Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Make indigenous policy bipartisan: Rudd
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP. Indigenous policy should be completely bipartisan, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says, because the world judges Australia on its treatment of its first people. If he has one ambition in life, it's to ensure closing the gap with indigenous Australians ...

Make indigenous policy bipartisan: Rudd
The Australian
INDIGENOUS policy should be completely bipartisan, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says, because the world judges Australia on its treatment of its first people. If he has one ambition in life, it's to ensure closing the gap with indigenous Australians is ...

The Age
Indigenous recognition campaigners reach Arnhem land
The Age
Campaigners for the recognition of indigenous Australians in the nation's founding document have launched a new push to harness the energy of young people for change. The Recognise movement and the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence will on ...

NEWS.com.au
Coalition pulls ahead of Labor in latest Fairfax-Nielsen poll as Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The latest election poll has put the Coalition ahead of Labor, as the two leaders take their campaigns to Tasmania and the Northern Territory. The Fairfax-Nielsen poll shows the Coalition has pulled ahead with 52 per cent against Labor's 48 per cent in ...
Tony's heartfelt 'close the gap' pleaThe Australian
Labor candidate for Kennedy Ken Robertson calls Tony Abbott racist, bigotHerald Sun
Coalition polls ahead of LaborYahoo!7 News

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Communities 'should be open to outside'
The Australian
Mr Mundine, the executive chairman of the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce will deliver a keynote speech at the Garma Festival in the Northern Territory today, outlining his agenda, which calls for dramatic changes to land ownership to create ...

Tony's heartfelt 'close the gap' plea
The Australian
Rudd's most popular period as Prime Minister was when he guided the national apology to the Stolen Generations through parliament - with Coalition support - and Labor has campaigned on a "traditional" empathy with Aboriginal Australia and traded on a ...

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Tony Abbott's indigenous vision takes shape
The Australian
TONY Abbott has declared fixing Australia's greatest "national failure", dire indigenous disadvantage, will be one of his personal priorities if he wins office, and has secured the agreement of former ALP president Warren Mundine to deliver ...

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Indigenous leaders urge change
The Australian
ABORIGINAL leaders from eight regions around Australia have united to call for both parties to commit before the election to structural changes to indigenous affairs aimed at ending disadvantage and empowering communities to make their own decisions.

Four giant steps towards closing the gap
The Australian
But if someone had told me in the 1970s that during the following four decades Australia would spend billions and still have a vast gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in areas such as health, education and employment, I would have ...

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Jennie Kemarre Martinello takes out major Indigenous art prize with blown ...
ABC Online
South Australian artist Raymond Zada won the new media award for his light installation that merges the words of Kevin Rudd's national apology with the text of Paul Keating's 1992 Redfern address. Two Northern Territory artists have also won awards ...

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Indigenous Firms Receive $1 Billion in Fortescue Contracts
Sourceable
Fortescue CEO Nev Power said the company was proud of the business opportunities it had provided to Australia's Aboriginal community by meeting its scheduled target for indigenous business deals half a year in advance. “I hope these contracts are just ...

Sourceable
Indigenous Firms Receive $1 Billion in Fortescue Contracts
Sourceable
Fortescue CEO Nev Power said the company was proud of the business opportunities it had provided to Australia's Aboriginal community by meeting its scheduled target for indigenous business deals half a year in advance. “I hope these contracts are just ...

Campaign set to eliminate trachoma in Indigenous communities in four years
ABC Online
Hugh Taylor from the Indigenous Eye Health Unit says Australia is on track to eradicate trachoma within four years - several years ahead of the target envisaged by the World Health Organisation sponsored International Vision 20-20 campaign.

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Fragile picture of future
The Australian
But the indigenous culture sector in Australia is a more directed affair, for the goal is not just ongoing and deepening cultural production and consumption of indigenous material but actually saving Aboriginal culture: strengthening it and advertising ...

The Age
Labor commits to new targets to help close indigenous gap
The Australian
LABOR will bolster its commitment to closing the gap between black and white Australians by unveiling three targets that promise to end high incarceration rates of indigenous people, increase the numbers of Aborigines in higher education and ensure ...
Both parties to tackle high prison ratesThe Age

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Fragile picture of future
The Australian
But the indigenous culture sector in Australia is a more directed affair, for the goal is not just ongoing and deepening cultural production and consumption of indigenous material but actually saving Aboriginal culture: strengthening it and advertising ...

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UNDRIP, CANZUS, and indigenous rights
OUPblog (blog)
In Australia, for example, the federal government's response to the abuse and neglect of children in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities has dominated indigenous politics since 2007. The conservative government of John Howard introduced ...

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Indigenous shearing school opens up doors
ABC Online
Owned by the Indigenous Land Corporation it aims to boost the numbers of young people going into shearing, wool classing and related professions, and find jobs for young indigenous Australians at the same time. Ian Bateman, who runs the school, has ...

Call for male-only indigenous health clinics
The Australian
The 10-point blueprint says Aboriginal men, who suffer from a greater incidence of chronic disease and mental illness, do not enjoy the same access to quality health services as other Australians. To bridge the gap by 2030, governments need specific ...

A slump will hit indigenous areas hardest
The Australian
Using unemployment as the principal measure, the top five disadvantaged locations in Australia are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, all with jobless rates 31 per cent or higher. Digital Pass $1 for first 28 Days. Start of sidebar ...