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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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Yawuru propose controversial changes to Broome
ABC Message Stick
The traditional owners of Broome in Western Australia's north are proposing to ban cars on the beach and create Yawuru-only areas, as they prepare to negotiate changes with the local shire. As a result of a 2010 native title settlement over Broome, the ...
Broome traditional owners set sights on Cable BeachABC Online

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Aboriginal political trailblazer Eric Deeral dies aged 79
The Australian
In the 1970s, under the Bjelke-Petersen government, Mr Deeral became only the second Aborigine elected to an Australian parliament - after fellow Queenslander Neville Bonner was elected a senator in 1969 - and the first elected to a State Parliament.
Queensland's first indigenous MP Eric Deeral diesBrisbane Times
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First state Indigenous MP dies in QueenslandABC Online
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Sydney Morning Herald
Gillard's education crusade flounders
Sydney Morning Herald
Yesterday the 2012 Indigenous Expenditure report said state and federal spending on Aboriginal Australians in 2011-12 was $44,128 per indigenous person, compared with $19,589 for other Australians. About $250,000 per Aboriginal family. It hardly needs ...
Greens' popularity hits three-year lowThe Australian
Gillard calls on states to join 'national crusade' on school fundingThe Age
Gillard pledges schools revampWA today
Gatton Star
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Indigenous education rate soars
Sydney Morning Herald
THE number of indigenous students in higher education has jumped by more than 40 per cent over the past five years, but Aboriginal people remain under-represented at Australian universities. An analysis of figures from last year's census by the ...

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Leaders gather to bury Wild Rivers
The Australian
THE first meeting between indigenous leaders and Queensland ministers since the decision to scrap the Wild Rivers Act started to map out a pro-development regime for Cape York yesterday. Mayors of nine indigenous communities, conservation groups and ...

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Scullion calls for an audit of $25bn
The Australian
THE Coalition has called for an across-the-board audit of indigenous spending by all commonwealth departments following the release of a report showing public expenditure on Aboriginal Australia topping $25 billion. Opposition indigenous affairs ...

When the mine jobs go, Aborigines lose out too
The Australian
There was also speculation about what a wider slowdown might bring for indigenous families in the iron ore town of Karratha, where the Pilbara TAFE is turning out young indigenous tradesman such as Stanley Pitt. The most influential people in Sport ...

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Winds of change must bring legion of indigenous leaders
The Australian
WE are all familiar with the overwhelming statistical evidence that shows substantial gaps in quality of life and other socioeconomic indicators between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. This in itself should have constituted a tipping point ...
A case for changeBrisbane Times
Full transcript: Marcia LangdonThe Age

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