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Memorial at last for indigenous Diggers
The Australian
Australia has no national or state monuments dedicated to the military contribution made by indigenous troops, although there are a number of monuments in regional towns and a larger memorial is being built in Adelaide. Digital Pass $1 for first 28 ...

Kev Carmody wins Australia Council Don Banks Music Award for outstanding ...
NEWS.com.au
QUEENSLAND indigenous songwriter Kev Carmody has won the prestigious Australia Council Don Banks Music Award for outstanding contribution to Australian music. The $60,000 annual prize is the nation's most valuable individual music award.
Kev Carmody wins major Oz music awardYahoo!7 News
Carmody rewarded for recording historyThe Australian
Kev Carmody Wins $60000 Australia Council AwardtheMusic

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Wealthy Western Australia - from the Secret Country to Forgotten Peoples
National Indigenous Times
Western Australia has the nation's highest median income. Per capita it is the richest State in the Commonwealth of Australia yet it has the highest homelessness rate in the nation. Its poorest people, most of them Aboriginal, have not benefited from ...

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Mission Australia joins call to do something about Kimberley's homeless
National Indigenous Times
kalgoorlie-homeless Mission Australia has joined in to trying to focus the Western Australian Government's attention on the homelessness epidemic in the tourist mecca of the Kimberley region. ... Most of the homeless are Aboriginal people. Few listened to.

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Asher Keddie walks away with Logie gold
ABC Online
The ABC won seven awards, including one for Mabo actress Deborah Mailman, who won the Most Outstanding Actress category for her portrayal of Indigenous activist Bonita Mabo in the 2012 telemovie. "I got the chance to play the most extraordinary ...
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Australia celebrates its TV starsStuff.co.nz
Nine bags Logie haul, ABC dominates news, Asher Keddie rescues TenMarketing magazine Australia
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Discrimination faced by our indigenous soldiers
Yahoo!7 News
Those who survived, nevertheless suffered terrible injustice upon their return to Australia. Percy Pepper was one of one thousand Aboriginal soldiers to serve in World War One. "He enlisted while he was in Warnambool to go to war and I think the reason ...

Watchdog to oversee NSW Aboriginal policy
Yahoo!7 News
Taxing superannuation earnings that support pensions and annuities above $100,000 is a complex issue that needs industry consultation, the Financial Services Council of Australia says. Six broad changes to superannuation were announced on Friday.
Language used to help link pupils with jobsSydney Morning Herald

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Ernie Bridge dies but the fight for justice will go on
National Indigenous Times
Mr Bridge was the first Western Australian Aboriginal person to be elected to the West Australian Parliament as the member for the Kimberley between 1980 to 2001... More of this story can be read in the Print Edition, or subscribe online now. Receive ...

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Reconciliation Australia welcomes SA constitutional change
National Indigenous Times
Reconciliation Australia has welcomed amendments to the South Australian Constitution passed by the South Australia Parliament which officially acknowledge Aboriginal people. Reconciliation Australia Chief Executive Officer, Leah Armstrong said South ...

The West Australian
State funeral for Ernie Bridge
The West Australian
The Order of Australia member and Centenary Medal recipient was praised for his commitment to Aboriginal affairs and was well known for promoting the concept of piping water from the Kimberley to Perth via Kalgoorlie. He was also a country music singer ...

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State funeral for WA's Ernie Bridge
The Australian
The Order of Australia member and Centenary Medal recipient was praised for his commitment to Aboriginal affairs and was well known for promoting the concept of piping water from the Kimberley to Perth via Kalgoorlie. He was also a country music singer ...
Ernie Bridge dies but the fight for justice will go onNational Indigenous Times

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Applauding from afar
The Australian
Last month's live webcast of the production, directed by Wesley Enoch, was seen by people in cities as far as Paris and London, along with groups at more than 10 indigenous art centres in remote Australia. And although the storm played havoc with the ...

PS News
First Australian a DFAT first
PS News
Damien Miller. Australia's next Ambassador to Denmark is the first indigenous Australian to be appointed as head of an overseas mission. Damien Miller will also have non-resident accreditation to Norway and Iceland when he replaces James Choi in May.

We must do far more as a country to acknowledge the First Australians: Prof ...
Crikey (blog)
Our failure to do so is harmful for Indigenous Australians, as well as being a source of shame for non-Indigenous Australians, she says. Her article below was prompted by a recent visit to New Zealand, where the acknowledgement of Maori symbolism, ...

Basics Cards for parts of WA Pilbara
The Australian
THE federal government has expanded an income management scheme to indigenous communities in the desert region near Western Australia's border. From April 15 income management will be introduced to Laverton and the Ngaanyatjarra Lands.

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The Roar
Indigenous Australia must not be judged by the actions of Jurrah
The Roar
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s I spent ten years working on Aboriginal communities in the far north of Western Australia. I worked mainly as a school teacher, but was also involved with sporting organisations and the Aboriginal art industry. It ...

Tributes Flow for Aboriginal Leader
Pro Bono Australia
Tributes have flowed following the passing of outspoken Aboriginal leader and Australia's first Aboriginal Cabinet Minister, Ernie Bridge AM. The Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia has expressed deep sorrow at the death saying it is a great loss to ...

First year school kids get better report card
ABC Online
The study of 290,000 children across Australia found 22 per cent were 'developmentally vulnerable' in at least one of the categories, a 1.6 per cent improvement on the first study in 2009. Indigenous children are twice as likely to be 'developmentally ...

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SBS
New festival brings together Indigenous artists
SBS
Merindah Donnelly, Indigenous Program Officer for the Australian Council for the Arts, said the main focus has been supporting the artists and extending the life of their work beyond one show. "So a festival like Boomerang provides the most incredible ...

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Sky News Australia
Ernie Bridge's family offered state funeral
ABC Message Stick
He served in state parliament for 21 years and was the first Aboriginal MP and the first Indigenous Cabinet minister in any Australian government. Mr Bridge was suing the State Government and the companies of two of Australia's richest women, Gina ...
Family man with big ideasThe West Australian
Former WA MP Ernie Bridge dies aged 76ABC Online
WA state funeral offered to family of Ernie BridgePerth Now
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