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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Native title laws ‘no barrier to buying’ homes

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 151
  Natasha Robinson & Sarah Elks; 24/12/09Traditional owners in remote north Queensland communities have denied that native title laws are acting as a barrier to home ownership on indigenous land. Palm Island Mayor Alf Lacey said he did not accept that complex negotiations over native title had stalled the progress ...
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• Young men of the Kimberley get serious

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 151
  Tony Barrass; 24/12/09It is make-or-break time for many young men in the Kimberley as they come to grips with the harsh realities of life without work-for-the-dole programs. Kevin Rudd’s decision to embrace the Howard government’s contentious phasing-out of Community Development Employment Projects by 2011 has ...
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• CANACE founders to participate in Aboriginal policy forum

  
  www.VoiceofCanada.ca — Authority: 103
  I am pleased to report that fellow CANACE co-founder Gary McHale and I have been invited to participate in an Aboriginal policy forum to be held in Calgary, Alberta in 2010. The forum consists of three panels: one on economic development, one on governance and one on social policy. Gary and I will be on the ...
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• Is Aboriginal Art Just a Style?

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 493
  The Australian catches an art dealer in the act of passing works off as Aboriginal art when they were fabricated by someone who is not an Aboriginal Australian: Adelaide dealer Tony Antoniou and his company, Australian Dreamtime Creations, were yesterday found by the Federal Court to have breached the Trade ...
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• Christmas Season Attacks Worry Christians in India

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Hindu extremists launch two assaults and claim hundreds of ‘reconversions.’NEW DELHI, December 22 (CDN) — With at least two violent attacks and alleged “reconversion” of over 1,700 Christians in the week leading up to Christmas, a sense of fear is growing among India’s minority Christian community.On ...
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• Anna Bligh’s plan for Aboriginal home ownership failing

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 151
  Natasha Robinson; 23/12/09The Bligh government’s plan to open the way for Aboriginal home ownership in remote north Queensland settlements is failing, as not a single home loan has been signed since a new leasing scheme was introduced 18 months ago. Native title laws are being blamed for the bureaucratic bottleneck ...
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• Anarchist groups & unions assist native militants to undermine rule of law

  
  www.VoiceofCanada.ca — Authority: 103
  This is a reprint of the comment I left on Frances Widdowson’s blog in reply to her excellent article, ‘Caledonia: A glimpse of aboriginal self-government.’  Widdowson is co-author of ‘Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry,’ a finalist for the Donner Book Prize.The comment deals with several issues, including ...
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• Molly’sBlog 2009-12-22 10:08:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 159
  CANADIAN POLITICS: OLYMPIC RESISTANCE SPREADS ACROSS CANADA: The following is a press release from the Olympic Resistance Network dated yesterday, December 21. It is a summary of some of the protests that have met the Olympic flame in its course across the country. @@@@@@@@@@ Press Release: ...
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• Interfaith Interaction at Parliament of the World’s Religions

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 665
  I recently returned from 8 days in Melbourne Australia where I attended the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions. I had taken five of my Claremont School of Theology students along to participate in this remarkable six day gathering of…
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Six Nations protesters say theyll oppose Olympic torch relay through reserve

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  Aboriginal protesters are vowing to disrupt the Olympic torch relay today during a stop at the Six Nations reserve that has the approval of the band leadership.
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• The Woman From Bundaberg

  
  The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian — Authority: 128
  Im going to share yet another dream. It was kind of funny. There were two separate dreams, and then the storyline in both came together for a third.In the first dream: I have lumps inside my mouth. Theyre a bit ugly and worrisome, and they cause some pain. I keep it a secret from everyone, maybe because I ...
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• Cooperating with strangers

  
  Macleans OnCampus — Authority: 434
  Will separate school board ensure Aboriginal student success?
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• Aboriginals at the Met

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 493
  A show of contemporary Aboriginal art opens at the Met in New York tomorrow. The Wall Street Journal ’s Candace Jackson gives some background on history of this hidden genre: Several of the pieces in the Met’s installation are done with abstract dot-patterns, representing landscapes seen from an aerial ...
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• The Cowichan sweater of Vancouver Island

  
  ouno — Authority: 424
  Above is an example of the  Cowichan sweater , courtesy  Cowichan Tribes . The Cowichan tribes are part of the coastal Salish Nation, long renowned for their fine weaving , so it’s not surprising the Cowichans quickly adapted their own designs to the knitting they learned from white settlers. The Cowichan ...
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• Where R The Jacks?

  
  hazel8500 — Authority: 129
  From http://www.missingnativewomen.ca/bc2.htmlENTIRE JACK FAMILYDOREEN JACK, her husband, Ronald and her two sons, Russell, aged 9 and Ryan, aged 4, of BC.It is the only case of its kind in Canada; the disappearance of an entire family.On August 1, 1989, Ronald Jack was seen at the First Litre Pub with a caucasian ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Hard decisions to build a future for indigenous Australians

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 151
  Jenny Macklin; 19/12/09In the troubled town camps that fringe Alice Springs, a clean-up is under way. Local workers on heavy machinery move methodically through the camps piling rubbish into skips that are filled by the end of each day, taken away, emptied and returned. Teams of plumbers, electricians, carpenters and ...
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• The shifting centre

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 151
  Nicolas Rothwell; 19/12/09Geography seems, at first, to disclose everything in a town as simple and symbol-laden as Alice Springs, capital, for the past four decades, of the desert painting movement and its near-constant cultural intrigues. But the contours of the central Australian art world map are changing fast in ...
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