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InDaily
The preventable scandal of Aboriginal incarceration
InDaily
That there was a greater likelihood of your child being incarcerated than completing year 12 schooling? Welcome to the world of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous people in Australia represent 2% of our population but 27% of our ...

InDaily
The preventable scandal of Aboriginal incarceration
InDaily
Welcome to the world of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous people in Australia represent 2% of our population but 27% of our prison population. In the case of indigenous women, the numbers are even more disturbing. Indigenous ...

Huffington Post Australia
Kakadu Plum -- Australia's Native Vitamin C Bomb Everyone Wants A Piece Of
Huffington Post Australia
It's the richest known source of Vitamin C, richer than the blueberry in antioxidants and is native to Australia. So why haven't we heard more about the kakadu plum? Grown across the top end of Northern Australia, the kakadu plum (also known as the ...

Brisbane Times
Anzac Square Diggers: Shortlist for first Australians' military memorial
Brisbane Times
"This monument will give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a more inclusive military history within Australia." The winning design would be selected following consultation with several stakeholders, including community elders, Brisbane City ...

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Brisbane Times
Anzac Square Diggers: Shortlist for first Australians' military memorial
Brisbane Times
"This monument will give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a more inclusive military history within Australia." The winning design would be selected following consultation with several stakeholders, including community elders, Brisbane City ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous Australia can learn from the Korean pensinsula
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous Australia can learn from the Korean pensinsula. Share; Share via Email · Share on Google Plus · Post on facebook wall · Share on twitter · Post to Linkedin · Share on Reddit. Indigenous people do not have to trade their culture for progress.

Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal Languages To Be Included In HSC Curriculum From 2016
Huffington Post Australia
Professor Troy, who authored the first framework for Aboriginal languages to be released by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), compared Australia to New Zealand, where Maori has been an official language for ...
Federal funding saves Indigenous Custody Notification ServiceSBS
Vital Aboriginal Service Saved As State And Federal Liberals Go To War Over CostNew Matilda
Aboriginal languages to become a new HSC subjectChronicleDaily.com (blog)

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SBS
Indigenous education gap stands out in latest NAPLAN results
SBS
The gap is so pronounced in every state and territory, except Tasmania, that the mean score for Indigenous students is close to or below the 20th percentile score for non-Indigenous students. The Australian Government's Productivity Commission said ...
NAPLAN results an encouragement to those working with Indigenous studentsEducationHQ Australia
NAPLAN chief says first step to better results is teaching teenagers to readThe Age
NT student reading results on the improveNT News
The Educator
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NT News
Cricket Australia and the Stars Foundation declare cricket for girls is a ...
NT News
Sanderson Middle School students Elouise Calma (14), Talia Corrie (13) and Kayllah Motlop (13) are part of Cricket Australia and the Star Foundation plans to establish a female indigenous cricket competition throughout NT Schools. Picture: HELEN ORR ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous HIV rates a 'looming crisis', as injecting drug use becomes more ...
ABC Online
Associate Professor James Ward, an Aboriginal health researcher from the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide, describes HIV rates in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities as a looming crisis. "There are a ...
The first time I spoke in my own language I broke down and weptThe Guardian

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ABC Online
History made in Indigenous rugby union tour of USA
ABC Online
An Indigenous rugby union team has returned home to Australia after making sporting history during a tour of the United States. The team played several games, including a match in New Mexico against an Indigenous team from the United States.

Perth Now
Aboriginal workers sought for WA prisons
Perth Now
Fred Chaney, the founding co-chair of Reconciliation Australia and a former federal minister for Aboriginal affairs, says crime and incarceration is WA's biggest obstacle to reconciling with indigenous people. About 40 per cent of WA's adult prisoners ...
Indigenous Australian Activist Points to Forced Displacement Of Her CommunityUprising

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What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand's Approach To Indigenous Languages ...
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After much consultation and development with Indigenous communities, NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli finally dropped the big news yesterday: Aboriginal languages will be available to study as an HSC subject from 2016. This comes 11 years after ...

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Mashable
Indigenous languages to be taught as a year 12 school subject in Australia
Mashable
Providing an important link to the country's heritage, indigenous Australian languages will become a subject for the first time for year 12 students in New South Wales taking their final exams. The new policy will begin in 2016. NSW Education Minister ...
Aboriginal languages to become HSC subjectSBS

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Uprising
Indigenous Australian Activist Points to Forced Displacement Of Her Community
Uprising
Friday November 27th was meant to be the biggest shopping day of the year. But that day has increasingly become a convenient day of protest for a variety of causes including low-wage workers demanding better working conditions, and Black activists ...
Aboriginal workers sought for WA prisonsPerth Now

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The Australian
Aboriginal legal service cuts blamed on toxic culture
The Australian
Several former VALS lawyers pointed out that West Australian indigenous woman Miss Dhu, whose death in custody last year is the subject of a coronial inquest, would have been refused service under VALS's November freeze. “If there's another death in ...

The Australian
Aboriginal legal service cuts blamed on toxic culture
The Australian
Six former VALS staff have independently spoken to The Australian, accusing the organisation of failing severely disadvantaged members of Victoria's indigenous community, including children and long-term clients, and risking deaths in custody. The six ...

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The Australian
Aussie rules trip to China is a great indigenous goal assist
The Australian
“I've realised how strong Aboriginal culture is,” he says. “It's taught me to really acknowledge my culture wherever I go.” Over the course of 10 days, the young men travelling through China told The Australian of their dreams: engaging with their ...

The Australian
Aussie rules trip to China is a great indigenous goal assist
The Australian
Only 58.5 per cent of Aboriginal 20 to 24-year-olds completed Year 12 this year, compared with 86.5 per cent of non-indigenous Australians. While AFL clubs are rolling out indigenous programs to try to address disadvantage, Port Adelaide believes it ...

The Stringer
Only in Western Australia – the jailing of the poorest, fine defaulters
The Stringer
Western Australia is tough on the marginalised, on the homeless, on the most vulnerable and a disproportionate number are descendants of the First Peoples. Western Australia's Aboriginal peoples endure the nation's highest psychological distresses, ...