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Australian Aboriginals Fear Gas Fracker Aubrey McClendon's Down Under Drilling ...
DeSmog (blog)
At one point, only ExxonMobil was producing more gas than Chesapeake. But already McClendon's hopes of recreating a US-style gas “fracking” boom in Australia are coming up against resistance from Aboriginal Australians — one of the oldest continuous ...

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DeSmog (blog)
Australian Aboriginals Fear Gas Fracker Aubrey McClendon's Down Under Drilling ...
DeSmog (blog)
Energy companies the world over would love to think they could be first in the queue at the next big global frontier for fossil fuel energy. Aubrey McClendon was a key figure in creating the last big energy boom in his own backyard, using the ...

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But already McClendon's hopes of recreating a US-style gas “fracking” boom in Australia are coming up against resistance from Aboriginal Australians ...

ABC Online
Calls for a class action to compensate Aboriginal soldiers
ABC Online
Robert Syron is an Aboriginal man, with family connections to the Worimi and Biripi people. He fought for the Australian Army in Rwanda during the 1990s, and after researching his family history, uncovered that almost 40 of his relatives have fought ...

Robert Syron is an Aboriginal man, with family connections to the Worimi and Biripi people. He fought for the Australian Army in Rwanda during the ...

The Australian witnessed police officers outside Alice Springs' Todd Tavern wave through successive cars carrying non-Aboriginal customers without ...

The Australian
Aboriginal offenders 'twice as likely' to do time, study finds
The Australian
The disagreement comes as Aboriginal prison rates reach record levels, with indigenous people about 12 times as likely to be locked up as other Australians. Dr Weatherburn said Professor Bagaric's analysis failed to account for factors such as prior ...

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Aboriginal people are twice as likely as other criminals to be jailed when ... people about 12 times as likely to be locked up as other Australians.

A YOUNG Aboriginal man kicking his grandmother in the head is one indigenous health worker's defining image of the ice epidemic ripping apart ...

Possum skins were traditionally worn by Aboriginal people in the southern regions of Australia from birth when a baby was wrapped in a single pelt, ...

... which was developed in Israel and adapted for families in Western Australia. ... In partnership with Angela Ryder at the Langford Aboriginal Association, ... The National Empowerment program is another project for Aboriginal ...

A Mandurah student has taken out top honours at this year's Western Australian Training Awards, walking away as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

SBS
Indigenous youth incarceration jails 'regular kids': Briggs
SBS
2013-2014 data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows that Indigenous young people are 26 times more likely to be in detention than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Indigenous youth make up just 5 percent of total Australians aged ...

... Projections, larger-than-life images of Aboriginal women projected onto the 20-metre façade of the Australian Museum in Sydney (November 2013).

Danikka Calyon, of Armadale, is Save the Children Australia's youth ... She said her Aboriginal peers lacked the selfconfidence to strive for more than ...

Indigenous Business Australia has launched a new team to help its clients in the maturing indigenous business sector win more corporate and ...

Around half of all low income Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... Reconciliation Australia chief executive Justin Mohamed said Telstra's plan was a ...

The Australian
Telstra and NT government seal $30m Territory connection
The Australian
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about one-third of households that identify as having Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents have no internet access, compared to 17 per cent for non-indigenous households. Around half of all ...
$30m for remote telecommunicationsNEWS.com.au
Telstra's RAP star Penn inks $30m NT Govt co-investment dealiTWire

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The Australian
Telstra and NT government seal $30m Territory connection
The Australian
The efforts to improve communication services in rural and remote regions plays a key role in bridging the digital divide experienced by indigenous Australians. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about one-third of households that ...
Telstra's RAP star Penn inks $30m NT Govt co-investment dealiTWire

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The Ecologist (blog)
Australia: Indigenous communities must take centre stage in 'development'
The Ecologist (blog)
Indigenous Australians are systematically deprived of the benefits of mining and other developments, writes Seán Kerins, and being left to suffer their environmental impacts. As Abbott's government prepares a bonfire of 'red tape', it's time to put ...