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Farm Weekly
DAFWA has faced a challenging period
Farm Weekly
WITH tight budgets and crisis talks at the Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA), it has been a challenging year for agriculture in WA, however there has been some good news for the sector. A range of State Government initiatives rolled-out this ...

ABC Online
Indigenous communities fear Federal Government's child care changes will ...
ABC Online
"We know that in every single state and territory in Australia Indigenous children have lower participation rates in early childhood education and we all need to be working to close that gap, not shutting down services that some of them have access to.".

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ABC Online
Indigenous communities fear Federal Government's child care changes will ...
ABC Online
"Children will miss out because budget-based services and Aboriginal child and family services have been developed and established to meet the particular needs of Aboriginal children and families and they've been doing a fantastic job delivering that ...

Thus Spake Mungo: Grasping for the big ideas
Echonetdaily
Perhaps it is time to think laterally: Ted Egan, the former Northern Territory Administrator, bush balladist and tireless advocate for the indigenous cause, suggests that we should scrap the whole idea of acknowledging Aboriginal Australia and instead ...

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The Age
Jon Stanhope is an impressive politician, but he is wrong on some justice issues
The Age
This situation is totally unacceptable, but it must be remembered that the Commonwealth government has spent millions of dollars attempting to close the gap between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians over a wide range of measures but it has ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Jon Stanhope is an impressive politician, but he is wrong on some justice issues
Sydney Morning Herald
This situation is totally unacceptable, but it must be remembered that the Commonwealth government has spent millions of dollars attempting to close the gap between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians over a wide range of measures but it has ...

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Courier Mail
Hawke gives his vision of ideal Australia
Courier Mail
He also called for more acceptance of Muslim Australians, and said it was time for a mature debate on nuclear energy as a possible solution to global warming. Earlier, Mr Hawke was in the audience as Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson called for ...
Thus Spake Mungo: Grasping for the big ideasEchonetdaily

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Courier Mail
Our lives are richer thanks to these people
Courier Mail
No future Melbourne Cup will be held without comments being passed about “Cups King” Bart Cummings, who left us in August, just as Australia's famous 1983 America's Cup win will be forever linked to businessman Alan Bond, who died in June. But writers ...

Herald Sun
Bob Hawke gives his vision of the ideal Australia: Abolish states, be kinder ...
Herald Sun
He also called for more acceptance of Muslim Australians, and said it was time for a mature debate on nuclear energy as a possible solution to global warming. Earlier, Mr Hawke was in the audience as Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson called for ...

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ABC Online
Woodford Folk Festival: Noel Pearson calls for Indigenous constitutional ...
ABC Online
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has urged Australians to embrace the nation's Indigenous history through constitutional recognition during a speech at the Woodford Folk Festival, north of Brisbane. The audience of more than 600 people included former ...
Live: Woodford Folk Festival, December 28Brisbane Times

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ABC Online
Woodford Folk Festival: Noel Pearson calls for Indigenous constitutional ...
ABC Online
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has urged Australians to embrace the nation's Indigenous history through constitutional recognition during a speech at the Woodford Folk Festival, north of Brisbane. The audience of more than 600 people included former ...
Live: Woodford Folk Festival, December 28Brisbane Times

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ABC Online
Proclamation Day: SA Governor suggests South Australians live up to resilience ...
ABC Online
Mr Le, who was greeted by Aboriginal flags and protestors at the historic Old Gum Tree, where the ceremony was held, read the proclamation and its vow to Aboriginal people. "And of my firm determination to punish with exemplary severity all acts of ...

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The Advertiser
Knives used in two aggravated robberies in South Australia overnight
ABC Online
Police said he fled with cash and was last seen running towards the Willsden area. No one was physically injured in the alleged robbery and the man was described as being Aboriginal in appearance, aged in his early 20s. Police are appealing to the ...
Pizza shop, servo robbed at knifepointThe Advertiser

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Waterworld Central is on at three locations. Photo: Supplied
Sydney Morning Herald
IN SYDNEY. The Sound of Music at Capitol Theatre. The hills are alive with the sound of music at Capitol Theatre. The Australian production of this legendary Rodgers and Hammerstein musical will be running in Sydney until February. Let your ears melt ...
Summer time Planner: Monday December 28The Times (subscription)

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BreakingNews.com
Northern Territory floods: Woman dies in floodwaters while trapped in car
ABC Online
An elderly woman has died after being caught in floodwaters near Katherine in a remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community. Key points: Woman was one of five people stranded in car east of Katherine; CPR failed to save her, coroner to investigate ...
Evacuations as man missing in NT floodSky News Australia
Daly River, Northern Territory, AustraliaBreakingNews.com

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ABC Online
Northern Territory floods: Woman dies in Dook Creek flood waters
ABC Online
An elderly woman has died after being caught in flood waters near Katherine in a remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community. Northern Territory Police said they believed the woman was travelling in a car with four other people when they became ...

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Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Rowan Atkinson as serious actor? Tell me it isn't so
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
First Contact (Ray Martin introduces well-known Australians to Aboriginal culture, SBS); Game of Thrones (Jon Snow is brought back to life by the witch, or is a whitewalker, Foxtel's showcase); Glitch (benign zombies, ABC); House Husbands (Nine);.

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Sky News Australia
Evacuations as man missing in NT flood
Sky News Australia
The search for a man missing in floodwaters in the NorthernTerritory has entered its third day, while about 200 people are still waiting to be evacuated from a remote Aboriginal community. The 28-year-old man went missing at Peppimenarti, in the Daly ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Fargo not among favourites returning next year, but several duds are likely to ...
Sydney Morning Herald
These family favourites and cult classics will be back on Australian TV next year, sometimes with makeovers: 800 Words (Erik Thomson will need to settle on one of the gorgeous Kiwis who are chasing him, Seven);. Australia's Got Talent (hosted by Dave ...

The Canberra Times
National Archives to put nation's founding document, Constitution Act, on show
The Canberra Times
Australia's strictly preserved founding documents will again go on display for selected days as the nation nears another birthday on January 1. One of the two original versions of the Constitution Act passed by the British Parliament in 1900 and the ...

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