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Indigenous voters tell NT ALP 'we matter' as Labor concedes defeat in election
Perth Now
Labor will now try and come to grips with huge swings against it in seats that have been safe territory for years and work out a strategy to win them back. A swing of more than 50 per cent against an ALP candidate who stood unopposed four years earlier ...

Indigenous voters tell NT ALP 'we matter' as Labor concedes defeat in election
The Daily Telegraph
Labor will now try and come to grips with huge swings against it in seats that have been safe territory for years and work out a strategy to win them back. A swing of more than 50 per cent against an ALP candidate who stood unopposed four years earlier ...

Call for end to 'perverted' race-based welfare
ABC Online
One of Australia's foremost Indigenous thinkers is calling for an end to race-based entitlement. In a landmark speech at the Melbourne Writers' Festival on Sunday night, the University of Melbourne's Chair of Indigenous Studies, Professor Marcia ...

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NEWS.com.au
Indigenous voters tell NT ALP 'we matter' as Labor concedes defeat in election
NEWS.com.au
Labor will now try and come to grips with huge swings against it in seats that have been safe territory for years and work out a strategy to win them back. A swing of more than 50 per cent against an ALP candidate who stood unopposed four years earlier ...
CLP victory sends 'message from the bush'Radio Australia
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issuesThe Conversation
Federal Labor downplays NT lossThe Australian

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Brisbane Times
Indigenous voters tell NT ALP 'we matter'
Herald Sun
Labor will now try and come to grips with huge swings against it in seats that have been safe territory for years and work out a strategy to win them back. A swing of more than 50 per cent against an ALP candidate who stood unopposed four years earlier ...
CLP victory sends 'message from the bush'Radio Australia
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issuesThe Conversation
Federal Labor downplays NT lossThe Australian
The International News Magazine -Bloomberg
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Labor brand damage among Christians in rural seats partly to blame for NT ...
The International News Magazine
CANBERRA 26 August 2012. The Australian Christian Lobby said the Northern Territory election outcome reinforced its prediction that the heavily Christian indigenous communities would reject the Labor brand when it is so tainted with its association ...

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The Age
CLP victory sends 'message from the bush'
Radio Australia
"People are really in a dire need of houses out in remote Aboriginal communities," she said. The biggest upset in Central Australia has been in the seat of Stuart. The result is still too close to call, and there is a possibility that the Country ...
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issuesThe Conversation
Country Liberal Party wins Northern Territory electionThe Australian
Gillard's Labor Loses Power in Australia's Northern TerritoryBloomberg
Sydney Morning Herald -Brisbane Times
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Australian Geographic
On this day: annulment of the Batman treaty
Australian Geographic
IN 2012, MOST MELBOURNIANS would be confused if you offered them a handful of tomahawks, a few handkerchiefs, some blankets and some scissors for their land. One hundred and seventy-seven years ago in the rough-shod days of early Australian ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Famous flyer: Tim Olsen
Sydney Morning Herald
It's an amazing oasis in the middle of a dry landscape full of Aboriginal cave paintings and an abundance of Australian wildlife, a tropical rainforest fed by an artesian stream. This beautiful river appears out of complete dryness, and a huge gorge ...

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Sky News Australia
Country Liberal Party wins Northern Territory election
The Australian
Indigenous Australians play lead hand. AUSTRALIA'S first people have played the main role in sweeping a major government from office for the first time in the nation's history. Yuendumu community ...
NT election: Indigenous candidates and their trouble with some Indigenous issuesThe Conversation
CLP sweeps to power in Northern TerritorySydney Morning Herald
Comment: NT election, the build up to the stormSBS
ABC Online
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Shari Sebbens shines with best of both worlds
NEWS.com.au
LIKE her character in The Sapphires, actor Shari Sebbens has always felt torn between two worlds: her white and indigenous heritage. The 28-year-old NIDA graduate is one of the breakout stars of the film that has won the hearts of movie-goers and is ...

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Shari Sebbens shines with best of both worlds
Herald Sun
The 28-year-old NIDA graduate is one of the breakout stars of the film that has won the hearts of movie-goers and is tipped be one of Australia's most successful ever, taking $6.4 million in its first week. "It was quite scary when I realised that ...

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Rosalie Kunoth-Monkson on forced relocation (mp3)

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Brisbane Times
Share in Fortescue riches a step closer for people of Pilbara
Brisbane Times
He was here last week at the invitation of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, whose co-chairwoman Jody Broun said: ''We want Aboriginal people to be able to negotiate from positions of power with extractive industries.'' Anaya has seen ...

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Embrace the chance for a fresh start
The Australian
ONE of the most unfortunate features of Northern Territory politics for years has been Labor Party politicians taking the support of indigenous voters, who comprise about a third of the electorate, for granted. It has bred complacency and mediocrity as ...

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Education opens doors for young Aborigines
The Australian (blog)
First, the Australian mainstream and business communities consider indigenous disadvantage to be one of the greatest challenges of our time. My own interaction with leading chief executives confirms this. Second, the nation's most influential media ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Share in Fortescue riches a step closer for people of Pilbara
Sydney Morning Herald
He was here last week at the invitation of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, whose co-chairwoman Jody Broun said: ''We want Aboriginal people to be able to negotiate from positions of power with extractive industries.'' Anaya has seen ...

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A zealot's fight to lift people up
The Australian
Shy about something as personal as a disease of the blood that wreaked havoc upon his body, he would have preferred not to be giving an interview but, just as time waits for no man, the brutal politics of Aboriginal Australia cuts no slack for cancer ...

Passionate about the power of learning
The Australian
From three indigenous students in 1995, Nudgee College had 14 by the time Ms O'Neill joined the school about five years ago and numbers have continued to grow, jumping markedly in 2010 when the school started working with the Australian Indigenous ...

Desire to end the welfare drip-feed takes pride of place
The Australian
In this set of indigenous communities, in one remote region of the outback, social transformation can be seen in action each day, step by step: in the streets, in the classrooms, in the budgeting of households, in children's faces, in men's and women's ...

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