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2012 Indigenous Governance Awards Announced
Pro Bono Australia
One of Australia's oldest Aboriginal organisations, the NPY Women's Council, and the West Kimberley youth program, the Yiriman Project have won the top two Indigenous Governance Awards (IGAs) for 2012. A record number of over 100 applications from ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Lucky? Maybe for some
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous living and health conditions continue to be pitiful in many parts of Australia and, in many sad aspects, world-beating - take for instance indigenous children's hearing loss ranking as the worst in the world of any given population. Two ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Julia Gillard is no feminist hero
The Guardian (blog)
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 ...
India, Aus may finalize uranium safeguards agreement next weekINDOlink
Julia Gillard starts long-haul talks on sale of uranium to IndiaThe Australian
It's once more into the speechThe Canberra Times

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Just 53 of the 110 lots offered at auction found buyers of important ...
The Australian
Just 53 of the 110 lots offered at auction found buyers at Sotheby's Australia's sale of Important Aboriginal and Oceanic Art. The auction house reported sales of $668,400, including buyer's premium, well short of its lower estimate of $1.3 million ...

Brisbane Times
Lucky? Maybe for some
Brisbane Times
Indigenous living and health conditions continue to be pitiful in many parts of Australia and, in many sad aspects, world-beating - take for instance indigenous children's hearing loss ranking as the worst in the world of any given population. Two ...

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Swimming pools don't help Indigenous children's hearing
HealthCanal.com
The Federally-funded study, conducted in South Australia's Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands and Yalata from 2009-2011, found chlorinated saltwater pools have no direct benefit on the ear health and hearing of school-aged Indigenous ...
Pool policy 'no help to child ear disease'The Australian

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Alarm over Indigenous sexually-transmitted disease rate
SBS
The figures come from a report by the Baker International Diabetes Institute in Alice Springs and show the rates of chlamydia and syphilis are three and five times greater, respectively, among Indigenous Australians. Gonorrhea rates are 30 times ...

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Let's hear more indigenous success stories
Globe and Mail
... energetic and thoughtful dialogue of the symposium speakers and delegates from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand – form a collective wisdom that we believe can and will help other indigenous leaders in shaping their communities' ...

AFL considers Indigenous education program in other states
ABC Online
Western Australia and New South Wales could be home to AFL-run Indigenous education programs similar to one currently being launched in far north Queensland. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. The AFL will closely monitor a $5 million ...

Small but mighty: why Taiwan matters to Australia
The Conversation
It is clear that Taiwan shares much in common with Australia. It is an island in the Pacific with a population of 23 million people, a population of indigenous people with a long history, and is a country with a complex relationship with China and the ...

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A Community of Excellence
UNICEF Australia (blog)
NIYLA is a pilot program run in conjunction with the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence, the Foundation for Young Australians and the Stronger, Smarter Institute. The week-long program aims to equip young, outstanding indigenous youth with the ...

The Gods of Wheat Street begins production in NSW
Inside Film
The series has also received funding assistance from the Indigenous department of Screen Australia and Screen NSW's Regional Filming Fund. Meanwhile, Screen Australia also announced that it had funded ABC TV Indigenous documentary series Inside ...
The Sapphires director Wayne Blair joins team behind Indigenous series The ...MuMbrella

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Indigenous cast for theatre classic
The Australian
The actress has agreed to perform next year as part of an all-indigenous cast, alongside David Page, in a fresh translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children by Queensland Theatre Company's artistic director Wesley Enoch and actress ...

Indigenous voting
On Line opinion
Following the Northern Territory election a couple of months ago, commentators have pointed to the influence of Aboriginal people in rural and remote communities as Territory voters dispensed with Labor and brought the Country Liberal Party to power.

The right to drink
On Line opinion
The Queensland and NT governments have flagged ending the 'grog bans' in some Aboriginal communities, saying Aborigines should have the same rights as all Australians, including the right to drink. Prominent Aboriginal leaders such as Noel Pearson, ...

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Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Tallowood School students raise their voices for indigenous Australians
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
STUDENTS from Tallowood School are entering a film for the Creative Change GenerationOne School competition while raising their voices to end indigenous disparity in Australia. The special needs school in Kellyville has already shot half the film segment.

Praise for indigenous core values
The Australian Financial Review
The IGA, a joint initiative of Reconciliation Australia and BHP Billiton, attracts nominations from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations. This year's finalists, chosen from a field of more than 100, opened themselves up for intense ...

Pool policy 'no help to child ear disease'
The Australian
The $700,000 federally funded study into the ear health of remote Aboriginal children has found that 13 per cent of five-year-olds in central Australian communities required hearing aids and 36 per cent of all children had perforated eardrums, with the ...

Australian coach Tim Sheens tips new Origin coach Laurie Daley will inspire ...
Herald Sun
Sheens said Daley had paid his dues as coach of NSW Country and the Indigenous All Stars team and had the knowledge to lead a team into rugby league's toughest arena. "Laurie has done his apprenticeship. He has coached Country now for a number of ...

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Indigenous kids hit new heights
Herald Sun
Eighteen kids, from Years 8, 9 and 10, completed a seven-day Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) program to bolster self-confidence and leadership skills. AIEF CEO Andrew Penfold said the experience provided the perfect transition from ...

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