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Social justice campaigner ACT Australian of the Year
ABC Online
He was formerly the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, and has been leading the campaign to close the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Earlier this year Mr Calma was made an ...

Mining 'helping growth of Aboriginal middle class'
SBS
Professor Marcia Langton, Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, says Australia's booming mining industry is contributing to the steady growth of an Aboriginal middle class. "The mining industry has coincided with the ...

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Bungaree was the 'first Australian'
Yahoo!7 News
Bungaree: the First Australian is curated by Aboriginal curator Djon Mundine and, featuring the work of 15 Indigenous artists, it tackles the myths surrounding Bungaree, also known as the "King of Broken Bay". The exhibition features artworks by France ...

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Program offers hope to young people in Western Sydney
Invest in Australia
Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development, Julie Collins, and Member for Chifley, Ed Husic, today met trainees and graduates of an Australian Government funded program providing young Indigenous people in Sydney's west ...

Aboriginal people targetted in WA's “move-on” policy
National Indigenous Times
ben kimberley Western Australia's Aboriginal peoples are targeted and victimised with more move-on notices issued to them than all other ethnic groups combined the West Australian Parliament has been told and advocates have called for an end to what ...

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Reconciliation Australia hails nomination of leaders for Australia Day honour ...
National Indigenous Times
In particular this year, Reconciliation Australia Chief Executive Officer, Leah Armstrong said she was delighted to see Reconciliation Australia Co-Chair Dr Tom Calma AO, staff member Mr Bill Bashford and non-Indigenous... More of this story can be ...
Youth want to help reconciliationSydney Morning Herald
Young People Keen on Reconciliation - SurveyPro Bono Australia

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Conflicting information, interests and land owners dog FMG
ABC Online
... aboriginal, newman-6753, australia. Transcript. LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: One of Australia's richest iron ore miners, Andrew "Twiggy Forrest", is embroiled in a bitter dispute with local land owners over a multibillion dollar project in Western ...

Nestlé boosts nutrition education for women and teenagers in Aboriginal ...
The FINANCIAL
“Nestlé Australia has taken a significant leadership role to build a working relationship with the Indigenous population in Australia based on mutual respect and empowerment,” said Mick Gooda, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice ...

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ACT Australian of the Year to be announced
ABC Online
Tom Calma is an advocate for human rights and a social justice campaigner who has dedicated much of his life to improving the lives of Indigenous Australians. Mr Calma was formerly the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner ...

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Young, male or indigenous more likely to suicide: report
Northern Star
DIVORCE, alcohol use, and the number of jobs in agriculture were three of the main factors driving the suicide rate in regional and remote Australia, a new report from the National Suicide Prevention Strategy revealed on Tuesday. And regional ...
Suicide too common in rural towns: reportThe Australian

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A small matter of ministerial confusion
The Australian
Wong was at it before the indigenous jobs hoo-hah emerged, trumpeting the IMF's latest rather flattering economic outlook for Australia before turning on Joe Hockey for thinking our economy was flatlining. "In the world of Hockeynomics, a growing ...

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Newman looks to traditional land practices
The Australian
Campbell Newman said indigenous Australians had much better land management practices that most people realised and he had discussed the approach with Australia's climate change commissioner Tim Flannery on Tuesday. "I have a view that the ...

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Abused Indigenous children 'must be heard'
ABC Local
An Indigenous woman from Queensland who was abused by a Catholic priest in the 1960s says the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse must examine the widespread abuse of Aboriginal children by members of the Catholic Church. Tjanara Goreng ...

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Threat to Indigenous languages in French Polynesia
Radio Australia
But according to the UN, if nothing is done we'll lose half of those by the end of the century. Each language carries its own cultural wealth but also important ancestral knowledge - and that's particularly true with Indigenous languages. Working to ...

Historic petition comes out of vault
ABC Message Stick
An important piece of history in the battle for Aboriginal land rights will be brought out of storage at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra today. The fragile Larrakia petition signed with a thousand names and thumbprints will be made ...

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Youth want to help reconciliation
Sydney Morning Herald
Only 16 per cent of those surveyed for the report felt there was trust between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, with 72 per cent agreeing that ''we are prejudiced towards each other''. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people ...

Anger as jobs strategy loses funding
The Australian
BUSINESSMAN and cotton farmer Dick Estens has lambasted the Gillard government for being "unAustralian" after it quietly used a tender to halve his indigenous traineeship work and refused to say whether it would fund his flagship Aboriginal Employment ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Damming the rivers of grog
Sydney Morning Herald
Five ministers - Mills, the Health Minister David Tollner, Justice Minister John Elferink, Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson and the Minister for Central Australia, Robyn Lambley, are all having a say. A ministerial statement by Elferink ...

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Forcing People to Drink
The Southern Times
Interestingly, Aboriginal words for “alcohol” were often derived from words meaning “dangerous”, “bad” or “poisonous”, but also “sweet” or “delicious” (central Australia) and “salty”, “bitter” or “sour”. Use of these kinds of alcohol from natural ...

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What Abbott really said ...
NTNews.com.au
According to some reports, Mr Abbott suggested Aboriginal Central Australian culture as more authentic than that of "urban Aboriginal" people. Mr Abbott has also been accused of calling indigenous Western Australia Liberal MP Ken Wyatt "not a man of ...
Going backwards after Abbott's 'urban Aboriginal' gaffeEureka Street

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