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50 Aboriginal trackers left behind after the Boer War - ABC PM Audio (mp3)

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Gay NZ
Australia continues to "lag behind" Wall says
Gay NZ
Wall says Australia continues to lag behind New Zealand on human rights issues. “New Zealand gave women the right to vote in 1893 and this included indigenous women,” she points out. “Australia had full suffrage in 1911 but of note aboriginal people ...

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University of Melbourne researchers urge government to heed indigenous ...
India Education Diary
These included constitutional recognition of indigenous languages, support for interpreter services (especially in the health and justice sectors) and ways of ensuring that Australia's linguistic heritage is protected into the future, by supporting ...

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Australia's Northern Territory
The Economist
The NT covers a largely empty region that, at almost a fifth of Australia's land area, is bigger than South Africa. Yet its 232,000 people comprise just 1% of Australia's population. A big swing against Labor among the territory's indigenous people was ...

Sky News Australia
Retirement holes need mending for vulnerable: Vamos
The Australian
THE federal government needs to find ways to widen the superannuation net to include the self-employed, people on paid parental leave and more indigenous Australians, according to a report released yesterday by the Association of Superannuation Funds ...
Flawed super debates overlook true focus: ASFAInvestorDaily
Super industry warns Government against targeting sectorABC Online

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IBNLive.com
Biggest ever Australian cultural festival in India from October
IBNLive.com
The festival will bring into its fold a series of unique 50-over and 20-over cricket matches between Australia's National Indigenous Cricket Team and the members of local cricket clubs in Mumbai and Pune. Another highlight of the featival is the ...
The other side of Down UnderDeccan Herald

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Australia?s Indigenous Fashion Week Begins
JustLuxe.com
Today in Sydney, Australia the first indigenous fashion week was announced. The event is coined the Australian Indigenous Fashion Week (AIFW), and the organization will be a platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designers to showcase high ...

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Researchers examine Indigenous kidney disease
ABC Online
Posted September 27, 2012 11:48:14. Map: Darwin 0800. Researchers are undertaking the first-ever longitudinal study of kidney disease in remote Australia. Aboriginal Australians are 15 times more likely to suffer kidney failure than the rest of the ...

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Indigenous stars loom as MCG match-winners
ABC Online
Saturday's Hawthorn-Sydney grand final seems set to be a Dreamtime occasion, with five Indigenous stars shaping up as the game's dominating influences. Lance Franklin, Cyril Rioli and Shaun Burgoyne are all capable of turning a tight AFL grand final ...

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UQ News
Journalism volunteers cover Indigenous health
UQ News
Reporting the conference provides students with the opportunity not only to meet and interview Indigenous people from Australia, but also from North America, which is particularly pleasing to Mr Woolley, who spent two decades at the Canadian ...

Yahoo!7 News
Hollows tools of trade donated to museum
Yahoo!7 News
On his return Hollows held a press conference, labelling as a scandal the discrepancy between city medical services and the outback and between the eye health of indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. He died in Sydney in 1993, aged 63. COMPARE ...

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Full version of Julianne Schultz's speech
The Australian
After tens of thousands of years of Indigenous settlement, and several hundred years of European settlement, contemporary Australia has forged an identity which has many layers, many deep stories, different traditions and expectations shaped by ...

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No-frills Forrest cuts his cloth to suit these straitened times
The Australian
Mr Forrest, who has championed indigenous jobs across a range of sectors through his Aboriginal Employment Covenant, said he did not know how many Aboriginal workers had been laid off by FMG. He said indigenous employees were not quarantined ...

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Dealers slapped with mandatory code
The Australian
The code of conduct was a key recommendation of the 2007 Senate inquiry into Aboriginal art, which was established following a series of reports in The Australian about unconscionable conduct in central Australia. FREE 28 Day Trial last Chance ...

Aboriginal Design Highlights Truly 'Australian' Architecture
DesignBuild Source
The Australian landscape, from its built and natural environment to the people within it, is a highly eclectic mix to say the least. The national culture and its built environment represent an intermingling of cultural fabrics that come together to ...

T4T participant wins Indigenous award
Jetstar Gold Coast Titans
“Dylan is an excellent example of the remarkable young Indigenous leaders we have in Australia,” said Titans Beyond Tomorrow Program Coordinator Cathy Dickson. “I have never seen such dedication and passion to academic achievement and leadership, ...

3News NZ
Fred Hollow's equipment passed onto the National Museum of Australia
ABC Online (blog)
Wooden Boxes Mornings caught up with Gabi Hollows, wife of Fred Hollows, just moments before the handing over ceremony to the National Museum of Australia of portable opthalmologist's equipment used by Fred in his work with Indigenous Australians.
Hollows tools of trade donated to museumNinemsn
National Museum welcomes Hollows equipmentYahoo!7 News
Hollows' legacy to be preserved in museumNZ City

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WA today
Drinking water unsafe in Pilbara community
WA today
West Australian author, Doris Pilkington with her mother Molly Kelly at the Jigalong Aboriginal Community. Families in a remote Indigenous community in WA's North East are being forced to rely on bottled drinking water after their water supply has been ...
Jigalong community's water unsafe, "a disgrace"ABC Online

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Zee News
Oz Fest to script new Australia-India culture exchange
Zee News
The festival will bring into its fold a series of unique 50-over and 20-over cricket matches between Australia`s National Indigenous Cricket Team and the members of local cricket clubs in Mumbai and Pune. Another highlight of the festival is the ...

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Oz Fest to script new India-Australia culture exchange
Peninsula On-line
The festival will bring into its fold a series of unique 50-over and 20-over cricket matches between Australia's National Indigenous Cricket Team and the members of local cricket clubs in Mumbai and Pune. Another highlight of the festival is the ...

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