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Australia: Cuba's literacy program a success for Aboriginal community
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
September 29, 2012 -- Green Left Weekly/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Sixteen Aboriginal adults in the remote Australiann town of Wilcannia, in outback Australia, are the first graduates of a groundbreaking trial literacy program ...

Gas hub footprint steps on dinosaur toes
ABC Message Stick
"This is our only window on Australia during the age of dinosaurs 130 million years ago." Over the past year, Dr Salisbury has been working with the local Aboriginal community and Broome dinosaur enthusiasts to document the fossils near Woodside's ...

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Easing of grog bans sparks fears
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leaders have warned progress on violence and school attendance could be destroyed by a relaxing of alcohol sale bans in Aboriginal communities in Queensland. The Queensland Newman government yesterday announced its review ... Scold: The High ...

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An Australian hero whose skin was the wrong colour
On Line opinion
The Wee Waa Echo called them "radicals and professional troublemakers", adding that "it is not fanciful to see the Aboriginal problem as the powder keg for Communist aggression in Australia". Abused as "boongs" and "niggers", the Murrays' riverside ...

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AAco gets new foothold as cattle station sold
The Australian
It is understood that the Indigenous Land Corporation could be backing the purchase by the local Aboriginal people. Once a deal is finalised, the property is expected to be managed by the Australian Agricultural Company. Neighbouring properties Leopold ...

Sky News Australia
Relaxed grog bans 'to revive violence'
The Australian
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin immediately declared any change to the state's pioneering alcohol management plans, allowing entire communities to be declared dry, must not be at the expense of "vulnerable women and children".
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban reviewHerald Sun
Slip of the tongues: language and the unintended consequences of Indigenous ...The Conversation
Indigenous councils to rule on liquorNEWS.com.au
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Mine project appeals set to be scrapped
The Australian
"The Aboriginal Heritage Act needs freshening up, it's relatively old -- I think that indigenous groups and the mining industry have been frustrated with the way it's been operating," Mr Koutsantonis told The Australian. "There has been a lot of court ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Australia was Stolen by Armed Robbery ... Jason Wing's piece installed as part ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Wing's Australia was Stolen by Armed Robbery features a bust of Captain Cook wearing a black balaclava, pictured. ''Australia was stolen from the Aboriginal people by lethal force,'' he said. Wing added the fate of indigenous people had deteriorated ...

Call for providers to deliver new $1.5b remote jobs program
Invest in Australia
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Bill Shorten said the Remote Jobs and Communities program brings together Job Services Australia, Disability Employment Services, Community Development Employment Projects and the Indigenous ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Australian health authorities under fire over Aboriginal health campaign
Telegraph.co.uk
The health department has recalled copies of the embarrassing Female Human Anatomy poster which were distributed to health centres and indigenous workers around the country as part of its "Live Longer!" public health campaign. The poster confused the ...
Health Dept withdraws inaccurate anatomy postersRadio Australia

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Sky News Australia
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban review
The Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs Minister Glenn Elmes has started his review of the alcohol management plans (AMPs) in place in 19 indigenous communities. The plans restrict or prohibit the sale and possession of alcohol ...
Slip of the tongues: language and the unintended consequences of Indigenous ...The Conversation
Indigenous councils to rule on liquorNEWS.com.au
Strategy encourages more Indigenous psychologistsRadio Australia
ABC Online -ABC Local -Perth Now
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Langton to deliver Boyer Lectures
The Australian
Marcia Langton has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne since February 2000. An anthropologist and geographer, she has researched Indigenous relationships with place, land tenure and environmental ...

Indigenous doctors share 'cultural education'
ABC Online
More than 300 Indigenous doctors from across the Pacific are gathering in Alice Springs today to share their traditional methods of medicine. Organiser Ngiare Brown says the conference is an opportunity to explore how culture can be used to enrich healing.

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Radio Australia
Health Dept withdraws inaccurate anatomy posters
Radio Australia
The poster is part of the Government's Living Longer program aimed at improving the health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It was taken down from the campaign's website today. Opposition Indigenous health spokesman Andrew ...

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Concern job cuts will stall Indigenous housing projects
ABC Online
Queensland Housing Minister Bruce Flegg has rejected claims that State Government public sector job cuts will affect an Aboriginal housing project. The Commonwealth is funding 150 new houses and more than 300 refurbishments in the state's Aboriginal ...

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Aboriginal health service returns to community
ABC Online
“If we want to close the gap and get the indigenous community on a par with the rest of Australia in relation to its health outcomes then we need to make sure that the indigenous community itself is involved in every step of that process." For more, go ...

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Macklin warns Qld cuts will affect indigenous housing
Business Spectator
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has warned the Queensland state government that recent cuts to its public service have put at risk progress in closing the state's indigenous housing gap, The Australian reports. Ms Macklin has written to ...

Slip of the tongues: language and the unintended consequences of Indigenous ...
The Conversation
This fits with analysis I recently co-authored showing Indigenous Australians who were learning an Indigenous language were significantly more likely to report that they were happy all or most of the time in the previous four weeks compared to those ...

Pune to host Australian cultural festival
Times of India
PUNE: The Australian cultural festival, Oz Fest, which starts on October 16 and concludes on February 5, will have several highlights for Pune, including the Australian indigenous cricket team playing local Indian teams in one-day and Twenty20 matches ...

Cutbacks 'a risk to closing indigenous gap', says Jenny Macklin
The Australian
"I am concerned that the cuts the Queensland government is making to its housing workforce could put at risk delivering better housing for indigenous people," Ms Macklin told The Australian. "It seems Queensland is cutting more than 1400 jobs in the ...

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