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NRL.COM
First NRL Indigenous Players Camp
NRL.COM
Players will take part in sessions on culture, traditional language and dance, traditional hunting skills, along with discussions and sessions about current challenges facing Indigenous people in Australia. The camp program has been developed by NRL ...

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Census data misleading; languages still at risk
Crikey (blog)
Just before Christmas, The Australian published an article about indigenous language use in Australia that drew on research conducted by the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the ANU. The article began with this: ...

Arthur's world moves from bleak to rosy
The Australian
Andrew Penfold, chief executive of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, which funds the scholarship program, said Arthur's story was a wonderful example of what the foundation can offer. "Arthur's experience illustrates how a good education ...

The Canberra Times
We can do better than January 26
The Canberra Times
In 2009, Professor Mick Dodson said the date of Australia Day was offensive to many indigenous people and should be changed. As he put it: ''To many Indigenous Australians, in fact, most indigenous Australians, it really reflects the day in which our ...

Inquiry resumes with submissions on Indigenous children
ABC Local
The over-representation of Indigenous children in care will be in the spotlight as the Child Protection Commission of Inquiry resumes its Brisbane hearings. The inquiry began in Brisbane and has been travelling across the state for the past six months.

The Age
Celebrating Aboriginal identity
The Age
Inglis, the South Sydney, Queensland and Australian star, has led the push for the camp, along with other indigenous leaders Nathan Merritt, Sam Thaiday, Johnathan Thurston and Matt Bowen. He is not expecting it to be a one-off. ''The thing that we're ...

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Private sector closing jobs gap
The Australian
A paper to be released by the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University offers the first major analysis of the nation's closing the gap strategy, demonstrating that between 2006 and 2011, the employment rate ...

Winnipeg Free Press
Isolated aboriginal centres under fire in Oz
Winnipeg Free Press
BRISBANE -- Australian aboriginal communities have an ingrained violence which predates European settlement and leaves thousands of indigenous women and children vulnerable to physical attack. That, at least, is a theory outlined in a book by ...

Indigenous Job Seekers embark on new careers at prestigious university
NewsMaker (press release)
The A4e Group of Companies, one of Australia's leading providers of Indigenous employment services, is pleased to announce eight graduates of Empowering Our Mob (A4e's Indigenous work preparation program) have this week begun their employment at ...

'Broken' system fails juvenile offenders
The Australian
Aboriginal children are 31 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-indigenous youth, and detention rates have risen in recent years in most states. The NT has the highest youth incarceration rate in Australia. Last night, 61 children were being held.

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Transforming The Nation's Healthcare
Inquiry hears media misrepresents Indigenous Australians as drunks
Courier Mail
Commissioner Tim Carmody, examining the massive over-representation of Indigenous kids in state care, has told the inquiry he believes cultural education for Indigenous Australians is important. But Mr Carmody also believes cultural education must not ...
New Bendigo exhibition relays indigenous storiesBendigo Advertiser

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DNA Study Gives Insight Into Australia
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
It has long been thought that aboriginal Australians did not mix with any other races until the 18th-century arrival of Europeans. But a DNA study released January 14 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests native Australians ...

New Bendigo exhibition relays indigenous stories
Bendigo Advertiser
The Indigenous Australians at war: from the Boer War to the present touring exhibition will be on display at the Phyllis Palmer Gallery at La Trobe University, presented by the Shrine Trustees. Shrine of Remembrance manager of exhibitions and ...

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Yahoo!7 News
Australia: Kimberley graveyard to rise as the “Saudi Arabia of Gas”
Asian Correspondent
Western Australian Indigenous Affairs Minister Peter Collier approved Woodside Petroleum to start bulldozing Aboriginal heritage sites, including the sand dunes area at James Price Point, in order to give way to a $30 billion LNG project. Below the ...
Woodside to work on sacred sitesAustralian Mining
Group opposes Woodside move to disturb siteABC Online

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The Age
Logan racial feud ends in hugs
The Australian
The Aboriginal and Pacific Islander families - in the multicultural city of Logan, south of Brisbane - on Wednesday settled the enmity that had engulfed Douglas St in suburban Woodridge. The indigenous family at the centre of the stoush moved out of ...
Relocations an option to resolve racial tensionsABC Online
Jokes, laughter as Qld families make peaceYahoo!7 News
Handshakes and jokes as Logan feud endsBrisbane Times
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Radio Australia
Research shows ancient Indian migration to Australia
Radio Australia
A new study of Indigenous Australian DNA suggests there was some form of migration from India to Australia about 4,000 years ago. Aboriginal people first inhabited Australia about 40,000 years ago and researchers had previously thought them to be ...
DNA confirms recent Indian influxSBS
DNA study sheds light on aboriginal Australians' heritageLos Angeles Times
Aboriginal gene study suggests Indian migrationAustralian Geographic
Cosmos -CNN International -Sydney Morning Herald
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Research shows ancient Indian migration to Australia
ABC Message Stick
A new study of Indigenous Australian DNA suggests there was some form of migration from India to Australia about 4,000 years ago. Aboriginal people first inhabited Australia about 40,000 years ago and researchers had previously thought them to be ...

SBS
Research shows ancient Indian migration to Australia
ABC Online
A new study of Indigenous Australian DNA suggests there was some form of migration from India to Australia about 4,000 years ago. Aboriginal people first inhabited Australia about 40,000 years ago and researchers had previously thought them to be ...
DNA confirms recent Indian influxSBS
Aboriginal gene study suggests Indian migrationAustralian Geographic
DNA study sheds light on aboriginal Australians' heritageLos Angeles Times
Radio Australia -Cosmos -CNN International
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The Information Daily
Australia's indigenous housing target met ahead of schedule
The Information Daily
More than 5,000 homes in remote indigenous communities have been refurbished or rebuilt by the Australian Government two years ahead of schedule. More than 5,000 homes in remote indigenous communities have been refurbished or rebuilt two years ...
Govt funding provides 6000 homes to remote indigenous communitiesBroker News Australia

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inmycommunity
Push for $11.5m indigenous centre of arts
inmycommunity
THE City of Swan will press ahead with plans to build an indigenous cultural centre in the region despite a State Government decision to shelve a similar project on Perth's CBD foreshore. Planning, Culture and Arts Minister John Day revealed this month ...