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LNG commitment to Indigenous jobs questioned
ABC Online
A central Queensland Indigenous elder says a gas company building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant near Gladstone has only employed about four people from the local Indigenous community. Santos GLNG employs thousands of workers at its massive ...

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Elder says Indigenous workers denied gas plant jobs
ABC Local
A central Queensland elder says a gas company building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant near Gladstone has only employed about four people from the local Indigenous community. Santos GLNG employs thousands of workers at its massive gas project ...
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FMG rejects indigenous criticism claims
Australian Mining
Fortescue chief Nev Power has rejected Indigenous spokesperson David Collard's claims that Aborigines don't want to work in mining as it offends their culture. Earlier this week Collard called the mining industry 'misguided' in its attempts to increase ...

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Indigenous language app big in Japan
ABC Message Stick
A computer application that teaches a local Indigenous language has been downloaded more than 20 times since its release this week - even in Japan. The Paakantyi app features about 200 words in the traditional language of far west New South Wales, and ...

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Indigenous language app big in Japan
ABC Technology and Games
A computer application that teaches a local Indigenous language has been downloaded more than 20 times since its release this week - even in Japan. The Paakantyi app features about 200 words in the traditional language of far west New South Wales, and ...

Press TV
Australia Rights Forum centers on indigenous people
Press TV
Over 100 people attended the forum held to commemorate Human Rights Day, where speakers say there's continued discrimination against Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory because of the 2007 Intervention and local indigenous people saying ...

Cacophony buried debate about crime circuit-breaker
Courier Mail
... mid 1990s, the Parliament also considered laws for the national disability insurance scheme, education funding recommended by the Gonski review, pokie reform, the Murray-Darling basin plan, and recognising indigenous Australians in our Constitution.

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Aboriginal activist's anti-Nazi stand remembered
ABC Online
Members of the Aboriginal and Jewish communities have observed the anniversary of a unique protest in Melbourne. Seventy-four years ago Aboriginal activist William Cooper and his colleagues at the Australian Aborigines League tried to hand a resolution ...

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Contemporary pieces show traditional past
ABC Message Stick
Artwork from a remote Indigenous community in Western Australia will go on display at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. 'Warakurna: All the Stories Got into our Minds and Eyes' features photographs, paintings, woven fibre and carved wood ...

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Show support for those less fortunate
ABC Online
The Foundation was established in Sydney in 1992, five months before Fred passed away, with the aim of continuing and expanding on the program work he had started in Eritrea, Vietnam and Indigenous Australia. The Foundation now works throughout ...

Australian Times
Indigenous singer Gurrumul refused cab in racist incident says manager
Australian Times
AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was refused a Melbourne taxi because of his skin colour his management have claimed. The blind performer had been performing as part of a tour with Missy Higgins at St Kilda's Palais ...
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Aboriginal Keeping Place seeks home in James Packer's Barangaroo casino
Nine to Five
THE most comprehensive collection of art highlighting indigenous life in Australia is seeking a permanent home and James Packer's proposed Barangaroo casino is the prime site. Assembled by artists Gordon and Elaine Syron, the priceless collection ...

Bard takes Yirra Yaakin to a new stage
The Australian
The company is celebrating 20 years as Western Australia's only Aboriginal theatre company and has performed dozens of shows in a blend of English, Nyungar and other indigenous languages through the years. Full-length plays such as the critically ...

Indigenous golfer qualifies for PGA
SBS
... Source: Kristopher Flanders, NITV. Share This. 0 0 0. + Comment. 0. After almost a decade of trying, Indigenous golfer Scott Gardiner picked up a prestigious PGA Tour card, and will now compete for the Australian Open. NITV's Kristopher Flanders ...

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Lessons of Redfern speech lost: elder
NEWS.com.au
In his stirring December 10, 1992 address on Aboriginal injustice, Mr Keating called on non-Aboriginal Australians to open their hearts and recognise they had dispossessed Aborigines and smashed their way of life. On Thursday, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, ...

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Lessons of Redfern speech lost: elder
Herald Sun
In his stirring December 10, 1992 address on Aboriginal injustice, Mr Keating called on non-Aboriginal Australians to open their hearts and recognise they had dispossessed Aborigines and smashed their way of life. On Thursday, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, ...

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Lessons of Redfern speech lost: elder
The Australian
In his stirring December 10, 1992 address on Aboriginal injustice, Mr Keating called on non-Aboriginal Australians to open their hearts and recognise they had dispossessed Aborigines and smashed their way of life. On Thursday, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, ...

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'Make Indigenous mental health a national priority'
SBS
Commission member, and chairwoman of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association, Professor Pat Dudgeon, says the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has long been overlooked. "I believe that Indigenous issues have been ...

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