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Indigenous voting
On Line opinion
Following the Northern Territory election a couple of months ago, commentators have pointed to the influence of Aboriginal people in rural and remote communities as Territory voters dispensed with Labor and brought the Country Liberal Party to power.

The right to drink
On Line opinion
The Queensland and NT governments have flagged ending the 'grog bans' in some Aboriginal communities, saying Aborigines should have the same rights as all Australians, including the right to drink. Prominent Aboriginal leaders such as Noel Pearson, ...

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Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Tallowood School students raise their voices for indigenous Australians
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
STUDENTS from Tallowood School are entering a film for the Creative Change GenerationOne School competition while raising their voices to end indigenous disparity in Australia. The special needs school in Kellyville has already shot half the film segment.

Praise for indigenous core values
The Australian Financial Review
The IGA, a joint initiative of Reconciliation Australia and BHP Billiton, attracts nominations from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations. This year's finalists, chosen from a field of more than 100, opened themselves up for intense ...

Pool policy 'no help to child ear disease'
The Australian
The $700,000 federally funded study into the ear health of remote Aboriginal children has found that 13 per cent of five-year-olds in central Australian communities required hearing aids and 36 per cent of all children had perforated eardrums, with the ...

Australian coach Tim Sheens tips new Origin coach Laurie Daley will inspire ...
Herald Sun
Sheens said Daley had paid his dues as coach of NSW Country and the Indigenous All Stars team and had the knowledge to lead a team into rugby league's toughest arena. "Laurie has done his apprenticeship. He has coached Country now for a number of ...

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Indigenous kids hit new heights
Herald Sun
Eighteen kids, from Years 8, 9 and 10, completed a seven-day Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) program to bolster self-confidence and leadership skills. AIEF CEO Andrew Penfold said the experience provided the perfect transition from ...

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'Groggy' politics sounds indigenous alarm bells for Canberra
Adelaide Now
SOME pretty ugly and worrying politics dressed up as policy have been unfolding in the north of Australia in recent months. The crushing victory of Campbell Newman's LNP in Queensland saw the party win a large number of seats with a high proportion of ...

eTurboNews
Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference 2013 headed for Alice Springs
eTurboNews
The Western Australian Indigenous Tourism Council CEO Johnny Edmonds said “The Territory's reputation, and the compelling case put forward by Tourism NT to host and sponsor the conference in Alice Springs, were fundamental to WAITOC deciding that ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Dream of design identity becomes reality
Sydney Morning Herald
Thus began an ambitious pitch to the national carrier that would ultimately put the couple's Jumbana Group, an Australian indigenous design and strategy company, on the map. ''It took us 18 months to convince Qantas to do it,'' the 56-year old ...

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Zee News
Australian indigenous cricket team on India tour
Cricket Country
An Indigenous Development cricket team from Australia is on a visit to India as part of 'Oz Fest', a mega Australian cultural festival being staged in the country, and to play T20 and 50-over games in Mumbai and Pune. The team would play a T20 game at ...
Australian Indigenous cricket team to play ODIs, T20s in IndiaTimes of India

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PM's speech may write a page in history
The Australian
Many who stood in the sun listening to Paul Keating's 1992 Redfern address did not appreciate at first the significance of his message that we had wronged Australia's indigenous people. His carefully crafted words took years to sink in and shift a ...

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Australian Indigenous cricket team to play ODIs, T20s in India
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Australia's High Commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, on Friday welcomed the Cricket Australia's National Indigenous Development Squad on their first tour of India as part of Oz Fest, the biggest Australian cultural festival ever staged in ...
Australian indigenous cricket team on India tourBusiness Standard

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Aboriginal feminine art in Brisbane, Australia
AMA
It was organised in collaboration with the IDAIA (International Development for Australian Indigenous Art), the French Alliance in Brisbane and the French Embassy in Australia, in order to promote the role of France in the development and recognition ...

Shared descent into the maelstrom of addiction
The Australian (blog)
First, whenever I see Aboriginal people who consume alcohol in social settings in mainstream Australia, I perceive no problem that is different from that caused by alcohol in the general community. Indeed, the pleasure and social function of alcohol is ...

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US base a danger Assange warns
The Australian
In his first interview with an Australian journalist from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Mr Assange told National Indigenous Television's Jeremy Geia that he was not anti-American but that Australia had not helped itself in the Asia-Pacific region ...

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Bad old days surface as through a boozy haze
The Australian
ON A diamond day in Aurukun, the big Queensland sky seems limitless. The kids sing hello and run barefoot in the red dust. Beneath a spreading mango tree, the old men talk quietly, their eyes crinkled by the smoke of roll-your-owns. The women are ...

Bans on alcohol spawn generation of lucky children
The Australian
It revealed that alcohol-related deaths for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were eight times greater for males and 16 times greater for females than for non-indigenous Australians. Restrictions were applied to 19 communities. Many ...

Remote families fear the price of 'freedom'
The Australian
Neither of these are perfect and possibly too much is made of their successes, but in the face of otherwise intransigent problems across remote Aboriginal Australia, and in Cape York in particular, they have made a difference where much else has not ...

J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Oboler publishes report on online hate
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
The report documents an unprecedented online attack against Indigenous Australians and how racist content went viral through the use of social media and in particular Facebook. Also documented are the responses from Facebook, Government, and Civil ...