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Australian cities need more Aboriginal cultural festivals, Tourism Australia's ...
Perth Now
International visitors want to experience Aboriginal culture in Australia's capital cities, as well as traditional indigenous tourism locations, like Mossman Gorge in Queensland. Picture: Voyages Source: Supplied. Mr McEvoy said Australia should invest ...

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Australian cities need more Aboriginal cultural festivals, Tourism Australia's ...
Herald Sun
AUSTRALIA should stop fixating on Aboriginal social issues and instead focus on promoting indigenous travel experiences, Tourism Australia managing director Andrew McEvoy says. This starts with better indigenous experiences for international visitors ...

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New home for indigenous art
The West Australian
"News that at last plans are being made to provide it with the space it truly deserves will be widely welcomed not only in Australia but overseas," Sir David said in the Uniview magazine. Professor Snell said the museum was in the early planning stages ...

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The mismatch between indigenous communities and mining wealth
The Guardian
In the opening sequences, the viewer is taken from a Palm Beach apartment renting at AUS$30,000 (£17,388) per week to a police station foyer where a young indigenous Australian male is beaten and later dies. The juxtaposition between Australia's ...
Film review: Utopia - John Pilger's documentary reveals 'shocking poverty' of ...The Independent
INTERVIEW | John Pilger exposes Australia's shocking secret in UtopiaAustralian Times
John Pilger on breaking the Great Silence of Australia's pastIrish Times
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Facing up to the stereotypes
The Australian
The case ended up in the Federal Court of Australia, and Bolt's columns, which stated that light-skinned indigenous people identified as Aboriginal for political and personal gain, were found to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act. One of the ...

Scholars need drive to seek a brighter future
The Australian
Miranda is one of the more than 400 students supported by an Australian Indigenous Education Foundation scholarship since 2008, and her experience shows us what happens when indigenous kids have opportunities and the confidence to aspire to a ...

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Out with FIFO, in with Locals
ABC Message Stick
The end of the mining boom has led some small miners in north-west Queensland to lay off fly-in fly-out staff in favour of local Aboriginal employees. The Federal Indigenous Affairs minister has welcomed the move as an example corporate Australia ...

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Indigenous workers finding employment in Cloncurry mines over traditional fly ...
ABC Online
You couldn't imagine anyone happier to be driving a dump truck on a mine site than 18-year-old Sarah Parker. Ms Parker is one of more than 30 Indigenous employees at the CopperChem copper mine on the outskirts of Cloncurry. "I started in the crystal ...

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Scullion puts heat on corporate Australia for indigenous jobs
ABC Online
Scullion puts heat on corporate Australia for indigenous jobs. Posted November 15, 2013 20:52:00. Reporter Michael Coggan asks Nigel Scullion how the employment and training programs in north-west Queensland could be applied in the Northern Territory ...

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Mines choose local Aboriginal workers over FIFOs
ABC Online
The Australian Government's champion of indigenous employment 'Twiggy' Forrest is set to deliver an interim report on how to close the employment gap for indigenous Australians. Experts say the gap is widening but the new Indigenous Affairs Minister ...

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Life expectancy for Indigenous Australians rises slightly
Radio Australia
New figures show the life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has increased over the past five to seven years, slightly narrowing the gap compared to non-Indigenous people. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says that between 2010 ...
App aims to tackle indigenous suicideThe Australian
ACCELERATE; a powerful arts toolAustralian Times
Report raises alarm over Torres Strait diabetesSBS

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Indigenous suicide: Black Dog Institute launches app to try to save lives
The Guardian
Medical experts are launching an app they hope will lower Australia's shockingly high Indigenous suicide rate, which remains up to six times that of the non-Indigenous population. Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are far more likely to kill ...
Report raises alarm over Torres Strait diabetesSBS

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App aims to tackle indigenous suicide
The Australian
"We know that indigenous Australians are not seeking face-to-face mental health care," said a Black Dog Institute researcher, Professor Helen Christensen. "More than 70 per cent of indigenous suicides occur in people who are not previously known to ...

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New learning centre at UWA hopes to improve health outcomes for Indigenous ...
ABC Online
It is hoped a new learning centre at the University of Western Australia will help improve health outcomes for Indigenous Australians. The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health has been established from a $10million donation by Greg and Kay Poche. It is ...

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Film review: Utopia - John Pilger's documentary reveals 'shocking poverty' of ...
The Independent
Australia is one of the richest countries in the world and yet, as John Pilger's angry, impassioned documentary reveals, indigenous communities still live in "unchanging, shocking poverty". The racism may no longer be as overt as in the early 1960s but ...
Utopia – reviewThe Guardian

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Another $10m gift for University of WA
The Australian
Mr Poche and his wife Kay said the couple were still committed to do their best for Indigenous Australians. "Improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians is one of our nation's biggest challenges and it is vital that we do everything we ...

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Another $10m gift for University of WA
NEWS.com.au
ANOTHER multi-millionaire has given another massive donation to the University of Western Australia, with freight magnate Greg Poche gifting $10 million for a new centre for indigenous health. Just weeks after mining billionaire Andrew Forrest gave the ...

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Campaign to improve Indigenous child protection
ABC Local
Australia's peak body for Indigenous families is launching a year-long project to address the rising rates of Indigenous children being placed in out-of-home care. Indigenous children in the Northern Territory are six times more likely than non ...

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Indigenous artists celebrated in London
SBS
Indigenous Australian artists have been celebrated at a London function hosted by the Australian High Commission and the British Council for the Arts. The five artists were the beneficiaries of the 2013 Accelerate program, now in its fourth year ...