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Black sentences soar as juvenile jails become a 'storing house'
The Australian
Figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show the national rate of Aboriginal juvenile incarceration has risen to a startling rate of 31 times the non-indigenous rate, up from 27 times in 2008. Digital Pass $1 for first 28 Days ...

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This investment is helping to end the years of disparity experienced by ...
The Australian
What we're starting to see is a new generation of Aboriginal entrepreneurs in Australia. Recent criticism that mining business is somehow incompatible with Aboriginal culture is clearly misinformed. The range of business opportunities created by mining ...

Urban indigenous housing stress
The Australian
New census analysis led by Australian National University fellow Nicholas Biddle reveals there were 1.65 times as many indigenous households overcrowded in Sydney-Wollongong, northeastern NSW and Brisbane than in the whole of the Northern Territory.

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Australia ghost gum trees in Alice Springs 'arson attack'
BBC News
Two ghost gum trees made famous by the work of Australian Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira have been found burnt. Officials in the town of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory say they believe the fire was started deliberately. The trees had been ...
Australia's Twin Ghost aboriginal trees destroyed by arsonTelegraph.co.uk
Albert Namatjira's ghost gums burnedAustralian Geographic
Namatjira trees killed by 'arson'NTNews.com.au
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Australian trees made famous by Aboriginal artist destroyed
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A pair of "ghost gum" trees in Australia's outback made famous in watercolors by Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira have been destroyed in a suspected arson attack, shortly before they were due to be placed on a national heritage ...

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Constitution must change, say indigenous leaders
inmycommunity
In fact, it was widely believed that the Aboriginal population would eventually die out, and in later years in policies reminiscent of Nazi racial eugenics, this annihilation of indigenous Australians was actively encouraged. The 1967 Referendum ...

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Constitution must change
inmycommunity
WHEN the Australian Constitution came into effect in 1901, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were mentioned in no formal manner other than negatively – with laws expressly laid out to say indigenous Australians would not be counted as part ...

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Calls to better honour Bennelong
SBS
It's believed that Australia's first Indigenous icon lies in Sydney's north-west, in the suburb of Putney. In March last year, Dr Peter Mitchell of Macquarie University announced he had pin-pointed the burial site of Woollarawarre Bennelong. Bennelong ...
200 years on: calls to better honour BennelongRadio Australia

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200 years on: calls to better honour Bennelong
Radio Australia
On the bicentenary of the death of prominent Aboriginal Australian Woollarawarre Bennelong, there are calls for him to be properly recognised. Bennelong, who died on January 3, 1813, became famous as a mediator between Indigenous people and the ...

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The bicentenary of the death of the prominent Aboriginal Australian Woollarawarre Bennelong has heralded calls for him to be properly recognised. Bennelong died on the 3rd of January in 1813 and became famous as a mediator between indigenous people ...

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Indigenous policies 'demeaning, wasteful'
The Australian
FORMER Northern Territory administrator Ted Egan says he has never been more despondent about the prospects for Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory, declaring that after generations of policy failures the worst prophesies were now being fulfilled.

Calendars celebrate Indigenous weather knowledge
ABC Local
Most Indigenous groups have their own names for between four and thirteen seasons a year, that are based on observed changes in things like water temperature, cloud formations and the presence of different insects and fish. The Project Co-ordinator ...

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Calendars celebrate Indigenous weather knowledge
ABC Online
Most Indigenous groups have their own names for between four and thirteen seasons a year, that are based on observed changes in things like water temperature, cloud formations and the presence of different insects and fish. The Project Co-ordinator ...

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Equal pay signalled sack for indigenous workers in Queensland
The Australian
The minute said the group had called for a boycott of the Commonwealth Games, a new treaty between Australians, sponsored a demand for freehold land, and sought Aboriginal quotas in parliaments. Cabinet also discussed the border between the Northern ...

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Conducting Business in Australia: Foreign Investment
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Certain types of foreign investment proposals need to be notified to a division of the Australian Treasury known as the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) for prior approval in accordance with the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 (Cth) ...

Like India, we must end misogyny
The Australian
Why then, in that part of Australian society where misogyny is rampant, Aboriginal Australia, are there those who do not want to move against the very culture of violence that creates murderous conditions for women and children? Where are the beacons ...

Aboriginal students rewarded with NYE VIP party
SBS
As Kylie Minogue, Leonardo DiCaprio and other celebrities gather around Sydney Harbour for New Year's Eve celebrations, five young Indigenous girls will be having the time of their lives at a VIP party.

Aboriginal students rewarded with NYE VIP party
SBS
As Kylie Minogue, Leonardo DiCaprio and other celebrities gather around Sydney Harbour for New Year's Eve celebrations, five young Indigenous girls will be having the time of their lives at a VIP party.

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Indigenous affairs in 2012 - part 2
SBS
"I think the Indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian and I think a lot has changed since then (1972) and I think it is probably time to move on from that." Before their hurried escape ...

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