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Indigenous body backs Gillard funding
The Australian
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chairs said all Aboriginal kids will now benefit from education reforms. "We raised our concerns about the funding model in our submission to the Gonski Review and to the Minister for School ...
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Education reform targets Indigenous childrenSBS
Gonski reforms need more substanceHerald Sun
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Australian Convention Bureaux get ceNTred
SpiceNews
The innovative program is set to create 350 new jobs for Indigenous Australians at Ayers Rock Resort and in Australia's tourism and hospitality industry. The longer term aim would be for Anangu students graduating from the Nyangatjatjara College to ...

ABC Online
Breaking through bureaucracy in Indigenous governance
ABC Online
Mark Moran is a practitioner in Indigenous and international development and adjunct associate professor at the University of Queensland. View his full profile here. Doug Porter is a public finance specialist and adjunct professor at the Australian ...
Your chance to run a radio showMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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Brisbane Times
Greens' popularity hits three-year low
The Australian
The Australian reports: PUBLIC spending on indigenous Australia jumped to $25.4 billion in just two years amid a growing debate over whether the cash is improving education, health and employment for 575,000 people. The Sydney Morning Herald reports: ...
Gillard calls on states to join 'national crusade' on school fundingBrisbane Times
PM unveils education overhaulGatton Star
Gillard pledges schools revampThe Age

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Lack of opportunity leads to poverty on Indigenous lands
On Line opinion
Over the years, I have been struck by the similar problems and experiences of First Nations people in Canada and the Aboriginal people in Australia. Any community that is deprived of individual property rights and decent education (but showered with ...
Private property on reserve no silver bullet for First NationsCanada First Perspective

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Indigenous spending topped $25bn in 2010/11
Business Spectator
The 2012 indigenous expenditure report showed that on average, state, territory and federal governments spent $44,128 per head for indigenous Australians, compared with $19,589 for non-indigenous Australians. The report, which was released by the ...

Report reveals level of indigenous funding
Courier Mail
The 2012 indigenous expenditure report showed that on average, state, territory and federal governments spent $44,128 per head for indigenous Australians, compared with $19,589 for non-indigenous Australians. The report, which was released by the ...

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Report reveals level of indigenous funding
NEWS.com.au
The 2012 indigenous expenditure report showed that on average, state, territory and federal governments spent $44,128 per head for indigenous Australians, compared with $19,589 for non-indigenous Australians. The report, which was released by the ...

Oppn wants rethink on indigenous spending
Ninemsn
"Governments of all persuasions at all levels have simply been throwing money at indigenous Australia for far too long, hoping it will fix the problems of poverty and disadvantage, and it has proven to have few results." The 2012 expenditure report ...

Indigenous spend topping $25bn
The Australian
PUBLIC spending on indigenous Australia jumped to $25.4 billion in just two years amid a growing debate over whether the cash is improving education, health and employment for 575,000 people. A surge in school funding tops the spending increases ...
Report reveals level of indigenous fundingNinemsn
Australia Set To Launch Indigenous Fashion Weekmarie claire magazine Australia

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Aid for every indigenous student
The Australian
THE government has ignored one of the chief recommendations of the Gonski review because it would have disadvantaged thousands of indigenous students, and instead opted to provide extra money to every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student in ...
Education reform targets Indigenous childrenSBS

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A new turn on Jurrah's journey
The Age
But, like Namatjira, his story is also deeply emblematic of remote Aboriginal Australia and its historic struggle. Jurrah's story has the potential, like Namatjira's, to end tragically but my hunch is that Jurrah's AFL career hasn't ended, that he will ...
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Jurrah leaves Demons, puts AFL on holdNinemsn
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Education reform targets Indigenous children
SBS
The Prime Minister has admitted the education system is failing our students, particularly those in remote and rural areas. In her response to the Gonski review of schools funding, she's promised to lift funding to $6.5 billion dollars, with more going ...

IBA - INDIGENOUS BUSINESS AUSTRALIA : 2013 Round of the successful IBA ...
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The IBA Scholarship Fund provides mature age Indigenous Australians with the opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills in business, finance and commerce through tertiary education. IBA Chair Dr Dawn Casey said the number of graduates that ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Gillard calls on states to join 'national crusade' on school funding
Sydney Morning Herald
Ms Gillard said Australia must lift the performance of poor and indigenous children. "By year 9, the average child from the same battling family is three years behind classmates from the most well-off quarter of Australian homes,'' she said. "There are ...
Gillard pledges schools revampThe Age
PM pledge for top five school spotWA today

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SBS
Indigenous Tasmanians opposed to super-trawler
SBS
... will impact on the supply of that food source,” says Mr Mansell. There has been widespread opposition from environmentalists, scientists, politicians and other fishermen to Seafish Tasmania's plan to operate the super-trawler Margiris in Australian ...

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Bungaree: an Indigenous perspective on history
ABC Online
By all accounts Bungaree was a man of firsts. He was the first person ever recorded in print as being an Australian. He was the first person born in Australia to circumnavigate the country, with Matthew Flinders. And he was the first Aborigine to be ...

Govt's digital switchover could lead to TV station closures
ABC Online
ELEANOR HALL: The 147 community television stations that operate in remote central Australia could be forced to close when the Federal Government switches over from an analogue to a digital signal next year. The Government has set up a new national TV ...

Australia Set To Launch Indigenous Fashion Week
marie claire magazine Australia
Australian Indigenous Fashion Week spokesmodel Samantha Harris, now one of Australia's most successful models, says she hopes the launch of AIFW will help the rest of the world stand up and take notice of the country's unique heritage. “We are an old ...

Brisbane Times
Gillard calls on states to join 'national crusade' on school funding
Brisbane Times
Ms Gillard said Australia must lift the performance of poor and indigenous children. "By year 9, the average child from the same battling family is three years behind classmates from the most well-off quarter of Australian homes,'' she said. "There are ...
Gillard pledges schools revampThe Age
PM pledge for top five school spotWA today

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