Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

The Age
Tony Abbott credits Paul Keating for Aboriginal policy inspiration
The Age
Tony Abbott has delivered the most powerful, heartfelt and gracious speech of his short prime ministership, crediting political opponent Paul Keating with responsibility for his ''watershed moment'' on Aboriginal Australia. Committing himself to ending ...
Closing the Gap: Tony Abbott delivers mixed report card on Indigenous ...Radio Australia
Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in AustraliaBusinessweek
Closing the gap that scars Australia: stop our mob from dying prematurelyThe Guardian
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Scullion flags boarding school for indigenous students
The Australian
“The evidence of education and, as a consequence, employment outcomes achieved by indigenous children who attend boarding schools is indisputable,” he told The Australian. “There are clear benefits for children attending senior schooling away from ...

Scullion flags boarding school for indigenous students
The Australian
“The evidence of education and, as a consequence, employment outcomes achieved by indigenous children who attend boarding schools is indisputable,” he told The Australian. “There are clear benefits for children attending senior schooling away from ...

Australia: PM Abbott to spend week in aboriginal settlement
euronews
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is to spend a week in an aboriginal settlement later this year to raise national awareness about the indigenous people's grim plight. In parliament, as he announced his trip to the outback, he admitted that ...

Cricket trying to 'close the gap' on AFL, NRL
ABC Online
It's long held a dream of finding an Indigenous 'Ricky Ponting' and now, Cricket Australia and the Australian National University are paying for a one year research project in the hope of getting more Aboriginal people playing at an elite and amateur ...

Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
KOIN.com
7, 2014 file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks at a press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney, Australia. Abbott says he will spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal ...

Australia falls short on Aboriginal welfare targets
Yahoo!7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday admitted Australia has failed to meet important targets on Aboriginal welfare and vowed to work to ensure all indigenous children went through school. In delivering his first "Closing the Gap ...

Times Colonist
Australian PM to spend a week on Outback Aboriginal land to focus on ...
Times Colonist
CANBERRA, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East ...

Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
Jakarta Post
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East Arnhem Land, set for later ...

Kansas City Star
Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
Kansas City Star
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Rob Griffith, File | AP Photo FILE - In this Feb.

Port Adelaide
Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
The West Australian
South Australia has set up an Aboriginal AFL Academy, which Premier Jay Weatherill says is the first in the nation. Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at ...
Power launch Aboriginal AcademyAFL.com.au

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Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
Perth Now
Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at Alberton Oval in Adelaide. Last year, almost 70 per cent of Aboriginal students in South Australia stayed on to Year ...

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Port Adelaide
Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
NEWS.com.au (blog)
Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at Alberton Oval in Adelaide. Last year, almost 70 per cent of Aboriginal students in South Australia stayed on to Year ...
Power launch Aboriginal AcademyAFL.com.au

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Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
The Australian
Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at Alberton Oval in Adelaide. Last year, almost 70 per cent of Aboriginal students in South Australia stayed on to Year ...

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Montreal Gazette
Australian PM to spend a week on Outback Aboriginal land to focus on ...
Montreal Gazette
CANBERRA, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East ...

PM focusses on indigenous jobs, schooling
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told parliament that his personal mission is to help Australians open their hearts on indigenous policy. In delivering his first annual Closing the Gap statement as prime minister on Wednesday, Mr Abbott recalled the ...

Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in Australia
Businessweek
“There's almost no progress in closing the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and other Australians –- which is still about a decade,” Abbott told parliament in Canberra today. “There's been very little improvement towards halving the gap in ...

Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in Australia
Bloomberg
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said urgent efforts are needed to improve employment opportunities alongside health and education conditions for Australia's indigenous population. “There's almost no progress in closing the life expectancy gap between ...

The Guardian
Closing the gap that scars Australia: stop our mob from dying prematurely
The Guardian
Together we agreed that this would be the generation to close the unacceptable health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians. We committed to close the health and life expectancy gap within a ...
Peris paints grim picture for indigenousSky News Australia
Funding to preserve Indigenous languagePS News
Free HPV vaccinations now available in schoolsThe Transcontinental
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Radio Australia
Closing the Gap: Tony Abbott delivers mixed report card on Indigenous ...
Radio Australia
The report states that non-Indigenous Australians live about 10 years longer than Aboriginal Australians, that the progress in closing the gap in literacy has improved in only Year 3 and Year 5 Reading (based on NAPLAN results) and that only 30 per ...
Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in AustraliaBusinessweek
Tony Abbott sets new school attendance target for indigenous studentsSydney Morning Herald
Closing the gap that scars Australia: stop our mob from dying prematurelyThe Guardian
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