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The Australian government has decided to discontinue the provision of water and electricity supplies to up to 200 indigenous communities, saying it can no longer afford the basic services, delegating it to state governments. The remote communities ...

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The First Nations Freedom Summit in Canberra has seen Aboriginal Leaders from across the country have come together to share the First Peoples message with parliament. Timothy Wilkey a Ngarrindjeri from South Australia attended the summit representing Aboriginal youth and he talks to Damien Williams on CAAMA radio about his hope to get more young people to take up the fight.

Indigenous community closures: essential service uncertainty
ABC Local
Mr Friday says it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade Indigenous communities to the level of infrastructure legally required in other Australian towns. "There's a whole myriad of issues that are swirling under the covers there, that at ...

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Indigenous community closures: essential service uncertainty
ABC Local
Mr Friday says it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade Indigenous communities to the level of infrastructure legally required in other Australian towns. "There's a whole myriad of issues that are swirling under the covers there, that at ...

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VICE News
Australia May Stop Providing Water and Power to Remote Aboriginal Communities
VICE News
Up to 200 indigenous communities in Australia could lose access to power and water because the government says it can no longer afford to deliver the basic services. The remote communities are mainly located across the northern tip of Australia and the ...

VICE News
Australia May Stop Providing Water and Power to Remote Aboriginal Communities
VICE News
Up to 200 indigenous communities in Australia could lose access to power and water because the government says it can no longer afford to deliver the basic services. The remote communities are mainly located across the northern tip of Australia and the ...

GOOD Magazine
Australia's Anti-Gentrification Aboriginal Tent Embassy Perseveres
GOOD Magazine
Residents of Redfern, an impoverished inner-city suburb in Sydney, Australia, are fighting against gentrification with an Aboriginal tent embassy situated on The Block, a piece of land allocated to Australia's indigenous people in 1973. The tent ...

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Stuff.co.nz
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves: Australia Indigenous all stars ought to play Maori ...
Stuff.co.nz
Sydney Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has flagged the prospect of pitting New Zealand's Maori warriors against Australia's Indigenous greats as rugby league's All Stars game continues to struggle for traction on the Gold Coast. With sluggish ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous all stars should play New Zealand's Maori team, says Jared Waerea ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has flagged the prospect of pitting New Zealand's Maori warriors against Australia's Indigenous greats as rugby league's All Stars game continues to struggle for traction on the Gold Coast. With sluggish ...
All Stars needs Maori side: JWHFox Sports

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Aljazeera.com
Australian Aborigines defying gentrification
Aljazeera.com
Sydney, Australia - Aboriginal activist Jenny Munro, a 59-year-old Wiradjuri woman, set up The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in the inner-city suburb of Redfern on May 26, 2014, to protest the Aboriginal Housing Company's (AHC) commercial development plans ...

The West Australian
February 9, 2015, 1:47 pm
The West Australian
Under Australia's laws, Aboriginals were effectively non-citizens in their own lands at the beginning of the last century, consigned to a status as “wards” of the local Protector of Aboriginals. Strangely, given their lack of human rights, many ...

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Spend 'to save WA Aboriginal communities'
Courier Mail
REMOTE Aboriginal communities in Western Australia should be kept alive by Royalties for Regions, Labor says. UP to 150 communities are facing foreclosure after the state decided not to fill a gap in essential services funding left by the federal ...

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Spend 'to save WA Aboriginal communities'
The Australian (blog)
REMOTE Aboriginal communities in Western Australia should be kept alive by Royalties for Regions, Labor says. UP to 150 communities are facing foreclosure after the state decided not to fill a gap in essential services funding left by the federal ...

Courier Mail
Sydney Airport to honour Aboriginal aviation pioneer and airforce hero
Courier Mail
Len Waters was the first Aboriginal Australian military aviator and the only one to serve as a fighter pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, flying a staggering 95 missions in the sky above New Guinea. He also spent almost his ...

John Maynard provides an overview of his research project that documents and recognises Aboriginal involvement and service from the Boer war through to Afghanistan. He also explains how the seeds of modern indigenous political activism can be traced back to the First World War. Highlights of Serving our Country presented during History week 2014 at the State Library of NSW ABC RN 'Big Ideas' Wednesday 4 February 2015 8:42PM Image: ABC 7PM News NT

Toronto Star
Uluru, Australia: Aboriginal tourism takes root
Toronto Star
Led by an aboriginal bush guide, who enjoys exclusive access, to, among other things, a spectacular bird-gathering place, it finishes with a traditional campfire bush-food cook-up under one of the glorious sunsets of the Top End as Northern Australia ...

Template in place for progress
The Australian
Only 16 per cent of 17 to 24-year-olds in remote indigenous Australia are in full-time work or study. More adults are dependent on welfare than work. Yet as recently as 1971, the indigenous male employment rate was 66.2 per cent — almost as high as ...

SBS
Abbott must do more in Indigenous Affairs: Mundine
SBS
Tony Abbott and the French President announced they would form a "joint expert committee to coordinate and determine the processes needed to identify and also to ascertain the origin of the Indigenous Australian human remains conserved in French public ...

Bridging the digital divide in Indigenous communities
The Age
Yet a significant digital divide exists between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Indigenous people are 69 per cent less likely than non-Indigenous people to have any internet connection and are half as likely to have broadband access, largely ...

The Guardian (blog)
Book ahead, Australia: Melbourne fashion, Revealed art, babies proms
The Guardian (blog)
Perth's Revealed art exhibition showcases emerging West Australian Indigenous artists. The sheer breadth of emerging Indigenous art talent will be on show at Perth's Revealed exhibition in April. More than 25 art centres will showcase and sell the work ...