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Aboriginal flag plan for council
Port Lincoln Times
Councillor Travis Rogers put forward a motion for three flags to be flown - the Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags - but councillor Linda Davies moved a successful amendment to exclude the Torres Strait Islander flag because there ...

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Australian architects pledge to Aboriginal internship program
Architecture and Design
GHD, Cox Architecture and SJB Architecture will provide at least 10 internships each year for the next 10 years to Indigenous Australian university students as part of their commitment to the CareerTrackers program. CareerTrackers is a national non ...

Architecture and Design
Australian architects pledge to Aboriginal internship program
Architecture and Design
GHD, Cox Architecture and SJB Architecture will provide at least 10 internships each year for the next 10 years to Indigenous Australian university students as part of their commitment to the CareerTrackers program. CareerTrackers is a national non ...

Thompson holds centre stage
The West Australian
Thompson holds centre stage Star turn: Jack Thomson with playwright David Milroy and Aboriginal Theatre student Alan Little. Picture: Bill Hatto/The West Australian. Legendary actor Jack Thompson settles into a perfectly lit theatre and launches a ...

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Family still waiting for inquest into woman's death in custody
ABC Message Stick
The family of an Aboriginal woman who died last year in police custody in Western Australia are demanding an urgent inquest into the 22-year-old's death. Ms Dhu died in South Hedland in the Pilbara and her family said they had no idea what caused her ...

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Ms Dhu's family call for urgent inquest into Aboriginal woman's death in ...
ABC Online
The family of an Aboriginal woman who died last year in police custody in Western Australia are demanding an urgent inquest into the 22-year-old's death. Ms Dhu died in South Hedland in the Pilbara and her family said they had no idea what caused her ...

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How much does it cost to keep people in Australian jails?
SBS
Across Australia, Indigenous people are over-represented in Australian prisons. The rate of Indigenous Australians in prison is 16 times higher than non-Indigenous people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda ...

SBS
How much does it cost to keep people in Australian jails?
SBS
Rates of education and training are highest in the ACT and South Australia, and rates of prisoners in work are highest in NSW and Victoria. Across Australia, the incarceration rate for Indigenous Australians was significantly higher than non-Indigenous ...

The Guardian
WA premier withdraws royalties help for struggling Aboriginal communities
The Guardian
Mining royalties will not be used to keep open “unviable” remote Aboriginal communities, the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, has said. The move scuttles a lifeline thrown by WA National party leader and regional development minister, Terry ...

Lighting the way for Indigenous students
Lawyers Weekly
Other signatories to the CareerTrackers initiative include: Commonwealth Bank of Australia; GHD; Insurance Australia Group; Indigenous Business Australia; Lend Lease; Leighton Contractors; Qantas; SJB Architecture & Cox Architecture; and Westpac.
Indigenous Children in Care Up 65 Per Cent Since National ApologyPro Bono Australia

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Lighting the way for Indigenous students
Lawyers Weekly
Other signatories to the CareerTrackers initiative include: Commonwealth Bank of Australia; GHD; Insurance Australia Group; Indigenous Business Australia; Lend Lease; Leighton Contractors; Qantas; SJB Architecture & Cox Architecture; and Westpac.

Alan Parkinson is a mechanical and nuclear engineer who lives in Canberra. He has just written a book about the clean up of the British atomic bomb test site at Maralinga in South Australia. In April 2000 a $108 million clean up of the site was declared a success. However, leaked documents and some experts do not agree and suggest that the legacy of that failed clean up will affect the Australian population for many years to come. ABC RN Ockham's Razor 2 September 2007 Presented by Robyn Williams

An interview with Duane Hamacher Australian Society of Indigenous Astronomy Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences and there is evidence that the First Nations people in Australia have been looking to the night sky to learn the 'culture of the stars' for at least 60,000 years. The earliest European records of Indigenous astronomy was in an 1857 essay called 'The Astronomy and Mythology of the Aborigines of Victoria'. It was written by William Stanbridge who had befriended some Boorong people and they in turn showed him how they read the stars. Reading the stars is a very important part of Indigenous culture. ABC Radio National Counterpoint 2 February 2015 Presented by Amanda Vanstone

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NT homes not within 'acceptable standard' for Indigenous Australians
yourMortgage.com.au (blog)
A report this week has found poor housing conditions for Indigenous Australians, where 34% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families fail to receive “dwellings of acceptable standard” in public housing areas. Some of the houses lack electricity ...
Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'The Australian

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The Guardian
Leeanne Enoch's election in Queensland a huge milestone for Indigenous people
The Guardian
Enoch, who won Algester in Brisbane, and Gordon, who took the far northern seat of Cook 2,000km away, were part of a Labor surge on Saturday that has the party poised to take government just three years after suffering the worst defeat in Australian ...
The QLD election result is a win for Australian womenDaily Life

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The Guardian
Leeanne Enoch's election in Queensland a huge milestone for Indigenous people
The Guardian
Enoch, who won Algester in Brisbane, and Gordon, who took the far northern seat of Cook 2,000km away, were part of a Labor surge on Saturday that has the party poised to take government just three years after suffering the worst defeat in Australian ...
The QLD election result is a win for Australian womenDaily Life

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Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'
The Australian
CRUCIAL bipartisanship on a move to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution risks being “squandered” and the momentum exhausted if a form of words and a voting date are not released this year, the Business Council of Australia says.

Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'
The Australian
CRUCIAL bipartisanship on a move to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution risks being “squandered” and the momentum exhausted if a form of words and a voting date are not released this year, the Business Council of Australia says.

The stunning Northern Flinders Ranges Country belongs to the Adnyamathanha people. 'Adnya' means rock and 'mathana' means people - the Adnyamathana people are ‘the people of the rocks’. -- Adnyamathanha songs, stories and Law are all part of the Yuramuda. This program is about the journey of one of the major Adnyamathanha Creation Ancestors, Yulu the Kingfisher Man. Yulu’s Coal, explores the travels of Yulu as he moved across Country, followed by two Arkurra , Giant Rainbow Serpents and why the coal mined at Leigh Creek Coal Mine today belongs, from an Adnyamathanha perspective, to Yulu, the Kingfisher Man. -- In the first of this two part series, we will move through Country with Senior Cultural Custodians learning about important features of the landscape brought into existence by these Ancestral Beings and why there are deep implications for the digging of Yulu’s Coal or Muda (Dreaming) from the ground. -- ABC Radio National 23 January 2015 Program: Earshot - Producer: Liz Thompson Sound engineer: Russell Stapleton. Image: Copley -- The two Arkurra Abina (Serpents) that followed Yulu down to Wilpena pound in the Yulu’s Coal story were called Ngarnangarrinha and Wartawinha. They became these two hills at Copley in South Australia.

The Australian
Pathways to indigenous empowerment
The Australian
DESPITE a decade of ever more concerted interventions across remote Aboriginal Australia, there has been little change in the landscape of the bush communities. Indigenous men and women know the truth; outsiders with clear eyes can see it as well.
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...The Guardian

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