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Tributes for Queensland's first Aboriginal MP
Radio Australia
Eric Deeral was the first Indigenous Australian elected to the Queensland Parliament and the second Aboriginal Australian elected to any Parliament. He died on Wednesday at the age of 80. Yesterday Queenland politicians recognized him as a trailblazer ...

APY hit with dole controls
The Australian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin will today announce her plan for the troubled Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands to begin from next month. The $3.8 million scheme will enable Aborigines to volunteer to have welfare payments ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous issue spreads word in US
Sydney Morning Herald
But it's also a nod to the literary journal's last 40 pages, where the energy of the modern indigenous Australian voice has jumped halfway around the world, into one of the world's hottest publications. As any hipster will tell you, in between ...

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Remote community highlights Indigenous youth suicide concerns
ABC Online
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Spending on Indigenous Australia has recently topped $25 billion-a-year, yet in some Aboriginal communities there's a profound sense of despair. It's reflected in a suicide rate that's reaching epidemic proportions. In Western ...
Spate of suicides grips Aboriginal communityABC Message Stick

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Remote community highlights Indigenous youth suicide concerns
ABC Online
Aboriginal communities in Western Australia's Kimberley region represent the key concerns about an epidemic of Indigenous youth suicide with some lateral thinking being used in the search for answers, and a warning to Aboriginal viewers that this ...
Spate of suicides grips Aboriginal communityABC Message Stick

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Australia needs improved regional telecommunications: ACCAN panel
PC Advisor
Indigenous Remote Communications Association interim manager, Daniel Featherstone, questioned if the NBN and its future direction will increase or decrease the digital divide that exists between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia. He said the ...

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Another 30 reasons why Mal Brough should stay out of Indigenous affairs
National Indigenous Times
Mal Brough, the man who brought us the Northern Territory Intervention, has responded to concerns raised by 30 Indigenous leaders throughout Australia by declaring it doesn't matter because they do not represent the views of Indigenous Australia. The ...

Telco marketer fined AU$2.5M for misleading indigenous communities
ZDNet
Summary: The Australian Federal Court has hit VIPtel Mobile with a AU$2.5 million fine for signing up customers in remote indigenous communities where there is no mobile network coverage. Josh Taylor. By Josh Taylor | September 6, 2012 -- 03:55 GMT ...
Telemarketer fined $2.5m over mobile phone pushABC Online

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Can Indigenous education afford to wait for a real response to Gonski?
The Conversation
In all the discussion, media releases, press conferences and TV coverage of this week's government response to the Gonski review, it was fascinating that the issue of Indigenous education rated such little mention. More than the divisions between ...

Miners set the pace on closing the gap
The Australian
But Mr Gooda warns that if mining companies are forced to lay off indigenous workers alternative jobs must be found for those workers or they risk returning to welfare dependency. In comments to The Australian Mr Gooda said governments were letting ...

Canada's indigenous people march for justice
Canada First Perspective
The Aboriginal vote which was in the hands of the Labour Party for years gave the 11 year government the heave-ho and established the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia as a political powerhouse. Much like Canada, Australia is a country rich in natural ...

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'Bush Tucker': meet Australia's superfoods
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
In Australia, we colloquially refer to our native foods as “bush tucker.” Australia's Aboriginal inhabitants have been eating off the land for centuries. As an environment that sustains them, they treat the land as a fundamental part of their wellbeing ...

Indigenous stars wow local youth
Coffs Coast Advocate
Troy Cassar-Daley was on hand to inspire Michaelah Morcombe, Faith Hyland-Taylor, Chatesha Craig and Calija Craig when The Deadly Days Festival came to Breakfree Aanuka Beach Premier Resort. Photo: Rob Wright/The Coffs Coast Advocate.

Reviving Australia's first international trade: sea cucumbers
ABC Local
They formed a peaceful and lasting relationship with the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, which actually constituted Australia's first international trading system. In return for use of the waters in Arnhem Land, the Makassans would teach Aboriginal ...

Australian Government dismisses United Nations concerns on Northern Territory ...
Courier Mail
Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, and James Anaya. the special rapporteur on indigenous rights, had raised concerns about Australia's human rights obligations. In a seven-page letter dated March 9 and obtained under freedom of information laws, the ...

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Australian Government dismisses United Nations concerns on Northern Territory ...
Herald Sun
Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, and James Anaya. the special rapporteur on indigenous rights, had raised concerns about Australia's human rights obligations. In a seven-page letter dated March 9 and obtained under freedom of information laws, the ...
Govt dismisses UN concerns on interventionThe Australian

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Govt dismisses UN concerns on intervention
The Australian
Last week, it was revealed UN special rapporteur on poverty, Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, and James Anaya, the special rapporteur on indigenous rights, had raised concerns about Australia's human rights obligations. In a seven-page letter dated March ...

NSW seeks 1000 new indigenous police
The Australian
Mr Mundine, who heads the GenerationOne initiative, joined its founder, mining magnate Andrew Forrest, to announce the target for the coming decade. GenerationOne aims to end the disparity between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in one ...

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Queensland's first indigenous MP Eric Deeral dies
Brisbane Times
... had a positive influence on many of today's indigenous leaders. "Mr Deeral was the first Aboriginal person to be elected to an Australian state parliament, and represented the seat of Cook from 1974 to 1977," Mr Newman said in a statement ...
Aboriginal political trailblazer Eric Deeral dies aged 79The Australian
first indigenous MP dies, aged 80NEWS.com.au
First state Indigenous MP dies in QueenslandABC Online
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Eric Deeral, first indigenous Qld MP, dies
The Australian
"Mr Deeral was the first Aboriginal person to be elected to an Australian state parliament, and represented the seat of Cook from 1974 to 1977," Mr Newman said in a statement. "He was a leader at a time when his people needed leadership to overcome ...
Queensland's first indigenous MP Eric Deeral diesBrisbane Times
First state Indigenous MP dies in QueenslandABC Online

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