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Indigenous support aired for Dingo Gas Field start
ABC Message Stick
Traditional owners have welcomed the start of construction on a $20 million gas project in central Australia. The Dingo Gas Field is only the second project in the past three decades to secure a production licence in the Northern Territory. Central ...

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WGAR News: Charter of the United Nations does not apply to Australia, claims ...
Sydney Indymedia
3 May 14: "The Australian's headline 'Abbott open to treaties with Aboriginal nations' might shock, confuse and cause many Aboriginal people to be justifiably suspicious. All of a sudden the conservative Coalition Government is welcoming discussion ...

Indigenous prisoners still at risk
Radio Australia
Indigenous people make up 27 per cent of the prison population, and that figure continues to rise. Adelaide University researcher Elizabeth Grant has revisited the recommendations made after Australia's Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in ...

Elder stakes his claim on a home of his own
The Australian
A MEMBER of Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council is this week expected to be granted the first 99-year indigenous home-ownership lease in mainland Northern Territory, paving the way for more private property rights in Aboriginal communities ...

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Green Left Weekly
Adelaide forum discusses Aboriginal rights
Green Left Weekly
Hundreds gathered on May 6 to fill Adelaide's Tandanya National Indigenous Cultural Institute for the forum “An Aboriginal Perspective on Inequality, the Intervention, Racism and Struggle”. It was jointly organised by the South Australian Aboriginal ...

Women's business: traditional life for indigenous women
ABC Local
The Burrunju Art Gallery mostly displays contemporary pieces by local artists, but this week they're holding a special exhibition of traditional artworks from South Australia. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. The Anangu Tjutaku Tjukurpa ...

Helsinki Times
Hipsters squeeze out Aborigines as former Sydney slum gentrifies
Helsinki Times
Australian Aborigines have met and lived for millenia in what is now Sydney's Redfern district. With young urbanites moving in and driving up property prices, their chances of remaining rest on an empty hectare of land. Known simply as The Block, the ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Jessica Mauboy flies Aboriginal flag at Eurovision
The Guardian (blog)
Sea of Flags ended as a man dressed as an austronaut, holding the Aboriginal flag, was lowered to stage beside Mauboy, proclaiming today was “one small step for Europe, one giant leap for Australia.” The Guardian's Katharine Murphy will live blog the ...
This Is How Australia Does EurovisionMusic Feeds
Mauboy performs at EurovisionSydney Morning Herald
Eurovision 2014: Jessica Mauboy performs for millions to mark Australia's ...ABC Online
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The Guardian
Five questions to Charles Prouse: on Indigenous business and leadership ...
The Guardian
While there I completed the Indigenous leadership program with the Australian Indigenous leadership centre and afterwards was invited to join the Board – then chaired by professor Mick Dodson. I am still a director of the AILC, and I'm delighted that ...

SBS
Grave news for Aboriginal Boer War soldier
SBS
"So now we have two Aboriginal men who were recognised as having served in the Boer War with headstones and grave plaques. John Searle is the other one, from Western Australia, and so we're really starting to recognise that Aboriginal men did serve in ...

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The Guardian
Social investors aim to tackle unemployment among indigenous Australians
The Guardian
Expanding local businesses to serve the growing procurement demands of Australia's booming extractive industries presents some tough challenges for regional indigenous corporations. Often a sector poorly served by financial institutions with a purely ...

White Face – some notes from a fair-skinned Aboriginal
The Conversation
Since European settlement of Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups have used public performances as a way to incorporate European audiences and engage with settler colonial economy. In this way artistic performance has functioned as ...

Aboriginal freehold to generate wealth
The Australian
INDIGENOUS Australians will be given the chance to buy and sell their own homes under new Queensland laws that pave the way for freehold title to exist across their communities. After decades of debate and delays, the Newman government will introduce ...

Aboriginal freehold to generate wealth
The Australian
INDIGENOUS Australians will be given the chance to buy and sell their own homes under new Queensland laws that pave the way for freehold title to exist across their communities. After decades of debate and delays, the Newman government will introduce ...

Indigenous bodies not too keen on shotgun wedding
NTNews.com.au
TWO indigenous corporations – responsible for some of the Territory and Australia's iconic indigenous tourist destinations – have opposed a forced merger, as recommended by an independent study and supported by the minister with the power to push the ...

SBS
Aboriginal Australians more likely to suffer dementia: Study
SBS
A study conducted by the Northern Territory Department of Health has shown that Aboriginal Australians are three times more likely to suffer from Dementia than the rest of the population. The news has caused serious concerns among health professionals.

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Aboriginal Australians more likely to suffer dementia: Study
SBS
A study conducted by the Northern Territory Department of Health has shown that Aboriginal Australians are three times more likely to suffer from Dementia than the rest of the population. The news has caused serious concerns among health professionals.
98% of Indigenous Music Traditions have been lostABC Online (blog)
Health voices unite on the Commission of Audit recommendationsCrikey (blog)

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Aboriginal land claim progresses to court
ABC Local
Ms Lawson's claim contends that in 1922 her grandparents were never compensated for the loss of their land when South Australia took ownership of the lake from New South Wales to build a water storage basin. On behalf of her family, she is asking for a ...

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Aboriginal father, daughter become Queensland's first Indigenous ...
Yahoo!7 News
"I'm so honoured to have another generation of Indigenous doctors coming through," Mr Hayman said. "When I started, there was only about five or six Aboriginal doctors across Australia. "Now we have about 250, and about 250 Aboriginal medical students ...

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Aboriginal father, daughter become Queensland's first Indigenous ...
Yahoo!7 News
"I'm so honoured to have another generation of Indigenous doctors coming through," Mr Hayman said. "When I started, there was only about five or six Aboriginal doctors across Australia. "Now we have about 250, and about 250 Aboriginal medical students ...

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