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Australia's development cricket squad to tour India
IBNLive
Melbourne: Cricket Australia's (CA) National Indigenous Development Squad departs for India this week to attend the country's Global Cricket Schools and play a series of matches against the representative sides. Selected by former Test and one-day ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
The National Gallery of Australia looks to the future
The Australian
For a nation only two centuries old, but with an ancient Indigenous past, Australia's new National Gallery should not try to emulate the national museums of Old World Europe, formed from princely and aristocratic collections, or the museums already ...
Cultural cringe cured, Aussie art to come out of the atticSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
Cultural cringe cured, Aussie art to come out of the attic
Sydney Morning Herald
Stage Two would do the same for non-Indigenous Australian and Pacific arts, allowing much of it to come out of storage and onto public display. "Our current small and arkward space for contemporary art is an insult to living Australian artists," Dr ...

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Celebration of Indigenous writers
UQ News
AustLit partners with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and other university partners to expand BlackWords' coverage of this dynamic and exciting part of Australia's literary culture. The BlackWords ...

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Australia's brightest Indigenous cricket talent heads to India
Boxscore
Cricket Australia: (Oct. 9, 2012) - Cricket Australia's National Indigenous Development Squad this week departs for India to attend the country's Global Cricket Schools and play a series of matches against representative sides. Selected by former Test ...

Rugby Sevens star reflects on opportunities after winning Female Sportsperson ...
ARU Rugby
The game of Rugby Sevens means a lot to Australian Women's Rugby Sevens Star, Bo De La Cruz who recently won the Female Sportsperson of the Year at The 2012 “Deadlys” which recognise the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to their ...

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Indigenous Leadership Scholarships Announced
Pro Bono Australia
The scholarships are worth a reported $16,5000 each and are being offered by Social Leadership Australia - the leadership development centre at The Benevolent Society. The Benevolent Society says the scholarships will be awarded to Aboriginal & Torres ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Making connections to end digital divide
Sydney Morning Herald
But more than 4 million often poor, disabled, indigenous or remote Australians aren't part of the conversation for the simple fact that they aren't online; they are on the wrong side of the so-called ''digital divide''. We need an urgent national ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous commerce must come next
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous people living in remote areas are treated differently under the law from other Australians. In most cases they cannot own their own homes. In regions subject to Land Rights Acts, government will not allow private title or make it so complex ...

ABC Online
Return to grog 'a disaster for children'
The Australian
FORMER Northern Territory intervention chairwoman Sue Gordon has declared that the push to return alcohol to Aboriginal communities would be a "disaster" that would damage women and children, robbing them of money and increasing the profits of grog ...
Aboriginal alcohol ban not solution, says Member for Cook David KemptonNEWS.com.au
Academic backs alcohol bans in Aboriginal communitiesABC Online
Let communities decide on grog bans: MillsHerald Sun
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Taking employment to the Outback
PS News
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Bill Shorten said the program would bring Job Services Australia, Disability Employment Services, Community Development Employment Projects and the Indigenous Employment Program in remote ...

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Crikey (blog)
Recent headline-attracting estimates about the level of government spending on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people need to be put in context, according to the ANU's Professor Jon Altman. In the article below, Altman critiques the Productivity ...
UN push shows up angerNew Zealand Herald
Mining the system for hopeThe Australian Financial Review
Report spotlights indigenous rightsThe New Lawyer

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Ella makes her pointe
Herald Sun
She graduated from the Australian Ballet School in 2007 and performed with the company's regional touring arm. Havelka said she hoped to inspire others within the indigenous community to "pursue their own dreams and passions''. "I feel very humbled and ...

UN push shows up anger
New Zealand Herald
The anger is deep and pervasive, and felt keenly in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to defer a promised referendum next year on constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. Instead, Gillard will ask Parliament to pass an Act of ...
Mining the system for hopeThe Australian Financial Review
Report spotlights indigenous rightsThe New Lawyer

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Leading indigenous educator Chris Sarra slams teaching approach used in ...
NEWS.com.au
Former Queenslander of the Year and prominent Indigenous educator Chris Sarra says the direct instruction model used by the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy (CYAAA) "is at best a remedial program". He has also raised concerns about ...

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Native title 'reforms' slammed
The Australian
Native Title Services chief executive Keith Thomas accused Mining Minister Tom Koutsantonis of adopting an inaccurate and inflammatory position on reforming the state's Aboriginal Heritage Act, and said the Labor government had revealed its true colours.
Aboriginal groups to challenge SA Govt's legislation on oil, gas licences on ...Adelaide Now

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The Australian Ballet company has welcomed its first Aboriginal dancer Ella ...
NEWS.com.au
She graduated from the Australian Ballet School in 2007 and performed with the company's regional touring arm. Havelka said she hoped to inspire others within the indigenous community to "pursue their own dreams and passions". "I feel very humbled and ...

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ABC Online
Reintroduction of alcohol into Aboriginal communities wrong, says Marcia Langton
The Australian
Professor Langton, from the University of Melbourne, told the ABC's 7.30 program last night the reintroduction of alcohol into dysfunctional Aboriginal communities was "wrong" and would put women and children in danger. Queensland's Minister for ...
Academic backs alcohol bans in Aboriginal communitiesABC Online
Don't lift drink restrictions - academicNEWS.com.au

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Titjikala banks on its occupy movement
The Australian
In one of Australia's most disadvantaged communities, Titjikala's modest art centre has become a vital lifeline, drawing in tourists and generating a modest income outside the cycles of government funding that often fail to address the traditional ...

Champion of Aborigines Gummi Fridriksson 'evicts' PNG's poor
The Australian
A CHAMPION of indigenous communities in Australia has been accused of human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea after settlers' homes were bulldozed to make way for a multi-million-dollar hotel and marina development. Gummi Fridriksson, who is ...