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Indigenous apprenticeships on offer in the Tweed
My Daily News
INDIGENOUS jobseekers can look forward to a new year full of opportunities following an Australian Government Department of Human Services announcement it has launched an Indigenous Apprentice Program for the Tweed. The Department of Human ...

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Culture seen as key to Indigenous education
ABC Online
The Federal Government is promising to focus on Indigenous education, after its latest NAPLAN national report showed Indigenous students were not catching up to the mainstream. The CEO of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy, Danielle Toon, ...

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New high-powered council signals Govt's indigenous focus for unis
The Australian
THE Gillard government has appointed a new high-powered advisory council to implement the recommendations of its review into indigenous higher education, the centre piece of which are targets to increase the number of indigenous students and staff at ...

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Black drama strides into the mainstream
Sydney Morning Herald
And I don't just mean indigenous Australians, either. The ABC's Kristy Best, for instance, is an actress. She looks Indian, because she has Indian heritage, but she's Australian, and she's only allowed to play Indians. Multi-ethnic is not the norm with ...

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New high-powered council signals Govt's indigenous focus for unis
The Australian
Joining them on the council's executive is conglomerate Wesfarmers' manager of aboriginal affairs Rosie Southwood, and University of Western Australia dean of indigenous studies Jill Milroy. Professor Anderson said the seniority of the new council was ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Reforms failing to close indigenous schools gap
The Australian
He said the bigger issue was not the comparison between indigenous and non-indigenous students, but the socioeconomic backgrounds of children. Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne criticised calls by Mr Garrett and the Australian ...
Education gap remains for Indigenous studentsABC Online
Year 7 students are slipping in mathsSydney Morning Herald
Queensland singled out for NAPLAN results boostNEWS.com.au
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Straits Times
High-tech classrooms reviving Aboriginal languages
DAWN.com
“And because most of the students that I teach are non-Aboriginal, we look at culture across the whole of Australia and look at the diversity of culture.”Only a small handful of the 1,110 students at St. John's Park High School are indigenous, but for ...
High-tech classrooms in Australia reviving Aboriginal languagesStraits Times

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Bangkok Post
High-tech classrooms in Australia reviving Aboriginal languages
Straits Times
Teacher Noeleen Lumby teaches Aboriginal languages to children at St Johns High School, in Sydney on Oct 14, 2012. Australia's Aborigines once spoke 250 to 270 different languages but best estimates now suggest less than 70 are still being spoken on a ...
High-tech classrooms reviving Aboriginal languagesBangkok Post

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Sydney Morning Herald
Education gap remains for Indigenous students
ABC Online
Federal School Education Minister Peter Garrett says he is again concerned about the performance of Indigenous students in the latest national school test results. The national report of this year's NAPLAN testing shows that more than 92 per cent of ...
Year 7 students going backwards at mathsThe Age
Queensland singled out for NAPLAN results boostNEWS.com.au

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The ethics of cultural borrowing
The Australian
Non-indigenous artists inspired by Aboriginal Australia are the focus of Roads Cross: Contemporary Directions in Australian Art, which opened at Flinders University Art Museum and travelled to Charles Darwin University, where it is now showing.

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THE Lowitja Institute is at risk of closure
The Australian
THE Lowitja Institute, Australia's only national research body committed to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, is at risk of closure. Despite the Gillard government's commitment to close the gap in health by 2030, it has not yet committed to ...

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Food vans promote bush tucker meals
SBS
Protein low fat is great for you, great iron content," said Indigenous celebrity chef Mark Olive. The Ministry of Food van will spend the next two and a half years travelling the state. On-site cooking courses have been designed to help Australia's ...

New world opens for indigenous teen tyros
The Australian
Under an initiative from the Role Models and Leaders Australia program, the four were chosen by their schools in Perth and sponsored by UON, also the major sponsor of the SB20 titles. Yet initially they took some convincing to throw caution to the wind.

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On reconciliation, Howard outdid Keating
The Australian (blog)
He was right to ask Australians to embrace the challenge of overcoming indigenous disadvantage: "We cannot give indigenous Australians up without giving up many of our own most deeply held values, much of our own identity - and our own humanity." ...

Rottnest Island's dark past
The Australian
From 1838, for nearly 100 years, Rottnest Island, about 20km off the coast of Western Australia, was a prison where 3700 Aboriginal men and boys, ranging in age from eight to 70, were brought from right across the state to be imprisoned, often for ...

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Indigenous Australians vulnerable to lupus
Medical Xpress
"In Far North Queensland, compared to non-Indigenous Australians, they have less photosensitivity which is an abnormal reaction of the skin to the sunlight, more renal involvement which means that their kidney function is often affected. In the ...

Indigenous All Stars to play Tigers in Red Centre
ABC Online
The AFL has confirmed an Indigenous All Stars team will play Richmond at Alice Springs next year. The match will be staged at Traeger Park in February. Former Sydney Swans star Michael O'Loughlin will coach the All Stars and will be assisted by Roger ...

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NTNews.com.au
Tough existence for indigenous women | News | NT News | Darwin, Northern ...
NTNews.com.au
INDIGENOUS women are still by far the most vulnerable Territorians, according to the latest crime figures. Tennant Creek residents are four times more likely to be assaulted or have their homes broken into than any other NT town, and Nhulunbuy is the ...

Learning for the western world? The Indigenous education dilemma
The Conversation
Last week the Western Australian Indigenous Labor MP, Ben Wyatt, told a conference in Perth that Aboriginal children in remote communities need a “full Western education”. Wyatt went on to say that the State had delivered “a palliative education system ...

Mundine says radical change needed in indigenous jobs training
The Australian
GENERATIONONE boss Warren Mundine has revealed there are 12,301 indigenous Australians in real jobs under the scheme founded by mining magnate Andrew Forrest, but another 48,020 jobs are waiting to be filled. Mr Mundine told The Australian the ...