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Australia falls short on Aboriginal welfare targets
Yahoo!7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday admitted Australia has failed to meet important targets on Aboriginal welfare and vowed to work to ensure all indigenous children went through school. In delivering his first "Closing the Gap ...

Australia falls short on Aboriginal welfare targets
Yahoo!7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday admitted Australia has failed to meet important targets on Aboriginal welfare and vowed to work to ensure all indigenous children went through school. In delivering his first "Closing the Gap ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Tony Abbott delivers mixed report card on Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The report states that non-Indigenous Australians live about 10 years longer than Aboriginal Australians, that the progress in closing the gap in literacy has improved in only Year 3 and Year 5 Reading (based on NAPLAN results) and that only 30 per ...
Twiggy urges action to save indigenous drop-outsThe Australian
Australia failing to close gap on indigenous jobsSydney Morning Herald
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Australian PM to spend a week on Outback Aboriginal land to focus on ...
Times Colonist
CANBERRA, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East ...

Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
Jakarta Post
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East Arnhem Land, set for later ...

Kansas City Star
Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
Kansas City Star
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Rob Griffith, File | AP Photo FILE - In this Feb.

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Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
The West Australian
South Australia has set up an Aboriginal AFL Academy, which Premier Jay Weatherill says is the first in the nation. Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at ...
Power launch Aboriginal AcademyAFL.com.au

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Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
Perth Now
Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at Alberton Oval in Adelaide. Last year, almost 70 per cent of Aboriginal students in South Australia stayed on to Year ...

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Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
NEWS.com.au (blog)
Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at Alberton Oval in Adelaide. Last year, almost 70 per cent of Aboriginal students in South Australia stayed on to Year ...
Power launch Aboriginal AcademyAFL.com.au

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Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
The Australian
Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at Alberton Oval in Adelaide. Last year, almost 70 per cent of Aboriginal students in South Australia stayed on to Year ...

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Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
U-T San Diego
7, 2014 file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks at a press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney, Australia. Abbott says he will spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal ...

Montreal Gazette
Australian PM to spend a week on Outback Aboriginal land to focus on ...
Montreal Gazette
CANBERRA, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East ...

The Province
Australian PM to spend a week on Outback Aboriginal land to focus on ...
The Province
CANBERRA, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East ...

Australian Teacher Magazine
Mission – to win war on Indigenous truancy
Australian Teacher Magazine
CANBERRA, Feb 12 – On any given school day in some remote Indigenous communities every third classroom seat is empty. Compare that with most schools in urban Australia where nine out of 10 seats are occupied. Making up the difference has become a ...

PM targeting indigenous jobs, schooling
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told parliament that his personal mission is to help Australians open their hearts on indigenous policy. In delivering his first annual Closing the Gap statement as prime minister on Wednesday, Mr Abbott recalled the ...

PM focusses on indigenous jobs, schooling
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told parliament that his personal mission is to help Australians open their hearts on indigenous policy. In delivering his first annual Closing the Gap statement as prime minister on Wednesday, Mr Abbott recalled the ...

Australia's PM reports on initiative to cut Indigenous disadvantage
Radio Australia
It's been six years since the government and opposition committed to the 'Closing the Gap' initiative to remove inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by 2030. The annual updates have seen mixed results in areas ranging from life ...

Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in Australia
Businessweek
“There's almost no progress in closing the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and other Australians –- which is still about a decade,” Abbott told parliament in Canberra today. “There's been very little improvement towards halving the gap in ...

Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in Australia
Businessweek
“There's almost no progress in closing the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and other Australians –- which is still about a decade,” Abbott told parliament in Canberra today. “There's been very little improvement towards halving the gap in ...

Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in Australia
Bloomberg
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said urgent efforts are needed to improve employment opportunities alongside health and education conditions for Australia's indigenous population. “There's almost no progress in closing the life expectancy gap between ...