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Reynolds punctures the 'great Australian silence'
Green Left Weekly
The contribution made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the many wars that Australia has participated in since Federation will be recognised in the Anzac celebrations. However, this draws attention away from the armed conflict between ...

Warren Mundine angry as funding reform for indigenous groups delayed
The Australian
Aboriginal organisations have been saved from closure after the Prime Minister's Department extended the period for funding applications under its controversial grants system. On Sunday night, the applicants for indigenous projects across Australia ...
Pacific Islanders accused of Australian black market kava tradeRadio Australia

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Warren Mundine angry as funding reform for indigenous groups delayed
The Australian
Aboriginal organisations have been saved from closure after the Prime Minister's Department extended the period for funding applications under its controversial grants system. On Sunday night, the applicants for indigenous projects across Australia ...

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Indigenous grants extension a debacle, Greens say
The Australian
The Australian has revealed that Aboriginal organisations have been saved from impending closure after the Prime Minister's department extended the period for funding applications under its controversial new grants system. The Australian can reveal ...

Indigenous grants extension a debacle, Greens say
The Australian
The Australian has revealed that Aboriginal organisations have been saved from impending closure after the Prime Minister's department extended the period for funding applications under its controversial new grants system. The Australian can reveal ...

Australian Mining
Fortescue offers mining jobs to indigenous prisoners
Australian Mining
Aboriginal prisoners will soon have the opportunity to take on mining employment after their release, thanks to a new agreement between Fortescue Metals Group and WA Department of Corrective Services. FMG chairman Andrew Forrest has signed a ...
Job scheme to help prisonersThe West Australian

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Australian Mining
Fortescue offers mining jobs to indigenous prisoners
Australian Mining
Aboriginal prisoners will soon have the opportunity to take on mining employment after their release, thanks to a new agreement between Fortescue Metals Group and WA Department of Corrective Services. FMG chairman Andrew Forrest has signed a ...

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Australia's indigenous population take up cricket
Cricket Country
Australia's indigenous population, known as the aboriginals, are gradually taking up cricket. In this video by Cricket Australia, one can see how measures are being taken to help the indigenous population take up cricket. Australia has a National ...

Indigenous groups win extension
The Australian
The Australian has spoken to indigenous groups who would not speak on the record because they feared their funding would be compromised, but said the new criteria in the first round of the $4.8 billion Indigenous Advancement Strategy was not clear.

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Indigenous groups win extension
The Australian
The Australian has spoken to indigenous groups who would not speak on the record because they feared their funding would be compromised, but said the new criteria in the first round of the $4.8 billion Indigenous Advancement Strategy was not clear.

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Why is Australian TV still so white?
Daily Life
That stunt was still making international headlines when Karl's interview with Natalie Ahmat for the Indigenous TV network, NITV News, was released last Friday. In the wake of the screening of First Contact, the SBS show in which six white Australians ...

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Aboriginal protesters target Labor Party convention
Green Left Weekly
They were protesting against South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill's endorsement of mining magnate Andrew Forrest's controversial Indigenous Employment and Training Review. The report's proposals went beyond the narrow terms of reference ...

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Protests against closure of 150 Aboriginal communities
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Aboriginal activists rallied on the steps of parliament house in Perth on November 12 to protest against the Western Australian government's plan to close 150 remote Aboriginal communities. The rally also condemned the federal government's plan to cut ...

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Aboriginal disadvantage worsens
Green Left Weekly
In August, Abbott declared the arrival of the British First Fleet to be the “defining moment” for Australia. “It was the moment this continent became part of the modern world,” he said. The mainstream media widely described Abbott's latest insult to ...

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Colin Barnett 'hell-bent' on destroying communities
Green Left Weekly
Recently the Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, committed to closing down approximately 150 remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. The premier has claimed that the closures would be in the best interests of Aboriginal people in ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Poetic injustice as bid for Indigenous Recognition stalls
The Saturday Paper
Offer Indigenous Australians only the bare minimum – a little poetry and scouring the constitution of racist language – and their leaders will walk. “You would have people like me campaign against it,” says Dodson. “Quite seriously. In my view it would ...
Challenging ideas about indigenous AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Abbott, Hollande reach agreement over Indigenous remainsSBS
Nigel Scullion criticised for not setting goal to cut Indigenous incarcerationThe Guardian

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Western Australia to close down Aboriginal communities
Journal of Turkish Weekly
State government planning to shut 150 out of 274 remote indigenous communities. More than half of Western Australia's Aboriginal communities have been earmarked for closure, local media reported, in a policy that some have condemned as racist.
Patrick Dodson warns Aboriginal people will be refugees in their own country ...The Age
Closures worry WA Aboriginal communitiesWA today

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Indigenous heritage to be embraced in AOC constitution
The Australian
Australia's indigenous athletes have a rich history of competing and winning at the Olympic Games. From our first indigenous Olympians, Frank Roberts, Michael Ah Matt and Adrian Blair, to Cathy Freeman's legendary sprint at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, ...

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Western Australia to close down Aboriginal communities
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More than half of Western Australia's Aboriginal communities have been earmarked for closure, local media reported, in a policy that some have condemned as racist. Up to 150 of the 274 remote communities are due to be shut down with the state ...
Patrick Dodson warns Aboriginal people will be refugees in their own country ...Brisbane Times
Closures worry WA Aboriginal communitiesNEWS.com.au

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Aboriginal communities kicking goals
The Australian (blog)
THE statistics for suicide in Australia are frightening and alarming. Not only because of how prevalent it is, but also because of its indiscriminate nature and the marked and distinct increase in indigenous communities. The statistics speak for ...

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