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Kimberley MP Carol Martin lashes Browse gas hub protesters
Perth Now
Outgoing Kimberley MLA Carol Martin has told the West Australian parliament that she supported a bill underpinning the Woodside-led Browse project because many indigenous people in the Kimberley region believed it would benefit them, not just state ...

Kimberley MP Carol Martin lashes Browse gas hub protesters
Herald Sun
THE first indigenous woman elected to an Australian parliament has come out swinging against Browse gas hub opponents, saying the Broome community is not divided over the proposal and it's only a small but vocal group causing all the fuss. Outgoing ...

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NEWS.com.au
Kimberley MP Carol Martin lashes Browse gas hub protesters
NEWS.com.au
THE first indigenous woman elected to an Australian parliament has come out swinging against Browse gas hub opponents, saying the Broome community is not divided over the proposal and it's only a small but vocal group causing all the fuss. Outgoing ...

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Where Eager Gillard Dares
Pacific Free Press
Australia has 40% of the world's uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy, Pakistan, is ...
Indian leaders interact with Australian premierTimes of India

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Warriors search for Maori students for Summit
Yahoo!Xtra Blogs (blog)
The Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC) organises the event to recognise outstanding achievement and application to education, culture and the community by selecting a total of 64 young Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous Australian) ...

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Aboriginal languages finding new life with technology
Global Regina
The result of all the work was the Chat app, which is available in over 100 aboriginal languages – every Canadian one and others in places like Australia and the U.S. too. So far, the app has been downloaded about 7,000 times. “When going through ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Extraordinary trove to go under the hammer
The Australian
It will be the largest single-owner auction of indigenous and non-indigenous contemporary Australian art. The sale will comprise about 25 per cent of the famous Laverty Collection and will include works by William Robinson, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Peter ...
Selling art from the heartThe Australian Financial Review

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Aboriginal languages finding new life with technology
GlobalNews.ca
The result of all the work was the Chat app, which is available in over 100 aboriginal languages – every Canadian one and others in places like Australia and the U.S. too. So far, the app has been downloaded about 7,000 times. “When going through ...

Australia's Uranium Bonanza: Making the World a More Dangerous Place
Center for Research on Globalization
Australia has 40% of the world's uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy, Pakistan, is ...
Indian leaders interact with Australian premierTimes of India
The grubby saga of uranium sales to IndiaThe Guardian (Australia)

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Boxscore
Australia's Indigenous cricket team finishes tour with three wins and two losses
Boxscore
Cricket Australia: (Oct. 24, 2012) - The National Indigenous Cricket Development Squad has been defeated by 20 runs by MIG Cricket Club in Mumbai today, finishing their 12-day tour of India with three wins and two losses. Results Game 1 – 35 overs ...

Desert memories come into vogue
The Australian
It will be the largest single-owner auction of indigenous and non-indigenous contemporary Australian art. The sale will comprise about 25 per cent of the famous Laverty Collection and will include works by William Robinson, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Peter ...

TV mogul now a 'big brother'
The Australian
Flanked by the likes of UBS Australia chief executive Matthew Grounds, Future Fund chairman David Gonski and former Fairfax chief Fred Hilmer, he will open Balnaves Place, the new home for the university's Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous Programs that ...

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Billions spent but Aborigines still live in the third world
The Australian
They failed to educate most of the indigenous people of the Northern Territory; failed to make them healthy or create jobs for them. It is a failure shared by both parties here and in Canberra, and shared by people outside of politics. It is a failure ...
Anderson calls for schools to be made equalABC Online

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Sydney Morning Herald
Redfern in their words
Sydney Morning Herald
McGovern says he knew little of Aboriginal Australia but that this was, if anything, an advantage. ''The writers were unguarded and open. In a way, they granted me the right to be stupid and to offend. I could go in there and say things that no white ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Climbing Uluru could be banned
Telegraph.co.uk
The giant red landmark, located in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, is sacred to the Anangu, the Aboriginal people of the area, who have jointly run the park with the Australian Government since 1985. While it is currently not prohibited to climb ...
Climbing Uluru at risk as numbers dropNEWS.com.au
Ban on climbing Uluru comes nearer as ratio of visitors tackling the iconic ...Daily Mail
Visitors to Uluru could be banned from climbing on itTNT Magazine

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The Canberra Times
GP conference to tackle the issue of racism in health services
Crikey (blog)
The health system needs to be more proactive in addressing racism, according to a submission made by the RACGP National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health to the Australian Human Rights Commission National Anti-Racism ...
High-achieving ACT youngsters lead the wayThe Canberra Times

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ABC Local
Top end station set to achieve Australian first in carbon farming
ABC Local
This burning draws on traditional fire practices used by indigenous people before white settlement, and could turn out to be a substantial income earner in the carbon offsets market. This project centres on Fish River Station, around 2 hours south of ...

Burnett Heads students rap
Bundaberg News Mail
The competition encourages primary schools to perform and film their own version of the GenerationOne theme song Hands Across Australia, to inspire their response to indigenous disparity. Burnett Heads primary teacher Jodie Hack said they decided to ...
Coffs students try their hands at performingClarence Valley Daily Examiner

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Anderson calls for schools to be made equal
ABC Online
Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson says Aboriginal languages should not be taught at remote Northern Territory schools. She says Indigenous schools should have the same learning requirements as those in capital cities. Ms Anderson has ...

Coffs students try their hands at performing
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
The winning school is awarded $15,000 and the campaign is part of GenerationOne's aim to bring all Australians together to end the disparity between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in one generation. Singing, dancing and filming their ...

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