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Indigenous Literacy Day promotes sharing and equality
SBS
We're 660 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie, and our closest community in South Australia is 350 kilometres away, so she's fairly isolated,” says school principal Charlie Klein. Author Anita Heiss says Indigenous Literacy Day is contributing towards ...
Publish community stories the focus of Indigenous Literacy DayRadio Australia

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SBS
Indigenous Literacy Day promotes sharing and equity
SBS
We're 660 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie, and our closest community in South Australia is 350 kilometres away, so she's fairly isolated,” says school principal Charlie Klein. Author Anita Heiss, says Indigenous Literacy Day is contributing towards ...
Publish community stories the focus of Indigenous Literacy DayRadio Australia

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Indigenous Australia bids for representation
SBS
One way of tackling Aboriginal disadvantage is through political representation, and that is where Indigenous Australia has always been under-represented. Australia's oldest political party, the ALP is a case in point, never having had an Aboriginal ...
Warren Mundine's indigenous manifesto – 'elegance and simplicity' or more ...Crikey (blog)

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The Age
Apathy about indigenous arts is 'cultural apartheid'
The Age
Promoter Peter Noble has lashed out over poor ticket sales for next month's Boomerang Festival, touted as Australia's most ambitious ever indigenous arts event, saying disinterest amounts to ''cultural apartheid''. Noble says the three-day event at ...

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Peak Aboriginal organisation lashes Abbott and ticks off Labor
The Australian
THE peak body representing Aborigines has criticised Tony Abbott for his lack of commitment to the organisation and failure to acknowledge the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in an evaluation of the major parties that was sent to ...

Indigenous participation in the developing north: a national emergency
The Conversation
The colonial meaning of frontier still stands in northern Australia: Indigenous people have not been conquered. Indigenous people own or control approximately 40% of statutory land titles in northern Australia. They assert coexisting rights to ...

Varsity Online
MPhil student to become first indigenous Australian to graduate from Cambridge
Varsity Online
Lilly Brown will make Cambridge history by becoming the first person of indigenous Australian descent to graduate from the University. Brown, 27, will graduate in October with a Masters of Philosophy in Politics from Trinity College. She was a ...

SBS
Indigenous First Nations party outlines it's vision
SBS
Australia's first Aboriginal political party says it's past time Indigenous voices were heard in Parliament. First Nations founder Maurie Ryan outlined the party's vision for the future at the campaign launch in Darwin. When the First Nations party ...

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Centacare's Indigenous justice scheme expanded to Eyre Peninsula
ABC Local
A program keeping young Indigenous Australians out of the courts in Port Augusta and Whyalla is being expanded to parts of the Eyre Peninsula. For the past 16 months, Centacare's Indigenous Justice Program has been steering young Aboriginal people ...

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Centacare's Indigenous justice scheme expanded to Eyre Peninsula
ABC Local
A program keeping young Indigenous Australians out of the courts in Port Augusta and Whyalla is being expanded to parts of the Eyre Peninsula. For the past 16 months, Centacare's Indigenous Justice Program has been steering young Aboriginal people ...

Young indigenous Australians set to sail
Southern Weekly
Young Indigenous Australians are being offered the chance to embark on the journey of a lifetime sailing from Devonport to Sydney aboard the tall ship Young Endeavour, as part of a special leadership scholarship. The scholarship is being provided by ...

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Young indigenous Australians set to sail
Southern Weekly
Young Indigenous Australians are being offered the chance to embark on the journey of a lifetime sailing from Devonport to Sydney aboard the tall ship Young Endeavour, as part of a special leadership scholarship. The scholarship is being provided by ...

Vote Compass: Most Australians support recognition of Indigenous people as ...
Radio Australia
Seventy per cent of respondents to the online policy tool, including a majority of Coalition voters, believe the Constitution should be amended to acknowledge Indigenous Australians as the first inhabitants. Both Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and ...

Vote Compass: Most Australians support recognition of Indigenous people as ...
ABC Online
A clear majority of Australians are in favour of recognising Indigenous Australians in the Constitution, according to the latest data from Vote Compass. Seventy per cent of respondents to the online policy tool, including a majority of Coalition voters ...

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Vote Compass: Most Australians support recognition of Indigenous people as ...
Yahoo!7 News
A clear majority of Australians are in favour of recognising Indigenous Australians in the Constitution, according to the latest data from . Seventy per cent of respondents to the online policy tool, including a majority of Coalition voters, believe ...

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unearthing indigenous fashion
The Australian
Picture: David Geraghty Source: TheAustralian. INDIGENOUS models and designers from all over Australia and New Zealand have gathered in Melbourne this week to prepare to take to the Melbourne Spring Fashion Week runway for the first time. The event ...

Numbers show most Indigenous Australians live in city
My Daily News
The demographic data showed that contrary to popular belief, most indigenous Australians lived in the cities, with 60% in major cities and inner regional areas. It also confirmed New South Wales had the largest indigenous population, at 208,000 ...

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Brisbane Times
Your other vote may help build the future
Herald Sun
For the past couple of months more than 500 indigenous kids from across Australia have also been preparing for an election. The other election. We asked these kids, many of whom have had it tougher than most, to imagine themselves as Australia's first ...
Officer who rescued Julia Gillard steps in to stop Rudd protestersCourier Mail
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Visits Darwin A Week From PollGetty Images

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Cast your vote for Indigenous kids and The Other Election
The Daily Telegraph
For Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott the main race is almost over. This week there's just the sprint to the election finishing line. A million words have been aired and no doubt there's a million more to come before next Saturday's Federal Poll. But the ...

Numbers show most Indigenous Australians live in city
Toowoomba Chronicle
The demographic data showed that contrary to popular belief, most indigenous Australians lived in the cities, with 60% in major cities and inner regional areas. It also confirmed New South Wales had the largest indigenous population, at 208,000 ...

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