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The young Chris Sarra with his family's boxing goat, from his memoir, Good ...
The Australian
Sarra, 45, is the first to admit it's early in his life to write a memoir, but he was prompted by the direction of indigenous policy that resulted in the Northern Territory intervention and linked welfare payments to school attendance. "Passion Pop ...

The Aboriginal 'community' amounts to a dangerous myth for some and an alibi ...
The Australian (blog)
THE word "community" is the most vexing concept in Australian indigenous policy. It is ubiquitous, internalised as much by the black fellas who live in what are called Aboriginal communities, as well as the preferred nomenclature of the outside world.

Brisbane Times
Flannery defends against race claim
Brisbane Times
THE Aboriginal academic Marcia Langton has accused the former Australian of the Year Tim Flannery of holding a racist belief that indigenous Australians are ''enemies of nature''. In her fourth Boyer lecture, an extract of which is published in today's ...
Romantic ideas fail the green testSydney Morning Herald

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Hope and frustration two decades after Redfern
The Australian (blog)
IT is 20 years since Paul Keating challenged the nation "to extend opportunity and care, dignity and hope to the indigenous people of Australia" in an elegant landmark speech in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. Sadly the wellbeing of the first Australians ...

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The Age
Langton attacks Flannery for holding 'racist' belief
The Age
ABORIGINAL academic Marcia Langton has accused former Australian of the year Tim Flannery of holding a racist belief that indigenous Australians are ''enemies of nature''. In her fourth Boyer lecture, an extract of which is published in today's ...
Romantic ideas fail the green testSydney Morning Herald

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Reception problems a risk to remote indigenous communities
ABC Online
The man who oversees remote indigenous services says poor and sometimes non-existent mobile phone services are putting the safety of Aboriginal communities at risk. He says adequate reception should form part of the telco's social responsibilities, but ...

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Twenty per cent increase in Indigenous women in prisons (mp3)

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LNG commitment to Indigenous jobs questioned
Yahoo!7 News
"It means union expertise, influence and knowledge will be a key component in Aboriginal Australians' dealings with large and powerful commercial entities and government organisations," he said. Claims rejected Santos says it has put forward several ...

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Twenty per cent increase in Indigenous women in prisons
ABC Message Stick
SIMON LAUDER: Since 2002, imprisonment rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians increased by about 700 people per 100,000 adults, to more than 1900. The rate for non-Indigenous prisoners increased by just six per 100,000 to 129.
Pharmacy funding to train Indigenous pharmacy assistantsPharmacy News

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LNG commitment to Indigenous jobs questioned
ABC Online
A central Queensland Indigenous elder says a gas company building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant near Gladstone has only employed about four people from the local Indigenous community. Santos GLNG employs thousands of workers at its massive ...

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Elder says Indigenous workers denied gas plant jobs
ABC Local
A central Queensland elder says a gas company building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant near Gladstone has only employed about four people from the local Indigenous community. Santos GLNG employs thousands of workers at its massive gas project ...
LNG commitment to Indigenous jobs questionedYahoo!7 News

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FMG rejects indigenous criticism claims
Australian Mining
Fortescue chief Nev Power has rejected Indigenous spokesperson David Collard's claims that Aborigines don't want to work in mining as it offends their culture. Earlier this week Collard called the mining industry 'misguided' in its attempts to increase ...

Audio: Sovereign Union says Act of Recognition is 'so insulting' (mp3)

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Indigenous language app big in Japan
ABC Message Stick
A computer application that teaches a local Indigenous language has been downloaded more than 20 times since its release this week - even in Japan. The Paakantyi app features about 200 words in the traditional language of far west New South Wales, and ...

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Indigenous language app big in Japan
ABC Technology and Games
A computer application that teaches a local Indigenous language has been downloaded more than 20 times since its release this week - even in Japan. The Paakantyi app features about 200 words in the traditional language of far west New South Wales, and ...

Press TV
Australia Rights Forum centers on indigenous people
Press TV
Over 100 people attended the forum held to commemorate Human Rights Day, where speakers say there's continued discrimination against Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory because of the 2007 Intervention and local indigenous people saying ...

Cacophony buried debate about crime circuit-breaker
Courier Mail
... mid 1990s, the Parliament also considered laws for the national disability insurance scheme, education funding recommended by the Gonski review, pokie reform, the Murray-Darling basin plan, and recognising indigenous Australians in our Constitution.

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Aboriginal activist's anti-Nazi stand remembered
ABC Online
Members of the Aboriginal and Jewish communities have observed the anniversary of a unique protest in Melbourne. Seventy-four years ago Aboriginal activist William Cooper and his colleagues at the Australian Aborigines League tried to hand a resolution ...

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Contemporary pieces show traditional past
ABC Message Stick
Artwork from a remote Indigenous community in Western Australia will go on display at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. 'Warakurna: All the Stories Got into our Minds and Eyes' features photographs, paintings, woven fibre and carved wood ...

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Show support for those less fortunate
ABC Online
The Foundation was established in Sydney in 1992, five months before Fred passed away, with the aim of continuing and expanding on the program work he had started in Eritrea, Vietnam and Indigenous Australia. The Foundation now works throughout ...