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Warring remote clans delay expansion of military training area
The Australian
THE creation of one of Australia's largest military training areas in South Australia's outback has been delayed by up to five years because of a territorial war between two Aboriginal groups. The Cultana training area near Port Augusta, 300km north of ...

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talks over Arnhem arts centre parent
The Australian
At its peak, BAC was Australia's third-largest indigenous corporation, employing some 500 people. It ran a supermarket, nursery, aged care, housing, ranger service, cultural tours and car hire firm, as well as the arts centre in Maningrida, 500km east ...

WA plans Aboriginal family violence centre
The Australian
THE West Australian government will provide $600,000 a year for a metropolitan legal service for indigenous victims of family violence, including people who had been sexually abused. Premier Colin Barnett said indigenous females were 35 times and males ...

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WA plans Aboriginal family violence centre
The West Australian
Premier Colin Barnett said indigenous females were 35 times and males 22 times more likely to be hospitalised due to family violence compared to non-indigenous Australians. "There are several family violence services for indigenous people in regional ...

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A problem kept locked away
The Canberra Times
The imprisonment of indigenous Australians in the ACT is 13 times higher than that of the general population. Last year Western Australia's top judge, Chief Justice Wayne Martin, said the over-representation of indigenous people in the nation's prisons ...

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Indigenous jail rate 'appalling'
The Canberra Times
And while Western Australia has the worst figures for indigenous imprisonment rates in the country at 38 per cent, compared with a general population of only 4 per cent, ACT statistics are almost equally alarming on a per capita basis. Advertisement ...

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The new Uluru
Brisbane Times
And perhaps it was always going to take an owner such as the Indigenous Land Corporation, a statutory body that acquires land to help close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, to bring them to the resort. The resort, built in ...
Rock around the clock at revamped UluruThe Border Mail

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The spirit rekindled
The Border Mail
And perhaps it was always going to take an owner such as the Indigenous Land Corporation, a statutory body that acquires land to help close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, to bring them to the resort. The resort, built in ...
Rock around the clock at revamped UluruNewcastle Herald

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A criminal waste of young lives
The Australian
"Three strikes and you're out" legislation locks young Aboriginal people in prison in staggering numbers in Western Australia. In the Northern Territory there is barely a white kid inside. As a major study into the nation's children's courts revealed ...

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Loophole on jailing kids may be closed
The Australian
WEST Australian Attorney-General Michael Mischin has supported a further toughening of mandatory sentencing laws blamed for contributing to the nation's highest rates of Aboriginal incarceration. Mr Mischin said there were good arguments for removing ...

Indigenous-owned social start-ups set to flourish via new fund
StartupSmart
Government-backed organisation Indigenous Business Australia is looking for an organisation to establish and manage a new source of funding for indigenous social enterprise start-ups. IBA, a commercially-focused organisation, promotes and encourages ...

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Indigenous youth justice summit call dismissed
ABC Online
Warren Mundine, who heads up the Generation One Indigenous employment initiative, says more diversionary programs and resources are needed to keep young people out of jail. He is calling for a national summit on Aboriginal justice issues. Mr Mundine ...

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Indigenous recruits can't wait for Coles
The Queensland Times
David Nielsen. SEVENTEEN indigenous residents are ecstatic about their opportunity to work at the new Coles store in Ipswich after graduating from a three-week training program. The group graduated from the inaugural Industry Partnerships Australia ...

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housing scheme exceeds target
The Australian
We're making a real difference for indigenous families in remote parts of Australia." While the government is hailing the indigenous housing results, it has sustained much criticism over the scheme, which the opposition claims is producing sub-standard ...

Aboriginal groups upset after burial site uncovered
ABC Online
Aboriginal groups have been left distraught by the discovery of Indigenous remains during work to duplicate the Southern Expressway two months ago, a Kaurna elder says. A skull and fragments of bones were uncovered by a worker during excavations near ...

Indigenous leader urges action on jail 'time bomb'
ABC Online
One of Australia's most prominent Indigenous leaders is calling for a national summit on Aboriginal justice issues to reverse soaring incarceration levels. National and state statistics show Indigenous youths are being locked up at an alarming rate.

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A passion for Aboriginal issues
The Australian
Her advocacy of Aboriginal rights saw her appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 and she won the Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Teacher of the Year in 2002. Her support for Aboriginal education and career achievements over welfare ...

'Prison industry' traps Aboriginal children
The Australian
The comments by the former ALP national president come after The Australian exposed a series of cases in which Aboriginal boys in regional NSW were given the state's harshest sentences for crimes as petty as stealing a packet of hamburger buns, which ...

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Indigenous photographer gains exposure in US
Tasmania Examiner
... culture and business capabilities. INDIGENOUS Tasmanian photographer Wayne Quilliam hopes to focus the eyes of the world firmly on Australia through two diverse exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles as part of G'Day USA, which opens on Sunday.

Doubts over income quarantine in APY Lands
The Australian
A SCHEME to manage welfare payments has stirred concern and confusion among remote indigenous communities in South Australia, government documents show. Documents obtained under freedom of information show federal officials held consultations ...

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