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Professor campaigns for Indigenous Land Bank to unlock potential of native ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Father Brennan, professor of law at the Australian Catholic University, suggests an Indigenous Land Bank would be an effective way to promote the economic development of these holdings. Native title now covered 16 per cent of Australia, but the areas ...

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Professor campaigns for Indigenous Land Bank to unlock potential of native ...
The Age
Father Brennan, professor of law at the Australian Catholic University, suggests an Indigenous Land Bank would be an effective way to promote the economic development of these holdings. Native title now covered 16 per cent of Australia, but the areas ...

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Leaving the party for good
The Australian (blog)
Mr Mundine has always been focused on achieving practical outcomes for indigenous Australians rather than symbolic gestures that may warm the hearts of some, but make very little difference to everyday lives. As reported in The Weekend Australian, ...

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Rape in remote school 'routine'
The Australian
Griffith Youth Forensic Service director Stephen Smallbone said sexual violence in the unnamed community was so "routine" rapes even happened in the classroom. "We're aware of evidence that sexual abuse is occurring in the school quite routinely, ...

Source: The Courier-Mail
The Australian
Recent fears that they would be frozen or delayed as the federal government sought to tighten expenditure were finally laid to rest with the publication of successful applications for Discovery Projects, Discovery Indigenous, Discovery Early Career ...

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Australia's indigenous artists surge onto world music scene
The Age
A NEW wave of indigenous musicians is receiving unprecedented attention from audiences in Australia and overseas, buoyed by a general upsurge of interest in Aboriginal artists. Hit films such as Bran Nue Dae and The Sapphires, the crossover popularity ...

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TopNews New Zealand
Indigenous Smoking Rates Decline Heavily in Australia
TopNews New Zealand
Indigenous Smoking Rates Decline Heavily in Australia Researchers from the Menzies School of Health Research have discovered in a recent survey that the number of smokers in Australia has seen a dramatic fall over past few years. The report has been ...
Anti-Smoking Campaign to Target Pregnant Women in AustraliaCounsel & Heal

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Indigenous marathon hopefuls join Hurricane clean-up
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians who travelled to New York to run in the city's annual marathon are using their trip to help in Hurricane Sandy clean-up efforts. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. The group of eight runners from around Australia have ...
Aboriginal runners volunteer to help with recovery after New York marathon ...Herald Sun
Aboriginal Runners From Australia Help New York After Hurricane SandyIndian Country Today Media Network.com
Aussies dismayed at marathon's cancellationLand
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Indigenous pre-school in the frame for photography award
Northern Star
GUMMYANEY Aboriginal Pre-School in Grafton have made the finals of Australian Child Care Week Awards. Director Mel Carpenter said she is excited to represent the Gummyaney community at an award ceremony in Sydney next week. The school made ...

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Technology revives Aboriginal language
Radio Australia
MARGARET PAUL: And it's not the only example of technology being used to revive Australian Indigenous languages. Mr Hobson has been working with a colleague in the United States on translating Facebook into less popular languages. Three Australian ...

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TopNews United States
Smoking push to quit for the baby
Brisbane Times
PREGNANT women and indigenous Australians are being targeted in a new anti-smoking campaign that comes a month before all cigarettes have to be sold in plain packaging. The latest statistics suggest one in seven Australian women smoke during ...
Number of Indigenous heavy smokers down 45%The Conversation
Anti-smoking ads target Indigenous pregnant womenRadio Australia
Government focuses on pregnant smokersSky News Australia
Counsel & Heal -TopNews United States
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NZ group says NT Indigenous education decades behind
ABC Online
The head of a New Zealand parliamentary committee says Australia is lagging behind in its education of Indigenous children. The Maori Select Parliamentary Committee has been touring central Australia. The group is comparing the treatment of Indigenous ...

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Golf plans on course near Uluru
ABC Online
The operator of Ayers Rock Resort says a planned 18-hole golf course near Uluru in central Australia will not be an environmental hazard. Voyages Indigenous Tourism is planning to construct the course about 20 kilometres from Uluru Kata Tjuta National ...
Golf course proposed for UluruSydney Morning Herald

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Tone Deaf
Music Identities Land Nomintions For Australian Of The Year
Tone Deaf
Northern Territory Indigenous music label Skinnyfish Music's founders Michael Hohnen and Mark Grose were announced as NT finalists in the 2013 Australian of the Year award, coinciding with the news that the bassist for Queensland-based rock act The ...

Traditional owners studying for stake in gas industry
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Paul Hodosi from Canberra chats about his future career prospects with QGC representative Kevin Alley at Dreamtime Cultural Centre in Rockhampton. Fourteen students from the Iman Traditional Owner Group are on their way to employment in the gas ...

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Discovery grants announced
The Australian
The Australian Research Council has funded 1014 major grants under its latest round of Discovery Projects, Discovery Indigenous, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities schemes. These were ...

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Movie investors face wait for a glittering prize
Sydney Morning Herald
An estimated one million cinema viewers have now seen a story about Aboriginal women rising above racism with warmth and humour, giving a fresh perspective on indigenous Australia. Only 13 Australian releases have taken more at the local box office - a ...

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Number of Indigenous heavy smokers down 45%
The Conversation
The number of Indigenous heavy smokers fell from 17.3% in 1994 to 9.4% in 2008, a relative drop of 45%, a study has found. The study, conducted by the Menzies School of Health Research and published today in the Medical Journal of Australia, analysed ...
Nurses welcome campaign to butt outNursing Careers Allied Health
Government focuses on pregnant smokersSky News Australia

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Technology revives Aboriginal language
ABC Online
MARGARET PAUL: And it's not the only example of technology being used to revive Australian Indigenous languages. Mr Hobson has been working with a colleague in the United States on translating Facebook into less popular languages. Three Australian ...

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Technology revives Aboriginal language
ABC Online
MARGARET PAUL: And it's not the only example of technology being used to revive Australian Indigenous languages. Mr Hobson has been working with a colleague in the United States on translating Facebook into less popular languages. Three Australian ...

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