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Sleeping Beauty: why indigenous languages need to be saved from the brink
The Australian
By revitalising indigenous languages not only will we help mend faults of the past but we will be facilitating social progress by creating a greater collective understanding between non-indigenous and indigenous Australians. The revitalisation of ...

Call to renew indigenous health deal
The Australian
"Continued investment is essential if we are to build on this excellent work and be the generation to end the national disgrace that sees Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples die more than 10 years younger than the broader Australian community ...
Call for indigenous mental health targetNEWS.com.au

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From start to finish: why Katie Prince's now a pioneer for indigenous students
The Australian
After growing up in Mungindi, on the NSW-Queensland border, she went to board at St Catherine's, an independent girls' school in Waverley in Sydney's eastern suburbs, with the help of a scholarship from the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.

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Katter MPs call for Indigenous Australians to receive wages compo
Australian Times
The unofficial shadow cabinet of Katter's Australian Party has announced its first policy in the lead-up to the 2013 Federal election, calling for Indigenous Australians to be paid more than $20 million in compensation for wages routinely withheld from ...

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Most indigenous kids completing Year 12
The West Australian
Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released on Wednesday show that last year, for the first time, 51.1 per cent of indigenous students were sticking with their schooling all the way through to Year 12. This is well up from the 38 per ...
ACT indigenous school retention rate slipsThe Canberra Times
From start to finish: why Katie Prince's now a pioneer for indigenous studentsThe Australian

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Most indigenous kids completing Year 12
The Australian
FEDERAL Schools Minister Peter Garrett says he's proud that more than half of indigenous students are now staying in school and finishing Year 12. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released on Wednesday show that last year, for the ...

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Indigenous Small Business Start Up Tools
Sydney Morning Herald
The Learning Workshop has released a resource kit - the Natural Born Fighter: Indigenous Small Business Start Up Tools - to help Indigenous entrepreneurs get their business started. The resource was funded by the Australian Government's Workplace ...

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Closing the indigenous jobs gap
The Australian Financial Review
The chairman of solar panel installation firm Mark Group Australia says he was “fairly moved by what was said and done and it got me thinking about what we could do to help close the gap [on indigenous disadvantage]”. But five years later, Grant has ...

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challenge over indigenous jobs
The Australian
"It's a challenge to both . . . to go into this coming election knowing that Australia is now sick of it," he will say at a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of his GenerationOne indigenous employment initiative. "It has the weapons to rid us of ...

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search unearths a fashion first
The Australian
BROOME and Auckland may be a long way from the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival runway, but that hasn't stopped about 80 young indigenous fashion designers and models making the journey this week from around Australia and New Zealand.

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Jessica Mauboy Brings Australian Indigenous Film 'The Sapphires' to US
Singersroom News
After earning a nomination for 'Female Actress of the Year” in Bran Nue Dae, Jessica Mauboy will star in 'The Sapphires' film. Mauboy plays Julie one of four indigenous women in an Australian a pop group that entertains troops during the Vietnam War.
The Sapphires Interviews: Wayne Blair and Shari SebbensHuffington Post
'The Sapphires' Review Roundup: Australian Film Dazzles CriticsLatinos Post

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Lend Lease works to boost indigenous employment
The Australian Financial Review
“The first one was initiated six years ago with National Australia Bank and they are beginning to see the business drivers behind it.” The RAP process not only increases cultural awareness of Indigenous culture but helps companies get a better ...

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'Long way to go' for reconciliation
The Australian
JAMES Packer acknowledged yesterday that his Crown group had "a long way to go" to meet its goal to provide more long-term, sustainable employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people after formally launching its ...

Private sector can do more to engage indigenous talent
The Australian
Closing the Work Gap in Corporate Australia, a partnership between the Diversity Council Australia, Reconciliation Australia and Lend Lease, said that private sector engagement with indigenous communities had improved over recent years, but new ...

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Corporates urged to act on indigenous jobs
The Australian
Indigenous leaders across a range of sectors surveyed by the Diversity Council of Australia have scored corporates 5.1 out of 10 on average for indigenous engagement. While most participants acknowledged there had been improvement over the past five to ...
Business improves indigenous engagement: reportThe Australian Financial Review
Micah Projects and BHSC invite you to a special Close the Gap event on ThursdayThe Westender
Long way to go in closing the work gap: reportSBS

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Close indigenous work gap in private sector, report urges
The Australian
Closing the Work Gap in Corporate Australia, a partnership between the Diversity Council Australia, Reconciliation Australia and Lend Lease, acknowledged that private sector engagement with indigenous communities has improved over the past five to 10 ...

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James Packer launches plan for 2000 indigenous jobs at Crown by 2021
The Australian
Crown has developed indigenous employment programs at its two Australian properties Melbourne and Perth. “Our commitment to offer 2000 job opportunities to Indigenous Australians remains today as strong as ever,'' Mr Packer said today. “In 2009 when ...
Business improves indigenous engagement: reportThe Australian Financial Review

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Joining the dots: Indigenous art and language in the national cultural policy
The Conversation
Arts minister Simon Crean's newly released cultural policy, Creative Australia, represents a refreshing change. It is underpinned by an understanding that not only are the arts closely linked to each other, but also to all Australians' physical and ...
Business improves indigenous engagement: reportThe Australian Financial Review

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Business improves indigenous engagement: report
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous leaders and employment experts have given corporate Australia an overall ranking of 5.1 out of 10 for its efforts to engage with indigenous people. The report, Closing the Work Gap in Corporate Australia, was commissioned by the Diversity ...

NT rejects funds for dialysis centres
The Australian
A TWO-YEAR bid to improve dialysis services for indigenous people in central Australia has collapsed after the Northern Territory government handed back $10 million in funding to build two remote service centres in Alice Springs and Tennant Creek.