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Party machines shamed by inaction on indigenous MPs
Courier Mail
It might be Australia's first Aboriginal member of Parliament, Queensland senator Neville Bonner, or the only Aboriginal House of Representatives member Ken Wyatt, or even former New South Wales Democrat senator Aden Ridgeway. Rarely will folk cite an ...

Lear not as you know it but still traditional
The Australian
The production, four years in the making, is being created in consultation with indigenous communities around the country. Lewis said the Lear story, with its struggles over land and power, is in many ways the story of Aboriginal Australia. Potts ...

Call for radical rethink for Aust outback
Ninemsn
The report was not just about indigenous Australians but also farming, tourism and mining communities, he said. People were frustrated service delivery was not attuned to local needs, he said. The report contained lessons for governments about the NT ...

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Call for radical rethink for Aust outback
Herald Sun
The report 'Fixing the hole in Australia's heartland' said that despite good intentions, nearly all current government policies, funding and programs were inadequate or failing. Former Aboriginal affairs minister in the Fraser government, Fred Chaney ...
Review looks at regional governanceWarwick Daily News
Push for commission to solve outback crisisSydney Morning Herald

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Call for radical rethink for Aust outback
The Australian
The report 'Fixing the hole in Australia's heartland' said that despite good intentions, nearly all current government policies, funding and programs were inadequate or failing. Former Aboriginal affairs minister in the Fraser government, Fred Chaney ...

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Greens challenge Woodside project process
The Australian
THE approval process for a $34 billion gas hub earmarked for Western Australia carries the "stench of corruption", the Senate has been told. Woodside Petroleum is seeking environmental approval to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing hub at ...

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Greens challenge Woodside project process
Ninemsn
The approval process for a $34 billion gas hub earmarked for Western Australia carries the "stench of corruption", the Senate has been told. Woodside Petroleum is seeking environmental approval to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing hub at ...

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Reducing Indigenous suicide through empowerment and pride
The Conversation
We've long known that rates of suicide in Indigenous communities are higher than the wider Australian population. But we're much less clear about why this is the case. Each life lost to suicide reminds us of the need to better identify the causes and ...

Indigenous spirituality and the need for faith
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
I recently travelled to Darwin and was surrounded by the living and remnant artefacts of the indigenous faiths by which the first Australians ordered their lives. It was another example, if ever I needed one, of the power of spirituality and its ...

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Indigenous spirituality and the need for faith
Brisbane Times (blog)
I recently travelled to Darwin and was surrounded by the living and remnant artefacts of the indigenous faiths by which the first Australians ordered their lives. It was another example, if ever I needed one, of the power of spirituality and its ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Changemakers - Warren Roberts
Pro Bono Australia
They are young Australians who want to build an understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture and their experiences to build stronger relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for generations to come. Through ...

Green Left Weekly
Julian Assange to receive Aboriginal Passport
Green Left Weekly
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 that still exist to this very day. They wish to show their full respect ...
Julian Assange will be awarded an aboriginal passportStraight.com

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Remote Australians disconnected and discontent: report
ABC Online
The report's authors, including former Indigenous affairs Minister Fred Chaney, say residents of remote Australia are disconnected and discontent. Bronwyn Herbert reports. BRONWYN HERBERT: The report is called Fixing the Hole in Australia's Heartland ...

Dismay at ignored income proposal
The Australian
NINE indigenous communities in the remote Ngaanyatjarra Lands of Western Australia say they have been pushing for income management for more than two years, but on their own terms. Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin announced ...

Radical blueprint for reform to be unveiled
The Australian
The report, to be launched today in Parliament House by former Aboriginal affairs minister Fred Chaney and Peter Shergold, the former head of the Prime Minister's Department, outlines a radical blueprint for reform starting with pilot projects for new ...

Commonwealth told to get out of town as intervention anger rises
The Australian
Residents of Ampilatwatja, about 325km northeast of Alice Springs, say they have asked the federal government to either hand over its assets to the local community development organisation or have them removed. The move comes after traditional owners ...

Geoffrey Cousins slams James Price Point gas dealing as 'corrupt'
The Australian
The West Australian government has confirmed that two letters from the Department of Indigenous Affairs to Woodside, advising of possible significant Aboriginal sites in the James Price Point work area, were withdrawn at the request of the company.

Carlin proves himself a legend with experience in halls of power
The Australian
The 16-year-old has won a scholarship to Ipswich Grammar School and represented his state in cricket and his nation in rugby and softball. Now he's been chosen to bowl up to Education Minister Peter Garrett as part of a program designed to give ...

Sydney Morning Herald
40 years of art for auction
Sydney Morning Herald
But since the early 1990s it has been Australian indigenous art that resulted in that ''thud'' the Clarkes always look for before buying. Bettina MacAulay, from St Lucia, inspects Emily Kngwarreye's "Summer Rains on Alalgura, 1991", which is part of ...

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$250000 delivered to Aboriginal families at a cost of $220000
The Canberra Times
IDO not think that welfarism minister Jenny Macklin has yet had the acclaim she deserves for a great Labor achievement announced this week - that government spending on indigenous Australians has reached, in average, about $250,000 per Aboriginal ...