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Socialist Aotearoa: Media circus misses the point about child poverty : It's amazing the documentary Inside Child Poverty by Bryan Bruce on New Zealand's child poverty problem was aired at all. He must have been very persistent. So, some emails were leaked, and suddenly journalists (for want of a better word) ...

Aldridge Minerals Reports Drill Results from its 100 % owned Kili Teke Project ... 31, 2012 /CNW/ - Aldridge Minerals Inc. (TSX Venture: AGM) ("Aldridge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce results from its recent drill campaign on its 100 % owned Kili Teke project in Papua New Guinea. The drill program was preceded by an ...

Abbott wants Medicare dental, but no promises : But the Opposition Leader yesterday also criticised the wording of a proposal for the constitutional recognition of indigenous people as ''overreach'' and accused Fair Work Australia of ''an institutional go-slow to help the government'' in its ... The Age

Knox welcomes 45 new Aussies : The local hero award went to Tony Clark for his devotion to helping Australia's homeless population. The Knoxfield resident is the founder and chairman of Swags for the Homeless and designed the world-first backpack bed. Mr Clark, 37, said the award ...

Rare Aboriginal songs' cabaret debut : Cooee Cabaret weaves together iconic Australian recordings from the National Film and Sound Archives, from The Road to Gundagai to I Should Be So Lucky. A highlight of the free show is a rare recording of Tasmanian Aboriginal songs and language by ...

PM's staffer did not act alone: report : A federal government source has contradicted Prime Minister Julia Gillard's statement that a former staffer acted alone when he passed on information to a third party that led to a security scare at an Australia Day event, an indigenous newspaper says.

Using Constitutional change to improve Indigenous health : That scar is the problem of Aboriginal health. It is not the only wound on the Australian body politic, but it is surely the one that most disturbs and disgraces us. If ever there was a case study for the social determinants of health, Australia's ...

Referendum rethink urged : Mr Abbott said his party had long supported recognising indigenous people in Australia's founding document but expressed concerns about the proposal that is currently seeking bipartisan support. "My fear at the moment is that the recommendations that ...

'Softly softly' way tangles up police WHEN the dust finally settled on the Australia Day debacle in Canberra one thing was apparent: there were no winners. The Aboriginal cause suffered a huge body blow that will take years to repair, along with the reputation of the Australian Federal ...

Too tolerant of ugly racism : The Federal Opposition accuses the government of a cover up, demanding a federal police investigation over the Australia Day protest. Rejecting discrimination in the constitution would empower us all. There are examples where Aboriginal people have ...

IR laws are hindering growth: Corbett : And I think it does give the impression that Australia is not doing anything about Aboriginal affairs. I think it's doing an enormous amount. EMMA ALBERICI: I probably don't need to read out these statistics to you; you probably know them more than ... ABC Online

Tent Embassy protest speaks for itself : As Amy McQuire noted, the protest from 40 years ago "was about Aboriginal sovereignty, about the ability for Aboriginal people to control their own affairs. Aboriginal Australia wanted an acknowledgement for a sovereignty that was never ceded. ABC Online