Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

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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PM says Gove Indigenous jobs 'secure'
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he will fulfil an election promise to spend a full week in an indigenous community in East Arnhem Land later this year. During question time on Wednesday, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten challenged Mr Abbott over an ...

Fears over rise in Canberra's indigenous children in care
The Canberra Times
Canberra's indigenous children risk becoming part of another ''stolen generation'', the head of Australia's peak Aboriginal childcare body says. The Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care is demanding answers from the ACT government ...

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Indigenous groups give mixed reactions to Closing the Gap report
SBS
Overall, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, says he's confident Australia is well positioned to close the gap in Indigenous disadvantage by 2030. "We're happy with the places, the areas where we're doing ...

Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
KOIN.com
7, 2014 file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks at a press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney, Australia. Abbott says he will spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal ...

Australia falls short on Aboriginal welfare targets
Yahoo!7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday admitted Australia has failed to meet important targets on Aboriginal welfare and vowed to work to ensure all indigenous children went through school. In delivering his first "Closing the Gap ...

Australia falls short on Aboriginal welfare targets
Yahoo!7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday admitted Australia has failed to meet important targets on Aboriginal welfare and vowed to work to ensure all indigenous children went through school. In delivering his first "Closing the Gap ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Tony Abbott delivers mixed report card on Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The report states that non-Indigenous Australians live about 10 years longer than Aboriginal Australians, that the progress in closing the gap in literacy has improved in only Year 3 and Year 5 Reading (based on NAPLAN results) and that only 30 per ...
Twiggy urges action to save indigenous drop-outsThe Australian
Australia failing to close gap on indigenous jobsSydney Morning Herald
Australia falls short on Aboriginal welfare targetsYahoo!7 News
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Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
U-T San Diego
7, 2014 file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks at a press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney, Australia. Abbott says he will spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal ...

The Province
Australian PM to spend a week on Outback Aboriginal land to focus on ...
The Province
CANBERRA, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East ...

Australian Teacher Magazine
Mission – to win war on Indigenous truancy
Australian Teacher Magazine
CANBERRA, Feb 12 – On any given school day in some remote Indigenous communities every third classroom seat is empty. Compare that with most schools in urban Australia where nine out of 10 seats are occupied. Making up the difference has become a ...

PM targeting indigenous jobs, schooling
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told parliament that his personal mission is to help Australians open their hearts on indigenous policy. In delivering his first annual Closing the Gap statement as prime minister on Wednesday, Mr Abbott recalled the ...

Australia's PM reports on initiative to cut Indigenous disadvantage
Radio Australia
It's been six years since the government and opposition committed to the 'Closing the Gap' initiative to remove inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by 2030. The annual updates have seen mixed results in areas ranging from life ...

Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in Australia
Businessweek
“There's almost no progress in closing the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and other Australians –- which is still about a decade,” Abbott told parliament in Canberra today. “There's been very little improvement towards halving the gap in ...

Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in Australia
Bloomberg
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said urgent efforts are needed to improve employment opportunities alongside health and education conditions for Australia's indigenous population. “There's almost no progress in closing the life expectancy gap between ...

The Guardian
Tony Abbott sets goal to close gap on Indigenous school attendance
The Guardian
In 2008 the Council of Australian Governments (Coag) set six targets to bridge the gap in outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, including ensuring all Indigenous four-year-olds in remote communities had access to early childhood ...

The Guardian
Closing the gap that scars Australia: stop our mob from dying prematurely
The Guardian
Together we agreed that this would be the generation to close the unacceptable health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians. We committed to close the health and life expectancy gap within a ...

Sky News Australia
PM focuses on indigenous jobs, schooling
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told parliament that his personal mission is to help Australians open their hearts on indigenous policy. In delivering his first annual Closing the Gap statement as prime minister on Wednesday, Mr Abbott recalled the ...

Sky News Australia
Peris paints grim picture for indigenous
Sky News Australia
Speaking at a breakfast in Parliament House on closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, Ms Peris said life isn't a bed of roses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. She says this is especially true for women in ...
Economy $24bn bigger in 2031 if Indigenous targets met, says reportThe Guardian
Funding to preserve Indigenous languagePS News
Study reveals benefits in closing Indigenous employment gapABC Message Stick

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Sydney Morning Herald
Failure to narrow gap on Aboriginal employment
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia has made no progress towards halving the employment gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians within a decade, six years after the effort began. When Prime Minister Tony Abbott delivers the annual report on progress towards ...