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Lifetime achievement award for indigenous Australian writer | Pacific Beat
Radio Australia
The indigenous writer Herb Wharton from the state of Queensland has been presented with a lifetime achivement award by the Australian Council. Lifetime achievement award for indigenous Australian writer (Credit: ABC). Herb came to writing at 50, after ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
The photo in question: Jessica's Mauboy's as appears in The Australian ...
Sydney Morning Herald
She stars in a glamorous photo shoot for the Christmas edition of The Australian Women's Weekly. But it's hard not to notice that Jessica Mauboy doesn't look herself. The proudly indigenous singer and actor appears to have a lighter skin colour in the ...

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Legendary Aboriginal partnership to bring community benefits
Coffs Coast Advocate
THE Legendary Pacific Coast, a major tourism drive from Sydney to Brisbane on the east coast of Australia has combined with regional Aboriginal communities to create a groundbreaking tourism product with wide reaching community benefits. Throughout ...

Sydney Morning Herald
'Nobody has ever asked me if I'm Aboriginal. This is the only time.'
Sydney Morning Herald
He was involved in setting up Australia's first indigenous theatre group, Nindethana, at the Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1971, and most recently performed in the 2012 Sydney Festival production I am Eora, about Sydney's Aboriginal community. And then ...

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firms boost Aboriginal employment
The Australian
... on 700 trainees in the past 12 months. A Business Council of Australia survey to be released today reveals a huge increase in indigenous employees and trainees not only confined to the resources industry, traditionally a big private employer of ...

Brisbane Times
Labor reverses on Opal fuel roll-out
The Australian
Indigenous Health Minister Warren Snowdon said the decision to back the bill came after long negotiations with state governments to introduce their own legislation did not bear fruit. The Australian revealed in July that sniffing has continued in ...
Mandatory Opal rollout on the cardsSydney Morning Herald
Government backs Greens to tackle petrol sniffingBrisbane Times
Government backs Greens on Opal fuel pushABC Online

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Festival airing for untold Diggers' tale
The Australian
Enoch is working with a small team that includes co-writer and Version 1.0 co-founder David Williams along with researchers from the Sydney Festival, the indigenous curatorial team of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and the University of Sydney.

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Festival airing for untold Diggers' tale
The Australian
Enoch is working with a small team that includes co-writer and Version 1.0 co-founder David Williams along with researchers from the Sydney Festival, the indigenous curatorial team of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and the University of Sydney.

Indigenous prisoner numbers up
The Canberra Times
The ACT recorded the country's largest spike in indigenous imprisonment rates of the past year, new statistics show. But prison data, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday, also shows the territory has maintained its record of the ...

Call for sport funds for indigenous girls
The Daily Telegraph
Netball Australia's chief executive Kate Palmer says a funding proposal four years ago for a program providing leadership, mentoring and life skills for indigenous girls through sport was ignored by the federal government. Yet the government had ...

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Call for sport funds for indigenous girls
Perth Now
Netball Australia's chief executive Kate Palmer says a funding proposal four years ago for a program providing leadership, mentoring and life skills for indigenous girls through sport was ignored by the federal government. Yet the government had ...

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Call for sport funds for indigenous girls
The Australian
Netball Australia's chief executive Kate Palmer says a funding proposal four years ago for a program providing leadership, mentoring and life skills for indigenous girls through sport was ignored by the federal government. Yet the government had ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
'Nobody has ever asked me if I'm Aboriginal. This is the only time'
Sydney Morning Herald
He was involved in setting up Australia's first indigenous theatre group, Nindethana, at The Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1971, and most recently performed in the 2012 Sydney Festival production I am Eora, about Sydney's Aboriginal community . And then ...
Mining 'helping growth of Aboriginal middle class'SBS

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The Age
'Nobody has ever asked me if I'm Aboriginal. This is the only time'
The Age
He was involved in setting up Australia's first indigenous theatre group, Nindethana, at The Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1971, and most recently performed in the 2012 Sydney Festival production I am Eora, about Sydney's Aboriginal community . And then ...
Mining 'helping growth of Aboriginal middle class'SBS

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Concerns over NDIS for Indigenous people
SBS
South Australian MP Kelly Vincent, from Dignity for Disability - the nation's only disability political party, has headed to the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands to see the challenges faced by disabled Aboriginal people in some of the ...

Brisbane Times
'Nobody has ever asked me if I'm Aboriginal. This is the only time'
The Border Mail
He was involved in setting up Australia's first indigenous theatre group, Nindethana, at The Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1971, and most recently performed in the 2012 Sydney Festival production I am Eora, about Sydney's Aboriginal community . And then ...
Mining 'helping growth of Aboriginal middle class'SBS

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Sydney Morning Herald
'Nobody has ever asked me if I'm Aboriginal. This is the only time'
Sydney Morning Herald
He was involved in setting up Australia's first indigenous theatre group, Nindethana, at The Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1971, and most recently performed in the 2012 Sydney Festival production I am Eora, about Sydney's Aboriginal community . And then ...
Mining 'helping growth of Aboriginal middle class'SBS

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ABC's foul kick to reconciliation
The Australian
Marngrook is reconciliation in action: indigenous people talking about a game indigenous to Australia in which millions of Australians are interested. Don't talk about ratings or cost; when something like this emerges, treasure it. Historian John Hirst ...

Jobless fears plaguing generations
The Australian
Unemployment hotspots across Australia. Bernard Salt ... Australian. KEISHA Neal's daughter is not even 18 months old but already the young mother fears for her baby's future and her job prospects in the north Queensland Aboriginal community of Yarrabah.

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ACT's top Australian seeks to inspire
Sydney Morning Herald
He wrote a landmark report in 2005 calling for the 17-year life expectancy gap then between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians to be closed, which sparked the "Close the Gap" campaign. Dr Calma said the campaign was a work in progress and ...
Indigenous leader wins ACT's top awardThe Australian
Social justice campaigner ACT Australian of the YearABC Online
Human rights advocate named ACT Australian of the YearThe Canberra Times

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