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Singer wants her indigenous culture to shine
The Australian
The 17-year-old from Brisbane has made a good start. This month she won Triple J's National Indigenous Music Awards competition, which entitles her to perform at the annual awards in Darwin next month. Plum earned further recognition as an indigenous ...

Rising Aboriginal jobless rate fuels policy angst
Brisbane Times
Australian National University economists Matthew Gray and Boyd Hunter estimated that when CDEP participants are excluded, the bureau figures show that indigenous employment in non-CDEP jobs has been rising since 2006, especially among women.

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We need to focus on more than mining to create jobs: Peter Yu
National Indigenous Times
Indigenous leader and Gillard government adviser Peter Yu has warned mining is not the "panacea" that will deliver remote and regional Indigenous Australians economic independence and that a new focus must be placed on agriculture, carbon farming and ...

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Indigenous Australia for Dummies
ABC Local
How much do you know about Australia's indigenous culture? Michael Pavlich speaks to Prof Larissa Behrendt, author of "Indigenous Australia for Dummies" she's also a barrister and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at ...

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Waterhouse art prize won by Aboriginal artist
Australian Geographic
MARGARET LOY PULA'S painting Anatye, which won her the overall prize in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Competition - Australia's richest competition of its kind - illustrates an ancient dreaming story about the process of collecting bush potato ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Mills uses racial taunts for inspiration
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian star Patrick Mills has revealed he has been the victim of racial taunts during his career but the proud indigenous athlete says the insults have inspired him to reach his basketball dreams. Mills' admission came as he arrived in London for ...
Australian point guard Patty Mills: Racial abuse inspires me to be a role modelArizona Daily Sun (blog)

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Former Origin Greats promote Indigenous jobs in Townsville
Invest in Australia
Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development, Julie Collins, said the Expos are a great chance for young Indigenous Australians to connect with employers and training providers. “The Townsville business community has really embraced ...

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Different world: understanding Indigenous justice
ABC Online
But the fact is that while AFL is as much a religion for blackfellas as it is for whitefellas, and while Liam Jurrah's status as a player affords him a special respect among Aboriginal people in Central Australia, he could walk away from the AFL ...

Indigenous vaccination a 'screaming success'
SBS
Until a vaccine was introduced in 1993, Aboriginal children in Australia had the highest rate of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) in the world, a disease which can cause deafness and intellectual impairment along with a number of other medical ...

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New wave of sniffers feared
The Australian
Every community in central Australia has been touched by the substance abuse problem, its abundance and impact varying according to local rates of family dysfunction, poverty and boredom. And the availability of petrol. Youth worker Lisa Sharman ...
Push to cut source of petrol sniffingSBS

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'Segregation in school' claims denied
The Australian
ALL education sectors in Western Australia have denied claims in a human rights report that Aboriginal children in the Kalgoorlie region were placed in a segregated class and banned from gathering in groups of more than three. The claims were contained ...

The West Australian
Hard stuff made easy
The West Australian
Ever wanted to know more about Aboriginal Australia but been too afraid to ask? Larissa Behrendt believes you are not alone. While travelling in Canada some years ago, the Australian indigenous author and academic spotted a copy of Native Americans for ...

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Race 'a problem in schools'
The Australian
ABORIGINAL students at a school in the Kalgoorlie region were not allowed to walk around in groups of more than three, and students were placed in segregated classrooms creating a "racist mindset", the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ...

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Funding confusion clouds petrol-sniffing programs
The Australian
And a second program expected to rollout a youth-diversion program in the remote Lake Nash community in the Northern Territory is under a cloud, with organisers fearing they will lose funding next July. South Australian Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol ...

Indigenous Pacific tribes meet on climate change
Radio Australia
One of the Hawaiian delegates, Paulokaleioku Timmy Bailey, told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat program coastal Indigenous people are dealing with the loss of food and land from global warming. "The important thing about Indigenous people is because we ...

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Indigenous referendum a long way off, Nicola Roxon warns
The Australian
NICOLA Roxon has declared reform of the Constitution to recognise indigenous Australians and local government is a long way off, blaming Tony Abbott's Coalition for refusing to work with the Gillard government to advance the proposal and achieve ...

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Major parties must jointly tackle indigenous policy
The Australian (blog)
The response by Tony Abbott to Mr Mundine's proposal to convene a meeting to develop a new policy framework for indigenous Australia is heartening. The Opposition Leader says he is willing to work with Mr Mundine, despite his ALP pedigree, because he ...
Indigenous leaders urge protest vote against LaborRadio Australia
Abbott supports call for joint jobs talkHerald Sun
Mundine wants joint effort on indigenous developmentBusiness Spectator

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Indigenous Australians' hopes and dreams
ABC Online
ABC Open received more than 1925 dreams from Indigenous Australians in 130 places around the country. Its infographic of key facts about the dreamers reveals: 47 per cent of elders dreamed of a better future for their community or family. The dream of ...

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Aboriginal leader honored in Israel
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) – An Australian Aboriginal leader who staged a remarkable protest against the Nazis was honored in Israel. On Dec. 6, 1938 — just weeks after the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany — William Cooper led a delegation of members of ...

RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Aboriginal's Death in Custody Case – No Justice?
Inter Press Service
MELBOURNE, Nov 30 2008 (IPS) - Although supporters have expressed satisfaction with the six year jail term handed down recently to Lex Wotton for his role in the 2004 Palm Island riot – sparked by the death in police custody of aboriginal man Cameron ...

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