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WAtoday
Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services
WAtoday
That's why it's called 'Nations Connect'," Mr Keed said. He recently presented the app to the Canberra Business Yarning Circle, a forum for Indigenous entrepeneurs, the brainchild of ACT Australian of the Year, Dion Devow. Darkies Design founder and ...

ABC Online
Closing the gap: Marketing firm and Indigenous community team up for bottled water campaign
ABC Online
But a remote Northern Territory Indigenous family and a Sydney marketing firm have teamed up for an ambitious plan to bottle water from an Arnhem Land spring for distribution across Australia. It is one of the latest projects resulting from renewed ...

SBS
Historic Buthera agreement first step towards Indigenous treaty in South Australia
SBS
SA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher and Narungga Elders sign the Buthera Agreement. Source: SBS News. Efforts between the South Australian government and Indigenous leaders to reach a treaty agreement took a step forward in Adelaide on Friday ...

SBS
Historic Buthera agreement first step towards Indigenous treaty in South Australia
SBS
SA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher and Narungga Elders sign the Buthera Agreement. Source: SBS News. Efforts between the South Australian government and Indigenous leaders to reach a treaty agreement took a step forward in Adelaide on Friday ...

The Mandarin
Aboriginals of Australia: Ten Years from the Apology – How Much Has Changed?
UNPO (press release)
Tuesday, 13 February 2018, marked 10 years since former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations of Australia and launched the Closing the Gap initiative. Both marked a 'new era' in indigenous affairs in Australia but in the ...
Closing the Gap: improvements in living standards take root through steady school attendanceThe Australian
Indigenous people can't simply trade their way out of disadvantageThe Mandarin
Sorry – Again!Pro Bono Australia
The Omega -Daily Telegraph -Іnsіdеr Cаr Nеws
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The Mandarin
Aboriginals of Australia: Ten Years from the Apology – How Much Has Changed?
UNPO (press release)
Tuesday, 13 February 2018, marked 10 years since former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations of Australia and launched the Closing the Gap initiative. Both marked a 'new era' in indigenous affairs in Australia but in the ...
Closing the Gap: improvements in living standards take root through steady school attendanceThe Australian
Indigenous people can't simply trade their way out of disadvantageThe Mandarin
Parnell McGuinness: It's time to stop treating Aboriginal people as projectsDaily Telegraph
Pro Bono Australia -The Omega -Atlanta Black Star
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The Australian
Melbourne Indigenous Transition School: learning to close gap
The Australian
Of the group of 22 indigenous students — the latest intake of Year 7s at the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School — some have travelled from as far as remote islands off the west coast of Arnhem Land to fulfil the dream of a city education. Few had ...

The Mandarin
Closing the Gap: beware hazards of metrics gone mad
The Australian
Between the 2011 and 2016 censuses, the number of Australians identifying as Aboriginal ballooned more than 18 per cent, or by more than double the rate of population growth, to 649,000. Immigration can't explain that, and Aboriginal birthrates are ...
Aboriginals of Australia: Ten Years from the Apology – How Much Has Changed?UNPO (press release)
Indigenous people can't simply trade their way out of disadvantageThe Mandarin
Parnell McGuinness: It's time to stop treating Aboriginal people as projectsDaily Telegraph
Pro Bono Australia -The Omega -Atlanta Black Star
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The Mandarin
Closing the Gap: improvements in living standards take root through steady school attendance
The Australian
Apparently it's one rule for them, another for Aboriginal people still living in poverty. End the excuses and resistance or forget about closing the gap. Imagine what Australia's indigenous population would be like if every indigenous child went to ...
Indigenous people can't simply trade their way out of disadvantageThe Mandarin
Parnell McGuinness: It's time to stop treating Aboriginal people as projectsDaily Telegraph
Sorry – Again!Pro Bono Australia
The Omega -Atlanta Black Star -Іnsіdеr Cаr Nеws
all 24 news articles »

The Mandarin
Closing the Gap: improvements in living standards take root through steady school attendance
The Australian
Apparently it's one rule for them, another for Aboriginal people still living in poverty. End the excuses and resistance or forget about closing the gap. Imagine what Australia's indigenous population would be like if every indigenous child went to ...
Indigenous people can't simply trade their way out of disadvantageThe Mandarin
Sorry – Again!Pro Bono Australia
Australian author speaks out about Indigenous water rightsThe Omega
Іnsіdеr Cаr Nеws -Atlanta Black Star -Alive For Football
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Adelaide Crows
Crows launch Reconciliation Action Plan
Adelaide Crows
The Adelaide Football Club has unveiled a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to build on and strengthen its efforts to promote reconciliation in the community, as well as within the Club. The Plan will operate for the next two years and aims to promote a ...

The Australian
'Opportunity, not cash, is key to indigenous aid'
The Australian
Outgoing Fortescue Metals Group boss Nev Power says it will take a change in mindset to truly close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, with business opportunities rather than handouts the best way to improve Aboriginal ...

The Australian
'Opportunity, not cash, is key to indigenous aid'
The Australian
Outgoing Fortescue Metals Group boss Nev Power says it will take a change in mindset to truly close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, with business opportunities rather than handouts the best way to improve Aboriginal ...

Australian Jewish News
Aus Day Naqba comparison condemned
Australian Jewish News
The controversy arose when Crikey published a January 25 article entitled “How Australia Day echoes the 1948 exodus of Palestine” in which writer Randa Abdel-Fattah stated, “It is little wonder that our government is so quick to emphasise Australia's ...

The West Australian
Program focuses on Broome-based tours
The West Australian
A Broome-based tourism business has been given a chance to showcase Broome to the rest of Australia. Narlija Cultural Tours will be one of 10 WA Aboriginal tourism businesses to be featured in the latest series of Destination WA. The television series ...

ABC Online
'I took the leap': Unauthorised Instagram-friendly signage at Aboriginal massacre site prompts outrage
ABC Online
Munanjahli woman and professor at the University of Queensland, Chelsea Bond, said the frame was "appalling" and reflected a wider practice of "disdain" towards Aboriginal historical sites including Uluru and Devil's Marbles. "There is a pattern of ...

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ABC Online
'I took the leap': Unauthorised Instagram-friendly signage at Aboriginal massacre site prompts outrage
ABC Online
Munanjahli woman and professor at the University of Queensland, Chelsea Bond, said the frame was "appalling" and reflected a wider practice of "disdain" towards Aboriginal historical sites including Uluru and Devil's Marbles. "There is a pattern of ...

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SBS
Australia's new $50 note unveiled by Reserve Bank
SBS
Updated Updated 6 mins ago. Australia's $50 note has been spruced up, with new security features and four bumps on each edge for the vision impaired, while maintaining the yellow colour which gives rise to its 'pineapple' nickname. The Reserve Bank of ...
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The Mandarin
Indigenous people can't simply trade their way out of disadvantage
The Mandarin
“To find out we are going backwards when it comes to health equality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is extremely disappointing,” said O'Mara, who is of Wiradjuri descent. The professor says blank responses to the Redfern Statement ...

The Mandarin
Ken Smith: trust in First Peoples as the guardians of their own futures
The Mandarin
The 2018 Closing the Gap report was our annual reminder that we are not living up to our responsibility to Australia's First Peoples, particularly those in remote communities, where the gap in health and welfare outcomes with non-Indigenous Australia ...

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