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Diabetes among Indigenous Australians at crisis point
The Conversation
Diabetes rates in Australia are high but its prevalence in the Indigenous population is between three and four times higher than the rest of the population. And we are fast running out of time to stop this disease from creating a national disaster ...

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Abbott 'blunders' into indigenous minefield
NTNews.com.au
TONY Abbott has blundered into one of Australia's most dangerous minefields - the question of who is a "real" Aborigine. The Coalition leader said he wanted Territory Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson in federal politics because she would ...

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Tony Abbott's remarks on Ken Wyatt spark row
The Australian
REMOTE indigenous leaders have backed Tony Abbott's call for traditional and cultural Aborigines to enter the federal parliament, saying only locals understand the bush properly, as a furore erupted over the Opposition Leader's attitude towards ...
Abbott criticised for 'urban Aboriginal' commentABC Online
Abbott 'blunders' into indigenous minefieldNTNews.com.au
Abbott praises NT minister AndersonHerald Sun
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Sydney Morning Herald
Eyes are averted to indigenous abuse
Sydney Morning Herald
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard's, decision to establish a royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse has received overwhelmingly public support. We know, on the available evidence, that the wide-ranging and expensive inquiry ...
Australia orders federal child sex abuse inquiryKTVL
Defiant Cardinal George Pell says sex abuse royal commission will 'separate ...The Daily Telegraph
No lowly scapegoats in 'necessary' Royal CommissionEureka Street

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The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous need hard-headed approach
The Australian Financial Review
However, I believe the business community can set a different agenda in this area and show indigenous people and the rest of Australia how it should really be done. Corporations already have a deep well of the skills and experience necessary to achieve ...

Defector Mundine rules out Liberals
The Australian
Mr Mundine said his resignation from the ALP -- revealed exclusively in The Australian this month -- was aimed partly at allowing him to be bipartisan in his position as chief executive of the indigenous employment initiative Generation One. "There's ...

Liberals fall in line on 'act of recognition'
The Australian
THE Coalition has dropped its hardline opposition to the Gillard government's "act of recognition" bill acknowledging indigenous Australians and will vote with Labor to avoid a dispute. Tony Abbott wrote to Julia Gillard in September suggesting they ...

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Nation falling behind education targets
The Australian
AUSTRALIA is failing to meet crucial targets in Julia Gillard's education plan, as state governments struggle to improve their performance just as they negotiate new funding deals worth billions of dollars. Reports to be ... Indigenous students made ...
As Year 12s sit last exams, disadvantaged students struggling more to read at ...Herald Sun
More young adults avoiding study, workThe Daily Telegraph
Primary education standards improvingNEWS.com.au

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Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia engages SiteMinder
TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific
AYERS ROCK- Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia has engaged global online distribution solutions provider, SiteMinder, to implement a holistic technology offering and to extend their reach to more online markets around the world. Voyages' properties ...

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Abbott criticised for 'urban Aboriginal' comment
ABC Online
"I would love to think that a highly traditional Australian Aboriginal, who is nevertheless charismatic and inspirational in modern Australia as well, might enter the Federal Parliament," he said. "I think it would be terrific if, as well as having an ...
Abbott wants 'authentic' outback Aborigines in Coalition with WyattThe Australian
Abbott praises NT minister AndersonHerald Sun
Abbott beats drum for more Indigenous MPsABC Message Stick
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Sydney Morning Herald
Redfern Now back for second series
Sydney Morning Herald
The six episodes of Redfern Now were written, directed and produced by indigenous Australians, with McGovern acting as story producer to help shape the stories selected in late 2010 into compelling dramatic scripts. The cast is mostly indigenous too ...

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The West Australian
Green light for Redfern Now
The West Australian
Indigenous drama Redfern Now has received funding for a second season, it was announced yesterday by Screen Australia. Writers will again work with Jimmy McGovern. Season one airs Thursdays at 8.30pm on ABC1. Over at Foxtel, the A&E channel has ...
Now Aussie trash is treasuredSydney Morning Herald

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Abbott beats drum for more Indigenous MPs
ABC Online
"I would love to think that a highly traditional Australian Aboriginal, who is nevertheless charismatic and inspirational in modern Australia as well, might enter the Federal Parliament," he said. Mr Abbott says he is proud that West Australian ...

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More 'authentic' Aboriginal MPs needed
The Australian
TONY Abbott has described Australia's first indigenous lower house MP Ken Wyatt as an "urban Aboriginal" and says parliament must do more to encourage "authentic" indigenous representatives. Mr Abbott said he was "very proud" that Mr Wyatt had entered ...
Abbott praises NT minister AndersonHerald Sun

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Abbott praises NT minister Anderson
Sydney Morning Herald
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says it would be terrific to have an "authentic" indigenous representative of central Australia in the federal parliament. Mr Abbott was on Tuesday responding to a question about the possibility of Northern Territory ...

Alcohol abuse is crushing future generations
The Age
EVERY Australian should hang their head in shame on hearing how alcohol is permanently damaging Aboriginal children in remote communities. Generations of Aborigines have been soaked in alcohol abuse, leading to alarming rates of violence, neglect, ...

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Australian Phone app bids to save dying aboriginal language
FOX43.com
Iwaidja free mobile phone app is the first phone app for an Australian indigenous language and aims to prevent the extinction of the Iwaidja language -- one of Australia's 100 endangered languages. It is spoken by less than 200 people on Croker Island, ...

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Crocodile eggs measure river health: New land management tool using ...
Phys.Org
A Darwin-based scientist has converted this link and other intimate Aboriginal knowledge of Australia's landscape into an environmental management tool. CSIRO's Emma Woodward worked with Aboriginal elders as part of the Tropical Rivers and Coastal ...

Last words? Phone app bids to save dying aboriginal language
CNN
"There has been an enthusiastic uptake of mobile phone technology in indigenous communities in Australia, so the idea is to capitalize on that," says linguist Bruce Birch, coordinator of the Minjilang Endangered Languages Publication project, which ...

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Elder should shrug off Aitken white man remark, says MP
The Australian
Northern Territory MP Bess Nungarrayi Price labelled as "silly" Mr Mortimer's concerns over the comments by former University of Canberra vice-chancellor Don Aitkin. "I've got grandsons who are white and everybody loves them and acknowledges them, and ...

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