Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

SBS
Army of truancy officers goes bush
The Australian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion told The Australian the program would start with 40 communities covering 42 schools in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland, NSW and South Australia and would be rolled out to other ...
Government targeting Indigenous truancySBS
Government to recruit truancy officers in Indigenous communities to improve ...The West Australian

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Sky News Australia
NSW urged to help Aboriginal drivers
Sky News Australia
The NSW auditor-general has recommended more support for Aboriginal people to get drivers' licences, noting they are over-represented in both road fatalities and offences. Less than half the eligible Aboriginal people in NSW hold a driver's licence ...

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Mirror.co.uk
John Pilger goes back to his homeland to investigate Australia's dirtiest secret
Mirror.co.uk
In 1969 I flew to Alice Springs in the red heart of Australia and met Charlie Perkins. At a time when Aboriginal people were not even counted in the census (unlike the sheep) Charlie was only the second Aborigine to get a university degree. He made ...
Mandela is gone, but apartheid is alive and well in AustraliaOpEdNews
Down Where Apartheid LivesCounterPunch

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congress told funding will go
The Australian
"The best thing we could do for Aboriginal Australia right now is push on as quickly as we can with constitutional recognition," he said. "We have it in our hearts to do this." Senator Scullion told the congress's co-chairs that while the final outcome ...

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SBS
Indigenous Australians hit hard by legal aid cuts
SBS
The Treasurer, Joe Hockey, has confirmed the government will stick to its election pledge to cut 43-point-one million dollars from legal aid services, including those accessed by many Indigenous Australians. Darren Mara has the details. (Click on audio ...
Coalition scales back cuts to legal aidThe Australian
Funding cuts to cripple Indigenous legal servicesABC Message Stick
More indigenous in jail without legal aidNEWS.com.au

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The Age
Australian government cuts billions of dollars from social programs
Sydney Morning Herald
''Now is simply not the time for the government to be cutting legal assistance to indigenous Australians.'' The government has also announced plans to cut the position of Co-ordinator-General for Remote Indigenous Services. ''This cost-cutting measure ...
Budget cuts to hit all AustraliansThe Australian

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Play Black Diggers to shed new light on Anzac history
ABC Message Stick
Mr Enoch spoke with many descendents of the diggers, including those at the South Australian community of Raukkan where the local church is decorated with stained glass windows commemorating 21 Indigenous soldiers who served. "Our myth-making as ...

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SBS
Search underway for Australia's next Indigenous models
SBS
The competition aims to increase the amount of Indigenous models and designers in the Australian and international fashion industry. Model and designer Tyson Jolly said there was more to the search than traditional beauty. "It's an Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal model joins Naomi Campbell in call for diversityNew Zealand Herald

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Aborigines 'stunned' by new battle for control of Uluru
The Australian
On Saturday, The Weekend Australian revealed the Northern Territory and federal governments had begun discussing the possibility of handing over the heritage-listed Kakadu and Uluru national parks, which are managed from Canberra. "We are stunned ...

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Daily Mail
Dreaming spires: Lilly Brown, the 27-year-old who has become the first Aboriginal to graduate from the University of ...
Daily Mail
Miss Brown said today: 'I would hope that my success would inspire young Indigenous Australians to chase their dreams, and all young Australians in general. 'I feel absolutely blessed by this opportunity as I did not expect that one day I may undertake ...

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Daily Mail (blog)
Glittering Sapphires: The incredible story of an Aboriginal band who overcame racism to become Australia's Supremes
Daily Mail (blog)
An inspiring new film tells the unlikely story of four young Aboriginal singers who rose to fame in the face of racial prejudice as Australia's answer to The Supremes. A favourite at Cannes and a box office smash Down Under, The Sapphires follows the ...

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Aboriginal leader honored in Israel
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) – An Australian Aboriginal leader who staged a remarkable protest against the Nazis was honored in Israel. On Dec. 6, 1938 — just weeks after the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany — William Cooper led a delegation of members of ...

RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Aboriginal's Death in Custody Case – No Justice?
Inter Press Service
MELBOURNE, Nov 30 2008 (IPS) - Although supporters have expressed satisfaction with the six year jail term handed down recently to Lex Wotton for his role in the 2004 Palm Island riot – sparked by the death in police custody of aboriginal man Cameron ...

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