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The West Australian
Productive jobs breathe life into desert outposts
The West Australian
The study said: “Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa has demonstrated success where many other initiatives have failed, by improving the lives of Aboriginal Australians.” It found that KJ's promoted activities have saved 41 years of Aboriginal incarceration over the ...

The West Australian
Productive jobs breathe life into desert outposts
The West Australian
The study said: “Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa has demonstrated success where many other initiatives have failed, by improving the lives of Aboriginal Australians.” It found that KJ's promoted activities have saved 41 years of Aboriginal incarceration over the ...

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The West Australian
Aboriginal protesters confront Premier
The West Australian
... and work with the government to improve the lifestyle and opportunities for Aboriginal people. A protester makes her voice heard in a rally against the closure of remote Aboriginal communities and deaths in custody. Picture: Bill Hatto/ The West ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty per cent still think it's OK to discriminate against Indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
An advertising campaign that explores the casual racism of Australians towards Indigenous people has been viewed more than 3.75 million times, but 20 per cent of respondents to a beyondblue survey still think it is OK to discriminate against Aboriginal ...
More than 1000 protesters rally against closure of Aboriginal remote ...ABC Online
Senate inquiry to target contentious Indigenous funding strategyThe Guardian
2015 #ClosetheGap: focus on remote communities, funding cuts, & improving ...Crikey (blog)
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Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty per cent still think it's OK to discriminate against Indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
An advertising campaign that explores the casual racism of Australians towards Indigenous people has been viewed more than 3.75 million times, but 20 per cent of respondents to a beyondblue survey still think it is OK to discriminate against Aboriginal ...
Vale Dr Alf Bamblett: Australia mourns indigenous leaderThird Sector
Advice 'falling on deaf ears', Indigenous Advisory Council members sayThe Guardian
Tony Abbott's words recall our 200 years in cold: MundineThe Australian
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Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty per cent of Australians still think it's OK to discriminate against ...
Sydney Morning Herald
An advertising campaign that explores the casual racism of white Australians towards Indigenous people has been viewed more than 3.75 million times, but 20 per cent of people still think it's OK to discriminate against Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Vale Dr Alf Bamblett: Australia mourns indigenous leaderThird Sector
Advice 'falling on deaf ears', Indigenous Advisory Council members sayThe Guardian
Tony Abbott's words recall our 200 years in cold: MundineThe Australian
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2015 #ClosetheGap: focus on remote communities, funding cuts, & improving ...
Crikey (blog)
Since that interchange, we have undertaken a large body of research investigating disparities in heart disease and medical care between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Western Australians. The results from this work is summarised in our recently released ...

Warren Mundine wants answers on Indigenous Advancement Strategy funding decisions Lindy Kerin reported this story on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 12:15:00 Listen to MP3 of this story ( minutes) | MP3 DOWNLOAD ELEANOR HALL: When the Prime Minister's chief adviser on Indigenous affairs meets Tony Abbott this afternoon, he says he'll have a few things to get off his chest. Warren Mundine says he wants a detailed briefing about recent funding decisions under the Indigenous Advancement Strategy. He says he will also have a bit to say about the Prime Minister's comments that remote Indigenous communities are a "lifestyle choice". As the two meet today, more details are already emerging about the funding of Indigenous organisations. Lindy Kerin has our report. LINDY KERIN: Since the 1970s, the Bloodwood Tree Association in South Hedland in Western Australia's Pilbara region has run a crisis accommodation centre and drug and alcohol service. The association's CEO Bob Neville says he applied for funding under the Federal Government's new Indigenous Advancement Strategy back in September. BOB NEVILLE: We were advised by letter from the Minister that we were successful in our funding and then three hours later we were told, yes we were successful but out of $1.3 million over 2.5 years we applied for, we were successful for $208,000 and that the hostel would not be funded and we would have to close it. LINDY KERIN: Bob Neville says there is another hostel in the town, but that's currently full, and with average rentals being about $1,100 a week, his clients will have nowhere to go. He says the whole funding process has been frustrating. BOB NEVILLE: We're in remote area, we're some 2,000 kilometres out of Perth in the Pilbara and nobody has bothered to speak to us at all about the hostels program, nobody has bothered to speak to us about the substance abuse program, they've just come and said nup, not funding, close the doors, see ya later. If I could get a plane from here to Canberra, I think I'd be on that and I'd be going over there and talking to some of those senators because what they are doing is crucifying the Indigenous people here in the Pilbara. LINDY KERIN: The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples recently called out to its members and organisations to get a clearer picture of the Government's funding decisions. The Congress co-chair is Kirstie Parker KIRSTIE PARKER: A very small number of them have indicated that they've received partial funding, most of them have said they've received no funding whatsoever. We said to them what would be the likely impact on your organisation and they've told us that projects and programs and some organisations will be crippled, if not unable to continue, so they will be unviable as at the 30th of June. This also means some essential services will cease in our communities, including services for women, for kids, educational initiatives, legal services and jobs, so in effect, there will be an obliteration of a very large chunk of the Indigenous community landscape. LINDY KERIN: The Federal Government says 41 per cent of more than 2,000 organisations that applied for funding have been successful. The World Today has sought specific information, but we've been told the details of each grant will be listed on the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet website within 14 days of the agreement taking effect. Kirstie Parker says the new Indigenous Advancement Strategy has been a disaster. KIRSTIE PARKER: We are hearing very high levels of frustration with the process and of course people will be upset and distressed and unhappy if the decision is an outright no. Some are hanging in there because they've been told, look you're unsuccessful, but we'd like to talk to you about other opportunities. Many of the people that have been told, or the organisation that have been told they were successful, have actually received a mere fraction of what they applied for, in some cases just 5 or 10 per cent of what they sought. Many people are feeling insulted that they've been, this has been couched as successful, when in fact it is not an amount of money that would allow them to even take up the grant. LINDY KERIN: The chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council Warren Mundine is meeting with Prime Minister today and will be briefed about the funding decisions. WARREN MUNDINE: We're waiting for the briefing, we'd like to see that list be out there for everyone to see so it's all transparent. As I said from day one when you're going on a reform agenda, there are going to be people who are going to be happy and there's going to be people who's not going to be happy. Our main focus is on getting the reforms in that are going to close the gap over the next few years. LINDY KERIN: And if there are decisions that you're not happy with, what sort of course of action can you take? WARREN MUNDINE: Well, that's a hypothetical, I'll get to that when we have a look at those conversations. LINDY KERIN: The Prime Ministers' recent comments about taxpayers funding the lifestyle choices of some Indigenous people will also be on the agenda. Warren Mundine says he's still deeply disappointed and he'll be talking to Tony Abbott about getting the conversation about the viability of remote communities back on track. WARREN MUNDINE: Using the word "lifestyle choices" drowned out what his message was is regard to how do we handle remote communities and looking at economic development, looking at community safety, looking at a wide range of issues. And that's why I'm particularly, was frustrated and angry with the choice of words when we had a serious debate that we had to deal with. ELEANOR HALL: That's Warren Mundine, the chairman of the Indigenous Advisory Council, speaking to Lindy Kerin.

International Business Times UK
Australia: Elderly and frail Aborigines denied access to shelter as Cyclone ...
International Business Times UK
Five elderly Aboriginal people with medical conditions were denied access to both the local hospital and cyclone shelter as the severe tropical cyclone Olwyn moved towards the West Australian coastline north of Carnarvon on 12 March, 2015. Ahead of the ...

SBS
Indigenous WA communities waiting to hear about their future
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Consultation will begin with remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia mid-year with up to 150 facing closure. The closures were flagged by the state government seven months ago, but Indigenous communities say they still have no idea of what ...
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The Guardian
Advice 'falling on deaf ears', Indigenous Advisory Council members say
The Guardian
The council is made up of a dozen prominent Australians, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and meets six times a year to discuss how best to close the gap in health, education, employment and other important policy areas. All have signed agreements ...

The Conversation AU
Gargoyles and silence: 'our story' at the Australian War Memorial
The Conversation AU
The representation of Indigenous peoples as fauna is indicative of their treatment throughout Australian history. Indigenous Australians were not accorded citizenship and voting rights until 1967, some 26 years after the AWM opened and 49 years after ...

The Conversation AU
Gargoyles and silence: 'our story' at the Australian War Memorial
The Conversation AU
The representation of Indigenous peoples as fauna is indicative of their treatment throughout Australian history. Indigenous Australians were not accorded citizenship and voting rights until 1967, some 26 years after the AWM opened and 49 years after ...

The Guardian
Indigenous public sector jobs to be boosted through enforced targets
The Guardian
“There are many Indigenous-owned companies capable of supplying services to the commonwealth and winning a much greater share of commonwealth work.” A spokeswoman for Scullion told Guardian Australia government agencies enter into “thousands ...

The Conversation AU
Wiradjuri words show the power of learning Australia's first languages
The Conversation AU
Acknowledging Australia's traditional owners of country and paying respect to Indigenous elders past and present has become a normal part of ceremonies held across the nation. But in the current New South Wales election, one non-Indigenous political ...

The Conversation AU
Wiradjuri words show the power of learning Australia's first languages
The Conversation AU
Acknowledging Australia's traditional owners of country and paying respect to Indigenous elders past and present has become a normal part of ceremonies held across the nation. But in the current New South Wales election, one non-Indigenous political ...

Third Sector
Vale Dr Alf Bamblett: Australia mourns indigenous leader
Third Sector
He was a key force behind the launch of Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care in response to the amount of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children being removed from their families. Dr Bamblett was named Victorian Aboriginal ...
Lowitja O'Donoghue: Abbott is 'as weak as water'SBS

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Third Sector
Vale Dr Alf Bamblett: Australia mourns indigenous leader
Third Sector
In a statement yesterday, SNAICC Chairperson Sharron Williams said “Dr Bamblett was an articulate and, when the need arose, feisty advocate advising the highest levels of government on issues such as Indigenous education, disadvantage, land rights, ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Canberra art collector Alan Boxer leaves National Gallery of Australia bequest ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Co-executor of his estate Kristian Pithie, who ran the Chapman Gallery selling Australian Indigenous art in Manuka for several years, said Mr Boxer, a bachelor who lived modestly and left no immediate family, had been one of his most discerning clients.
Former Treasury official Alan Boxer leaves famous Australian paintings to the ...The Daily Telegraph
Top Australian contemporary art worth more than $8 million donated to National ...ABC Online

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Australia Increases Support for Aboriginal Health Programs in 2015
Sputnik International
The Australian Human Rights Commission has repeatedly stated that the country's indigenous peoples have on average poorer health status than other Australians. Aborigines live on average 10-17 years less than other Australians, and children born in ...

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