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Australia May Stop Providing Water and Power to Remote Aboriginal Communities
VICE News
Up to 200 indigenous communities in Australia could lose access to power and water because the government says it can no longer afford to deliver the basic services. The remote communities are mainly located across the northern tip of Australia and the ...

GOOD Magazine
Australia's Anti-Gentrification Aboriginal Tent Embassy Perseveres
GOOD Magazine
Residents of Redfern, an impoverished inner-city suburb in Sydney, Australia, are fighting against gentrification with an Aboriginal tent embassy situated on The Block, a piece of land allocated to Australia's indigenous people in 1973. The tent ...

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Stuff.co.nz
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves: Australia Indigenous all stars ought to play Maori ...
Stuff.co.nz
Sydney Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has flagged the prospect of pitting New Zealand's Maori warriors against Australia's Indigenous greats as rugby league's All Stars game continues to struggle for traction on the Gold Coast. With sluggish ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous all stars should play New Zealand's Maori team, says Jared Waerea ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has flagged the prospect of pitting New Zealand's Maori warriors against Australia's Indigenous greats as rugby league's All Stars game continues to struggle for traction on the Gold Coast. With sluggish ...
All Stars needs Maori side: JWHFox Sports

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Aljazeera.com
Australian Aborigines defying gentrification
Aljazeera.com
Sydney, Australia - Aboriginal activist Jenny Munro, a 59-year-old Wiradjuri woman, set up The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in the inner-city suburb of Redfern on May 26, 2014, to protest the Aboriginal Housing Company's (AHC) commercial development plans ...

The West Australian
February 9, 2015, 1:47 pm
The West Australian
Under Australia's laws, Aboriginals were effectively non-citizens in their own lands at the beginning of the last century, consigned to a status as “wards” of the local Protector of Aboriginals. Strangely, given their lack of human rights, many ...

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Spend 'to save WA Aboriginal communities'
Courier Mail
REMOTE Aboriginal communities in Western Australia should be kept alive by Royalties for Regions, Labor says. UP to 150 communities are facing foreclosure after the state decided not to fill a gap in essential services funding left by the federal ...

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Spend 'to save WA Aboriginal communities'
The Australian (blog)
REMOTE Aboriginal communities in Western Australia should be kept alive by Royalties for Regions, Labor says. UP to 150 communities are facing foreclosure after the state decided not to fill a gap in essential services funding left by the federal ...

Courier Mail
Sydney Airport to honour Aboriginal aviation pioneer and airforce hero
Courier Mail
Len Waters was the first Aboriginal Australian military aviator and the only one to serve as a fighter pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, flying a staggering 95 missions in the sky above New Guinea. He also spent almost his ...

Toronto Star
Uluru, Australia: Aboriginal tourism takes root
Toronto Star
Led by an aboriginal bush guide, who enjoys exclusive access, to, among other things, a spectacular bird-gathering place, it finishes with a traditional campfire bush-food cook-up under one of the glorious sunsets of the Top End as Northern Australia ...

Template in place for progress
The Australian
Only 16 per cent of 17 to 24-year-olds in remote indigenous Australia are in full-time work or study. More adults are dependent on welfare than work. Yet as recently as 1971, the indigenous male employment rate was 66.2 per cent — almost as high as ...

SBS
Abbott must do more in Indigenous Affairs: Mundine
SBS
Tony Abbott and the French President announced they would form a "joint expert committee to coordinate and determine the processes needed to identify and also to ascertain the origin of the Indigenous Australian human remains conserved in French public ...

Bridging the digital divide in Indigenous communities
The Age
Yet a significant digital divide exists between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Indigenous people are 69 per cent less likely than non-Indigenous people to have any internet connection and are half as likely to have broadband access, largely ...

The Guardian (blog)
Book ahead, Australia: Melbourne fashion, Revealed art, babies proms
The Guardian (blog)
Perth's Revealed art exhibition showcases emerging West Australian Indigenous artists. The sheer breadth of emerging Indigenous art talent will be on show at Perth's Revealed exhibition in April. More than 25 art centres will showcase and sell the work ...

Aboriginal flag plan for council
Port Lincoln Times
Councillor Travis Rogers put forward a motion for three flags to be flown - the Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags - but councillor Linda Davies moved a successful amendment to exclude the Torres Strait Islander flag because there ...

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Architecture and Design
Australian architects pledge to Aboriginal internship program
Architecture and Design
GHD, Cox Architecture and SJB Architecture will provide at least 10 internships each year for the next 10 years to Indigenous Australian university students as part of their commitment to the CareerTrackers program. CareerTrackers is a national non ...

Architecture and Design
Australian architects pledge to Aboriginal internship program
Architecture and Design
GHD, Cox Architecture and SJB Architecture will provide at least 10 internships each year for the next 10 years to Indigenous Australian university students as part of their commitment to the CareerTrackers program. CareerTrackers is a national non ...

Thompson holds centre stage
The West Australian
Thompson holds centre stage Star turn: Jack Thomson with playwright David Milroy and Aboriginal Theatre student Alan Little. Picture: Bill Hatto/The West Australian. Legendary actor Jack Thompson settles into a perfectly lit theatre and launches a ...

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Family still waiting for inquest into woman's death in custody
ABC Message Stick
The family of an Aboriginal woman who died last year in police custody in Western Australia are demanding an urgent inquest into the 22-year-old's death. Ms Dhu died in South Hedland in the Pilbara and her family said they had no idea what caused her ...

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ABC Online
Ms Dhu's family call for urgent inquest into Aboriginal woman's death in ...
ABC Online
The family of an Aboriginal woman who died last year in police custody in Western Australia are demanding an urgent inquest into the 22-year-old's death. Ms Dhu died in South Hedland in the Pilbara and her family said they had no idea what caused her ...

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