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Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson backs Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's 'healthy ... - The Australian


The West Australian

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 ...
Andrew Forrest has a positive history of working with indigenous Australians ...Perth Now
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Welfare recipients banned from buying alcohol and gambling under radical plan ...The Daily Telegraph
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For a better nation, we need a new approach - Herald Sun


For a better nation, we need a new approach
Herald Sun
THE disparity resulting from the large proportion of indigenous Australians who are disengaged from the community and from the workforce has reached crisis levels and the issues they suffer from impact all vulnerable Australians. As a nation, we must ...

Lessons from the Kimberley on developing Northern Australia - The Conversation


Lessons from the Kimberley on developing Northern Australia
The Conversation
Indigenous land owners weren't consulted in the past about the creation of Western Australia's huge Ord River irrigation scheme – but a recent agreement offers a more positive example for developing other parts of northern Australia. Pete Hill/Flickr ...

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land rights out of step? - The Australian


land rights out of step?
The Australian
Yet, with few exceptions, these monumental changes have not delivered the prosperity most indigenous people want. In the memorable words of Cape York indigenous leader Noel Pearson, Australia's First People are “land rich and dirt poor”. Last year ...

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Forrest's revolution for welfare - The Australian


The West Australian

Forrest's revolution for welfare
The Australian
The radical proposal is contained in mining magnate Andrew Forrest's blueprint for indigenous welfare and employment, which he has delivered to the Abbott government. Under Mr Forrest's plan, all welfare recipients, including non-indigenous Australians ...
Welfare recipients banned from buying alcohol and gambling under radical plan ...The Daily Telegraph
Twiggy call to manage welfare paymentsThe West Australian

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Queensland police woman calls Aborigines 'scum bags' and 'oxygen thieves' on ... - Daily Mail


Queensland police woman calls Aborigines 'scum bags' and 'oxygen thieves' on ...
Daily Mail
Constable Rissman is also under investigation for not complying with police standards in relation to the investigation into the bashing death of an indigenous woman named Adelaide Riversleigh, according to The Australian. The 37-year-old died on May 10 ...

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Video Shows Casual Racism Is Alive and Thriving in Australia - Mashable


Video Shows Casual Racism Is Alive and Thriving in Australia
Mashable
Its message is to illustrate subtle or 'casual' racism against Indigenous Australians "can be just as harmful as more overt forms". From not sitting next to a person on a bus through to an insensitive joke at the pub, this form of racism is rife in ...

Missing from school: Australia's Aboriginal children - ITV News


ITV News

Missing from school: Australia's Aboriginal children
ITV News
Earlier this year, Aboriginal dancers greeted William and Kate to Uluru, or Ayers Rock as the settlers named it, and the royal couple arrived at Sydney zoo to the strains of a didgeridoo. But Australia's treatment of the indigenous minority remains a ...

Missing from school: Australia's Aboriginal children - ITV News


ITV News

Missing from school: Australia's Aboriginal children
ITV News
Earlier this year, Aboriginal dancers greeted William and Kate to Uluru, or Ayers Rock as the settlers named it, and the royal couple arrived at Sydney zoo to the strains of a didgeridoo. But Australia's treatment of the indigenous minority remains a ...

New bridges boost Top End Indigenous farming plans - ABC Online


New bridges boost Top End Indigenous farming plans
ABC Online
"Where they have decided to build the bridge, it's not going to interfere with the most beautiful river crossing in Australia, that's the Roper Bar. "It's going to be built further up the river, so we'll have the best of both worlds, with access all ...

These six charts show the state of discrimination towards indigenous Australians - Sydney Morning Herald


These six charts show the state of discrimination towards indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
One in five young Australians would move if a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent sat next to them, a survey has found. And the same percentage would keep an eye on an indigenous person if they were shopping. More than one in three ...

Beyond Blue chairman Jeff Kennett says young people biased against ... - Sydney Morning Herald


Daily Mail

Beyond Blue chairman Jeff Kennett says young people biased against ...
Sydney Morning Herald
One in five young Australians would move if a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent sat next to them, a survey has found. And the same percentage would keep an eye on an indigenous person if they were shopping. More than one in three ...
BeyondBlue launches campaign to battle subtle racism against Indigenous ...ABC Online
We Subtly Inflicts Depression to Indigenous Australians, Campaign SaysInternational Business Times AU
Indigenous Australia in the era of 'good governance'The Conversation
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Beyond Blue chairman Jeff Kennett says young people biased against ... - Sydney Morning Herald


The Guardian

Beyond Blue chairman Jeff Kennett says young people biased against ...
Sydney Morning Herald
One in five young Australians would move if a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent sat next to them, a survey has found. And the same percentage would keep an eye on an indigenous person if they were shopping. More than one in three ...
BeyondBlue launches campaign to battle subtle racism against Indigenous ...ABC Online
Indigenous Australia in the era of 'good governance'The Conversation
Campaign shows effects of 'subtle racism' on Indigenous AussiesSBS
International Business Times AU -The Australian
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Half of Australians are racist towards Aborigines... and one in five would ... - Daily Mail


Daily Mail

Half of Australians are racist towards Aborigines... and one in five would ...
Daily Mail
A survey commissioned by BeyondBlue of more than 1,000 non-Indigenous Australians found nearly half believe Indigenous Australians are given unfair advantages by the government, more than a third believed they 'are sometimes a bit lazy' and many ...

Aboriginal station merger reveals export potential - The Australian


Aboriginal station merger reveals export potential
The Australian
THE impending merger of Aboriginal-controlled cattle stations in a joint venture with Chinese investors shows Western Australia's far north pastoralists are finding ways to realise their enormous potential as exporters, according to the Shire of Derby ...

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Aboriginal station merger reveals export potential - The Australian


Aboriginal station merger reveals export potential
The Australian
THE impending merger of Aboriginal-controlled cattle stations in a joint venture with Chinese investors shows Western Australia's far north pastoralists are finding ways to realise their enormous potential as exporters, according to the Shire of Derby ...

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ALP indigenous action failed on jobs and schools - The Australian


ALP indigenous action failed on jobs and schools
The Australian
The Abbott government will today release a report into the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Service Delivery in the Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and NSW to argue it delivered only marginal benefits. It says ...

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe - RN

Sovereign Audio Collection - Tue, 2014/07/29 - 12:56pm
Bruce Pascoe feels a visceral urge to write. His latest novel is a story about solitude, mateship and dying set in the Victorian bush. It's hero is that most reviled of introduced species - the fox. But his forthcoming work of non-fiction Dark Emu challenges what can only be described as a startling lack of intellectual curiosity about Aboriginal agriculture.

“Australia’s First Nations History Misrepresented”: Bruce Pascoe (CAAMA)

Sovereign Audio Collection - Tue, 2014/07/29 - 10:53am
CAAMA Radio broadcaster Mikaela Simpson caught up with Mr Pascoe to discuss his discoveries, which date back to the first European explorers and their interaction with the First Nations Peoples. - Bruce Pascoe joined the Mildura’s Writers Festival to talk about his latest book Dark Emu. The book challenges the idea that the first Australians were hunters and gathers, claiming this label was invented to undermine Aboriginal people. He claims the history of Aboriginal people in Australia has been incorrectly misrepresented and that research into their agricultural practices can benefit all Australians today.

'Dark Emu' challenges modern re-tellings of early Aboriginal history

Sovereign Audio Collection - Tue, 2014/07/29 - 10:40am
Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly The centuries-old notion that pre-European Aboriginal people were hunter-gatherers who did not farm the land they occupied is under further challenge. - A new book by award winning indigenous author Bruce Pascoe draws on the diaries of early explorers to provide evidence that Aboriginal people across the continent were sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing. - He argues that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern re-tellings of early Aboriginal history.

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