Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

NEWS.com.au
Indigenous pupils get funding boost
The Australian
"It's now up to other state and territory leaders to show they care about delivering a better future for young indigenous Australians, and sign up to our plan." Prime Minister Julia Gillard said states and territories had to sign up for Labor's two-for ...
$5.5b indigenous reforms 'at risk'The Age

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Indigenous pupils get funding boost
The West Australian
"It's now up to other state and territory leaders to show they care about delivering a better future for young indigenous Australians, and sign up to our plan." Prime Minister Julia Gillard said states and territories had to sign up for Labor's two-for ...
$5.5b indigenous reforms 'at risk'The Age

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The West Australian
Abbott to complete constitutional journey of recognition for indigenous
The Australian
To great applause, he said, "May the bells peel for a new Australia." Actor Aaron Pedersen, calling Mr Abbott "Uncle Tony", read a message from Julia Gillard saying she looked forward "with all my heart" to the day when Aboriginal people would be ...
Abbott promises indigenous recognitionThe West Australian
The sorry history of Australia's apologyThe Guardian
Indigenous pupils get funding boostHerald Sun
Crikey (blog) -The Guardian
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Renewed push to recognise Indigenous Australians in Constitution
ABC Local
The Government says it will not call a referendum on recognising Indigenous Australians in the Constitution until it can be sure the vote will be successful. Events are taking place around Australia today to mark National Sorry Day, which acknowledges ...

Sky News Australia
Renewed push to recognise Indigenous Australians in Constitution
ABC Online
The Government says it will not call a referendum on recognising Indigenous Australians in the Constitution until it can be sure the vote will be successful. Events are taking place around Australia today to mark National Sorry Day, which acknowledges ...
Abbott promises indigenous recognitionThe Australian
Relay for recognition kicks off Sorry DaySBS

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NEWS.com.au
Abbott promises indigenous recognition
The Australian
A nationwide relay began in Melbourne on Sunday to raise awareness about constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. The Journey to Recognition relay coincides with national Sorry Day to acknowledge the historical mistreatment of Aboriginal ...
Relay for recognition kicks off Sorry DaySBS

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Sky News Australia
Abbott promises indigenous recognition
Sky News Australia
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has pledged to complete the journey for acknowledgement of indigenous Australians in the constitution. A nationwide relay began in Melbourne on Sunday to raise awareness about constitutional recognition of indigenous ...

Abbott promises indigenous recognition
The West Australian
"The Aboriginal dimension is as much a part of Australia as our law, our language, and our democracy," Mr Abbott said at the start of the relay on Sunday. "I see acknowledging Aboriginal people in our constitution not as changing it, but as completing ...

Gonski indigenous 'game changer' at risk
The Age
The biggest share of the funding will go to Queensland schools, where $1.6 billion will be allocated to some 55,000 indigenous students in 1555 schools over the six years. Of the rest, $1.3 billion would go to NSW schools, $1.1 billion to West ...

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Gonski indigenous 'game changer' at risk
Sydney Morning Herald
The biggest share of the funding will go to Queensland schools, where $1.6 billion will be allocated to some 55,000 indigenous students in 1555 schools over the six years. Of the rest, $1.3 billion would go to NSW schools, $1.1 billion to West ...

$5.5b indigenous reforms 'at risk'
The Age
The biggest share of the funding will go to Queensland schools, where $1.6 billion will be allocated to some 55,000 indigenous students in 1555 schools over the six years. Of the rest, $1.3 billion would go to NSW schools; $1.1 billion to West ...

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$5.5b indigenous reforms 'at risk'
Sydney Morning Herald
The promise of $5.5 billion to narrow the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous students will be at risk if the states do not sign up to the Gillard government's plan for school improvement, Schools Minister Peter Garrett has warned. More than $200 ...

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Fremantle Dockers
Indigenous Round: What does it all stand for?
Fremantle Dockers
While Indigenous Australians constitute nine per cent of AFL lists and 2.5 per cent of the country's population, Native Americans – including those in Alaska – and indigenous Polynesians of Hawai'i represent 1.5 per cent of the United States population ...
Rugby union in danger of being left behind on indigenous starsThe Australian
Jetta moved by Indigenous roundMelbourne FC

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Brisbane Times
Indigenous round marred by shocking racial slur
The Roar
The opening game of the AFL indigenous round has left the nation embarrassed following a racial slur made towards the AFL's most high profile indigenous player. On a night where Sydney were underdogs, they were lifted by two of their most exciting ...
AFL: Adam Goodes racially abused while leading Sydney to Indigenous Round ...ABC Online
Goodes a star, on field and offSportal.com.au
AFL star Goodes racially abusedStuff.co.nz
Sydney Morning Herald
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Michael Long, at the Essendon Football Club earlier this year. Picture: David ...
The Australian (blog)
We went part of the way towards doing this in 1967 when we voted to change the Constitution so that indigenous Australians would be counted as citizens. But that referendum didn't recognise our long history and our ongoing role in keeping Australia's ...

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Family tree of achievers inspires student
The Australian
Jayde has now been selected as one of five young indigenous engineering students who have been offered scholarships following a joint partnership between the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and BHP Billiton. Now 17, Jayde this year began ...

ABC Online
Doubling of indigenous in prisons alarms leaders
Sydney Morning Herald
A report released on Friday by the federal government has confirmed the number of indigenous Australians in prisons and police custody over the past two decades has more than doubled to almost 8000. The Australian Institute of Criminology report ...
Selling the future shortABC Online
Hollow promises: an enduring tragedyThe Age
Aboriginal incarceration rates hitting crisis levelsBundaberg News Mail

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Radio Australia
Growing number of Indigenous deaths in custody alarms Aboriginal leaders
ABC Online
Indigenous leaders have expressed alarm about the ever-growing number of Indigenous Australians in jail. Two-and-a-half per cent of the Australian population are Indigenous, but they make up 26 per cent of the adult prison population. Those figures are ...
No lessons learned on Aboriginal deathsThe Australian
Aboriginal deaths in custody numbers rise sharply over past five yearsRadio Australia
Indigenous Australians 'facing psychological distress'SBS
Yahoo!7 News
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Sky News Australia
No lessons learned on Aboriginal deaths
Sky News Australia
An Aboriginal justice agency says authorities have failed to learn past lessons, after new figures showed rising numbers of indigenous deaths in custody. A report from the Australian Institute of Criminology on Aboriginal deaths in custody shows that ...
Doubling of indigenous in prisons alarms leadersSydney Morning Herald
Selling the future shortABC Online
NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nationYahoo!7 News
The Australian
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Radio Australia
No lessons learned on Aboriginal deaths
The Australian
A report from the Australian Institute of Criminology on Aboriginal deaths in custody shows that in 2010/11, the most recent period looked at, there were 21 indigenous people who died in custody, about one quarter of all such deaths. The number was one ...
Aboriginal deaths in custody numbers rise sharply over past five yearsRadio Australia
NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nationABC Online
Indigenous Australians 'facing psychological distress'SBS

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