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The Guardian
Western Australia announces $3.1m plan to tackle family violence in the Kimberley
The Guardian
The Western Australian government has announced a $3.1m plan to tackle high levels of family violence in the Kimberley, including an extra $1.9m for teams of police and child protection workers to “reset” remote Aboriginal communities with ...
Using the Australian bush to improve Indigenous mental health in the KimberleyABC Online

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The Guardian
Western Australia announces $3.1m plan to tackle family violence in the Kimberley
The Guardian
The Western Australian government has announced a $3.1m plan to tackle high levels of family violence in the Kimberley, including an extra $1.9m for teams of police and child protection workers to “reset” remote Aboriginal communities with ...
Using the Australian bush to improve Indigenous mental health in the KimberleyABC Online

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The Guardian
Using the Australian bush to improve Indigenous mental health in the Kimberley
ABC Online
For four years, Aboriginal mental health worker James Howard has tackled some of Australia's worst mental health statistics by going bush and building relationships with other Indigenous men. "Just with my men I've been taking out, I've seen them get a ...
Western Australia announces $3.1m plan to tackle family violence in the KimberleyThe Guardian

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Ocean Drive Magazine
A First Look at Aboriginal Australian Artwork at PAMM
Ocean Drive Magazine
“I went down the escalator, turned the corner, and it was like being hit by lightning,” recalls Dennis Scholl of his 2009 visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. It was there that Scholl got his first look at that country's ...

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The Guardian
The next generation of Indigenous leaders shows great promise for Australia's ...
The Guardian
'Recently, Government House in Kirribilli saw a rare event in the coming together of 40 key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from around the country to discuss a path forward on constitutional recognition.' Photograph: David Moir/AAP.
How-to guide: reaching indigenous employment targetsThe Mandarin (registration)

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The Guardian
The next generation of Indigenous leaders shows great promise for Australia's ...
The Guardian
'Recently, Government House in Kirribilli saw a rare event in the coming together of 40 key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from around the country to discuss a path forward on constitutional recognition.' Photograph: David Moir/AAP.
How-to guide: reaching indigenous employment targetsThe Mandarin (registration)

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The Guardian
Five million hectares around Uluru declared an Indigenous protected area
The Guardian
A ceremony will be held at a remote centre between Uluru and the Western Australian border on Thursday, allowing the Anangu people to receive federal government funding to protect sacred sites, native plants and animals around the Uluru-Kata Tjuta ...

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The Guardian
'It's surreal': Australia's first Indigenous minister, Ken Wyatt, on his promotion
The Guardian
Heeding the advice of the Noongar elders, Wyatt has kept his culture close during this parliamentary career, fighting for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, and for non-discrimination of all Australians. But when it comes to ...
Ken Wyatt becomes first federal Indigenous frontbencher after swearing in as ...ABC Online
First federal Indigenous minister sworn inSky News Australia
Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt to be sworn inThe Australian (blog)
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The Australian Financial Review
Malcolm Turnbull must push economic development and end Indigenous socialism
The Australian Financial Review
The next horizon is northern Australian development, fuelled by the $5 billion Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility and free-trade agreements. Indigenous Australians have rights over 82% of northern Australia and by 2040 will number half its ...
a right to economic developmentThe Australian (blog)

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Sky News Australia
First federal Indigenous minister sworn in
Sky News Australia
When Ken Wyatt was awoken with a tap on the shoulder on a flight to the United States he couldn't quite believe the document that was been placed in front of him. Its content told the Liberal MP he was about to become the first indigenous Australian in ...
Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt to be sworn inThe Australian (blog)

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ABC Online
Ken Wyatt becomes first federal Indigenous frontbencher after swearing in as ...
ABC Online
West Australian Aboriginal MP Ken Wyatt has been sworn into the federal ministry to become the first Indigenous Member of Parliament to reach the frontbench. The Member for Hasluck was elevated as part of the Turnbull Government reshuffle and will ...
First federal Indigenous minister sworn inSky News Australia

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ABC Online
Ken Wyatt becomes first federal Indigenous frontbencher after swearing in as ...
ABC Online
West Australian Aboriginal MP Ken Wyatt has been sworn into the federal ministry to become the first Indigenous Member of Parliament to reach the frontbench. The Member for Hasluck was elevated as part of the Turnbull Government reshuffle and will ...
First federal Indigenous minister sworn inSky News Australia
Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt to be sworn inThe Australian (blog)
Ken Wyatt sworn in, Ley adds portfolioNT News

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Huffington Post Australia
Australia Redefines Hypocrisy And Human Rights In Bid For UN Position
Huffington Post Australia
At the same time, Aboriginal Australians remained mired in poverty. Unmet need in Aboriginal housing in the Northern Territory alone was more than $5 billion, and underfunding of the Aboriginal health budget had reached half a billion dollars every year.

Huffington Post Australia
Australia Redefines Hypocrisy And Human Rights In Bid For UN Position
Huffington Post Australia
At the same time, Aboriginal Australians remained mired in poverty. Unmet need in Aboriginal housing in the Northern Territory alone was more than $5 billion, and underfunding of the Aboriginal health budget had reached half a billion dollars every year.

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Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt to be sworn in
The Australian (blog)
THE indigenous Liberal MP will be officially sworn in to his post in the new-look Malcolm Turnbull government by Governor-General Peter Cosgrove at a ceremony at Government House in Canberra. Mr Wyatt, Australia's first indigenous frontbench politician ...

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a right to economic development
The Australian (blog)
Across Australia, we're seeing intense pressure on traditional owners from proponents and companies wishing to access, explore or develop on traditional country. I think there is a common misconception that Aboriginal people are a hindrance to ...

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SBS
March to help keep Indigenous girls in school
SBS
Since its inception in 2005, the program, run by Role Models and Leaders Australia, has helped more than 4000 girls. Currently, there are 12 schools across the country that take part in the program. In the last five years alone, the number of girls ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
England v Australia, Rugby World Cup 2015: Kurtley Beale finds fulfilment in ...
Telegraph.co.uk
There are some fascinating turns and tangents springing off the various branches of Kurtley Beale's family tree. The Beale side of his family came from a convict who was deported to Australia aboard the infamous 1789 Second Fleet for stealing a sheep.
Beale's Journey to His Aborigine Roots is His Road to FulfilmentThe New Indian Express

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Telegraph.co.uk
England v Australia, Rugby World Cup 2015: Kurtley Beale finds fulfilment in ...
Telegraph.co.uk
There are some fascinating turns and tangents springing off the various branches of Kurtley Beale's family tree. The Beale side of his family came from a convict who was deported to Australia aboard the infamous 1789 Second Fleet for stealing a sheep.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Racism plays major role in poor education outcomes for Aboriginal children: study
Sydney Morning Herald
Racism plays a major role in poor education outcomes for Aboriginal children, including school attendance and grades, new research shows. But racism is not included in the central targets of Australia's overarching measure of Indigenous disadvantage, ...
Racism hits Indigenous students' attendance and gradesThe Conversation AU

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