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Aboriginal people get a new voice - Sky News Australia

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 11:19am

Sky News Australia

Aboriginal people get a new voice
Sky News Australia
Aboriginal people living in the far-flung communities of the western top end of the Northern Territory don't always get heard by governments, but now a new council will help them raise their voices. The NT government made an election promise in 2012 to ...

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Indigenous senator angry at Australian PM's comment on settlement - GlobalPost

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 10:35am

Indigenous senator angry at Australian PM's comment on settlement
GlobalPost
CANBERRA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Australia's indigenous senator Nova Peris on Friday condemned the comments by Prime Minister Tony Abbott on British settlement, saying they were "highly offensive, dismissive of indigenous peoples." Delivering the keynote ...

Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments on British settlement 'highly offensive ... - ABC Online

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 9:26am

Sydney Morning Herald

Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments on British settlement 'highly offensive ...
ABC Online
Aboriginal Labor Senator Nova Peris claims bipartisan efforts to recognise Indigenous people in the Australian Constitution have been set back by the Prime Minister's comments on British settlement. In comments after an economic speech in Melbourne ...
Tony Abbott's comments on Australia being 'unsettled' before the British ...Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisationSBS
Tony Abbott says Australia was 'unsettled' before British arrivedThe Guardian
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Aboriginal people get a new voice - SBS

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 8:38am

Aboriginal people get a new voice
SBS
Mr Toller said boosting the regions was key to the federal government's plans to develop northern Australia. "We want to see private businesses set up in Aboriginal communities, whether that be hairdressing salons, butchers, market gardens or ...

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Aboriginal people get a new voice - Yahoo!7 News

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 8:23am

Aboriginal people get a new voice
Yahoo!7 News
Mr Toller said boosting the regions was key to the federal government's plans to develop northern Australia. "We want to see private businesses set up in Aboriginal communities, whether that be hairdressing salons, butchers, market gardens or ...

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Aboriginal people get a new voice - Daily Mail

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 8:16am

Aboriginal people get a new voice
Daily Mail
Mr Toller said boosting the regions was key to the federal government's plans to develop northern Australia. "We want to see private businesses set up in Aboriginal communities, whether that be hairdressing salons, butchers, market gardens or ...

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Australia's last Indigenous police tracker a 'living legend' - SBS

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 6:40am

SBS

Australia's last Indigenous police tracker a 'living legend'
SBS
Barry Port, Australia's last indigenous police tracker, has been described as a living legend. The 71-year-old's retirement on Friday brings to a close a remarkable era for the Aboriginal craftsmen who have helped police hunt down criminals and find ...

Aboriginal sites display eons of activity - ABC Local

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 3:23am

ABC Local

Aboriginal sites display eons of activity
ABC Local
Aboriginal sites are scattered across the Sunshine Coast. The area attracted clans from around Australia for the Bunya Festival and its highly sought after resources. Nev Blackman is a local Aboriginal man with connections to the Lingwodock people and ...

Australia's last aboriginal police tracker will soon retire — his legend will not - The Province

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 3:19am

The Province

Australia's last aboriginal police tracker will soon retire — his legend will not
The Province
SYDNEY — Australia's last remaining aboriginal police tracker, Barry Port, is retiring, ending two centuries of a practice in which investigations and manhunts relied on hired bushmen who can read the ground like a storybook. The 71-year-old has been ...

Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisation - SBS

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 3:18am

SBS

Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisation
SBS
Previous Next. Images. 02. 1/. 02. Video. 1/. Audio. The chairman of the prime minister's Indigenous Advisory Council has labelled Tony Abbott's remarks that Australia as 'unsettled' prior to the British colonisation as 'stupid'.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments on British settlement 'highly offensive ...ABC Online
Tony Abbott's comments on Australia being 'unsettled' before the British ...Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott says Australia was 'unsettled' before British arrivedThe Guardian
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Australia's last aboriginal police tracker will soon retire — his legend will not - National Post

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 3:11am

National Post

Australia's last aboriginal police tracker will soon retire — his legend will not
National Post
SYDNEY — Australia's last remaining aboriginal police tracker, Barry Port, is retiring, ending two centuries of a practice in which investigations and manhunts relied on hired bushmen who “can read the ground like a storybook.” The 71-year-old has ...

Tony Abbott's comments on Australia being 'unsettled' before the British ... - Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 2:39am

Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Abbott's comments on Australia being 'unsettled' before the British ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''unsettled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in the ...
Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows betterThe Guardian
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisationSBS

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Indigenous artists tap soul of their homelands - Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 2:31am

Indigenous artists tap soul of their homelands
Sydney Morning Herald
Thompson is one of a number of indigenous artists – including filmmaker Warwick Thornton and visual artists such as Vernon Ah Kee, Daniel Boyd, Esme Timbery and Julie Gough – from around Australia who take Perkins into their communities and inside ...

Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows better - The Guardian

Fri, 2014/07/04 - 1:56am

The Guardian

Australia 'unsettled' before the British came? Tony Abbott knows better
The Guardian
Abbott's intentional – or otherwise – questioning of the extent of Indigenous habitation of the great southern land at the time of white settlement (or invasion) – will embolden critics of his plan to acknowledge Aboriginal Australians in the constitution.

Tony Abbott says Australia was 'unsettled' before British arrived - The Guardian

Thu, 2014/07/03 - 11:47pm

The Guardian

Tony Abbott says Australia was 'unsettled' before British arrived
The Guardian
Dodson, who was also Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner at the Human Rights Commission, said the lie of terra nullius as the foundation for colonisation is still being perpetuated, despite the high court ...

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Australia's last Aboriginal police tracker retires - ABC Online

Thu, 2014/07/03 - 5:50am

Australia's last Aboriginal police tracker retires
ABC Online
The Lama Lama elder is the last of Queensland's Aboriginal police trackers and was the only police tracker still working in Australia. Born on a river bank in 1942, he honed his skills by tracking wandering livestock on the region's large cattle ...
Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiringABC Local
Australia's last police tracker retiresNinemsn

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CCI to deliver 300 indigenous jobs - Business News (subscription)

Thu, 2014/07/03 - 2:37am

Business News (subscription)

CCI to deliver 300 indigenous jobs
Business News (subscription)
“CCI is proud to have been selected as the largest VTEC provider in Australia creating pathways into real jobs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,” CCI chief executive officer Deidre Willmott said. “This program is about working with ...
Indigenous military service to be subject of greater recognition, researchYahoo!7 News
Lag Meta Aus: Home in the Torres StraitSydney Morning Herald
Canberra Close Up: John Paul Janke - AIATSISABC Local

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CCI to deliver 300 jobs for Aboriginal Australians - Business News (subscription)

Thu, 2014/07/03 - 1:55am

Business News (subscription)

CCI to deliver 300 jobs for Aboriginal Australians
Business News (subscription)
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has announced plans to educate new recruits from the indigenous community in a new federal government program based on the GenerationOne employment model. CCI will deliver training, support and ...

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Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiring - ABC Local

Wed, 2014/07/02 - 10:44pm

Cape York Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port retiring
ABC Local
Australia's last remaining Aboriginal police tracker, Barry Port, is retiring this week after more than 30 years of service in Queensland. The 71-year-old Lama Lama elder has combed the harsh terrain of Cape York, in far north Queensland, for criminal ...

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Australia: Sydney Opera House hosts festival celebrating queer Indigenous culture - PinkNews.co.uk

Wed, 2014/07/02 - 5:40pm

Australia: Sydney Opera House hosts festival celebrating queer Indigenous culture
PinkNews.co.uk
Sydney Opera House is to hold a three day festival this week to celebrate queer identities in Australia's Aboriginal community. Events ranging from talks to films and cabaret performances will take place from 4-6 July, as part of the country's annual ...

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