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First People's bid to join alcohol-ban challenge sparks Warren Mundine anger
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leaders have attacked a decision by the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples to apply to join a High Court challenge against alcohol restrictions in Queensland, arguing the nation's peak Aboriginal body should instead be thinking ...

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Shell to help combat petrol sniffing
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Minister for Indigenous Health Warren Snowdon announced on Monday Shell would join BP in producing and supplying the fuel in remote Australia. BP will continue supplying the fuel in Central and South Australia and parts of Western Australia, including ...

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Blogger backs new packaging laws
The Australian (blog)
Mr Pearson's blogs have already spurred several other people to quit and he particularly wants to inspire young indigenous Australians. Smoking causes one out of every five deaths among Australia's indigenous population, according to the Menzies School ...

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Murgon woman a show stopper
The Queensland Times
Born to an Aborginal mother and a white Australian father, the actress has come a long way since she moved from Murgon to Brisbane when she 19. Purcell is currently starring in the ABC1 drama Redfern Now, a six-part series about indigenous Australians ...

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Celebration of Aboriginal culture comes to the Central Coast
ABC Online
The ABC Central Coast studio was filled with the sounds of Indigenous music from NAISDA Dance College - Australia's National Indigenous Dance Training College. The Datiwuy clan from Elcho Island in North East Arnhem Land played the didgeridoo, clap ...

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Indigenous corporate mentorship 'opening doors'
SBS
+ Comment. 0. The Melbourne Business School and Victoria's Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce, Kinaway, built the program in response to research showing Australian Indigenous entrepreneurs have few fellow Indigenous role-models in business. (AAP) ...

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Newman Government will hear plan to give serial indigenous offenders work ...
The Australian
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine will meet with Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie next month to talk about his controversial proposal, which has been bankrolled by some of Australia's richest people. Mr Mundine, speaking exclusively to The Courier-Mail, ...

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Newman Government will hear plan to give serial indigenous offenders work ...
Herald Sun
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine will meet with Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie next month to talk about his controversial proposal, which has been bankrolled by some of Australia's richest people. Mr Mundine, speaking exclusively to The Courier-Mail, ...

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Top indigenous body seeks role in grog appeal
The Australian
THE nation's peak Aboriginal body, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, has made a controversial decision to apply to join a High Court challenge against alcohol restrictions in Queensland. The High Court has agreed to hear a claim by ...

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Suspect crocodile was known to locals
The Australian
One longtime Arnhem Land resident expressed surprise at the news, saying Aboriginal people were typically croc-wise. Another said children could act irresponsibly when their parents were distracted. Joe Morrison, chief of the North Australian ...
Locals fed suspected killer crocodileAdelaide Now

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Australia blind to disability needs: actor
Herald Sun
"Being indigenous and coming from a marginalised part of Australian society, I think it's important that we put the focus back on not just special needs people but their family (and) carers," he said. Digital Pass - $5 weekend papers. "Mainstream ...

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Australia : Launch of fairer deal on ATMs for remote indigenous communities ...
Equities.com
The Gillard Government welcomes the launch today of a new initiative by the Australian banking industry and two major independent ATM companies to provide free transactions at 79 ATMs across very remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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Woman, 44, from indigenous community dies in town lock-up
The Australian
The 44-year-old woman was from a remote indigenous community in the Kimberley, but lived periodically in Broome. Her death was not considered to have been a suicide, The Weekend Australian was told. Detectives from the Western Australia Police ...

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Indigenous housing Sarra's next big challenge
The Australian
HAVING sparked a wave of reform around the nation based on his "Stronger Smarter" approach to indigenous schools, respected Aboriginal educator Chris Sarra is planning to leave education to try repairing the troubled area of indigenous housing.

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Brisbane Times
Repossessing the songlines
Brisbane Times
They brought the question of Aboriginal rights to land and the concept of native title before the courts for the first time in Australian history. The plaintiffs ''asserted on behalf of the native clans they represented that those clans and no others ...

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Clive James given special award
Herald Sun
And the latest winner is Kim Scott, the West Australian Aboriginal writer, who on Friday won a combined $50,000 for two NSW Premier's Literary awards for his novel, That Deadman Dance. He received $40,000 for the Christina Stead Prize and $10,000 for ...

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Gooda calls for Indigenous governance overhaul
SBS
The way Indigenous Australians are governed needs a complete overhaul, according to a report from the Australian Human Rights Commission. "We need Government to sometimes just get out of the road and give us a chance to make some decision sin out ...

Mining the middle class
Australian Mining
According to Professor Marcia Langton, chair of Australian indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne, the mining industry is helping pull many Aboriginal Australians out of poverty. By Langton's count around 7,000 indigenous people work in ...

Brisbane Times
And the ARIA goes to… constitutional recognition!
NEWS.com.au
Earlier this month, a series of concerts was held throughout Australia to promote awareness of the need for recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution. Gurindji man and rock hero Dan Sultan headlined ...
Hall of Fame first, now Yunupingu looks aheadSydney Morning Herald
Yothu Yindi cements its place in musical historyABC Online
Yothu Yindi push for constitution changeNinemsn
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SA makes Indigenous constitutional move
ABC Online
He said it would correct the historical record, setting out that when South Australia was established in 1836 there was no recognition of, consultation with or authorisation from Aboriginal people, nor was this rectified when the present constitution ...

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