous Australia are diverse. Death and the deceased are sacred to Indigenous Australians and ceremonies differ between communities. They may involve lengthy ceremonies lasting several days with ...
'Petrol sniffers, layabouts, spending their dole cheques on booze': Six ...Daily Mail
PM's “Nothing but bush” & threats from WA and SA to close down remote ...Crikey (blog)

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the dead
The Conversation AU
Beliefs and ceremonies associated with death in Indigenous Australia are diverse. Death and the deceased are sacred to Indigenous Australians and ceremonies differ between communities. They may involve lengthy ceremonies lasting several days with ...
“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.NEWS.com.au
Indigenous voices showcased on SBS TwitterSBS
First Contact Is One Of The Most Important Australian TV Shows Of The YearJunkee
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The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the dead
The Conversation AU
Beliefs and ceremonies associated with death in Indigenous Australia are diverse. Death and the deceased are sacred to Indigenous Australians and ceremonies differ between communities. They may involve lengthy ceremonies lasting several days with ...
“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.NEWS.com.au
Indigenous voices showcased on SBS TwitterSBS
First Contact Is One Of The Most Important Australian TV Shows Of The YearJunkee
Daily Mail -FoxFM (blog)
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New book gives insight into early Aboriginal culture in Newcastle
ABC Online
"For me as an Aboriginal boy, there was nothing on Aboriginal history or culture in the school curriculum in those days," he said. "We were written out, we were erased, we were forgotten, and Aboriginal place wasn't required in the Australian history ...