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Aboriginal legal service loses funding
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The Federal Government recently announced that they will cease funding the Aboriginal Legal Services' Prisoner ThroughCare program, effective as of 30 June 2014. The purpose of the program, which was implemented at the recommendation of the Royal ...

Indigenous advisor calls Tony Abbott's comments about settlement of Australia ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''scarcely settled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in ...

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Indigenous advisor calls Tony Abbott's comments about settlement of Australia ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''scarcely settled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in ...
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments on British settlement 'highly offensive ...ABC Online
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisationSBS
Indigenous senator angry at Australian PM's comment on settlementGlobalPost
The Guardian -NEWS.com.au
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Illawarra Aboriginal leader on Abbott's 'unsettled' speech
Illawarra Mercury
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments that Australia was "unsettled" before British "foreign investment" arrived in 1788 were out of step with a great number of Australians who recognised Aboriginal history, Illawarra Aboriginal leader Sharralyn ...

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Kicking some Port Adelaide Power goals for indigenous youth
The Australian
As director of Adelaide Football Club's indigenous program, Andrew McLeod's good works extend as far as South Australia's furthest corner, the APY Lands in the shadow of Uluru. Hawthorn has forged a strong link with Aboriginal communities in the ...

Kicking some Port Adelaide Power goals for indigenous youth
The Australian
As director of Adelaide Football Club's indigenous program, Andrew McLeod's good works extend as far as South Australia's furthest corner, the APY Lands in the shadow of Uluru. Hawthorn has forged a strong link with Aboriginal communities in the ...

Ancient wisdom tapped for trees
The Australian
Discovering what indigenous Australians want included in those standards has fallen to a group headed by Rowan Foley, a former Uluru park ranger of the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala people from Fraser Island. “As the original owners and managers of our ...

Brisbane Times
Australia's last indigenous police tracker, Barry Port, has been described as ...
Courier Mail
BARRY Port, Australia's last indigenous police tracker, has been described as a living legend. The 71-year-old's retirement yesterday brings to a close a remarkable era for the Aboriginal craftsmen who have helped police hunt down criminals and find ...
Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiringABC Local
Australia's last 'tracker' Barry Port retiresBrisbane Times
Indigenous police tracker 'living legend'Yahoo!7 News

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Australia's last indigenous police tracker, Barry Port, has been described as ...
Courier Mail
BARRY Port, Australia's last indigenous police tracker, has been described as a living legend. The 71-year-old's retirement yesterday brings to a close a remarkable era for the Aboriginal craftsmen who have helped police hunt down criminals and find ...

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Aboriginal people get a new voice
Sky News Australia
Aboriginal people living in the far-flung communities of the western top end of the Northern Territory don't always get heard by governments, but now a new council will help them raise their voices. The NT government made an election promise in 2012 to ...

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Indigenous senator angry at Australian PM's comment on settlement
GlobalPost
CANBERRA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Australia's indigenous senator Nova Peris on Friday condemned the comments by Prime Minister Tony Abbott on British settlement, saying they were "highly offensive, dismissive of indigenous peoples." Delivering the keynote ...

Indigenous senator angry at Australian PM's comment on settlement
GlobalPost
CANBERRA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Australia's indigenous senator Nova Peris on Friday condemned the comments by Prime Minister Tony Abbott on British settlement, saying they were "highly offensive, dismissive of indigenous peoples." Delivering the keynote ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments on British settlement 'highly offensive ...
ABC Online
Aboriginal Labor Senator Nova Peris claims bipartisan efforts to recognise Indigenous people in the Australian Constitution have been set back by the Prime Minister's comments on British settlement. In comments after an economic speech in Melbourne ...
Tony Abbott's comments on Australia being 'unsettled' before the British ...Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisationSBS
Tony Abbott says Australia was 'unsettled' before British arrivedThe Guardian
TVNZ -Illawarra Mercury
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Aboriginal people get a new voice
SBS
Mr Toller said boosting the regions was key to the federal government's plans to develop northern Australia. "We want to see private businesses set up in Aboriginal communities, whether that be hairdressing salons, butchers, market gardens or ...

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Aboriginal people get a new voice
Yahoo!7 News
Mr Toller said boosting the regions was key to the federal government's plans to develop northern Australia. "We want to see private businesses set up in Aboriginal communities, whether that be hairdressing salons, butchers, market gardens or ...

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Aboriginal people get a new voice
Daily Mail
Mr Toller said boosting the regions was key to the federal government's plans to develop northern Australia. "We want to see private businesses set up in Aboriginal communities, whether that be hairdressing salons, butchers, market gardens or ...

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SBS
Australia's last Indigenous police tracker a 'living legend'
SBS
Barry Port, Australia's last indigenous police tracker, has been described as a living legend. The 71-year-old's retirement on Friday brings to a close a remarkable era for the Aboriginal craftsmen who have helped police hunt down criminals and find ...

SBS
Australia's last Indigenous police tracker a 'living legend'
SBS
Barry Port, Australia's last indigenous police tracker, has been described as a living legend. The 71-year-old's retirement on Friday brings to a close a remarkable era for the Aboriginal craftsmen who have helped police hunt down criminals and find ...
Australia's last police tracker retiresNinemsn
Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiringABC Local
Australia's last 'tracker' Barry Port retiresBrisbane Times
Yahoo!7 News
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ABC Local
Aboriginal sites display eons of activity
ABC Local
Aboriginal sites are scattered across the Sunshine Coast. The area attracted clans from around Australia for the Bunya Festival and its highly sought after resources. Nev Blackman is a local Aboriginal man with connections to the Lingwodock people and ...

The Province
Australia's last aboriginal police tracker will soon retire — his legend will not
The Province
SYDNEY — Australia's last remaining aboriginal police tracker, Barry Port, is retiring, ending two centuries of a practice in which investigations and manhunts relied on hired bushmen who can read the ground like a storybook. The 71-year-old has been ...