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The Canberra Times
GP conference to tackle the issue of racism in health services
Crikey (blog)
The health system needs to be more proactive in addressing racism, according to a submission made by the RACGP National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health to the Australian Human Rights Commission National Anti-Racism ...
High-achieving ACT youngsters lead the wayThe Canberra Times

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ABC Local
Top end station set to achieve Australian first in carbon farming
ABC Local
This burning draws on traditional fire practices used by indigenous people before white settlement, and could turn out to be a substantial income earner in the carbon offsets market. This project centres on Fish River Station, around 2 hours south of ...

Burnett Heads students rap
Bundaberg News Mail
The competition encourages primary schools to perform and film their own version of the GenerationOne theme song Hands Across Australia, to inspire their response to indigenous disparity. Burnett Heads primary teacher Jodie Hack said they decided to ...
Coffs students try their hands at performingClarence Valley Daily Examiner

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Anderson calls for schools to be made equal
ABC Online
Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson says Aboriginal languages should not be taught at remote Northern Territory schools. She says Indigenous schools should have the same learning requirements as those in capital cities. Ms Anderson has ...

Coffs students try their hands at performing
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
The winning school is awarded $15,000 and the campaign is part of GenerationOne's aim to bring all Australians together to end the disparity between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in one generation. Singing, dancing and filming their ...

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BBC News
Indian leaders interact with Australian premier
Times of India
The topics ranging from attacks on Indian students in Australia, Australia's diplomatic priorities and recognition of Australia's indigenous population. Well-known television personality and the anchor of popular chat show 'The Devil's Advocate', Karan ...
Seed sown for farmers' sexy imageSydney Morning Herald
Australian opposition leader apologizes to PMKTVL
Suddenly, a glimmer of hopeThe Canberra Times

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The Australian Constitution: it's the right thing to do
National Indigenous Times
His is a story pretty typical for an Aboriginal man of that vintage: grew up on a mission, knew hard times as a kid, worked hard his whole life, never had a lot of spare cash. His main preoccupation these days is making sure that his children and ...

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Aboriginal art in the home of absinthe
swissinfo.ch
But Môtiers is in fact a cultural capital – albeit Australian culture. La Grange museum is part of the Château d'Ivernois and is filled with aboriginal art. At the moment it is home to "Waii" – an exhibition of the engravings of Dennis Nona, a print ...

Income management raises gender issues
SBS
As income management is implemented in South Australia's APY Aboriginal Lands, signs are emerging that it's creating a gender divide, SBS reporter Karen Ashford reports. SBS Radio: Income management raises fresh concerns. The SBS MP3 Player ...

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Get 'corporate' with economy, Treasurer Wayne Swan told
The Australian
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows the indigenous fertility rate is 2.57 babies for each woman, compared with 1.89 for all women in Australia. The peak age group for Aboriginal women to give birth was 20-24 and the birth rate was 149 ...

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Bonus cut will hurt indigenous mums: MP
Herald Sun
As part of its mid-year budget update, the government will reduce the bonus from $5000 to $3000 for second and subsequent children from mid-2013. Treasurer Wayne Swan justified the change by arguing "after the first child you've already bought the cot, ...

Bonus cut will hurt indigenous mums: MP
The Australian
As part of its mid-year budget update, the government will reduce the bonus from $5000 to $3000 for second and subsequent children from mid-2013. Treasurer Wayne Swan justified the change by arguing "after the first child you've already bought the cot, ...

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Bonus cut will hurt indigenous mums: MP
NEWS.com.au
As part of its mid-year budget update, the government will reduce the bonus from $5000 to $3000 for second and subsequent children from mid-2013. Treasurer Wayne Swan justified the change by arguing "after the first child you've already bought the cot, ...

South Australia provides funding for Indigenous job seekers
Australian Mining
$709,000 worth of funding has been announced for the Connecting Aboriginal People to Mining (CAPM) program, which will train indigenous jobseekers in South Australia. Employment, Higher Education and Skills Minister Tom Kenyon said qualifications ...

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AES STRENGTHENS ITS SYDNEY PRESENCE WITH NEW WATERLOO OFFICE
PRWire
Over thelast 12 months the AES has placed over 2,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders into long-term careers. This figure forms a contribution of 13% towards the Australian Government's Indigenous Employment Program job commencements for the ...

Brisbane Times
Fashionable or not, Mundine's views strike a blow for free speech
Brisbane Times
Last Thursday, during a media conference to publicise his forthcoming International Boxing Federation world middleweight contest with Tasmanian Daniel Geale, Mundine questioned his opponent's Aboriginal identity. Mundine said he ''thought they wiped ...

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Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown
TABCORP Park Menangle begin Fisher's Ghost Festival with race day
Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown
The day's attractions will include an Indigenous Drivers Invitational - the only Indigenous race in Australia. Six drivers and their horses, including previous winner Bruce O'Brien, will compete for the indigenous $10,000 prize. The meet also includes ...

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Hume Leader
All hands on deck at Westmeadows school
Hume Leader
STUDENTS from Westmeadows Primary School have entered a competition that aims to end the disparity between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. The Creative Change GenerationOne School Competition encourages students to perform and ...

The Australian Financial Review
Australia's Julia Gillard Is No Feminist Hero
Truth-Out
I have just spent several months in Aboriginal Australia, and the views I have gathered from remarkable, despairing, eloquent indigenous women of Gillard and her "feminism" are mostly unknown, ignored or dismissed in this country. Watching Gillard ...
Our egalitarianism silences the class-warfare guns of Labor's spinner-in-chiefThe Australian (blog)

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Funding diverted to indigenous income scheme
The Australian
Figures released yesterday show the funding to be spread over the next two years has been redirected to allow the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Department of Human Services to cover the costs of the ...