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Canberra's Indigenous gardener Adam Shipp reaps rewards at Greening Australia
Good Food
Adam Shipp has been working with Greening Australia in Aranda as the Indigenous restoration officer since 2012. He was born and raised in Canberra, spending all his school and working life here. His father is a Wiradjuri from central-west NSW; his ...

Adam says he has always had a keen interest in plants and gardening but his focus on bush foods started when he became an Aboriginal trainee at ...

ABC Online
Indigenous community 'resilient' as mine closure talks continue
ABC Online
Residents from a remote Indigenous community in northern South Australia believe their town will suffer from, but ultimately survive, the Alinta Energy coal mine closure. The company announced last week its Leigh Creek mine and two Port Augusta power ...

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Residents from a remote Indigenous community in northern South Australia believe their town will suffer from, but ultimately survive, the Alinta Energy ...

We all hear about the chronic health issues plaguing Aboriginal Australia. The statistics are staggering: Aboriginal people have a life expectancy ...

In Western Australia one in 13 of Aboriginal adult males are in prison today – nearly 8 per cent of all Western Australia's Aboriginal adult males.

Aboriginal students from across South Australia are in Adelaide to explore study ... The Aboriginal Pathways Conference will give students access to ...

Aboriginal students from across South Australia will gather in Adelaide to explore future study, training and employment options. The Aboriginal ...

WA wants to go it alone on Aboriginal property reform
The Australian
Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee chairman has labelled “childish” and damaging to the push to create jobs and Aboriginal economic ...
Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WAABC Message Stick

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Aboriginal Australians have no voice in the nation's democratic process, ... “Ancient Australia needs to have a voice in this parliament,” Mr Pearson ...

Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee ...

The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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WA wants to go it alone on Aboriginal property reform
The Australian
Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee chairman has labelled “childish” and damaging to the push to create jobs and Aboriginal economic ...
Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WAABC Message Stick

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The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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Both are said to be seven times the rate experienced in non-Aboriginal society. When is someone going to put two and two together? Childhood ...

Aboriginal art collection amasses over £1 million at Sotheby's London ... “It was a bit of a risk to put a sale of Aboriginal art outside Australia and I ...

Victoria Gallagher added: “Aboriginal Australians living in the suburbs of Brisbane had their relationship with the land severed when it was taken from ...

The Guardian
White supremacist accused of selling cannabis to Indigenous communities
The Guardian
A white supremacist and neo-Nazi supporter accused of running a large cannabis plantation is suspected of selling his product to members of an Indigenous community in north Queensland, say police. John Lee, who came to police attention through his ...

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This is a question that remains a live one for contemporary Australian .... the rate of detention of Aboriginal Australians and deaths in custody continue, ...

Australian Associated Press ... Cameron Costello, the chief executive of the Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation, said Indigenous ...