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Westpac commits to 400 Aboriginal places
The Australian (blog)
Australia's top companies have broadened their indigenous engagement strategies to include not just current employment or procurement targets but education and training, spending $72 million last year according to the Business Council of Australia.

Westpac commits to 400 Aboriginal places
The Australian (blog)
Australia's top companies have broadened their indigenous engagement strategies to include not just current employment or procurement targets but education and training, spending $72 million last year according to the Business Council of Australia.

The Guardian
Aboriginal women address high rates of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in remote ...
Medical Xpress
The Lililwan study, led by Aboriginal leaders from the Fitzroy Valley communities, The George Institute for Global Health and The University of Sydney, provides Australia's first comprehensive data on the prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in remote ...
Foetal alcohol syndrome: Fitzroy Valley leader June Oscar hopes study brings ...ABC Online
Fitzroy Valley praised for response to scourge of foetal alcohol syndromeThe Guardian

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Indigenous business workshop on Coffs Coast this Wednesday
Coffs Coast Advocate
INDIGENOUS Business Australia (IBA) will be running a free Into Business workshop in Coffs Harbour this Wednesdays. The workshop is part of IBA's national Business Development and Assistance Program, which assists Indigenous Australians to establish, ...

Daily Mail
Shocking rates of foetal alcohol syndrome found by study in Aboriginal community
Daily Mail
One in eight children in remote communities of Western Australia are born with permanent learning and physical disabilities due to their mothers consuming alcohol while pregnant, a new study has found. Titled the Lililwan Project, meaning 'the little ...

Removal of Aboriginal children at crisis point and rising
Green Left Weekly
The Productivity Commission into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage released its findings into government attempts to 'close the gap' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia. It has been almost three years since the last Overcoming Indigenous ...

Removal of Aboriginal children at crisis point and rising
Green Left Weekly
The Productivity Commission into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage released its findings into government attempts to 'close the gap' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia. It has been almost three years since the last Overcoming Indigenous ...

Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal activists plan national convergence for freedom
Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal people and their supporters are converging in Canberra from all over Australia for the Invasion Day weekend. The weekend will feature a "sit-in" that is expected to release an historic Declaration of Independence reaffirming Aboriginal ...

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The Australian
Cries from remote indigenous communities go unheard
The Australian
But that's the point — while the Manoora tragedy is unprecedented for Queensland and Australia, there is a steady stream of information to services and agencies across the state and nation recording the lesser tragedies of remote indigenous Australia ...

The Australian
Cries from remote indigenous communities go unheard
The Australian
He was certainly sincere about turning back the boats and ditching the carbon tax, but those are easy marks by comparison to making a difference in indigenous affairs, particularly for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents of remote ...

The Australian
fetal alcohol hits one in eight
The Australian
A LANDMARK health study has found that one in eight children, or 120 children per 1000, in remote Aboriginal communities of the Fitzroy Valley in Western Australia suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome. The devastating findings of the Liliwan Study have ...
Nation's highest rate of fetal alcohol syndrome documented in WA's Fitzroy ValleyABC Online
Foetal alcohol syndrome: One in eight children has permament damage in ...Sydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
What if the French had settled Australia first?
Sydney Morning Herald
David Hill says either way the result would likely have not been different for the First Australians. Author and indigenous professor Larissa Behrendt agrees: "My father used to say that the only difference is that we'd probably be fighting for land ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
What if the French had settled Australia first?
Sydney Morning Herald
Baudin even warned NSW's Governor King of the consequences of dispossessing Aboriginal people in a personal letter: "It would be infinitely more glorious for your nation, as for mine, to mould for society the inhabitants of its own country over whom it ...

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Newcastle Herald
Aboriginal groups to arrive in Hunter over rail corridor
Newcastle Herald
ABORIGINAL groups from across Australia are expected to arrive in Newcastle next month to protest about the disturbance of Aboriginal remains and artefacts along the truncated rail corridor. Awabakal Aboriginal Land Council deputy chairman Richard ...

The Guardian
Indigenous group had no say in Tasmanian wilderness area plan
The Guardian
The draft management plan, released on Thursday after a leaked report was obtained by the Australian, cites concerns raised by Indigenous Australians as one of the key reasons to remove the word “wilderness” from descriptions of the area, and replace ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous group had no say in Tasmanian wilderness area plan
The Guardian
The draft management plan, released on Thursday after a leaked report was obtained by the Australian, cites concerns raised by Indigenous Australians as one of the key reasons to remove the word “wilderness” from descriptions of the area, and replace ...

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Indigenous group awaits consultation with Health Minister
The Sunshine Coast Daily
"Almost every politician, no matter what side of the fence, has at some time committed to close the appalling health gap between Aboriginal and other Australians," Ms Briggs said. "They all know the dire statistics ... Aboriginal people fare much worse ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Service provision fears ahead of NSW privatisation
Australian Ageing Agenda
There is mounting concern over the long-term future of rural and remote and Aboriginal-specific home care service provision in NSW as the State Government seeks to privatise its home care unit by mid-year. The state-run Home Care NSW is the largest ...

John Pilger Interview: White Australians Would Like Aboriginal People to ...
Truth-Out
Pilger incisively and tenaciously reveals the brutal conquest and continued racist treatment of the aboriginal people in Australia. Against this appalling historical documentation of conquest, discriminating and neglect, Pilger also highlights the ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Working in partnership with Aboriginal culture
ArtsHub (subscription)
Our audiences have very little understanding of the diversity of Aboriginal people and cultures. Australian was a multicultural nation before invasion, it's still one today. Views of Aboriginality are often very homogenising. We don't speak with one ...