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Hawke govt launched Aboriginal death probe
The West Australian
With Australia's bicentenary approaching, the government led by Bob Hawke decided something must be done about a rising tide of complaints that indigenous people were dying in suspicious circumstances in police cells. Cabinet papers for 1987, released ...
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: The struggle for indigenous land rightsSydney Morning Herald
Hawke Cabinet decision on deaths in custodySydney Indymedia

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SBS
Secret Hawke era cabinet papers released
SBS
Cabinet documents also reveal the government considered compensating Aboriginal victims of British nuclear tests conducted in South Australia during the 1950s and '60s. Cabinet looked at making $2.5 million dollars in compensation available for the ...
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: Leading the west in fighting South Africa's apartheidSydney Morning Herald

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NEWS.com.au
Abbott Seeks to Recognize Aborigines in Australia's Constitution
Businessweek
Australia's 400,000 Aborigines remain the poorest and most disadvantaged group in society more than 200 years after Europeans settled in 1788, experiencing lower life expectancy and higher jobless and incarceration rates. Indigenous Australians ...
PM Tony Abbott to start 'conversation' on Indigenous recognition in 2014ABC Online

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Sydney Morning Herald
Hawke govt launched Aboriginal death probe
NEWS.com.au
WITH Australia's bicentenary approaching, the government led by Bob Hawke decided something must be done about a rising tide of complaints that indigenous people were dying in suspicious circumstances in police cells. Cabinet papers for 1987, released ...
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: The struggle for indigenous land rightsSydney Morning Herald
Hawke Cabinet decision on deaths in custodySydney Indymedia

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Sydney Morning Herald
Hawke govt launched Aboriginal death probe
NEWS.com.au
WITH Australia's bicentenary approaching, the government led by Bob Hawke decided something must be done about a rising tide of complaints that indigenous people were dying in suspicious circumstances in police cells. Cabinet papers for 1987, released ...
Secret Hawke era cabinet papers releasedSBS
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: Negative gearing almost axedSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
Hawke govt launched Aboriginal death probe
The Australian
WITH Australia's bicentenary approaching, the government led by Bob Hawke decided something must be done about a rising tide of complaints that indigenous people were dying in suspicious circumstances in police cells. Cabinet papers for 1987, released ...
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: The struggle for indigenous land rightsSydney Morning Herald

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SBS
Have a go in 2014, Abbott urges Australians
The Australian
AN upbeat Tony Abbott believes the nation enters 2014 full of optimism and has vowed to begin the conversation to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution. In a personal and informal new year message, the Prime Minister praises Australians ...
Abbott Seeks to Recognize Aborigines in Australia's ConstitutionBusinessweek
Abbott to revive Indigenous recognition pushSBS
Tony Abbott, Bill Shorten give their 2014 New Year's messagesThe Daily Telegraph
Brisbane Times
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Sydney Morning Herald
John Pilger's damning new film about indigenous Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
"It's so degrading," says Noongar elder Noel Nannup in John Pilger's latest film about indigenous disadvantage in Australia. The Aboriginal man is standing in a $240-a-night hotel room on Rottnest Island which used to be divided into three prison cells ...

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Gas fracking wars to open up on a new front
The Australian
In its submission to the West Australian fracking inquiry, the Yawuru native title body, led by respected indigenous elder Patrick Dodson, said it was opposed to the practice on its traditional lands until independent scientific evidence proved "beyond ...

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Practical approach to closing the gap
The Australian
But for Nash it's key to embedding a cultural awareness that survives his period in office and deepens the firm's commitment to promoting economic prosperity in indigenous Australia. "We've sustained this over three generations of chairs and CEOs, but ...

The Guardian
Five questions to Luke Pearson, on Indigenous justice and education
The Guardian
Education is one of my greatest passions, in particular the education we provide to Indigenous students, and the education we provide to all students about Indigenous Australia. These are both crucially important, and complementary, issues. One can ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous ventures in push to beat business hurdles
Sydney Morning Herald
Out of the desert, prophets come, wrote A.D. Hope in his seminal 1939 poem Australia. These days, of course, it's the profits pouring out of the Pilbara we look to for salvation - from the current accounts deficit, obviously, but also from the ...

The Guardian
Uncapping university places no help to Indigenous, rural and remote students
The Guardian
The uncapping of undergraduate university places failed to increase the participation of Indigenous, regional and remote Australians and was not the main cause of improved entry by students from poorer backgrounds, a key student body has told a review ...

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SBS
Call for understanding of Indigenous Muslims
SBS
Bureau of Statistics figures show an increasing number of Indigenous Australians over the past 15 years turned to the Muslim faith at same time as they turned away from Christianity. Associate Professor in sociology of religion Adam Possamai at the ...

SBS
Call for understanding of Indigenous Muslims
SBS
Bureau of Statistics figures show an increasing number of Indigenous Australians over the past 15 years turned to the Muslim faith at same time as they turned away from Christianity. Associate Professor in sociology of religion Adam Possamai at the ...

SBS
Concern over cuts to Indigenous family violence program
Radio Australia
The chair of the Australian Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council is concerned about cuts to the national program helping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who are victims of family violence and sexual assault. Concern over cuts to ...
Aboriginal family violence service alarmed at cutsSBS

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Education Minister Christopher Pyne questions teaching Aboriginal and Asian ...
NEWS.com.au
In every subject - from science to physical education - children must study Aboriginal culture, environmental sustainability and Australia's engagement with Asia, under the national curriculum forged by the former Labor government. Kindergarten kids ...

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The Guardian
Utopia (John Pilger) – TV review
The Guardian
In 1985, Australian journalist John Pilger made The Secret Country, a film about his homeland's mistreatment of its indigenous people in which he suggested Australia was effectively running an apartheid regime. Nearly 30 years later, Pilger has made ...

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SBS
Government to recruit truancy officers in Indigenous communities to improve ...
ABC Online
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says $28 million will be spent targeting 40 remote communities across the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. The program will cover more than 40 schools and ...
Army of truancy officers goes bushThe Australian
New funding to try to improve indigenous school attendanceRadio Australia
Government targeting Indigenous truancySBS
ABC Message Stick
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Kicking Goals for Indigenous Youth
Pro Bono Australia
The most challenging part is providing organisations with an understanding of the challenges Aboriginal people face. Australia needs to do more to understand Aboriginal culture and how it impacts on people's lives. Often media reports on negative ...