Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
Jakarta Post
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East Arnhem Land, set for later ...

Kansas City Star
Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land
Kansas City Star
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Rob Griffith, File | AP Photo FILE - In this Feb.

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Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
The West Australian
South Australia has set up an Aboriginal AFL Academy, which Premier Jay Weatherill says is the first in the nation. Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at ...
Power launch Aboriginal AcademyAFL.com.au

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Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
Perth Now
Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at Alberton Oval in Adelaide. Last year, almost 70 per cent of Aboriginal students in South Australia stayed on to Year ...

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Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
NEWS.com.au (blog)
Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at Alberton Oval in Adelaide. Last year, almost 70 per cent of Aboriginal students in South Australia stayed on to Year ...
Power launch Aboriginal AcademyAFL.com.au

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Aboriginal AFL Academy set up in Adelaide
The Australian
Aboriginal students who excel in football will be able to develop their skills and complete their schooling at a specialised academy at Alberton Oval in Adelaide. Last year, almost 70 per cent of Aboriginal students in South Australia stayed on to Year ...

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Montreal Gazette
Australian PM to spend a week on Outback Aboriginal land to focus on ...
Montreal Gazette
CANBERRA, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday he plans to spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East ...

PM focusses on indigenous jobs, schooling
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told parliament that his personal mission is to help Australians open their hearts on indigenous policy. In delivering his first annual Closing the Gap statement as prime minister on Wednesday, Mr Abbott recalled the ...

Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in Australia
Businessweek
“There's almost no progress in closing the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and other Australians –- which is still about a decade,” Abbott told parliament in Canberra today. “There's been very little improvement towards halving the gap in ...

Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in Australia
Bloomberg
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said urgent efforts are needed to improve employment opportunities alongside health and education conditions for Australia's indigenous population. “There's almost no progress in closing the life expectancy gap between ...

The Guardian
Closing the gap that scars Australia: stop our mob from dying prematurely
The Guardian
Together we agreed that this would be the generation to close the unacceptable health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians. We committed to close the health and life expectancy gap within a ...
Peris paints grim picture for indigenousSky News Australia
Funding to preserve Indigenous languagePS News
Free HPV vaccinations now available in schoolsThe Transcontinental
SBS -Crikey (blog)
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Radio Australia
Closing the Gap: Tony Abbott delivers mixed report card on Indigenous ...
Radio Australia
The report states that non-Indigenous Australians live about 10 years longer than Aboriginal Australians, that the progress in closing the gap in literacy has improved in only Year 3 and Year 5 Reading (based on NAPLAN results) and that only 30 per ...
Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in AustraliaBusinessweek
Tony Abbott sets new school attendance target for indigenous studentsSydney Morning Herald
Closing the gap that scars Australia: stop our mob from dying prematurelyThe Guardian
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Sky News Australia
Closing the Gap: Tony Abbott delivers mixed report card on Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The report states that non-Indigenous Australians live about 10 years longer than Aboriginal Australians, that the progress in closing the gap in literacy has improved in only Year 3 and Year 5 Reading (based on NAPLAND results) and that only 30 per ...
Abbott Seeks to Close Indigenous Jobs, Health Gaps in AustraliaBloomberg
Australia failing to close gap on indigenous jobsSydney Morning Herald
Activists urge indigenous health actionThe Australian
Sky News Australia -The Guardian
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Sydney Morning Herald
Failure to narrow gap on Aboriginal employment
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia has made no progress towards halving the employment gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians within a decade, six years after the effort began. When Prime Minister Tony Abbott delivers the annual report on progress towards ...

The Guardian
Australia failing to close gap on indigenous jobs
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia has made no progress towards halving the employment gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians within a decade, six years after the effort began. When he delivers the annual report on progress towards closing the gap in Federal ...
Activists urge indigenous health actionThe Australian
Economy $24bn bigger in 2031 if Indigenous targets met, says reportThe Guardian
Indigenous life expectancy gap needs to be closed quicker, says Tony AbbottThe Guardian
PS News -The Age
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Activists urge indigenous health action
The Australian
We need to build on these successes,” said Mr Gooda, who is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission. “This is a national effort that can achieve generational change. It is critical ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Activists urge indigenous health action
The Australian
We need to build on these successes,” said Mr Gooda, who is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission. “This is a national effort that can achieve generational change. It is critical ...
Failure to narrow gap on Aboriginal employmentSydney Morning Herald
Economy $24bn bigger in 2031 if Indigenous targets met, says reportThe Guardian
Indigenous life expectancy gap needs to be closed quicker, says Tony AbbottThe Guardian
Sky News Australia -PS News -ABC Message Stick
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Indigenous Leader Applauds Tough Stand on Corruption
Pro Bono Australia
The successful prosecution of a former CEO of an Aboriginal medical service for embezzling funds has been applauded by the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre (AILC). The AILC's CEO Rachelle Towart said many Indigenous leaders across Australia ...

The Guardian
Australia coaxing private sector to aid Aborigines
Helsinki Times
"I never thought I'd have a chance to help build something like this," says Wood, 23, an indigenous Australian whose mother's death was related to alcohol abuse. "I used to smoke marijuana and be pretty heavy on the grog, because I didn't have anything ...
Economy $24bn bigger in 2031 if Indigenous targets met, says reportThe Guardian
Funding to preserve Indigenous languagePS News

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The Guardian
Economy $24bn bigger in 2031 if Indigenous targets met, says report
The Guardian
Australia's economy would be $24bn bigger in 2031 if Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had the same health outcomes and opportunities in the labour market as non-Indigenous Australians, according to a new report by Deloitte Access Economics.
Funding to preserve Indigenous languagePS News
Should we be doing health assessments?Crikey (blog)

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