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Workshop to help foster Indigenous entrepreneurs
ABC Message Stick
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) is encouraging Aboriginal people in central Australia with business ideas to attend a workshop in Alice Springs tomorrow. The workshop is the first in a series to help participants determine if their ideas are viable ...

Cicada Lodge Secures Top Indigenous Chef Mark Olive
e-Travel Blackboard (press release)
Cicada Lodge, Australia's newest luxury lodge opening in Nitmiluk National Park, Katherine, today announced an agreement with renowned Indigenous chef Mark Olive, aka The Black Olive. “We are delighted to announce that the chef de cuisine for Cicada ...

Dreamtime, boomtime
Tasmania Examiner
Stewart began his working life at the wheel of a borrowed grader levelling red dirt roads in the heat-soaked Pilbara - Australia's quarry to the world. Today he heads Australian Indigenous Enterprises with Daniel Tucker, a fellow Aboriginal contractor ...

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Crikey (blog)
REVIEW: Dirtsong | Concert Hall, Brisbane
Crikey (blog)
Contemporary music has tended to blunt the jagged edges that exist in the borderlands between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. From Jimmy Little, ringing God on his way to chart success, through the gritty bush pulses of the Warumpi Band, ...

Dreamtime, boomtime
The Border Mail
Stewart began his working life at the wheel of a borrowed grader levelling red dirt roads in the heat-soaked Pilbara - Australia's quarry to the world. Today he heads Australian Indigenous Enterprises with Daniel Tucker, a fellow Aboriginal contractor ...

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Arriaga the man for mentoring
The Australian
GUILLERMO Arriaga, the writer of Babel, Amores Perros and 21 Grams, has just completed a workshop at Uluru teaching indigenous novelists how to write for the screen. Screen Australia's indigenous department ran the week-long session with Tony Birch, ...

The Age
Dreamtime, boomtime
The Age
Stewart began his working life at the wheel of a borrowed grader levelling red dirt roads in the heat-soaked Pilbara - Australia's quarry to the world. Today he heads Australian Indigenous Enterprises with Daniel Tucker, a fellow Aboriginal contractor ...

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Cup crusader Abbatangelo leads indigenous charge
Melbounre Times Weekly
"It's an unbelievable trip and a lot of preparation and organisation goes into it. "It's awesome to go up there and showcase your talents against the other states." Abbatangelo was also selected for the Cricket Australia under 23 indigenous development ...

Ballerrt Mooroop sacred site under threat - SBS (mp3)

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Education 'key for urban Indigenous kids'
SBS
Although emphasis is often placed on Indigenous communities in remote parts of Australia, Minister Macklin believes that urban communities are not being overlooked. Education , National Indigenous Television Network. Follow us: Follow us on Facebook ...

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Newsport Daily
Queensland lodge threatened with receivership, indigenous employment ...
SmartCompany.com.au
An award-winning eco lodge in Queensland, which pioneered an indigenous employment program, is under threat of receivership as it struggles to pay back loans and maintain its "Aboriginal Champions" program. The Daintree Eco Lodge and Spa won the ...
Daintree Eco-Lodge and Spa facing liquidationNEWS.com.au
Daintree Eco Lodge & Spa in receivershipNewsport Daily

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Bank 'should look at indigenous program'
The Australian
A DAINTREE lodge that has pioneered a long-term Aboriginal employment program and was recognised as the world's leading eco-resort and spa last year has been told it will be put into receivership today by the National Australia Bank. Daintree Eco-lodge ...

Fight for the right to drink
The Australian
It's a good question, for Aboriginal people's relationship with alcohol has always been deemed "special" by mainstream Australia. Early British settlers thought Aborigines particularly drawn to the grog, but also especially vulnerable to it - an ...

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Indigenous health improving, report shows
The Sunshine Coast Daily
INDIGENOUS health is improving around the nation, with maternal drinking and smoking falling marginally, but it still has a long way to go, a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare revealed on Friday. The Healthy for Life report ...

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Helping Riverland Indigenous Live Longer
ABC Online (blog)
Helping Riverland Indigenous Live Longer. 01/03/2013 , 2:29 PM by Narelle Graham. A Riverland group's been given some funding to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people. About $300-thousand dollars been given to the Live Longer Campaign and ...

Indigenous party change of guard flags poll tilt
ABC Local
The former president of an Indigenous political party says he has stepped down to make way for new blood. Australia's First Nations Political Party founder Maurie Japarta Ryan has been replaced by Ken Lechleitner from Alice Springs. But Mr Ryan, 64 ...

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Indigenous party change of guard flags poll tilt
ABC Online
The former president of an Indigenous political party says he has stepped down to make way for new blood. Australia's First Nations Political Party founder Maurie Japarta Ryan has been replaced by Ken Lechleitner from Alice Springs. But Mr Ryan, 64 ...

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SBS
Indigenous kids at risk in out-of-home care: report
SBS
+ Comment. 0. A report has found Indigenous children move six times on average during their time in out of home care. (AAP). A report on children in out-of-home care throughout Australia has found that Indigenous Australians face particularly dire ...

A bright mind in Aboriginal child healthcare
Neos Kosmos
Whether it is children from Aboriginal and generally indigenous communities, refuge families or developing countries, the aim is the same for this top child health researcher - Australia must do more to help its most disadvantaged children. One of the ...

Indigenous Marathoners Get Delayed Satisfaction in Tokyo
Runner's World Newswire
Led by Korey Summers' 3:08:51 clocking, three Indigenous Australian runners crossed the finish line of the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday, marking the end of a year-long journey that was nearly blown off-course by Hurricane Sandy. The runners were part of an ...