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Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony Abbott
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During the 1950s, Aboriginal Australians were forcibly absorbed into white society, leaving their culture and traditions behind. They did not enjoy equal legal rights, were excluded from the census and were not permitted to vote in Queensland or ...
Outcry as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities 'lifestyle choice'Yahoo7 News
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over 'lifestyle choice' comments on remote ...Sydney Morning Herald
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Outcry as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities 'lifestyle choice'
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Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 40,000 years and the comments drew stinging criticism, with Abbott's key indigenous advisor Warren Mundine saying Aborigines had a cultural connection to their land, and it was not simply a matter of ...
Of three remote communities here, why are only the two Aboriginal ones under ...The Guardian
Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony AbbottThe Australian
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
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Indigenous advisers slam Tony Abbott's 'lifestyle choice' comments as ...
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Tony Abbott's key Indigenous advisers have slammed his description of living in remote communities as a "lifestyle choice", saying the statement is "hopeless", "disrespectful" and simplistic. Yesterday, Mr Abbott backed a plan in Western Australia to ...
Tony Abbott's lifestyle comments highlight the lack of policy in Aboriginal ...Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott loses Aboriginal friends as disappointed expectations pile upThe Australian
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
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Aboriginal land rights in Western Australia – timeline
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1905 Western Australia introduces the Aborigines Act, allowing the forcible removal of children and the corralling of Aboriginal people on to reserves and making the “chief protector of Aborigines” the legal guardian of every Aboriginal person in the ...
Bigger is not necessarily better for indigenous communitiesSydney Morning Herald

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Fury as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities a 'lifestyle choice'
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Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 40,000 years and the comments drew stinging criticism, with Abbott's key indigenous advisor Warren Mundine saying Aboriginal people had a cultural connection to their land, and it was not simply a matter ...
Abbott stands by 'racist' gaffeNEWS.com.au
Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over 'lifestyle choice' comments on remote ...Sydney Morning Herald
Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony AbbottThe Australian
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Indigenous Australians Still Not Thrilled About 'Lifestyle Choice' To Take ...
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“I know every other time representatives of the Australian government have tried to take land off indigenous populations it's been horrific but maybe this time it'll be great and everyone will be super fine with it. Practice makes perfect, after all ...

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Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'
NEWS.com.au
Mr Mundine, a respected indigenous leader and the head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council said this morning Mr Abbott had failed to understand the connection indigenous Australians have with the land. He said it was not a lifestyle choice.
Tony Abbott opens gap with indigenous communityThe Australian
Remote Indigenous communities are vital for our fragile ecosystemsThe Conversation AU
Tony Abbott calling remote communities a 'lifestyle choice' exposes a crucial ...Business Insider Australia
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Aboriginal organisations feeling cost of Federal Government funding cuts call ...
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Peak Aboriginal organisations from Central Australia held an emergency meeting in Alice Springs on Tuesday to discuss expected cuts to frontline services following the announcement last week of who will share in $860 million of Commonwealth funding.

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Aboriginal organisations feeling cost of Federal Government funding cuts call ...
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Peak Aboriginal organisations from Central Australia held an emergency meeting in Alice Springs on Tuesday to discuss expected cuts to frontline services following the announcement last week of who will share in $860 million of Commonwealth funding.

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Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'
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“What we can't do is endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to the kind of full participation in Australian society that everyone should have.” Opposition indigenous affairs spokesman Shayne Neumann demanded ...
Indigenous remote living a lifestyle: PMThe Australian
Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over 'lifestyle choice' comments on remote ...Sydney Morning Herald
PM says Indigenous remote living a 'choice'Sky News Australia
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Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over 'lifestyle choice' comments on remote ...
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Speaking after the Aboriginal drama Charlie's Country won best film and best director at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards in Sydney, the director of such acclaimed indigenous dramas as The Tracker and Ten Canoes described the comment as ...
Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony AbbottThe Australian
Prime Minister Tony Abbott visits Kalgoorlie-Boulder amid calls to address ...ABC Local
Tony Abbott a 'disgrace', says Federal Opposition after comments that living ...Radio Australia

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Tony Abbott a 'disgrace', says Federal Opposition after comments that living ...
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"Any organisation with a Reconciliation Action Plan will hopefully appreciate the simplistic and disrespectful comments from the Prime Minister and understand the strategy he is pursuing to de-legitimise the cultural practices of Aboriginal Australians'.".
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Facility to help close gap in Indigenous health
The North West Star
IMPROVING the life expectancy of indigenous Australians will be among the priorities for a new research centre in Brisbane. A $10 million donation from Sydney couple Greg Poche and Kay van Norton Poche has helped establish the Poche Indigenous ...

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Indigenous remote living a lifestyle: PM
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Mr Neumann said the self-declared prime minister for indigenous affairs had form in this area, referring to Mr Abbott's claim that Australia was unsettled before British “foreign investment”. “He has trashed his reputation, he doesn't deserve that ...
PM says Indigenous remote living a 'choice'Sky News Australia
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Remote communities are 'lifestyle choices', says Tony AbbottThe Guardian
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Canberra Aboriginal health advocate Aunty Judy Harris dies
The Canberra Times
"To achieve that level of progress and success is a major tribute to Aunty Jude's total commitment and dedication to improving health outcomes for Aboriginal Australians in this region. It also reflects her equal commitment to ensuring the ACT had one ...

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Violence against indigenous women 'dire'
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The funding cuts to legal aid services in central Australia and the Top End would have a direct impact on family violence, the hearing was told, as organisations struggled to represent clients while facing soaring workloads and increasing costs.

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Indigenous services plead with federal government to rethink cuts
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Guardian Australia has spoken with numerous organisations who have lost all funding, had their usual annual budgets cut or had their budgets renewed at the same levels for 12 to 18 months. The chief adviser on Indigenous affairs, Warren Mundine, told ...

Greek Reporter
Greeks in Melbourne Impressed by Aboriginal Academic's Lecture
Greek Reporter
Distinguished Aboriginal academic and activist Dr. Gary Foley called for the Parthenon Marbles' and Australian indigenous artifacts' return from the British Museum to their rightful place, in his lecture during a series of seminars on Greek History and ...

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Poche Indigenous health centre opens in Queensland
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Mr Poche, the founder and former owner of logistics company Star Track Express, said the 11-year health and life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was unacceptable. “Improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous ...

Poche Indigenous health centre opens in Queensland
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Mr Poche, the founder and former owner of logistics company Star Track Express, said the 11-year health and life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was unacceptable. “Improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous ...