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Marijuana Swap for Gas Marks Path for Australia Aborigines: Jobs
Businessweek
“I never thought I'd have a chance to help build something like this,” says Wood, 23, an indigenous Australian whose mother's death was related to alcohol abuse. “I used to smoke marijuana and be pretty heavy on the grog, because I didn't have anything ...

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Marijuana Swap for Gas Marks Path for Australia Aborigines: Jobs
Bloomberg
“I never thought I'd have a chance to help build something like this,” says Wood, 23, an indigenous Australian whose mother's death was related to alcohol abuse. “I used to smoke marijuana and be pretty heavy on the grog, because I didn't have anything ...
Close the gap: joint parly callThe Australian

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Marijuana Swap for Gas Marks Path for Australia Aborigines: Jobs
Bloomberg
“I never thought I'd have a chance to help build something like this,” says Wood, 23, an indigenous Australian whose mother's death was related to alcohol abuse. “I used to smoke marijuana and be pretty heavy on the grog, because I didn't have anything ...
Close the gap: joint parly callThe Australian

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Aboriginal leaders defend welcome fee
Central Western Daily
“For council to come out and say they shouldn't pay it... creates this issue that we as Aboriginal people don't support Australia Day and we've supported it since its inception,” he said. “To single out Aboriginal people because we didn't do a welcome ...

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Elite unit to drive Noel Pearson indigenous reforms
The Australian
Mr Pearson will co-chair the new steering committee with Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet associate secretary Liza Carroll to drive enormous change in the way money for indigenous Australians is spent. The Cape York leader told The Australian ...

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Elite unit to drive Noel Pearson indigenous reforms
The Australian
Mr Pearson will co-chair the new steering committee with Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet associate secretary Liza Carroll to drive enormous change in the way money for indigenous Australians is spent. The Cape York leader told The Australian ...

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Indigenous Film Star & Director Visits Red Hill
Brisbane Broncos
A touch of Hollywood came to the NRMA Insurance Broncos yesterday when Indigenous Australian film and TV writer, actor and director Wayne Blair caught up with long-time acquaintance and Head Coach Anthony Griffin at Red Hill. The Taree born and ...

Close the gap: joint parly call
Courier Mail
"We don't just do this for the benefit of our Aboriginal brothers and sisters, we do this because it's what a dignified Australia offers to all its citizens," she said. She remembers her heart sinking while listening to last year's speech, when she was ...

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Close the gap: joint parly call
The Australian
Liberal MP Ken Wyatt, the first indigenous Australian elected to the lower house, said he was happy with the status quo. He would rather parliamentarians look at ways they could personally help close the gap in their own communities. "I would like to ...

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Electoral Commission seeks Indigenous voting boost for South Australian election
ABC Online
Concerted efforts are being made to get more people in remote Aboriginal communities to vote in the South Australian election next month. Information about candidates and issues will be broadcast and published in the local language. Nearly 3,000 people ...

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88: a story of Aboriginal survival
ABC Online (blog)
For many Australians 1988, the year of the bicentenary of white settlement, was an opportunity to celebrate the survival of Australia's indigenous people. Maybe you were a part of a group of people who travelled from the NT to Sydney to remind the rest ...

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Melbourne Indigenous Arts festival: Deborah Cheetham's highlights
The Guardian (blog)
I'm often asked for advice on how to connect with Australia's Indigenous cultures. For some people a connection with the longest continuing culture in the world, whilst enticing, seems all too difficult and unnecessarily complicated. For others ...

The Guardian (blog)
Melbourne Indigenous Arts festival: Deborah Cheetham's highlights
The Guardian (blog)
I'm often asked for advice on how to connect with Australia's Indigenous cultures. For some people a connection with the longest continuing culture in the world, whilst enticing, seems all too difficult and unnecessarily complicated. For others ...
'BOABS' helps Indigenous people quit smokingHealthCanal.com

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Electoral Commission seeks Indigenous voting boost for South Australian election
The West Australian
Concerted efforts are being made to get more people in remote Aboriginal communities to vote in the South Australian election next month. Information about candidates and issues will be broadcast and published in the local language. Nearly 3,000 people ...

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A time to talk about realities of Aboriginal Australians
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
To the letter-writer "Please explain graffiti" (Your View, January 30), I too read the January 28 Leader item. However, nowhere did I read this damage was caused by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Adrian Newstead's new expose on the Aboriginal Art Market has everyone talking.
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There is no better person to tackle such a complex and layered topic as Newstead, founder of Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery (1981), Australia's oldest continuously operating Aboriginal art gallery, and former President of the Indigenous Art Trade ...
Art resale royalties an 'abject failure' for Indigenous artistsSydney Morning Herald

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Radio Australia
Federal Court rejects challenge by Aboriginal traditional owners to Rio Tinto ...
Radio Australia
The Federal Court has dismissed a legal challenge to a lease agreement between Aboriginal traditional land owners in the Northern Territory and mining giant Rio Tinto. In 2011, then prime minister Julia Gillard was part of a ceremony held in east ...

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Blak Cabaret: indigenous artists take the stage for the Indigenous Arts Festival
The Age
''The ideal is to develop it into a true sense of cabaret and get around Australia and the world.'' On the topic of who he expects in the audience, Tamiru knows that Aboriginal people will make up a major part, but given the playful nature of the work ...

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What happens to Aboriginal Australians after a stroke or traumatic brain injury?
HealthCanal.com
Professor Beth Armstrong is leading a research project examining communications disorders in Aboriginal Australians in WA. Indigenous Australians are twice as likely to suffer a stroke and 21 times as likely to suffer a traumatic brain injury as the ...

What happens to Aboriginal Australians after a stroke or traumatic brain injury?
HealthCanal.com
Professor Beth Armstrong is leading a research project examining communications disorders in Aboriginal Australians in WA. Indigenous Australians are twice as likely to suffer a stroke and 21 times as likely to suffer a traumatic brain injury as the ...