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Successful Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund projects announced
Invest in Australia
Environment Minister Tony Burke and Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation Yvette D'Ath today announced the 44 successful applications under the Australian Government's Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund Capacity Building ...

Brisbane Times
Calls to better honour Indigenous soldiers
SBS
Indigenous Australia's contribution to the nation's security has been present at every conflict from the colonial forces through to the current operations in the Middle East. In his address to the Canberra gathering, Gary Oakley from the Australian War ...
Call for more Indigenous honour roll nominationsABC Local

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Indigenous military to be honoured through art
SBS
Military service by Indigenous Australians has never been highlighted at the Australian War Memorial, but that's about to change, as the Memorial commissions its first Indigenous official war artist.

Call for more Indigenous honour roll nominations
ABC Local
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Jeanette Powell, says nominations close at the end of June. "It's about people who have given to their community, who have been champions of their Australian community and have worked so hard to get schools, to [get ...

Recognising the role of Indigenous and Maori soldiers
SBS
Realising the difference between the Australian Aborigines and the New Zealand Maori is that we signed a treaty here in 1840 that gave us the rights of British citizenship. And inherent in those rights is when Britain calls that you man up (act in a ...

Indigenous Olympian tells tales of Vietnam - Ninemsn
Ninemsn
He is also the nephew of Australia's most famous indigenous soldier, Captain Reg Saunders MBE. Reg Saunders was the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army. Australia's military involvement in the Vietnam War ...

Indigenous prisoners of war in focus for ANZAC Day
ABC Message Stick
MIRIAM HALL: The Redfern ANZAC Commemoration Day was established to celebrate the war efforts by Indigenous Australians. Pastor Ray Minniecon set up the first Commemoration Day in 2006, and he's heard some painful stories of Indigenous people ...

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Gillard government focused at pleasing indigenous communities
Oye! Times
The federal government of Australia has committed $44.1 million for remote indigenous communities in five states in its May budget. The funds are aimed at enhancing municipal services in 340 remote indigenous communities in Western Australia, South ...
Martu people to take control of massive land areaABC Online

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Cash for indigenous communities
Sky News Australia
The federal government will commit the money in the May budget towards improving municipal services in 340 remote indigenous communities in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria. Municipal services are usually the ...
Martu people to take control of massive land areaABC Online

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Budget cash for indigenous communities
The Australian
The federal government will commit the money in the May budget towards improving municipal services in 340 remote indigenous communities in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria. Municipal services are usually the ...
Martu people to take control of massive land areaABC Online

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Our black history: lest we forget Aboriginal veterans - WA Today
WA today
In August 1916, Private Douglas Grant departed Australia on a troop carrier bound for the United Kingdom. Like thousands of other young Australian men, Grant had signed up for the AIF and wound up fighting in the trenches on the Western Front in France.
Aboriginal Diggers 'couldn't even get a beer in a pub'Illawarra Mercury
Best we forget? - Canberra TimesThe Canberra Times

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Tony Abbott still won't rule out Indigenous cuts
Invest in Australia
After years of underinvestment and neglect under the Howard Government, this Labor Government has made unprecedented investments to close the gap on Indigenous disadvantage, with more than $5.2 billion in funding for employment, education, health ...
Labor prepares budget groundThe Australian
Greater conviction could have secured education funding - Sydney Morning HeraldSydney Morning Herald

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Building Aboriginal prosperity
The Australian
The real transformation in Aborigines' lives -- better education, home ownership, employment -- is arising from the private sector, including initiatives such as Andrew Forrest's Australian Employment Covenant and the Australian Indigenous Education ...

Public foot remote clean-up bill
The Australian
The Gillard government's $44.1 million injection to the expired federal program -- the second 12-month extension -- to give remote indigenous communities municipal services enjoyed by urban Australia will be delivered in the May 14 budget. Indigenous ...

Aboriginal Diggers 'couldn't even get a beer in a pub'
Illawarra Mercury
Thursday is one of the days on the Australian calendar that is more sacred than many religious holidays. Even McDonald's closes its doors until after 11am to honour the men and women who served and are still serving Australia in theatres of war. The ...
Best we forget? - Canberra TimesThe Canberra Times

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Desert put under protection of indigenous
The West Australian
The Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area takes in parts of both the Little Sandy Desert and Gibson Desert, and joins a network of 54 indigenous protected areas covering over 43 million hectares across Australia. Senator Louise Pratt said the Martu ...

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Clontarf site gifted to indigenous group
The West Australian
"Clontarf is a culturally significant and iconic property for indigenous people in Western Australia and will now be secured for future generations." ILC chairwoman Dawn Casey said the Christian Brothers had been looking to return the land to ...

Close gap targets 'to include jail rate'
The Australian
In an interview with The Australian, opposition indigenous affairs spokesman Nigel Scullion said he believed a campaign by leading Aboriginal groups to include justice as an official target needed to be considered because the levels at which indigenous ...

Fake debt collectors, complaints handlers; court rules telco ripped off ...
ZDNet
The company had, in particular, targeted indigenous communities in the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) took up the case after being ...
Court finds Excite Mobile was 'cynically indifferent' to customers' interestsComputerworld Australia
ACCC Excited by landmark court win - ITWire.comiTWire

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Historic Clontarf site gifted to Indigenous body
ABC Online
The historic Clontarf site in Perth has been gifted to the Indigenous Land Corporation by the Catholic Christian Brothers. The Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, officially announced the handover today. The site, on the banks of ...
Macklin raises risk from LibsThe Australian

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