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Films to document Indigenous stories
ABC Local
Map: WA. A team of filmmakers is visiting Aboriginal communities throughout Western Australia to ensure important Indigenous stories are not lost forever. The Indigenous Community Stories initiative, funded through the State Government and several ...

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Negotiations continue over Ampilatwatja lease
ABC Online
The Federal Government says it is not aware that the remote Central Australian community of Ampilatwatja has rejected a Commonwealth lease over their land. Jim Hampson from the community's Aboriginal corporation says residents are not going to sign the ...

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Singer shares cancer story with Narrandera women
ABC Online
Australian singer Christine Anu is hoping her own family's cancer story will encourage Aboriginal families in the region to be more aware about the disease. Ms Anu was special guest at a women's health and cancer information day in Narrandera yesterday ...

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Miner admits Indigenous sites were damaged
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The miner, Fortescue Metals Group, has admitted to the destruction of Aboriginal sites at its Solomon Hub project in Western Australia's Pilbara. In November last year, Indigenous people said sites had been damaged but FMG dismissed the claims as ...

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Miner admits Indigenous sites were damaged
ABC Online
Fortescue Metals Group has admitted one of its contractors disturbed three Aboriginal heritage sites while carrying out works near its Solomon Hub project in Western Australia's Pilbara last year. The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation has released ...

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Those who've cared the longest should have the most say
On Line opinion
In this context, it is important to recognise that Indigenous Australians have been occupying, managing and caring for this country, Australia, for well over 60,000 years. It is time Australia recognise the contribution of Indigenous cultural heritage ...

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Inuit hold more answers for MP John Gazzola who prefers to avoid APY
The Australian
A LABOR member of the South Australian government's Aboriginal lands committee claimed a $5000 taxpayer-funded trip to Canada to help his understanding of indigenous issues. This is despite the MP, John Gazzola, having visited the state's remote ...

Food boom 'needs foreign cash'
The Australian
"We need to develop northern Australia," he said. "We need capital infrastructure and foreign investment that will generate employment opportunities for indigenous Australians beyond the life of these mines. "As long as we don't become a land or water ...

Future Indigenous leaders experience life in Parliament
Invest in Australia
The program is funded through the Australian Government's $650 million Indigenous Employment Program - one of the most successful programs helping Indigenous Australians get the training they need to get a job and supporting them to keep it. The IEP ...

Indigenous take on Shakespeare tragedy
Herald Sun
Artistic director Marion Potts says The Shadow King, an Aboriginal take on the famous tragedy, is a "hugely exciting and ambitious" work that has been three years in the making. It marks the return of former Malthouse boss Michael Kantor, who co ...
Lear not as you know it but still traditionalThe Australian

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Transforming The Nation's Healthcare
Reducing Indigenous suicide through empowerment and pride
Transforming The Nation's Healthcare
We've long known that rates of suicide in Indigenous communities are higher than the wider Australian population. But we're much less clear about why this is the case. Each life lost to suicide reminds us of the need to better identify the causes and ...

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Chapple calls for greater Indigenous control
ABC Online
The organisation behind the report, Desert Knowledge Australia, aims to create social and economic opportunities in remote Australia. Mr Chapple says a change in policy is long overdue. "We tend to, in this whole policy overreach, operate at a European ...

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Remote areas deserve better: report
Weekly Times Now
The report was not just about indigenous Australians but also farming, tourism and mining communities, he said. People were frustrated service delivery was not attuned to local needs, he said. The report contained lessons for governments about the NT ...
Radical blueprint for reform to be unveiledThe Australian
Call for radical rethink for Aust outbackPerth Now
Review looks at regional governanceNorthern Star
Sydney Morning Herald
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Call for rethink of Aust outback
Sky News Australia
The report was not just about indigenous Australians but also farming, tourism and mining communities, he said. People were frustrated service delivery was not attuned to local needs, he said. The report contained lessons for governments about the NT ...
Radical blueprint for reform to be unveiledThe Australian
Call for radical rethink for Aust outbackPerth Now
Review looks at regional governanceNorthern Star
Sydney Morning Herald
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UniSA students mentor indigenous school students to help them into and ...
Adelaide Now
UniSA indigenous scholarship, engagement and research dean Professor Peter Buckskin said the program, a partnership with Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, run in seven schools, is to match indigenous students in the seven high schools was ...

Party machines shamed by inaction on indigenous MPs
Courier Mail
It might be Australia's first Aboriginal member of Parliament, Queensland senator Neville Bonner, or the only Aboriginal House of Representatives member Ken Wyatt, or even former New South Wales Democrat senator Aden Ridgeway. Rarely will folk cite an ...

Lear not as you know it but still traditional
The Australian
The production, four years in the making, is being created in consultation with indigenous communities around the country. Lewis said the Lear story, with its struggles over land and power, is in many ways the story of Aboriginal Australia. Potts ...

Call for radical rethink for Aust outback
Ninemsn
The report was not just about indigenous Australians but also farming, tourism and mining communities, he said. People were frustrated service delivery was not attuned to local needs, he said. The report contained lessons for governments about the NT ...

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Call for radical rethink for Aust outback
Herald Sun
The report 'Fixing the hole in Australia's heartland' said that despite good intentions, nearly all current government policies, funding and programs were inadequate or failing. Former Aboriginal affairs minister in the Fraser government, Fred Chaney ...
Review looks at regional governanceWarwick Daily News
Push for commission to solve outback crisisSydney Morning Herald

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Call for radical rethink for Aust outback
The Australian
The report 'Fixing the hole in Australia's heartland' said that despite good intentions, nearly all current government policies, funding and programs were inadequate or failing. Former Aboriginal affairs minister in the Fraser government, Fred Chaney ...

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