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| UpdatedThe Prime Minister's department confirms 54,997 penalty notices were issued from July 1 to September 30 last year for participants in the Community Development Programme.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, community-development, rural, nt, australia
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| UpdatedTasmania's Aboriginal Centre proposes having Aboriginal seats in the state's Parliament, saying Indigenous people are "locked out" of elections.
Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, hobart-7000, tas
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Australian universities are setting new targets in a bid to attract thousands more Indigenous students to campuses across the country in the first national agreement of its kind.
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| UpdatedSouth Australia names senior Aboriginal community leader Roger Thomas as the state's treaty commissioner, to draft a proposed framework after negotiating with Indigenous communities.
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The push for Tasmania's own Aboriginal reconciliation council is welcomed as a step towards "black and white coming together", but not all see the move as necessary.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, indigenous-protocols, indigenous-culture, government-and-politics, tas
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For Aboriginal teenager Tarni Rigney, who is about to start a teaching degree, the education outcomes for Indigenous Australians is distressing.
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More than 500 university students would move into a 16-storey tower at Redfern's The Block under new plans lodged by the Aboriginal Housing Company.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, redfern-2016
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| UpdatedThe NT Government says the matter of compensation for native title holders in Timber Creek is a test case for the nation, with Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia facing the possibility of similar claims.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, native-title, courts-and-trials, timber-creek-0852
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| UpdatedGreens MP Adam Bandt is criticised for saying changes to the Native Title Act were rushed through Parliament to benefit the Adani coal mine in Queensland.
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| UpdatedThe largest class action in the Northern Territory's history is settled in favour of 71 former residents of the Retta Dixon Home, who alleged years of abuse by staff, in what is the first compensation win as a result of evidence heard by the royal commission into child abuse.
Topics: child-abuse, child-care, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, youth, royal-commissions, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAmongst the litany of miserable statistics in this year's Closing the Gap report, there is a standout exception: 30,000 Indigenous university graduates who have erased their employment gap. These are the success stories of the quiet revolution, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, federal-government, government-and-politics, community-and-society, australia
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Labor's Linda Burney responds to this year's Closing the Gap report, which shows slow progress to improve the health and wealth of Indigenous Australians, February 14, 2017.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, federal-government, australia
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said despite having successive state and Commonwealth governments committed to closing the gaps faced by First Australians, there was much more work to do.
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tables the Close the Gap report which again shows slow progress to improve the health and wealth of Indigenous Australians.
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| UpdatedAustralia has promised to close the gap between Indigenous and other Australians on health, education and employment. But we are failing to meet six of seven key goals.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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Indigenous Australians will today deliver their blueprint for change to the nation's political leaders. It's called the Redfern Statement, and this is what it's calling for.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, indigenous-protocols, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is applauding progress in health and education ahead of the release of the latest report card into Indigenous disadvantage.
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| UpdatedFormer prime minister Tony Abbott says it is disappointing Malcolm Turnbull has not spent a week each year in a remote Aboriginal or Torres Strait community.
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Building places of healing and setting up new community programs could be the next wave of support for the Stolen Generations in South Australia, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher says.
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| UpdatedThe Greens urge the Federal Government to establish targets for driving down the number of Indigenous Australians in jail.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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An abalone bust on the NSW far south coast brings to the surface tensions between cultural and commercial abalone divers.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, illegal-fishing, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture
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