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Australia's last Indigenous police tracker a 'living legend'
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Barry Port, Australia's last indigenous police tracker, has been described as a living legend. The 71-year-old's retirement on Friday brings to a close a remarkable era for the Aboriginal craftsmen who have helped police hunt down criminals and find ...
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Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiringABC Local
Australia's last 'tracker' Barry Port retiresBrisbane Times
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Aboriginal sites display eons of activity
ABC Local
Aboriginal sites are scattered across the Sunshine Coast. The area attracted clans from around Australia for the Bunya Festival and its highly sought after resources. Nev Blackman is a local Aboriginal man with connections to the Lingwodock people and ...

The Province
Australia's last aboriginal police tracker will soon retire — his legend will not
The Province
SYDNEY — Australia's last remaining aboriginal police tracker, Barry Port, is retiring, ending two centuries of a practice in which investigations and manhunts relied on hired bushmen who can read the ground like a storybook. The 71-year-old has been ...

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Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisation
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Previous Next. Images. 02. 1/. 02. Video. 1/. Audio. The chairman of the prime minister's Indigenous Advisory Council has labelled Tony Abbott's remarks that Australia as 'unsettled' prior to the British colonisation as 'stupid'.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments on British settlement 'highly offensive ...ABC Online
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Tony Abbott says Australia was 'unsettled' before British arrivedThe Guardian
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National Post
Australia's last aboriginal police tracker will soon retire — his legend will not
National Post
SYDNEY — Australia's last remaining aboriginal police tracker, Barry Port, is retiring, ending two centuries of a practice in which investigations and manhunts relied on hired bushmen who “can read the ground like a storybook.” The 71-year-old has ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's comments on Australia being 'unsettled' before the British ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''unsettled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in the ...
Australia 'unsettled' before British arrived: Tony AbbottThe Australian
Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows betterThe Guardian
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Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's comments on Australia being 'unsettled' before the British ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''unsettled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in the ...
Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows betterThe Guardian
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisationSBS

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Indigenous artists tap soul of their homelands
Sydney Morning Herald
Thompson is one of a number of indigenous artists – including filmmaker Warwick Thornton and visual artists such as Vernon Ah Kee, Daniel Boyd, Esme Timbery and Julie Gough – from around Australia who take Perkins into their communities and inside ...

Indigenous artists tap soul of their homelands
Sydney Morning Herald
Thompson is one of a number of indigenous artists – including filmmaker Warwick Thornton and visual artists such as Vernon Ah Kee, Daniel Boyd, Esme Timbery and Julie Gough – from around Australia who take Perkins into their communities and inside ...

The Guardian
Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows better
The Guardian
Abbott's intentional – or otherwise – questioning of the extent of Indigenous habitation of the great southern land at the time of white settlement (or invasion) – will embolden critics of his plan to acknowledge Aboriginal Australians in the constitution.

The Guardian
Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows better
The Guardian
And he knows, too well, that British troops – and later, locally raised military units, paramilitaries and raiding parties – carried on a war with the first inhabitants that claimed, by conservative estimate, 20,000 Indigenous Australians and 2,000 ...

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The Guardian
Tony Abbott says Australia was 'unsettled' before British arrived
The Guardian
Dodson, who was also Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner at the Human Rights Commission, said the lie of terra nullius as the foundation for colonisation is still being perpetuated, despite the high court ...

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Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisation
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Previous Next. Images. 02. 1/. 02. Video. 1/. Audio. The chairman of the prime minister's Indigenous Advisory Council has labelled Tony Abbott's remarks that Australia as 'unsettled' prior to the British colonisation as 'stupid'.

Training centre to guarantee up to 200 indigenous jobs in CQ
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
"It's vital that employment programmes are aligned to real jobs because getting indigenous Australians into ongoing employment is critical to reducing indigenous disadvantage," Senator Scullion said. The Australian Government has committed up to $45 ...

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Australia's last Aboriginal police tracker retires
ABC Online
The Lama Lama elder is the last of Queensland's Aboriginal police trackers and was the only police tracker still working in Australia. Born on a river bank in 1942, he honed his skills by tracking wandering livestock on the region's large cattle ...
Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiringABC Local
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CCI to deliver 300 indigenous jobs
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“CCI is proud to have been selected as the largest VTEC provider in Australia creating pathways into real jobs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,” CCI chief executive officer Deidre Willmott said. “This program is about working with ...
Indigenous military service to be subject of greater recognition, researchYahoo!7 News
Lag Meta Aus: Home in the Torres StraitSydney Morning Herald
Canberra Close Up: John Paul Janke - AIATSISABC Local

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CCI to deliver 300 indigenous jobs
Business News (subscription)
“CCI is proud to have been selected as the largest VTEC provider in Australia creating pathways into real jobs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,” CCI chief executive officer Deidre Willmott said. “This program is about working with ...
Canberra Close Up: John Paul JankeABC Local

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CCI to deliver 300 jobs for Aboriginal Australians
Business News (subscription)
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has announced plans to educate new recruits from the indigenous community in a new federal government program based on the GenerationOne employment model. CCI will deliver training, support and ...

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Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiring
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Australia's last remaining Aboriginal police tracker, Barry Port, is retiring this week after more than 30 years of service in Queensland. The 71-year-old Lama Lama elder has combed the harsh terrain of Cape York, in far north Queensland, for criminal ...

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Unprecedented legal action has begun in Perth, with the family of a murdered indigenous woman suing the WA Police service and the State Government for negligence. Andrea Pickett was stabbed to death by her estranged husband in Perth in 2009 after he repeatedly breached restraining orders. An inquest in 2012 found that police had failed to investigate or act on the multiple breaches. Andrea Pickett's family say they want justice for their sister and mother.