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Interactive: Indigenous Australians living in remote areas - SBS

Wed, 2014/11/19 - 1:26am

SBS

Interactive: Indigenous Australians living in remote areas
SBS
That would mean three per cent of Australians would identify as indigenous. However, few Australian local government areas had a proportion of indigenous people around three per cent. In parts of Western Australia, some council areas had no people who ...
Political editor, The AgeSydney Morning Herald
More indigenous Australians at workNEWS.com.au
Self-harm in indigenous Australians has increased almost 50% in the past 10 ...Daily Mail
Business Insider Australia -The Guardian
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Indigenous Risk for Complacent Companies - Pro Bono Australia

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 10:15pm

Indigenous Risk for Complacent Companies
Pro Bono Australia
The research also ranked countries based on the risks posed to indigenous people, with the report showing that poor governance and negligible policies for Indigenous peoples in host countries was bad for business. Australia was ranked in the lower risk ...

Map - SBS

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 9:58pm

SBS

Map
SBS
That would mean three per cent of Australians would identify as indigenous. However, few Australian local government areas had a proportion of indigenous people around three per cent. In parts of Western Australia, some council areas had no people who ...

Landmark report reveals scale of indigenous disadvantage - Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 7:09pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Landmark report reveals scale of indigenous disadvantage
Sydney Morning Herald
Levels of self-harm and incarceration for indigenous Australians have increased at alarming levels despite the efforts of both sides of politics to 'close the gap', the most comprehensive report on indigenous wellbeing has found. The landmark report ...

Indigenous disadvantage report is a wake-up call for Australia - The Age

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 7:07pm

The Age

Indigenous disadvantage report is a wake-up call for Australia
The Age
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday became the first foreign leader to begin an address to the Australian Parliament by paying his respects to the traditional owners of the land on which he stood, and their elders past and present. If this ...

Indigenous disadvantage report is a wake-up call for Australia - Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 6:29pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Indigenous disadvantage report is a wake-up call for Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
If this was a modest, but welcome, sign of progress, the landmark Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report released on Wednesday is a sobering reality check on a bipartisan project that began more than a decade ago. It started with a move to obtain ...
Australian indigenous disadvantage reportThe Age
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Productivity Commission report identifies ...ABC Online
PM's “Nothing but bush” & threats from WA and SA to close down remote ...Crikey (blog)
The Guardian -Daily Mail -ABC Message Stick
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Self-harm in indigenous Australians has increased almost 50% in the past 10 ... - Daily Mail

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 3:50pm

Daily Mail

Self-harm in indigenous Australians has increased almost 50% in the past 10 ...
Daily Mail
Self-harm in indigenous Australians has increased almost 50 per cent in the past 10 years while juveniles are 24 times more likely to be sentenced to detention than their non-indigenous counterparts, according to a new government report. These were ...

Political editor, The Age - Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 1:29pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Political editor, The Age
Sydney Morning Herald
If this was a modest, but welcome, sign of progress, the landmark Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report released on Wednesday is a sobering reality check on a bipartisan project that began more than a decade ago. It started with a move to obtain ...
More indigenous Australians at workNEWS.com.au
Self-harm in indigenous Australians has increased almost 50% in the past 10 ...Daily Mail
Overcoming Disadvantage Report shows disadvantage not overcomeThe Stringer

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Big business encourages smallfirms to forge indigenous links - The Australian

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 1:18pm

Big business encourages smallfirms to forge indigenous links
The Australian
THE biggest businesses in Australia are putting pressure on their smaller counterparts to buy or contract from indigenous enterprises in a bid to dramatically increase the economic prospects of the nation's first people, a new survey from the Business ...

More indigenous Australians at work - NEWS.com.au

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 1:18pm

NEWS.com.au

More indigenous Australians at work
NEWS.com.au
A landmark Productivity Commission report on overcoming indigenous disadvantage, to be released today, will deliver a mixed report card on efforts to close the gap between the health, education, justice and employment outcomes of indigenous Australians ...
Australian indigenous disadvantage reportThe Age
Indigenous disadvantage report is a wake-up call for AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous affairs minister taking little comfort in report card on disadvantageThe Guardian

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Sandy talks about her time on SBS First Contact and why she left - Courier Mail

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 7:02am

Courier Mail

Sandy talks about her time on SBS First Contact and why she left
Courier Mail
In the program hosted by Ray Martin, Aussies with little or no experience of indigenous communities had their views — mostly negative — challenged. Sandy had been vocal in sharing her opinions from the start. FIRST CONTACT: Six Australians experience ...
First Contact's Sandy sparks Twitter fury with racist commentsSydney Morning Herald

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WA plan to close 100 remote and Indigenous communities 'devastating' - The Guardian

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 6:57am

The Guardian

WA plan to close 100 remote and Indigenous communities 'devastating'
The Guardian
Plans by the West Australian government to close more than 100 remote and primarily Indigenous communities is the “biggest threat to our people since the shocking events of the 1960s”, traditional owners and native title holders of the Fitzroy Valley ...
Terra nullius never went awayThe Guardian (Australia)

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Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the dead - The Conversation AU

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 4:11am

The Conversation AU

Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the dead
The Conversation AU
Beliefs and ceremonies associated with death in Indigenous Australia are diverse. Death and the deceased are sacred to Indigenous Australians and ceremonies differ between communities. They may involve lengthy ceremonies lasting several days with ...
“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.NEWS.com.au
Indigenous voices showcased on SBS TwitterSBS
First Contact Is One Of The Most Important Australian TV Shows Of The YearJunkee
Daily Mail -FoxFM (blog) -Courier Mail
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Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the dead - The Conversation AU

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 4:11am

The Conversation AU

Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the dead
The Conversation AU
Beliefs and ceremonies associated with death in Indigenous Australia are diverse. Death and the deceased are sacred to Indigenous Australians and ceremonies differ between communities. They may involve lengthy ceremonies lasting several days with ...
“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.NEWS.com.au
Indigenous voices showcased on SBS TwitterSBS
First Contact Is One Of The Most Important Australian TV Shows Of The YearJunkee
Daily Mail -FoxFM (blog)
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“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said. - NEWS.com.au

Tue, 2014/11/18 - 1:15am

NEWS.com.au

“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.
NEWS.com.au
Mr Giles, who admitted he broke down several times during filming, said ultimately finding himself behind bars showed him how bad things truly were for Aboriginal Australians. “When I was stripsearched and processed, it was a real challenge for me ...
First Contact Is One Of The Most Important Australian TV Shows Of The YearJunkee
'Petrol sniffers, layabouts, spending their dole cheques on booze': Six ...Daily Mail

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Indigenous leaders' mentor mourned - The Australian

Mon, 2014/11/17 - 1:05pm

Indigenous leaders' mentor mourned
The Australian
INDIGENOUS people in central Australia are mourning the death of a man whose struggle against his conviction — many say wrongful — in 1959 for murdering a young girl highlighted problems with the death penalty and helped shape Rupert Murdoch's ...

Indigenous suicide: 'prevention should focus on cultural reconnection' - The Guardian

Mon, 2014/11/17 - 6:41am

The Guardian

Indigenous suicide: 'prevention should focus on cultural reconnection'
The Guardian
“We have seen a problem that was close to nonexistent a generation ago explode into an epidemic that is devastating families and communities right across the top end of Australia,” wrote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner ...
G20 Brisbane: Taking the Torres Strait Islander story to the world stageABC Online

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Broome Aboriginal runner conquers New York marathon - ABC Online

Sun, 2014/11/16 - 10:02pm

ABC Online

Broome Aboriginal runner conquers New York marathon
ABC Online
Twelve Indigenous Australians have just completed the world-famous New York marathon, thanks to a mentoring program run by Commonwealth Games legend Robert de Castella. One year ago, the only running that WA participant 30-year-old Adrian ...

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'Imagine having your whole history erased': Indigenous rights activists burn ... - 9news.com.au

Sun, 2014/11/16 - 10:26am

Brisbane Times

'Imagine having your whole history erased': Indigenous rights activists burn ...
9news.com.au
Indigenous rights protesters have burned Australian flags during a demonstration outside the G20 summit convention centre in Brisbane. A man at the forefront of the protests at the Roma Street Parklands told 9NEWS the act was a direct response to Prime ...
Wayne Wharton calls for 'conversation' between black and white AustraliaBrisbane Times
Indigenous rights protesters burn Australian flags during G20 SummitMashable
Flags torched at spirited indigenous rallyThe West Australian

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Noel Pearson and Warren Mundine effigies burned in Indigenous G20 rally - The Guardian

Sun, 2014/11/16 - 6:24am

Daily Mail

Noel Pearson and Warren Mundine effigies burned in Indigenous G20 rally
The Guardian
Pearson, who has often sought to emphasise personal responsibility as the way forward for Indigenous Australia, was speaking on constitutional changes to empower Indigenous people when he was interrupted last week. In an exchange broadcast by ABC ...
Australian Flag burnt during an Indigenous rally on the last day of G20 SummitDaily Mail
Pearson, Langton, Mundine are not our leadersThe Stringer

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