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This budget could devastate Indigenous Australians
ABC Message Stick
From cuts to youth welfare to the new Medicare co-payment, the budget will have a profound impact on Indigenous Australians. Mick Gooda asks, will the Federal Government speak to Aboriginal leaders before proceeding? I have spoken with many ...

Warren Mundine warns on remote funding
The Australian
SCORES of organisations running programs for indigenous Australia have been warned they should expect to lose their funding — even if they are meeting their targets — if their programs sit outside the Abbott government's three remote focus areas.

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Fremantle Dockers
Johnson to launch Freo's 2014 Indigenous Round jumper
Fremantle Dockers
Former Fremantle player and current development coach Roger Hayden worked with Richard Walley, one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers, artists, musicians and writers, to create the Indigenous Round Guernsey. Fremantle wore the 2013 jumper ...

Fremantle Dockers
Johnson to launch Freo's 2014 Indigenous Round jumper
Fremantle Dockers
Former Fremantle player and current development coach Roger Hayden worked with Richard Walley, one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers, artists, musicians and writers, to create the Indigenous Round Guernsey. Fremantle wore the 2013 jumper ...

Radio Australia
Aboriginal artist skelim conservation stori insait long Hong Kong
Radio Australia
Lain bilong tubuna bilongen i bilong China na ikam long Australia long taim ol painim Gold or gold rush insait long Australia long namel bilong yar nineteenth century. Gupela tru na sampela long ol paintings bilongen ol bilong bipo yet igat ol stori ...

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SAP's $1m boost to indigenous scholarships
The Australian
THE Australian Indigenous Education Foundation can already name Australia's largest corporations, such as BHP Billiton, Commonwealth Bank and Qantas, as among its backers, but the latest coup for the organisation is a funding deal with global software ...

Jane Hodson helped guide the voice of central Australian Aborigines
The Age
She was dedicated to seeing that the contemporary history of the traditional owners of central Australia was respectfully promoted, and that the voices and stories of Aboriginal elders were heard and chronicled. Jane Hodson was born in Dorset, England ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Jane Hodson helped guide the voice of central Australian Aborigines
Sydney Morning Herald
She was dedicated to seeing that the contemporary history of the traditional owners of central Australia was respectfully promoted, and that the voices and stories of Aboriginal elders were heard and chronicled. Jane Hodson was born in Dorset, England ...

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Brisbane Times
Jane Hodson helped guide the voice of central Australian Aborigines
Brisbane Times
She was dedicated to seeing that the contemporary history of the traditional owners of central Australia was respectfully promoted, and that the voices and stories of Aboriginal elders were heard and chronicled. Jane Hodson was born in Dorset, England ...

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Aboriginal artist shares conservation stories in Hong Kong
Radio Australia
Billy Doolan feels at ease in Hong Kong. The connection runs deep through his bloodlines. Billy's maternal great-great-grandfather was Chinese and came to Australia during the gold rush in the late nineteenth century. Interestingly some of his ...

GP co-payment to hit indigenous population hard
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians have vastly poorer health than average, and there is still a life expectancy gap of about 11 years between indigenous and non-indigenous men in Australia, according to the latest Closing the Gap report. Donna Ah Chee, CEO of the ...

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GP co-payment to hit indigenous population hard
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians have vastly poorer health than average, and there is still a life expectancy gap of about 11 years between indigenous and non-indigenous men in Australia, according to the latest Closing the Gap report. Donna Ah Chee, CEO of the ...

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 87 events ...
Sydney Indymedia
personal pain and ongoing damage caused by our nation's failure to respect Aboriginal and. Torres Strait Islander people as equals." ANTaR. Event details: http://www.nsdc.org.au. Event details: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/events/national-sorry-day

The Guardian
Five questions to Megan Davis: on Aboriginal self-determination
The Guardian
My family is Aboriginal, South Pacific Islander and Australian. Part of my family came to Australia via the practice of "blackbirding" –that is, the kidnapping and enslaving of South Pacific Islanders to work on plantations, especially in Queensland ...
remote 'can ill afford co-payment'The Australian
REGIONAL PORTS: Gladstone funds boost in indigenous educationLloyd's List Daily Commercial News

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Wall Street Journal
Skeleton mystery's Aussie link
NEWS.com.au
Picture: Paul Nicklen Source: AFP. A SKELETON of a teenager more than 12,000 years old with a facial structure resembling that of an indigenous Australian is offering new clues about the origins of the first Native Americans. Named “Naia” by scientists ...
Ancient Skeleton May Settle Debate on First AmericansNewser
Prehistoric girl's bones in underwater cave links ancient, modern Native AmericansMontreal Gazette
Where did Native Americans come from? 'Naya' skeleton paints detailed picture.Alaska Dispatch
Ars Technica
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The Guardian
Cash for jails: Tony Abbott's budget for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
Aboriginal Australia anticipated a tidal wave of cuts, but seeing more than half a billion dollars ripped out from under a people who have been chronically underfunded for decades still sent shockwaves through our communities (although budget analysis ...

The Guardian
Cash for jails: Tony Abbott's budget for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
Since the end of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, Indigenous incarceration rates have jumped in every state and territory: 90% in the NT, 53% in NSW, and 50% in Western Australia. On Tuesday night, the scared eyes of that small ...

Australia-Taiwan Indigenous Music Exchange starts
China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Australian Office Taipei (澳洲辦事處) and the Council of Indigenous Peoples (原民會) yesterday launched the Australia-Taiwan Indigenous Music Exchange, a series of performances co-organized by the Lovely Taiwan Foundation (台灣 ...

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cuts 'could have reached 10pc'
The Australian
But the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples argued Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people would suffer disproportionately. “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander measures in the budget are already causing considerable anxiety among our ...

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The Guardian
remote 'can ill afford co-payment'
The Australian
The body that oversees Australia's not-for-profit Aboriginal health organisations yesterday said it believed Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders should be exempt from the co-payments “to prevent any backward steps in Aboriginal health”. The National ...
Five questions to Megan Davis: on Aboriginal self-determinationThe Guardian
REGIONAL PORTS: Gladstone funds boost in indigenous educationLloyd's List Daily Commercial News

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