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ACT Australian of the Year to be announced
ABC Online
Tom Calma is an advocate for human rights and a social justice campaigner who has dedicated much of his life to improving the lives of Indigenous Australians. Mr Calma was formerly the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner ...

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Young, male or indigenous more likely to suicide: report
Northern Star
DIVORCE, alcohol use, and the number of jobs in agriculture were three of the main factors driving the suicide rate in regional and remote Australia, a new report from the National Suicide Prevention Strategy revealed on Tuesday. And regional ...
Suicide too common in rural towns: reportThe Australian

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A small matter of ministerial confusion
The Australian
Wong was at it before the indigenous jobs hoo-hah emerged, trumpeting the IMF's latest rather flattering economic outlook for Australia before turning on Joe Hockey for thinking our economy was flatlining. "In the world of Hockeynomics, a growing ...

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Newman looks to traditional land practices
The Australian
Campbell Newman said indigenous Australians had much better land management practices that most people realised and he had discussed the approach with Australia's climate change commissioner Tim Flannery on Tuesday. "I have a view that the ...

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Abused Indigenous children 'must be heard'
ABC Local
An Indigenous woman from Queensland who was abused by a Catholic priest in the 1960s says the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse must examine the widespread abuse of Aboriginal children by members of the Catholic Church. Tjanara Goreng ...

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Threat to Indigenous languages in French Polynesia
Radio Australia
But according to the UN, if nothing is done we'll lose half of those by the end of the century. Each language carries its own cultural wealth but also important ancestral knowledge - and that's particularly true with Indigenous languages. Working to ...

Historic petition comes out of vault
ABC Message Stick
An important piece of history in the battle for Aboriginal land rights will be brought out of storage at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra today. The fragile Larrakia petition signed with a thousand names and thumbprints will be made ...

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Youth want to help reconciliation
Sydney Morning Herald
Only 16 per cent of those surveyed for the report felt there was trust between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, with 72 per cent agreeing that ''we are prejudiced towards each other''. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people ...

Anger as jobs strategy loses funding
The Australian
BUSINESSMAN and cotton farmer Dick Estens has lambasted the Gillard government for being "unAustralian" after it quietly used a tender to halve his indigenous traineeship work and refused to say whether it would fund his flagship Aboriginal Employment ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Damming the rivers of grog
Sydney Morning Herald
Five ministers - Mills, the Health Minister David Tollner, Justice Minister John Elferink, Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson and the Minister for Central Australia, Robyn Lambley, are all having a say. A ministerial statement by Elferink ...

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Forcing People to Drink
The Southern Times
Interestingly, Aboriginal words for “alcohol” were often derived from words meaning “dangerous”, “bad” or “poisonous”, but also “sweet” or “delicious” (central Australia) and “salty”, “bitter” or “sour”. Use of these kinds of alcohol from natural ...

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Eureka Street
What Abbott really said ...
NTNews.com.au
According to some reports, Mr Abbott suggested Aboriginal Central Australian culture as more authentic than that of "urban Aboriginal" people. Mr Abbott has also been accused of calling indigenous Western Australia Liberal MP Ken Wyatt "not a man of ...
Going backwards after Abbott's 'urban Aboriginal' gaffeEureka Street

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Economy heading for cliff: Chaney
WA Business News
Fresh legal action has been launched to stop Woodside's $35 billion gas hub project at James Price Point, near Broome, which has divided Aboriginal and community groups in Western Australia's far north. The Aus. Capacity fears grow for Fremantle Port ...

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Aboriginal language decline: the digital intervention
ABC Message Stick
Most Australian's are completely oblivious to the fact that our nation is home to some of the world's language diversity hotspots. Indigenous languages hold important stories of human history, but they are sadly in decline. ABC's Ben Collins writes ...

SBS
'Blackfella Facebook' for Indigenous youth
SBS
National Centre for Indigenous Excellence ambassador, and Indigenous Australian author, Anita Heiss, has already posted four goals on her own "Black Fella Facebook" profile page, which range from doing home improvements to reading 52 books in 52 ...

The Atlantic
For Australian Aborigines, the Health Problems of Westernization
The Atlantic
The Australian aboriginal community Mutitjulu lies in the shadow of Uluru, one of the country's most popular tourist destinations, but it could not be more different from the polished walkways and restaurants that make up the neighboring resort town of ...

Death of girl sparks calls for croc hunts
The Australian
Graham Webb, chairman of the Crocodile Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, said properly organised trophy hunting could add to efforts by indigenous people to use crocodiles as a sustainable resource. Increase Text ...

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New action to stop $35bn gas hub
The Australian
FRESH legal action has been launched to stop Woodside's $35 billion gas hub project at James Price Point, near Broome, which has divided Aboriginal and community groups in Western Australia's far north. The WA Supreme Court has been asked to ...

Boom creates Aboriginal prosperity
The Australian
The University of Melbourne chair of Australian Indigenous Studies said the historic 1992 Mabo case, the Native Title Act and engagement with the mining sector had changed the paradigm for Aboriginal engagement with the private sector. "The emergence ...

Offending ourselves into a new age of censorship
NEWS.com.au
Logic should tell you that Abbott is hardly going to use a function where he is singing the praises of his fellow MP Ken Wyatt, the first indigenous Australian to be elected to the House of Representatives, as a vehicle to ridicule the sense of ...

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