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Miner ditches FIFO in favour of hiring Indigenous workers
Australian Mining
Owner of the Great Australian Mine on the outskirts of Cloncurry have switched from a FIFO workforce of 80 per cent to just 20 per cent by deciding to hire locally. CopperChem made the decision back in February and Indigenous Liaison Officer at the ...

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Indigenous, ethnic groups unite against law changes
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott is facing a fight against Australia's indigenous, Jewish, Arab, Chinese, Greek, Armenian, Lebanese and Muslim populations, who have united in urging the government not to proceed with announced plans to abolish or weaken race hate laws.

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous, ethnic groups unite
The Canberra Times
Tony Abbott is facing a fight against Australia's indigenous, Jewish, Arab, Chinese, Greek, Armenian, Lebanese and Muslim populations, who have united in urging the government not to proceed with announced plans to abolish or weaken race hate laws.

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Agency aids more indigenous people into homes
The Australian
INDIGENOUS Business Australia, the federal government indigenous development agency, has assisted 664 households into home ownership in the past year, compared to 404 in 2011-12. IBA's annual report has just been tabled showing its Indigenous ...

The West Australian
Supporting Indigenous health and wellbeing
Australian Life Scientist
Businessman and philanthropist Greg Poche is no stranger to gifting millions to research. The former founder and owner of Star Track Express has donated more than $105 million to causes around Australia, including $40 million to set up the Melanoma ...
Australian cities need more Aboriginal cultural festivals, Tourism Australia's ...The Daily Telegraph
Another $massive gift for University of WAThe Australian
Cairns man to give Abbott giant boomerangThe West Australian
Thanh Nien Daily -SBS
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Australia is the place of vanishing languages
ABC Message Stick
Walsh has been working with Ronald Briggs, the Indigenous services librarian at the State Library, investigating the languages used among Indigenous Australians. When I read a news report of Walsh's find, I immediately told my Western Arrarnta friends.

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Australia is the place of vanishing languages
ABC Message Stick
Walsh has been working with Ronald Briggs, the Indigenous services librarian at the State Library, investigating the languages used among Indigenous Australians. When I read a news report of Walsh's find, I immediately told my Western Arrarnta friends.

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The Age
Indigenous people, not Australians, should determine Vanuatu's future
The Age
To visiting Australians, my home, the island nation of Vanuatu, is either paradise or a Third World backwater. Holidaymakers prize our beaches and clear waters. But workers from aid organisations such as AusAID see limited employment opportunities and ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous people, not Australians, should determine Vanuatu's future
Sydney Morning Herald
To visiting Australians, my home, the island nation of Vanuatu, is either paradise or a Third World backwater. Holidaymakers prize our beaches and clear waters. But workers from aid organisations such as AusAID see limited employment opportunities and ...

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Thanh Nien Daily
Australian cities need more Aboriginal cultural festivals, Tourism Australia's ...
The Daily Telegraph
AUSTRALIA should stop fixating on Aboriginal social issues and instead focus on promoting indigenous travel experiences, Tourism Australia managing director Andrew McEvoy says. This starts with better indigenous experiences for international visitors ...
Another $massive gift for University of WAThe Australian
The brutal past and present are another country in secret AustraliaThanh Nien Daily
Bid to reduce Indigenous child removalSBS

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Ayers Rock Resort: Uluru Aboriginal investment damned by indigenous leader
Sydney Morning Herald
He brought on to the board a former chairman of GPT, Richard Longes, former Qantas chief Geoff Dixon, property executive Peter Barge and former boss of Indigenous Business Australia Ronald Morony. All four were sacked last month in the board clean-out ...
Climbers urged to resist lure of Australia's Uluru (VIDEO)The Malay Mail Online

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Australian cities need more Aboriginal cultural festivals, Tourism Australia's ...
Perth Now
International visitors want to experience Aboriginal culture in Australia's capital cities, as well as traditional indigenous tourism locations, like Mossman Gorge in Queensland. Picture: Voyages Source: Supplied. Mr McEvoy said Australia should invest ...

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Australian cities need more Aboriginal cultural festivals, Tourism Australia's ...
Herald Sun
AUSTRALIA should stop fixating on Aboriginal social issues and instead focus on promoting indigenous travel experiences, Tourism Australia managing director Andrew McEvoy says. This starts with better indigenous experiences for international visitors ...

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New home for indigenous art
The West Australian
"News that at last plans are being made to provide it with the space it truly deserves will be widely welcomed not only in Australia but overseas," Sir David said in the Uniview magazine. Professor Snell said the museum was in the early planning stages ...

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The Guardian
The mismatch between indigenous communities and mining wealth
The Guardian
In the opening sequences, the viewer is taken from a Palm Beach apartment renting at AUS$30,000 (£17,388) per week to a police station foyer where a young indigenous Australian male is beaten and later dies. The juxtaposition between Australia's ...
Film review: Utopia - John Pilger's documentary reveals 'shocking poverty' of ...The Independent
INTERVIEW | John Pilger exposes Australia's shocking secret in UtopiaAustralian Times
John Pilger on breaking the Great Silence of Australia's pastIrish Times
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Facing up to the stereotypes
The Australian
The case ended up in the Federal Court of Australia, and Bolt's columns, which stated that light-skinned indigenous people identified as Aboriginal for political and personal gain, were found to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act. One of the ...

Scholars need drive to seek a brighter future
The Australian
Miranda is one of the more than 400 students supported by an Australian Indigenous Education Foundation scholarship since 2008, and her experience shows us what happens when indigenous kids have opportunities and the confidence to aspire to a ...

ABC Message Stick
Out with FIFO, in with Locals
ABC Message Stick
The end of the mining boom has led some small miners in north-west Queensland to lay off fly-in fly-out staff in favour of local Aboriginal employees. The Federal Indigenous Affairs minister has welcomed the move as an example corporate Australia ...

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Indigenous workers finding employment in Cloncurry mines over traditional fly ...
ABC Online
You couldn't imagine anyone happier to be driving a dump truck on a mine site than 18-year-old Sarah Parker. Ms Parker is one of more than 30 Indigenous employees at the CopperChem copper mine on the outskirts of Cloncurry. "I started in the crystal ...

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