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Mundine seeks national rollout for school-based jobs program
The Australian
"In particular we would like to see the program rolled out in Western Australia," Mr Mundine said. The program runs only in NSW and Queensland. "We hear a lot of indigenous adults say they are in a cycle of despair because they can't get a job and have ...

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DNA confirms recent Indian influx
SBS
New DNA research suggests a genetic relationship between Australia's Indigenous people and more recently arrived Indian migrants, which blended together long after Asiatic populations also descended to the continent. The German study, published today, ...
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Govt funding provides 6000 homes to remote indigenous communities
Broker News Australia
The federal government has refurbished or rebuilt more than 6,000 homes in remote indigenous communities since 2009, as part of the $5.5 billion National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing. Jenny Macklin, MP, says the government ...

First home milestone for Queensland Aboriginal townships
Sydney Morning Herald
Buying land or a home in a Queensland Aboriginal township was previously impossible, but has become available through Hope Vale's "model home ownership" scheme, arranged by the Australian Government and Indigenous Business Australia, with the ...

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ScreenWest invests in Joined Up Films' indigenous mini-docos
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ScreenWest and the ABC have funded a new series of mini-documentaries produced by Joined Up Films. The West Australian screen agency has invested $250,000 into five five to eight minute indigenous contemporary documentaries to screen on ABC1.
Joined Up Films to produce Seasons mini-doco in WAInside Film

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Chance to get into business for indigenous entrepreneurs
Coffs Coast Advocate
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) is running a free Into Business workshop on January 22. Trevor Veale. WOULD-BE local Aboriginal entrepreneurs have a chance later this month to learn more about the practicalities of going into business. Indigenous ...

Former head of Djarragun College Jean Illingworth on fraud charges
The Australian
THE stood-down principal of Australia's premier indigenous school has today been charged with two fraud-related criminal offences, after a lengthy police investigation. Jean Illingworth, the former head of Djarragun College, this morning fronted police ...
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Inquiry resumes with submissions on Indigenous children
ABC Online
The over-representation of Indigenous children in care will be in the spotlight as the Child Protection Commission of Inquiry resumes its Brisbane hearings. The inquiry began in Brisbane and has been travelling across the state for the past six months.

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Top End housing program money 'wasted'
The Australian
"We're making a real difference for indigenous families in remote parts of Australia." Numerous studies have blamed overcrowding for prolonging disadvantage and dysfunction in remote indigenous communities. At Ti Tree Station, a small community about ...

Warring remote clans delay expansion of military training area
The Australian
THE creation of one of Australia's largest military training areas in South Australia's outback has been delayed by up to five years because of a territorial war between two Aboriginal groups. The Cultana training area near Port Augusta, 300km north of ...

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talks over Arnhem arts centre parent
The Australian
At its peak, BAC was Australia's third-largest indigenous corporation, employing some 500 people. It ran a supermarket, nursery, aged care, housing, ranger service, cultural tours and car hire firm, as well as the arts centre in Maningrida, 500km east ...

WA plans Aboriginal family violence centre
The Australian
THE West Australian government will provide $600,000 a year for a metropolitan legal service for indigenous victims of family violence, including people who had been sexually abused. Premier Colin Barnett said indigenous females were 35 times and males ...

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WA plans Aboriginal family violence centre
The West Australian
Premier Colin Barnett said indigenous females were 35 times and males 22 times more likely to be hospitalised due to family violence compared to non-indigenous Australians. "There are several family violence services for indigenous people in regional ...

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A problem kept locked away
The Canberra Times
The imprisonment of indigenous Australians in the ACT is 13 times higher than that of the general population. Last year Western Australia's top judge, Chief Justice Wayne Martin, said the over-representation of indigenous people in the nation's prisons ...

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Indigenous jail rate 'appalling'
The Canberra Times
And while Western Australia has the worst figures for indigenous imprisonment rates in the country at 38 per cent, compared with a general population of only 4 per cent, ACT statistics are almost equally alarming on a per capita basis. Advertisement ...

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Brisbane Times
The new Uluru
Brisbane Times
And perhaps it was always going to take an owner such as the Indigenous Land Corporation, a statutory body that acquires land to help close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, to bring them to the resort. The resort, built in ...
Rock around the clock at revamped UluruThe Border Mail

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The spirit rekindled
The Border Mail
And perhaps it was always going to take an owner such as the Indigenous Land Corporation, a statutory body that acquires land to help close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, to bring them to the resort. The resort, built in ...
Rock around the clock at revamped UluruNewcastle Herald

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A criminal waste of young lives
The Australian
"Three strikes and you're out" legislation locks young Aboriginal people in prison in staggering numbers in Western Australia. In the Northern Territory there is barely a white kid inside. As a major study into the nation's children's courts revealed ...

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Loophole on jailing kids may be closed
The Australian
WEST Australian Attorney-General Michael Mischin has supported a further toughening of mandatory sentencing laws blamed for contributing to the nation's highest rates of Aboriginal incarceration. Mr Mischin said there were good arguments for removing ...

Indigenous-owned social start-ups set to flourish via new fund
StartupSmart
Government-backed organisation Indigenous Business Australia is looking for an organisation to establish and manage a new source of funding for indigenous social enterprise start-ups. IBA, a commercially-focused organisation, promotes and encourages ...

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