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Australia targets 2017 referendum on Aboriginal recognition
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Sydney (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Thursday said a referendum on recognising Aboriginal people in the constitution was possible in 2017, but he cautioned a lot of work needed to be done. Written more than a century ago, the ...
Report card on aboriginal Australians paints bleak pictureReuters UK
Australia failing to close Aboriginal life expectancy gap: PMDaily Mail

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Awards honour extraordinary commitment to Indigenous health
UQ News
“They are exceptional philanthropists who have made an extraordinary commitment to creating change through efforts to close the gap in life expectancy and to help progressing towards health equality for Indigenous Australians,” he said. “Mr Poche, who ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians retire with 23% less savings
The Conversation AU
Indigenous people will retire with 23% less income than non-Indigenous Australians, according to new research by Griffith Centre for Personal Finance and Superannuation. People who identify as being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI ...

The Conversation AU
Laying pathways for greater success in education for Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Graduates of a 2015 Tertiary Entry Program, which paves the way into university courses, with lead author and CQUniversity's Pro Vice-Chancellor of Indigenous Engagement, Bronwyn Fredericks (fourth from left) and Provost Hilary Winchester (far right).

The Economist (blog)
Australia struggles to bring equality to its indigenous population
The Economist (blog)
THE massive gulf in living standards between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians has long been one of the country's great shames. After much pressure from activists, governments have channelled increasing amounts of money and political will in an ...

Huffington Post Australia
Australia Is The Only Developed Country To Still Have Trachoma
Huffington Post Australia
Our teams visited more than 465 communities and screened about 100,000 people, 62,000 of whom were Indigenous Australians. They found that nearly half of Australia's Indigenous people had trachoma and, in some regions of the Northern Territory and ...

ABC Online
Anger over Northern Territory Aboriginal living conditions sparks legal action, inquiry call
ABC Online
Australian Lawyers for Remote Aboriginal Rights have taken unprecedented legal action on behalf of the tenants against the Territory Government. They lodged claims to Northern Territory Civil Administrative Tribunal (NCAT), which detail over 600 ...
Residents protest sub standard NT housing9news.com.au

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Herald Sun
Indigenous Australians must stop the excuses and accept responsibility
Herald Sun
Twenty years on, the “reconciliation” circus has failed. The responsibility crusade must begin. Making whites nicer won't make Aborigines richer or healthier. Aborigines themselves must now do it. That become even clearer yesterday, when the Turnbull ...

Herald Sun
Indigenous Australians must stop the excuses and accept responsibility
Herald Sun
And once again Aboriginal “leaders” offered those exhausted and divisive excuses. Don't blame Aborigines, insisted Professor Tom Calma, co-chair of Reconciliation Australia. He told the ABC: “The lack of progress should never be interpreted as a ...

ABC Online
Meet 7 Indigenous legends who are fighting to 'close the gap'
ABC Online
Australia is failing to meet most of its goals to close the gap between Indigenous and other Australians on health, education and employment. The latest annual report card on Indigenous disadvantage, handed down on Wednesday, shows only two of the ...
How Woman of Influence Dawn Casey closed the gap on racismThe Australian Financial Review
Indigenous doctors key to improving health9news.com.au

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Australia failing to close Aboriginal life expectancy gap: PM
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Sydney (AFP) - Australia is failing to close an "unacceptably wide" gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and non-indigenous people, officials admitted Wednesday, highlighting the devastating impact of drugs and alcohol on the country's original ...
Report card on aboriginal Australians paints bleak pictureReuters UK

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British owned aboriginal artefacts may soon be returned to Australia
9news.com.au
A collection of aboriginal artefacts on display in the British Museum may soon be returned to the indigenous owners. Since mid-2015, the museum has met with Victoria's Dja Dja Wurrung's Yung Balug clan elder Gary Murray, who on behalf of his people is ...

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White Lies And Black Lives: Malcolm Turnbull Just Widened The Credibility Gap
New Matilda
While Rudd and Gillard tried to bury failure and redirect blame (Gillard most spectacularly by claiming it was time for Aboriginal Australia to share responsibility), both Abbott and Turnbull have been forced to admit that despite 'optimism', the ...
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Report card on aboriginal Australians paints bleak pictureReuters

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Report card on aboriginal Australians paints bleak picture
Reuters
SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday said that the government was failing to meet a number of goals aimed at improving the lot of its embattled aboriginal population as he released its tenth annual report card on indigenous ...
Let Aboriginal people take control of their destinyThe Age
Closing the GapSydney Morning Herald
How Woman of Influence Dawn Casey closed the gap on racismThe Australian Financial Review
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Reuters UK
Report card on aboriginal Australians paints bleak picture
Reuters UK
SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday said that the government was failing to meet a number of goals aimed at improving the lot of its embattled aboriginal population as he released its tenth annual report card on indigenous ...
Australia struggling to improve lives of Aborigines: PMYahoo7 News
Report Card on Aboriginal Australians Looks BleakNewsweek

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Malcolm Turnbull delivers Closing the Gap report which shows Indigenous life expectancy has not improved
Radio Australia
The Prime Minister said his Government would redouble its efforts to engage with Indigenous Australians. "Under successive governments, under both sides, progress against the Close the Gap targets has been mixed, we have to be honest," he said.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing-the-Gap oratory
Sydney Morning Herald
Malcolm Turnbull has vowed to be guided by the "wisdom, the ingenuity, the insights" of Indigenous people to tackle profound disadvantage after a report confirmed the nation is not on track to close the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and ...
Let Aboriginal people take control of their destinyThe Age
Everyone has a role to play in closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, Kia Dowell writesABC Message Stick
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Sydney Morning Herald
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing-the-Gap oratory
Sydney Morning Herald
Labor is supporting calls by Indigenous leaders to add a new target on closing the incarceration gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, with Mr Shorten saying: "It is wrong that an Aboriginal man of 18 is more likely to go to jail than ...
Turnbull urges stronger partnership between government and Indigenous Australia to close the gapThe Conversation AU
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivers the tenth annual Closing the Gap address to Parliament on ...NEWS.com.au
Closing the Gap: Australia is failing to meet its goals on tackling Indigenous disadvantageABC Online
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The Conversation AU
Turnbull urges stronger partnership between government and Indigenous Australia to close the gap
The Conversation AU
The 2016 Closing the Gap Prime Minister's Report shows a bleak picture on progress on Indigenous employment and little improvement in school attendance. Australia is not on track to halve the gap in employment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...
Closing the Gap: Australia is failing to meet its goals on tackling Indigenous disadvantageABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing-the-Gap oratorySydney Morning Herald
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivers the tenth annual Closing the Gap address to Parliament on ...NEWS.com.au
Northern Star -SBS
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The Guardian
Battle for bark art: Indigenous leaders hail breakthrough in talks with British Museum
The Guardian
Detail of an etched bark taken from the Dja Dja Wurrung people in the 1850s and now in the collection of the British Museum. It is currently on show in Canberra as part of the National Museum of Australia's Encounters exhibition. Photograph: Museum ...