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Fortescue awards $1bn in contracts to Indigenous companies
Australian Mining
"I hope these contracts are just the first of many that these Aboriginal business secure and they each go on to become large, successful businesses providing jobs and opportunities to their communities and all of Australia," Power said. Brian Tucker, a ...
Twiggy Forrest 'smashes' target of $1bn in contracts to Indigenous companiesThe Guardian
Twiggy Forrest's triumph as pride replaces despairCourier Mail

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Bid to boost low Indigenous voter turnout
SBS
And they are enrolled and do turn out to vote they are three times more likely to vote incorrectly than non-Indigenous Australians. So that's pretty significant under represenation. And it's particularly sad I guess given that last year was the 50th ...

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Indigenous men ask High Court to review role of Aboriginality in sentencing
ABC Online
Lawyers for two Aboriginal men are urging the High Court to consider principles for recognising Indigenous disadvantage in sentencing. The court is hearing two challenges to appeals where prosecutors have successfully sought increased sentences.
The case that could rock Aboriginal sentencingSBS
Case over Aboriginality in sentencing to beginABC Message Stick

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The 2014 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey is an ...
On Line opinion
The next National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) goes into the field in late 2014. This Australian Bureau of Statistics survey has its genesis in the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey (NATSIS ...

MINERALS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA : MINERALS INDUSTRY WELCOMES ...
4-traders (press release)
The Minerals Council of Australia strongly supports the Federal Government's plan to reform native title payments through the establishment of an Indigenous Community Development Corporation (ICDC) as a new type of tax entity. These new not-for-profit ...
Australia To Reform Taxation Of Native Title BenefitsTax-news.com

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Hope for gas firms to help uncover Indigenous artefacts
ABC Online
High resolution images produced by oil and gas companies exploring the Pilbara could reveal Aboriginal artefacts from thousands of years ago. University of WA researcher Dr Ingrid Ward believes rock art and other Aboriginal artefacts could be submerged ...

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BigPond News
It's time for recognition says academic
BigPond News
More than a century after Federation, indigenous peoples still aren't recognised in the Australian Constitution and it's time for that to change, says Aboriginal academic Mick Dodson. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have kept alive the ...

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It's time for indigenous recognition
NEWS.com.au
MORE than a century after Federation, indigenous peoples still aren't recognised in the Australian Constitution and it's time for that to change, says Aboriginal academic Mick Dodson. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have kept alive the ...

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It's time for indigenous recognition
The Australian
MORE than a century after Federation, indigenous peoples still aren't recognised in the Australian Constitution and it's time for that to change, says Aboriginal academic Mick Dodson. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have kept alive the ...

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Voice of America
Australian Firm Fined in Aboriginal Site Desecration
Voice of America
Land lies at the heart of indigenous culture in Australia. Aborigines believe the Earth is the mother of creation, and is full of mystery and knowledge. Indigenous groups have stressed that, while there is broad support for mining on tribal lands ...
Mining firm desecrated Australia Aboriginal siteBBC News
OM Manganese Fined $150000 For Damaging Sacred Two Women Sitting ...International Business Times
Desecrated site a loss for all AustraliansNEWS.com.au
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Mission to end homelessness going places
The Australian
Going Places has achieved ground-breaking results with local indigenous people and potentially saved the government and community millions, according to a report released by Mission Australia. But despite its successes, the group says it fears that ...

Indigenous infant mortality rates crash
The Australian
The first annual report on health trends in the Indigenous Early Childhood Development National Partnership Agreement, conducted by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, reveals some startling successes but also some stubborn gaps. While the ...

Cultural cringe or way it is?
The Australian
But looking at who those creators are, it seems we're just not showing a representative range of Australian voices, cultures and traditions on our main stages. Despite indigenous Australians and those from a culturally diverse background numbering 7.3 ...

The case that could rock Aboriginal sentencing
SBS
A case beginning this week in Australia's High Court has a chance to reopen some serious questions about the soaring levels of Aboriginal imprisonment in Australia. The case that could rock indigenous sentencing. The SBS MP3 Player requires the Adobe ...

Indigenous focus for next parliament
BigPond News
There could well be more indigenous voices to speak for it in the next parliament with Olympian Nova Peris well placed to win a Senate spot for the Northern Territory for Labor. In Western Australia, former West Coast Eagles champion David Wirrpanda ...

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Renewed indigenous focus for next parly
The Australian
There could well be more indigenous voices to speak for it in the next parliament with Olympian Nova Peris well placed to win a Senate spot for the Northern Territory for Labor. In Western Australia, former West Coast Eagles champion David Wirrpanda ...

International Business Times
OM Manganese Fined $150000 For Damaging Sacred Two Women Sitting ...
International Business Times
Two Women Sitting Down is majorly associated with the indigenous Kunapa people in Australia who according to a report from BBC, believe the sacred land is a living, breathing, “mother of creation.” “It will always remain a sacred site to us, but it has ...
Mining firm desecrated Australia Aboriginal siteBBC News
Desecrated site a loss for all AustraliansNEWS.com.au
Miner fined for desecrating Aboriginal sacred siteABC Message Stick
Australian Mining
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The bush can rise again
The Australian
In so doing, they established arguably the best opportunity for democratic representation of the remote Aboriginal world in Australia since Federation. However, a year after indigenous votes changed the government in the Northern Territory, the ...

Australian Geographic
Aboriginal rock art may depict first sea arrivals
Australian Geographic
AN EXPEDITION TO A REMOTE Northern Territory island has uncovered rare indigenous rock art that could depict the first seafarers to reach Australian shores. The artworks show vessels which may pre-date the arrival of Dutch explorers in the 17th century ...
Australia's history rewritten? Ancient artwork and discovered coins look set ...TNT Magazine

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"Nanna's hands are so beautiful". Photograph: Declan Singh-Lippo, 13 ...
The Australian
In April, UNICEF Australia introduced about 20 indigenous kids from the town communities of Bagot, Milgarri (Knuckey Lagoon) and Gurdorrka (Palmerston Indigenous Village) to photography. Handed a camera, under instructions from UNICEF photographer ...