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PM opens Richmond indigenous centre
The Age
Richmond Football Club has transformed a small part of Tigerland into an institute aiming to kick-start the lives of young indigenous Australians. Prime Minister Julia Gillard today officially opened the Korin Gamadji Institute (KGI), inside Punt Road ...
Richmond scores with indigenous instituteNEWS.com.au

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Richmond scores with indigenous institute
NEWS.com.au
"It's something that has to cascade through every level of Australian life." While things like the apology to the stolen generations and the Mabo decision were important, it was just as vital for indigenous children to learn to read and write and get ...

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How the Chosen Ones Ended Australia's Olympic Prowess and Revealed a ...
Antiwar.com
She is Aboriginal, like Cathy Freeman, who won a gold medal in the 400 metres at Sydney. For all their talent, both belong to a carefully constructed façade, behind which Australia's secret indigenous history is suppressed and denied. The late Charlie ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott and co bridge gap
Sydney Morning Herald
A WEEKEND of toil for a handful of Australia's leading business figures might just be a metaphor for rising to the challenge of closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia. The transformation of a dilapidated building into a state ...

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Retirees and Chinese students new tourism workers
Herald Sun
... the tourism industry under Martin Ferguson's plan. Picture: Thinkstock Source: Supplied. EARLY retirees, Chinese students and indigenous Australians will be targeted as employees in a plan to boost often-criticised service standards in the tourism ...

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Gurrumul wins top Indigenous music award
Radio Australia
The Medics swept the pool at the National Indigenous Music Awards, which also saw blind singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu named best artist for the second year in a row. The awards, which celebrate Indigenous music acts from all around Australia, were ...

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Gurrumul wins top Indigenous music award
ABC Online
The Medics swept the pool at the National Indigenous Music Awards, which also saw blind singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu named best artist for the second year in a row. The awards, which celebrate Indigenous music acts from all around Australia, were ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott and co roll up sleeves for remote community
Sydney Morning Herald
A WEEKEND of toil for a handful of Australia's leading business figures might just be a metaphor for rising to the challenge of closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia. The transformation of a dilapidated building into a state ...

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Retirees and Chinese students new tourism workers
The Australian
EARLY retirees, Chinese students and indigenous Australians will be targeted as employees in a plan to boost often-criticised service standards in the tourism industry. Federal Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson also wants to facilitate greater foreign ...

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Free workshop on indigenous business
The Canberra Times
IBA Chair Dr Dawn Casey said, ''Many indigenous Australians have created successful businesses out of things they are passionate about, but commercially viable businesses need more than passion to make them a success. ''Before taking the exciting, but ...

The West Australian
Winner has pop star approval
NTNews.com.au
THE winner of one of Australia's most prestigious indigenous art prizes is a Territorian who once sold a painting to Michael and Janet Jackson. Tiwi Islands artist Timothy Cook, 53, has beaten 62 other finalists and taken out the $40000 2012 Telstra ...
Cook wins prestigious Indigenous art prizeABC Online
Topical winner of indigenous art awardThe West Australian

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Boost for Indigenous cancer research
Oncology Update
The federal government announced $2.5 million this week in funding for a project to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer outcomes. Led by Associate Professor Gail Garvey of the Menzies School of Health Research, the project aims to ...

Real-world problems hit by posturing
The Australian (blog)
asked Peter d'Abbs. A comment posted by an undergraduate student said: "The Australian journalists seem to have a sadistic pleasure in reporting indigenous disadvantage." Here was the intellectual Left rejecting the unpalatable truths of actual ...

Film | The Sapphires – a brilliant story, joyously told
The Australian Financial Review
The Sapphires succeeds in presenting a strong, affirmative view of Aboriginal Australia, while not shirking issues of racism and discrimination. Most importantly, it is a brilliant piece of showbiz, driven by full-bodied soul music. The film is based ...

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Wrecks as another feature of the terrain. Picture: Michael Sinclair-jones ...
The Australian
From his earliest work, Kelen's Australia has been inseparable from its Aboriginal heritage: the land is pregnant with an indigenous significance of which he cannot be fully aware. In From a Bus Leaving Lithgow at Night, "trees are ghosts with human ...

Bosses roll up for Tony Abbott's working bee
The Australian
The first and most traditional is to apply for a government grant and then wait while the slow wheels of bureaucracy turn. The other is to roll the sleeves up and put shoulder to the shovel, which is what a handful of C-suite executives found ...
Remote school shifts gears for brighter futureBrisbane Times

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Brisbane Times
Remote school shifts gears for brighter future
Brisbane Times
The transformation of the school is the product of a partnership between the Queensland education department and the Pearson-inspired Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy, with a form of teaching known as ''direct instruction'' delivering staggering ...

The Age
Running legend Robert de Castella brands Australia's athletes too soft to succeed
NEWS.com.au
De Castella, who runs an indigenous marathon program aimed at identifying and training Australia's first indigenous Olympic distance runner, believes the majority of Australian youth have it "too easy" to make the sacrifices required to get to the top ...
Golden dreamsThe Age

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Sydney Morning Herald
Deek brands Australia's athletes soft
Fox Sports
De Castella, who runs an indigenous marathon program aimed at identifying and training Australia's first indigenous Olympic distance runner, believes the majority of Australian youth have it "too easy" to make the sacrifices required to get to the top ...
Golden dreamsThe Age
price of goldSydney Morning Herald

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Sky News Australia
Indigenous media strengthens identity
Invest in Australia
Marking International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples and the 2012 theme of Indigenous Media, Empowering Voices, Commissioner Gooda said Australia's Indigenous media outlets played a valuable role in challenging stereotypes. “It's often complex ...
Aboriginal youth detention rates improveThe Australian
Too many indigenous in juvenile justiceSky News Australia
Indigenous solutions to power needsABC Local
Pro Bono Australia
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