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Scullion flags boarding school for indigenous students
The Australian
“The evidence of education and, as a consequence, employment outcomes achieved by indigenous children who attend boarding schools is indisputable,” he told The Australian. “There are clear benefits for children attending senior schooling away from ...

Scullion flags boarding school for indigenous students
The Australian
“The evidence of education and, as a consequence, employment outcomes achieved by indigenous children who attend boarding schools is indisputable,” he told The Australian. “There are clear benefits for children attending senior schooling away from ...

Scullion flags boarding school for indigenous students
The Australian
“The evidence of education and, as a consequence, employment outcomes achieved by indigenous children who attend boarding schools is indisputable,” he told The Australian. “There are clear benefits for children attending senior schooling away from ...

Scullion flags boarding school for indigenous students
The Australian
“The evidence of education and, as a consequence, employment outcomes achieved by indigenous children who attend boarding schools is indisputable,” he told The Australian. “There are clear benefits for children attending senior schooling away from ...

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Mundine: get kids out of jail, into jobs
The Australian
THE head of Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, will present colleagues today with a proposal to take indigenous teenagers in juvenile detention into jobs and training in Western Australia, and plans to roll out the model nationally.

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Mundine: get kids out of jail, into jobs
The Australian
THE head of Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, will present colleagues today with a proposal to take indigenous teenagers in juvenile detention into jobs and training in Western Australia, and plans to roll out the model nationally.

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PM says Gove Indigenous jobs 'secure'
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he will fulfil an election promise to spend a full week in an indigenous community in East Arnhem Land later this year. During question time on Wednesday, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten challenged Mr Abbott over an ...

Fears over rise in Canberra's indigenous children in care
The Canberra Times
Canberra's indigenous children risk becoming part of another ''stolen generation'', the head of Australia's peak Aboriginal childcare body says. The Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care is demanding answers from the ACT government ...

Australia: PM Abbott to spend week in aboriginal settlement
euronews
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is to spend a week in an aboriginal settlement later this year to raise national awareness about the indigenous people's grim plight. In parliament, as he announced his trip to the outback, he admitted that ...

Cricket trying to 'close the gap' on AFL, NRL
ABC Online
It's long held a dream of finding an Indigenous 'Ricky Ponting' and now, Cricket Australia and the Australian National University are paying for a one year research project in the hope of getting more Aboriginal people playing at an elite and amateur ...

SBS
Indigenous groups give mixed reactions to Closing the Gap report
SBS
Overall, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, says he's confident Australia is well positioned to close the gap in Indigenous disadvantage by 2030. "We're happy with the places, the areas where we're doing ...

Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
KOIN.com
7, 2014 file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks at a press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney, Australia. Abbott says he will spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal ...

Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
KOIN.com
7, 2014 file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks at a press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney, Australia. Abbott says he will spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal ...

Australia falls short on Aboriginal welfare targets
Yahoo!7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday admitted Australia has failed to meet important targets on Aboriginal welfare and vowed to work to ensure all indigenous children went through school. In delivering his first "Closing the Gap ...

Australia falls short on Aboriginal welfare targets
Yahoo!7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday admitted Australia has failed to meet important targets on Aboriginal welfare and vowed to work to ensure all indigenous children went through school. In delivering his first "Closing the Gap ...

Australia falls short on Aboriginal welfare targets
Yahoo!7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday admitted Australia has failed to meet important targets on Aboriginal welfare and vowed to work to ensure all indigenous children went through school. In delivering his first "Closing the Gap ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Tony Abbott delivers mixed report card on Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The report states that non-Indigenous Australians live about 10 years longer than Aboriginal Australians, that the progress in closing the gap in literacy has improved in only Year 3 and Year 5 Reading (based on NAPLAN results) and that only 30 per ...
Twiggy urges action to save indigenous drop-outsThe Australian
Australia failing to close gap on indigenous jobsSydney Morning Herald
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Times Colonist
Australian PM to spend a week on Outback Aboriginal land to focus on ...
Times Colonist
CANBERRA, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East ...

Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
Jakarta Post
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East Arnhem Land, set for later ...

Kansas City Star
Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
Kansas City Star
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Rob Griffith, File | AP Photo FILE - In this Feb.