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Gawler born indigenous artist Christian Thompson makes history in the UK
Herald Sun
The Gawler-born 35-year-old is one of the first two Indigenous Australians to study at Oxford University and when a survey show of his work went up in the prestigious university's Trinity Dining Hall earlier this year, the notoriously conservative ...

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Taskforce to transform relations between Indigenous people and state
The Guardian
An "empowered communities group", which will unite a number of prominent Indigenous Australians from communities in six states and territories and will be led by the Indigenous leader and director of the Cape York Institute Noel Pearson, seeks to ...
Abbott matches Labor indigenous pledgeSky News Australia

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Abbott matches Labor indigenous pledge
Sky News Australia
Australia's indigenous people won't survive without a new commitment to jobs and education, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says. Mr Abbott was in Sydney on Wednesday to announce a coalition government would match the Labor government's $5 million ...

Electoral Commission works to stop informal Indigenous vote
ABC Online
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has identified informal voting as a major issue in western Sydney, particularly amongst the Indigenous community. It is estimated that half the Australian Indigenous population is not enrolled to vote and only ...

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Research centre funded to bring fresh approach to Indigenous health gap
ABC Online
Researchers at a new national centre will work with health providers in Indigenous communities to reduce the impact of chronic disease and attempt to explain why previous attempts to close the gap have failed. The centre will be based at the University ...

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Richest Indigenous art prize awarded
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Multidisciplinary artist, Brian Robinson, of Waiben (Thursday Island), has been awarded Australia's richest indigenous arts prize, the Western Australian Indigenous Art Award. Robinson's winning piece, Up in the heavens the gods contemplate their next ...

Puzzle over 900-year-old African coins found in Australia reveals Aboriginal ...
Art Daily
An ancient Kilwa coin from Africa, believed to date from about 1100, from the collection of Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. Solving the mystery of how 900-year-old African coins ended up in remote Australia could not only recast the history of foreign ...

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Treasure trove of Indigenous language documents unearthed at NSW State Library
ABC Online
A treasure trove of Indigenous language documents from across Australia has been discovered in the New South Wales State Library. The accounts of early contact between Aboriginal people and European settlers were unearthed during a forensic search of ...

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Clive Palmer wrong on infant mortality rates
ABC Online
"Australia has the highest rate of infant mortality in the world among our Indigenous population," Mr Palmer said in a speech at the party's official campaign launch on Sunday. "Australian children are dying faster than children in Africa, Asia and ...
Clive Palmer aims to restore the Lucky CountryView News Sunshine Coast

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Remote polling booths seek to raise indigenous voter participation
The Australian
Voting began at remote locations across Australia this morning, with 38 mobile polling teams heading out on a journey that will take them across an area covering more than 3.4 million square kilometres. Following the recommendations of a major review ...
Remote voting teams on the move in NTYahoo!7 News

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Darwin Aboriginal camp suffering neglect and disrepair
ABC Online
... gets to be Prime Minister, Tony Abbott says fixing Australia's greatest "national failure" - dire Indigenous disadvantage - will be one of his personal priorities, and he says average Australians are very uneasy about the predicament of Indigenous ...

Darwin Aboriginal camp under threat from development
ABC Online
If he gets to be prime minister, Tony Abbott says fixing Australia's greatest 'national failure' - dire Indigenous disadvantage - will be one of his personal priorities. The One Mile Dam Aboriginial camp from where we're broadcasting this morning is ...

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Indigenous councils unite to save threatened turtles
ABC Local
Three Indigenous councils on far north Queensland's western Cape York have joined forces to help protect endangered and vulnerable turtles. The Northern Peninsula, Mapoon and Pormpuraaw councils will pool resources and expertise to better coordinate ...

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Comment: The unfinished business of reducing Indigenous incarceration
SBS
Every two years, the Productivity Commission releases a report on the level of Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. These reports make for fairly bleak reading: most indicators show no change, and in some areas the “gap” between Indigenous and ...

Change needs a conservative: Noel Pearson
The Australian
Mr Abbott's pledge to put Aboriginal Australia at the centre of his agenda is widely regarded as significant by indigenous leaders because the area has traditionally been seen as a Labor stronghold. Mr Abbott's decision to make the commitment in his ...

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Unfinished business: reducing Indigenous incarceration
The Conversation
Every two years, the Productivity Commission releases a report on the level of Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. These reports make for fairly bleak reading: most indicators show no change, and in some areas the “gap” between Indigenous and ...

Indigenous health spending greater in remote areas
Invest in Australia
The report, Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2010-11: an analysis by remoteness and disease released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), provides additional detail to a report entitled ...

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In Australia, what may be a 'new' indigenous language has been recorded
Boing Boing
US-based Australian linguist Carmel O'Shannessy has documented what she believes are "the beginnings of what's been described as the world's newest known spoken language." Light Walpiri is described as a blend of one small indigenous Australian ...

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Winner of the West Australian Indigenous Art prize announced
SBS
A broad field of traditional and contemporary artists were on hand for the richest prize awarded for Indigenous Art in Australia. There were two top awards: the Best West Australian Piece and Best Overall. Warmun Ochre artist Churchill Cann was the ...
Kimberley man wins Indigenous art prizeABC Local
Artwork up there with the bestThe West Australian

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The Guardian
Health costs mount for Indigenous Australians in remote areas
The Guardian
Health expenditure on potentially preventable hospital treatment of Indigenous Australians is more than double the expenditure on non-Indigenous Australians, a new report shows – but the cause is unclear. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare ...

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