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Indigenous community 'resilient' as mine closure talks continue
ABC Online
Residents from a remote Indigenous community in northern South Australia believe their town will suffer from, but ultimately survive, the Alinta Energy coal mine closure. The company announced last week its Leigh Creek mine and two Port Augusta power ...

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WA wants to go it alone on Aboriginal property reform
The Australian
Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee chairman has labelled “childish” and damaging to the push to create jobs and Aboriginal economic ...
Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WAABC Message Stick

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The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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WA wants to go it alone on Aboriginal property reform
The Australian
Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee chairman has labelled “childish” and damaging to the push to create jobs and Aboriginal economic ...
Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WAABC Message Stick

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The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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The Guardian
White supremacist accused of selling cannabis to Indigenous communities
The Guardian
A white supremacist and neo-Nazi supporter accused of running a large cannabis plantation is suspected of selling his product to members of an Indigenous community in north Queensland, say police. John Lee, who came to police attention through his ...

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Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WA
ABC Message Stick
The high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Australia are a blight on this country but head west and the number of Aboriginal children behind bars is truly disturbing. In fact the rates are so bad that after releasing a report on the national picture ...

Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WA
ABC Message Stick
The high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Australia are a blight on this country but head west and the number of Aboriginal children behind bars is truly disturbing. In fact the rates are so bad that after releasing a report on the national picture ...

ABC Online
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67
ABC Online
Indigenous advocate and co-founder of the national Landcare program, Phillip Toyne, has died aged 67. Mr Toyne established the environmental organisation with Rick Farley in 1989 when he was head of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Prior to that ...
Phillip Toyne, environmentalist and champion of indigenous land rights, diesThe Australian
Tributes for Phillip Toyne, the quiet giant of environmental leadershipThe Fifth Estate
Co-founder of Landcare Australia program Phillip Toyne dies at 67The Guardian
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The Australian
Phillip Toyne, environmentalist and champion of indigenous land rights, dies
The Australian
Mr Toyne is best known as the co-founder of the Landcare movement in 1989 while head of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 1986-1992; in a ground-breaking union that saw the environmental movement join forces with Australia's farmers.
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67ABC Online
Leading environmental campaigner Phillip Toyne dies at 67Sydney Morning Herald
Landcare co-founder Phillip Toyne has died aged 67Fraser Coast Chronicle
The Guardian
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The Australian
Phillip Toyne, environmentalist and champion of indigenous land rights, dies
The Australian
Mr Toyne is best known as the co-founder of the Landcare movement in 1989 while head of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 1986-1992; in a ground-breaking union that saw the environmental movement join forces with Australia's farmers.
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67ABC Online
Co-founder of Landcare Australia program Phillip Toyne dies at 67The Guardian
Leading environmental campaigner Phillip Toyne dies at 67Sydney Morning Herald
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ABC Online
Youth suicide at crisis levels among Indigenous population, experts warn
ABC Online
Across Australia, young Indigenous Australians up to 24 years old are 5.2 times more likely to die due to intentional self-harm than other young people in the same age range. Rowe Butterworth knows the struggle all too well. His parents split when he ...

ABC Online
Youth suicide at crisis levels among Indigenous population, experts warn
ABC Online
Across Australia, young Indigenous Australians up to 24 years old are 5.2 times more likely to die due to intentional self-harm than other young people in the same age range. Rowe Butterworth knows the struggle all too well. His parents split when he ...

IANS
Dalai Lama meets aborigines in Australia
IANS
... could preserve precious Aboriginal custom and traditional knowledge by adapting modern technology. He also encouraged the Aboriginal people to maintain traditional names. The Dalai Lama will finish his Australian tour with a stop in Perth on Monday.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Matildas Kyah Simon and Lydia Williams the unlikely idols of Canada's ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The two Aboriginal stars of Australian women's football are blossoming into idols of an indigenous community on the other side of the world. Proudly waving the flag of their background on the biggest stage of the world, their success story is providing ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Matildas Kyah Simon and Lydia Williams the unlikely idols of Canada's ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The two Aboriginal stars of Australian women's football are blossoming into idols of an indigenous community on the other side of the world. Proudly waving the flag of their background on the biggest stage of the world, their success story is providing ...

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ABC Online
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67
ABC Online
Indigenous advocate and co-founder of the national Landcare program, Phillip Toyne, has died aged 67. Mr Toyne established the environmental organisation with Rick Farley in 1989 when he was head of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Prior to that ...
Leading environmental campaigner Phillip Toyne dies at 67Sydney Morning Herald
Co-founder of Landcare Australia program Phillip Toyne dies at 67The Guardian

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Financial Times
Aboriginal art auction: Australia's first nation comes to the saleroom
Financial Times
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, staged at the Asia Society in New York in 1988, was the first of a run of major shows to introduce overseas audiences to the complex art produced by one of the world's oldest continuing cultures, inspiring ...

Financial Times
Aboriginal art auction: Australia's first nation comes to the saleroom
Financial Times
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, staged at the Asia Society in New York in 1988, was the first of a run of major shows to introduce overseas audiences to the complex art produced by one of the world's oldest continuing cultures, inspiring ...

Daily Life
Aboriginal groups distressed at high rate of Indigenous children removed from ...
Daily Life
Aboriginal groups are distressed at figures that show indigenous children are more than 12 times as likely to be placed in state care – a rate that places Victoria higher than the national average. Victoria has also registered the largest increase ...

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