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Is Tony Abbott a pass or fail on Indigenous affairs?
The New Daily
Tony Abbott came to power claiming he would be the Prime Minister for Indigenous people, but 18 months after winning government his work in the area has been criticised as shallow, misjudged and “hopeless”. Search for “Abbott in remote Australia” and ...
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closureNewsfirst
Tony Abbott refuses to apologise for 'lifestyle choices' commentsThe Guardian
Tony the troglodyteIndependent Australia
Perth Now -Herald Sun
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The Guardian
Tony Abbott refuses to apologise for 'lifestyle choices' comments
The Guardian
The Australian prime minister has suffered near universal criticism from Aboriginal leaders over his “lifestyle choice” comments last week when he was defending the closure of Indigenous communities in Western Australia. He has refused to apologise for ...
Abbott Confuses on Indigenous AustraliansThe Diplomat
Aboriginal leaders miss the point – they need a man like Tony Abbott behind themHerald Sun
Without connection to country, Australia is a shallow nation. That's what ...The Guardian
The New Daily -Echonetdaily
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ABC Online
Governments accused of 'walking away' from Indigenous housing commitment ...
ABC Online
Northern Territory community leaders have accused the Federal and Northern Territory governments of "walking away" from a commitment to Indigenous housing. Megan Raymond lives in Binjari, a community 15 kilometres south-west of Katherine with a ...
'Unfair and arbitrary. Is the only thing new in the Indigenous Advancement ...Crikey (blog)

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Newsfirst
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closure
Newsfirst
Derby Aboriginal elder Lorna Hudson was a child when government authorities in the 1960s moved her people from tiny Sunday Island off the remote north-west coast of Western Australia to the mainland. For a time most of the Sunday Island “saltwater” ...
Tony Abbott refuses to apologise for 'lifestyle choices' commentsThe Guardian
Tony the troglodyteIndependent Australia
Bishop backs PM after Aboriginal commentsPerth Now

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Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson's heartfelt plea to Tony Abbott: Change course on indigenous ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson, one of the country's most respected indigenous leaders, has issued an urgent plea to Tony Abbott to change track, warning that the fate of the referendum on recognition of the first Australians hangs in the balance. Mr Dodson issued his ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson's heartfelt plea to Tony Abbott: Change course on indigenous ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson, one of the country's most respected indigenous leaders, has issued an urgent plea to Tony Abbott to change track, warning that the fate of the referendum on recognition of the first Australians hangs in the balance. Mr Dodson issued his ...
Abbott trashes Australia's reputation abroad — againIndependent Australia
Abbott promises Islamist crackdownThe Australian
Police evacuate aboriginal protest camp in PerthNews24
MetroNews Canada
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Green Left Weekly
Tony Abbott shuts down Aboriginal legal services
Green Left Weekly
On March 9, the ABC reported that the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, based in Darwin, will soon have to stop taking new clients amid uncertainty over its funding next financial year. On March 9, the Lawyers Weekly quoted Australian Bar ...
Nigel Scullion under fires for cuts under new Indigenous Advancement StrategyHerald Sun
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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Green Left Weekly
Tony Abbott shuts down Aboriginal legal services
Green Left Weekly
On March 9, the ABC reported that the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, based in Darwin, will soon have to stop taking new clients amid uncertainty over its funding next financial year. On March 9, the Lawyers Weekly quoted Australian Bar ...
Nigel Scullion under fires for cuts under new Indigenous Advancement StrategyHerald Sun
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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Independent Australia
Abbott trashes Australia's reputation abroad — again
Independent Australia
'Australia's increasingly controversial Prime Minister Tony Abbott has blundered into yet another self-inflicted disaster with a deeply insensitive and racist comment about Australia's Aboriginals when he defended his government's decision to remove ...
Aboriginal rally brings Melbourne CBD to standstillHerald Sun
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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Independent Australia
Abbott trashes Australia's reputation abroad — again
Independent Australia
In Malaysia and Indonesia, articles pillorying the hapless Australian PM and equally inept Foreign Minister have become almost daily fare. Malaysia's Sin Chew Daily headed its report 'Fury as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities a “lifestyle ...
Aboriginal rally brings Melbourne CBD to standstillHerald Sun
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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The Australian
Abbott loses Aboriginal friends as disappointed expectations pile up
The Australian
WHEN the Prime Minister for indigenous affairs leaned into the microphone of a Kalgoorlie radio station last Tuesday and expressed his view that existence on remote West Australian outstations was a “lifestyle choice”, he may not quite have foreseen ...
Tony Abbott's lifestyle comments highlight the lack of policy in Aboriginal ...The Age
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
Remote Indigenous communities are vital for our fragile ecosystemsThe Conversation AU
Sydney Morning Herald -The Guardian -Crikey
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The Age
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...
The Age
More than a thousand protesters shut down traffic in Melbourne's CBD to rally against the planned closure of remote Indigenous communities in West Australia. The group had hoped to confront Tony Abbott at the National Gallery, where he had been ...
Tony Abbott shuts down Aboriginal legal servicesGreen Left Weekly

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The Age
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...
The Age
More than a thousand protesters shut down traffic in Melbourne's CBD to rally against the planned closure of remote Indigenous communities in West Australia. The group had hoped to confront Tony Abbott at the National Gallery, where he had been ...
Aboriginal rally brings Melbourne CBD to standstillHerald Sun

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The Age
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...
Bendigo Advertiser
Mr Abbott has come under fire since he said it was a "lifestyle choice" to live in remote Indigenous communities. He made the comments on Tuesday while backing the West Australian government's plan to close up to 150 of the communities. After giving up ...
Aboriginal rally brings Melbourne CBD to standstillHerald Sun

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ABC Online
Heirisson Island Aboriginal protest: Police move in to clear campers
ABC Online
The site, near Perth's CBD, had been described by occupants as a "refugee camp" for people displaced by the Western Australian Government's planned closure of up to 150 of the state's 274 remote Indigenous communities. The State Government flagged ...
Heirisson Island camps removed by policePerth Now
Mounted police join effort to dismantle Heirisson Island protestThe Guardian

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The Age
Aboriginal rally brings Melbourne CBD to standstill
Herald Sun
Ms Onus said the protest was in response to WA premier Colin Barnett flagging that about 150 of the state's 274 remote indigenous communities may be shut down. The communities house more than 12,000 Aboriginal people. “Children aren't attending ...
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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ABC Online
Federal Government funding cuts 'possibly an oversight': NT Indigenous group
ABC Online
A Northern Territory youth service tackling petrol sniffing in disadvantaged Indigenous communities says it hopes Federal Government funding cuts to youth programs are "an oversight". Two regional councils in Central Australia raised the alarm earlier ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's lifestyle choice remark leaves 'everyone hurting inside' in ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Not since John Howard declared that there was no need to say sorry for past injustices has a prime minister so unwittingly inflicted such hurt on indigenous Australia. Ms Cox regards Mr Abbott's assertion that "it's not the job of the taxpayer to ...
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
For the real story on Indigenous Australia, social beats old mediaThe Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians Still Not Thrilled About 'Lifestyle Choice' To Take ...SBS
The Australian -Yahoo7 News -Crikey
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ABC Online
NSW 'failing' Aboriginal kids, commission
SBS
The head of one of Australia's best known child welfare agencies says NSW urgently needs to provide better services for Aboriginal children in care. Louise Voight, CEO of Barnardos for 30 years, said on Friday the lack of support for Aboriginal ...
Foster carers' register 'could make situation worse for Aboriginal children'ABC Online

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ABC Online
NSW 'failing' Aboriginal kids, commission
The Australian (blog)
THE head of one of Australia's best known child welfare agencies says NSW urgently needs to provide better services for Aboriginal children in care. LOUISE Voight, CEO of Barnardos for 30 years, said on Friday the lack of support for Aboriginal ...
Foster carers' register 'could make situation worse for Aboriginal children'ABC Online

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