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New Flying Art indigenous-themed aircraft to fly for Qantas in November
The Australian
The striking design featured the spirits of Indigenous Australians in the form of kangaroos travelling through the red, desert landscape. Wunala Dreaming was joined a year later by a Boeing 747-300, Nalanji Dreaming, featuring a vivid blue symbolising ...
Qantas brings back Aboriginal-themed Dreamtime liveryAustralian Business Traveller

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Cash Up For Grabs for Indigenous Groups
Pro Bono Australia
Grants of up to $10,000 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups and individuals are now available under an ACT Government's grants program. The $205,000 of funding is for leadership, training and development opportunities to showcase ...

Price cuts to put homes in reach
The Australian
He said land tenure reform was essential to drive economic development for indigenous Australians, especially in remote areas where land was subject to communal title. Ms Price strongly supported the need for reform of the land rights law in the Territory.

Ice Age struck Australia's Aboriginals hard
Australian Geographic
A NEW STUDY HAS revealed how indigenous Australians coped with the last Ice Age, roughly 20,000 years ago. Researchers say that when the climate cooled dramatically, Aboriginal groups sought refuge in well-watered areas, such as along rivers, and ...

Gift of sight helps Indigenous Australians reconnect with country
ABC Local
Indigenous people are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind, and figures show Central Australia and the Barkly regions have the poorest eye health status in the country. Angus Thornton is a project officer with the Fred Hollows ...
Fred Hollows Foundation launches surgery blitz in Alice Springs to improve ...Yahoo!7 News
Hollows Foundation launches eye surgery blitzABC Online

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Fred Hollows Foundation launches surgery blitz in Alice Springs to improve ...
ABC Online
Indigenous people are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind, and figures show Central Australia and the Barkley region of the Northern Territory have the poorest eye health status in the country. Around 30 patients travelled from ...

Fred Hollows Foundation launches surgery blitz in Alice Springs to improve ...
ABC Online
Indigenous people are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind, and figures show Central Australia and the Barkley region of the Northern Territory have the poorest eye health status in the country. Around 30 patients travelled from ...
Hollows Foundation launches eye surgery blitzABC Message Stick

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Australian's new PM launches indigenous advisory council
Mizo News
Canberra: Australian's new Prime Minister Tony Abbott has launched an indigenous advisory council in an effort to reverse the chronic disadvantages suffered by Australia's first inhabitants, BBC reported Thursday. The focus of the council will be to ...

Waipareira Hosts Urban Indigenous Group From Australia
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Te Whanau O Waipareira welcomes a group of urban indigenous Australians to find out first-hand how we deliver services to the whanau. On Monday, a high level delegation of aboriginal representatives from NGOs including the Ngwalla Willumbong ...

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The first Aboriginal PM
ABC Local
The Other Election is an initiative by AIME that showcases over 600 Indigenous students in years 10-12 delivering what would be their inaugural speech as Australia's first Indigenous Prime Minister. Kaitlin Reeves from Toormina High School is a ...

Mundine not the only voice: indigenous leader
The Australian
She told The Australian that the congress was the representative body for indigenous Australia, including the most remote communities. Ms Parker said while Tony Abbott was entitled to receive advice from his new high-level council, he must bear in mind ...

Labor leadership candidate Bill Shorten in Adelaide, floats idea of indigenous ...
The Australian
Mr Shorten, who was in Adelaide on Thursday, floated the idea of quotas for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, saying he's not “completely sold” on the idea but they “need to be considered”. “We have to positively encourage people to get involved ...

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Indigenous arts festival for SA
Sky News Australia
BHP Billiton chief executive Andrew Mackenzie said the company was backing the festival because many of its Australian businesses operated on or near Aboriginal lands. 'We feel it is important for Aboriginal communities to have greater opportunities to ...
BHP Billiton backs national indigenous arts festival in SA in with $4 million ...NEWS.com.au
BHP Billiton backs new Aboriginal arts festivalABC Message Stick

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous arts festival for SA
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AAP SA will stage a major festival for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual art in 2015. South Australia will stage a major festival for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual art in 2015. The festival will feature a series of exhibitions ...
BHP Billiton backs national indigenous arts festival in SA in with $4 million ...Herald Sun
BHP Billiton backs new Aboriginal arts festivalABC Online

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Telegraph.co.uk
Australian education minister admits Aboriginal children 'treated like rubbish'
Telegraph.co.uk
In comes as Tony Abbott, the new Australian Prime Minister, today launched an Indigenous Advisory Council with a remit to reverse the chronic disadvantages suffered by Australia's first peoples. Mr Piccoli said he asked a year six class at Walgett's ...

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Sydney to host Indigenous festival
SpiceNews
Corroboree Sydney 2013 will roll out its inaugural program of events this November with an over-arching objective to connect people in a celebration of Australia's rich Indigenous cultures. Corroboree Sydney 2013 will be held over 11 days. Bringing ...

Sky News Australia
Mundine flags shake-up of Indigenous spending
ABC Online
Warren Mundine, the man leading Prime Minister Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council, says it will consider the need for an overhaul of the Indigenous welfare system. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has already flagged the need for a ...
Tony Abbott signs off on Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory CouncilThe Australian
Abbott recruiting for indigenous councilSky News Australia
New Australia PM Tony Abbott forms indigenous councilBBC News
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NEWS.com.au
Indigenous schools failing
The Australian
... poor opportunities for indigenous students. Shameful (Oz): THE minister responsible for educating the highest number of indigenous students in Australia says the school system is failing Aborigines, who are being "treated like rubbish" by the ...
Shorten flags indigenous ALP quotasSky News Australia

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Another day in the election without end
WA today
Shorten stakes leadership claim. Bill Shorten reveals his plans for a quota for indigenous candidates, Labor's relationship with unions and the end to division within the party. PT1M19S ... Going on for three weeks after exhausted Australian voters ...

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Shorten flags indigenous ALP quotas
Sky News Australia
Labor leadership aspirant Bill Shorten has flagged changing the party's rules to set a quota for indigenous candidates. The ALP has a 40 per cent quota for female candidates, but has no such aim in terms of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders. Mr ...

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