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Australian Geographic
On this day: annulment of the Batman treaty
Australian Geographic
IN 2012, MOST MELBOURNIANS would be confused if you offered them a handful of tomahawks, a few handkerchiefs, some blankets and some scissors for their land. One hundred and seventy-seven years ago in the rough-shod days of early Australian ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Famous flyer: Tim Olsen
Sydney Morning Herald
It's an amazing oasis in the middle of a dry landscape full of Aboriginal cave paintings and an abundance of Australian wildlife, a tropical rainforest fed by an artesian stream. This beautiful river appears out of complete dryness, and a huge gorge ...

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Country Liberal Party wins Northern Territory election
The Australian
Indigenous Australians play lead hand. AUSTRALIA'S first people have played the main role in sweeping a major government from office for the first time in the nation's history. Yuendumu community ...
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issuesThe Conversation
CLP sweeps to power in Northern TerritorySydney Morning Herald
Comment: NT election, the build up to the stormSBS
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Shari Sebbens shines with best of both worlds
NEWS.com.au
LIKE her character in The Sapphires, actor Shari Sebbens has always felt torn between two worlds: her white and indigenous heritage. The 28-year-old NIDA graduate is one of the breakout stars of the film that has won the hearts of movie-goers and is ...

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Shari Sebbens shines with best of both worlds
Herald Sun
The 28-year-old NIDA graduate is one of the breakout stars of the film that has won the hearts of movie-goers and is tipped be one of Australia's most successful ever, taking $6.4 million in its first week. "It was quite scary when I realised that ...

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Brisbane Times
Share in Fortescue riches a step closer for people of Pilbara
Brisbane Times
He was here last week at the invitation of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, whose co-chairwoman Jody Broun said: ''We want Aboriginal people to be able to negotiate from positions of power with extractive industries.'' Anaya has seen ...

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Embrace the chance for a fresh start
The Australian
ONE of the most unfortunate features of Northern Territory politics for years has been Labor Party politicians taking the support of indigenous voters, who comprise about a third of the electorate, for granted. It has bred complacency and mediocrity as ...

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Education opens doors for young Aborigines
The Australian (blog)
First, the Australian mainstream and business communities consider indigenous disadvantage to be one of the greatest challenges of our time. My own interaction with leading chief executives confirms this. Second, the nation's most influential media ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Share in Fortescue riches a step closer for people of Pilbara
Sydney Morning Herald
He was here last week at the invitation of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, whose co-chairwoman Jody Broun said: ''We want Aboriginal people to be able to negotiate from positions of power with extractive industries.'' Anaya has seen ...

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A zealot's fight to lift people up
The Australian
Shy about something as personal as a disease of the blood that wreaked havoc upon his body, he would have preferred not to be giving an interview but, just as time waits for no man, the brutal politics of Aboriginal Australia cuts no slack for cancer ...

Passionate about the power of learning
The Australian
From three indigenous students in 1995, Nudgee College had 14 by the time Ms O'Neill joined the school about five years ago and numbers have continued to grow, jumping markedly in 2010 when the school started working with the Australian Indigenous ...

Desire to end the welfare drip-feed takes pride of place
The Australian
In this set of indigenous communities, in one remote region of the outback, social transformation can be seen in action each day, step by step: in the streets, in the classrooms, in the budgeting of households, in children's faces, in men's and women's ...

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Serious side to indigenous swim program
The Canberra Times
It teaches them to swim and provides basic water safety and rescue skills. The Royal Life Saving Society and ACT Health established the program in 2007 after research showed indigenous Australians are four times more likely to drown than non-indigenous ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous pool program still going swimmingly after 5 years
The Canberra Times
The Royal Life Saving Society and ACT Health established the program in 2007 after research showed Indigenous Australians are four times more likely to drown than non-Indigenous Australians. "The majority of the kids and even the adults and elders had ...

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CLC backs land lease snub
ABC Message Stick
The Central Land Council (CLC) says it supports moves by an Indigenous community in central Australia to reclaim control of its land and services. Compulsory five-year land leases, part of the federal intervention, ended earlier this month and the ...
Indigenous community refuses to sign land leaseABC Online

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Human Rights Commission's new anti-racism strategy ignores ...
The Australian
A NEW anti-racism strategy from the Australian Human Rights Commission has ignored calls made throughout its consultation process for constitutional recognition of indigenous people and affirmative action programs to lift the number of culturally ...
Racist outbreaks threat to Australia's 'brand'Sydney Morning Herald
NFPs Support National Anti-Racism StrategyPro Bono Australia

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Aboriginal elders want more government consultations on relocation
Radio Australia
Representatives from three Aboriginal homelands in Australia's Northern Territory have called for more consultation with the Federal Government on policies affecting indigenous peopleThey've just returned from visiting Canberra, where they raised ...

NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issues
The Conversation
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issues. The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is unique among Australia's parliaments for its proportion of Indigenous members. They are drawn from both the Labor (ALP) and ...

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Lock in the investment pipeline now
The Australian Financial Review
The Pilbara also provides an example of how Australian employers can engage traditional indigenous owners. For example, Fortescue has established dedicated Vocational Training and Employment Centres (VTECs) in Port Hedland and Roebourne.

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SBS
The Sapphires join launch of media jobs for Indigenous Australians
Invest in Australia
Stars of the blockbuster Australian film The Sapphires have joined Arts Minister Simon Crean and Indigenous Employment and Economic Development Minister Julie Collins to launch a new work and training program that will create jobs for Indigenous ...
Sapphires stars launch indigenous media programThe Australian
Government launches Indigenous work program for screen and printMuMbrella
New media jobs to be created for Indigenous AustraliansSBS

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