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Australian university oration honours Mabo legacy
Radio Australia
This year it featured two speakers who've been at the very centre of one of Australia's most controversial indigenous land rights rulings. Gail Mabo, daughter of Eddie Mabo - who won a 10-year native title legal battle in the Australian High Court in ...

The West Australian
MP attacks 'bloody greenies
The West Australian
Australia's first female indigenous MP has accused green groups of “colonising” Aboriginal people in their bid to block the Kimberley gas hub, saying the development was her people's best chance of controlling their destiny. In an impassioned speech in ...

Aussie indigenous team gain a lot
Daily News & Analysis
Cricket Australia's (CA) National Indigenous Development Squad, who were in the country as a part of the 'Aus Fest' for the past two weeks, will take home more than just the experience of playing here. Playing their last match of the tour against the ...

Making the world a more dangerous place: the eager role of Julia Gillard
On Line opinion
Australia has 40% of the world's uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy, Pakistan, is ...

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Making the world a more dangerous place – the eager role of Julia Gillard
New Statesman
Australia has 40 per cent of the world's uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy Pakistan ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous rangers spread the word
Sydney Morning Herald
Mr McCarthy, a 25-year-old Bardi Jawi indigenous ranger from the Kimberley, is one of the pioneering delegation taking the knowledge of Australia's Aboriginal land management to the world. The federal government says the tour next week to meet first ...

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Making the world a more dangerous place – the eager role of Julia Gillard
New Statesman
Australia has 40 per cent of the world's uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy Pakistan ...
Indian leaders interact with Australian premierTimes of India

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Kimberley MP Carol Martin lashes Browse gas hub protesters
Perth Now
Outgoing Kimberley MLA Carol Martin has told the West Australian parliament that she supported a bill underpinning the Woodside-led Browse project because many indigenous people in the Kimberley region believed it would benefit them, not just state ...

Kimberley MP Carol Martin lashes Browse gas hub protesters
Herald Sun
THE first indigenous woman elected to an Australian parliament has come out swinging against Browse gas hub opponents, saying the Broome community is not divided over the proposal and it's only a small but vocal group causing all the fuss. Outgoing ...

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NEWS.com.au
Kimberley MP Carol Martin lashes Browse gas hub protesters
NEWS.com.au
THE first indigenous woman elected to an Australian parliament has come out swinging against Browse gas hub opponents, saying the Broome community is not divided over the proposal and it's only a small but vocal group causing all the fuss. Outgoing ...

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Where Eager Gillard Dares
Pacific Free Press
Australia has 40% of the world's uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy, Pakistan, is ...
Indian leaders interact with Australian premierTimes of India

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Warriors search for Maori students for Summit
Yahoo!Xtra Blogs (blog)
The Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC) organises the event to recognise outstanding achievement and application to education, culture and the community by selecting a total of 64 young Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous Australian) ...

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Aboriginal languages finding new life with technology
Global Regina
The result of all the work was the Chat app, which is available in over 100 aboriginal languages – every Canadian one and others in places like Australia and the U.S. too. So far, the app has been downloaded about 7,000 times. “When going through ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Extraordinary trove to go under the hammer
The Australian
It will be the largest single-owner auction of indigenous and non-indigenous contemporary Australian art. The sale will comprise about 25 per cent of the famous Laverty Collection and will include works by William Robinson, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Peter ...
Selling art from the heartThe Australian Financial Review

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Aboriginal languages finding new life with technology
GlobalNews.ca
The result of all the work was the Chat app, which is available in over 100 aboriginal languages – every Canadian one and others in places like Australia and the U.S. too. So far, the app has been downloaded about 7,000 times. “When going through ...

Australia's Uranium Bonanza: Making the World a More Dangerous Place
Center for Research on Globalization
Australia has 40% of the world's uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy, Pakistan, is ...
Indian leaders interact with Australian premierTimes of India
The grubby saga of uranium sales to IndiaThe Guardian (Australia)

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Australia's Indigenous cricket team finishes tour with three wins and two losses
Boxscore
Cricket Australia: (Oct. 24, 2012) - The National Indigenous Cricket Development Squad has been defeated by 20 runs by MIG Cricket Club in Mumbai today, finishing their 12-day tour of India with three wins and two losses. Results Game 1 – 35 overs ...

Desert memories come into vogue
The Australian
It will be the largest single-owner auction of indigenous and non-indigenous contemporary Australian art. The sale will comprise about 25 per cent of the famous Laverty Collection and will include works by William Robinson, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Peter ...

TV mogul now a 'big brother'
The Australian
Flanked by the likes of UBS Australia chief executive Matthew Grounds, Future Fund chairman David Gonski and former Fairfax chief Fred Hilmer, he will open Balnaves Place, the new home for the university's Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous Programs that ...

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Billions spent but Aborigines still live in the third world
The Australian
They failed to educate most of the indigenous people of the Northern Territory; failed to make them healthy or create jobs for them. It is a failure shared by both parties here and in Canberra, and shared by people outside of politics. It is a failure ...
Anderson calls for schools to be made equalABC Online

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