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Feel-good factor is vital to indigenous health
The Australian
Australia and Canada have a lot in common - both commonwealth nations, they have resource-based economies, a colonial past, thriving major cities and vast northern remote areas with extreme climates and similar issues in indigenous health. I like to ...

New ABS figures reveal a younger indigenous population
The Queensland Times
INDIGENOUS Australians have a median age of just 21 years, compared with 38 years for non-indigenous people, new figures from the greatly-expanded 2011 Census revealed on Tuesday. The Australian Bureau of Statistics released data from the Census ...

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Australia gets first Aboriginal softball pitcher
Adelaide Now
Local softballer Vanessa Stokes has won the 2012 Marion Sports and Community Club Sportsperson of the Year. Vanessa plays for Glenelg Rebels Softball Club, was a member of the 2011/12 SA Starz and the 2012 Australian Open Women's Team. Picture: ...

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Australia gets first Aboriginal softball pitcher
Herald Sun
Earlier this month, she was named the 2012 Marion Sports and Community Club Sportsperson of the Year. Stokes, the first Aboriginal pitcher for the Australian softball team, is only the ninth indigenous woman to represent Australia. Digital Pass - $5 ...

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Australia gets first Aboriginal softball pitcher
NEWS.com.au
Stokes, the first Aboriginal pitcher for the Australian softball team, is only the ninth indigenous woman to represent Australia. "My mum has so much belief in me and I think that helped the belief in myself," Stokes, of Woodville, says. "I believe no ...

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About Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES)
PRWire
A Centre for Indigenous Excellence, the AES seeks to bring about significant positive social change by supporting Indigenous Australians in establishing successful careers. They do this through the delivery of school based training programs, group ...

Marcia Langton on The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources ...
ABC Message Stick
Professor Marcia Langton gives this year's Boyer Lectures. The theme for this lecture is: The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom. She is an outstanding choice and this, the first of her lectures, is terrific. She examines the ...

SBS
Indigenous domestic violence concerns
SBS
A top United Nations official has expressed concern over the levels of domestic violence being experienced by Indigenous women in Australia. Listen: UN concerns over Indigenous domestic violence. The SBS MP3 Player requires the Adobe Flash 8 Plugin.

Noel Pearson slams critics of Cape York schools
The Australian
Writing in The Australian today, Mr Pearson, who chairs the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy, says the success of students at Coen is being overlooked in the rush to attack the academy. "The spin doctoring by opponents of the Cape York Academy ...

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Bid to lift Aboriginal jobs push
The Australian
BUSINESS Council of Australia president Tony Shepherd has challenged the Gillard government to join employers in an effort to put the "foot on the accelerator" on jobs being delivered to the nation's poorest indigenous people. Fresh from reporting that ...

Spin doctors turn Cape success story into failure
The Australian
It is an all-indigenous campus of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy. A four-part program at the Coen school is approaching its third year of pilot funding by the federal government, and being evaluated. The school runs an extended school day, ...

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The Voice of Russia
Racism Australian style, or freedom of speech?
The Voice of Russia
The decimated Aboriginal population of Australia recently won a very small battle which has brought their struggle to the forefront, albeit on a small scale, and has many in Australia debating journalistic ethics, freedom of speech and just how far can ...
Are their deaths less important?Sydney Morning Herald

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Australia : Fortescue welcomes new Aboriginal contractor in the Pilbara ...
Equities.com
Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue) has welcomed newly formed Aboriginal enterprise Jindari as a contracting partner at its Chichester mining operations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Fortescue has a $2 million commitment with Jindari to ...

WA today
WA's Australian of the Year 2013 award recipients revealed
WA today
"Akram uses his leadership and pastoral skills to help young people in remote and rural Western Australia," a statement from the National Australia Day Council says. Western Australia's Local Hero 2013 also was awarded for work with indigenous people.
Stokes WA Australian of the YearThe West Australian
Kerry Stokes named WA's Australian of the YearABC Local

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Sydney Morning Herald
WA's Australian of the Year 2013 award recipients revealed
Sydney Morning Herald
"Akram uses his leadership and pastoral skills to help young people in remote and rural Western Australia," a statement from the National Australia Day Council says. Western Australia's Local Hero 2013 also was awarded for work with indigenous people.
Kerry Stokes named WA's Australian of the YearABC Online
Stokes WA's Australian of the YearThe West Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Lalor proud to be part of indigenous revolution
Sydney Morning Herald
Lalor, who toured India last month as a non-playing member of the Australian Indigenous national team because he was injured in a NSW Second XI match the week before the team departed, revealed the amount of money and resources the NRL and AFL ...

Aboriginal Kimberley experience receives international accolades
National Indigenous Times
Uptuyu Adventures business partners Neville Poelina and Jo Camilleri were over the moon as their Aboriginal operated business won major awards last week at the Western Australian Tourism Awards and also at the Responsible Tourism Awards in London.

The kids are watching, so right seeds must be sown
The Australian
While there will be consternation and challenges regarding the figures he presents, the issues are real and alarming across remote Aboriginal Australia. And there is no doubt that, in relation to the former, the consequences have increased - from ...

Racist reality evident in homes not fit for a dog
The Australian
WHEN it comes to delivering for indigenous Australians the Gillard government is more about spin and rhetoric and feel-good symbolism than results. In remote communities it is content to apply lower standards and lower expectations in health, housing ...

No school, no play hits mark for Warlpiri boys
The Australian
ON central Australia's red dirt, a group of Warlpiri boys from Yuendumu run and leap for a football. They go hard and with a natural ease. Watching on is former Collingwood footballer Rupert Betheras, who finds himself, somewhat surprisingly, at the ...