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Indigenous land and sea management network launched
SBS
Indigenous rangers from Australia are visiting Canada to help launch a global network of indigenous land and sea managers. Indigenous management network. The SBS MP3 Player requires the Adobe Flash 8 Plugin. You can get Flash from here.
Indigenous rangers take overseas trackPS News

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Indigenous teenagers learn tricks of wool trade
ABC Local
Supported by the Federal Government's Indigenous Employment Program, the project takes young Aboriginal people from around Australia for a 13 week course, where they learn shearing and wool handling skills from some of the country's biggest ...

The West Australian
Gritty new drama tackles hard issues
The West Australian
Jealousy, mental illness, benefit fraud, family dysfunction, juvenile crime; these are just some of the gritty urban issues explored in Redfern Now, the first drama series written, directed and produced by indigenous Australians. The issues and the ...
Actor, director and writer Leah Purcell. Source: SuppliedThe Australian
Big ideas shape city life storiesBrisbane Times

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Health sector Australia's top employer
ABC Online
Results from the 2011 Australian Census released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show 11.6 per cent of Australians are working in health care and community services. They include doctors, nurses, dentists, child care workers and aged care ...

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When Didgeridoo met the Dholak
Delhi Newsline
Mark Atkins, the famous Australian aboriginal didgeridoo player, had begun to breathe life into a long wooden trumpet and the mother of all flutes — didgeridoo — also known to most of the world as the revered emblem of Australian cultural tourism (it ...

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Indigenous rangers take overseas track
PS News
Australian Indigenous Rangers are to tour Canada as part of a new global initiative to share traditional knowledge and ideas for best practice on land and sea management. Minister for the Environment, Tony Burke said three rangers from the Kimberley ...

Tsunami warning can't stop rugby league
NRL.COM
The game between the Hawaiian All Stars and the Queensland Indigenous side at Kaiser Stadium on Sunday, Australian time, was launched by the mayor of Honolulu, Peter Carlisle, and the Australian High Commissioner to the US State, Scott Dewar.

Indigenous “Homeless Away from Home”
Pro Bono Australia
The University of South Australia's Centre for Rural Health and Community Development surveyed Indigenous travellers in Ceduna and Port Augusta to find out their reasons for travel, how long they planned to be away from home, and how often they visited.

NZ does better with national day than Australia
Voxy
Professor McAllister, who has just released a book on the issue, said indigenous Australians reject participation in Australia Day and stage alternative events that protest against their marginalised status and disadvantaged condition. Aboriginal ...

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NZ does better with its national day than Australia, UC expert says
Voxy
Professor McAllister, who has just released a book on the issue, said indigenous Australians reject participation in Australia Day and stage alternative events that protest against their marginalised status and disadvantaged condition. Aboriginal ...

Australian oil project halted by Aboriginal protest
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Kred Enterprises on Friday said Nyikina Mangala, traditional owners of the land on which it had been prospecting for oil, had demanded a stop to the operations by the Perth-based company, at the project sit around 100 km east of Broome in Western ...

The Dartmouth
Gilchrist's 'Chalk Talk' lecture focuses on Aboriginal art
The Dartmouth
For Homecoming weekend, the talk focused on Aboriginal art from Australia, which is also the focus of the Hood exhibit titled “Crossing Cultures: The Own and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art.” Curated by Gilchrist, who works ...

Indigenous-only jail could provide model for NT
ABC Online
The superintendent of a new Indigenous-only prison in Western Australia says the Northern Territory should develop a similar facility. Mike Macfarlane is a former superintendent of the Alice Springs Correctional Centre and will supervise the staff and ...

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Gardiner graduates to PGA Tour
The Australian
Gardiner, born of an Aboriginal mother and Scottish father, hoped to inspire others as the first indigenous Australian to represent on golf's biggest stage. “I am very proud ... it's a great feeling,” he said. “Golf has become more popular the last 10 ...

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Green Left Weekly
Call for indigenous eye health equity
6minutes
It would cost only $70 million to end most preventable vision loss among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, a leading specialist said last week, eliminating 11% of the health gap between indigenous Australians and the rest of the community.
Kids in care 'losing culture'The Australian
Aboriginal students to protest to 'Save the Koori Centre at Sydney University'Green Left Weekly

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Globe and Mail
Native land-care tips from Down Under
Globe and Mail
A delegation of Australian Indigenous Rangers arrived in Vancouver on the weekend for a tour that will take them to Yellowknife and Winnipeg before ending in Ottawa in a week. The group, organized by the Pew Environment Group, is here to talk to native ...
From the Outback to the Boreal - Australia's 'Indigenous Rangers' to Share New ...Canada NewsWire (press release)

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Gardiner wants to be role model on US tour
Brisbane Times
Gardiner, born of an Aboriginal mother and Scottish father, hoped to inspire others as the first indigenous Australian to represent on golf's biggest stage. "I am very proud...it's a great feeling," he said. "Golf has become more popular the last 10-15 ...

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Philanthropic Investment in Aboriginal Women Needed - Report
Pro Bono Australia
Australian philanthropists are being urged to investing in programs to assist Aboriginal women and girls who can then act as catalysts for social change in their local communities, according to a new AMP report. The AMP Foundation report The Best of ...

Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal students to protest to 'Save the Koori Centre at Sydney University'
Green Left Weekly
I want to build a fair and more compassionate Australia." Jackson continued: “As an Aboriginal man himself one wonders what has changed the thinking of Shane from one of great and high ideals to a low assimilationist attitude to the Koori Centre. Our ...

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Scott Gardiner becomes first Aborigine to gain US PGA Tour card
Herald Sun
Gardiner, born of an Aboriginal mother and Scottish father, hoped to inspire others as the first indigenous Australian to represent on golf's biggest stage. "I am very proud . . . it's a great feeling," he said. "Golf has become more popular the last ...