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The battle for James Price Point
SBS
... Francis, SBS. Share This. 0 0 0. + Comment. 0. Woodside's controversial plan for a gas hub at James Price Point in the pristine Kimberley region of Western Australia has pitched Indigenous communities against each other, reports Jeannette Francis.

Show attuned to remote need for news
The Australian
AN Aboriginal language radio show is attempting to transform the way government interacts with South Australia's most isolated communities. The Paper Tracker radio program, launched by welfare agency Uniting Communities a year ago, has established a ...

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Vanishing APY funds prompt urgent audit
The Australian
KPMG auditors commissioned by the South Australian Labor government have issued a draft report, which has not been released, that called for much tighter controls on spending at the Aboriginal land council. Nearly all of the land council's money comes ...

$27 a week for a bed by the chook house
The Australian
Asked why he was paying rent to sleep outside, the 65-year-old replied: "I'd like to know that myself - I don't think it's fair." Mr Mulladad said the payments of $54 a fortnight were deducted automatically by Centrelink from his welfare payments and ...

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Megan Davis delivers Wentworth Lecture
National Indigenous Times
Professor Megan Davis, Australia's expert member on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, delivered a free public lecture in Canberra last week highlighting the place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' in the Australian Constitution.

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WA today
A long-awaited tourism boon
WA today
From the outback to the Gold Coast, investment is pouring into indigenous tourism, with results so far proving popular with local and overseas visitors. Is Australia finally getting serious about indigenous tourism? From the Red Centre to the theme ...

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The Age
A long-awaited tourism boon
The Age
From the outback to the Gold Coast, investment is pouring into indigenous tourism, with results so far proving popular with local and overseas visitors. Is Australia finally getting serious about indigenous tourism? From the Red Centre to the theme ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
A long-awaited tourism boon
Sydney Morning Herald
From the outback to the Gold Coast, investment is pouring into indigenous tourism, with results so far proving popular with local and overseas visitors. Is Australia finally getting serious about indigenous tourism? From the Red Centre to the theme ...

Brisbane Times (blog)
A long-awaited tourism boon
Brisbane Times (blog)
From the outback to the Gold Coast, investment is pouring into indigenous tourism, with results so far proving popular with local and overseas visitors. Is Australia finally getting serious about indigenous tourism? From the Red Centre to the theme ...

WA today
Paradox of plenty: boom for some, bust for others
WA today
And then there is the opportunity lost with indigenous Australia. The boom, together with the ability to negotiate substantial mining royalties and payments through native title agreements, should be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our most ...

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In Abuja, Urban Lifestyle Thrills Nigeria, Australian Artists
The Guardian Nigeria
With the theme, Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia, the Australian section of the exhibition, went back memory lane to capture, through cameras and strokes of young Aboriginal urban artists, issues of loss, dislocation, stolen ...

The Age
Exposing the costs of moral conceit
The Australian Financial Review
It took the full exposure of tragedy of much of remote indigenous life to provoke the Howard government's Northern Territory intervention in 2007 to remove the practical supremacy of the black armband view of Australian history. Critically, this was ...
Australia takes the low road on asylum seekersEureka Street
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Beale 'on par with Ella brothers'
The Australian
Since McDermott, who was also Australia's first Aboriginal barrister, broke the colour bar in rugby, there have been a number of indigenous Wallabies, including the Ellas, Beale, Jim Williams, Wendell Sailor, Matt Hodgson and the Faingaa twins. While ...

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Customs, language rights on the table
The Australian
The International Labour Organisation's Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (1989) also requires "due regard" be paid to indigenous customs when applying national laws and stipulates that Aboriginal children be taught to read and write in their ...

IT helps beats tyranny of distance
The Australian
But remote indigenous people have more to gain from electronic-health than most, says Tamati Shepherd,, chair of the National Indigenous Informatics Special Interest Group in the Health Informatics Society of Australia. The very remoteness of many ...

The Age
Paradox of plenty: boom for some, bust for others
The Age
And then there is the opportunity lost with indigenous Australia. The boom, together with the ability to negotiate substantial mining royalties and payments through native title agreements, should be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our most ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Rich fellow my country
Sydney Morning Herald
Looking out over the Arafura Sea, towards an Asia that increasingly is its natural economic fit and bathed in unfailing 30-degree temperatures and azure skies, Australia's most northern capital projects a calm nonchalance, a sort of manana without the ...
'Hendo' to face the voters in NTBusiness Spectator

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Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...
ABC Message Stick
It's been half a century since Donald and Sylvia Collard's children were taken away from them but the couple from Kondinin in W-A's Wheatbelt still don't understand why. "That's what we're going to court for," Mr Collard said. "We hope they can answer ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Aboriginal art on Paris rooftop
The Australian Financial Review
Mitchell's charitable foundation footed half the $1 million bill for an innovative commission, which saw work by eight Australian indigenous artists embedded into the museum's ceilings, columns and walls. The opening of the museum in 2006 was a high ...

The world's first astronomers
ABC Online
As the world's oldest continuous culture, Aboriginal people can make the claim to be the world's first astronomers. For them, gazing at the stars is about more than making out and naming constellations. Bill Yidumduma Harney, an elder of the Wardaman ...