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Private sector can do more to engage indigenous talent
The Australian
Closing the Work Gap in Corporate Australia, a partnership between the Diversity Council Australia, Reconciliation Australia and Lend Lease, said that private sector engagement with indigenous communities had improved over recent years, but new ...

The Australian Financial Review
Corporates urged to act on indigenous jobs
The Australian
Indigenous leaders across a range of sectors surveyed by the Diversity Council of Australia have scored corporates 5.1 out of 10 on average for indigenous engagement. While most participants acknowledged there had been improvement over the past five to ...
Business improves indigenous engagement: reportThe Australian Financial Review
Micah Projects and BHSC invite you to a special Close the Gap event on ThursdayThe Westender
Long way to go in closing the work gap: reportSBS

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Close indigenous work gap in private sector, report urges
The Australian
Closing the Work Gap in Corporate Australia, a partnership between the Diversity Council Australia, Reconciliation Australia and Lend Lease, acknowledged that private sector engagement with indigenous communities has improved over the past five to 10 ...

The Australian Financial Review
James Packer launches plan for 2000 indigenous jobs at Crown by 2021
The Australian
Crown has developed indigenous employment programs at its two Australian properties Melbourne and Perth. “Our commitment to offer 2000 job opportunities to Indigenous Australians remains today as strong as ever,'' Mr Packer said today. “In 2009 when ...
Business improves indigenous engagement: reportThe Australian Financial Review

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Joining the dots: Indigenous art and language in the national cultural policy
The Conversation
Arts minister Simon Crean's newly released cultural policy, Creative Australia, represents a refreshing change. It is underpinned by an understanding that not only are the arts closely linked to each other, but also to all Australians' physical and ...
Business improves indigenous engagement: reportThe Australian Financial Review

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The Australian Financial Review
Business improves indigenous engagement: report
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous leaders and employment experts have given corporate Australia an overall ranking of 5.1 out of 10 for its efforts to engage with indigenous people. The report, Closing the Work Gap in Corporate Australia, was commissioned by the Diversity ...

NT rejects funds for dialysis centres
The Australian
A TWO-YEAR bid to improve dialysis services for indigenous people in central Australia has collapsed after the Northern Territory government handed back $10 million in funding to build two remote service centres in Alice Springs and Tennant Creek.

As big mining companies boom, Aboriginals in WA sleep in dirt
The Daily Telegraph
Atlas Iron managing director Ken Brinsden said miners were doing a lot, but deeply rooted problems with indigenous Australia were "a blight on society as a whole", and BHP said it spent $68 million on community development in WA last year. Bob Neville ...

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As big mining companies boom, Aboriginals in WA sleep in dirt
Perth Now
Atlas Iron managing director Ken Brinsden said miners were doing a lot, but deeply rooted problems with indigenous Australia were "a blight on society as a whole", and BHP said it spent $68 million on community development in WA last year. Bob Neville ...

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Australia's First Aboriginal Northern Territory Chief Minister Takes Oath of ...
Day News
Australia recently welcomed its very first aboriginal provincial government official in a historic ceremony held on Thursday. Adam Giles, 40 years old, is now Australia's Aboriginal Northern Territory government head. Prime Minister Julia Gillard ...

COAG 'is for governments only'
The Australian
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has called for sweeping changes to the way the federal government works with indigenous communities and for official national status as a participant in COAG - arguing it needs more input into ...

Indigenous leader pushes 'jobs, jobs, jobs' agenda
The Australian
AUSTRALIA'S first indigenous head of government will demand a fundamental change in the direction of federal indigenous affairs, away from the "socialism that's killing Aboriginal people" and to economic development. In his first meetings with federal ...

Frontline defence against fire and weeds
The Australian
ABORIGINAL people in remote Australia are not easily scared by fire, given their ancient tradition of managing land through this means. But the bushfires that began raging through the savanna country of northern Australia in recent years, fuelled by ...

Sky News Australia
Abbott pledges new engagement with Indigenous Australians
ABC Message Stick
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has promised an overhaul of the Department of Indigenous Affairs under a Coalition government. Speaking at the Sydney Institute last night, Mr Abbott said he wanted a new engagement with Indigenous Australians to be the ...
Add indigenous into constitution: AbbottThe Australian
Abbott wants first Australian referendumSky News Australia
Abbott backs fines tactic to cut Aboriginal truancySydney Morning Herald

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Abbott pledges new engagement with Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has promised an overhaul of the Department of Indigenous Affairs under a Coalition government. Speaking at the Sydney Institute last night, Mr Abbott said he wanted a new engagement with Indigenous Australians to be the ...
Add indigenous into constitution: AbbottThe Australian
Abbott wants first Australian referendumSky News Australia
Abbott backs fines tactic to cut Aboriginal truancySydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott vows to 'engage' with Aborigines
Herald Sun
He committed to address "deep disadvantage" in indigenous Australia by visiting remote Aboriginal communities each year, as well as by getting doctors and teachers to take longer postings in communities. A coalition government would also expand an ...
Abbott's reconciliation pledgeThe Australian
Abbott backs fines tactic to cut Aboriginal truancySydney Morning Herald

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Sky News Australia
Abbott wants first Australian referendum
Sky News Australia
Tony Abbott says a coalition government would have a 'new engagement' with indigenous affairs, including constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people as the first Australians. Speaking in Sydney, Mr Abbott said indigenous affairs will be a priority ...

VICE
Who is Adam GIles?
VICE
Australia's first Aboriginal head of a government has come to power, but under shady circumstances that are becoming all too common. This is not an Obama moment. Adam Giles -- a friend of federal opposition leader Tony Abbott, a former staffer for John ...

Abbott vows to 'engage' with Aborigines
The Australian
He committed to address "deep disadvantage" in indigenous Australia by visiting remote Aboriginal communities each year, as well as by getting doctors and teachers to take longer postings in communities. A coalition government would also expand an ...

Abbott vows to 'engage' with Aborigines
Ninemsn
Tony Abbott says a coalition government would have a "new engagement" with indigenous affairs, including constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people as the first Australians. Surviving great falls from the sky. READ: Surviving great falls from the ...