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Indigenous artists tap soul of their homelands
Sydney Morning Herald
Thompson is one of a number of indigenous artists – including filmmaker Warwick Thornton and visual artists such as Vernon Ah Kee, Daniel Boyd, Esme Timbery and Julie Gough – from around Australia who take Perkins into their communities and inside ...

The Guardian
Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows better
The Guardian
Abbott's intentional – or otherwise – questioning of the extent of Indigenous habitation of the great southern land at the time of white settlement (or invasion) – will embolden critics of his plan to acknowledge Aboriginal Australians in the constitution.

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Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows better
The Guardian
And he knows, too well, that British troops – and later, locally raised military units, paramilitaries and raiding parties – carried on a war with the first inhabitants that claimed, by conservative estimate, 20,000 Indigenous Australians and 2,000 ...

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Tony Abbott says Australia was 'unsettled' before British arrived
The Guardian
Dodson, who was also Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner at the Human Rights Commission, said the lie of terra nullius as the foundation for colonisation is still being perpetuated, despite the high court ...

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Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisation
SBS
Previous Next. Images. 02. 1/. 02. Video. 1/. Audio. The chairman of the prime minister's Indigenous Advisory Council has labelled Tony Abbott's remarks that Australia as 'unsettled' prior to the British colonisation as 'stupid'.

Training centre to guarantee up to 200 indigenous jobs in CQ
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
"It's vital that employment programmes are aligned to real jobs because getting indigenous Australians into ongoing employment is critical to reducing indigenous disadvantage," Senator Scullion said. The Australian Government has committed up to $45 ...

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Australia's last Aboriginal police tracker retires
ABC Online
The Lama Lama elder is the last of Queensland's Aboriginal police trackers and was the only police tracker still working in Australia. Born on a river bank in 1942, he honed his skills by tracking wandering livestock on the region's large cattle ...
Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiringABC Local
Australia's last police tracker retiresNinemsn

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CCI to deliver 300 indigenous jobs
Business News (subscription)
“CCI is proud to have been selected as the largest VTEC provider in Australia creating pathways into real jobs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,” CCI chief executive officer Deidre Willmott said. “This program is about working with ...
Indigenous military service to be subject of greater recognition, researchYahoo!7 News
Lag Meta Aus: Home in the Torres StraitSydney Morning Herald
Canberra Close Up: John Paul Janke - AIATSISABC Local

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CCI to deliver 300 indigenous jobs
Business News (subscription)
“CCI is proud to have been selected as the largest VTEC provider in Australia creating pathways into real jobs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,” CCI chief executive officer Deidre Willmott said. “This program is about working with ...
Canberra Close Up: John Paul JankeABC Local

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CCI to deliver 300 jobs for Aboriginal Australians
Business News (subscription)
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has announced plans to educate new recruits from the indigenous community in a new federal government program based on the GenerationOne employment model. CCI will deliver training, support and ...

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Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiring
ABC Local
Australia's last remaining Aboriginal police tracker, Barry Port, is retiring this week after more than 30 years of service in Queensland. The 71-year-old Lama Lama elder has combed the harsh terrain of Cape York, in far north Queensland, for criminal ...

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Australia: Sydney Opera House hosts festival celebrating queer Indigenous culture
PinkNews.co.uk
Sydney Opera House is to hold a three day festival this week to celebrate queer identities in Australia's Aboriginal community. Events ranging from talks to films and cabaret performances will take place from 4-6 July, as part of the country's annual ...

Australia: Sydney Opera House hosts festival celebrating queer Indigenous culture
PinkNews.co.uk
Sydney Opera House is to hold a three day festival this week to celebrate queer identities in Australia's Aboriginal community. Events ranging from talks to films and cabaret performances will take place from 4-6 July, as part of the country's annual ...

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Jandamarra, story of Indigenous freedom fighter, set for Sydney Opera House ...
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Now the story of Jandamarra, an Aboriginal freedom fighter from Western Australia's Kimberley region, will be told in a major choral work at the Sydney Opera House. Playwright Steve Hawke has joined forces with leading composer Paul Stanhope to tell ...

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Jandamarra, story of Indigenous freedom fighter, set for Sydney Opera House ...
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Now the story of Jandamarra, an Aboriginal freedom fighter from Western Australia's Kimberley region, will be told in a major choral work at the Sydney Opera House. Playwright Steve Hawke has joined forces with leading composer Paul Stanhope to tell ...

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Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
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"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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The West Australian
Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
The West Australian
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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jobs push aims to end disparity
The Australian
“The Australian government has committed up to $45 million for VTECs and the initiative is well on the way to meeting the target of placing 5000 indigenous Australians into guaranteed jobs across Australia before July 2015,” Senator Scullion said. “It ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Green groups keep Aboriginal people in poverty
The Australian Financial Review
Aboriginal people in Cape York had their land but, unlike every other landowner in Australia, weren't allowed to prosper from it. The Wilderness Society was the main agitator for the 2009 declaration. In a statement after the decision, it said ...

Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
Courier Mail
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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