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How do AFL supporters really feel about Aboriginal culture?
Roy Morgan Research (press release)
This week is National Reconciliation Week, a time to reflect on the relationship between the wider Australian community and the country's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. While the vast majority of the population 14+ believe that ...

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Choosing lore and life: the campaign against Aboriginal youth suicide
Sydney Morning Herald
Two decades ago, one in 20 deaths by suicide was that of an Aborigine. Given indigenous people make up only about 2.5 per cent of the Australian population, that was already disproportionately high. Today, half of deaths by suicide in northern ...
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Choosing lore and life: the campaign against Aboriginal youth suicide
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show Aboriginal men die by suicide at a rate four times higher than non-indigenous men, while for Aboriginal women the figure is five times higher. Advertisement. The group most at risk is children, mostly boys ...
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Steep rise in number of Aborigines in jail
The Australian
Overall, the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian prisons has increased by almost 75 per cent over the past decade, analysis by the Jesuit Social Services, to be released today, reveals. Jesuit Social Services chief ...

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Steep rise in number of Aborigines in jail
The Australian
Overall, the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian prisons has increased by almost 75 per cent over the past decade, analysis by the Jesuit Social Services, to be released today, reveals. Jesuit Social Services chief ...

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China backing pastoral vision
The Australian
TEN of Australia's biggest Aboriginal-run pastoral stations are preparing for a Chinese-backed merger that aims to reverse their economic fortunes using world-class breeding, management and feed-crop technology. The Aboriginal Pastoral Co-op will begin ...
Indigenous pastoral stations look to mergeABC Online

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China backing pastoral vision
The Australian
TEN of Australia's biggest Aboriginal-run pastoral stations are preparing for a Chinese-backed merger that aims to reverse their economic fortunes using world-class breeding, management and feed-crop technology. The Aboriginal Pastoral Co-op will begin ...

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Way forward for Aboriginal struggle
Green Left Weekly
A forum titled “An Aboriginal Perspective on Inequality, The Intervention, Racism and Struggle” was held on May 6 in Adelaide. Hosted by the South Australia Aboriginal Coalition for Social Justice, the Socialist Alliance and SIMpla, the forum heard ...

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Cornes: After recent cases of racial vilification, it's obvious Australia is ...
The Daily Telegraph
Michael Long is a respected advocate; Andrew McLeod addressed an assembly of the United Nations; Adam Goodes was named the Australian of the Year last year. Therein lies some of the problem. For every success an indigenous footballer has, the ...

Indigenous literacy rates on the decline: report
Ninemsn
5:54pm May 23, 2014. A decline in literacy rates for non-indigenous students is behind the recent success in the "Close the Gap" campaign, according to the Council of Australian Governments' (COAG) Reform Council. Qantas considering removing life rafts.

Supermarkets grow support for Indigenous bush food producers
ABC Local
When the Robins, a family from Melbourne, began a bush foods store and catering business back in 1986, they had no idea that it would grow to employ hundreds of Indigenous people across Australia. Decades later, their 'Outback Spirit' sauces and ...

Aboriginal healers working to keep traditional medicine alive
ABC Online
Aboriginal health may be high on the policy agenda, but traditional Aboriginal healers hardly rate a mention in Australia's official health policies. Annie Hastwell meets an Italian researcher who is determined to raise their profile and bring them ...

The Guardian (blog)
The stolen generations: an unending disaster for Australia
The Guardian (blog)
I've thought a lot about this conundrum as I've read about Australia's stolen generations and pondered whether removal is currently enacted unduly often with Aboriginal Australians. The rationale for the removal of the original stolen generations was ...

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Aboriginal artists celebrate connection to cattle country
ABC Local
The Indigenous men and women who worked for rations and helped to build Australia's northern cattle industry are at the heart of a special art exhibition launched in the Kimberley last night. 'In the saddle, On the wall' features the works of 13 well ...

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Indigenous Australian art exhibition opens in Bandung
ANTARA
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - An exhibition of Indigenous Australian visual art opened Thursday evening at the Galeri Soemardja at Bandung Institute of Technology, according to the Australian Embassy here on its official web site on Friday. Australian ...

The Guardian (blog)
The stolen generations: an unending disaster for Australia
The Guardian (blog)
I've thought a lot about this conundrum as I've read about Australia's stolen generations and pondered whether removal is currently enacted unduly often with Aboriginal Australians. The rationale for the removal of the original stolen generations was ...

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Australia's top Indigenous surfers to gather at Bells
Echonetdaily
The event is in its third year after a 16-year hiatus and has turned into a showcase of the elite indigenous surfers in the country. Surfing Victoria Indigenous Aquatic Manager and Contest Director, Steve Parker is ecstatic to be holding the event at ...

The Guardian
education lift not matched by jobs
The Australian
... made significant gains in education, but not employment. “What's concerning, though, is these education gains aren't improving employment; we found that since 2008 employment outcomes for indigenous Australians did not improve in any state or ...
Indigenous hit hardest by dole changesDaily Mail

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The Guardian
education lift not matched by jobs
The Australian
... made significant gains in education, but not employment. “What's concerning, though, is these education gains aren't improving employment; we found that since 2008 employment outcomes for indigenous Australians did not improve in any state or ...
Indigenous hit hardest by dole changesDaily Mail

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