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The Australian
Indigenous remote living a lifestyle: PM
The Australian
Mr Neumann said the self-declared prime minister for indigenous affairs had form in this area, referring to Mr Abbott's claim that Australia was unsettled before British “foreign investment”. “He has trashed his reputation, he doesn't deserve that ...
PM says Indigenous remote living a 'choice'Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott visits Kalgoorlie-Boulder amid calls to address ...ABC Local
Remote communities are 'lifestyle choices', says Tony AbbottThe Guardian
Radio Australia
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Canberra Aboriginal health advocate Aunty Judy Harris dies
The Canberra Times
"To achieve that level of progress and success is a major tribute to Aunty Jude's total commitment and dedication to improving health outcomes for Aboriginal Australians in this region. It also reflects her equal commitment to ensuring the ACT had one ...

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Violence against indigenous women 'dire'
The Australian (blog)
The funding cuts to legal aid services in central Australia and the Top End would have a direct impact on family violence, the hearing was told, as organisations struggled to represent clients while facing soaring workloads and increasing costs.

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The Guardian
Indigenous services plead with federal government to rethink cuts
The Guardian
Guardian Australia has spoken with numerous organisations who have lost all funding, had their usual annual budgets cut or had their budgets renewed at the same levels for 12 to 18 months. The chief adviser on Indigenous affairs, Warren Mundine, told ...

Greek Reporter
Greeks in Melbourne Impressed by Aboriginal Academic's Lecture
Greek Reporter
Distinguished Aboriginal academic and activist Dr. Gary Foley called for the Parthenon Marbles' and Australian indigenous artifacts' return from the British Museum to their rightful place, in his lecture during a series of seminars on Greek History and ...

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Poche Indigenous health centre opens in Queensland
UQ News
Mr Poche, the founder and former owner of logistics company Star Track Express, said the 11-year health and life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was unacceptable. “Improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous ...

Poche Indigenous health centre opens in Queensland
UQ News
Mr Poche, the founder and former owner of logistics company Star Track Express, said the 11-year health and life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was unacceptable. “Improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous ...

Yahoo7 News
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency flags refusing new clients amid ...
Yahoo7 News
The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), based in Darwin, is one of the frontline organisations that will be affected by millions of dollars in funding cuts to legal aid and community legal centres around Australia. Chief executive ...

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ABC Online
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency flags refusing new clients amid ...
ABC Online
One of the major Aboriginal legal services in the Northern Territory says it will soon have to stop taking new clients amid uncertainty over its funding next financial year. The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), based in Darwin, is ...

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Lawyers Weekly
Top legal bodies want cuts to Aboriginal legal aid reversed
Lawyers Weekly
“The likely consequences of these cuts will be chaos in the courts and an increase in indigenous imprisonment, [which is] already at unprecedented levels,” said Australian Bar Association (ABA) president Fiona McLeod SC (pictured). Ms McLeod said the ...

Lawyers Weekly
ABA and LCA want cuts to Aboriginal legal aid reversed
Lawyers Weekly
Ms McLeod said the statistics concerning indigenous incarceration in Australia are “damning” and constitute a “national crisis”. Aboriginal people represent 2.3 per cent of Australia's population, but 27.4 per cent of Australia's jail population ...

National Indigenous Radio 98.9fm - Warren Barnsley - The Noongar Tent Embassy in Perth say they want to bring International attention to the Western Australian Government's plans to defund remote communities. - The Embassy on Matagarup, or Heirisson Island, has set up a 'refugee camp' to take in displaced Indigenous peoples if communities are closed and people forced off their land. - Noongar advocate Marianne Mackay told 98.9fm shutting down First Nations homelands is a policy which harks back to early colonial days.

Sydney Morning Herald
State Attorneys-General unite to warn George Brandis of crisis in legal funding
Sydney Morning Herald
In a blistering letter sent to Senator Brandis on Thursday and signed by the first law officers of all states and territories, the Attorneys-General state that women and children who are victims of domestic violence and Indigenous Australians are among ...
States and territories unite in fight against legal assistance funding cutsYahoo7 News
ACT joins chorus of government protest against Legal Aid cutsThe Canberra Times
State and territory attorney generals ask George Brandis to better fund legal aidThe Guardian

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Give Aborigines jobs and responsibility rather than more welfare
The Australian (blog)
Since 2008 Fortescue has trained and assisted more than 1500 Aboriginal people through our VTEC program. VTEC is not corporate welfare: it's an opportunity for indigenous Australians to choose a life of work and contribution — and it works. We ...

Give Aborigines jobs and responsibility rather than more welfare
The Australian (blog)
Since 2008 Fortescue has trained and assisted more than 1500 Aboriginal people through our VTEC program. VTEC is not corporate welfare: it's an opportunity for indigenous Australians to choose a life of work and contribution — and it works. We ...

The Guardian
Indigenous services get only short-term reprieve in federal funding round
The Guardian
Kwils' chief executive, Sandra Nelson, told Guardian Australia there was no way to apply for the SLA under the scheme's parameters because the service was not specifically targeted at Indigenous women, and so she did not understand how the funding ...
ACT joins chorus of government protest against Legal Aid cutsThe Canberra Times
State Attorneys-General unite to warn George Brandis of crisis in legal fundingSydney Morning Herald

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SBS
Indigenous Australian women still fighting discrimination
SBS
For International Women's Day National Indigenous Television (NITV) looks at the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia who have done tremendous things to advance basic human rights of Australia's First Peoples and contributed in ...
Say 'No' to 'Recognise'On Line opinion

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SBS
Indigenous Australian women still fighting discrimination
SBS
For International Women's Day National Indigenous Television (NITV) looks at the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia who have done tremendous things to advance basic human rights of Australia's First Peoples and contributed in ...
Say 'No' to 'Recognise'On Line opinion

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The Guardian
WA premier flags communities review but fails to meet Indigenous leaders
The Guardian
Aboriginal land councils used the meeting to insist that Aboriginal people be given a say in issues like the remote community closures, declaring in a joint statement that “governments cannot decide where Aboriginal people live in Western Australia”.
Barnett warns evidence of remote child abuse will shockThe Australian

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The Guardian
WA premier flags communities review but fails to meet Indigenous leaders
The Guardian
Aboriginal land councils used the meeting to insist that Aboriginal people be given a say in issues like the remote community closures, declaring in a joint statement that “governments cannot decide where Aboriginal people live in Western Australia”.
Barnett warns evidence of remote child abuse will shockThe Australian
Review will expose 'mistreatment of kids'Perth Now

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