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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 ...

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New funding to try to improve indigenous school attendance
Radio Australia
The Indigenous Affairs Minister says it's an attendance rate that wouldn't be accepted in most of Australia. Senator Nigel Scullion will today outline the government's plan to spend 28-million dollars over two years on school attendance officers in 40 ...
Government targeting Indigenous truancySBS
Parental compliance key to truancy army: PearsonThe Australian
Government to recruit truancy officers in Indigenous communities to improve ...The West Australian
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Indigenous organisation to defy Tony Abbott funding cut
Sydney Morning Herald
''The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples promised its members and supporters today that it will continue as a strong, fearless national representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples,'' the statement said. ''The new ...
Warren Mundine defends cut to Indigenous legal aidSBS

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Indigenous organisation to defy Tony Abbott funding cut
Sydney Morning Herald
''The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples promised its members and supporters today that it will continue as a strong, fearless national representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples,'' the statement said. ''The new ...
Warren Mundine defends cut to Indigenous legal aidSBS
Labor hits out after suggestion Coaliton will slash funding for indigenous bodyThe Canberra Times

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Army of truancy officers goes bush
The Australian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion told The Australian the program would start with 40 communities covering 42 schools in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland, NSW and South Australia and would be rolled out to other ...
Government targeting Indigenous truancySBS
Government to recruit truancy officers in Indigenous communities to improve ...The West Australian

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Army of truancy officers goes bush
The Australian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion told The Australian the program would start with 40 communities covering 42 schools in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland, NSW and South Australia and would be rolled out to other ...

Sky News Australia
NSW urged to help Aboriginal drivers
Sky News Australia
The NSW auditor-general has recommended more support for Aboriginal people to get drivers' licences, noting they are over-represented in both road fatalities and offences. Less than half the eligible Aboriginal people in NSW hold a driver's licence ...

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John Pilger goes back to his homeland to investigate Australia's dirtiest secret
Mirror.co.uk
In 1969 I flew to Alice Springs in the red heart of Australia and met Charlie Perkins. At a time when Aboriginal people were not even counted in the census (unlike the sheep) Charlie was only the second Aborigine to get a university degree. He made ...
Mandela is gone, but apartheid is alive and well in AustraliaOpEdNews
Down Where Apartheid LivesCounterPunch

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Mirror.co.uk
John Pilger goes back to his homeland to investigate Australia's dirtiest secret
Mirror.co.uk
Older Aboriginal people were grateful; they believed that Australia's first people – the most enduring human presence on earth – might finally get the justice and recognition denied them for 220 years. Few of them heard the postscript to Rudd's apology.
Mandela is gone, but apartheid is alive and well in AustraliaOpEdNews

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Indigenous Territorians take lead in 2013
Perth Now
Almost half a century after indigenous Australians were given full voting rights, the country has seen this year the promotion of two Northern Territorians as the first Aboriginal head of government and as the first female Aboriginal member of federal ...

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Indigenous Territorians take lead
The Australian
Almost half a century after indigenous Australians were given full voting rights, the country has seen this year the promotion of two Northern Territorians as the first Aboriginal head of government and as the first female Aboriginal member of federal ...

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Indigenous Territorians take lead in 2013
Geelong Advertiser
Almost half a century after indigenous Australians were given full voting rights, the country has seen this year the promotion of two Northern Territorians as the first Aboriginal head of government and as the first female Aboriginal member of federal ...

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congress told funding will go
The Australian
"The best thing we could do for Aboriginal Australia right now is push on as quickly as we can with constitutional recognition," he said. "We have it in our hearts to do this." Senator Scullion told the congress's co-chairs that while the final outcome ...

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congress told funding will go
The Australian
Labor had promised to keep the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples funded with $15 million for another three years in this year's May budget. Since the election, the congress has hoped the Coalition would honour Labor's pledge. But ...

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Indigenous Australians hit hard by legal aid cuts
SBS
The Treasurer, Joe Hockey, has confirmed the government will stick to its election pledge to cut 43-point-one million dollars from legal aid services, including those accessed by many Indigenous Australians. Darren Mara has the details. (Click on audio ...
Coalition scales back cuts to legal aidThe Australian
Funding cuts to cripple Indigenous legal servicesABC Message Stick
More indigenous in jail without legal aidNEWS.com.au

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Indigenous Australians hit hard by legal aid cuts
SBS
The Treasurer, Joe Hockey, has confirmed the government will stick to its election pledge to cut 43-point-one million dollars from legal aid services, including those accessed by many Indigenous Australians. Darren Mara has the details. (Click on audio ...
Coalition scales back cuts to legal aidThe Australian
Funding cuts to cripple Indigenous legal servicesABC Message Stick
More indigenous in jail without legal aidNEWS.com.au

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inmycommunity
An indigenous Rose
inmycommunity
YOUNG Australian Aboriginal women now have the opportunity to be part of something exciting and life-changing, according to Falcon woman Demi-Rose Dann. Miss Dann (19) is an entrant in Miss Universe WA. She has made it into the top-70 section and ...

The Age
Australian government cuts billions of dollars from social programs
Sydney Morning Herald
''Now is simply not the time for the government to be cutting legal assistance to indigenous Australians.'' The government has also announced plans to cut the position of Co-ordinator-General for Remote Indigenous Services. ''This cost-cutting measure ...
Budget cuts to hit all AustraliansThe Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australian government cuts billions of dollars from social programs
Sydney Morning Herald
''Now is simply not the time for the government to be cutting legal assistance to indigenous Australians.'' The government has also announced plans to cut the position of Co-ordinator-General for Remote Indigenous Services. ''This cost-cutting measure ...
Where Hockey can save $667B debtNEWS.com.au
Budget cuts to hit all AustraliansThe Australian
Abbott government pledges more than $800m on Green ArmyRenewEconomy
Brisbane Times
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Play Black Diggers to shed new light on Anzac history of Indigenous Australians
Yahoo!7 News
Mr Enoch spoke with many descendents of the diggers, including those at the South Australian community of Raukkan where the local church is decorated with stained glass windows commemorating 21 Indigenous soldiers who served. "Our myth-making as ...

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