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Calls for workers to adopt Australian indigenous languages
14:14:32, 20 November 2008, Radio Australia News
An Aboriginal research organisation says all workers in indigenous communities should be made to learn aboriginal languages.
Doctors 'under-used' in Australia's remote north
09:27:36, 19 November 2008, Radio Australia News
A doctor says he is leaving the Northern Territory's biggest Aboriginal community because Health Department practices are stopping him from doing his job.
Row over language teaching to Australia's aborigines
09:13:06, 18 November 2008, Radio Australia News
There has been a major disagreement over the teaching of indigenous languages and English at bilingual schools in the Northern Territory.
Former Australian treasurer's reconciliation efforts thwarted
14:16:43, 14 November 2008, Radio Australia News
The former Australian treasurer, Peter Costello, has revealed that his plan for the entire cabinet to walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for Aboriginal reconciliation was thwarted by other senior ministers.
Rural credit provider wins Australian business award
13:20:13, 14 November 2008, Radio Australia News
In Australia's north, the Traditional Credit Union based in Arnhemland, has taken out a top honour at the annual 'Diversity at Work Awards'.
Indigenous Australians far from equality: study
11:46:14, 12 November 2008, Radio Australia News
Australian National University researchers say closing the gap between the social and economic status of Aboriginal and non-indigenous Australians could take 100 years.
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