Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

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Abbott says Australia failing to end indigenous disadvantage
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Australia's failure to end the entrenched disadvantage of Aboriginal people was described by Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday as "profoundly disappointing" with key targets missed and employment levels actually worsening. Abbott — who has ...

The Guardian
Some Indigenous leaders considered quitting Abbott's Closing the Gap speech
The Guardian
But Priscilla Collins, the chief executive of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (Naaja), said she “totally agreed” with Abbott that “government programs can be a catalyst but success – where it is achieved – is due to Aboriginal and Torres ...

The Conversation AU
Australia falling down on progress to close the gap for Indigenous people
The Conversation AU
The latest Closing the Gap report, tabled in federal parliament on Wednesday, shows poor progress on improving the situation of Indigenous Australians on many key indicators. Only two of the targets set in 2008 by the Council of Australian Governments ...
Australia failing to tackle Aboriginal disadvantage: AbbottThe Japan Times
Australia failing to end indigenous disadvantage, says PM Tony AbbottEconomic Times
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BBC News
Australia's indigenous people: 'Gap still remains'
BBC News
A senior adviser to Australian PM Tony Abbott has said that more needs to be done to improve the lives of indigenous people as Mr Abbott prepares a key speech on the issue in parliament. His annual "Closing the Gap" speech is expected to conclude that ...

First Nations man appointed South Australia's Minister for Aboriginal affairs
National Indigenous Times
P2 Kyam Maher South Australia has a new Aboriginal Affairs Minister, a minister with an Aboriginal heritage who says one of his key roles is to "empower Aboriginal communities". Kyam Maher, who acknowledges Aboriginal heritage on his mother's side, was ...

ABC Online
Closing the Gap initiatives failing in key areas, chief Indigenous adviser ...
ABC Online
In an opinion piece published today, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion acknowledged the continuing deep divide between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. "There is no point pretending things are better than they are. The report will ...

The Australian
Nation failing to close the indigenous gap
The Australian
The push to ensure that 95 per cent of indigenous four-year-olds in remote Australia had access to early childhood education by 2013 failed. Only 85 per cent were enrolled. “It is profoundly disappointing that most Closing the Gap targets are not on ...
We must keep striving to close the gap in Indigenous healthWA today
Change the constitution for a fairer futureBrisbane Times

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Press TV
Latest from Iran
Press TV
The Australian government has decided to discontinue the provision of water and electricity supplies to up to 200 indigenous communities, saying it can no longer afford the basic services, delegating it to state governments. The remote communities ...

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Indigenous community closures: essential service uncertainty
ABC Local
Mr Friday says it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade Indigenous communities to the level of infrastructure legally required in other Australian towns. "There's a whole myriad of issues that are swirling under the covers there, that at ...

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VICE News
Australia May Stop Providing Water and Power to Remote Aboriginal Communities
VICE News
Up to 200 indigenous communities in Australia could lose access to power and water because the government says it can no longer afford to deliver the basic services. The remote communities are mainly located across the northern tip of Australia and the ...

GOOD Magazine
Australia's Anti-Gentrification Aboriginal Tent Embassy Perseveres
GOOD Magazine
Residents of Redfern, an impoverished inner-city suburb in Sydney, Australia, are fighting against gentrification with an Aboriginal tent embassy situated on The Block, a piece of land allocated to Australia's indigenous people in 1973. The tent ...

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Australian Aborigines defying gentrification
Aljazeera.com
Sydney, Australia - Aboriginal activist Jenny Munro, a 59-year-old Wiradjuri woman, set up The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in the inner-city suburb of Redfern on May 26, 2014, to protest the Aboriginal Housing Company's (AHC) commercial development plans ...

The West Australian
February 9, 2015, 1:47 pm
The West Australian
Under Australia's laws, Aboriginals were effectively non-citizens in their own lands at the beginning of the last century, consigned to a status as “wards” of the local Protector of Aboriginals. Strangely, given their lack of human rights, many ...

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Spend 'to save WA Aboriginal communities'
Courier Mail
REMOTE Aboriginal communities in Western Australia should be kept alive by Royalties for Regions, Labor says. UP to 150 communities are facing foreclosure after the state decided not to fill a gap in essential services funding left by the federal ...

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Spend 'to save WA Aboriginal communities'
The Australian (blog)
REMOTE Aboriginal communities in Western Australia should be kept alive by Royalties for Regions, Labor says. UP to 150 communities are facing foreclosure after the state decided not to fill a gap in essential services funding left by the federal ...

Courier Mail
Sydney Airport to honour Aboriginal aviation pioneer and airforce hero
Courier Mail
Len Waters was the first Aboriginal Australian military aviator and the only one to serve as a fighter pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, flying a staggering 95 missions in the sky above New Guinea. He also spent almost his ...

Toronto Star
Uluru, Australia: Aboriginal tourism takes root
Toronto Star
Led by an aboriginal bush guide, who enjoys exclusive access, to, among other things, a spectacular bird-gathering place, it finishes with a traditional campfire bush-food cook-up under one of the glorious sunsets of the Top End as Northern Australia ...

Aboriginal flag plan for council
Port Lincoln Times
Councillor Travis Rogers put forward a motion for three flags to be flown - the Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags - but councillor Linda Davies moved a successful amendment to exclude the Torres Strait Islander flag because there ...

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Architecture and Design
Australian architects pledge to Aboriginal internship program
Architecture and Design
GHD, Cox Architecture and SJB Architecture will provide at least 10 internships each year for the next 10 years to Indigenous Australian university students as part of their commitment to the CareerTrackers program. CareerTrackers is a national non ...

Thompson holds centre stage
The West Australian
Thompson holds centre stage Star turn: Jack Thomson with playwright David Milroy and Aboriginal Theatre student Alan Little. Picture: Bill Hatto/The West Australian. Legendary actor Jack Thompson settles into a perfectly lit theatre and launches a ...

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