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Brisbane Times
More indigenous medical students create milestone
Brisbane Times
The milestone is being celebrated by medical deans and the Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association because 2.5 per cent of Australia's population is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. ''This is a huge step forward,'' said the president of the ...
Groups demand real job programsThe Australian
Milestone win for indigenous medical studentsThe Age
Staying the course: University attrition rates key to true parityABC Online
Northern Star
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Money fails indigenous overcrowding
The Australian
... bigger step back and say 'Where are we with Aboriginal housing?'." She said she would release -- after the NT election -- a report that looks at what progress had been made and where, compared with the Council of Australian Governments building blocks.

Groups demand real job programs
The Australian
The call comes as the NSW Coalition government crafts a new direction for indigenous affairs, vowing to beef up accountability, overhaul employment and training programs and transform remote schools. Members of a high-level taskforce will tour from ...

Shabby treatment of loyal Aborigines
The Australian (blog)
SHORTLY before the last Northern Territory election in August 2008, two editorials in The Australian headed "Top End Trickery" and "A Mediocre Contest" deplored the indifference of the Northern Territory government under chief minister Paul Henderson ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
More indigenous doctors create a milestone
Sydney Morning Herald
THE number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical students has increased dramatically in the past decade and now matches the ratio of indigenous to non-indigenous people in Australia for the first time. Last year, 80 of Australia's 3241 ...
First indigenous owned and operated training for South AustraliaAdelaide Now
Record number of Indigenous Australians find careersPRWire
Indigenous workers not becoming managersABC Online
Radio Australia
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Aboriginal medical student numbers rising
The Canberra Times
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical students has increased dramatically over the last decade and now matches the ratio of indigenous to non-indigenous people in Australia for the first time. Last year, 2.5 per cent or 80 of ...

First indigenous owned and operated training for South Australia
Adelaide Now
Rick Callaghan and Paul Brock. Picture: Jo-anna Robinson Source: The Advertiser. SOUTH Australia's first 100 per cent indigenous owned and operated, registered training business has been officially launched in Adelaide. Carey Training was jointly ...

The Sapphires hits $5.6m at the box office
Inside Film
Hopscotch managing director Troy Lum thanked an audience of cinema owners at the Australian International Movie Convention on the Gold Coast for their support. He said the film was one of the few Indigenous Australian breakout hits and its success came ...
The Sapphires adds $2m at box office as The Bourne Legacy debutsMuMbrella

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Five horrendous pages Facebook didn't ban
Ninemsn
But the offensive material remains online on the website Meme Generator and has been reposted on a new page, Aboriginal and Australian Memes, which was set up on August 8 purporting to be "a place for humour, not hate." Four: James Holmes Fan Page ...

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Record number of Indigenous Australians find careers
PRWire
​20 August 2012 – Sydney: National, not-for-profit employment organisation, the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES), has reported its most successful year since inception in 1997, placing 1957 Indigenous Australians into careers between July 2011 and ...
Indigenous workers not becoming managersABC Online
Lack of education limiting careers for Australia's indigenous workersRadio Australia

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BBC News
Debate over Australia welfare 'credit card'
BBC News
According to a recent Federal Parliamentary report, of the 17000 people subject to income management in the Northern Territories, 90% are indigenous. In Western Australia, of the 232 people on the scheme, 60% are indigenous. The government argues that ...

The West Australian
BHP inks massive native title deal
Australian Mining
The agreement has been signed between the company and the Nyiyaparli people, and was led by the Yamatji Marlpa Malbra Aboriginal Corporation over the past four years. While the exact details ... Services Manager. Bond RecruitmentAustralia 6 days ago ...
BHP strikes native title deal in the PilbaraYahoo!7 News

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Indigenous workers not becoming managers
ABC Online
AM is Australia's most informative morning current affairs program. AM sets the ... The not-for-profit job placement and mentoring organisation says last financial year it helped almost 2000 Indigenous people find traineeships or jobs across a range of ...

Lack of education limiting careers for Australia's indigenous workers
Radio Australia
Education is still a key factor in why Australia's indigenous people don't become managers, according to the head of the Aboriginal Employment Strategy. Lack of education limiting careers for Australia's indigenous workers (Credit: ABC). The not-for ...

The battle for James Price Point
SBS
... Francis, SBS. Share This. 0 0 0. + Comment. 0. Woodside's controversial plan for a gas hub at James Price Point in the pristine Kimberley region of Western Australia has pitched Indigenous communities against each other, reports Jeannette Francis.

Show attuned to remote need for news
The Australian
AN Aboriginal language radio show is attempting to transform the way government interacts with South Australia's most isolated communities. The Paper Tracker radio program, launched by welfare agency Uniting Communities a year ago, has established a ...

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Vanishing APY funds prompt urgent audit
The Australian
KPMG auditors commissioned by the South Australian Labor government have issued a draft report, which has not been released, that called for much tighter controls on spending at the Aboriginal land council. Nearly all of the land council's money comes ...

$27 a week for a bed by the chook house
The Australian
Asked why he was paying rent to sleep outside, the 65-year-old replied: "I'd like to know that myself - I don't think it's fair." Mr Mulladad said the payments of $54 a fortnight were deducted automatically by Centrelink from his welfare payments and ...

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Megan Davis delivers Wentworth Lecture
National Indigenous Times
Professor Megan Davis, Australia's expert member on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, delivered a free public lecture in Canberra last week highlighting the place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' in the Australian Constitution.

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WA today
A long-awaited tourism boon
WA today
From the outback to the Gold Coast, investment is pouring into indigenous tourism, with results so far proving popular with local and overseas visitors. Is Australia finally getting serious about indigenous tourism? From the Red Centre to the theme ...

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