Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Guardian
New Indigenous Business Australia boss targets wealth, loans
The Australian
Edward Fry, named today as the new leader of the nation's main indigenous economic group for three years, has vowed to work with the IBA board to improve programs. The Abbott government will also today announce that Mr Fry, an indigenous Australian ...
Abbott's homogeneous approach to Indigenous affairs will not erase the stain ...The Guardian
Indigenous leaders call for Tony Abbott to intervene on remote communitiesThe Age
First people's congress asks Tony Abbott to save 150 Indigenous communitiesThe Guardian
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The Guardian
Indigenous Australia reeling from policy changes and cutbacks – commissioner
The Guardian
Despite the prime minister's assurances to the contrary, Australia is witnessing one of the largest upheavals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs thanks to large-scale funding cuts, policy changes and reviews by the Abbott government, the ...
Funding cuts to indigenous legal aid will be 'devastating'The Australian
The untold story of Indigenous Australians and disability: five questions to ...The Guardian
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
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Illawarra riders cycle the state for Aboriginal health
ABC Local
Recent reports have estimated a life expectancy gap of 10.6 years for Aboriginal males and 9.5 years for Aboriginal females compared to non-Aboriginal Australians. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, type two diabetes, cancer and respiratory ...

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Illawarra riders cycle the state for Aboriginal health
ABC Local
Recent reports have estimated a life expectancy gap of 10.6 years for Aboriginal males and 9.5 years for Aboriginal females compared to non-Aboriginal Australians. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, type two diabetes, cancer and respiratory ...

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More options needed for Aboriginal mothers
The West Australian
Sarah Ireland, a Menzies School of Health researcher, said her study showed about 10 per cent of women in a Northern Territory Aboriginal community, which was not identified, chose to give birth outside hospital, compared with 0.7 per cent of the wider ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal leaders gather in Alice Springs for 'freedom summit'
The Australian
John Christophersen, an executive member of the Northern Land Council and father of Labor senator Nova Peris, said many of Australia's rules were “not designed to provide justice to our people”. “In the last couple of decades we've had to spend all our ...
Indigenous activists demand better representation at Alice Springs conferenceABC Online
Indigenous leaders to meet at First Nations Summit for FreedomThe Guardian
'Freedom Summit' urges youth to take up Indigenous rights fightABC Message Stick

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ABC Online
Big change spells stress
The Australian (blog)
During last year's election campaign, Abbott pledged to be the nation's first prime minister for Aboriginal affairs. His commitment to achieve positive, practical change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians is demonstrated by the ...
PM urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous AustraliansABC Message Stick
Federal Government urged to act on 'national emergency' of Indigenous ...Yahoo!7 News
Making good on the vow to get kids to schoolThe Daily Telegraph

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ABC Online
Indigenous activists demand better representation at Alice Springs conference
ABC Online
The Northern Territory's Australian of the Year, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, told the conference it would help unite Indigenous people from the Top End to Tasmania. "This is the beginning of black Australia," she said. "This might be a small gathering today ...
Indigenous leaders to meet at First Nations Summit for FreedomThe Guardian
Aboriginal leaders gather in Alice Springs for 'freedom summit'The Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders to meet at First Nations Summit for Freedom
The Guardian
“The heritage act is having a big impact on Western Australia,” Sansbury, who is a long time Aboriginal advocate and was heavily involved in the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, told Guardian Australia. “The closures of the ...
'Freedom Summit' urges youth to take up Indigenous rights fightABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Abbott's homogeneous approach to Indigenous affairs will not erase the stain ...
The Guardian
So glacially has the gap been closing between Indigenous and other Australians on the important indicators – life expectancy, health outcomes, income, employment, imprisonment rates, child mortality, education – that even the sceptics of the left were ...

Sacked indigenous lands boss wants review
The Australian
South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ian Hunter has said he was “extremely concerned” by the actions of the APY executive and was considering advice from the Crown Solicitor. In a 13-page affidavit lodged with the court, Mr Deans said that Mr ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australia knows the cynicism exposed by Michael Brown's killing in ...
The Guardian
Other than the unsuccessful prosecution of Chris Hurley, not a single charge has been laid, not a single person held to account. To return to McCulloch, is the long-term failure of African Americans and Indigenous Australians by their legal systems not ...

Daily Life
I was the first Aboriginal woman to represent Australian netball
Daily Life
When I was 20 and playing my third year in the NSW Under 21's, I was invited to trial for the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) netball program. I was the first Aboriginal person to receive a scholarship into the AIS but also the oldest in the ...
Netball Australia empowering netball community to `Expect Respect'TheSportsCampus.com

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Green Left Weekly
Reynolds punctures the 'great Australian silence'
Green Left Weekly
The contribution made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the many wars that Australia has participated in since Federation will be recognised in the Anzac celebrations. However, this draws attention away from the armed conflict between ...

Warren Mundine angry as funding reform for indigenous groups delayed
The Australian
Aboriginal organisations have been saved from closure after the Prime Minister's Department extended the period for funding applications under its controversial grants system. On Sunday night, the applicants for indigenous projects across Australia ...

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Indigenous grants extension a debacle, Greens say
The Australian
The Australian has revealed that Aboriginal organisations have been saved from impending closure after the Prime Minister's department extended the period for funding applications under its controversial new grants system. The Australian can reveal ...

Australian Mining
Fortescue offers mining jobs to indigenous prisoners
Australian Mining
Aboriginal prisoners will soon have the opportunity to take on mining employment after their release, thanks to a new agreement between Fortescue Metals Group and WA Department of Corrective Services. FMG chairman Andrew Forrest has signed a ...
Job scheme to help prisonersThe West Australian

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Indigenous groups win extension
The Australian
The Australian has spoken to indigenous groups who would not speak on the record because they feared their funding would be compromised, but said the new criteria in the first round of the $4.8 billion Indigenous Advancement Strategy was not clear.

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Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal protesters target Labor Party convention
Green Left Weekly
They were protesting against South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill's endorsement of mining magnate Andrew Forrest's controversial Indigenous Employment and Training Review. The report's proposals went beyond the narrow terms of reference ...

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Protests against closure of 150 Aboriginal communities
Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal activists rallied on the steps of parliament house in Perth on November 12 to protest against the Western Australian government's plan to close 150 remote Aboriginal communities. The rally also condemned the federal government's plan to cut ...

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