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Liverpool-born Scott Gardiner first indigenous Australian on PGA tour
Herald Sun
LIVERPOOL-BORN golfer Scott Gardiner will be the first indigenous Australian to play on the prestigious and lucrative PGA tour. After battling away on the secondary tour for eight years, he will finally realise his goal of playing with the big guns ...

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Study finds jail more likely for Indigenous offenders
ABC Online
Indigenous offenders in New South Wales and South Australia are more likely than others to receive a prison sentence. A study done for the Australian Institute of Criminology compared the rates of imprisonment from magistrates courts over a 10-year ...

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Indigenous channel goes live today on SBS4 | Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
"SBS is incredibly proud to be playing a role in delivering content about Indigenous Australians, produced by Indigenous Australians, to every Australian household," he said. "With NITV part of the SBS family, we will reflect Australia's diversity in a ...

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Gloomy forecast for Aboriginal super
Eureka Street
Dark-skinned hands holding pink piggy bank At a recent conference hosted by the National and Torres Strait Island Council (NATSIC), a gloomy conversation point emerged. The discussion was meant to be about Aboriginal superannuation. But Anthony ...

Develop indigenous economy, says Marcia Langton
The Australian Financial Review
The portrait depicts the economic, demographic and cultural shifts in Australia's north, where indigenous people own 82 per cent of the land, with economic interests closely aligned with non-indigenous Australians in mining, cattle, and tourism. The ...

Liverpool Leader
Liverpool-born Scott Gardiner first indigenous Australian on PGA tour
Liverpool Leader
LIVERPOOL-BORN golfer Scott Gardiner will be the first indigenous Australian to play on the prestigious and lucrative PGA tour. After battling away on the secondary tour for eight years, he will finally realise his goal of playing with the big guns ...

The Guardian
Review - The Sources of Aborigine Painting, Australia-Tjukurrtjanu
The Guardian
Despite fleeting appearances by Aboriginal Australians in films, art galleries or forums discussing indigenous peoples, the exhibition at the Quai Branly museum in Paris is the first major event in France to be devoted exclusively to their art. The ...

New era for Australian indigenous television dawns today
Media Spy
National Indigenous Television (NITV) will begin free-to-air transmission at midday today, broadcasting a special presentation live from Uluru in the Northern Territory. From the Heart of Our Nation will be hosted by Indigenous broadcasters Stan Grant ...
SBS to launch National Indigenous TVThe Australian
Maori Television Supports Indigenous Television in AustraliaScoop.co.nz (press release)
The first storytellers: The history of NITVSBS
Sydney Morning Herald
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SBS to launch National Indigenous TV
The Australian
SBS will today switch on Australia's newest free-to-air television channel, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander network National Indigenous TV, with preparations under way for a giant launch party in the desert. The digital channel will be officially ...
New era for Australian indigenous television dawns todayMedia Spy
Indigenous channel goes live today on SBS4The Sunshine Coast Daily
Maori Television Supports Indigenous Television in AustraliaScoop.co.nz (press release)
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Message received on indigenous start-ups
The Australian
AN increase of 30 per cent in Aborigines wanting to start their own businesses has prompted a peak indigenous body to make an unprecedented investment in a going concern to secure a revenue stream on which to raise further development funds.

Alcohol bans 'are not racially neutral'
The Australian
Peak indigenous body the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples along with the Australian Human Rights Commission were yesterday both granted leave to intervene in the case and present submissions. In a hearing before the full bench of the High ...
High Court hears landmark Palm Island caseNEWS.com.au

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High Court hears landmark Palm Island case
The Australian
The High Court accepted an application from the peak indigenous body, the National Congress of Australia's First People, to make submissions as a friend of the court. Congress spokeswoman Jody Broun said "special measures" were used across Australia ...

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Maori Television Supports Indigenous Television in Australia
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Maori Television is proud to support the free-to-air launch of National Indigenous Television (NITV) in Australia. NITV will begin broadcasting free-to-air from 12.00pm, 12 December 2012, delivering content about indigenous Australians to all ...
Dawn rises on new TV ventureSydney Morning Herald

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MÄ ori TV supports launch of NITV in Oz
Voxy
MÄ ori Television is proud to support the free-to-air launch of National Indigenous Television (NITV) in Australia. NITV will begin broadcasting free-to-air from 12.00pm, 12 December 2012, delivering content about indigenous Australians to all ...
SBS indigenous network to go liveC21Media
Dawn rises on new TV ventureSydney Morning Herald

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The gift of hearing and employment for indigenous community
Coffs Coast Advocate
The business is celebrating the graduation of an indigenous trainee, Kade Garde, who now has a Certificate II in Business Services after working with Australian Hearing while studying over the past two years. Gai Southwell from the Aboriginal ...

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Indigenous Australians mark 20th anniv. of Redfern Speech
Press TV
In 1992 the then Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating addressed a crowd in a park in the Sydney Suburb of Redfern and acknowledged the challenges Indigenous Australian faced because of colonisation. Twenty years later, Indigenous and ...
Paul Keating with Anon Link, 7, at Redfern Park in 1992. Picture: Steven ...The Australian
Redfern marks Keating speech, 20 years onABC Message Stick
Keating's Redfern speech remembered as a 'landmark'The Sunshine Coast Daily
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Human Rights awards: Indigenous members recognised
SBS
Three members of the Indigenous community have been recognised at the Australian Human Rights Commission awards in Sydney. And the main prize went to an athlete who's made it his mission to work with remote communities.
Thorpe wins human rights awardABC Online

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Haaretz
An Aboriginal protest against the Nazis, finally delivered
Haaretz
SYDNEY -- One of the most remarkable protests against the “cruel persecution” of the Jews by the Nazis has finally been completed – 74 years after it was initiated in faraway Australia. Just weeks after Kristallnacht, William Cooper, an Aboriginal ...

BOURBON : ensures Indigenous training and hiring in Australia
4-traders
WEBNEWS - A unique French-Aboriginal alliance has been formed in Perth last week, as BOURBON has agreed Aboriginal Marine Services (AMS) and its Indigenous contracting subsidiary, iMarine, to provide a steady flow of workers. This agreement will ...

ABC Online
The Indigenous justice divide
ABC Online
New data released last week shows that the incarceration rates for Aboriginal women have increased. According to research by University of New South Wales's Professor Eileen Baldry, the number of prisoners in Australia has risen by 31 per cent in the ...