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Housing development plan shines light on LDC
ABC Online
The Heights at Durack is a joint venture between the corporation and CIC Australia to develop a housing estate on the Charles Darwin University campus in Palmerston. It comes after a long, difficult period for the Darwin-based LDC. Federal Indigenous ...

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Cubbie sale prompts Indigenous job fears
ABC Online
An Aboriginal elder in south-west Queensland says she fears the sale of Cubbie Station to overseas investors because they are unlikely to continue schemes to encourage Indigenous job creation. Australia's largest cotton grower at Dirranbandi in the ...

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Gillard on passage to India to cement ties
Sydney Morning Herald
Four Aboriginal cricketers from the Australian indigenous cricket development squad, captain Josh Lalor, from Victoria, Benjamin Abbatengelo (Victoria), Dylan Fuller (Northern Territory), and D'Arcy Short (Western Australia) will be with her. The team ...

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Australia's development cricket squad to tour India
Firstpost
Melbourne, Oct 10 (IANS) Cricket Australia's (CA) National Indigenous Development Squad departs for India this week to attend the country's Global Cricket Schools and play a series of matches against the representative sides. Selected by former Test ...

Councillor calls to extend ban to pokies
Herald Sun
AUSTRALIA'S biggest Aboriginal community want gambling - such as "one-arm bandit" pokie machines - to be part of the state's grog ban review. Yarrabah, home to idyllic beach views and 80 per cent unemployment in the former Anglican mission 50km ...

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NGA unveils new plans to cure cringe
The Canberra Times
''The 1970 decision to relegate Australian art to the attic was a terrible display of cultural cringe,'' he said. ''In stark contrast, stage one of our building program provided a showcase for our Indigenous Australian art collection, at the front of ...

James Packer rolls the dice for indigenous prosperity
The Australian
The first time, earlier this year, was for a really good look around the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence set up three years ago at the old Redfern public school. Yesterday's visit was to announce a partnership between his Crown gambling empire ...

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Women, kids my priority: Macklin
The Australian
"My fundamental concern around alcohol management is the protection of vulnerable women and children," she told The Australian. "Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory have been very clear with me that they do not want to see the destruction of ...
Dry Aboriginal community guidelines still brewingABC Online
Aboriginal alcohol ban not solution, says Member for Cook David KemptonNEWS.com.au
Lifting prohibition sweeps grog abuse off city streetsThe Daily Telegraph
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Gillard on passage to India to cement ties
The Age
Four Aboriginal cricketers from the Australian indigenous cricket development squad, captain Josh Lalor, from Victoria, Benjamin Abbatengelo (Victoria), Dylan Fuller (Northern Territory), and D'Arcy Short (Western Australia) will be with her. The team ...

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Australia's development cricket squad to tour India
Times of India
MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia's (CA) National Indigenous Development Squad departs for India this week to attend the country's Global Cricket Schools and play a series of matches against the representative sides. Selected by former Test and one-day ...

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Australia's development cricket squad to tour India
IBNLive
Melbourne: Cricket Australia's (CA) National Indigenous Development Squad departs for India this week to attend the country's Global Cricket Schools and play a series of matches against the representative sides. Selected by former Test and one-day ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
The National Gallery of Australia looks to the future
The Australian
For a nation only two centuries old, but with an ancient Indigenous past, Australia's new National Gallery should not try to emulate the national museums of Old World Europe, formed from princely and aristocratic collections, or the museums already ...
Cultural cringe cured, Aussie art to come out of the atticSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
Cultural cringe cured, Aussie art to come out of the attic
Sydney Morning Herald
Stage Two would do the same for non-Indigenous Australian and Pacific arts, allowing much of it to come out of storage and onto public display. "Our current small and arkward space for contemporary art is an insult to living Australian artists," Dr ...

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Celebration of Indigenous writers
UQ News
AustLit partners with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and other university partners to expand BlackWords' coverage of this dynamic and exciting part of Australia's literary culture. The BlackWords ...

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Australia's brightest Indigenous cricket talent heads to India
Boxscore
Cricket Australia: (Oct. 9, 2012) - Cricket Australia's National Indigenous Development Squad this week departs for India to attend the country's Global Cricket Schools and play a series of matches against representative sides. Selected by former Test ...

Rugby Sevens star reflects on opportunities after winning Female Sportsperson ...
ARU Rugby
The game of Rugby Sevens means a lot to Australian Women's Rugby Sevens Star, Bo De La Cruz who recently won the Female Sportsperson of the Year at The 2012 “Deadlys” which recognise the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to their ...

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Indigenous Leadership Scholarships Announced
Pro Bono Australia
The scholarships are worth a reported $16,5000 each and are being offered by Social Leadership Australia - the leadership development centre at The Benevolent Society. The Benevolent Society says the scholarships will be awarded to Aboriginal & Torres ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Making connections to end digital divide
Sydney Morning Herald
But more than 4 million often poor, disabled, indigenous or remote Australians aren't part of the conversation for the simple fact that they aren't online; they are on the wrong side of the so-called ''digital divide''. We need an urgent national ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous commerce must come next
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous people living in remote areas are treated differently under the law from other Australians. In most cases they cannot own their own homes. In regions subject to Land Rights Acts, government will not allow private title or make it so complex ...

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Return to grog 'a disaster for children'
The Australian
FORMER Northern Territory intervention chairwoman Sue Gordon has declared that the push to return alcohol to Aboriginal communities would be a "disaster" that would damage women and children, robbing them of money and increasing the profits of grog ...
Aboriginal alcohol ban not solution, says Member for Cook David KemptonNEWS.com.au
Academic backs alcohol bans in Aboriginal communitiesABC Online
Let communities decide on grog bans: MillsHerald Sun
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