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Educatiion key to indigenous advancement
Radio Australia
She says she has worked over he past 40 years to build a bridge of understanding between Aboriginal and Non-aboriginals and to advance Aboriginal people through increasing awareness, advancement and appreciation of Aboriginal people and culture.

Aboriginal members warn the bush losing confidence in conservatives
The Australian
Mr Giles would have become Australia's first indigenous treasurer had he taken the deputy job. The ensuing crisis prompted Ms Anderson to warn caucus colleagues she and the other Aboriginal members could leave the party if the factions did not unite.

Dramatic punt on Old Tote
The Australian
THE year 1963 marked the first time all indigenous Australians could vote in a federal election. It was the year artist Margaret Preston died and Patrick White's third published play, A Cheery Soul, was produced in Melbourne. It wasn't an especially ...

VISIONARY, CULTURALLY-ATTUNED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Pro Bono Australia
This includes superb new, near-CBD amenities, record enrolments and student retention and students whose excellence in their disciplines is winning them accolades throughout Indigenous and mainstream Australia. To take up this exciting leadership role, ...

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DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND DEREGULATION - AUSTRALIA : New ...
4-traders (press release)
The Waringarri Arts Aboriginal Corporation will be given a shot in the arm to help attract and retain professional art staff thanks to a Federal Government grant for a new duplex unit. Minister for the Arts Simon Crean said today $625,000 provided ...

ABC Online
Recognising Indigenous Australia: we must not fail again
ABC Online
It is time for the Australian constitution to recognise who we are and the contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have made to our nation. writes Matt Thistlethwaite. I was born and bred in Maroubra in Sydney's east. I have lived in ...

The Age
Mining modern truths
The Age
There may not be too many of them, but they have created enough din to prevent intelligent debate about Langton's salient analysis of a new emerging indigenous Australia. According to her critics, Langton's sins are many: She failed to declare in her ...
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Workshop to help foster Indigenous entrepreneurs
ABC Message Stick
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) is encouraging Aboriginal people in central Australia with business ideas to attend a workshop in Alice Springs tomorrow. The workshop is the first in a series to help participants determine if their ideas are viable ...

Cicada Lodge Secures Top Indigenous Chef Mark Olive
e-Travel Blackboard (press release)
Cicada Lodge, Australia's newest luxury lodge opening in Nitmiluk National Park, Katherine, today announced an agreement with renowned Indigenous chef Mark Olive, aka The Black Olive. “We are delighted to announce that the chef de cuisine for Cicada ...

Dreamtime, boomtime
Tasmania Examiner
Stewart began his working life at the wheel of a borrowed grader levelling red dirt roads in the heat-soaked Pilbara - Australia's quarry to the world. Today he heads Australian Indigenous Enterprises with Daniel Tucker, a fellow Aboriginal contractor ...

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REVIEW: Dirtsong | Concert Hall, Brisbane
Crikey (blog)
Contemporary music has tended to blunt the jagged edges that exist in the borderlands between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. From Jimmy Little, ringing God on his way to chart success, through the gritty bush pulses of the Warumpi Band, ...

Dreamtime, boomtime
The Border Mail
Stewart began his working life at the wheel of a borrowed grader levelling red dirt roads in the heat-soaked Pilbara - Australia's quarry to the world. Today he heads Australian Indigenous Enterprises with Daniel Tucker, a fellow Aboriginal contractor ...

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Arriaga the man for mentoring
The Australian
GUILLERMO Arriaga, the writer of Babel, Amores Perros and 21 Grams, has just completed a workshop at Uluru teaching indigenous novelists how to write for the screen. Screen Australia's indigenous department ran the week-long session with Tony Birch, ...

The Age
Dreamtime, boomtime
The Age
Stewart began his working life at the wheel of a borrowed grader levelling red dirt roads in the heat-soaked Pilbara - Australia's quarry to the world. Today he heads Australian Indigenous Enterprises with Daniel Tucker, a fellow Aboriginal contractor ...

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Cup crusader Abbatangelo leads indigenous charge
Melbounre Times Weekly
"It's an unbelievable trip and a lot of preparation and organisation goes into it. "It's awesome to go up there and showcase your talents against the other states." Abbatangelo was also selected for the Cricket Australia under 23 indigenous development ...

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Education 'key for urban Indigenous kids'
SBS
Although emphasis is often placed on Indigenous communities in remote parts of Australia, Minister Macklin believes that urban communities are not being overlooked. Education , National Indigenous Television Network. Follow us: Follow us on Facebook ...

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Queensland lodge threatened with receivership, indigenous employment ...
SmartCompany.com.au
An award-winning eco lodge in Queensland, which pioneered an indigenous employment program, is under threat of receivership as it struggles to pay back loans and maintain its "Aboriginal Champions" program. The Daintree Eco Lodge and Spa won the ...
Daintree Eco-Lodge and Spa facing liquidationNEWS.com.au
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Bank 'should look at indigenous program'
The Australian
A DAINTREE lodge that has pioneered a long-term Aboriginal employment program and was recognised as the world's leading eco-resort and spa last year has been told it will be put into receivership today by the National Australia Bank. Daintree Eco-lodge ...

Fight for the right to drink
The Australian
It's a good question, for Aboriginal people's relationship with alcohol has always been deemed "special" by mainstream Australia. Early British settlers thought Aborigines particularly drawn to the grog, but also especially vulnerable to it - an ...

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