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Emotional and angry scenes outside the Alice Springs Courthouse (mp3)

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Dan Sultan says Australia is 'racist'
Ninemsn
While the Labor government has committed to a referendum to formally include indigenous people in the constitution, Sultan believes change is moving too slow. "Australia is a fundamentally racist county and that's something that can be difficult for ...

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A Northern Town
WA today
A Northern Town is history viewed through the prism of a radical indigenous owned and operated aged care facility in Australia's most racist town. The residents of the nursing home are half white and half Aboriginal. A powerful film about parallel ...

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The Guardian (Australia)
UN expert told of mining impacts
The Guardian (Australia)
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was a high-level attendee at a two-day “extractive industries” roundtable hosted by the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples in Melbourne on August 20-21. Professor Anaya largely ...
UN urges more indigenous consultationSBS

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The Guardian (Australia)
Statement, Indigenous Social Justice Association and Sydney Support Assange ...
The Guardian (Australia)
Julian is but another example. The Ceremony is being held at the behest of many migrant, refugee and non-Aboriginal Australians who wish to fully recognise the Traditional Owners of the many Aboriginal Nations of Australia that still exist to this very ...
Assange gets an Aboriginal passportSydney Morning Herald
Assange gets Aboriginal passportSBS
Assange to get Aboriginal passportNEWS.com.au
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A Northern Town
The Age
A Northern Town is history viewed through the prism of a radical indigenous owned and operated aged care facility in Australia's most racist town. The residents of the nursing home are half white and half Aboriginal. A powerful film about parallel ...

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A Northern Town
Sydney Morning Herald
A Northern Town is history viewed through the prism of a radical indigenous owned and operated aged care facility in Australia's most racist town. The residents of the nursing home are half white and half Aboriginal. A powerful film about parallel ...

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MP demands petroleum bill investigation
ABC Message Stick
... in State Parliament by South Australia's Resources and Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis for reading out remarks published in a newspaper. A speech by Dan van Holst Pellekaan used a quote from a member of the Indigenous Arabunna people accusing ...

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Out-of-home supports Wall of Hands
The Australian
THE Out-of-Home industry has raised more than $200,000 for the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation's Wall of Hands Indigenous literacy appeal. The money will help to fund literacy programs for children living in the remote communities of ...
OOH industry supports Indigenous literacyB&T Marketing & Media
NEWS IN BRIEF: 18 September 2012AdNews

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Telstra Reveals Its Million Dollar Grant Recipients
Pro Bono Australia
One hundred organisations across every Australian state and territory are among grant recipients including the Darwin-based Mungoorbada Aboriginal Corporation, the Geeveston Community Centre south of Hobart, the Cerebral Palsy Alliance north of ...

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School sees pitfalls in Indigenous language studies
ABC Local
The principal of Cherbourg State School, south-west of Bundaberg in southern Queensland, says it will be difficult to teach Indigenous languages in some schools. A new report is calling on the Federal Government to introduce Indigenous language ...

School sees pitfalls in Indigenous language studies
ABC Online
The principal of Cherbourg State School, south-west of Bundaberg in southern Queensland, says it will be difficult to teach Indigenous languages in some schools. A new report is calling on the Federal Government to introduce Indigenous language ...

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Sky News Australia
The chance of a lifetime to save Indigenous languages
The Conversation
It is not often that the opportunity comes along to make a real difference, but a new report into Indigenous languages in Australia has the potential to do just that. Our Land, Our Languages has already been likened to the momentous Mabo decision. But ...
First language education is a matter of common senseCrikey (blog)

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OOH industry supports Indigenous literacy
B&T Marketing & Media
An out-of-home industry campaign which raised awareness for the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation's (ALNF) 'Wall of Hands' Indigenous literacy appeal ended this week, raising $200,000. Funds raised will help support the ALNF's work ...
NEWS IN BRIEF: 18 September 2012AdNews

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More work declared for UN Declaration
PS News
Commissioner Gooda said the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, setting up the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, and the National Healing Foundation all went some way to redressing the effects of colonisation on indigenous people ...
Far North improves in NAPLAN resultsThe Cairns Post

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out of squalor to an uncertain future
The Australian
... which was assessed as having access to an established economy," Ms Macklin's spokeswoman said. "In these areas, indigenous jobseekers have been supported by the expanded Indigenous Employment Program and the reformed Job Services Australia.

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Bilingual tack gains traction
The Australian
Parliament's standing committee on indigenous affairs released a bipartisan report yesterday calling for more action to protect endangered indigenous languages, revealed by The Australian, and recommending bilingual education. Mr Garrett's spokeswoman ...
Teach indigenous kids in mother tongueSky News Australia
Indigenous students need bilingual educationABC Online
Action needed to help preserve Indigenous languagesThe Conversation
Invest in Australia -Perth Now -The Virtual Medical Centre
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Sydney Morning Herald
Drama at NIDA: former board member slams falling standards
Sydney Morning Herald
Puplick also claims Williams ignored indigenous and Asian stories and design aesthetics. He said NIDA had no indigenous representation on its board or among senior staff. "Serious engagement with both Indigenous Australia and with Asia is something ...

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WA today
Drama at NIDA: former board member slams falling standards
WA today
Puplick also claims Williams ignored indigenous and Asian stories and design aesthetics. He said NIDA had no indigenous representation on its board or among senior staff. "Serious engagement with both Indigenous Australia and with Asia is something ...

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More support needed for first languages
NEWS.com.au
National Congress of Australia's First Peoples spokeswoman Jody Broun said the report had recognised indigenous languages were suffering from a "a slow death by neglect." Tiwi Islander Gregoriana Parker said teaching children their first language Tiwi ...