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Fulbright scholar plans to shine a light on indigenous entrepreneurship
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A PhD student at the University of Technology, Sydney has been awarded the 2015 Fulbright Indigenous Postgraduate Scholarship to advance his research into the socio-economic and cultural impacts of indigenous entrepreneurship and social enterprise.

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Gulag Territory: NT's shameful incarceration of Aboriginal Australians
Crikey
In mid-November last year, the Australian Productivity Commission released the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report, which described Australia's ongoing failings in dealing with the problems that continue to afflict Australia's Aboriginal ...

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Gulag Territory – how the NT leads the world in indigenous incarceration
Crikey (blog)
One week later, the Australian Productivity Commission released its report, “Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage.” The findings described Australia's ongoing failings in dealing with the problems which continue to afflict Australia's Aboriginal population.

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Gulag Territory – how the NT leads the world in indigenous incarceration
Crikey (blog)
One week later, the Australian Productivity Commission released its report, “Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage.” The findings described Australia's ongoing failings in dealing with the problems which continue to afflict Australia's Aboriginal population.

ABC Online
Indigenous ranger training program kicks off for Ngadju nation in Western ...
ABC Online
After four years of planning, 19 indigenous rangers from the Ngadju nation in Western Australia have begun their first ever training program to help conserve country. The course is part of a Gondwana link, Rangeland NRM and Ngadju conservation land ...

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Fishing the old way: moves to save the Aboriginal fish traps of Western ...
The Guardian
With several Menang fish traps spread across the Albany region of Western Australia, Harley Coyne is spearheading work to have the sites preserved for visitors and locals alike. The cultural heritage officer of the state's department of Aboriginal ...

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Opportunity to Grow Indigenous Employment in Australia
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Indigenous employment programs in Australia's oil and gas industry have an opportunity to develop significantly in the coming years as growth continues around the country, according to Derek Flucker, chairman of the Aboriginal Enterprises in Mining, ...

The Australian
Property red tape 'stifles Aborigines': Tim Wilson
The Australian
“We can't complain about the cost of welfare programs for Australia's first citizens when we concurrently deny them the freedom to use the primary asset they own to escape dependency. It is not our place to tell Aboriginal Australia how to use their ...
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...The Conversation AU
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au

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The Australian
Property red tape 'stifles Aborigines': Tim Wilson
The Australian
“We can't complain about the cost of welfare programs for Australia's first citizens when we concurrently deny them the freedom to use the primary asset they own to escape dependency. It is not our place to tell Aboriginal Australia how to use their ...
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...The Conversation AU
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au
A quiet death by a thousand cutsThe Daily Telegraph

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The Guardian
LGBTI Indigenous people offered a rainbow to follow
The Guardian
“We don't have a clear picture of what the figures are in Australia because the research doesn't exist. As someone who is Aboriginal and working in suicide research, I realised that I had also become complacent to the fact that there is no health ...

The Guardian
LGBTI Indigenous people offered a rainbow to follow
The Guardian
Nearly 30 years later, much of the health information aimed at gay Indigenous Australians is still centred around HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, Bonson, a suicide prevention worker in the Kimberley, says. It is what prompted him to found Black ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal Australians are being denied the freedom to exercise their property rights under native title, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has said. Wilson said that, in meeting Indigenous leaders from Broome to Cairns, he had found “an appetite ...
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal Australians are being denied the freedom to exercise their property rights under native title, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has said. Wilson said that, in meeting Indigenous leaders from Broome to Cairns, he had found “an appetite ...
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au

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ABC Online
Fiftieth anniversary re-enactment of freedom ride goes north to fight ...
Sydney Morning Herald
What the students uncovered across rural NSW was a shock to them and to many Australians. "We did not know before we got there that a number of local government councils had formal resolutions on the books prohibiting Indigenous Australians from ...
University students recreate 1965 Freedom Ride across NSWABC Online
Freedom Ride sets off 50 years after original civil rights protestThe Australian
Freedom Ride's 50th anniversary marked at Sydney UniversitySBS
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Sydney Morning Herald
Fiftieth anniversary re-enactment of freedom ride goes north to fight ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian students headed to the deep north, with the goal to "expose segregation and the shameful treatment of Aboriginal people." The original freedom ride was led by Sydney University student Charles Perkins, who was to make history the year ...
Freedom Ride sets off 50 years after original civil rights protestThe Australian
Freedom Riders Ann Curthoys and Brian Aarons reflect on NSW Ride 50 years onABC Online
Freedom Ride's 50th anniversary a celebration and a reminderBrisbane Times
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The Australian
Royalists recognise need for indigenous constitution change
The Australian
ACM, which worked with Tony Abbott to defeat the republic referendum in 1999 and has opposed changes to the Constitution, has now submitted a constructive proposal to the parliamentary committee looking at the recognition of indigenous Australians, ...

Plans to shut Aboriginal communities driving people out
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Aboriginal leaders say a government plan to close communities is already driving people out of some of the most remote parts of Australia. The West Australian Government last year announced as many as 150 of the state's 274 communities would be closed ...

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Plans to shut Aboriginal communities driving people out
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Aboriginal leaders say a government plan to close communities is already driving people out of some of the most remote parts of Australia. The West Australian Government last year announced as many as 150 of the state's 274 communities would be closed ...

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Aboriginal communities to close: WA Government shutdown plans already ...
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Aboriginal leaders say a government plan to close communities is already driving people out of some of the most remote parts of Australia. The West Australian Government last year announced as many as 150 of the state's 274 communities would be closed ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal communities to close: WA Government shutdown plans already ...
ABC Online
Aboriginal leaders say a government plan to close communities is already driving people out of some of the most remote parts of Australia. The West Australian Government last year announced as many as 150 of the state's 274 communities would be closed ...

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