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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
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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 ...

BBC News
Mining firm desecrated Australia Aboriginal site
BBC News
A mining company has been convicted of desecrating an Aboriginal site in Australia's Northern Territory. Mining firm OM Manganese was found guilty on Friday - the first time a company has been successfully prosecuted in Australia for desecration of a ...
$150k fine for Bootu sacred site damageNTNews.com.au

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Push to recognise social disadvantage
The Australian
The Bugmy and Munda cases are being keenly watched in the midst of a joint campaign by the Law Institute of Australia, the Australian Bar Association and Aboriginal legal bodies to reduce the alarming over-representation of indigenous offenders in ...

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Indigenous Business Australia to hold free workshops in Port Augusta
The Transcontinental
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) will be holding a series of free Into Business workshops in Port Augusta for Indigenous Australian entrepreneurs who are interested in going into business. Starting next Tuesday August 6, the workshops will aim to ...

Indigenous Business Australia to hold free workshops in Port Augusta
The Transcontinental
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) will be holding a series of free Into Business workshops in Port Augusta for Indigenous Australian entrepreneurs who are interested in going into business. Starting next Tuesday August 6, the workshops will aim to ...

FSC to support Indigenous financial literacy
Financial Standard
The FSC said financial literacy is a key contributor to social exclusion of Indigenous Australians as highlighted in a report by the Centre for Social Impact in 2012, which found that 43.1% of Indigenous Australians surveyed were either severely or ...

FSC launches indigenous financial literacy project
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The Financial Services Council (FSC) has teamed up with indigenous rights group First Nations Foundation (FNF) to improve the financial literacy of indigenous Australians. The FSC pointed to a 2012 report by the Centre for Social Impact that found 43.1 ...

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Greens bid to divert indigenous offenders from jail in pilot program
The Australian
"The really important thing about justice reinvestment and its application in addressing the high incarceration of Indigenous Australians is that it works with communities. It is not executives in a capital city coming up with a top-down, one-size-fits ...

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Bush tucker on the menu with Australian border patrol unit
Yahoo! News
The soldiers are from Australia's North West Mobile Force, known as NORFORCE, a surveillance unit that employs ancient Aboriginal skills to help in the seemingly impossible task of patrolling the country's vast northwest coast. Border security has ...
Bradley Manning protests and Zimbabwe elections: the best news pictures of the ...The Guardian

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Photo by DAVID GRAY/Reuters 3 hours ago
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Private Drew Perry, an indigenous soldier from Australia's North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE) unit, looks at a suspicious vessel sailing past Astell Island, part of the English Company Islands, ... more. Private Drew Perry, an indigenous soldier from ...

FSC takes stance on indigenous literacy
InvestorDaily
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has teamed up with indigenous rights group the First Nations Foundation (FNF) to improve the financial literacy of Indigenous Australians. The FSC pointed to a 2012 report by the Centre for Social Impact that found ...

Indigenous children's sleep worries expert
The Australian
... compared with their non-indigenous peers. "I have become increasingly convinced improved sleep habits could make a significant contribution to closing the gap," says Dr Blunden, head of paediatric sleep research at South Australia's Appleton Institute.

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BFI to host Indigenous Australian film program
Australian Times
Australia: Shifting Sands launches at the British Film Institute's London Southbank centre next month, exploring the story of Indigenous Australia as told by black and white filmmakers alike. The film season revisits big budget releases like Baz ...

Grog summit puts spotlight on central Australia
ABC Message Stick
The peak body representing Northern Territory Aboriginal organisations says a two-day alcohol summit starting in Alice Springs today will look at the huge alcohol problem in central Australia. Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the Northern Territory ...

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