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Boost for Indigenous cancer research
Oncology Update
The federal government announced $2.5 million this week in funding for a project to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer outcomes. Led by Associate Professor Gail Garvey of the Menzies School of Health Research, the project aims to ...

Real-world problems hit by posturing
The Australian (blog)
asked Peter d'Abbs. A comment posted by an undergraduate student said: "The Australian journalists seem to have a sadistic pleasure in reporting indigenous disadvantage." Here was the intellectual Left rejecting the unpalatable truths of actual ...

Film | The Sapphires – a brilliant story, joyously told
The Australian Financial Review
The Sapphires succeeds in presenting a strong, affirmative view of Aboriginal Australia, while not shirking issues of racism and discrimination. Most importantly, it is a brilliant piece of showbiz, driven by full-bodied soul music. The film is based ...

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Wrecks as another feature of the terrain. Picture: Michael Sinclair-jones ...
The Australian
From his earliest work, Kelen's Australia has been inseparable from its Aboriginal heritage: the land is pregnant with an indigenous significance of which he cannot be fully aware. In From a Bus Leaving Lithgow at Night, "trees are ghosts with human ...

Bosses roll up for Tony Abbott's working bee
The Australian
The first and most traditional is to apply for a government grant and then wait while the slow wheels of bureaucracy turn. The other is to roll the sleeves up and put shoulder to the shovel, which is what a handful of C-suite executives found ...
Remote school shifts gears for brighter futureBrisbane Times

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Brisbane Times
Remote school shifts gears for brighter future
Brisbane Times
The transformation of the school is the product of a partnership between the Queensland education department and the Pearson-inspired Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy, with a form of teaching known as ''direct instruction'' delivering staggering ...

The Age
Running legend Robert de Castella brands Australia's athletes too soft to succeed
NEWS.com.au
De Castella, who runs an indigenous marathon program aimed at identifying and training Australia's first indigenous Olympic distance runner, believes the majority of Australian youth have it "too easy" to make the sacrifices required to get to the top ...
Golden dreamsThe Age

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Sydney Morning Herald
Deek brands Australia's athletes soft
Fox Sports
De Castella, who runs an indigenous marathon program aimed at identifying and training Australia's first indigenous Olympic distance runner, believes the majority of Australian youth have it "too easy" to make the sacrifices required to get to the top ...
Golden dreamsThe Age
price of goldSydney Morning Herald

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Sky News Australia
Indigenous media strengthens identity
Invest in Australia
Marking International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples and the 2012 theme of Indigenous Media, Empowering Voices, Commissioner Gooda said Australia's Indigenous media outlets played a valuable role in challenging stereotypes. “It's often complex ...
Aboriginal youth detention rates improveThe Australian
Too many indigenous in juvenile justiceSky News Australia
Indigenous solutions to power needsABC Local
Pro Bono Australia
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Eureka Street
The Sapphires: singers shine in a rough gem
The Australian
FOR the most part Australian films, even the best of them (Not Suitable for Children, for example) struggle to find audiences, so it's interesting that two of the most widely seen local productions of recent years -- Samson & Delilah and Bran Nue Dae ...
Film | The Sapphires – a brilliant story, joyously toldThe Australian Financial Review
Soul sisters shine in gemWA today
'Campbelltown is a dump' - Todays NewsSan Francisco Luxury News
The Sunshine Coast Daily -Eureka Street
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The West Australian
Cook wins prestigious Indigenous art prize
ABC Online
An artist from the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory has won this year's National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Timothy Cook's painting, Kulama, was the overall winner of the $40000 prize. The judges said the painting was an ...
Topical winner of indigenous art awardThe West Australian

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Santos National Indigenous Under 16 Championship
ARU Rugby
The 2012 Santos National Indigenous Under 16 Championship starts today at Palm Beach Currumbin Rugby Union Club on the Gold Coast. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players from state, territory and affiliate representative teams will come together ...

ACMA investigates more Indigenous hate pages
SBS
Following a report by SBS News on Tuesday, The Australian Media and Communications Authority (ACMA) confirmed it had received a complaint warranting investigation on a Facebook page called “Aboriginal Memes” and had referred the content to the ...

Charles Darwin University
Sod turned for $46m research facility for leading Indigenous health institute
Charles Darwin University
“This project will increase Menzies' capacity to be responsive to the needs and shared priorities, particularly of Indigenous Australians, disadvantaged populations and others living in Central and Northern Australia and the Asia-Pacific region” he said.

Charles Darwin University
Indigenous visionary to deliver Lingiari lecture
Charles Darwin University
A nationally acclaimed Indigenous educator encouraging students to break negative stereotypes will deliver the 13th annual Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture at Charles Darwin University next week. Stronger Smarter Institute Executive Director, Dr Chris ...

Gooda backs racial vilification law push
The Australian
... lateral violence have a profound impact not only on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples families, “communities, organisations and other decision making practices, but also on culturally and linguistically diverse communities throughout ...
Don't weaken discrimination laws: National CongressSBS

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Changing landscape of Aboriginal and green politics
ABC Message Stick
Since James Price Point, just north of Broome in northern Western Australia, was selected as the State Government's preferred location for a gas precinct, environmentalists have waged war on behalf of threatened species, dinosaur footprints and ...

Women gather for Coota Girls Home anniversary
ABC Online
Indigenous women and their families from across Australia have started arriving in the New South Wales Riverina for the centenary of the Cootamundra Girls Home. Hundreds of girls were forcibly taken from their families and placed at the Cootamundra ...

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Industry icons to mentor Indigenous chefs
Australian Hospitality Magazine
Some of Sydney's culinary greats have joined forces to create the new National Indigenous Culinary Institute, including Neil Perry, Guillaume Brahimi and Catalina's Michael McMahon. Strengthened by the support of Barry McDonald of Fratelli Fresh, as ...

Women gather for Coota Girls Home anniversary
ABC Local
Indigenous women and their families from across Australia have started arriving in the Riverina for the centenary of the Cootamundra Girls Home. Hundreds of girls were forcibly taken from their families and placed at the Cootamundra Domestic Training ...

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