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Indigenous Small Business Start Up Tools
Sydney Morning Herald
The Learning Workshop has released a resource kit - the Natural Born Fighter: Indigenous Small Business Start Up Tools - to help Indigenous entrepreneurs get their business started. The resource was funded by the Australian Government's Workplace ...

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Closing the indigenous jobs gap
The Australian Financial Review
The chairman of solar panel installation firm Mark Group Australia says he was “fairly moved by what was said and done and it got me thinking about what we could do to help close the gap [on indigenous disadvantage]”. But five years later, Grant has ...

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challenge over indigenous jobs
The Australian
"It's a challenge to both . . . to go into this coming election knowing that Australia is now sick of it," he will say at a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of his GenerationOne indigenous employment initiative. "It has the weapons to rid us of ...

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search unearths a fashion first
The Australian
BROOME and Auckland may be a long way from the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival runway, but that hasn't stopped about 80 young indigenous fashion designers and models making the journey this week from around Australia and New Zealand.

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Jessica Mauboy Brings Australian Indigenous Film 'The Sapphires' to US
Singersroom News
After earning a nomination for 'Female Actress of the Year” in Bran Nue Dae, Jessica Mauboy will star in 'The Sapphires' film. Mauboy plays Julie one of four indigenous women in an Australian a pop group that entertains troops during the Vietnam War.
The Sapphires Interviews: Wayne Blair and Shari SebbensHuffington Post
'The Sapphires' Review Roundup: Australian Film Dazzles CriticsLatinos Post

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Lend Lease works to boost indigenous employment
The Australian Financial Review
“The first one was initiated six years ago with National Australia Bank and they are beginning to see the business drivers behind it.” The RAP process not only increases cultural awareness of Indigenous culture but helps companies get a better ...

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'Long way to go' for reconciliation
The Australian
JAMES Packer acknowledged yesterday that his Crown group had "a long way to go" to meet its goal to provide more long-term, sustainable employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people after formally launching its ...

Private sector can do more to engage indigenous talent
The Australian
Closing the Work Gap in Corporate Australia, a partnership between the Diversity Council Australia, Reconciliation Australia and Lend Lease, said that private sector engagement with indigenous communities had improved over recent years, but new ...

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Corporates urged to act on indigenous jobs
The Australian
Indigenous leaders across a range of sectors surveyed by the Diversity Council of Australia have scored corporates 5.1 out of 10 on average for indigenous engagement. While most participants acknowledged there had been improvement over the past five to ...
Business improves indigenous engagement: reportThe Australian Financial Review
Micah Projects and BHSC invite you to a special Close the Gap event on ThursdayThe Westender
Long way to go in closing the work gap: reportSBS

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Close indigenous work gap in private sector, report urges
The Australian
Closing the Work Gap in Corporate Australia, a partnership between the Diversity Council Australia, Reconciliation Australia and Lend Lease, acknowledged that private sector engagement with indigenous communities has improved over the past five to 10 ...

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James Packer launches plan for 2000 indigenous jobs at Crown by 2021
The Australian
Crown has developed indigenous employment programs at its two Australian properties Melbourne and Perth. “Our commitment to offer 2000 job opportunities to Indigenous Australians remains today as strong as ever,'' Mr Packer said today. “In 2009 when ...
Business improves indigenous engagement: reportThe Australian Financial Review

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Joining the dots: Indigenous art and language in the national cultural policy
The Conversation
Arts minister Simon Crean's newly released cultural policy, Creative Australia, represents a refreshing change. It is underpinned by an understanding that not only are the arts closely linked to each other, but also to all Australians' physical and ...
Business improves indigenous engagement: reportThe Australian Financial Review

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Business improves indigenous engagement: report
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous leaders and employment experts have given corporate Australia an overall ranking of 5.1 out of 10 for its efforts to engage with indigenous people. The report, Closing the Work Gap in Corporate Australia, was commissioned by the Diversity ...

NT rejects funds for dialysis centres
The Australian
A TWO-YEAR bid to improve dialysis services for indigenous people in central Australia has collapsed after the Northern Territory government handed back $10 million in funding to build two remote service centres in Alice Springs and Tennant Creek.

As big mining companies boom, Aboriginals in WA sleep in dirt
The Daily Telegraph
Atlas Iron managing director Ken Brinsden said miners were doing a lot, but deeply rooted problems with indigenous Australia were "a blight on society as a whole", and BHP said it spent $68 million on community development in WA last year. Bob Neville ...

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As big mining companies boom, Aboriginals in WA sleep in dirt
Perth Now
Atlas Iron managing director Ken Brinsden said miners were doing a lot, but deeply rooted problems with indigenous Australia were "a blight on society as a whole", and BHP said it spent $68 million on community development in WA last year. Bob Neville ...

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Australia's First Aboriginal Northern Territory Chief Minister Takes Oath of ...
Day News
Australia recently welcomed its very first aboriginal provincial government official in a historic ceremony held on Thursday. Adam Giles, 40 years old, is now Australia's Aboriginal Northern Territory government head. Prime Minister Julia Gillard ...

COAG 'is for governments only'
The Australian
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has called for sweeping changes to the way the federal government works with indigenous communities and for official national status as a participant in COAG - arguing it needs more input into ...

Indigenous leader pushes 'jobs, jobs, jobs' agenda
The Australian
AUSTRALIA'S first indigenous head of government will demand a fundamental change in the direction of federal indigenous affairs, away from the "socialism that's killing Aboriginal people" and to economic development. In his first meetings with federal ...

Frontline defence against fire and weeds
The Australian
ABORIGINAL people in remote Australia are not easily scared by fire, given their ancient tradition of managing land through this means. But the bushfires that began raging through the savanna country of northern Australia in recent years, fuelled by ...