Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

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Inquiry to examine the harmful use of alcohol in indigenous communities
The Australian
Dr Stone said while there was no doubt that alcohol abuse had a significant impact on families and communities across Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were between four and five times more likely to be hospitalised, and between five ...
Alcohol inquiry: chairwoman Sharman Stone defends Indigenous focusABC Online
Inquiry to probe indigenous alcohol harmSky News Australia
Glaring pay gap as Aboriginal bureaucrats brought into Prime Minister's ...Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
Indigenous workers on Inpex project given falsified certificates, say trainees
The Guardian
Three current or former trainees working on the construction of the Blaydin Point liquid natural gas processing facility have told Guardian Australia they enrolled in an Indigenous training program and were asked to sign off on practical experience ...

Discrimination in Australia cuts both ways
Gippsland Times
If the first to arrive, Indigenous Australians, are to have special constitutional provision for their advancement then my mob, who arrived around 200 years ago, demand special constitutional provision for their advancement over those who arrived more ...

Google News

Discrimination in Australia cuts both ways
Gippsland Times
If the first to arrive, Indigenous Australians, are to have special constitutional provision for their advancement then my mob, who arrived around 200 years ago, demand special constitutional provision for their advancement over those who arrived more ...

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Lexington Herald Leader
Australian Circus Oz comes to Danville, bring indigenous culture with it
Lexington Herald Leader
Sheppard is one of two indigenous Australian performers traveling with the world-renowned circus show, which comes to Centre College's Norton Center for the Arts in Danville for two shows this weekend. Indigenous Australians, or Aboriginals, inhabited ...

Underage marriage in remote areas rife
The Australian
Eight of the top 10 locations for under-age marriage in Australia included areas with major indigenous communities — the Northern Territory's West Arnhem, Barkly, MacDonnell, Roper Gulf, East Arhhem, Central Desert and Victoria Daly Shires, and South ...

Personal indigenous challenge
The Australian (blog)
“Closing the Gap should not be an achievement that belongs to a Coalition government or a Labor one,” the Opposition Leader told parliament, “but indeed be a monument to the decency, compassion and imagination of the modern Australia.” Truth be told ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Karl O'Callaghan's approach to indigenous offenders makes sense
Sydney Morning Herald
The populist approach of successive WA governments in introducing tougher sentencing laws and imprisoning record numbers of convicted criminals, has resulted in overcrowding in our jails, with a majority of prison inmates being Indigenous Australians.
Finding a job the hardest work of all for indigenous menWarrnambool Standard
The Gap Is Still Too Wide In Indigenous Disadvantage But At Least We're TalkingBusiness Insider Australia
Closing the Gap won't work without human reconciliationEureka Street
My Sunshine Coast (press release) -SBS
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Future of Indigenous land rights under native title uncertain
SBS
Twenty years after the Native Title Act was introduced to create a framework through which Indigenous Australians could claim back their traditional lands, questions are being asked as to how effective the landmark legislation has been. By. Darren Mara.

The Age
Karl O'Callaghan's approach to indigenous offenders makes sense
The Age
The populist approach of successive WA governments in introducing tougher sentencing laws and imprisoning record numbers of convicted criminals, has resulted in overcrowding in our jails, with a majority of prison inmates being Indigenous Australians.
Scullion flags boarding school for indigenous studentsThe Australian

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Cherbourg Mayor urges PM to extend Indigenous visits
ABC Local
Meanwhile, a Toowoomba-based Indigenous medical centre says education is the key to improving people's life expectancy. The latest Closing the Gap report has found Australia is failing in many areas of Indigenous disadvantage, including health and life ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Cherbourg Mayor urges PM to extend Indigenous visits
ABC Local
Meanwhile, a Toowoomba-based Indigenous medical centre says education is the key to improving people's life expectancy. The latest Closing the Gap report has found Australia is failing in many areas of Indigenous disadvantage, including health and life ...
Scullion flags boarding school for indigenous studentsThe Australian
Indigenous Groups Urge Commitment to PMs Closing the GapPro Bono Australia
Australian push to get more indigenous children involved in cricketRadio Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
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Indigenous Groups Urge Commitment to PMs Closing the Gap
Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous peak bodies have welcomed Prime Minister Tony Abbott's commitment to stronger efforts to Close the Gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. They have also urged the PM to back his words by resourcing targeted services and ...
Cherbourg Mayor urges PM to extend Indigenous visitsABC Local
Australian push to get more indigenous children involved in cricketRadio Australia
Cricket trying to 'close the gap' on AFL, NRLABC Online
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
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Indigenous Bodies Urge Commitment to PMs Closing the Gap
Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous peak bodies have welcomed Prime Minister Tony Abbott's commitment to stronger efforts to Close the Gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. They have also urged the PM to back his words by resourcing targeted services and ...

The Age
Australian push to get more indigenous children involved in cricket
Radio Australia
Now that Australia has reclaimed the Ashes from England, a countrywide campaign is underway to understand why indigenous cricketers are not taking up the sport. Co-funded by Cricket Australia and the Australian National University, the research team ...
Indigenous Groups Urge Commitment to PMs Closing the GapPro Bono Australia
Cherbourg Mayor urges PM to extend Indigenous visitsABC Local
Karl O'Callaghan's approach to indigenous offenders makes senseThe Age
The Australian -PS News
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Finding a job the hardest work of all for indigenous men
Warrnambool Standard
Tony Abbott was delivering the federal government's latest Closing the Gap report, speaking of his concerns over indigenous Australia's rising rates of school truancy and unemployment. Being out of work isn't an issue for Trent Clark and brothers Ty ...

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Disappointing sense of deja vu
The Australian
It is further compelling evidence that to achieve real and sustainable improvements in the lives of indigenous Australians, and to avoid the policy failures of the past, governments must invest more faith and funding in indigenous community-controlled ...

Scullion flags boarding school for indigenous students
The Australian
“The evidence of education and, as a consequence, employment outcomes achieved by indigenous children who attend boarding schools is indisputable,” he told The Australian. “There are clear benefits for children attending senior schooling away from ...

Scullion flags boarding school for indigenous students
The Australian
“The evidence of education and, as a consequence, employment outcomes achieved by indigenous children who attend boarding schools is indisputable,” he told The Australian. “There are clear benefits for children attending senior schooling away from ...

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Mundine: get kids out of jail, into jobs
The Australian
THE head of Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, will present colleagues today with a proposal to take indigenous teenagers in juvenile detention into jobs and training in Western Australia, and plans to roll out the model nationally.

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