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Plan to lift Indigenous school attendance
Australian Teacher Magazine
Prime Minister Tony Abbott used the annual Closing the Gap speech in February to set a new target of lifting Indigenous school attendance to the same level as non-Indigenous children within five years. Of the 184,000 Indigenous students in Australia ...

Plan to lift indigenous school attendance
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott used the annual Closing the Gap speech in February to set a new target of lifting indigenous school attendance to the same level as non-indigenous children within five years. Of the 184,000 indigenous students in Australia ...

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Justice or just us? Lack of Aboriginal jurors sparks concerns
ABC Local
Despite Indigenous people making up about 45 per cent of the population of Central Australia, they are only a small fraction of people who sit on juries. The issue of racial balance on juries in the Northern Territory was raised during the trial of ...

The Guardian
Education vouchers in plan for indigenous affairs overhaul
The Australian
The radical proposal comes as the audit commission argues that disadvantage faced by indigenous Australians be better targeted, with programs that are failing to be slashed. It also calls for the merger of Indigenous Business Australia and the ...
Indigenous programs should be consolidated, audit report saysThe Guardian
Condemnation over audit's proposed welfare cutsSBS
Cut early, cut often: where the Commission of Audit wants the axe to fall on ...Government News
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Brisbane Times
Education vouchers in plan for indigenous affairs overhaul
The Australian
The radical proposal comes as the audit commission argues that disadvantage faced by indigenous Australians be better targeted, with programs that are failing to be slashed. It also calls for the merger of Indigenous Business Australia and the ...
Condemnation over audit's proposed welfare cutsSBS
Cut early, cut often: where the Commission of Audit wants the axe to fall on ...Government News

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The Guardian
Five questions to Eugenia Flynn on racism, and loving Australia | IndigenousX
The Guardian
I feel like if we can work to reduce systemic racism it will lead to the betterment of our (Indigenous Australian's) position and therefore the betterment of Australia as a whole. The very document that gives Australia its mandate, the Constitution of ...

The Guardian
Five questions to Eugenia Flynn on racism, and loving Australia | IndigenousX
The Guardian
I live in Melbourne, but my family is originally from Darwin in the Northern Territory and I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. My father was Tiwi and Larrakia and my mum was Teo Chew Chinese from Malaysia. I identify as both Aboriginal and Chinese ...

The Australian Financial Review
Hipsters take over Aboriginal Redfern
The Australian Financial Review
Across Australia's biggest cities, where most indigenous people live, soaring property prices are increasing the marginalisation of Australia's most disadvantaged group, whose home-ownership rate is half the national average. The pattern is part of a ...

The Australian Financial Review
Hipsters take over Aboriginal Redfern
The Australian Financial Review
Across Australia's biggest cities, where most indigenous people live, soaring property prices are increasing the marginalisation of Australia's most disadvantaged group, whose home-ownership rate is half the national average. The pattern is part of a ...

Hipsters Squeeze Out Aborigines as Former Sydney Slum Gentrifies
Businessweek
Across the country's biggest cities, where the majority of indigenous people live, soaring property prices are increasing the marginalization of Australia's most disadvantaged group, whose home-ownership rate is half the national average. The pattern ...

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theMusic
Nathan Lovett-Murray's top 5songs by Indigenous artists
FasterLouder
To highlight the growth of the Indigenous hip-hop scene in Australia it was announced this morning that Lovett-Murray will present a showcase concert at the 2014 National Indigenous Music Awards ceremony in Darwin to draw attention to some of the most ...
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Indigenous deafness under the microscope
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians have one of the highest levels of ear disease and hearing loss in the world. Rates are up to ten times more than non-Indigenous Australians and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation estimates Indigenous ...

Indigenous deafness under the microscope
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians have one of the highest levels of ear disease and hearing loss in the world. Rates are up to ten times more than non-Indigenous Australians and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation estimates Indigenous ...

Brisbane Times
Education vouchers in plan for indigenous affairs overhaul
The Australian
The radical proposal comes as the audit commission argues that disadvantage faced by indigenous Australians be better targeted, with programs that are failing to be slashed. It also calls for the merger of Indigenous Business Australia and the ...
Commission of Audit: major recommendationsSydney Morning Herald
Proposed merger of Screen Australia and Australia Council spells … incoherenceThe Conversation

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Education vouchers in plan for indigenous affairs overhaul
The Australian
The radical proposal comes as the audit commission argues that disadvantage faced by indigenous Australians be better targeted, with programs that are failing to be slashed. It also calls for the merger of Indigenous Business Australia and the ...

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New fight for Aboriginal stolen wages with petition to WA Parliament
ABC Local
"Aboriginal people in Western Australia and elsewhere were made to be ineligible for the social security payments of the day, that non-Aboriginal people were eligible for... Which directly involves the Commonwealth, it involves Western Australia ...

New fight for Aboriginal stolen wages with petition to WA Parliament
ABC Local
"Aboriginal people in Western Australia and elsewhere were made to be ineligible for the social security payments of the day, that non-Aboriginal people were eligible for... Which directly involves the Commonwealth, it involves Western Australia ...

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 70 events ...
Sydney Indymedia
WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 70 events from 1 May 2014. Thu 01 May 2014. By WGAR - Working ... ACT · Adelaide · Brisbane · Canberra · Darwin · Hobart · Perth · Cairns · Melbourne · New South Wales · Newcastle ...

Social impact fund to assist indigenous company with Thiess/QGC contract
Gas Today
Indigenous company Iman Operations has secured an $800,000 impact investment funding package from Social Ventures Australia to enable the company to deliver on a large commercial cleaning contract valued at approximately $5 million over 12 months ...

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The Guardian
Our country needs Indigenous rangers
The Guardian
We are fast approaching the first budget of the Abbott government – a critical time for Indigenous land and sea management. Millions of hectares of Australia are not actively covered and as a result, destructive fire, feral animals and invasive weeds ...