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Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
Yahoo!7 News
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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The West Australian
Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
The West Australian
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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jobs push aims to end disparity
The Australian
“The Australian government has committed up to $45 million for VTECs and the initiative is well on the way to meeting the target of placing 5000 indigenous Australians into guaranteed jobs across Australia before July 2015,” Senator Scullion said. “It ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Green groups keep Aboriginal people in poverty
The Australian Financial Review
Aboriginal people in Cape York had their land but, unlike every other landowner in Australia, weren't allowed to prosper from it. The Wilderness Society was the main agitator for the 2009 declaration. In a statement after the decision, it said ...

Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
Courier Mail
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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Green groups 'block indigenous progress'
The Australian
"Green groups should hang their heads in shame for wanting to keep indigenous Australians in poverty," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review. Those groups, including the Wilderness Society, were responsible for the abandonment ...

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What drove SA Indigenous men to fight for a country that did not recognise them?
ABC Local
Over 100 South Australian Aboriginal men volunteered to fight for Australia in World War 1. Escaping the grips of an approaching recession, the men joined the 'bob-a-day' brigade for a country that only 15 years earlier abandoned its Indigenous ...

What drove SA Indigenous men to fight for a country that did not recognise them?
ABC Local
Over 100 South Australian Aboriginal men volunteered to fight for Australia in World War 1. Escaping the grips of an approaching recession, the men joined the 'bob-a-day' brigade for a country that only 15 years earlier abandoned its Indigenous ...

School celebrates rich indigenous culture
Liverpool City Champion
"We have a diverse range of cultures represented at our school and wanted to increase the students' understanding of Aboriginal Australia," she said. "NAIDOC was a great way to do it. "We will continue to develop students' understanding and ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Green groups keep Aboriginal people in poverty
The Australian Financial Review
Aboriginal people in Cape York had their land but, unlike every other landowner in Australia, weren't allowed to prosper from it. The Wilderness Society was the main agitator for the 2009 declaration. In a statement after the decision, it said ...

Pyne eyes national Direct Instruction rollout
The Australian
“I think a phonics-based, robust curriculum in primary years should be the norm across all schools in Australia ... starting with those where we know that disadvantaged students — whether they are indigenous or non-indigenous — are struggling,'' he ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Artists investigate their Chinese-Indigenous Australian mixed heritage
The Guardian (blog)
Yiban Yiban – Yellah Fellah opened on a sweltering summer afternoon at Redtory Art & Design Factory in Guangzhou, the sprawling capital of Guangdong province in southern China. While the contemporary art scene in Guangzhou is less pronounced than ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Artists investigate their Chinese-Indigenous Australian mixed heritage
The Guardian (blog)
Yiban Yiban – Yellah Fellah opened on a sweltering summer afternoon at Redtory Art & Design Factory in Guangzhou, the sprawling capital of Guangdong province in southern China. While the contemporary art scene in Guangzhou is less pronounced than ...

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Researchers set to tackle Indigenous education gap
UQ News
Two new University of Queensland projects will address the under-representation of Indigenous academics in the higher education field, working to close the education gap at universities across Australia. UQ's Dr Katelyn Barney and Dr Chelsea Bond have ...

Larissa Chambers is continuing the proud tradition of indigenous runners in ...
Courier Mail
A distant relative of Freeman, who was the golden girl of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Chambers is continuing the proud tradition of indigenous runners in Australian athletics. The 18 year old leaves on Thursday for the IAAF World Junior Championships in ...

Noel Pearson teaching model to get $22m
The Australian
BACK-to-basics schooling will be rolled out across indigenous Australia to lift literacy, as the federal government provides $22 million to fund a dramatic expansion of Direct Instruction from a pilot teaching program on Queensland's Cape York ...

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The Best of NAIDOC Week 2014
ArtsHub (subscription)
With the Centenary of World War I, the annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture is focusing on honouring the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who have fought in defence of Australia. with the theme 'Serving ...

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Indigenous dance performance marks Australian Navy Chief handover
ABC Online
The outgoing Chief of Navy, Vice-Admiral Ray Griggs, named the troupe Bungaree, after a 19th century Aboriginal performer who circumnavigated Australia with explorer Mathew Flinders. The dancers performed at his handover ceremony today, as he ...

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Indigenous dance performance marks Australian Navy Chief handover
Yahoo!7 News
The outgoing Chief of Navy, Vice-Admiral Ray Griggs, named the troupe Bungaree, after a 19th century Aboriginal performer who circumnavigated Australia with explorer Mathew Flinders. The dancers performed at his handover ceremony today, as he ...

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Indigenous dance performance marks Australian Navy Chief handover
Yahoo!7 News
The outgoing Chief of Navy, Vice-Admiral Ray Griggs, named the troupe Bungaree, after a 19th century Aboriginal performer who circumnavigated Australia with explorer Mathew Flinders. The dancers performed at his handover ceremony today, as he ...

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