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Flexible university fund to 'break cycle' of indigenous disadvantage - Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion will announce today more than $67 million in support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university ...

Landmark report reveals scale of indigenous disadvantage  - Levels of self-harm and incarceration for indigenous Australians have increased at alarming levels despite the efforts of both sides of politics to 'close ...

Indigenous disadvantage  -  Indigenous people are jailed at a rate 18 times that of non- Aboriginal Western Australian adults, but the overall rate is high too. The great costs of this ...

Investing to close the gap on indigenous disadvantage : The 2012–13 Budget continues the Government's long-term efforts to overcome decades of underinvestment, and continue to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians . This is a comprehensive $3.4 billion 10-year package to support Aboriginal people in ...

Peris targets Indigenous disadvantage in poll push Nova Peris says she has visited 35 Indigenous communities across the Territory since she was picked for the top spot on the ALP's Territory Senate ticket.

10 policy issues more important than immigration : Indigenous disadvantage. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians remain far more likely than anyone else to live in poverty, die young, be imprisoned, and in many other ways lose out (see Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage released by the ... ABC Online

Canberra will never close the gap on indigenous disadvantage - housing, main roads, transport, electricity generation and supply, taxation on Aboriginal lands and other matters ranging from garbage collection to land use and planning. Michael Mansell, Launceston, Tas. Join the anti-guns fight. If I were a high school student or teacher in Australia , I'd be starting a ...

How can the NT spend money allocated for remote Indigenous disadvantage elsewhere? - The money not spent on Aboriginal communities is disgusting. ... The Australian once called the "greatest scandal in contemporary Aboriginal affairs".

Australia's indigenous imprisonment, child abuse rate rise: report : 25 (Xinhua) -- Australia indigenous imprisonment, and rates of child abuse have increased, a national report into Aboriginal disadvantage showed on Thursday. The 5th Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report released on Thursday was designed to track ... 日本(Japan) | 中国 (China) 한국 (Korea) | ราชอาณาจักรไทย (Thailand) Malaysia | Tiếng Việt (Vietnam) EN - ASIA | English

Doctor's Dream an insight into indigenous disadvantage   - THE genre is well established, if unique to Australia : the memoir of discovery and self-discovery written by outside helpers after a spell of bush life in ...

Queensland's first social impact bond tackles Indigenous disadvantage - The over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Islander children in out-of-home-care is the focus of Queensland's first social impact investment ...

John Pilger's damning new film about indigenous Australia  - "It's so degrading," says Noongar elder Noel Nannup in John Pilger's latest film about indigenous disadvantage in Australia . The Aboriginal man is  ...

Call for new focus on indigenous jailing REDUCING the over-representation of Aboriginal people in jails should be included in national targets to close the gap on indigenous disadvantage, legal  ... Our mission is to provide the best information on social exclusion worldwide

How can mentors best help Indigenous youth? ... which provides Australian governments with information on policy aimed at closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage, and the Australian Institute of Family  ...

How community-based innovation can help Australia close the Indigenous gap  - There is a strong bipartisan consensus that Australia needs to close the gap in Indigenous disadvantage. It is a credit to the federal government that it ...

Young Indigenous imprisonment in NT: 'You wouldn't believe it in a modern-day society'  - Jail and youth detention statistics in Australia paint a wearily familiar picture of Indigenous disadvantage but in the territory they are catastrophic.

Indigenous incarceration rates are a problem of poverty   - When it comes to addressing Indigenous disadvantage, Australia is going backwards. Despite considerable investment, very little progress has been ...

Unfinished business: reducing Indigenous incarceration Every two years, the Productivity Commission releases a report on the level of Indigenous disadvantage in Australia . These reports make for fairly bleak reading:  ...

The ACT government is 'patronising, paternalistic' on indigenous contracts - The overwhelming weight of evidence across Australia is that optimal outcomes are achieved in dealing with Indigenous disadvantage when the ...

John Pilger's damning new film about indigenous Australia  - "It's so degrading," says Noongar elder Noel Nannup in John Pilger's latest film about indigenous disadvantage in Australia . The Aboriginal man is  ...