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Catholic Outlook (press release) (blog)
Next 10 years must deliver more for Indigenous Australians
Catholic Outlook (press release) (blog)
Darwin Bishop Eugene Hurley and the chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council have lamented the slow progress – and lack of progress in some cases – in the 10 years since then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a ...

Catholic Outlook (press release) (blog)
Next 10 years must deliver more for Indigenous Australians
Catholic Outlook (press release) (blog)
Darwin Bishop Eugene Hurley and the chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council have lamented the slow progress – and lack of progress in some cases – in the 10 years since then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a ...

The Guardian
Bill Shorten says Labor will pursue Indigenous voice to parliament without Coalition
The Guardian
Shorten also committed Labor to a compensation scheme for members of the stolen generations in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, who are not able to access state-based schemes, saying that doing so was “resolving unfinished ...

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The Guardian
Bill Shorten says Labor will pursue Indigenous voice to parliament without Coalition
The Guardian
Shorten also committed Labor to a compensation scheme for members of the stolen generations in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, who are not able to access state-based schemes, saying that doing so was “resolving unfinished ...
Labor promises stolen generations compensation fundThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation AU
Rudd's apology, 10 years on: the elusive hope of a 'breakthrough moment'
The Guardian
A woman watches Kevin Rudd's apology to Indigenous Australians on 13 February 2008. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images. At 9am on 13 February 2008, Ian Hamm stood in the offices of the Aboriginal Advancement League in Thornbury, Melbourne ...
Australia still struggling to improve Aboriginal lives, report saysYahoo7 News
Australia fails to 'close gap' in improving lives of Aborigines: reportReuters
Three reasons why the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aren't closingThe Conversation AU
Deutsche Welle
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The Conversation AU
Three reasons why the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aren't closing
The Conversation AU
This year's Closing the Gap report tells a more positive story than the 2017 report on the seven measurable gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in the areas of health, education and employment. According to the government's figures ...

The Conversation AU
Three reasons why the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aren't closing
The Conversation AU
This year's Closing the Gap report tells a more positive story than the 2017 report on the seven measurable gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in the areas of health, education and employment. According to the government's figures ...

UNSW Newsroom
Former UNSW Law Dean, Indigenous law advocate Garth Nettheim dies
UNSW Newsroom
He became well known as a social justice advocate, winning an Order of Australia (AO) in 2003. UNSW Law Dean Professor George Williams said Professor Nettheim was for many years one of Australia's leading champions of Indigenous rights. “Garth joined ...

SBS
Closing the Gap 2018: Labor announces Stolen Generations compensation scheme
Courier Mail
Nationwide, more than 17,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were living in out-of-home care in 2017, compared with about 9000 a decade ago. Labor will also establish a funeral assistance fund which would provide one-off payments of ...
Labor promises stolen generations compensation fundThe Sydney Morning Herald
New call for Indigenous reparation scheme to resolve 'national tragedy'SBS
New call for indigenous reparation schemeThe Border Mail

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ABC Online
On Closing the Gap day, politicians should stop talking and listen
The Guardian (blog)
Last year's Uluru statement from the heart, coming at the end of the referendum council consultation process, reflected the sentiment expressed at dozens of earlier Indigenous community meetings across Australia to roundly reject symbolic ...
Prominent Indigenous Australians urge Government not to abandon ...ABC Online
Uluru Statement voice must be in ConstitutionThe Australian
Did this seminal moment in Australia's history change anything?NEWS.com.au
The Conversation AU -Tasmania Examiner -InDaily
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Tasmania Examiner
On Closing the Gap day, politicians should stop talking and listen
The Guardian (blog)
This from two leaders who are overseeing the implementation of $500m-plus of cuts to Indigenous programs from the 2014 federal budget, as if doing so has had no impact on the width of “the gap”. Such a voice to parliament would say that Closing the Gap ...
Apology, Sorry Day: Did this moment change anything?NEWS.com.au
Australia to commemorate tenth anniversary of national apologyTasmania Examiner
Government might legislate indigenous 'voice'The Australian
Northern Star
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The Guardian
Wayne Swan says Barnaby Joyce can't survive the controversy – as it happened
The Guardian
The Indigenous Business Sector Strategy, launched today, is a new suite of initiatives to ensure sustainable economic success for Indigenous owned-and-run businesses. New Indigenous Business Hubs will become one-stop shops for business advice and ...
PoliticsNow: Live news, analysis, video from CanberraThe Australian
Politics Live: Barnaby Joyce in hot water over affair as questions persistThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
Wayne Swan says Barnaby Joyce can't survive the controversy – as it happened
The Guardian
Also launched today, the Indigenous Grants Policy (IGP) will pilot a new approach to Indigenous service delivery. The new IGP will apply the principles of the IPP to our service delivery funding, to increase the number of Indigenous owned and ...
PoliticsNow: Live news, analysis, video from CanberraThe Australian

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The Northern Daily Leader
Gunnedah connected Harley Winsor will be representing Australia at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea
The Northern Daily Leader
What started as a passing interest soon became an obsession for Harley as he developed his skills under the watchful eye of Russian born couple, Andrei and Galina Pachin, at Canterbury Ice Rink. It was this Russian connection that eventually saw him ...

The Australian
PoliticsNow: Rolling news, analysis, video from Canberra
The Australian
“I think if you were to ask all Australians, black and white, what it would now be like if we had not delivered a national apology 10 years ago I think the country would be radically different. Mr Rudd said it was a “false dichotomy” to put practical ...
'Where do you guys get off?': Cabinet minister's hallway rant over Barnaby JoyceThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Australian
PoliticsNow: Rolling news, analysis, video from Canberra
The Australian
BHP boss Andrew Mackenzie has joined chief executives of Australia's largest employers in calling on the Senate to pass the company tax cuts, claiming the issue is now critical to whether companies like the global mining giant invest more in the ...

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The Guardian
Morning mail: Plane crash outside Moscow kills 71 people
The Guardian
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd will speak to the National Press Club on the subject of the 10th anniversary of the national apology to Indigenous Australians, which falls on Tuesday. Australians will compete in day three of the Winter Olympics in ...

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The Advocate
Letters to the Editor
The Advocate
Their leaders ignored their orders to negotiate a treaty with the indigenous peoples who already lived here, and simply asserted their will by military force. This is the very definition of an invasion. This was followed by many brutal decades that ...

The Guardian
Black Panther: how superhero film can inspire Indigenous and African youth
The Guardian
Clanton was keen to get as many kids of Indigenous Australian and African heritage along to see the film in her current hometown of Melbourne as she could. Inspired by the charitable actions of Hollywood stars such as Octavia Spencer, but without any ...

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Save the Children Australia and Aarnja Empowered Communities collaborate to empower families in the Dampier ...
Save The Children Australia
Families in the Dampier Peninsular will get a boost to children's services through a partnership between Save the Children Australia and Aarnja Empowered Communities. The partnership was signed in December last year with the aim of the two ...