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New Indigenous Business Australia boss targets wealth, loans
The Australian
Edward Fry, named today as the new leader of the nation's main indigenous economic group for three years, has vowed to work with the IBA board to improve programs. The Abbott government will also today announce that Mr Fry, an indigenous Australian ...
Abbott's homogeneous approach to Indigenous affairs will not erase the stain ...The Guardian
Indigenous leaders call for Tony Abbott to intervene on remote communitiesThe Age
First people's congress asks Tony Abbott to save 150 Indigenous communitiesThe Guardian
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The Social Justice commissioner Mick Gooda has tabled his 2014 report calling on the Prime Minister and his Government to try harder to engage with Indigenous communities. He's also joined with the Law Council of Australia in labelling the rates of Indigenous people in jail as a national crisis. Both have called on the Government to introduce specific justice targets in efforts to close the gap of Indigenous disadvantage.

Health advocates shine a light on Indigenous HIV infection
ABC Online
MARK COLVIN: Community health advocates say it'll need a community-led campaign and government support to tackle increasing rates of HIV among Indigenous Australians. They launched the inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HIV Awareness ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australia reeling from policy changes and cutbacks – commissioner
The Guardian
Despite the prime minister's assurances to the contrary, Australia is witnessing one of the largest upheavals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs thanks to large-scale funding cuts, policy changes and reviews by the Abbott government, the ...
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
Federal Government urged to act on 'national emergency' of Indigenous ...ABC Online
The untold story of Indigenous Australians and disability: five questions to ...The Guardian
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The Guardian
Indigenous Australia reeling from policy changes and cutbacks – commissioner
The Guardian
Despite the prime minister's assurances to the contrary, Australia is witnessing one of the largest upheavals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs thanks to large-scale funding cuts, policy changes and reviews by the Abbott government, the ...
Funding cuts to indigenous legal aid will be 'devastating'The Australian
The untold story of Indigenous Australians and disability: five questions to ...The Guardian
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
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Illawarra riders cycle the state for Aboriginal health
ABC Local
Recent reports have estimated a life expectancy gap of 10.6 years for Aboriginal males and 9.5 years for Aboriginal females compared to non-Aboriginal Australians. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, type two diabetes, cancer and respiratory ...

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Illawarra riders cycle the state for Aboriginal health
ABC Local
Recent reports have estimated a life expectancy gap of 10.6 years for Aboriginal males and 9.5 years for Aboriginal females compared to non-Aboriginal Australians. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, type two diabetes, cancer and respiratory ...

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More options needed for Aboriginal mothers
The West Australian
Sarah Ireland, a Menzies School of Health researcher, said her study showed about 10 per cent of women in a Northern Territory Aboriginal community, which was not identified, chose to give birth outside hospital, compared with 0.7 per cent of the wider ...

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Phillip Adams from ABC 'Late Night Live' interviewed Tauto Sansbury, Michael Mansell & Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on the 2014 Freedom Summit in Alice Springs - Image by Gerry Georgatos

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Aboriginal leaders gather in Alice Springs for 'freedom summit'
The Australian
John Christophersen, an executive member of the Northern Land Council and father of Labor senator Nova Peris, said many of Australia's rules were “not designed to provide justice to our people”. “In the last couple of decades we've had to spend all our ...
Indigenous activists demand better representation at Alice Springs conferenceABC Online
Indigenous leaders to meet at First Nations Summit for FreedomThe Guardian
'Freedom Summit' urges youth to take up Indigenous rights fightABC Message Stick

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ABC Online
Big change spells stress
The Australian (blog)
During last year's election campaign, Abbott pledged to be the nation's first prime minister for Aboriginal affairs. His commitment to achieve positive, practical change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians is demonstrated by the ...
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
Federal Government urged to act on 'national emergency' of Indigenous ...Yahoo!7 News
Making good on the vow to get kids to schoolThe Daily Telegraph

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ABC Online
Federal Government urged to act on 'national emergency' of Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The national law council has declared the increasing number of Indigenous Australians behind bars a "national emergency." The president elect of the Law Council of Australia, Duncan McConnel, said the Indigenous incarceration rate had doubled since the ...

The Guardian
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous Australians
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NAOMI WOODLEY: There's also growing concern about the number of Indigenous Australians who are ending up in jail. The latest statistics from the Productivity Commission show one in four deaths in custody is an Indigenous person, compared to the one in ...
The untold story of Indigenous Australians and disability: five questions to ...The Guardian
Funding cuts to indigenous legal aid will be 'devastating'The Australian
Federal Government urged to act on 'national emergency' of Indigenous ...Yahoo!7 News

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ABC Online
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous Australians
ABC Message Stick
NAOMI WOODLEY: There's also growing concern about the number of Indigenous Australians who are ending up in jail. The latest statistics from the Productivity Commission show one in four deaths in custody is an Indigenous person, compared to the one in ...
Funding cuts to indigenous legal aid will be 'devastating'The Australian
Federal Government urged to act on 'national emergency' of Indigenous ...Yahoo!7 News

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ABC Online
Indigenous activists demand better representation at Alice Springs conference
ABC Online
The Northern Territory's Australian of the Year, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, told the conference it would help unite Indigenous people from the Top End to Tasmania. "This is the beginning of black Australia," she said. "This might be a small gathering today ...
Indigenous leaders to meet at First Nations Summit for FreedomThe Guardian
Aboriginal leaders gather in Alice Springs for 'freedom summit'The Australian

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ABC Online
Indigenous activists demand better representation at Alice Springs conference
ABC Online
The Northern Territory's Australian of the Year, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, told the conference it would help unite Indigenous people from the Top End to Tasmania. "This is the beginning of black Australia," she said. "This might be a small gathering today ...
Indigenous leaders to meet at First Nations Summit for FreedomThe Guardian
Aboriginal leaders gather in Alice Springs for 'freedom summit'The Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders to meet at First Nations Summit for Freedom
The Guardian
“The heritage act is having a big impact on Western Australia,” Sansbury, who is a long time Aboriginal advocate and was heavily involved in the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, told Guardian Australia. “The closures of the ...
'Freedom Summit' urges youth to take up Indigenous rights fightABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders to meet at First Nations Summit for Freedom
The Guardian
“The heritage act is having a big impact on Western Australia,” Sansbury, who is a long time Aboriginal advocate and was heavily involved in the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, told Guardian Australia. “The closures of the ...
'Freedom Summit' urges youth to take up Indigenous rights fightABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Abbott's homogeneous approach to Indigenous affairs will not erase the stain ...
The Guardian
So glacially has the gap been closing between Indigenous and other Australians on the important indicators – life expectancy, health outcomes, income, employment, imprisonment rates, child mortality, education – that even the sceptics of the left were ...

The Guardian
Abbott's homogeneous approach to Indigenous affairs will not erase the stain ...
The Guardian
So glacially has the gap been closing between Indigenous and other Australians on the important indicators – life expectancy, health outcomes, income, employment, imprisonment rates, child mortality, education – that even the sceptics of the left were ...