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Boost for indigenous enterprise
The Australian
THE Commonwealth Bank and Indigenous Business Australia will today reveal they have formed a partnership to jointly provide Aboriginal entrepreneurs with micro-enterprise loan and finance packages. The Community Business Finance package will ...

Indigenous people are 50 per cent more likely to die from cancer than other ...
ABC Message Stick
MANDIE SAMI: Cancer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia: An Overview, is the first comprehensive summary of cancer statistics for Indigenous Australians. The head of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's cancer and ...

FIFA course to empower indigenous Australians
Fifa.com
Indigenous Australians are set to benefit from a four-day FIFA grassroots course that finishes on Friday, 4 October 2013, in Melbourne's Derebin International Sports Centre. The programme is organised in co-operation with Football Federation Australia ...

Radio Australia
Indigenous Australians more likely to get cancer
SBS
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in Australia and for Indigenous Australians it's particularly deadly. A new report by Cancer Australia and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has found Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have ...
Indigenous people most at risk of cancer: reportABC Online

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OILEX LTD. : Canning Basin SPA-0055 Update
4-traders (press release)
Oilex Ltd ("Oilex" ASX: OEX, AIM: OEX) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Admiral Oil NL, continues its ongoing activities related to SPA-0055 in the Canning Basin, Australia. These activities include Planning and Feasibility ...
Oilex Ltd provides Canning Basin SPA-0055 updateOilVoice (press release)

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Proactive Investors Australia
Oilex Ltd provides Canning Basin SPA-0055 update
OilVoice (press release)
Oilex Ltd (ASX: OEX, AIM: OEX) announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Admiral Oil NL, continues its ongoing activities related to SPA-0055 in the Canning Basin, Australia. These activities include Planning and Feasibility ... Oilex has commenced ...
OILEX LTD. : Canning Basin SPA-0055 Update4-traders (press release)

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Taskforce moves closer to revealing Indigenous crime findings
ABC Local
An Australian Crime Commission unit, investigating child abuse and violence in Aboriginal communities, is getting closer to releasing its findings. The National Indigenous Intelligence Taskforce was created in 2006 to provide the Federal Government ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous imprisonment rates: Australia needs better sentencing
The Guardian
Yesterday Australia's high court found that social disadvantage should be taken into account in sentencing, and does not diminish over time. Lawyers for William Bugmy,an Aboriginal man who had intentionally caused grievous bodily harm to a prison ...

SBS
Indigenous people most at risk of cancer: report
ABC Online
A new report has found Indigenous Australians are 50 per cent more likely to die from cancer than non-Indigenous people. It also reports that survival rates for Indigenous people diagnosed with cancer are 12 per cent lower than others. The Australian ...
Cancer Risk Greater for Indigenous AustraliansPro Bono Australia
Indigenous Australians more likely to get cancerSBS
High cancer risk for Aboriginal peopleSky News Australia
StartupSmart -ABC Message Stick -The Australian
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Australia's Navy celebrates centenary
SBS
He says Indigenous Australians have played a significant role in naval history, making their presence at this weekend's centenary celebrations even more significant. "We have been in the military from a very early stage. The first recorded sailor, in ...
Australia's first Navy sailors braved trying conditions in search of adventureYahoo!7 News

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Asian Correspondent
Australia: Indigenous Queenslanders against river protection law
Asian Correspondent
Australia: Indigenous Queenslanders against river protection law. By Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon Oct 02, 2013 6:02PM UTC. Share: Share · Tweet · check. Time has changed in Cape York, Queensland. Traditional land owners have taken a step to support ...

Two Western Australian students have finished in top three of simulated ...
ABC Online
Two Indigenous students from Western Australia will travel to Canberra to address senior politicians after finishing at the top of a simulated election for the nation's first Indigenous prime minister. The competition was run by the Australian ...

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SBS
Survey shows Indigenous people in remote WA communities ageing at quicker ...
ABC Online
A startling survey has shown that Indigenous people living in Western Australia's Kimberley region are ageing at a much younger and quicker rate than other Australians. Ruth Crawford, who manages the Kimberley Aged and Community Service, is not ...
The Kimberley's Indigenous youth suicide rate ranked worst in AustraliaSBS

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Sky News Australia
Court rules on Indigenous disadvantage
Sky News Australia
According to a statement from the High Court, Mr Bugmy's lawyers argued that the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal 'erred in holding that the extent to which his deprived background as an Aboriginal Australian could be taken into account in sentencing ...

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SBS
The Kimberley's Indigenous youth suicide rate ranked worst in Australia
SBS
The manager of the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (KALACC) in Fitzroy Crossing has called for State and National Governments to refocus on the Indigenous youth suicide rate. Wes Harris, Coordinator of KALACC, said he believed the ...

Sky News Australia
Indigenous disadvantage does not diminish over time, High Court rules
ABC Online
Disadvantage caused by a person's Indigenous heritage does not diminish over time and should be taken into account in sentencing of criminal offences, the High Court has found. Lawyers for William Bugmy, a 31-year-old from Wilcannia convicted of ...
High Court rules on indigenous sentencesSky News Australia
Jail sentences to heed 'disadvantage'The Australian (blog)

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Australia's first indigenous PM could be in WA
WA today
One of two West Australian teenagers are in the running be the first indigenous 'prime minister'. While Tony Abbott was recently elected to the nation's top job, students Shannon Hart-Cole and Jayden Gerrand from Warnbro Community High School and ...
Two Western Australian students have finished in top three of simulated ...ABC Online

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Sky News Australia
High Court rules on indigenous sentences
Sky News Australia
The High Court has dismissed an appeal from an indigenous man who sought to have an extended jail sentence overturned on the grounds it hadn't taken into account his disadvantaged background as an Aboriginal person. West Australian man Ernest ...
Indigenous disadvantage does not diminish over time, High Court rulesABC Online

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Good Food
Coles recruits celebrity food-wizard to create product range from indigenous ...
Marketing magazine Australia
After partnering on a range of Christmas desserts, Coles and world-renowned chef-wizard Heston Blumenthal have formed a partnership that will see Blumenthal create a range of products for the supermarket that will “embrace Australian and indigenous ...
Blumenthal brewing up new products for AustraliaGood Food
Heston Blumenthal strikes deal with ColesFOOD Magazine - Australia

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