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The West Australian
Productive jobs breathe life into desert outposts
The West Australian
The study said: “Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa has demonstrated success where many other initiatives have failed, by improving the lives of Aboriginal Australians.” It found that KJ's promoted activities have saved 41 years of Aboriginal incarceration over the ...

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Aboriginal protesters confront Premier
The West Australian
... and work with the government to improve the lifestyle and opportunities for Aboriginal people. A protester makes her voice heard in a rally against the closure of remote Aboriginal communities and deaths in custody. Picture: Bill Hatto/ The West ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty per cent still think it's OK to discriminate against Indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
An advertising campaign that explores the casual racism of Australians towards Indigenous people has been viewed more than 3.75 million times, but 20 per cent of respondents to a beyondblue survey still think it is OK to discriminate against Aboriginal ...
More than 1000 protesters rally against closure of Aboriginal remote ...ABC Online
Senate inquiry to target contentious Indigenous funding strategyThe Guardian
2015 #ClosetheGap: focus on remote communities, funding cuts, & improving ...Crikey (blog)
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Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty per cent still think it's OK to discriminate against Indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
An advertising campaign that explores the casual racism of Australians towards Indigenous people has been viewed more than 3.75 million times, but 20 per cent of respondents to a beyondblue survey still think it is OK to discriminate against Aboriginal ...
Vale Dr Alf Bamblett: Australia mourns indigenous leaderThird Sector
Advice 'falling on deaf ears', Indigenous Advisory Council members sayThe Guardian
Tony Abbott's words recall our 200 years in cold: MundineThe Australian
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Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty per cent of Australians still think it's OK to discriminate against ...
Sydney Morning Herald
An advertising campaign that explores the casual racism of white Australians towards Indigenous people has been viewed more than 3.75 million times, but 20 per cent of people still think it's OK to discriminate against Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Vale Dr Alf Bamblett: Australia mourns indigenous leaderThird Sector
Advice 'falling on deaf ears', Indigenous Advisory Council members sayThe Guardian
Tony Abbott's words recall our 200 years in cold: MundineThe Australian
Crikey (blog) -SBS -ABC Message Stick
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2015 #ClosetheGap: focus on remote communities, funding cuts, & improving ...
Crikey (blog)
Since that interchange, we have undertaken a large body of research investigating disparities in heart disease and medical care between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Western Australians. The results from this work is summarised in our recently released ...

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Australia: Elderly and frail Aborigines denied access to shelter as Cyclone ...
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Five elderly Aboriginal people with medical conditions were denied access to both the local hospital and cyclone shelter as the severe tropical cyclone Olwyn moved towards the West Australian coastline north of Carnarvon on 12 March, 2015. Ahead of the ...

SBS
Indigenous WA communities waiting to hear about their future
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Consultation will begin with remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia mid-year with up to 150 facing closure. The closures were flagged by the state government seven months ago, but Indigenous communities say they still have no idea of what ...
WA Awards Artists ChosenAboriginal Art Directory News

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The Guardian
Advice 'falling on deaf ears', Indigenous Advisory Council members say
The Guardian
The council is made up of a dozen prominent Australians, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and meets six times a year to discuss how best to close the gap in health, education, employment and other important policy areas. All have signed agreements ...

The Conversation AU
Gargoyles and silence: 'our story' at the Australian War Memorial
The Conversation AU
The representation of Indigenous peoples as fauna is indicative of their treatment throughout Australian history. Indigenous Australians were not accorded citizenship and voting rights until 1967, some 26 years after the AWM opened and 49 years after ...

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Gargoyles and silence: 'our story' at the Australian War Memorial
The Conversation AU
The representation of Indigenous peoples as fauna is indicative of their treatment throughout Australian history. Indigenous Australians were not accorded citizenship and voting rights until 1967, some 26 years after the AWM opened and 49 years after ...

The Guardian
Indigenous public sector jobs to be boosted through enforced targets
The Guardian
“There are many Indigenous-owned companies capable of supplying services to the commonwealth and winning a much greater share of commonwealth work.” A spokeswoman for Scullion told Guardian Australia government agencies enter into “thousands ...

The Conversation AU
Wiradjuri words show the power of learning Australia's first languages
The Conversation AU
Acknowledging Australia's traditional owners of country and paying respect to Indigenous elders past and present has become a normal part of ceremonies held across the nation. But in the current New South Wales election, one non-Indigenous political ...

The Conversation AU
Wiradjuri words show the power of learning Australia's first languages
The Conversation AU
Acknowledging Australia's traditional owners of country and paying respect to Indigenous elders past and present has become a normal part of ceremonies held across the nation. But in the current New South Wales election, one non-Indigenous political ...

Third Sector
Vale Dr Alf Bamblett: Australia mourns indigenous leader
Third Sector
He was a key force behind the launch of Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care in response to the amount of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children being removed from their families. Dr Bamblett was named Victorian Aboriginal ...
Lowitja O'Donoghue: Abbott is 'as weak as water'SBS

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Third Sector
Vale Dr Alf Bamblett: Australia mourns indigenous leader
Third Sector
In a statement yesterday, SNAICC Chairperson Sharron Williams said “Dr Bamblett was an articulate and, when the need arose, feisty advocate advising the highest levels of government on issues such as Indigenous education, disadvantage, land rights, ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Canberra art collector Alan Boxer leaves National Gallery of Australia bequest ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Co-executor of his estate Kristian Pithie, who ran the Chapman Gallery selling Australian Indigenous art in Manuka for several years, said Mr Boxer, a bachelor who lived modestly and left no immediate family, had been one of his most discerning clients.
Former Treasury official Alan Boxer leaves famous Australian paintings to the ...The Daily Telegraph
Top Australian contemporary art worth more than $8 million donated to National ...ABC Online

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Australia Increases Support for Aboriginal Health Programs in 2015
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The Australian Human Rights Commission has repeatedly stated that the country's indigenous peoples have on average poorer health status than other Australians. Aborigines live on average 10-17 years less than other Australians, and children born in ...

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Australia Increases Support for Aboriginal Health Programs in 2015
Sputnik International
The Australian Human Rights Commission has repeatedly stated that the country's indigenous peoples have on average poorer health status than other Australians. Aborigines live on average 10-17 years less than other Australians, and children born in ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal people denied access to cyclone shelter
ABC Online
Category three Severe Tropical Cyclone Olwyn was moving south towards the West Australian coastline north of Carnarvon on Thursday 12th March. Authorities had ordered the evacuation of the tourism community of Coral Bay, 240 kilometres north of the ...