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Indigenous leader is Australia's hero
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous leader Shane Phillips has been named Australia's 2013 Local Hero for his community leadership, particularly in his local area of Redfern in inner-Sydney. The 48-year-old father of three, who is a respected member of the Redfern community, ...

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Indigenous leader is Australia's hero
The Age
Indigenous leader Shane Phillips has been named Australia's 2013 Local Hero for his community leadership, particularly in his local area of Redfern in inner-Sydney. The 48-year-old father of three, who is a respected member of the Redfern community, ...

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Indigenous people mark Survival Day
The Australian
Ms Lee would like to see the Union Jack removed from the Australian flag and replaced with the Aboriginal flag and for the nation's constitution to acknowledge indigenous people as Australia's first inhabitants. Digital Pass $1 for first 28 Days ...

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Australian Of The Year Finalist – Michael Hohnen
Music Feeds
Hohnen, co-director of Darwin-based record label Skinnyfish, manager of Gurrumul, and a key figure in the Indigenous Australian music community, can now add National Finalist Australian Of The Year 2013 to his resume – and for very good reason, as I ...

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Young refugee in the running for Young Australian of the Year
Radio Australia
AKRAM AZIMI: So we decided to do is how about we change the way non-Indigenous Australians perceive Indigenous Australians? What if we created a space in which Indigenous Australians could share their culture with non-Indigenous Australians to the ...

Aussiemite teams up with Mission Australia's restaurant, Charcoal Lane
Australian Hospitality Magazine
Charcoal Lane offers modern Australian food, such as Tanami spiced kangaroo loin, pumpkin risotto and wallaby tartare, and a range of Indigenous Australian ingredients feature prominently on the menu. Ramsay says that the company will be supporting a ...

Indigenous segment looks at violence against women
Radio Australia
If you look at the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Results, the studies and reports on indigenous Australians is comprehensive. Indigenous segment looks at violence against women (Credit: ABC). From property damage, to drug abuse the information is ...
Artists to get their shareNarromine News

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Fun and reflection: an indigenous perspective on Australia Day
Warrnambool Standard
Tarerer Gunditj chairman and event organiser Brett Clarke said the event aimed to raise awareness to the struggle of Australia's indigenous people while exposing the wider community to their often unseen culture. “The event is about bringing awareness ...

Indigenous courts can play a key role in breaking cycle
The Australian
ABORIGINAL defendants sentenced in indigenous courts in South Australia are less likely to be sent to prison, receive fines and have their driver's licence disqualified, a comparative analysis of magistrates court versus Nunga court sentences has found.

Mature Australia needs new flag: academic
The Australian
The sixth-generation Australian wanted to acknowledge all aspects of the country's history from the indigenous people through the British colonial period to modern, multicultural Australia. Digital Pass $1 for first 28 Days. "People can identify with ...

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Pharmacist standouts out at Indigenous health conference
Pharmacy News
An indigenous pharmacist was one of the standout presenters at the inaugural Indigenous Allied Health Australia National Conference (IAHANC), which was supported by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia. The conference, themed 'Joining the dots… an ...

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Little remembered with indigenous grant
The Australian
Warner Music Australia has teamed up with the Jimmy Little Foundation to provide a $10,000 grant to support managers of indigenous artists. The annual grant will be ongoing and will be distributed by the foundation to managers they deem worthy, Warner ...

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Troubling barrier broken at long last
The Australian
The Aboriginal rights activist had joined the Liberal Party in 1967. He was re-elected four times. Aden Ridgeway of the Australian Democrats in 1999 became Australia's second Aboriginal senator. And in 2010, another Liberal, Ken Wyatt, became the first ...

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Labor finally does right thing by indigenous voters
The Australian
To date the federal ALP has never had an indigenous representative in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. There are no guarantees in politics, but it is a safe bet that as the ALP candidate, Peris will be Australia's first indigenous ...

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Backlash as Australia PM pushes Aboriginal star in Senate
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SYDNEY (AFP) - Moves to ensure the election of the first Aboriginal woman to Australia's parliament met with a backlash Wednesday, with one politician saying Olympian Nova Peris would be a "maid" for the government. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has ...
Julia Gillard 'picks' Nova Peris for Senate seatThe Australian
Medalist Poised to Be First Female Australia Aboriginal LawmakerBloomberg
ALP executive backs Gillard's push for PerisABC Online
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Backlash as Australia PM pushes Aboriginal star in Senate
The West Australian
SYDNEY (AFP) - Moves to ensure the election of the first Aboriginal woman to Australia's parliament met with a backlash Wednesday, with one politician saying Olympian Nova Peris would be a "maid" for the government. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has ...
Julia Gillard 'picks' Nova Peris for Senate seatThe Australian
Medalist Poised to Be First Female Australia Aboriginal LawmakerBloomberg
Gillard picks Nova Peris to run for SenateABC Message Stick
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ALP executive backs Gillard's push for Peris
ABC Online
"But I came to my decision because I thought it was so important that we, as a federal Labor Party, embraced amongst our numbers an Indigenous Australian, an Indigenous woman of incredible merit." This was about my desire to ensure that Labor had ...

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Media bosses vie for top honour
The Australian
He formerly served as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and is co-chair of Reconciliation Australia. Dr Calma's landmark 2005 report calling for the 17-year life expectancy gap between indigenous and non-indigenous ...
'Debate needed' on Australia Day dateBigPond News
Warning as juvenile jailings hit new highThe Guardian (Australia)

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Crossin to seek preselection despite odds
The Australian
Ms Gillard said it was time Labor had an indigenous person in federal parliament, stating she knew the decision would be "controversial". However her pick also dashes the hopes of former NT education minister Marion Scrymgour, who was Australia's first ...

Incumbent Trish Crossin to fight Nova Peris for Senate spot
The Australian
Former NT education minister Marion Scrymgour, who was Australia's first indigenous female minister, had previously declared she would run against Senator Crossin for preselection for the Senate ticket. She received a phone call from Ms Gillard ...