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Australia Rejects Papuan Independence
Jakarta Globe
Many indigenous Papuans continue to demand independence. (AFP Photo). Related articles. Australian Report Sparks Debate of Densus 88's Role in Papua 4:26pm Sep 1, 2012. Investigation Continues Into Attack on Trucks in Papua 2:15pm Aug 31, 2012 ...

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Indigenous festival hears praise for mining
ABC Online
A festival in the Northern Territory's remote Arnhem Land has been discussing whether the mining boom is a positive or negative for Indigenous Australians. The two-day Garma Festival was held at Gulkula, half an hour out of Nhulunbuy. It was in this ...

Brisbane Times
Gillard pledges schools revamp
Brisbane Times
We shouldn't be letting them down. ''We are failing our indigenous children - there are about 32,600 indigenous school children in remote Australia. ''By year nine, the average indigenous child in very remote Australia is reading below the level of a ...
I will boost school rankingsWA today
PM pledge for top five school spotThe Age
Gillard to unveil Gonski response todayABC Online
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Sydney Morning Herald
Gillard pledges schools revamp
Sydney Morning Herald
''We are failing our indigenous children - there are about 32,600 indigenous school children in remote Australia. ''By year nine, the average indigenous child in very remote Australia is reading below the level of a year three child in the city.'' The ...
PM pledge for top five school spotThe Age
Gillard to unveil Gonski response todayABC Online
I will boost school rankingsThe Canberra Times
The Australian
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Brisbane Times
I will boost school rankings
Brisbane Times
... that although four of the top five schooling systems in the world are in our region, Australia is not among them; that poor Australian children have disproportionately low educational performances; and that as a country we are ''failing ...
PM pledge for top five school spotThe Age
Gillard pledges schools revampThe Canberra Times
Labor's 'top five' goal for schoolsThe Australian
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Seagoing tribal chief's rich gallery
The Australian
Keith Vincent Smith is the author of King Bungaree (1992), Bennelong (2001) and Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys (2010). This is an edited extract from a catalogue published in association with Bungaree: The First Australian, showing at the Mosman Art ...

kinship to aid in abating despair
The Australian
Aboriginal kinship to aid in abating despair. by: Paige Taylor ... HORACE Bundabar is a busy and happy father of two in a tiny West Australian community on the Canning Stock Route, but he knows how despair can creep up in the desert. He was just 16 and ...

Clark body faces dissolution
The Australian
CONSUMER Affairs Victoria has written to the Aboriginal organisation at the heart of former Aboriginal leader Geoff Clark's financial affairs demanding it show cause why it should not be wound up. The show-cause notice was issued recently to Kirrae ...

Wine sales trial fails to curb town drinkers
The Australian
Since February, cask wine sales have been limited to two litres a person a day under a voluntary, council-imposed practice after interim licence conditions lapsed. Coroner Anthony Schapel recommended the bans last year after he found alcohol played a ...

Indigenous MPs want local control
The Australian
Final vote counting completed by the NT Electoral Commission yesterday confirmed that high-profile Warlpiri woman Bess Nungarrayi Price and Tiwi man Francis Xavier Maralampuwi had won their seats. Ms Price beat her nephew, former Labor member Karl ...

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There isn't enough civilised debate in Australia about the accepted wisdom
Adelaide Now
He told me he thought indigenous people should be given more individual property rights, children in remote communities should be sent away to boarding schools and brought into the mainstream of Australian society. He also said the Greens and their ...

Jakarta Globe
Australia Rejects Papuan Independence
Jakarta Globe
Many indigenous Papuans continue to demand independence. (AFP Photo). Related articles. Australian Report Sparks Debate of Densus 88's Role in Papua 4:26pm Sep 1, 2012. Investigation Continues Into Attack on Trucks in Papua 2:15pm Aug 31, 2012 ...

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ABC Online
Special Treatment
ABC Online
TIM LEE: The unpaid debt to Australia's Indigenous workers and the scandal surrounding it may have stayed buried in government archives for much longer but for the crusade by Brisbane historian, Dr Ros Kidd. More than a decade ago as a mature-aged ...

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Special Treatment
ABC Online
Aboriginal stockmen and rural workers played a vital part in developing the cattle industry in the Kimberley, but until 1972 the West Australian Government withheld up to three quarters of the wages earned by some workers. Warning: Aboriginal and ...

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ABC Sport
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Indigenous opera tells 'a truth that deserves to be known' Singing out. Charlotte Hamlyn. Pecan Summer, the first opera written by an Indigenous Australian, will open in Perth later this year. Mitt Romney In with a chance. Mitt Romney is finally within ...

Fashionista
Australia's First Indeginous Fashion Week Launches, Aboriginal Model ...
Fashionista
This week in Sydney, Australia's first indigenous fashion week opened its door for business. Called Australian Indigenous Fashion Week (AIFW), the organization will be a platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designers to showcase high ...

Australia's bush push for Chinese tourists
Herald Sun
Voyages Indigenous Tourism's executive general manager of sales and marketing Ray Stone says about half of the tourists at Ayers Rock Resort were Australian, followed by North America, Japan and Germany. But he says China is growing fast. "It's true to ...

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Australia's bush push for Chinese tourists
The Australian
Voyages Indigenous Tourism's executive general manager of sales and marketing Ray Stone says about half of the tourists at Ayers Rock Resort were Australian, followed by North America, Japan and Germany. But he says China is growing fast. "It's true to ...

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'Indigenous exceptionalism' bars realisation of potential
The Australian
ON a school bus in Coffs Harbour on the NSW north coast, in the mid-1980s three sisters sit side by side. They are the progeny of the same parents, yet one is lily-white, one exotically olive, the other shy and black. In the words of their schoolmates ...

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WA under fire over stolen wages compensation
ABC Online
The West Australian Government is under fire over its compensation offer to pay lost wages to thousands of the state's Indigenous workers. In March, the state government announced a six-month time period for former workers to apply for wages withheld ...

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