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Mining sector's plea to boost Indigenous employment
Australian Mining
Australia's mining sector is calling on the government to change anti-discrimination laws so they can advertise jobs as Indigenous only. The Australian Mines and Metals Association said the appeal is being driven by a concerning increase in the ...

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Marathon champion de Castella receives Australian honour
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Mr Castella set a marathon record in 1981 and won gold for Australia at two Commonwealth games. He was also named Australian of the Year in 1983. Since then, he has become well-known for his work in Indigenous communities and health promotion.

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Indigenous health programs require more than just good ideas
The Conversation
Despite efforts to close the gap, Indigenous Australians continue to suffer two-and-a-half times the burden of disease than the total Australian population, with most of the health gap caused by preventable chronic diseases. Clearly, strengthening the ...

Mining companies call for law change so they can advertise Indigenous-only jobs
ABC Online
Mining companies want changes to anti-discrimination laws so they can advertise jobs specifically for Indigenous employees. The Australian Mines and Metals Association has raised the issues in its submission to the Indigenous jobs review headed by ...

Aborigines to be recognised as Australia's first people
The Times (subscription)
Tony Abbott is set to hasten the formal recognition of Aboriginal people as Australia's first occupants in a move that monarchists claimed yesterday would lead to violence. The Prime Minister used his Australia Day address on Sunday to accelerate the ...

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Australia Day Honours 2014: Aboriginal education Bridges forte
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
With an Aboriginal father who went to school only until the end of primary school, Ms Bridges said that the OAM was an honour to her parents, whose six children all achieved a tertiary education. "It also honours the families I work with, the ...

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Australia Day Honours 2014: Aboriginal education Bridges forte
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
With an Aboriginal father who went to school only until the end of primary school, Ms Bridges said that the OAM was an honour to her parents, whose six children all achieved a tertiary education. "It also honours the families I work with, the ...

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Central Land Council rejects Warren Mundine's Indigenous treaty proposal
ABC Online
Mr Mundine says the treaties would recognise Indigenous nations as traditional owners of a defined area of land and sea, while also recognising Australia and its right to exist. But the the council's chair Maurie Japarta Ryan says treaties with the ...

Australia Day ceremony minus Aboriginal voice
Central Western Daily
ORANGE'S Australia Day ceremony went ahead on Sunday without one important element - the welcome to country by a member of the Aboriginal community. Head of the Australia Day committee Helen Corby said she was disappointed no one represented ...

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Australia Day ceremony minus Aboriginal voice
Central Western Daily
Head of the Australia Day committee Helen Corby said she was disappointed no one represented the Aboriginal community despite the committee being ready to pay the required $200 fee that goes towards Aboriginal youth services. “In the last few years it ...

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To move on, indigenous people must forgive
WA today
Racism against indigenous people in Australia used to be a mainstream attitude perpetuated in all the institutions - media, government, schools and universities, business and the legal system, for example. It is now very much in the minority. Indirect ...

The Canberra Times
Indigenous recognition still has a way to go
The Age
Goodes identifies strongly with his indigenous heritage, describing himself as a proud man of the Adnyamathanha and Narungga tribes, whose homelands are in South Australia. Goodes, who has found success in sport and the confidence to speak his mind, ...
2014: A year for action on indigenous challengesThe Canberra Times
Goodes great choice, say Australia Day revellersSydney Morning Herald
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To move on, indigenous people must forgive
Brisbane Times
Racism against indigenous people in Australia used to be a mainstream attitude perpetuated in all the institutions - media, government, schools and universities, business and the legal system, for example. It is now very much in the minority. Indirect ...

The Age
indigenous people must forgive
The Age
Racism against indigenous people in Australia used to be a mainstream attitude perpetuated in all the institutions - media, government, schools and universities, business and the legal system, for example. It is now very much in the minority. Indirect ...

Let us put indigenous first for jobs
The Australian
"Under our resource industry-government collaboration project, AMMA Skills Connect, we have this week begun inducting a group of indigenous jobseekers on a fully-funded Certificate II in hospitality with the view to work at one of Western Australia's ...

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Let us put indigenous first for jobs
The Australian
"Under our resource industry-government collaboration project, AMMA Skills Connect, we have this week begun inducting a group of indigenous jobseekers on a fully-funded Certificate II in hospitality with the view to work at one of Western Australia's ...

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Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The 2014 Senior Australian of the Year has accused the Monarchists League of peddling prejudice for suggesting that a referendum to recognise Aboriginal people would be accompanied by "almost certain violence". The group has warned that there is a real ...
Chaney: Indigenous recognition achievableThe Australian

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Monarchists criticised for warning of 'almost certain' violence if Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The 2014 Senior Australian of the Year has accused the Monarchists League of peddling prejudice for suggesting that a referendum to recognise Aboriginal people would be accompanied by "almost certain violence". The group has warned that there is a real ...
Indigenous recognition 'achievable'Sky News Australia

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Australians celebrate survival of Indigenous culture
SBS
While Australia Day celebrates the arrival of Europeans 226 years ago, the day is also used as an opportunity to remember those who have walked the land for thousands of years and to celebrate indigenous culture. Events like the Yabun festival in ...

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Mundine calls for Indigenous treaties
SBS
Mr Mundine is now urging Mr Abbott to do what decades of Prime Ministers before him have either been unable or unwilling to: negotiate treaties with Australia's Indigenous people. He says there should be separate treaties with each of what he calls the ...
To move on, indigenous people must forgiveThe Age
Central Land Council rejects Warren Mundine's Indigenous treaty proposalABC Online
Indigenous recognition more complicated constitutional change than you thinkCrikey
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