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The West Australian
Aboriginal jail destined to be out of work
The West Australian
The first inmates in this, Australia's first jail designed for Aboriginals, will arrive on October 22. Mr Macfarlane, part Noongar and part Scottish, will supervise them with 115 staff, a fifth of whom are indigenous. He is not the first Aboriginal ...

First Indigenous Dancer Ella Havelka to Join The Australian Ballet
Broadway World
Bangarra's Artistic Director Stephen Page said: “Ella is one of this country's greatest young talents, and as she continues her journey as an Aboriginal woman and an Australian dance artist, we wish her every success. With her exceptional technique ...

The West Australian
NT agrees with easing grog bans
The Australian
Terry Mills said prohibition has failed and indigenous communities that meet certain criteria should take back control of alcohol restrictions. His comments, reported by The Weekend Australian, come after Queensland Premier Campbell Newman said ...
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban reviewHerald Sun
Indigenous councils to rule on liquorNEWS.com.au
Indigenous housing scheme doubts airedABC Online
Radio Australia -Business Spectator -ABC Local
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Situation far from normal in communities
The Australian
I have yet to see kinship and grog become friends anywhere in indigenous Australia. The tragedy of what the Newman government is doing with its first indigenous policy initiative is to focus on grog instead of the real priorities. Walpo had this week's ...

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NT joins the push to relax bans on grog
The Australian
In an exclusive interview with The Weekend Australian, Mr Mills argues that alcohol bans and other restrictions set by outsiders were trapping indigenous people in a cycle of disempowerment and dependency, preventing them from coming to terms with the ...
NT agrees with easing grog bansHerald Sun
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban reviewNEWS.com.au
Indigenous housing scheme doubts airedABC Online
Radio Australia -The Daily Telegraph -Business Spectator
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Australian Ballet welcomes its first Aboriginal dancer
Limelight Magazine
A descendant of the Wiradjuri people, Havelka graduated from the Australian Ballet School in 2007, joining Indigenous troupe Bangarra Dance Theatre the following year. “I feel very humbled and excited to be given this opportunity to return to the ...

Indigenous incarceration rates tragic: Chief Judge
ABC Online
Western Australia's Chief Justice Wayne Martin has described aboriginal incarceration rates as tragic. WA has the highest rate of aboriginal imprisonment in Australia, with about 1 in 14 indigenous men behind bars today. Justice Martin says it is the ...

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Palm Island woman to fight booze ban
The Australian
The court decision in Canberra on Friday to grant Joan Maloney an application for special leave comes as the Queensland government this week launched a separate review of alcohol management in remote indigenous communities. Ms Maloney, 55, was ...

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Wider suicide prevention focus urged
ABC Online
A man who has lost family members to suicide says governments need to be held to account over high suicide rates among Aboriginal people. The Indigenous suicide rate is about double that of other Australians. Tauto Sansbury has lost nephews, nieces ...

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Researching improvements for Indigenous housing outcomes
UQ News
Receiving a Life Fellowship from the Australian Institute of Architects, Professor Memmott was acknowledge for his outstanding contribution to the profession through research, education, public service and advocacy on Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Boost to indigenous language intrepreting
The Australian
The federal government has announced it will allocate $286,000 to National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI). The organisation will use the money to create testing materials in indigenous languages spoken in Western ...

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Boost to indigenous language intrepreting
Ninemsn
Indigenous language interpreting services will be boosted with the extension of a national accreditation system. The federal government has announced it will allocate $286,000 to National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI).

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Extraordinary life of Aboriginal inventor honoured
Radio Australia
Mr Unaipon's image is widely recognised in Australia for being featured on the 50-dollar bill. Born on a Christian mission in 1872, Mr Unaipon became a leading advocate for the rights of Aboriginal people. He was also a keen inventor -- creating the ...

Call to employ indigenous workers
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
CLARENCE Valley businesses should consider mirroring the percentage of indigenous people in the community in their workplace, a gathering of business people heard yesterday. The Clarence Valley Industry Education Forum invited business people to an ...

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Noel Pearson's hometown of Hopevale divided over grog bans
The Australian
"Non-indigenous Australians after work can get a carton and go back home and drink it, with their families, but the indigenous people can't do that," Mr Tarpencha complained. Kowanyama mayor Rob Holness said AMPs had led to some positive changes.
Strategy encourages more Indigenous psychologistsRadio Australia
Macklin warns Qld cuts will affect indigenous housingBusiness Spectator
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban reviewHerald Sun

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Too early to relax alcohol bans
The Australian
Whatever Mr Elmes learned about indigenous disadvantage during his career as a radio executive and as the member for Noosa, one of Australia's wealthiest seaside areas, he would be wise to listen to the counsel of pragmatic and experienced indigenous ...
Strategy encourages more Indigenous psychologistsRadio Australia
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban reviewHerald Sun

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Call to revisit reform of Aboriginal act
The Australian
Khatija Thomas also yesterday joined the Greens in warning the government that any further watering down of the rights of native title holders would be met by strong community and parliamentary opposition. This came after The Australian yesterday ...
Aboriginal laws set for huge overhaulAdelaide Now

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Mal Brough backs end to remote alcohol ban
The Australian
MAL Brough, who spearheaded the intervention in the Northern Territory, has backed the potential reintroduction of alcohol into some Queensland Aboriginal communities, arguing a ban was only ever a temporary measure used to "normalise" the situation.

Blake Poetry Prize finalists announced
ABC Online
Poems about love, mortality, happiness, pain and the pressures in Australia's Indigenous communities are addressed by the finalists of this year's Blake Poetry Prize. The seven finalists, selected from over 400 entries across Australia, are a mix of ...

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Indigenous opera singer heads abroad
SBS
"In the last three years I've graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, I've worked with Deborah Cheetham on Pecan Summer and I had a lead role in that for the first two seasons and I've now gone on to work with Opera Australia with two ...