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NT indigenous bauxite exploration approved
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An indigenous-owned mining company has been given the go-ahead to begin bauxite exploration in northeastern Arnhem Land. The Gulkula Mining Company, a subsidiary of the Gumatj Aboriginal Corporation, received the nod from the Northern Land ...

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Indigenous bauxite exploration approved
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An indigenous-owned mining company has been given the go-ahead to begin bauxite exploration in northeastern Arnhem Land. The Gulkula Mining Company, a subsidiary of the Gumatj Aboriginal Corporation, received the nod from the Northern Land ...
Traditional owners and Rio to set up mine training centre in NTThe Australian
Rio Tinto-funded training centre to help Aboriginal miners, Gumatj Corporation ...ABC Online

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Aboriginal leader chides Prime Minister Tony Abbott for absence at NT Garma ...
ABC Online
Former Australian of the Year Galarrwuy Yunupingu was speaking during the main forum at the Garma Festival near the mining town of Nhulunbuy. Mr Yunupingu, the Yothu Yindi Foundation chairman, told the crowd - which included Federal Indigenous ...
Scullion uses Garma to challenge Shorten on land rights changesThe Australian
Elder calls for NLC to step asideSky News Australia

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Australia in the grip of a 'new stolen generation', indigenous children ...
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According to Mr Gibson, Australia has essentially returned to an “assimilation policy” where mass removal of Aboriginal children is being used as a strategy to “deal with questions of Aboriginal disadvantage, just as it was in the Stolen Generations era”.

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Australia in the grip of a 'new stolen generation', indigenous children ...
NEWS.com.au
According to Mr Gibson, Australia has essentially returned to an “assimilation policy” where mass removal of Aboriginal children is being used as a strategy to “deal with questions of Aboriginal disadvantage, just as it was in the Stolen Generations era”.

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Andrew Forrest calls for extensive reforms to ease crisis in indigenous employment
Sydney Morning Herald
In one of the more controversial elements of the report, Mr Forrest recommends a ''Healthy Welfare Card'' that would see welfare payments for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians – not including age or veterans' payments – paid into savings ...

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Forrest report a 'launch pad'
The Australian
Forrest has told The Australian that indigenous people in remote communities are being “economically jailed” and suffering the “blight of disparity”. Immediate, dramatic action must be taken to reverse the disturbing trend of substance abuse and idleness.
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson backs Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's 'healthy ...Courier Mail
Forrest Indigenous Jobs Review ReleasedPro Bono Australia
Andrew Forrest has a positive history of working with indigenous Australians ...Herald Sun
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These stories offer telling windows into the First contact and the attitude of the British. These castaways were living with the Indigenous people before the trauma of colonisation—and sometimes during it. Their accounts provide a fascinating record of that time. They come to us via Iain McCalman's book charting human interaction along the Great Barrier Reef, 'The Reef: a Passionate History'. Radio National - Hindsight July 2014

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Empowered Communities take the initiative on Indigenous funding
The Guardian
The dismantling of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander commission (Atsic) in 2004 amid allegations of corruption, financial mismanagement and improper nepotism, tightly re-centralised responsibility for Indigenous Australia with state, territory ...

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Empowered Communities take the initiative on Indigenous funding
The Guardian
A group of prominent Indigenous leaders, bureaucrats and business chiefs is working to redefine the role of government in battling the enduring social dysfunction, third-world poverty, illness and deprivation that blights Indigenous Australia. The ...

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Pride of Australia nominee Elijah Douglas preserving far north's indigenous ...
Courier Mail
“I want to help to make a change in Australia, especially help Aboriginal people,” he said, adding education, health, employment and reconnecting with culture were the keys to change for indigenous communities. “A lot of indigenous young people, they ...

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Pride of Australia nominee Elijah Douglas preserving far north's indigenous ...
Herald Sun
“I want to help to make a change in Australia, especially help Aboriginal people,” he said, adding education, health, employment and reconnecting with culture were the keys to change for indigenous communities. “A lot of indigenous young people, they ...

Pride of Australia nominee Elijah Douglas preserving far north's indigenous ...
Herald Sun
“I want to help to make a change in Australia, especially help Aboriginal people,” he said, adding education, health, employment and reconnecting with culture were the keys to change for indigenous communities. “A lot of indigenous young people, they ...

Forrest Indigenous Jobs Review Released
Pro Bono Australia
In his report, Forrest said that education and employment had the capacity to end the disparity between first Australians and other Australians, but a massive 30-point gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and other Australians existed despite ...
Support for relocating to a jobThe Australian

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Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson backs Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's 'healthy ...
Courier Mail
“Within a generation they will effect a tectonic shift in the wellbeing of Australia's most disadvantaged peoples, indigenous and non-indigenous,” he said. The Cape York-based leader said the Forrest reforms would “strike at the roots of the passive ...

Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson backs Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's 'healthy ...
Courier Mail
The Forrest review found the social housing trap stops indigenous Australians from getting jobs and led to “misery” and “chronic overcrowding”. “Children of first Australian homeowners are more likely to attend school, have a job themselves and want to ...

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Andrew Forrest calls for tax breaks for indigenous-run firms
The Australian
Mr Forrest also wants the commonwealth to commit to spending 4 per cent of its $39 billion a year purchasing budget with businesses run by indigenous Australians and to impose similar regimes on state and territory governments. The Forrest Review ...
Andrew Forrest has a positive history of working with indigenous Australians ...Herald Sun
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Welfare recipients banned from buying alcohol and gambling under radical plan ...The Daily Telegraph
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Andrew Forrest's radical blueprint to 'end blight of disparity'
The Australian
Mr Forrest told The Australian that indigenous people in remote communities were being “economically jailed” and suffering the “blight of disparity”. Immediate, dramatic action must be taken to reverse the disturbing trend of substance abuse and idleness.

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Andrew Forrest has a positive history of working with indigenous Australians ...
Herald Sun
Mr Forrest headed a report to the Federal Government on sweeping changes to end long-term welfare dependency and Aboriginal unemployment of up to 54 per cent. OPINION: FOR BETTER NATION, WE NEED NEW APPROACH. He also calls for greater ...
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Welfare recipients banned from buying alcohol and gambling under radical plan ...The Daily Telegraph

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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson backs Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's 'healthy ...
The Australian
“Within a generation they will effect a tectonic shift in the wellbeing of Australia's most disadvantaged peoples, indigenous and non-indigenous,” he said. The Cape York-based leader said the Forrest reforms would “strike at the roots of the passive ...
No booze, no bets, no bucks, no bestNEWS.com.au
Andrew Forrest has a positive history of working with indigenous Australians ...Perth Now
Welfare recipients banned from buying alcohol and gambling under radical plan ...The Daily Telegraph

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