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Support for Hooper's Aboriginal flag shirt
Ninemsn
Indigenous leaders have defended Australian boxer Damien Hooper's decision to wear a T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag at the Olympics, saying he should not have to apologise for the move. Hooper was warned by Australia's chef de mission Nick Green not ...

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Calls for tailored alcohol programs for Indigenous prisoners
ABC Online
The study published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health found more than half of all Indigenous prisoners were drinking in a high risk or dependent way before entering jail. Senior researcher Stuart Kinner from Melbourne ...

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Australian intervention concerns UN
The Australian
The most influential people in Sport. "Without the genuine participation and support of indigenous communities ... the measures contained in the legislation may not achieve their full potential to improve the lives of indigenous peoples in Australia ...

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Australian intervention concerns UN
Herald Sun
"Without the genuine participation and support of indigenous communities ... the measures contained in the legislation may not achieve their full potential to improve the lives of indigenous peoples in Australia," she wrote. Ms Pillay said laws aimed ...

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Australian intervention concerns UN
Ninemsn
"Without the genuine participation and support of indigenous communities ... the measures contained in the legislation may not achieve their full potential to improve the lives of indigenous peoples in Australia," she wrote. Ms Pillay said laws aimed ...

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The Age
Indigenous leaders want officials to drop ban on flags
Brisbane Times
Australian boxer Damian Hooper has caused a stir with an Aboriginal flag T-shirt while South Korean fencer Shin A-Lam was shattered after an upset in the semi final. Autoplay OnOff; Video feedback; Video settings. INDIGENOUS leaders say the Olympic ...
Damien Hooper apologises after Aboriginal flag reprimandThe Australian
Australian boxer Damien Hooper warned not to wear Aboriginal flag t-shirtHerald Sun
Indigenous leaders want rules changedThe Age
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Indigenous leaders want officials to drop ban on flags
The Age
INDIGENOUS leaders say the Olympic rules that outlaw Aboriginal flags at the Games should change, and have called on the Australian Olympic Committee to lobby for the longstanding protocol to be overturned. Dual Olympian Kyle Vander Kuyp, former ...

Sapphires sparkle in feel-good movie
WA today
Inspired by a true story, it's also a proudly Australian story and follows four young Aboriginal women, who in 1968 are flown to the war-zones of South Vietnam to perform for American troops. Directed by Wayne Blair, it's filled with an infectious ...

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Indigenous leaders want rules changed
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INDIGENOUS leaders say the Olympic rules that outlaw Aboriginal flags at the Games should change, and have called on the Australian Olympic Committee to lobby for the longstanding protocol to be overturned. Dual Olympian 110-metre hurdler Kyle ...

Brisbane Times
Indigenous leaders want rules changed
Brisbane Times
INDIGENOUS leaders say the Olympic rules that outlaw Aboriginal flags at the Games should change, and have called on the Australian Olympic Committee to lobby for the longstanding protocol to be overturned. Dual Olympian 110-metre hurdler Kyle ...

Brisbane Times
Indigenous leaders want rules changed
Sydney Morning Herald
INDIGENOUS leaders say the Olympic rules that outlaw Aboriginal flags at the Games should change, and have called on the Australian Olympic Committee to lobby for the longstanding protocol to be overturned. Dual Olympian 110-metre hurdler Kyle ...
Australian boxer Damien Hooper warned not to wear Aboriginal flag t-shirtHerald Sun
Aboriginal flag fine for Freeman, why not Hooper?The Australian
Olympics overreact to Aboriginal T-shift: boxing officialsABC Online
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Indigenous leaders want officials to drop ban on flags
The Age
INDIGENOUS leaders say the Olympic rules that outlaw Aboriginal flags at the Games should change, and have called on the Australian Olympic Committee to lobby for the longstanding protocol to be overturned. Dual Olympian Kyle Vander Kuyp, former ...

Brisbane Times
Indigenous leaders want officials to drop ban on flags
Sydney Morning Herald
INDIGENOUS leaders say the Olympic rules that outlaw Aboriginal flags at the Games should change, and have called on the Australian Olympic Committee to lobby for the longstanding protocol to be overturned. Dual Olympian Kyle Vander Kuyp, former ...
Australian boxer Damien Hooper warned not to wear Aboriginal flag t-shirtHerald Sun
Aboriginal flag fine for Freeman, why not Hooper?The Australian
Olympics overreact to Aboriginal T-shift: boxing officialsABC Online

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Indigenous rise from boom
The Australian
During the past two years there has been a blossoming of Aboriginal enterprise in Western Australia, hastened by the signing of land-use agreements, indigenous joint ventures and direct contracting. Rio Tinto, the nation's largest private-sector ...
Indigenous worker numbers skyrocket in miningABC Online

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Damien Hooper apologises after Aboriginal flag reprimand
The Australian
INDIGENOUS boxer Damien Hooper was last night officially warned by Australian team boss Nick Green after wearing a T-shirt bearing the Aboriginal flag to his opening fight at the London Olympics yesterday. Hooper, an indigenous Australian from northern ...

Aboriginal flag fine for Freeman, why not Hooper?
The Australian
THE National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has defended the right of Australian boxer Damien Hooper to wear an Aboriginal flag on his shirt and urged the Australian Olympic Committee "to find a way through this bureaucratic insanity". The ...

Macklin faces legal alert on ILC ouster
The Australian
She is also under growing pressure to address claims she was involved in the removal of the chief executive of the independent statutory body, David Galvin, whose position has been terminated as of today. Mr Galvin warned the new chairwoman of the ILC, ...

This commission will help mentally ill or I'll quit
The Australian
Australia has a health system that is one of the best in the world. But it has at least two serious weaknesses - mental health and indigenous health (of which mental health problems are a major component). I say this even though Australia does a better ...

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Boxing: Hooper proud to show off Aboriginal roots
Yahoo! Sports
The exciting light-heavyweight, no stranger to controversy having been sent home from the 2010 Commonwealth Games and a recent training camp for bad behavior, said he was proud to represent the indigenous Australian culture. "Well what do you reckon ...

Indigenous round is a chance for Jono Wright to break down barriers
The Daily Telegraph
There were no commemorative jerseys, mouthguards or pre-match performances. And there wasn't an entire round of football dedicated to indigenous health issues. There was only a $140 insult. That's the pittance the first all-Aboriginal touring team ...