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Dance space improving their leaps and bounds
The Australian
Dancing in the car park is now a thing of the past for Pearce-Thompson and the other students at Australia's largest indigenous arts training organisation, which launched its new premises at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane on Friday. State Arts Minister Ros ...

Mining the system for hope
The Australian Financial Review
Now a new chapter in the economic history of indigenous Australians is being written. One legacy of this phase of the mining boom, particularly in the north-west of WA, will be a generation of indigenous Australians who have experienced life at the ...

Action to dry up remote indigenous funding 'leaks'
The Australian
THE Northern Territory government will seek an end to waste and mismanagement of money spent in indigenous communities by conducting audits to identify where money is "leaking", and why it is failing to improve the lives of the nation's most ...
Mining the system for hopeThe Australian Financial Review

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Booze ban puts people on the water
The Australian
THE mayor of a tiny cluster of indigenous communities at the northern tip of Australia blames Queensland's grog restrictions for forcing his people to risk dangerous journeys by sea and road, just to get a drink. Bernard Charlie, mayor of the Northern ...

Too soon to revisit a painful past
The Australian
Before the push for the premature winding back of restrictions gains further momentum, those involved should examine the metrics that reveal the long, slow process of "closing the gap" between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in child safety, ...

Daily Mail (blog)
Glittering Sapphires: The incredible story of an Aboriginal band who overcame racism to become Australia's Supremes
Daily Mail (blog)
An inspiring new film tells the unlikely story of four young Aboriginal singers who rose to fame in the face of racial prejudice as Australia's answer to The Supremes. A favourite at Cannes and a box office smash Down Under, The Sapphires follows the ...

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The Guardian
How Aboriginal 'Supremes' beat racism to inspire box office hit
The Guardian
"The Sapphires are four black twentysomething women who for one brief period of time have an opportunity to transcend the circumstances they're born into and reach their full potential," said Blair, who is also of Aboriginal descent. "In Australia in ...

Ruth Harley, Screen Australia
The Australian
REVIEWING her fourth year heading Screen Australia, it is the strong slate of indigenous productions that stands out for Ruth Harley, headlined by feel-good flick The Sapphires, which had its world premiere in Cannes in May, debuted in North America at ...

The West Australian
Aboriginal jail destined to be out of work
The West Australian
The first inmates in this, Australia's first jail designed for Aboriginals, will arrive on October 22. Mr Macfarlane, part Noongar and part Scottish, will supervise them with 115 staff, a fifth of whom are indigenous. He is not the first Aboriginal ...

First Indigenous Dancer Ella Havelka to Join The Australian Ballet
Broadway World
Bangarra's Artistic Director Stephen Page said: “Ella is one of this country's greatest young talents, and as she continues her journey as an Aboriginal woman and an Australian dance artist, we wish her every success. With her exceptional technique ...

The West Australian
NT agrees with easing grog bans
The Australian
Terry Mills said prohibition has failed and indigenous communities that meet certain criteria should take back control of alcohol restrictions. His comments, reported by The Weekend Australian, come after Queensland Premier Campbell Newman said ...
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban reviewHerald Sun
Indigenous councils to rule on liquorNEWS.com.au
Indigenous housing scheme doubts airedABC Online
Radio Australia -Business Spectator -ABC Local
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Situation far from normal in communities
The Australian
I have yet to see kinship and grog become friends anywhere in indigenous Australia. The tragedy of what the Newman government is doing with its first indigenous policy initiative is to focus on grog instead of the real priorities. Walpo had this week's ...

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NT joins the push to relax bans on grog
The Australian
In an exclusive interview with The Weekend Australian, Mr Mills argues that alcohol bans and other restrictions set by outsiders were trapping indigenous people in a cycle of disempowerment and dependency, preventing them from coming to terms with the ...
NT agrees with easing grog bansHerald Sun
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban reviewNEWS.com.au
Indigenous housing scheme doubts airedABC Online
Radio Australia -The Daily Telegraph -Business Spectator
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Australian Ballet welcomes its first Aboriginal dancer
Limelight Magazine
A descendant of the Wiradjuri people, Havelka graduated from the Australian Ballet School in 2007, joining Indigenous troupe Bangarra Dance Theatre the following year. “I feel very humbled and excited to be given this opportunity to return to the ...

Indigenous incarceration rates tragic: Chief Judge
ABC Online
Western Australia's Chief Justice Wayne Martin has described aboriginal incarceration rates as tragic. WA has the highest rate of aboriginal imprisonment in Australia, with about 1 in 14 indigenous men behind bars today. Justice Martin says it is the ...

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Palm Island woman to fight booze ban
The Australian
The court decision in Canberra on Friday to grant Joan Maloney an application for special leave comes as the Queensland government this week launched a separate review of alcohol management in remote indigenous communities. Ms Maloney, 55, was ...

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Wider suicide prevention focus urged
ABC Online
A man who has lost family members to suicide says governments need to be held to account over high suicide rates among Aboriginal people. The Indigenous suicide rate is about double that of other Australians. Tauto Sansbury has lost nephews, nieces ...

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Researching improvements for Indigenous housing outcomes
UQ News
Receiving a Life Fellowship from the Australian Institute of Architects, Professor Memmott was acknowledge for his outstanding contribution to the profession through research, education, public service and advocacy on Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Boost to indigenous language intrepreting
The Australian
The federal government has announced it will allocate $286,000 to National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI). The organisation will use the money to create testing materials in indigenous languages spoken in Western ...

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Boost to indigenous language intrepreting
Ninemsn
Indigenous language interpreting services will be boosted with the extension of a national accreditation system. The federal government has announced it will allocate $286,000 to National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI).

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