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IT helps beats tyranny of distance
The Australian
But remote indigenous people have more to gain from electronic-health than most, says Tamati Shepherd,, chair of the National Indigenous Informatics Special Interest Group in the Health Informatics Society of Australia. The very remoteness of many ...

The Age
Paradox of plenty: boom for some, bust for others
The Age
And then there is the opportunity lost with indigenous Australia. The boom, together with the ability to negotiate substantial mining royalties and payments through native title agreements, should be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our most ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Rich fellow my country
Sydney Morning Herald
Looking out over the Arafura Sea, towards an Asia that increasingly is its natural economic fit and bathed in unfailing 30-degree temperatures and azure skies, Australia's most northern capital projects a calm nonchalance, a sort of manana without the ...
'Hendo' to face the voters in NTBusiness Spectator

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Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...
ABC Message Stick
It's been half a century since Donald and Sylvia Collard's children were taken away from them but the couple from Kondinin in W-A's Wheatbelt still don't understand why. "That's what we're going to court for," Mr Collard said. "We hope they can answer ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Aboriginal art on Paris rooftop
The Australian Financial Review
Mitchell's charitable foundation footed half the $1 million bill for an innovative commission, which saw work by eight Australian indigenous artists embedded into the museum's ceilings, columns and walls. The opening of the museum in 2006 was a high ...

The world's first astronomers
ABC Online
As the world's oldest continuous culture, Aboriginal people can make the claim to be the world's first astronomers. For them, gazing at the stars is about more than making out and naming constellations. Bill Yidumduma Harney, an elder of the Wardaman ...

Gumbuli of Ngukurr declared 2012 Australian Christian Book of the Year
Insights News
Few Indigenous Australians have been the subject of so rigorous a biography. This is a unique and timely contribution to the story of Aboriginal engagement with western culture and Christianity. Always informative it also, at times, makes for ...

Researcher preserves stories of Indigenous stockmen
ABC Online
Around 200 stories from Indigenous stockmen and women across the country have been collected for a heritage project in Queensland's west. The Stockman's Hall of Fame in Longreach has been working for about 18 months on a project, to collect stories ...

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New Rugby League Indigenous Council unveiled
North Queensland Cowboys
Foundation North Queensland Cowboys squad member Stephen Tillett has been included on the new Rugby League Indigenous Council announced by the Australian Rugby League Commission. The 2012-14 Council was unveiled at the launch of the 2013 ...

SBS
Racism laws fail in the world wild web
SBS
In cyberspace, it seems Australian government agencies are sheriffs outgunned - the fallout from the “Aboriginal Memes” Facebook pages revealed confusion over issues of online jurisdiction and enforcement. But amid violent threats to anti-racism ...

Campaign to curb phone bullying in Australian indigenous communities
Radio Australia
Campaign to curb phone bullying in Australian indigenous communities. Updated 17 August 2012, 10:27 AEST. When the mobile phone came into being, its creators probably didn't imagine it would be used for cyber-bullying or used by traditional ...

Australia fair? Doing well but room for improvement
On Line opinion
The gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians remains shamefully large with just over half of Indigenous students in Year 9 meeting national minimum writing standards compared to 86 per cent of non-Indigenous students. How Australia is ...

"Australia is a racist society and we cannot reconcile without the truth" (mp3)

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"If we didn't collect enough copper wire and bottles to sell, we starved" (mp3)

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"Horrified about Australia's deep dark secret" (mp3)

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Sam Thaiday to captain Indigenous team in annual All Stars clash
Courier Mail
Thaiday was confirmed as captain today, while Melbourne, Queensland and Australian captain Cameron Smith will skipper the NRL All Stars. Johnathan Thurston captained the Indigenous team last year. The Australian Rugby League Commission confirmed ...
New Rugby League Indigenous Council unveiledNorth Queensland Cowboys
All Stars game moved to BrisbaneABC Online
All Stars help Campbell dream bigNinemsn

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Sovereign state risk
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View Popular Related Articles on Government, Public Sector and Indigenous from Australia. 'Moral Exemplars': The model litigant's duty to tell the full story (Norton Rose Australia). A recent decision illustrates the supremacy of the model litigant ...

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Sovereign immunity risk
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View Popular Related Articles on Government, Public Sector and Indigenous from Australia. 'Moral Exemplars': The model litigant's duty to tell the full story (Norton Rose Australia). A recent decision illustrates the supremacy of the model litigant ...

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Thaiday to captain Indigenous team
NEWS.com.au
Thaiday was confirmed as captain today, while Melbourne, Queensland and Australian captain Cameron Smith will skipper the NRL All Stars. Johnathan Thurston captained the Indigenous team last year. The Australian Rugby League Commission confirmed ...

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Sam Thaiday to captain Indigenous team in annual All Stars clash
Herald Sun
Thaiday was confirmed as captain today, while Melbourne, Queensland and Australian captain Cameron Smith will skipper the NRL All Stars. Johnathan Thurston captained the Indigenous team last year. The Australian Rugby League Commission confirmed ...
All Stars game moved to BrisbaneABC Online

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