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Blitz on remote dole scheme
The Australian
The Australian has previously foreshadowed that the Abbott government was looking at overhauling Labor's remote jobs scheme. Unlike the now downscaled CDEP scheme, under which unemployed indigenous people did work-for-the-dole activities and ...

Blitz on remote dole scheme
The Australian
The Australian has previously foreshadowed that the Abbott government was looking at overhauling Labor's remote jobs scheme. Unlike the now downscaled CDEP scheme, under which unemployed indigenous people did work-for-the-dole activities and ...

ABC Online
Smartphone apps used to save endangered Indigenous languages
ABC Online
"It's actually gone out to other parts of Australia and the world. "I was in Portugal doing a workshop five weeks ago, we've had a trial in Cameroon, we've had a trial with a language in Papua New Guinea. "The idea is that people in remote locations ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Referendum to recognise indigenous Australians should be held in 2016 ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The committee outlined three options for forms of words to recognise indigenous Australians in the constitution. One of these included a broad provision banning racial discrimination, while a second option included a protection from discrimination for ...
Remove race reference from Constitution: Recognise committeeThe Australian
Aboriginal Deaths in Australian Prisons Due to Jailers' 'Indifference'teleSUR English
MPs offer options on indigenous recognitionThe West Australian
Ballina Shire Advocate
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Sydney Morning Herald
Referendum to recognise indigenous Australians should be held in 2016 ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The committee outlined three options for forms of words to recognise indigenous Australians in the constitution. One of these included a broad provision banning racial discrimination, while a second option included a protection from discrimination for ...
Indigenous personnel who fought for Australia deserve their monument in ...The Guardian
MPs offer options on indigenous recognitionThe West Australian
Aboriginal Deaths in Australian Prisons Due to Jailers' 'Indifference'teleSUR English
ABC Message Stick -The Australian -Caboolture News
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MPs offer options on indigenous recognition
The West Australian
Both options propose recognising indigenous prior occupation of Australia, acknowledging the continuing relationship between indigenous people and the land and seas, and respecting their culture, language and heritage. They also propose giving the ...

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Indigenous creatives ACCELERATE into leadership roles
ArtsHub (subscription)
Image courtesy British Council. Indigenous Australia has, over many centuries, developed an invaluable sense of community and respect for community leadership. The British Council recognises the vital contribution this makes to contemporary Australia ...

teleSUR English
Aboriginal Deaths in Australian Prisons Due to Jailers' 'Indifference'
teleSUR English
The suicide of an Aboriginal man in a Western Australian prison has sparked renewed controversy over the decades old issue of Indigenous deaths in custody. To find out more, teleSUR English spoke to the head of the Indigenous Social Justice Association ...
Indigenous personnel who fought for Australia deserve their monument in ...The Guardian
Remove race reference from Constitution: Recognise committeeThe Australian
Questions proposed for Indigenous referendumThe Conversation AU
Coffs Coast Advocate
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The Guardian
Politicians urged to make time for Indigenous recognition in constitution
The Guardian
The progress report backed previous calls to retain the commonwealth's powers to make laws in relation to Indigenous Australians and scrap a provision in the constitution that removes the right of certain citizens to vote in state elections based on ...
Aboriginal Deaths in Australian Prisons Due to Jailers' 'Indifference'teleSUR English
Remove race reference from Constitution: Recognise committeeThe Australian
Race should be removed from Constitution: reportThe Sunshine Coast Daily
The Stringer
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The Guardian
Indigenous personnel who fought for Australia deserve their monument in ...
The Guardian
The stone faces of that man and woman are the only specific statues of Indigenous Australians that I can find in the memorial. Some present and former staff reckon they should be removed, so pejorative is their continued depiction of the Indigenous at ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous personnel who fought for Australia deserve their monument in ...
The Guardian
The stone faces of that man and woman are the only specific statues of Indigenous Australians that I can find in the memorial. Some present and former staff reckon they should be removed, so pejorative is their continued depiction of the Indigenous at ...

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teleSUR English
Remove race reference from Constitution: Recognise committee
The Australian
The report contains three options for recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution and for dealing with issues of discrimination. In all three options, the committee recommends removing references to race ...
Aboriginal Deaths in Australian Prisons Due to Jailers' 'Indifference'teleSUR English
Referendum to recognise indigenous Australians should be held in 2016 ...Sydney Morning Herald
MPs offer options on indigenous recognitionThe West Australian
The Guardian -Coffs Coast Advocate
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Australian Mining
Aboriginal cultural heritage survey industry under scrutiny
Australian Mining
SMH reported that claims of price fixing for consulting work carried out on Aboriginal heritage surveys, as well as destruction of artefacts and sites to enable mining development have come to the attention of the competition watchdog. With concerns ...
ACCC investigates claims of Aboriginal and mining 'cartels'Sydney Morning Herald

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Ferret
Aboriginal cultural heritage survey industry under scrutiny
Ferret
SMH reported that claims of price fixing for consulting work carried out on Aboriginal heritage surveys, as well as destruction of artefacts and sites to enable mining development have come to the attention of the competition watchdog. With concerns ...

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230 Jobs in 90 minutes for Indigenous Aussies
Pro Bono Australia
Two hundred and thirty job pledges for Indigenous Australians were received from 16 employers in just 90 minutes at a breakfast in Sydney recently. Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion, said the 230 pledges at the Marist Youth Care ...

SBS
While old Indigenous languages disappear, new ones evolve
SBS
The most widespread of these new languages is a creole language, also called Kriol (confusingly), now spoken by at least 20,000 Indigenous people across northern Australia, from Cape York to Broome. Astonishingly most non-Indigenous Australians have ...

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The Conversation AU
Felicity Meakins
The Conversation AU
Felicity Meakins is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. She is a field linguist who specialises in the documentation of Australian Indigenous languages in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory and the effect of English on ...

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The Conversation AU
While old Indigenous languages disappear, new ones evolve
The Conversation AU
The most widespread of these new languages is a creole language, also called Kriol (confusingly), now spoken by at least 20,000 Indigenous people across northern Australia, from Cape York to Broome. Astonishingly most non-Indigenous Australians have ...

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$2bn indigenous land fund next on agenda
The Australian
“In addition, we seek government support to broaden the current narrow investment parameters of the land account and allow the Future Fund to manage it so as to maximise the benefits available to indigenous Australians, particularly those whose native ...

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$2bn indigenous land fund next on agenda
The Australian
“In addition, we seek government support to broaden the current narrow investment parameters of the land account and allow the Future Fund to manage it so as to maximise the benefits available to indigenous Australians, particularly those whose native ...

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