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Qld traditional owners in new mining deal
Brisbane :: Australia | 1 month ago
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THE Wik people of Cape York want to own their share of the resource boom on native title lands in a possible deal they want to see replicated. Queensland Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney is expected to announce on Tuesday a joint-venture between
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Call for fluoride in indigenous towns
Sydney :: Canada | 1 month ago
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House of Representatives inquiry hearing into adult dental services on Monday. Aboriginal-controlled health organisations so they could provide dental services. Aboriginal people were more likely than non-indigenous Australians to have lost all their
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Jensen years behind on indigenous: WA MP
Perth :: Australia | 1 month ago
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Liberal MP Dennis Jensen about indigenous welfare "traps" shows he's 20 years behind in the debate about Aboriginal empowerment, Western Australia's opposition says. Mr Jensen, who holds the seat of Tangney in Perth's southern suburbs, last week
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Welfare tragic for indigenous: Pearson
Sydney :: Australia | 2 months ago
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Mr Pearson has backed comments by indigenous academic Marcia Langton that a sense of entitlement had poisoned Aboriginal society. "It's been a tragic disability," he told ABC TV on Monday. "The flipside of the opening up of the doors of citizenship
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NSW to get first indigenous war memorial
Sydney :: Australia | 2 months ago
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But NSW's first war memorial dedicated to indigenous soldiers will soon take pride of place in the centre of Sydney. The City of Sydney council has asked Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to submit designs for the monument, which will be
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It's time for Tiwi recognition, elder says
Brisbane :: Australia | 2 months ago
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IT'S time for Tiwi Islanders to take control of their own destiny, an elder says. Elders on the islands, 80km north of Darwin, formed a land council in 1979 with the goal of taking control of their own affairs. In the meantime they've watched the
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Best island in the world named
Mandalay :: Myanmar | 3 months ago
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A taste of the Big Apple For the first time in four decades, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which last year attracted 6.28 million visitors, will open seven days a week, starting in July...The extended hours will apply to the museum's main
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Post-school support push for indigenous teens mooted
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teenagers could be supported by the government for six months after finishing school in changes to the education system being considered by the state government. Development of a Queensland Aboriginal and Torres
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Indigenous health report sparks calls for funding overhaul
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
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A damning report on the health of Indigenous people in Queensland has sparked calls for an overhaul of health spending. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report was compiled between 2001 and 2010. It shows chronic disease, high smoking
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Indigenous health gap money running out
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
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In 2008, following former prime minister Kevin Rudd's apology to the stolen generations, federal, state and territory governments agreed on six ambitious Close the Gap targets to tackle indigenous disadvantage. The $1.6 billion federal and state
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