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Gurrumul Honoured At Australia's National Indigenous Music Awards
Contactmusic.com
Australian musician Gurrumul was given a boost on Saturday (11Aug12) after ongoing health woes forced him to cancel tour dates last month (Jul12) - he won a top award at the National Indigenous Music Awards. The singer/songwriter, full name Geoffrey ...

Sapphires hits the right note
The Australian
The film, based on the true story of an indigenous girl group sent to play for the troops in Vietnam, averaged more than $8000 on each of its 275 screens in a broad release. Including sneak previews ... Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 27 Jun – 16 ...
The Sapphires claims biggest box office opening weekend of the year for an ...MuMbrella

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Caught in a longterm cycle: homelessness in Australia
The Conversation
Respondents are on average younger, more likely to be single, have no dependent children, born in Australia and much more likely to be Indigenous Australian than in the general population. Journeys Home respondents also have much lower levels of ...

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Aboriginal artefacts uncovered at Rio Tinto coal mine
Australian Mining
According to geoarcheologist Phillip Hughes, the Hunter Valley is one of the most studied areas in the Australia due to the assessments for coal mining approvals. Rio reports that it believes Aboriginal artifact sites are scattered across its tenements ...

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Australian tourism to recruit Chinese students and indigenous Australians
eTurboNews
Early retirees, Chinese students and indigenous Australians will be targeted as employees in a plan to boost often-criticised service standards in the tourism industry. Federal Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson also wants to facilitate greater foreign ...
Retirees and Chinese students new tourism workersPerth Now

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ABC Online
Olympic chosen ones and Australia's secret past
ABC Online
She is Aboriginal, like Cathy Freeman who won a gold medal in the 400 metres at Sydney. For all their talent, both belong to a carefully constructed façade, behind which Australia's secret Indigenous history is suppressed and denied. The late Charlie ...

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Brisbane Times
Getting down to business
The Australian
THERE are a couple of things you don't expect to see in remote Aboriginal Australia and one is a 72-year-old billionaire barefoot on his hands and knees, laying carpet squares. That was, however, what Gerry Harvey was doing in the dusty town of Aurukun ...
Leading a local learning revolutionSydney Morning Herald

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Indigenous award becalmed
The Australian
FOR an art movement uncertain of its immediate future, and afraid the years of gold already lie behind it, the venerable Telstra-sponsored National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award seems the perfect showcase, and Darwin's near-moribund ...

The Age
PM opens Richmond indigenous centre
The Age
Richmond Football Club has transformed a small part of Tigerland into an institute aiming to kick-start the lives of young indigenous Australians. Prime Minister Julia Gillard today officially opened the Korin Gamadji Institute (KGI), inside Punt Road ...
Richmond scores with indigenous instituteNEWS.com.au

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Richmond scores with indigenous institute
NEWS.com.au
"It's something that has to cascade through every level of Australian life." While things like the apology to the stolen generations and the Mabo decision were important, it was just as vital for indigenous children to learn to read and write and get ...

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How the Chosen Ones Ended Australia's Olympic Prowess and Revealed a ...
Antiwar.com
She is Aboriginal, like Cathy Freeman, who won a gold medal in the 400 metres at Sydney. For all their talent, both belong to a carefully constructed façade, behind which Australia's secret indigenous history is suppressed and denied. The late Charlie ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott and co bridge gap
Sydney Morning Herald
A WEEKEND of toil for a handful of Australia's leading business figures might just be a metaphor for rising to the challenge of closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia. The transformation of a dilapidated building into a state ...

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Retirees and Chinese students new tourism workers
Herald Sun
... the tourism industry under Martin Ferguson's plan. Picture: Thinkstock Source: Supplied. EARLY retirees, Chinese students and indigenous Australians will be targeted as employees in a plan to boost often-criticised service standards in the tourism ...

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Gurrumul wins top Indigenous music award
Radio Australia
The Medics swept the pool at the National Indigenous Music Awards, which also saw blind singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu named best artist for the second year in a row. The awards, which celebrate Indigenous music acts from all around Australia, were ...

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Gurrumul wins top Indigenous music award
ABC Online
The Medics swept the pool at the National Indigenous Music Awards, which also saw blind singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu named best artist for the second year in a row. The awards, which celebrate Indigenous music acts from all around Australia, were ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott and co roll up sleeves for remote community
Sydney Morning Herald
A WEEKEND of toil for a handful of Australia's leading business figures might just be a metaphor for rising to the challenge of closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia. The transformation of a dilapidated building into a state ...

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Retirees and Chinese students new tourism workers
The Australian
EARLY retirees, Chinese students and indigenous Australians will be targeted as employees in a plan to boost often-criticised service standards in the tourism industry. Federal Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson also wants to facilitate greater foreign ...

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Free workshop on indigenous business
The Canberra Times
IBA Chair Dr Dawn Casey said, ''Many indigenous Australians have created successful businesses out of things they are passionate about, but commercially viable businesses need more than passion to make them a success. ''Before taking the exciting, but ...

The West Australian
Winner has pop star approval
NTNews.com.au
THE winner of one of Australia's most prestigious indigenous art prizes is a Territorian who once sold a painting to Michael and Janet Jackson. Tiwi Islands artist Timothy Cook, 53, has beaten 62 other finalists and taken out the $40000 2012 Telstra ...
Cook wins prestigious Indigenous art prizeABC Online
Topical winner of indigenous art awardThe West Australian

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Boost for Indigenous cancer research
Oncology Update
The federal government announced $2.5 million this week in funding for a project to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer outcomes. Led by Associate Professor Gail Garvey of the Menzies School of Health Research, the project aims to ...