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Digital future for indigenous past
The Australian
Tens of thousands of items in the Aboriginal Material Culture Collection, the world's largest of indigenous Australian artefacts, are being painstakingly photographed and documented for communities that would otherwise have been forced to travel to ...

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Fortescue's Forrest to help Abbott on indigenous jobs
The Australian
"An incoming Coalition government will commit up to $45 million to ensure that up to 5000 indigenous Australians will receive training that has a guaranteed job at the end of it," Mr Abbott said in an address to FMG workers. "For too long we've had ...
Election 2013: Tony Abbott promises $45 million for Indigenous training ...ABC Online
Tony Abbott pledges millions to guarantee thousands of indigenous jobsPerth Now
Coalition announces Indigenous jobs planSBS
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Coalition announces Indigenous jobs plan
SBS
... jobs plan. 17 Aug 2013, 6:06 pm - Source: Brooke Boney, NITV. Share This. 0 0 0. + Comment. 1. Tony Abbott has announced a new Indigenous employment program while visiting in a Fortescue Metals Mining project in Western Australia's Pilbera region.

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Abbott announces indigenous jobs deal
Sky News Australia
'If you want to make a difference quickly to the Aboriginal people of Australia, the one thing that can make a difference ... is having a fair dinkum job,' Mr Abbott said during a visit to Fortescue Metals Group's Cloudbreak mine in the Western ...

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Election 2013: Tony Abbott promises $45 million for Indigenous training ...
ABC Local
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has pledged $45 million for the Generation One scheme, which is designed to help train and employ Indigenous Australians. Mr Abbott made the announcement during a visit to Western Australia's Pilbara region this afternoon, ...
Fortescue's Forrest to help Abbott on indigenous jobsThe Australian
Tony Abbott pledges millions to guarantee thousands of indigenous jobsCourier Mail
WA MP Ken Wyatt wants hard indigenous issues tackledPerth Now
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Tony Abbott pledges millions to guarantee thousands of indigenous jobs
The Daily Telegraph
"This industry is good for every single human being in Australia." Mr Abbott maintained his pledge to be an indigenous prime minister, saying it was important that indigenous Australians could "stand proud in their own country". Mr Forrest, who ...

Tony Abbott pledges millions to guarantee thousands of indigenous jobs
Herald Sun
Mr Forrest is one of Australia's richest people. GenerationOne and the Australian Employment Covenant was first launched in 2010 alongside Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Mr Rudd endorsed a plan in 2008 to create 50,000 jobs for indigenous Australians.

WA MP Ken Wyatt wants hard indigenous issues tackled
Perth Now
Alongside Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in his marginal seat of Hasluck in Perth, Liberal MP Ken Wyatt flagged a future role in helping to shape the coalition's Aboriginal affairs policies. "We're going to have to tackle those hard matters that go to ...

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NRL.COM
Sol Bellear, chairperson of the Aboriginal Medical Service, slams Sam Thaiday ...
Herald Sun
And whatever your views about modern Indigenous politics, I challenge anyone to make a case that the poverty suffered by Indigenous Australians today is not a direct result of the racism of our past. The racism of our present may be less overt, but it ...
Indigenous Stars' heartfelt pleaNRL.COM

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Sol Bellear, chairperson of the Aboriginal Medical Service, slams Sam Thaiday ...
Perth Now
And whatever your views about modern Indigenous politics, I challenge anyone to make a case that the poverty suffered by Indigenous Australians today is not a direct result of the racism of our past. The racism of our present may be less overt, but it ...
NRL's hard men show soft sideFox Sports
Thaiday pleads for helpNRL.COM

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NRL.COM
Sol Bellear, chairperson of the Aboriginal Medical Service, slams Sam Thaiday ...
The Daily Telegraph
And whatever your views about modern Indigenous politics, I challenge anyone to make a case that the poverty suffered by Indigenous Australians today is not a direct result of the racism of our past. The racism of our present may be less overt, but it ...
Indigenous Stars' heartfelt pleaNRL.COM

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Health scheme continues in remote Indigenous communities
ABC Online
A program to improve the health of people in remote Aboriginal communities will continue for at least the next three years after receiving government funding. The program employs about 15 workers across South Australia's far north and the west coast ...

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NRL.COM
Indigenous Stars' heartfelt plea
NRL.COM
Johnathan Thurston, Sam Thaiday, Andrew Fifita and Nathan Merritt were among the stars posing with their children to highlight the uncertain future that is faced by so many indigenous Australians. Close the Gap reminds us that babies born to Aboriginal ...

Indigenous youths can sail on an epic Young Endeavour voyage
Coffs Coast Advocate
"Indigenous Australians from NSW or the ACT aged between 16 and 23 are eligible to apply for the Australian Business Apprenticeships Centre Indigenous Scholarship," says ABAC General Manager, Andrew Williams. "This is an amazing opportunity for a ...

Julian Assange: I will stand with Indigenous Australians and continue fight ...
National Indigenous Times
Julian-Assange Julian Assange, the founder of the world famous (or infamous if you believe the government of the United States and Australia) WikiLeaks has announced the formation of another political party to contest the September 7 Federal election.

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Peris targets Indigenous disadvantage in poll push
ABC Online
Ms Peris and federal MP for the seat of Lingiari, Warren Snowdon, yesterday travelled to the central Australian Aboriginal community of Amoonguna, near Alice Springs, to asses employment there. They had been challenged at a campaign event at Alice ...

Mariners search for the next Indigenous star
Australian FourFourTwo
“We feel the Mariners already make a tremendous difference to the lives of many people on the Central Coast, but with our Elite Indigenous Football Academy we hope to bring forward the days when the Socceroos can boast a strong number of Australia's ...

Hope new pictorial dictionaries will preserve Indigenous language
ABC Local
"In other cultures where there is indigenous language, say in New Zealand, there is just the one language, and because there is just the one language it is that much easier to keep it alive." Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, ...

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Australian Geographic
On this day: Yirrkala bark petitions before Parliament
Australian Geographic
The presentation of these petitions to the sitting parliament sparked a chain of events that would become monumental in the fight for indigenous land rights in Australia. The artworks framed twin declarations, one in Yolngu Matha language and the other ...

The Guardian
Tony Abbott's plan for Indigenous Australians is fatally flawed
The Guardian
Tony Abbott, it might seem, is putting his money where his mouth is in his quest to be the prime minister Indigenous Australians have never had. The announcement of a new Indigenous advisory body led by Abbott's "kindred spirit" Warren Mundine ...
Indigenous land rights emerging as key election issueSBS
A commercial path forwardThe Australian (blog)

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