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Crossin to seek preselection despite odds
The Australian
Ms Gillard said it was time Labor had an indigenous person in federal parliament, stating she knew the decision would be "controversial". However her pick also dashes the hopes of former NT education minister Marion Scrymgour, who was Australia's first ...

Incumbent Trish Crossin to fight Nova Peris for Senate spot
The Australian
Former NT education minister Marion Scrymgour, who was Australia's first indigenous female minister, had previously declared she would run against Senator Crossin for preselection for the Senate ticket. She received a phone call from Ms Gillard ...

PM's Peris pick angers colleagues
The Australian
About time: It has taken way too long for Labor to preselect an indigenous Australian to a winnable seat. But it's worth remembering the party recently passed up an opportunity to secure a quality indigenous representative in the Senate in Warren ...

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'Debate needed' on Australia Day date
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ACT Australian of The Year finalist, indigenous elder Tom Calma, wants a national debate on whether Australia Day should be moved to a more neutral date. Dr Calma is one of eight finalists for Australia's top gong. The indigenous leader, who has also ...
Warning as juvenile jailings hit new highThe Guardian (Australia)

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Nova Peris has had political ambition for some time
The Australian
But politics is something that when I am 40 years old you can always get involved with," Ms Peris, then 28, told The Australian after a 400m heat. Ms Peris was then 12 years into a relationship with Aboriginal footballer Sean Kneebone, having married ...

Appoint indigenous commissioner: inquiry
Sky News Australia
The move would 'signal a genuine partnership between the largely non-indigenous parliament and indigenous leaders'. She said the rare step has one known precedent in Australian political history - dating back to the Second Senate Select Committee on ...

Labor source says Gillard's Peris move is revenge over Rudd
The Australian
WARREN Mundine has backed Julia Gillard's decision to endorse Nova Peris for the Senate after he was among indigenous Australians overlooked in the past. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Nova Peris is Prime Minister Julia Gillard's preferred ...

Peris 'ready' to take on Parliament
Sydney Morning Herald
Having become the first indigenous Australian to win an Olympic Gold medal, as a hockey player in 1996, she was about to achieve another first: switching to athletics before the Commonwealth Games and becoming the first Australian to win gold medals in ...

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Appoint indigenous commissioners: inquiry
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Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) spokesman Russell Taylor told the inquiry he was concerned there was no plan about how to build necessary support to achieve a positive referendum outcome. He also ...
Indigenous involvement vital in plan for constitutional recognitionSydney Morning Herald

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Appoint indigenous commissioners: inquiry
The Australian
The move would "signal a genuine partnership between the largely non-indigenous parliament and indigenous leaders". She said the rare step has one known precedent in Australian political history - dating back to the Second Senate Select Committee on ...
Indigenous involvement vital in plan for constitutional recognitionSydney Morning Herald

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Appoint indigenous commissioners: inquiry
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP. Indigenous parliamentary commissioners should be appointed to advance the push for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. The federal government put on hold last September plans for a referendum to ...

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Medalist Poised to Be First Female Australia Aboriginal Lawmaker
Bloomberg
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard selected Olympic gold medalist Nova Peris to run for parliament, clearing the way for the field hockey and track star to become the nation's first female Aboriginal federal lawmaker. Gillard today said she will ...

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Julia Gillard 'picks' Nova Peris for Senate seat
The Australian
INDIGENOUS Australian and Olympian Nova Peris is set to stand as Labor's number one Senate candidate in the Northern Territory after the intervention of Julia Gillard. The Prime Minister said she had exercised her discretion to make a “captain's pick ...
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Gillard picks Nova Peris to run for SenateABC Message Stick
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'Revolving door' in Aboriginal Affairs
ABC Online
A welfare agency says a 'revolving door' in the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio is holding up progress on policies designed to help the state's Indigenous communities. Ian Hunter became the fourth Aboriginal Affairs Minister in three years after he was ...

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Endorse Peris for senate: Gillard
WA today
Ms Gillard will ask the Australian Labor Party to endorse the indigenous athlete and Olympic hockey gold medallist as a candidate. "Her passion for health and education makes her the right choice to succeed Senator Trish Crossin," Ms Gillard says. Ms ...
Nova 'a captain's pick'Sydney Morning Herald
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Lost indigenous language revived in Australia
BBC News
An Aboriginal language crushed under the weight of European colonisation in Australia has been revived, thanks to the dedication of researchers and the vision of 19th Century German missionaries. The Kaurna language once thrived and was spoken by the ...

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Indigenous tensions still simmering in NE Australia
Radio Australia
The premier of Australia's eastern state of Queensland, Campbell Newman, has met indigenous elders from the community of Logan, in an effort to quell racial tensions. Conflict between Aboriginal and Pacific Islander residents erupted last week, during ...
Logan kids fear return to school after street clashes, premier toldBrisbane Times

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New organisation for indigenous business in PNG
Radio Australia
There are hundreds of thousands of indigenous-businesspeople in PNG working in the formal and the informal sector. But in the formal sector, where most of the money is to be made, 90 per cent of businesses are owned by foreigners. That is something the ...

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PNG body aims to help indigenous business-people
Radio Australia
Indigenous Business council secretary, Sarah Haoda Todd, says since independence indigenous business-people "have been in slumber." "Lots of business opportunities have come and passed us by," Ms Todd told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat.

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