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Comment: Indigenous education requires needs-based funding
SBS (blog)
By Tony Dreise, Australian Council for Educational Research. PISA 2012: How Australia measures up shows that Indigenous 15-year-olds remain about two-and-a-half years behind their non-Indigenous peers in schooling. These troubling results yet again ...

Work Opportunities for Indigenous Apprentices
Pro Bono Australia
"My department is the biggest and most diverse federal government employer with a wide range of careers available supporting all Australians through Centrelink, Medicare and Child Support, all agencies that work closely with Indigenous people right ...

Indigenous cricket study heads to Harrow
ABC Local
"It's part of a pilot research project that the National Centre for Indigenous Studies and Cricket Australia have partnered up on to look at some of the issues at getting Indigenous cricketers into the game and what are some of the barriers and what ...

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Aboriginal Australians Managed the Forest Better than Europeans
Care2.com
Yet, Australia has also been inhabited by humans for thousands of years. These humans clearly had a functional relationship with the fires that raged across the continent, or they wouldn't have been able to survive. How did they do it? Australia's ...
Give NDIS a chance, MP tells Top EndThe Australian

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Aboriginal beauty treatments
Stuff.co.nz
Further research led Heron to Aboriginal elder and "healing man", Kakkib Li'Dthia Warrawee'a from the Ya'idt-Midtung people of north-east Victoria, who taught her about "touch therapy" used by Aboriginal Australians. "He agreed to teach me because he ...

Indigenous station manual released
ABC Online
The Department of Agriculture funded the study, which was based on various stations in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Lamboo Station, in WA's Kimberley, and Mistake Creek, in the Northern Territory, were some of the stations ...

Coles has 16000 jobs in pipeline
The Australian
SUPERMARKET giant Coles will create 16,000 new jobs across Australia - including 2000 indigenous jobs - as part of a major store expansion over the next three years. Coles managing director Ian McLeod yesterday announced the $1.1 billion expansion ...

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Pub condemned for banning indigenous
Sky News Australia
Western Australia's hotels association has joined in the condemnation of a rural landlord who banned service to indigenous customers after her mobile phone was allegedly stolen. Deborah Ovens, the publican of the Denver City Hotel in Coolgardie, placed ...
WA publican apologises after banning Indigenous patronsSBS

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Australia: Coles to create more than 16000 new jobs
Updated News
Coles Managing Director Ian McLeod, who met Tony Abbott in Canberra today, also pledged to treble the number of indigenous team members from 1,000 to 3,000 before the year 2020. The expansion announcement comes as the company marks the ...

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'No indigenous' pub owner apologises
WA today
"She runs the risk now of offending lots of aboriginal people in Coolgardie... I can't understand why you would do something so stupid." Australian Hotels Association CEO Bradley Woods said he encouraged authorities to prosecute the business to the ...
Pub condemned for banning indigenousSky News Australia
WA publican apologises for barring Indigenous patronsSBS
Manager of Denver City Hotel defends racist note posted in response to stolen ...NEWS.com.au
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'No indigenous' pub owner apologises
WA today
Talkback caller Lisa told Radio 6PR that her nephew, an Aboriginal man working in the mining industry, was refused service when he went into the pub with a group of non-Aboriginal work friends. "We went up to the bar and they wouldn't serve him, he ...
WA publican apologises for barring Indigenous patronsSBS
Publican sorry for racist signThe West Australian
Bar owner defends racist signThe Dominion Post

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Coles' 100th birthday gift: 16000 jobs
The Australian
Mr McLeod said Coles had already made a solid start in helping indigenous Australians find jobs over the last five years but more needed to be done to provide more secure jobs and careers for indigenous Australians across the country. “We want to do ...

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Schools scheme a major success
The Australian
As the founder of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, and the St Joseph's College Indigenous Fund before that, I have been working in this area for more than 10 years in partnership with some of the leading schools and educators in ...

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'Cut the cash and we won't close the gap'
The Australian
Dr Brown, who was in one of the first groups of Aboriginal medical graduates in Australia and previously an indigenous health adviser to the Australian Medical Association, was yesterday appointed as Warren Mundine's deputy after receiving the backing ...

'Cut the cash and we won't close the gap'
The Australian
Dr Brown, who was in one of the first groups of Aboriginal medical graduates in Australia and previously an indigenous health adviser to the Australian Medical Association, was yesterday appointed as Warren Mundine's deputy after receiving the backing ...

Chemistry World
Geological technique adapted to analyse Aboriginal Australian objects
Chemistry World
Aboriginal Australian people use mineral pigments such as kaolinite and hematite to decorate wood, bark, resin and other organic substances. The analysis of these materials in a non-destructive way can be extremely challenging. In objects with ...

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Chemistry World
Geological technique adapted to analyse Aboriginal Australian objects
Chemistry World
Aboriginal Australian people use mineral pigments such as kaolinite and hematite to decorate wood, bark, resin and other organic substances. The analysis of these materials in a non-destructive way can be extremely challenging. In objects with ...

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AIME gives $38m back to Australia's economy
SBS
The programs CEO Jack Bancroft, is hoping Federal and State governments will consider expanding the AIME concept as it is now regarded as the biggest support provider to Indigenous high school students in Australia. If the KPMG survey results generate ...

South Australia Police Caught in Perjury Against Aboriginal Elder
Mathaba.Net
The Labor Weatherill government had called upon Tribal Elders to attend parliament in relation to their inclusion in the State constitution, and many local Aboriginal leaders took up the offer, believing they were being asked into parliament for their ...

gap program to target dementia
The Australian
Dementia affects the indigenous community earlier in life, with 73 per cent of indigenous dementia cases occurring between the age of 60 and 70; compared with 70 and older for the majority of non-Aboriginal Australians. Alzheimer's Australia chief ...