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Mines choose local Aboriginal workers over FIFOs
ABC Online
The Australian Government's champion of indigenous employment 'Twiggy' Forrest is set to deliver an interim report on how to close the employment gap for indigenous Australians. Experts say the gap is widening but the new Indigenous Affairs Minister ...

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Life expectancy for Indigenous Australians rises slightly
Radio Australia
New figures show the life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has increased over the past five to seven years, slightly narrowing the gap compared to non-Indigenous people. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says that between 2010 ...
App aims to tackle indigenous suicideThe Australian
ACCELERATE; a powerful arts toolAustralian Times
Report raises alarm over Torres Strait diabetesSBS

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Indigenous suicide: Black Dog Institute launches app to try to save lives
The Guardian
Medical experts are launching an app they hope will lower Australia's shockingly high Indigenous suicide rate, which remains up to six times that of the non-Indigenous population. Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are far more likely to kill ...
Report raises alarm over Torres Strait diabetesSBS

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App aims to tackle indigenous suicide
The Australian
"We know that indigenous Australians are not seeking face-to-face mental health care," said a Black Dog Institute researcher, Professor Helen Christensen. "More than 70 per cent of indigenous suicides occur in people who are not previously known to ...

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New learning centre at UWA hopes to improve health outcomes for Indigenous ...
ABC Online
It is hoped a new learning centre at the University of Western Australia will help improve health outcomes for Indigenous Australians. The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health has been established from a $10million donation by Greg and Kay Poche. It is ...

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Film review: Utopia - John Pilger's documentary reveals 'shocking poverty' of ...
The Independent
Australia is one of the richest countries in the world and yet, as John Pilger's angry, impassioned documentary reveals, indigenous communities still live in "unchanging, shocking poverty". The racism may no longer be as overt as in the early 1960s but ...
Utopia – reviewThe Guardian

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Another $10m gift for University of WA
The Australian
Mr Poche and his wife Kay said the couple were still committed to do their best for Indigenous Australians. "Improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians is one of our nation's biggest challenges and it is vital that we do everything we ...

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Another $10m gift for University of WA
NEWS.com.au
ANOTHER multi-millionaire has given another massive donation to the University of Western Australia, with freight magnate Greg Poche gifting $10 million for a new centre for indigenous health. Just weeks after mining billionaire Andrew Forrest gave the ...

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Campaign to improve Indigenous child protection
ABC Local
Australia's peak body for Indigenous families is launching a year-long project to address the rising rates of Indigenous children being placed in out-of-home care. Indigenous children in the Northern Territory are six times more likely than non ...

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Indigenous artists celebrated in London
SBS
Indigenous Australian artists have been celebrated at a London function hosted by the Australian High Commission and the British Council for the Arts. The five artists were the beneficiaries of the 2013 Accelerate program, now in its fourth year ...

Orratippra Station hosts Indigenous pastoralists
ABC Online
A training week for participants in an Indigenous Pastoral Program (IPP) is being held at Ooratippra Station, 400 kilometres north east of Alice Springs. Station managers and machinery operators, from far as Mistake Creek and Robinson River in the Top ...

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Senator Peris says she doubts racial divide can be bridged in Australia
ABC Online
Senator Nova Peris, Australia's first Indigenous woman to be elected to Federal Parliament, says the nation is unlikely to bridge the divide between black and white people. However, Senator Peris used her maiden speech in Parliament to warn that she ...
An Indigenous female prime minister? Fairer representation would be a startThe Guardian
First Australian Aboriginal woman senator vows to call out racismBangkok Post
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre legal director Michael Mansell Picture: Ross ...Herald Sun
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"Utopia" seeks change for Aboriginal Australians
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Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger accuses Australia of running a system of apartheid towards its Aboriginal communities in a new documentary released in cinemas in Britain this week. "Utopia", named after a large, dry region in the north of ...

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The brutal past and present are another country in secret Australia
On Line opinion
The corridors of the Australian parliament are so white you squint. The sound is hushed; the smell is floor polish. The wooden floors shine so virtuously they reflect the cartoon portraits of prime ministers and rows of Aboriginal paintings, suspended ...

Major projects the focus in indigenous employment push
The Australian
A NEW collaboration between Indigenous Business Australia and private-sector leaders such as Leighton Contractors is helping Aboriginal businesses gain supply-chain opportunities in the infrastructure and resources sectors. Working with the federal ...

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Figures show a fast-growing Indigenous population
SBS
New research shows Australia's Indigenous population is growing at a much faster rate than the non-Indigenous population. And it's expected to be more than a million by 2031. As Kerri Worthington reports, there are concerns government policy won't keep ...
Indigenous identityBangkok Post

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An Indigenous female prime minister? Fairer representation would be a start
The Guardian
The statement by prime minister Tony Abbott about an Aboriginal woman one day becoming prime minister is welcome, because it shows that Australia can no longer turn a blind eye to the lack of Aboriginal representation – a point taken by opposition ...
Ceremony 'honour' for NovaNTNews.com.au
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The Australian Financial Review
The way back: 'moving forward' in a progressive direction
On Line opinion
A larger percentage of Australians are living in poverty. The morbidity and mortality rates for Indigenous Australians remain a national disgrace and most Indigenous people earn significantly less than do other Australians. Their rate of incarceration ...
Labor gambles with debt limitThe Australian
Debt laws pass, but face Senate changesHerald Sun

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Language nests: a way to revive Indigenous languages at risk
The Conversation
Genocide, forced population removal, disease, stolen children, and community disruption — all of these have contributed to the precarious state of Indigenous languages today. Meanwhile, most Australian educational policies have been apathetic at best ...

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Indigenous Identity
Bangkok Post
"Message Stick: Indigenous Identity In Urban Australia", supported by the Australian government and ArtBank, should serve as a lesson to all mankind regardless of our version of history. This roadshow exhibition weaves social, historical and political ...