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• Data gap slows progress in indigenous health

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 151
  Natasha Robinson; 5/12/09; (4 Items)The public servant charged with measuring progress on closing the gap of disadvantage in 29 priority indigenous communities has been unable to measure health improvements among Aborigines because state governments failed to release key data. Co-ordinator-general of remote indigenous ...
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• Indigenous News Update – Country

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 127
  Wild camels terrorise remote Indigenous NT community of Docker River http://bit.ly/8tjMwC Camels at Docker River: a plague of biblical proportions laying waste to a sensitive and arid environment http://bit.ly/66uKrE NT traditional owners horrified by oil and gas leaks on the North West coast ...
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• Pilger: Australia’s first people betrayed By sudhan

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  Morning Star Online , December 3, 2009 John Pilger Printable Email I remember the boys dressed in army surplus, the girls in hessian, silhouettes framed in beach shanties, staring across an abyss. You were not meant to talk about them. They were not counted in the census, unlike the sheep, and ...
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• Pilger: Australia’s first people betrayed

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  Morning Star Online ,  December 3, 2009 John Pilger Printable Email I remember the boys dressed in army surplus, the girls in hessian, silhouettes framed in beach shanties, staring across an abyss. You were not meant to talk about them. They were not counted in the census, unlike the sheep, and anyway ...
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• Shorter RCMP

  
  Stageleft: life on the left side — Authority: 472
    If at first it doesnt go away... stall, stall, again.
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• Vancouver Olympics 2010

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 137
  Vancouver Olympics official site ; CTV Olympics 2010 ; CBC Road to The Games : No 2010 Olympics on Stolen Native Land : With the winding-down of the Beijing Olympics , it seems inevitable that Vancouver’s organization should become a political target - at least in Canada. Thus, it is hardly surprising that the ...
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• ABORIGINAL AVANT-GARDE

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 121
    Yet another magnificent garden was created by the imaginative experts of Kingfisher Landscaping; employing copious quantities of indigenous plants and an advanced landscaping philosophy.  The garden envelops this spectacular home and flawlessly complements the fashionable architectural style.  Kingfisher ...
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• Indigenous News Update – Health

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 127
  Hermannsburg waiting for dialysis demountable. 6 promised by Feds , 3 delivered to communities http://bit.ly/7MKXVU intervention taskforce member slams Fed Govt for not taking responsibility for Aboriginal health services http://bit.ly/4Akh58 A community-based program Reduced skin infections in Northern ...
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• Rape victim wins legal challenge

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 151
  Angus Hohenboken; 3/12/09,  The Australian, No Internet TextA member of the stolen generation who was allegedly raped an estimated 500 times while in foster care has succesfully challenged a ruling that she be compensated for only one of the assaults. The NSW Supreme Court yesterday quashed a Victims Compensation ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Govt figures prove ‘things are getting worse’

  
  Solidarity Online — Authority: 117
  The federal government’s “Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory” monitoring report, released quietly in October, provides damning evidence of the failure of the NT Intervention. It compares statistics pre and post Intervention. As Jon Altman, Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy ...
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• RDA still suspended, Macklin entrenches Intervention

  
  Solidarity Online — Authority: 117
  Breaking clear promises, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has introduced legislation that will continue to suspend the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) until December 31, 2010. Reading her new bills into parliament, Macklin argued that the suspension of the RDA by the Howard government had “denied ...
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• Margaret Dawson

  
  The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian — Authority: 424
  Im going to guess Margaret Dawson was a convict. The last two people I researched were convicts, and Im assuming I added a bunch of them at once. Although there is a chance I added two and then moved onto something else.Well, lets go see......Yep!She was a convict.Lord Wiki says shes known as being one of ...
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• Renal Appoinment – The Convoluted Journey

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 127
  The incidence of chronic kidney disease is increasing in Australia, most significantly amongst Indigenous Australians, with rates in remote areas being 35 times higher than amongst non-Indigenous Australians. When the kidneys fail, a person must receive a transplant or their blood must be cleansed of waste ...
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• Indigenous News Update – Intervention

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 127
  Indigenous people need to be included in the development and implementation of the plan to fix town camps http://bit.ly/4KAMJK New Intervention guidelines argue some of the measures are racist and must be changed. – anything new there?! http://bit.ly/6IXQdR How will welfare quarantining go with the Racial ...
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• World AIDS day reminds us of scientific advances in fight against HIV/AIDS but the battle is far from over

  
  Senses: A blog about the Thirdi Software perception — Authority: 131
  Today is World AIDS Day and although the disease remains currently incurable, the advancements in medical technology that prolong life and mitigate the effects of the sexually transmitted auto-immune virus  are impressive. We’ve come from a point where 25 years ago patients would be dying within months to a year of ...
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• William Buckley

  
  The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian — Authority: 424
  William Buckley.Who is that?The names sounds sort of familiar, but I may be thinking of a similar sounding name. Isnt there an American named William F. Buckley, or William S. Buckley. I dont know who he is.....Okay yeah. Theres a William F. Buckley. Lord Wiki says he was an conservative author and ...
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• After free Olympic tickets, what next?

  
  Slaw — Authority: 595
  The treatment of First Nation Chiefs as “heads of state” at the Olympics will have real significance if this status is accorded First Nations beyond the Olympics. Apparently, it results from an agreement signed prior to the Vancouver bid for the Games to which all political actors who would be involved in the ...
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• Indigenous News Update – Education

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 127
  Latest survey by the ABS on Indigenous education, employment and health shows we wont close the gap by 2020 http://bit.ly/77BfI1 Appointment of the third Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council to provide advice to government http://bit.ly/6V0plG Govt target to halve the gap in literacy & numeracy for ...
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• SUMMER COMES AND SO DOES MY 10,000th HIT.

  
  LYNNE SANDERS-BRAITHWAITE — Authority: 117
  How good is the  Internet ? A few years and a few tears back, I could no more have accessed a public forum for journals, images, music, videos, genealogy than I could have knitted new clothes for my coming grandchild. My father, Bruce Sanders , wanted his 2/3 Pioneer Battalion Story published but we simply didn’t ...
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