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Income management raises gender issues
SBS
As income management is implemented in South Australia's APY Aboriginal Lands, signs are emerging that it's creating a gender divide, SBS reporter Karen Ashford reports. SBS Radio: Income management raises fresh concerns. The SBS MP3 Player ...

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Get 'corporate' with economy, Treasurer Wayne Swan told
The Australian
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows the indigenous fertility rate is 2.57 babies for each woman, compared with 1.89 for all women in Australia. The peak age group for Aboriginal women to give birth was 20-24 and the birth rate was 149 ...

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Bonus cut will hurt indigenous mums: MP
Herald Sun
As part of its mid-year budget update, the government will reduce the bonus from $5000 to $3000 for second and subsequent children from mid-2013. Treasurer Wayne Swan justified the change by arguing "after the first child you've already bought the cot, ...

Bonus cut will hurt indigenous mums: MP
The Australian
As part of its mid-year budget update, the government will reduce the bonus from $5000 to $3000 for second and subsequent children from mid-2013. Treasurer Wayne Swan justified the change by arguing "after the first child you've already bought the cot, ...

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Bonus cut will hurt indigenous mums: MP
NEWS.com.au
As part of its mid-year budget update, the government will reduce the bonus from $5000 to $3000 for second and subsequent children from mid-2013. Treasurer Wayne Swan justified the change by arguing "after the first child you've already bought the cot, ...

South Australia provides funding for Indigenous job seekers
Australian Mining
$709,000 worth of funding has been announced for the Connecting Aboriginal People to Mining (CAPM) program, which will train indigenous jobseekers in South Australia. Employment, Higher Education and Skills Minister Tom Kenyon said qualifications ...

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AES STRENGTHENS ITS SYDNEY PRESENCE WITH NEW WATERLOO OFFICE
PRWire
Over thelast 12 months the AES has placed over 2,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders into long-term careers. This figure forms a contribution of 13% towards the Australian Government's Indigenous Employment Program job commencements for the ...

Brisbane Times
Fashionable or not, Mundine's views strike a blow for free speech
Brisbane Times
Last Thursday, during a media conference to publicise his forthcoming International Boxing Federation world middleweight contest with Tasmanian Daniel Geale, Mundine questioned his opponent's Aboriginal identity. Mundine said he ''thought they wiped ...

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Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown
TABCORP Park Menangle begin Fisher's Ghost Festival with race day
Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown
The day's attractions will include an Indigenous Drivers Invitational - the only Indigenous race in Australia. Six drivers and their horses, including previous winner Bruce O'Brien, will compete for the indigenous $10,000 prize. The meet also includes ...

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All hands on deck at Westmeadows school
Hume Leader
STUDENTS from Westmeadows Primary School have entered a competition that aims to end the disparity between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. The Creative Change GenerationOne School Competition encourages students to perform and ...

The Australian Financial Review
Australia's Julia Gillard Is No Feminist Hero
Truth-Out
I have just spent several months in Aboriginal Australia, and the views I have gathered from remarkable, despairing, eloquent indigenous women of Gillard and her "feminism" are mostly unknown, ignored or dismissed in this country. Watching Gillard ...
Our egalitarianism silences the class-warfare guns of Labor's spinner-in-chiefThe Australian (blog)

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Funding diverted to indigenous income scheme
The Australian
Figures released yesterday show the funding to be spread over the next two years has been redirected to allow the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Department of Human Services to cover the costs of the ...

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Mundine's views strike a blow for free speech
Sydney Morning Herald
Last Thursday, during a media conference to publicise his forthcoming International Boxing Federation world middleweight contest with Tasmanian Daniel Geale, Mundine questioned his opponent's Aboriginal identity. Mundine said he ''thought they wiped ...
Mundine attempts to unite Indigenous AustraliansABC Online
Boxer Anthony Mundine has finally apologised to Daniel Geale for mocking his ...The Australian
Anthony Mundine shuns Daniel Geale apology, instead calls for changes to ...NEWS.com.au
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Mining sector expands cultural links
Adelaide Now
OZ Minerals now employs about 125 indigenous workers at its Prominent Hill mine in South Australia's far north, with many of those coming from local communities. The company this week celebrated another nine graduates from its pre-employment program, ...

Indigenous prison opens its doors in Western Australia
Radio Australia (blog)
The West Kimblerley Regional Prison at Derby in Western Australia has been designed to meet the unique cultural needs of Indigenous Australian men and women. Western Australia has the nation's highest rate of Indigenous incarceration, at twice the ...

Indigenous meeting brings people together
ABC Online
The women, from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands, travelled from the remote corner of north-east South Australia to meet in Dareton, in south west New South Wales. The event was called 'Desert Meets River', and was aimed at ...

The first interactive Indigenous comic book
SBS
A group of teenagers from Roebourne in Western Australia have created the first interactive Aboriginal comic book. The year is 2076 and the land has been destroyed by radiation, the future of the world depends on 14 teenagers called the Love Punks.

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The first interactive Indigneous comic book
SBS
A group of teenagers from Roebourne in Western Australia have created the first interactive Aboriginal comic book. The year is 2076 and the land has been destroyed by radiation, the future of the world depends on 14 teenagers called the Love Punks.

Susanne Chauvel Carlsson on preserving Charles Chauvel's legacy
Inside Film
Australian producer/director Charles Chauvel's 1955 film Jedda was not only the first colour feature in Australia, but the first to cast Indigenous Australians in leading roles. Five decades later, Chauvel's only daughter, Susanne Chauvel Carlsson ...

Opposition Says Taxpayers "Ripped Off" on Indigenous Housing Renos
DesignBuild Source
The federal opposition says taxpayers in Australia are being ripped off, with a large number of refurbishments completed under an indigenous housing program in the Northern Territory having mismatched tiles and “paint jobs a six-year-old would not be ...