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As big mining companies boom, Aboriginals in WA sleep in dirt
The Daily Telegraph
Atlas Iron managing director Ken Brinsden said miners were doing a lot, but deeply rooted problems with indigenous Australia were "a blight on society as a whole", and BHP said it spent $68 million on community development in WA last year. Bob Neville ...

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As big mining companies boom, Aboriginals in WA sleep in dirt
Perth Now
Atlas Iron managing director Ken Brinsden said miners were doing a lot, but deeply rooted problems with indigenous Australia were "a blight on society as a whole", and BHP said it spent $68 million on community development in WA last year. Bob Neville ...

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Australia's First Aboriginal Northern Territory Chief Minister Takes Oath of ...
Day News
Australia recently welcomed its very first aboriginal provincial government official in a historic ceremony held on Thursday. Adam Giles, 40 years old, is now Australia's Aboriginal Northern Territory government head. Prime Minister Julia Gillard ...

COAG 'is for governments only'
The Australian
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has called for sweeping changes to the way the federal government works with indigenous communities and for official national status as a participant in COAG - arguing it needs more input into ...

Indigenous leader pushes 'jobs, jobs, jobs' agenda
The Australian
AUSTRALIA'S first indigenous head of government will demand a fundamental change in the direction of federal indigenous affairs, away from the "socialism that's killing Aboriginal people" and to economic development. In his first meetings with federal ...

Frontline defence against fire and weeds
The Australian
ABORIGINAL people in remote Australia are not easily scared by fire, given their ancient tradition of managing land through this means. But the bushfires that began raging through the savanna country of northern Australia in recent years, fuelled by ...

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Abbott pledges new engagement with Indigenous Australians
ABC Message Stick
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has promised an overhaul of the Department of Indigenous Affairs under a Coalition government. Speaking at the Sydney Institute last night, Mr Abbott said he wanted a new engagement with Indigenous Australians to be the ...
Add indigenous into constitution: AbbottThe Australian
Abbott wants first Australian referendumSky News Australia
Abbott backs fines tactic to cut Aboriginal truancySydney Morning Herald

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Abbott pledges new engagement with Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has promised an overhaul of the Department of Indigenous Affairs under a Coalition government. Speaking at the Sydney Institute last night, Mr Abbott said he wanted a new engagement with Indigenous Australians to be the ...
Add indigenous into constitution: AbbottThe Australian
Abbott wants first Australian referendumSky News Australia
Abbott backs fines tactic to cut Aboriginal truancySydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott vows to 'engage' with Aborigines
Herald Sun
He committed to address "deep disadvantage" in indigenous Australia by visiting remote Aboriginal communities each year, as well as by getting doctors and teachers to take longer postings in communities. A coalition government would also expand an ...
Abbott's reconciliation pledgeThe Australian
Abbott backs fines tactic to cut Aboriginal truancySydney Morning Herald

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Abbott wants first Australian referendum
Sky News Australia
Tony Abbott says a coalition government would have a 'new engagement' with indigenous affairs, including constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people as the first Australians. Speaking in Sydney, Mr Abbott said indigenous affairs will be a priority ...

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Who is Adam GIles?
VICE
Australia's first Aboriginal head of a government has come to power, but under shady circumstances that are becoming all too common. This is not an Obama moment. Adam Giles -- a friend of federal opposition leader Tony Abbott, a former staffer for John ...

Abbott vows to 'engage' with Aborigines
The Australian
He committed to address "deep disadvantage" in indigenous Australia by visiting remote Aboriginal communities each year, as well as by getting doctors and teachers to take longer postings in communities. A coalition government would also expand an ...

Abbott vows to 'engage' with Aborigines
Ninemsn
Tony Abbott says a coalition government would have a "new engagement" with indigenous affairs, including constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people as the first Australians. Surviving great falls from the sky. READ: Surviving great falls from the ...

Indigenous party calls CLP power play 'disgusting'
ABC Online
An Aboriginal interests political party has decried the past week in Territory politics as "absolutely disgusting". Australian First Nations Political Party founder Maurie Ryan was scathing about the way new Chief Minister Adam Giles rose to power ...

Money talks in Indigenous languages scheme
ABC Online
New Federal Government cash for Indigenous languages is a "win-win" for Territory communities, a Top End anthropologist says. Linguist Murray Garde has welcomed the $14 million for languages funding, which is just a small slice of the money set aside ...

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Children's well-being report captures Australia's growing inequality
The Conversation
The report also noted Indigenous Australians faced some of the worst social, educational and health outcomes. “While that's not a surprise, I think that it is – to me – an ongoing source of anguish,” said Professor Stanley. “Take the Aboriginal ...
Mixed report card on the wellbeing of young AustraliansABC Online
Young people getting fatter, but smoking less: reportYahoo!7 News
Unattractive side to new portrait of young peopleThe Border Mail

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Gulf fire management taps into Indigenous wisdom
ABC Online
New fire management guidelines for north-west Queensland's Gulf Country have been released, combining Indigenous knowledge and modern science. Senior Indigenous ranger Terrence Taylor, from the Gangalidda Garawa people, says wildfires burnt ...

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Mount Isa miner to mentor Indigenous youth
ABC Online (blog)
Mike Westerman, who is the general manager of the Xstrata Mount Isa Copper, is the only Queenslander to be named as a mentor for the Indigenous Youth Leadership Program run by Jobs Australia. I had the chance to catch up with Mike and ask him about ...

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Add indigenous into constitution: Abbott
Yahoo!7 News
"As Paul Keating said back at Redfern all those years ago, the state of indigenous Australia does constitute a stain on our soul and we do have to get it right one day, and we certainly have to do it better in the future than we have done it in the ...

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Add indigenous into constitution: Abbott
The Australian
"As Paul Keating said back at Redfern all those years ago, the state of indigenous Australia does constitute a stain on our soul and we do have to get it right one day, and we certainly have to do it better in the future than we have done it in the ...

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