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Gov to put constitution referendum on hold
Sydney Morning Herald
Labor made a promise to the Greens and Independent MP Rob Oakeshott to hold a national referendum on the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians on or before the next federal election, due in 2013. In January, an expert panel of 19 ...

Aboriginal men's health the topic no one wants to discuss
Crikey (blog)
It's not easy being an Aboriginal man in Australia — nor if you're an organisation attempting to get funding to help them. Life expectancy for Aboriginal males is 11.5 years less than other Australian men. Two thirds of that gap is because of chronic ...

Historian likens Israel to Aboriginal dispossesion
Sydney Morning Herald
If the creation of the state of Israel was akin to the ethnic cleansing of the resident Palestinians, does the establishment of colonial Australia amount to the same thing for the indigenous population? This is the hypothesis put to Professor Ilan ...

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Luke Elvy blog: Scott his chance at the big time
Golf Australia
While that will be a great occasion for his family, it will be even more significant for his people. Gardiner is an Indigenous Australian and is believed to be the first Aboriginal to play on the PGA Tour. “All Mum's family are Aboriginal and I know ...

Parlez vous Yolngu?
ABC Message Stick
We must extinguish the idea of Australia as a monolingual place and there's no better place to start than in the classroom. ABC 105.7 Drive presenter Vicki Kerrigan on why all Australians should learn Aboriginal languages. Darwin sounds different. When ...

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Death in custody damns our indifference
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's indigenous community, in so many ways, demands urgent and respectful attention. Yes, Mr Briscoe drank himself into insensibility. But what then happened to him reveals problems on a scale that have overwhelmed police. More widely, the ...
Coroner delivers scathing report on death in custodyABC Online

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Indigenous chefs in training for the top tables
The Australian
Mr Battersby, from Armidale in NSW, is one of the first recruits to the National Indigenous Culinary Institute, which began training apprentice chefs this week. The institute was established by former Woolworths executive Bill Wavish, Sydney provodore ...

Dan Sultan says Australia is 'racist'
Ninemsn
While the Labor government has committed to a referendum to formally include indigenous people in the constitution, Sultan believes change is moving too slow. "Australia is a fundamentally racist county and that's something that can be difficult for ...

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A Northern Town
WA today
A Northern Town is history viewed through the prism of a radical indigenous owned and operated aged care facility in Australia's most racist town. The residents of the nursing home are half white and half Aboriginal. A powerful film about parallel ...

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UN expert told of mining impacts
The Guardian (Australia)
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was a high-level attendee at a two-day “extractive industries” roundtable hosted by the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples in Melbourne on August 20-21. Professor Anaya largely ...
UN urges more indigenous consultationSBS

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The Guardian (Australia)
Statement, Indigenous Social Justice Association and Sydney Support Assange ...
The Guardian (Australia)
Julian is but another example. The Ceremony is being held at the behest of many migrant, refugee and non-Aboriginal Australians who wish to fully recognise the Traditional Owners of the many Aboriginal Nations of Australia that still exist to this very ...
Assange gets an Aboriginal passportSydney Morning Herald
Assange gets Aboriginal passportSBS
Assange to get Aboriginal passportNEWS.com.au
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A Northern Town
The Age
A Northern Town is history viewed through the prism of a radical indigenous owned and operated aged care facility in Australia's most racist town. The residents of the nursing home are half white and half Aboriginal. A powerful film about parallel ...

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A Northern Town
Sydney Morning Herald
A Northern Town is history viewed through the prism of a radical indigenous owned and operated aged care facility in Australia's most racist town. The residents of the nursing home are half white and half Aboriginal. A powerful film about parallel ...

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MP demands petroleum bill investigation
ABC Message Stick
... in State Parliament by South Australia's Resources and Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis for reading out remarks published in a newspaper. A speech by Dan van Holst Pellekaan used a quote from a member of the Indigenous Arabunna people accusing ...

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Out-of-home supports Wall of Hands
The Australian
THE Out-of-Home industry has raised more than $200,000 for the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation's Wall of Hands Indigenous literacy appeal. The money will help to fund literacy programs for children living in the remote communities of ...
OOH industry supports Indigenous literacyB&T Marketing & Media
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Telstra Reveals Its Million Dollar Grant Recipients
Pro Bono Australia
One hundred organisations across every Australian state and territory are among grant recipients including the Darwin-based Mungoorbada Aboriginal Corporation, the Geeveston Community Centre south of Hobart, the Cerebral Palsy Alliance north of ...

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School sees pitfalls in Indigenous language studies
ABC Local
The principal of Cherbourg State School, south-west of Bundaberg in southern Queensland, says it will be difficult to teach Indigenous languages in some schools. A new report is calling on the Federal Government to introduce Indigenous language ...

School sees pitfalls in Indigenous language studies
ABC Online
The principal of Cherbourg State School, south-west of Bundaberg in southern Queensland, says it will be difficult to teach Indigenous languages in some schools. A new report is calling on the Federal Government to introduce Indigenous language ...

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The chance of a lifetime to save Indigenous languages
The Conversation
It is not often that the opportunity comes along to make a real difference, but a new report into Indigenous languages in Australia has the potential to do just that. Our Land, Our Languages has already been likened to the momentous Mabo decision. But ...
First language education is a matter of common senseCrikey (blog)

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OOH industry supports Indigenous literacy
B&T Marketing & Media
An out-of-home industry campaign which raised awareness for the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation's (ALNF) 'Wall of Hands' Indigenous literacy appeal ended this week, raising $200,000. Funds raised will help support the ALNF's work ...
NEWS IN BRIEF: 18 September 2012AdNews

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