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The Guardian
Empowered Communities take the initiative on Indigenous funding
The Guardian
The dismantling of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander commission (Atsic) in 2004 amid allegations of corruption, financial mismanagement and improper nepotism, tightly re-centralised responsibility for Indigenous Australia with state, territory ...

The Guardian
Empowered Communities take the initiative on Indigenous funding
The Guardian
A group of prominent Indigenous leaders, bureaucrats and business chiefs is working to redefine the role of government in battling the enduring social dysfunction, third-world poverty, illness and deprivation that blights Indigenous Australia. The ...

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Pride of Australia nominee Elijah Douglas preserving far north's indigenous ...
Courier Mail
“I want to help to make a change in Australia, especially help Aboriginal people,” he said, adding education, health, employment and reconnecting with culture were the keys to change for indigenous communities. “A lot of indigenous young people, they ...

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Pride of Australia nominee Elijah Douglas preserving far north's indigenous ...
Herald Sun
“I want to help to make a change in Australia, especially help Aboriginal people,” he said, adding education, health, employment and reconnecting with culture were the keys to change for indigenous communities. “A lot of indigenous young people, they ...

Pride of Australia nominee Elijah Douglas preserving far north's indigenous ...
Herald Sun
“I want to help to make a change in Australia, especially help Aboriginal people,” he said, adding education, health, employment and reconnecting with culture were the keys to change for indigenous communities. “A lot of indigenous young people, they ...

Forrest Indigenous Jobs Review Released
Pro Bono Australia
In his report, Forrest said that education and employment had the capacity to end the disparity between first Australians and other Australians, but a massive 30-point gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and other Australians existed despite ...
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Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson backs Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's 'healthy ...
Courier Mail
“Within a generation they will effect a tectonic shift in the wellbeing of Australia's most disadvantaged peoples, indigenous and non-indigenous,” he said. The Cape York-based leader said the Forrest reforms would “strike at the roots of the passive ...

Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson backs Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's 'healthy ...
Courier Mail
The Forrest review found the social housing trap stops indigenous Australians from getting jobs and led to “misery” and “chronic overcrowding”. “Children of first Australian homeowners are more likely to attend school, have a job themselves and want to ...

The West Australian
Andrew Forrest calls for tax breaks for indigenous-run firms
The Australian
Mr Forrest also wants the commonwealth to commit to spending 4 per cent of its $39 billion a year purchasing budget with businesses run by indigenous Australians and to impose similar regimes on state and territory governments. The Forrest Review ...
Andrew Forrest has a positive history of working with indigenous Australians ...Herald Sun
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Andrew Forrest's radical blueprint to 'end blight of disparity'
The Australian
Mr Forrest told The Australian that indigenous people in remote communities were being “economically jailed” and suffering the “blight of disparity”. Immediate, dramatic action must be taken to reverse the disturbing trend of substance abuse and idleness.

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Andrew Forrest has a positive history of working with indigenous Australians ...
Herald Sun
Mr Forrest headed a report to the Federal Government on sweeping changes to end long-term welfare dependency and Aboriginal unemployment of up to 54 per cent. OPINION: FOR BETTER NATION, WE NEED NEW APPROACH. He also calls for greater ...
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Welfare recipients banned from buying alcohol and gambling under radical plan ...The Daily Telegraph

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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson backs Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's 'healthy ...
The Australian
“Within a generation they will effect a tectonic shift in the wellbeing of Australia's most disadvantaged peoples, indigenous and non-indigenous,” he said. The Cape York-based leader said the Forrest reforms would “strike at the roots of the passive ...
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Andrew Forrest has a positive history of working with indigenous Australians ...Perth Now
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The West Australian
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson backs Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's 'healthy ...
The Australian
“Within a generation they will effect a tectonic shift in the wellbeing of Australia's most disadvantaged peoples, indigenous and non-indigenous,” he said. The Cape York-based leader said the Forrest reforms would “strike at the roots of the passive ...
Andrew Forrest has a positive history of working with indigenous Australians ...Perth Now
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Welfare recipients banned from buying alcohol and gambling under radical plan ...The Daily Telegraph
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For a better nation, we need a new approach
Herald Sun
THE disparity resulting from the large proportion of indigenous Australians who are disengaged from the community and from the workforce has reached crisis levels and the issues they suffer from impact all vulnerable Australians. As a nation, we must ...

Lessons from the Kimberley on developing Northern Australia
The Conversation
Indigenous land owners weren't consulted in the past about the creation of Western Australia's huge Ord River irrigation scheme – but a recent agreement offers a more positive example for developing other parts of northern Australia. Pete Hill/Flickr ...

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land rights out of step?
The Australian
Yet, with few exceptions, these monumental changes have not delivered the prosperity most indigenous people want. In the memorable words of Cape York indigenous leader Noel Pearson, Australia's First People are “land rich and dirt poor”. Last year ...

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The West Australian
Forrest's revolution for welfare
The Australian
The radical proposal is contained in mining magnate Andrew Forrest's blueprint for indigenous welfare and employment, which he has delivered to the Abbott government. Under Mr Forrest's plan, all welfare recipients, including non-indigenous Australians ...
Welfare recipients banned from buying alcohol and gambling under radical plan ...The Daily Telegraph
Twiggy call to manage welfare paymentsThe West Australian

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Queensland police woman calls Aborigines 'scum bags' and 'oxygen thieves' on ...
Daily Mail
Constable Rissman is also under investigation for not complying with police standards in relation to the investigation into the bashing death of an indigenous woman named Adelaide Riversleigh, according to The Australian. The 37-year-old died on May 10 ...

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Video Shows Casual Racism Is Alive and Thriving in Australia
Mashable
Its message is to illustrate subtle or 'casual' racism against Indigenous Australians "can be just as harmful as more overt forms". From not sitting next to a person on a bus through to an insensitive joke at the pub, this form of racism is rife in ...

ITV News
Missing from school: Australia's Aboriginal children
ITV News
Earlier this year, Aboriginal dancers greeted William and Kate to Uluru, or Ayers Rock as the settlers named it, and the royal couple arrived at Sydney zoo to the strains of a didgeridoo. But Australia's treatment of the indigenous minority remains a ...