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Aboriginal health worker canes poll point-scoring
ABC Online
The Federal Government has been warned against using Indigenous affairs for political point-scoring this election year. The call from the peak body for Aboriginal-run health services in the Northern Territory follows Prime Minister Julia Gillard's ...
Gap closed on indigenous preschool accessThe Age
Australia PM warns on Aboriginal 'rivers of grog'The West Australian
Call for new focus on indigenous jailingThe Australian
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Cameraman a 'loyal fighter' for Cape York
The Australian
His private archive of footage of the indigenous struggles, as well as ordinary life on remote communities and interviews with elders and leaders, is regarded as among the most extensive compiled in Australia. For more than two decades, Griffiths was ...

Call for new focus on indigenous jailing
The Australian
AUSTRALIA is making some progress on targets to reduce indigenous disadvantage but high incarceration rates remain a blind spot. Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday delivered the government's annual Closing the Gap report on efforts to reduce ...

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Kevin Rudd's office taken over by indigenous activists: report
NEWS.com.au
Julia Gillard today said Australia is on track to meet the first goal of its Closing The Gap targets this year but is struggling to improve other areas of life for indigenous people. The PM said the program would this year achieve the goal of ensuring ...
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Kevin Rudd's office taken over by indigenous activists: report
Herald Sun
Julia Gillard today said Australia is on track to meet the first goal of its Closing The Gap targets this year but is struggling to improve other areas of life for indigenous people. The PM said the program would this year achieve the goal of ensuring ...
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Call for target on Aboriginal prison rate
The Australian
AUSTRALIA will have "another stolen generation" on its hands if it doesn't act to reduce high incarceration rates of indigenous people, Aboriginal leader Mick Gooda says. Mr Gooda was responding to the latest Closing the Gap report tabled by Prime ...

Qld Indigenous mayors consulted on alcohol strategies
ABC Online
A far north Queensland MP says the State Government will not allow any changes to alcohol management plans until Indigenous mayors are certain their communities will be safe. Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she is worried the winding back of alcohol ...

Rivers of grog starting to flow again: Gillard
ABC Online
Map: Australia. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has declared "the gap is being closed" on Indigenous disadvantage, but has warned that "retrograde steps" being taken by some state and territory governments are putting that at risk. Delivering the annual ...

Abbott, Gillard unite on grog bans
The Australian
Ms Gillard stated that constitutional recognition is fundamental to the process of Reconciliation so that all Australians can feel pride in our Indigenous heritage and understand its centrality in our national story. "Without it, that story will remain ...

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Australia's Indigenous Face Job, Education Hurdles, Gillard Says
Bloomberg
By Jason Scott - 2013-02-06T01:10:38Z. Australia's indigenous people face a “massive and unacceptable gap” in employment rates compared with the rest of the nation, while health and education standards also lag behind, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said.
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Indigenous advocate calls for rehabilitation reboot
ABC Online
An Indigenous advocate in Cairns says the Queensland Government's boot camp plan for young offenders is a good idea, but should be renamed. A report by Deloitte Access Economics says sending Indigenous offenders to rehabilitation programs instead of ...

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Alcohol bans discriminatory: Newman
Brisbane Times
Mr Newman responded by saying alcohol-related problems were not confined to indigenous communities and Australia as a whole had a problem with alcohol. "I simply say the policy of discrimination against Aboriginal people is not appropriate," he told ...

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Mortality down, but so is literacy
The Australian
"The number of Indigenous Australians in mainstream employment has risen from 42.4 to 44.7 per cent, a small but encouraging increase". "There was a particularly striking rise in mainstream employment in the Northern Territory from 21.3 to 30.3 per cent.

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The rivers of grog must not be reopened, says Julia Gillard
The Australian
Ms Gillard will cite Mr Pearson's use of the word "tragedy" to describe the Newman government's plans for Queensland indigenous communities. She will argue that closing the gap between black and white Australians is already a difficult task and will be ...

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Gap closed on indigenous preschool access
The Age
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will hail the achievement as the first step in closing the education gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians and report progress in reducing infant mortality and increasing year 12 attendance levels. But ...
Australia's Indigenous Face Job, Education Hurdles, Gillard SaysBloomberg
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Abbott, Gillard unite on grog bansThe Australian
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Aboriginal adults are jailed at 14 times the rate of non-indigenous people
The Australian
THE National Congress of Australia's First Peoples is calling for the federal government to expand its Closing the Gap targets to include commitments to halve the incarceration rates of Aborigines and halve the rates of violence experienced by ...

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Racism row threatens to mar NRL All Stars v indigenous All Stars match
The Daily Telegraph
"I am happy to let my record in indigenous communities across Australia stand and I am happy to do the same in the context of my contribution as a commissioner in rugby league. "At the core of this issue is that the chairman (Knight) just didn't have ...

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Gap closed on indigenous preschool access
The Age
Julia Gillard will hail the achievement as the first step in closing the education gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians and report progress in reducing infant mortality and increasing year 12 attendance levels. But the fifth annual ...
Aboriginal adults are jailed at 14 times the rate of non-indigenous peopleThe Australian

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Lack of trust impedes reconciliation
The Australian
INDIGENOUS and non-indigenous Australians don't trust each other but almost everyone agrees the relationship is important, Reconciliation Australia says. The organisation's Barometer 2012 report, which surveys the relationships between indigenous and ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous offenders need rehabilitation, not jail: report
ABC Online
The National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (NIDAC) is calling for investment into drug and alcohol rehabilitation services for non-violent offenders in an effort to combat high Indigenous incarceration levels. Accounting firm Deloitte Access ...
Rehab 'a $110k saving over jail'The Australian
Rehab, not jail, can reap rewardsThe Canberra Times
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