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Indigenous policy: what the main parties will bring to the table
The Guardian
In the last week of August, Guardian Australia visited two Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory to hear their concerns ahead of the federal election. Many of those we spoke to felt they had seen little to no improvement in their living ...

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Indigenous jobs program branded a 'disaster'
ABC Online
Country Liberals Senator Nigel Scullion says the Federal Government's remote area Indigenous jobs program in the Northern Territory is an unmitigated disaster. But he admits he does not know what to do about it. Tiwi Islands residents are accusing the ...

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Indigenous rangers face uncertain future
ABC Online
More than 700 Indigenous people are employed as rangers around Australia, including many in remote parts of the Northern Territory. But with only days until the election, some are facing a very uncertain future. The Mangarrayi Indigenous ranger program ...

IBA - INDIGENOUS BUSINESS AUSTRALIA : Helping Indigenous business ...
4-traders (press release)
In order to help Indigenous business owners understand the basic responsibilities, risks and obligations of operating a business in Australia, Terri Janke has written and published Law Way: Indigenous Business and the Law. Terri Janke is the Solicitor ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Apathy about indigenous arts is 'cultural apartheid'
Sydney Morning Herald
Promoter Peter Noble has lashed out over poor ticket sales for next month's Boomerang Festival, touted as Australia's most ambitious ever indigenous arts event, saying disinterest amounts to ''cultural apartheid''. Noble says the three-day event at ...
Apathy killing Boomerang Festival ticket salesABC Message Stick

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SBS
Indigenous Literacy Day promotes sharing and equality
SBS
We're 660 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie, and our closest community in South Australia is 350 kilometres away, so she's fairly isolated,” says school principal Charlie Klein. Author Anita Heiss says Indigenous Literacy Day is contributing towards ...
Publish community stories the focus of Indigenous Literacy DayRadio Australia

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SBS
Indigenous Literacy Day promotes sharing and equity
SBS
We're 660 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie, and our closest community in South Australia is 350 kilometres away, so she's fairly isolated,” says school principal Charlie Klein. Author Anita Heiss, says Indigenous Literacy Day is contributing towards ...
Publish community stories the focus of Indigenous Literacy DayRadio Australia

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SBS
Indigenous Australia bids for representation
SBS
One way of tackling Aboriginal disadvantage is through political representation, and that is where Indigenous Australia has always been under-represented. Australia's oldest political party, the ALP is a case in point, never having had an Aboriginal ...
Warren Mundine's indigenous manifesto – 'elegance and simplicity' or more ...Crikey (blog)

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The Age
Apathy about indigenous arts is 'cultural apartheid'
The Age
Promoter Peter Noble has lashed out over poor ticket sales for next month's Boomerang Festival, touted as Australia's most ambitious ever indigenous arts event, saying disinterest amounts to ''cultural apartheid''. Noble says the three-day event at ...

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Peak Aboriginal organisation lashes Abbott and ticks off Labor
The Australian
THE peak body representing Aborigines has criticised Tony Abbott for his lack of commitment to the organisation and failure to acknowledge the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in an evaluation of the major parties that was sent to ...

Indigenous participation in the developing north: a national emergency
The Conversation
The colonial meaning of frontier still stands in northern Australia: Indigenous people have not been conquered. Indigenous people own or control approximately 40% of statutory land titles in northern Australia. They assert coexisting rights to ...

Varsity Online
MPhil student to become first indigenous Australian to graduate from Cambridge
Varsity Online
Lilly Brown will make Cambridge history by becoming the first person of indigenous Australian descent to graduate from the University. Brown, 27, will graduate in October with a Masters of Philosophy in Politics from Trinity College. She was a ...

SBS
Indigenous First Nations party outlines it's vision
SBS
Australia's first Aboriginal political party says it's past time Indigenous voices were heard in Parliament. First Nations founder Maurie Ryan outlined the party's vision for the future at the campaign launch in Darwin. When the First Nations party ...

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Centacare's Indigenous justice scheme expanded to Eyre Peninsula
ABC Local
A program keeping young Indigenous Australians out of the courts in Port Augusta and Whyalla is being expanded to parts of the Eyre Peninsula. For the past 16 months, Centacare's Indigenous Justice Program has been steering young Aboriginal people ...

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Centacare's Indigenous justice scheme expanded to Eyre Peninsula
ABC Local
A program keeping young Indigenous Australians out of the courts in Port Augusta and Whyalla is being expanded to parts of the Eyre Peninsula. For the past 16 months, Centacare's Indigenous Justice Program has been steering young Aboriginal people ...

Young indigenous Australians set to sail
Southern Weekly
Young Indigenous Australians are being offered the chance to embark on the journey of a lifetime sailing from Devonport to Sydney aboard the tall ship Young Endeavour, as part of a special leadership scholarship. The scholarship is being provided by ...

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Young indigenous Australians set to sail
Southern Weekly
Young Indigenous Australians are being offered the chance to embark on the journey of a lifetime sailing from Devonport to Sydney aboard the tall ship Young Endeavour, as part of a special leadership scholarship. The scholarship is being provided by ...

Vote Compass: Most Australians support recognition of Indigenous people as ...
Radio Australia
Seventy per cent of respondents to the online policy tool, including a majority of Coalition voters, believe the Constitution should be amended to acknowledge Indigenous Australians as the first inhabitants. Both Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and ...

Vote Compass: Most Australians support recognition of Indigenous people as ...
ABC Online
A clear majority of Australians are in favour of recognising Indigenous Australians in the Constitution, according to the latest data from Vote Compass. Seventy per cent of respondents to the online policy tool, including a majority of Coalition voters ...

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