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The Australian Financial Review
Profit and procurement will push indigenous development
The Australian Financial Review
So why hasn't Australia been able to generate economic development for a few hundred thousand people during that same period? It's not about a shortage of money or assets. Indigenous Australians have valuable assets, including land and other rights ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson says indigenous recognition is too dependent on Canberra politics ...
The Australian
Following a meeting at Kirribilli House in Sydney in July, Tony Abbott pledged to fund a series of conventions for indigenous Australians to agree on the model for constitutional change to take to a 2017 referendum. The former prime minister's decision ...

Rio Tinto's win-win model for northern and indigenous prosperity
The Australian
Large areas of Northern Australia are held under some form of indigenous title. Indigenous Australians are also an important pool of potential employees — and Rio Tinto is proud to be one of the biggest employers of indigenous men and woman in ...

Rio Tinto's win-win model for northern and indigenous prosperity
The Australian
Large areas of Northern Australia are held under some form of indigenous title. Indigenous Australians are also an important pool of potential employees — and Rio Tinto is proud to be one of the biggest employers of indigenous men and woman in ...

40000-year-old remains returned to Aboriginal elders
Gulf Times
An undated handout photo received yesterday shows a traditional smoking ceremony for remains of Mungo Man, whose 40,000-year-old bones have been crucial to understanding how long humans have lived in Australia, as they handed back to Aboriginal ...

RAP to help assist Aboriginal netballers
The West Australian
Ella-Duncan never expected her selection for 18 Tests in 1986-87 to open the floodgates to national representation for indigenous players, but she finds it unacceptable that since then Sharon Finnan was the only other indigenous player to represent the ...

RAP to help assist Aboriginal netballers
The West Australian
Marcia Ella-Duncan, the first Aboriginal netballer to represent Australia at senior level, is hugely disappointed that almost 30 years later only one more indigenous player has worn the Diamonds uniform. Ella-Duncan, who was to be inducted into the ...

The Independent
'Mungo Man': Bones of Australia's 42000-year-old man returned to Aboriginal ...
The Independent
It was a discovery that rewrote Australian history and made headlines around the world: a 42,000-year-old skeleton found in a dry lake bed, which revealed that the continent had been occupied for twice as long as previously believed. That was in 1974 ...
40000-year-old remains returned to Aboriginal eldersGulf Times
'Mungo Man' bones to go home with Australian Aboriginal eldersYahoo7 News
University returns 40000-year-old Mungo Man to Australia's AboriginesTelegraph.co.uk

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Domain News
JLL moves to build Indigenous business
Domain News
Founded by cousins Shane Jacobs and Troy Rugless, descendants of the Wiradjuri​ Nation and members of the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council, PSGH is one of Australia's leading Indigenous-owned companies. It employs 58 staff nationally and ...

The Australian
Indigenous mining services: Koodaideri Contracting waits for big miners
The Australian
Todd tells The Weekend Australian the experience has convinced him the big players are more interested in “ticking boxes” rather than engaging with and helping grow indigenous businesses. “There's plenty of Aboriginal businesses up there (in the ...

The Australian
Indigenous mining services: Koodaideri Contracting waits for big miners
The Australian
Koodaideri's story is just one from a mining industry that has worked hard to improve relations with indigenous Australians, but which now is fighting to balance those efforts with the push to squeeze out costs as the iron ore price hits its lowest ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Encounters at National Museum of Australia: our Elgin Marbles come home
Sydney Morning Herald
Along with 150 other objects from the British Museum, the spears will go on show at the Encounters exhibition at the National Museum of Australia. Together they represent the oldest artefacts collected from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Encounters: Aboriginal group wants return of Boort barks, their 'Elgin Marbles'
Sydney Morning Herald
An Aboriginal clan in Victoria is lobbying the British Museum to return the only surviving examples of 160-year-old rare etched barks from Boort, which it sees as the Australian equivalent of the Elgin Marbles. If the Eiffel Tower had been stolen and ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
University returns 40000-year-old Mungo Man to Australia's Aborigines
Telegraph.co.uk
Aboriginal elders said the bones had proved that their people had been in Australia since “the dreamtime”. Lottie Williams, 81, a Barkandji elder, told ABC News: "I think it's terrible they were taken in the first place — we weren't even told, and ...
'Mungo Man': Bones of Australia's 42000-year-old man returned to Aboriginal ...The Independent
'Mungo Man' bones to go home with Australian Aboriginal eldersYahoo7 News

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Sydney Morning Herald
In NSW, these Aboriginal health workers already know how to close the gap
Sydney Morning Herald
"We are really good in health at having the most wonderful technologies and medical services, but we aren't very good sometimes at connecting those services to the people who need them most," Cashman says. "And in Australia that is Aboriginal people." ...

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Yahoo7 News
'Mungo Man' bones to go home with Australian Aboriginal elders
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - The remains of Mungo Man, whose 40,000-year-old bones have been crucial to understanding how long humans have lived in Australia, have been handed back to Aboriginal elders ahead of his anticipated return home. The bones, found at ...

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The Age
On being Australian
The Age
After I returned, sport gave me a passport to enter Aboriginal Australia. The other silence I grew up with was my father. During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army used slave labour to put a railway through from Thailand to Burma. More than 100 ...

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ABC Message Stick
Call to put local Indigenous education in the spotlight
ABC Message Stick
"We've had citizenship for just over 40 years and we've been Australians for 40 years... so we've still got generations in our Aboriginal community that have got the baggage and the history of the downtrodden community and the dismissed. "Non ...

ABC Message Stick
Call to put local Indigenous education in the spotlight
ABC Message Stick
"We've had citizenship for just over 40 years and we've been Australians for 40 years... so we've still got generations in our Aboriginal community that have got the baggage and the history of the downtrodden community and the dismissed. "Non ...

The Educator
Indigenous students 'closing education gap'
The Educator
"I think the department is negligent in its duty of care towards its principals," says one principal. In the past, Indigenous Australians have been less likely than non-Indigenous Australians to make it to the end of secondary school; however, that is ...

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