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Abbott heads to Aurukun working bee - The Australian


Abbott heads to Aurukun working bee
The Australian
Mr Abbott, along with Fortescue Metals boss Andrew Forrest, National Australian Bank chairman Michael Chaney, retailer Gerry Harvey and Rio Tinto Australia managing director David Peever, will help refurbish the school library at Aurukun in far north ...

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Engineering Excellence in the Northern Territory - DesignBuild Source


Engineering Excellence in the Northern Territory
DesignBuild Source
A large-scale indigenous housing and infrastructure program, a unique wartime heritage museum, and the Southern Hemisphere's largest solar tracking power plant have shown that engineering excellence and innovation are alive and kicking in Australia's ...

Jewels in the festival crown - WA today


Jewels in the festival crown
WA today
The director of the warm-hearted Australian musical, about four young Aboriginal women who become Australia's version of the Supremes in the 1960s, stood with his cast during a sustained standing ovation at the world premiere at Cannes in May.

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Changemakers - Priscilla Brice Weller - Pro Bono Australia


Changemakers - Priscilla Brice Weller
Pro Bono Australia
In 2010, Priscilla Brice Weller started a new Not for Profit organisation All Together Now to promote the prevention of racism in Australia. This was largely born out of her belief that for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to reconcile, racism ...

World licking lips over bush tucker - NEWS.com.au


World licking lips over bush tucker
NEWS.com.au
AUSTRALIA is in danger of having our unique indigenous food such as alpine pepper, lemon myrtle and kakadu plum mass-produced overseas.` While so-called bush tucker is an emerging industry here, its production may well go the same way as the ...

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Different justice? - On Line opinion


Different justice?
On Line opinion
Chris Graham argues that Aboriginal people's cultural difference must be acknowledged in the Australian criminal justice system (The Drum, 25 July). Graham focuses on the differences between Aboriginal people and non-Indigenous people and describes ...

World licking lips over bush tucker - Herald Sun


World licking lips over bush tucker
Herald Sun
While so-called bush tucker is an emerging industry here, its production may well go the same way as the macadamia nut, an indigenous product stolen by the Americans half a century ago and only recently built into an industry in Australia. State and ...

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Indigenous leaders desert Labor - The Australian


Indigenous leaders desert Labor
The Australian
Larisa Lee, daughter of prominent Jawoyn leader Robert Lee, is standing against Labor indigenous affairs, regional development and tourism minister Malarndirri McCarthy. Mr Rioli and a spokesperson for Mr Hampton did not return The Australian's calls ...

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Blackbird descendants track down their families - ABC Online


Blackbird descendants track down their families
ABC Online
And last week, Indigenous Australian MP Carol Martin travelled to Vanuatu for a workshop to discuss broadening efforts to link ni-Vanuatu descendents in Australia with their extended families in the Pacific. CAROL MARTIN: People were kidnapped from the ...

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Beaten but unbowed, Hooper flags turning pro - Sydney Morning Herald


Sydney Morning Herald

Beaten but unbowed, Hooper flags turning pro
Sydney Morning Herald
After his second-round exit at the hands of Mekhontcev, he stood by the stunt but intimated it was done less in protest at plight of indigenous Australians but in opposition to the existence of the Union Jack on the Australian flag. Damien Hooper sits ...
Aboriginal Boxer Will Not Be Punished for Wearing Native Flag at Olympics ...Indian Country Today Media Network.com
Damien Hooper, strikes trouble for wearing T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag to ...National Indigenous Times
Canadian aboriginal athletes back Australian boxer's T-shirt stuntCanada First Perspective
The West Australian -BoxingScene.com
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Aboriginal or not - SBS


Aboriginal or not
SBS
While Australians may personally identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, not everyone has a document to prove it. This becomes problematic when Indigenous-specific services (for things like housing and education) require people to provide a ...

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Working bee just the start for Abbott - Brisbane Times


Brisbane Times

Working bee just the start for Abbott
Brisbane Times
When Brough had it (and before), and under Jenny Macklin, it has combined with other, demanding, duties. Without reflecting on previous or current occupants, the problems of Australia's indigenous people demand and deserve a minister's total attention.

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Rugby League honours wartime service of Murray Islander Enemarki Zaro - NEWS.com.au


Rugby League honours wartime service of Murray Islander Enemarki Zaro
NEWS.com.au
What made them unique was that almost all of the enlisted men were Torres Strait Islanders, making them the only Indigenous Australian battalion ever formed by the Australian Army. Murray Island elder Enemarki Zaro, who now lives in Townsville, was one ...

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Rugby League honours wartime service of Murray Islander Enemarki Zaro - Herald Sun


Rugby League honours wartime service of Murray Islander Enemarki Zaro
Herald Sun
What made them unique was that almost all of the enlisted men were Torres Strait Islanders, making them the only Indigenous Australian battalion ever formed by the Australian Army. Murray Island elder Enemarki Zaro, who now lives in Townsville, was one ...

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Damien Hooper, strikes trouble for wearing T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag to ... - National Indigenous Times


Damien Hooper, strikes trouble for wearing T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag to ...
National Indigenous Times
Australian boxer Damien Hooper said it was worth the risk of getting into trouble with Olympic Games officials on Monday when he wore a t-shirt bearing the Aboriginal flag to the ring before his debut fight. The exciting light heavyweight said he was ...
Australian Olympic Boxer May Be Punished for Wearing Aboriginal FlagNew America Media
Canadian aboriginal athletes back Australian boxer's T-shirt stuntCanada First Perspective

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How do we turn a palette of colours into picture perfect? - Sydney Morning Herald


How do we turn a palette of colours into picture perfect?
Sydney Morning Herald
When I got back to Australia and started working as a journalist, my life changed further because I started meeting Aboriginal people and talking to them. I thought they would see me as their enemy. They didn't – or, at least, they didn't if I ...

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Australian Olympic Boxer May Be Punished for Wearing Aboriginal Flag - New America Media


Australian Olympic Boxer May Be Punished for Wearing Aboriginal Flag
New America Media
“I'm an Aborigine representing my culture and my people here at the Olympic Games,” Hooper told World News Australia. Under International Olympic Committee rules no flags can be brought into stadia of nations not competing at the Games. The Aboriginal ...
Canadian aboriginal athletes back Australian boxer's T-shirt stuntCanada First Perspective

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Rugby league tackling equality - NEWS.com.au


Rugby league tackling equality
NEWS.com.au
This is what makes our game great for Aboriginal Australians, and for all Australians. It represents an aspiration of what our society should look like. In rugby league, if an Aboriginal person is prepared to show a level of determination to succeed ...

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mosaic of success and failure - The Australian


mosaic of success and failure
The Australian
by: Nicolas Rothwell; From: The Australian; August 04, 2012 12:00AM ... When prime minister John Howard and his indigenous affairs minister, Mal Brough, first stepped forward with their grand plan, both the blueprint and the timeframe were very different.

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Rugby league tackling equality - Herald Sun


Rugby league tackling equality
Herald Sun
This is what makes our game great for Aboriginal Australians, and for all Australians. It represents an aspiration of what our society should look like. In rugby league, if an Aboriginal person is prepared to show a level of determination to succeed ...

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