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Michael Anderson urges UN to reject Aust seat bid
Herald Sun
Mr Anderson also criticised the government for its policies on asylum seekers. "Aboriginal nations and peoples in Australia object to any support for Australia to have a temporary position on the UN Security Council," he said in the letter released on ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Into the red dust and wind
Sydney Morning Herald
You need an NT permit from the Central Land Council to travel on the Great Central Road (Uluru-Docker River) and the Gary Junction Road (Kintore-Papunya) plus a West Australian permit from the Department of Indigenous Affairs for the Sandy Blight ...

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UN urged to reject Aust seat bid
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"Aboriginal nations and peoples in Australia object to any support for Australia to have a temporary position on the UN Security Council," he said in the letter released on Friday. Flock It! Thanks #nickname#, this article has been Flocked #flock_count ...
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UN urged to reject Aust seat bid
Ninemsn
Mr Anderson also criticised the government for its policies on asylum seekers. "Aboriginal nations and peoples in Australia object to any support for Australia to have a temporary position on the UN Security Council," he said in the letter released on ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Immense yourself in the Visions of Australia tour
Telegraph.co.uk
Australia is a land of luscious rainforests and island getaways, vibrant cities, abundant wildlife, a fascinating indigenous culture and, in the centre of it all, that big, beautiful rock nestled in the heart of the rugged Outback. You could spend a ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Performing partners … Samuel and Taryn Beatty. Photo: James Brickwood
Sydney Morning Herald
I have had no problem adapting to life married to an indigenous Australian. It's about respecting other people's ways. Taryn and I both agree it's important our children learn about all cultures: not just African-American culture or indigenous ...

1967 original wants youth to find fire in the belly
The Australian
SHIRLEY Peisley was barely 25 when she found herself thrust into the centre of the 1967 referendum campaign that counted Indigenous Australians in the census and gave them basic citizenship. A Ngarrindjeri woman from the southeast of South Australia, ...

From Claymore to Cape York the poverty endures
The Australian
THE ABC's Four Corners program this week on the southwestern Sydney housing commission suburb of Claymore, a humanitarian disaster 36 years in the making, showed that welfare ghettos are not restricted to indigenous Australia. Through the tender ...

Sky News Australia
This is indigenous stars' time to shine
NEWS.com.au
Lance Franklin, Cyril Rioli and Shaun Burgoyne are all capable of turning a tight AFL grand final single-handedly in Hawthorn's favour, just as Adam Goodes and Lewis Jetta are for Sydney. All have the capacity to unleash a season-defining burst of ...
Jetts looks to glide across the puddlesSydney Swans

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Stronger Futures employment targets to deliver more local jobs in the Northern ...
Invest in Australia
The Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin today announced the Australian Government's commitment to the employment targets during a visit to Wurli Wurlinjang Aboriginal Health Service in Katherine. “Delivering more local jobs and better ...
Federal Government announces Indigenous jobs targets for intervention spendingABC Online
INTERNATIONAL Australia: State Aboriginal employment targets to be set in ...Recruiter

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Sky News Australia
Dreamtime at the 'G for grand final day
WA today
The indigenous population of just over half a million represents 2.3 per cent of all Australians, about one in 40. Yet indigenous footballers have claimed about one in five Norm Smith medals, and represent one in nine of Saturday's 44 grand final players.
Indigenous stars loom as MCG match-winnersABC Online

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Indigenous tourism recognised at WA Tourism Awards
NEWS.com.au
So impressive were the awards that, in 1985, the concept was taken further and the Australian Tourism Awards were formed in that year. Now, all state and territory winners go on to compete in the national arena. The winners of the Perth Airport 2012 WA ...

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Indigenous tourism recognised at WA Tourism Awards
Herald Sun
So impressive were the awards that, in 1985, the concept was taken further and the Australian Tourism Awards were formed in that year. Now, all state and territory winners go on to compete in the national arena. The winners of the Perth Airport 2012 WA ...

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Aboriginal suicide prevention resource launched
ABC Online
Fifteen people have become the first graduates of a new program aimed at reducing high levels of suicide in remote Indigenous communities. The program teaches people how to identify others who might be at risk of suicide and the best ways to intervene.
Preventing suicide an artformNTNews.com.au

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National hepatitis B testing policy launched
6minutes
Australia's first national hepatitis B testing policy has been launched at the Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference targeting migrants and Indigenous Australians. The launch at an Auckland conference follows the “Auckland Statement” which called for ...

Google doodle honours famous South Australian
ABC Message Stick
He won a posthumous literary award and was later honoured by the University of Queensland Press, which established the David Unaipon Award to support new Aboriginal writers. From time to time, Google changes its standard search page logo to honour ...

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Mandatory code of conduct for Indigenous art industry
Radio Australia
Australian art dealers who run Indigenous galleries could soon be made to sign a code of conduct, that's designed to stamp out fraud in the industry. A voluntary system was set up two years ago. But now the Indigenous Art Code organisation is calling ...

Gay NZ
Australia continues to "lag behind" Wall says
Gay NZ
Wall says Australia continues to lag behind New Zealand on human rights issues. “New Zealand gave women the right to vote in 1893 and this included indigenous women,” she points out. “Australia had full suffrage in 1911 but of note aboriginal people ...

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University of Melbourne researchers urge government to heed indigenous ...
India Education Diary
These included constitutional recognition of indigenous languages, support for interpreter services (especially in the health and justice sectors) and ways of ensuring that Australia's linguistic heritage is protected into the future, by supporting ...

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Australia's Northern Territory
The Economist
The NT covers a largely empty region that, at almost a fifth of Australia's land area, is bigger than South Africa. Yet its 232,000 people comprise just 1% of Australia's population. A big swing against Labor among the territory's indigenous people was ...