Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

'Revolving door' in Aboriginal Affairs
ABC Online
A welfare agency says a 'revolving door' in the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio is holding up progress on policies designed to help the state's Indigenous communities. Ian Hunter became the fourth Aboriginal Affairs Minister in three years after he was ...

Yahoo!7 News
Endorse Peris for senate: Gillard
WA today
Ms Gillard will ask the Australian Labor Party to endorse the indigenous athlete and Olympic hockey gold medallist as a candidate. "Her passion for health and education makes her the right choice to succeed Senator Trish Crossin," Ms Gillard says. Ms ...
Nova 'a captain's pick'Sydney Morning Herald
Gillard picks Nova Peris to run for SenateYahoo!7 News

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BBC News
Lost indigenous language revived in Australia
BBC News
An Aboriginal language crushed under the weight of European colonisation in Australia has been revived, thanks to the dedication of researchers and the vision of 19th Century German missionaries. The Kaurna language once thrived and was spoken by the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous tensions still simmering in NE Australia
Radio Australia
The premier of Australia's eastern state of Queensland, Campbell Newman, has met indigenous elders from the community of Logan, in an effort to quell racial tensions. Conflict between Aboriginal and Pacific Islander residents erupted last week, during ...
Logan kids fear return to school after street clashes, premier toldBrisbane Times

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New organisation for indigenous business in PNG
Radio Australia
There are hundreds of thousands of indigenous-businesspeople in PNG working in the formal and the informal sector. But in the formal sector, where most of the money is to be made, 90 per cent of businesses are owned by foreigners. That is something the ...

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Radio Australia
PNG body aims to help indigenous business-people
Radio Australia
Indigenous Business council secretary, Sarah Haoda Todd, says since independence indigenous business-people "have been in slumber." "Lots of business opportunities have come and passed us by," Ms Todd told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat.

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WA today
We can do better than January 26
WA today
In 2009, Professor Mick Dodson said the date of Australia Day was offensive to many indigenous people and should be changed. As he put it: ''To many Indigenous Australians, in fact, most indigenous Australians, it really reflects the day in which our ...

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Brisbane Times
We can do better than January 26
Brisbane Times
In 2009, Professor Mick Dodson said the date of Australia Day was offensive to many indigenous people and should be changed. As he put it: ''To many Indigenous Australians, in fact, most indigenous Australians, it really reflects the day in which our ...

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The Age
We can do better than January 26
The Age
In 2009, Professor Mick Dodson said the date of Australia Day was offensive to many indigenous people and should be changed. As he put it: ''To many Indigenous Australians, in fact, most indigenous Australians, it really reflects the day in which our ...

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NRL.COM
First NRL Indigenous Players Camp
NRL.COM
Players will take part in sessions on culture, traditional language and dance, traditional hunting skills, along with discussions and sessions about current challenges facing Indigenous people in Australia. The camp program has been developed by NRL ...

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Census data misleading; languages still at risk
Crikey (blog)
Just before Christmas, The Australian published an article about indigenous language use in Australia that drew on research conducted by the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the ANU. The article began with this: ...

Arthur's world moves from bleak to rosy
The Australian
Andrew Penfold, chief executive of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, which funds the scholarship program, said Arthur's story was a wonderful example of what the foundation can offer. "Arthur's experience illustrates how a good education ...

The Canberra Times
We can do better than January 26
The Canberra Times
In 2009, Professor Mick Dodson said the date of Australia Day was offensive to many indigenous people and should be changed. As he put it: ''To many Indigenous Australians, in fact, most indigenous Australians, it really reflects the day in which our ...

Inquiry resumes with submissions on Indigenous children
ABC Local
The over-representation of Indigenous children in care will be in the spotlight as the Child Protection Commission of Inquiry resumes its Brisbane hearings. The inquiry began in Brisbane and has been travelling across the state for the past six months.

The Age
Celebrating Aboriginal identity
The Age
Inglis, the South Sydney, Queensland and Australian star, has led the push for the camp, along with other indigenous leaders Nathan Merritt, Sam Thaiday, Johnathan Thurston and Matt Bowen. He is not expecting it to be a one-off. ''The thing that we're ...

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Private sector closing jobs gap
The Australian
A paper to be released by the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University offers the first major analysis of the nation's closing the gap strategy, demonstrating that between 2006 and 2011, the employment rate ...

Winnipeg Free Press
Isolated aboriginal centres under fire in Oz
Winnipeg Free Press
BRISBANE -- Australian aboriginal communities have an ingrained violence which predates European settlement and leaves thousands of indigenous women and children vulnerable to physical attack. That, at least, is a theory outlined in a book by ...

Indigenous Job Seekers embark on new careers at prestigious university
NewsMaker (press release)
The A4e Group of Companies, one of Australia's leading providers of Indigenous employment services, is pleased to announce eight graduates of Empowering Our Mob (A4e's Indigenous work preparation program) have this week begun their employment at ...

'Broken' system fails juvenile offenders
The Australian
Aboriginal children are 31 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-indigenous youth, and detention rates have risen in recent years in most states. The NT has the highest youth incarceration rate in Australia. Last night, 61 children were being held.

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Transforming The Nation's Healthcare
Inquiry hears media misrepresents Indigenous Australians as drunks
Courier Mail
Commissioner Tim Carmody, examining the massive over-representation of Indigenous kids in state care, has told the inquiry he believes cultural education for Indigenous Australians is important. But Mr Carmody also believes cultural education must not ...
New Bendigo exhibition relays indigenous storiesBendigo Advertiser

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