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A protest rally was held in Auckland strongly opposing a decision by the Australian Government to close around 150 remote Aboriginal communities.

... by those living in Australia's urban centres, mainly because for the most part ... In recognising the role of the stores as a part of the community identity, MODE also used referential detailing such as the Aboriginal cultural totems and ...

The Guardian
Australia occasionally interrupts its 'normal' mistreatment of Aboriginal ...
The Guardian
Aboriginal people are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years. In Western Australia, where mining companies make billion dollar profits exploiting Aboriginal land, the state government says it can no longer ...
Learn from history, forced closure of remote communities not the solutionThe Age

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The Guardian
Australia occasionally interrupts its 'normal' mistreatment of Aboriginal ...
The Guardian
Australia has again declared war on its Indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that brought universal condemnation on apartheid South Africa. Aboriginal people are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of ...
Learn from history, forced closure of remote communities not the solutionThe Age

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Aboriginal people are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years. In Western Australia, where mining ...

Māori Television
Marama Fox to attend protest against closure of Aboriginal communities in ...
Māori Television
Māori Party Co-leader, Marama Fox, will take part in a protest march in Australia next month opposing its Government's plan to close 150 remote aboriginal communities. The news comes days after the Māori Party sent a letter to Australian Prime Minister ...

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Māori Party Co-leader, Marama Fox, will take part in a protest march in Australia next month opposing its Government's plan to close 150 remote ...

With the nation focused so heavily on the proposed closures of remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, and rightly so, it's time for ...

Aboriginal Australians continued to be deprived of the vote in some states, and the year after federation the Commonwealth parliament did the same.

International Business Times AU
People are poor because they have no money: rich platitudes from 'experts'
Sydney Morning Herald
Preferences of indigenous Australians and development of social norms and attitudes to work are also likely to play a part. "Each issue alone is not enough to explain employment and income differences between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
Over 1 Million Australians Living In Poverty Despite 20 Years Of Economic GrowthInternational Business Times AU

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Preferences of indigenous Australians and development of social norms ... a day would come when there was at least one per Aboriginal Australian.

ABC Online
Hopes new 'tidy town' status will boost tourism in NT Aboriginal community
ABC Online
How does a tiny Aboriginal community in Central Australia, without mobile reception, WiFi or a petrol bowser, market itself as a tourist destination? Wallace Rockhole hopes a new four-star rating from Keep Australia Beautiful NT, a kind of permanent ...

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How does a tiny Aboriginal community in Central Australia, without mobile reception, WiFi or a petrol bowser, market itself as a tourist destination?

The Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett announced last year that the State would no longer provide funding for over 100 remote Aboriginal ...

Sydney Morning Herald
One million Australians living in poverty - it's just not good enough
Sydney Morning Herald
And for children from disadvantaged families to be helped and specially funded so that they do not start school behind and do not keep going through their lives behind their peers. It also talks about reducing discrimination against Indigenous people ...
One million Australians 'entrenched in disadvantage', report findsThe Guardian

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A governance framework for how cash can be more “effectively” spent by departments to ensure better outcomes for Aboriginal people was now “at the ...

Abbott caused further outrage with cuts that will leave 100 to 150 remote Aboriginal communities on traditional lands in western Australia without ...

Life in the Northern Territory of Australia is sustained by sedimentary aquifers ... San Francisco, California; the Gantner Myer Aboriginal Art Collection, ...

Digital Journal
Chinese war hero Australia's top Gallipoli sniper
Digital Journal
Under Australia's 1909 Defence Act, "those who are not substantially of European origin or descent" were blocked from active service. But some from minority backgrounds including indigenous Australians still stepped forward, trying multiple times ...

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A respected Central Australian Aboriginal Elder has rejected the suggestion that Aboriginal women exposing their bodies during ceremony is offensive. Rosalie Kunoth-Monks a Arrernte and Alyawarra woman told CAAMA Radio that Aboriginal women’s breasts are not considered to be as sexual objects in Aboriginal culture and that they carry and posses power and ancient Law.