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Place, not race, is key to the gap
The Australian (blog)
The seductive idea of a single Aboriginal Australia was built up over a generation of indigenous activism; it is encouraged and given weight by the official, uniform and racially defined criterion of Aboriginal identity used by governments; and it is ...

Victoria's offences against indigenous kids 10 times non-Aboriginal rate
The Australian
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare said yesterday it was difficult to compare and contrast figures but the institute had recently found high rates of child abuse substantiations in the ACT, Western Australia and South Australia. Victorian ...

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Indigenous Australians welcome forced adoptions apology
SBS
Five years after the apology to the Stolen Generations, Indigenous Australians have welcomed the Prime Minister's apology over decades of forced adoptions separating hundreds of thousands of parents and children.

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Indigenous Australians welcome forced adoptions apology
SBS
Five years after the apology to the Stolen Generations, Indigenous Australians have welcomed the Prime Minister's apology over decades of forced adoptions separating hundreds of thousands of parents and children.

Urgent boost to indigenous health care needed in Australia
Radio Australia
An Indigenous rights campaigner is calling on the Australian Government to urgently boost healthcare in regional and remote communities to reduce preventable deaths. Urgent boost to indigenous health care needed in Australia (Credit: ABC). Aboriginal ...

Call for indigenous mental health target
The Australian
AUSTRALIAN governments are being urged to add a mental health target to their efforts to close the health gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Mental illness is second only to heart disease as one of the main reasons for the health ...

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Call for indigenous mental health target
Ninemsn
11:33pm March 20, 2013. Australian governments are being urged to add a mental health target to their efforts to close the health gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Biggest cheerleading failures. READ: Biggest cheerleading failures ...

Sleeping Beauty: why indigenous languages need to be saved from the brink
The Australian
By revitalising indigenous languages not only will we help mend faults of the past but we will be facilitating social progress by creating a greater collective understanding between non-indigenous and indigenous Australians. The revitalisation of ...

Call to renew indigenous health deal
The Australian
"Continued investment is essential if we are to build on this excellent work and be the generation to end the national disgrace that sees Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples die more than 10 years younger than the broader Australian community ...
Call for indigenous mental health targetNEWS.com.au

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From start to finish: why Katie Prince's now a pioneer for indigenous students
The Australian
After growing up in Mungindi, on the NSW-Queensland border, she went to board at St Catherine's, an independent girls' school in Waverley in Sydney's eastern suburbs, with the help of a scholarship from the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.

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Katter MPs call for Indigenous Australians to receive wages compo
Australian Times
The unofficial shadow cabinet of Katter's Australian Party has announced its first policy in the lead-up to the 2013 Federal election, calling for Indigenous Australians to be paid more than $20 million in compensation for wages routinely withheld from ...

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Most indigenous kids completing Year 12
The West Australian
Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released on Wednesday show that last year, for the first time, 51.1 per cent of indigenous students were sticking with their schooling all the way through to Year 12. This is well up from the 38 per ...
ACT indigenous school retention rate slipsThe Canberra Times
From start to finish: why Katie Prince's now a pioneer for indigenous studentsThe Australian

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Most indigenous kids completing Year 12
The Australian
FEDERAL Schools Minister Peter Garrett says he's proud that more than half of indigenous students are now staying in school and finishing Year 12. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released on Wednesday show that last year, for the ...

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Indigenous Small Business Start Up Tools
Sydney Morning Herald
The Learning Workshop has released a resource kit - the Natural Born Fighter: Indigenous Small Business Start Up Tools - to help Indigenous entrepreneurs get their business started. The resource was funded by the Australian Government's Workplace ...

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Closing the indigenous jobs gap
The Australian Financial Review
The chairman of solar panel installation firm Mark Group Australia says he was “fairly moved by what was said and done and it got me thinking about what we could do to help close the gap [on indigenous disadvantage]”. But five years later, Grant has ...

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challenge over indigenous jobs
The Australian
"It's a challenge to both . . . to go into this coming election knowing that Australia is now sick of it," he will say at a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of his GenerationOne indigenous employment initiative. "It has the weapons to rid us of ...

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search unearths a fashion first
The Australian
BROOME and Auckland may be a long way from the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival runway, but that hasn't stopped about 80 young indigenous fashion designers and models making the journey this week from around Australia and New Zealand.

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Jessica Mauboy Brings Australian Indigenous Film 'The Sapphires' to US
Singersroom News
After earning a nomination for 'Female Actress of the Year” in Bran Nue Dae, Jessica Mauboy will star in 'The Sapphires' film. Mauboy plays Julie one of four indigenous women in an Australian a pop group that entertains troops during the Vietnam War.
The Sapphires Interviews: Wayne Blair and Shari SebbensHuffington Post
'The Sapphires' Review Roundup: Australian Film Dazzles CriticsLatinos Post

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Lend Lease works to boost indigenous employment
The Australian Financial Review
“The first one was initiated six years ago with National Australia Bank and they are beginning to see the business drivers behind it.” The RAP process not only increases cultural awareness of Indigenous culture but helps companies get a better ...

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'Long way to go' for reconciliation
The Australian
JAMES Packer acknowledged yesterday that his Crown group had "a long way to go" to meet its goal to provide more long-term, sustainable employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people after formally launching its ...