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| UpdatedBusinesses that employ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff will be provided with financial sweeteners of up to $10,000 by the Federal Government.
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| UpdatedOne hundred and fifty juvenile oysters will be flown to the Tiwi Islands today as part of ongoing work to try and create a viable oyster business for the region's Indigenous communities.
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| UpdatedPublic hearings in remote Aboriginal communities are expected to be part of a royal commission in SA into nuclear energy.
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A small but dedicated group of protesters brave searing heat in Alice Springs to rally against the closure of Indigenous communities in WA and federal funding cuts to Indigenous services.
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| UpdatedAboriginal groups call on both sides of New South Wales state politics to formally recognise cultural fishing rights before the state election, saying without these legal protections Indigenous Australians are going to jail unnecessarily.
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory's live buffalo trade is underway for the year, with a small shipment of 182 head leaving Darwin this morning bound for Vietnam.
Topics: rural, indigenous-policy, trade, livestock, darwin-0800, vietnam
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Mr Jack is an Indigenous leader known for wearing this cowboy hat.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, numbulwar-0852
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Funding taxpayers' lifestyle choices is precisely what governments do: if it's not support for remote communities then it's the cities that are pampered with middle and upper class welfare.
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| UpdatedTop End community leaders accuse the Federal and Northern Territory governments of "walking away" from a commitment to Indigenous housing.
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| UpdatedA youth service tackling petrol sniffing in Indigenous communities says it hopes federal funding will not be cut from frontline services as councils in Central Australia take stock of jobs and services likely to go under the new funding allocations.
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| UpdatedIf people are living in conditions that compromise health and well-being, and the communities cannot be made viable, then a sensible exit strategy is needed.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, federal-government, states-and-territories
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Indigenous leaders describe a meeting with Premier Will Hodgman in Launceston on Thursday morning as a promising start.
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A camp on Perth's Heirisson Island set up in response to the planned closure of remote Aboriginal communities is granted a stay of execution, after the city extended the deadline on an order to tear it down.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, abbott-tony, government-and-politics, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA West Australian MP is criticised for suggesting hunting could provide economic benefits to remote Indigenous communities at risk of closing.
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A peak Aboriginal body in the state's far west has described as "appalling" the Prime Minister's comments that living in a remote Indigenous community is a lifestyle choice.
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| UpdatedOnly three years ago Tony Abbott was almost therapeutically courageous when he said we are a "torn people" and the fact we've never fully made peace with the first Australians was a "stain on our soul".
And yet this week he describes living in remote communities as a "lifestyle choice" - a belittling of Indigenous life as some sort of self-indulgent tree change at taxpayers' expense.
He seems a man torn between a deep personal sense of the injustice done to Indigenous people, and an awareness of the political gain of playing to the prejudices of a vocal extremity.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander
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| UpdatedA tribute to Kwementyaye 'Tracker' Tilmouth and the contribution he made to Northern Territory agriculture.
Topics: rural, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, beef-cattle, agricultural-crops, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedTasmanian Premier Will Hodgman's commitment to "resetting" relations with the Indigenous community will be put to the test at a meeting in Launceston, after claims the group has been "ignored".
Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, tas
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Noel Pearson, Warren Mundine and Mick Gooda respond to Tony Abbott's comment about remote communities that "it is not the job of the taxpayer to subsidise lifestyle choices".
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, federal-government, wa
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| UpdatedAnn Curthoys kept a detailed diary of the historic 1965 Freedom Ride against racism as a 19-year-old arts student.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, activism-and-lobbying, university-and-further-education, human-interest, canberra-2600