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Abbott unveils plans for Indigenous Australia
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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has flagged a more engaged relationship with Indigenous Australians and believes constitutional recognition will unify Australia. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has flagged a more engaged relationship with indigenous ...

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Constitutional proposal on indigenous Australians will be ready in a year ...
The Guardian
A proposal to recognise indigenous Australians in the constitution will be ready within 12 months of the Coalition taking office, Tony Abbott has promised. "The problem ... between white Australia and Aboriginal Australia is not lack of goodwill or ...

Abbott wants indigenous council
The West Australian
"The problem ... between white Australia and Aboriginal Australia is not lack of good will, or lack of money but lack of engagement," he said at Nhulunbuy in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory on day six of the federal election campaign. A proposal ...

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Disadvantage Continues Despite Some Improvements- Report
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According to the report, relatively high levels of poverty in Australia remained for particular individuals or groups including the elderly, Indigenous Australians and youth. Elderly single males and elderly single females were more likely to ...

Abbott calls for new era of engagement
The Age
White Australians and black Australians need to "open their hearts to one another" to usher in a new era of engagement with indigenous culture and the entrenched social problems of Aboriginal people, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said on Saturday in a ...

Warren Mundine puts land rights at heart of indigenous policy approach
The Australian
But he said indigenous Australians were not making progress on a number of key targets under the Closing the Gap initiative and more needed to be done, particularly in the areas of land rights and economic development. Echoing the words of Galarrwuy ...

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Abbott unveils plans for Indigenous Australia
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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has flagged a more engaged relationship with Indigenous Australians and believes constitutional recognition will unify Australia. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has flagged a more engaged relationship with indigenous ...
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Abbott unveils plans for Indigenous advisory council
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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has unveiled plans to establish an Indigenous advisory council to help tackle disadvantage in Aboriginal communities. Hitting the campaign trail at the Garma festival in north-east Arnhem Land, Mr Abbott vowed to make ...

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Tony Abbott unveils Indigenous advisory council, promises to close the gap
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"He is a natural leader and a forthright advocate for Indigenous Australia," Mr Abbott said in a statement. "I hope to be a prime minister for Aboriginal affairs and am delighted that Warren Mundine has taken up the call to be part of this journey. "If ...
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Make indigenous policy bipartisan: Rudd
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP. Indigenous policy should be completely bipartisan, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says, because the world judges Australia on its treatment of its first people. If he has one ambition in life, it's to ensure closing the gap with indigenous Australians ...

Make indigenous policy bipartisan: Rudd
The Australian
INDIGENOUS policy should be completely bipartisan, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says, because the world judges Australia on its treatment of its first people. If he has one ambition in life, it's to ensure closing the gap with indigenous Australians is ...

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Indigenous recognition campaigners reach Arnhem land
The Age
Campaigners for the recognition of indigenous Australians in the nation's founding document have launched a new push to harness the energy of young people for change. The Recognise movement and the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence will on ...

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Coalition pulls ahead of Labor in latest Fairfax-Nielsen poll as Indigenous ...
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The latest election poll has put the Coalition ahead of Labor, as the two leaders take their campaigns to Tasmania and the Northern Territory. The Fairfax-Nielsen poll shows the Coalition has pulled ahead with 52 per cent against Labor's 48 per cent in ...
Tony's heartfelt 'close the gap' pleaThe Australian
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Communities 'should be open to outside'
The Australian
Mr Mundine, the executive chairman of the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce will deliver a keynote speech at the Garma Festival in the Northern Territory today, outlining his agenda, which calls for dramatic changes to land ownership to create ...

Tony's heartfelt 'close the gap' plea
The Australian
Rudd's most popular period as Prime Minister was when he guided the national apology to the Stolen Generations through parliament - with Coalition support - and Labor has campaigned on a "traditional" empathy with Aboriginal Australia and traded on a ...

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Tony Abbott's indigenous vision takes shape
The Australian
TONY Abbott has declared fixing Australia's greatest "national failure", dire indigenous disadvantage, will be one of his personal priorities if he wins office, and has secured the agreement of former ALP president Warren Mundine to deliver ...

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Indigenous leaders urge change
The Australian
ABORIGINAL leaders from eight regions around Australia have united to call for both parties to commit before the election to structural changes to indigenous affairs aimed at ending disadvantage and empowering communities to make their own decisions.

Four giant steps towards closing the gap
The Australian
But if someone had told me in the 1970s that during the following four decades Australia would spend billions and still have a vast gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in areas such as health, education and employment, I would have ...

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Jennie Kemarre Martinello takes out major Indigenous art prize with blown ...
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South Australian artist Raymond Zada won the new media award for his light installation that merges the words of Kevin Rudd's national apology with the text of Paul Keating's 1992 Redfern address. Two Northern Territory artists have also won awards ...

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Indigenous Firms Receive $1 Billion in Fortescue Contracts
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Fortescue CEO Nev Power said the company was proud of the business opportunities it had provided to Australia's Aboriginal community by meeting its scheduled target for indigenous business deals half a year in advance. “I hope these contracts are just ...