Australian Aboriginal Population Booms
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Australia's aboriginal population is booming as more people identify themselves as indigenous, but Aborigines continue to be the nation's most disadvantaged group, dying some 17 years younger.
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Aborigines are 13 times more likely than other Australians to go to prison, with poverty, unemployment and poor education behind a sharp jump in the number of indigenous jailings, a report said on Friday.
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Energised by a resounding election victory, conservative Australian Prime Minister John Howard has embarked on a controversial plan to reinvent Aboriginal culture.
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Native bands are exerting increasing control over natural resources across vast stretches of northern Canada.
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Australia&#39;s Aboriginal communities might lose some basic rights under a tough new approach to help lift their living standards.
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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Five times a week the "Night Patrol" winds through the darkness of the 18 squalid aboriginal camps in Alice Springs trying to prevent the alcohol-fuelled violence that is destroying lives.
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Australian media and analysts Thursday hailed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to Aborigines for past injustices as marking an historic shift for the nation.
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BRISBANE, Australia : A top Australian politician and Aboriginal leaders flew to an offshore island hit by unrest with a plan to prevent violence breaking out again.
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Australia is now accepting more migrants from English-speaking nations than Southeast Asia for the first time since John Howard's Government came to power in 1996, new data shows.
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WASHINGTON: Recent archeological evidence studies seems to suggest that the first Americans came from Australia and not Siberia as has been widely believed.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin kicked off his meeting with the country's premiers and top aboriginal leaders Monday with a &#36;700-million plan to improve native health.
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Anne Darwin may be the one who hit the headlines, but Britons are emigrating in droves.
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Sweden has returned to Aboriginal elders the remains of 15 of their ancestors taken from Australia for scientific research a century ago.
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Australia plans to strengthen immigration law with tough tests on language and culture.
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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Aborigine Daryl Allen, 60, sits cross-legged in the dirt dreaming of the good times when his outback people lived hunting kangaroo and working as cattlemen, instead of drinking themselves to death.
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Older women and migrant families boost births.
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Aborigines have long lived on the fringe of Australian society, but they will take center stage when Parliament holds a historic ceremony to acknowledge the nation's capital is built on their land.