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Taking employment to the Outback
PS News
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Bill Shorten said the program would bring Job Services Australia, Disability Employment Services, Community Development Employment Projects and the Indigenous Employment Program in remote ...

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Recent headline-attracting estimates about the level of government spending on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people need to be put in context, according to the ANU's Professor Jon Altman. In the article below, Altman critiques the Productivity ...
UN push shows up angerNew Zealand Herald
Mining the system for hopeThe Australian Financial Review
Report spotlights indigenous rightsThe New Lawyer

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Ella makes her pointe
Herald Sun
She graduated from the Australian Ballet School in 2007 and performed with the company's regional touring arm. Havelka said she hoped to inspire others within the indigenous community to "pursue their own dreams and passions''. "I feel very humbled and ...

UN push shows up anger
New Zealand Herald
The anger is deep and pervasive, and felt keenly in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to defer a promised referendum next year on constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. Instead, Gillard will ask Parliament to pass an Act of ...
Mining the system for hopeThe Australian Financial Review
Report spotlights indigenous rightsThe New Lawyer

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Leading indigenous educator Chris Sarra slams teaching approach used in ...
NEWS.com.au
Former Queenslander of the Year and prominent Indigenous educator Chris Sarra says the direct instruction model used by the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy (CYAAA) "is at best a remedial program". He has also raised concerns about ...

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Native title 'reforms' slammed
The Australian
Native Title Services chief executive Keith Thomas accused Mining Minister Tom Koutsantonis of adopting an inaccurate and inflammatory position on reforming the state's Aboriginal Heritage Act, and said the Labor government had revealed its true colours.
Aboriginal groups to challenge SA Govt's legislation on oil, gas licences on ...Adelaide Now

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The Australian Ballet company has welcomed its first Aboriginal dancer Ella ...
NEWS.com.au
She graduated from the Australian Ballet School in 2007 and performed with the company's regional touring arm. Havelka said she hoped to inspire others within the indigenous community to "pursue their own dreams and passions". "I feel very humbled and ...

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Reintroduction of alcohol into Aboriginal communities wrong, says Marcia Langton
The Australian
Professor Langton, from the University of Melbourne, told the ABC's 7.30 program last night the reintroduction of alcohol into dysfunctional Aboriginal communities was "wrong" and would put women and children in danger. Queensland's Minister for ...
Academic backs alcohol bans in Aboriginal communitiesABC Online
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Titjikala banks on its occupy movement
The Australian
In one of Australia's most disadvantaged communities, Titjikala's modest art centre has become a vital lifeline, drawing in tourists and generating a modest income outside the cycles of government funding that often fail to address the traditional ...

Champion of Aborigines Gummi Fridriksson 'evicts' PNG's poor
The Australian
A CHAMPION of indigenous communities in Australia has been accused of human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea after settlers' homes were bulldozed to make way for a multi-million-dollar hotel and marina development. Gummi Fridriksson, who is ...

Cape York mayors call grog bans for indigenous communities racist
The Australian
"What other race in Australia has restrictions put on them for alcohol? No-one else, only Aborigines; it seems racist to me." Professor Peter d'Abbs, of the Menzies School of Health Research, is one opponent of re-opening canteens. He cited Tony ...

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Aboriginal groups to challenge SA Govt's legislation on oil, gas licences on ...
Adelaide Now
Aboriginal groups representative, the South Australian Native Title Services (SANTS), will file an appeal to this effect in an ongoing matter set for hearing early next year. Late last month, Mineral Resources Minister Tom Koutsantonis initiated the ...

The Australian Ballet company has welcomed its first Aboriginal dancer Ella ...
Herald Sun
Ella Havelka will join the company next month after four years with Australia's top indigenous dance troupe Bangarra. It brings the Dubbo-born dancer full circle. She graduated from the Australian Ballet School in 2007 and performed with the company's ...

ABC Online
Academic backs alcohol bans in Aboriginal communities
ABC Online
MARCIA LANGTON, CHAIR, INDIGENOUS STUDIES, UNI. OF MELBOURNE: Leigh, this is a very important question because lives hang in the balance. The fact of the matter is is that all Australians are subject to alcohol restrictions in one form or another.
Don't lift drink restrictions - academicNEWS.com.au
Too soon to revisit a painful pastThe Australian

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Don't lift drink restrictions - academic
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Professor Marcia Langton, head of Australian Indigenous Studies at Melbourne University, said hoteliers and the distilled spirits group were lobbying the government to ease the drink bans. "It's a cheap electoral trick for the big men in the Aboriginal ...

Aboriginals urged return of Maori, Moriori remains
Radio New Zealand
Updated 23 minutes ago. The campaign to return ancestral remains of Maori and Moriori to New Zealand from Australian museums was led by indigenous Australians, says Te Papa's Karanga Aotearoa repatriation team manager, Te Herekiekie Herewini.

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Anglican Media Melbourne
First woman elected Chair of Anglican national indigenous body
Anglican Media Melbourne
“The work achieved since the inception of the Council in 1992 is testimony to the previous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members and leaders within the Anglican Church of Australia,” she said. Gloria has been a part of NATSIAC since its ...

Report spotlights indigenous rights
The New Lawyer
Australia endorsed UNDRIP in 2009. A UN press release clarifies that as a General Assembly Declaration it is not a legally-binding instrument under international law but, according to the UN, it sets “an important standard for the treatment of ...

Swinburne University Media Centre
Indigenous student to visit elite unis
Swinburne University Media Centre
Swinburne University of Technology media and communications student Megan Kelleher has been granted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit five of the world's top universities to explore postgraduate study opportunities. As part of the 2012 Aurora ...

No funds for Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council footy program
Herald Sun
The council is calling on the LNP to help them become the first community in Queensland to establish a Clontarf Academy - a joint football and education initiative that is changing boys' lives across Australia. Cherbourg council CEO Warren Collins said ...