Aboriginal concerns to get $700M increase
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OTTAWAâPrime Minister Paul Martin kicked off the first ministers&#39; meeting yesterday by announcing $700 million to improve aboriginal health.
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India&#39;s nascent $30-million gaming  industry is set to grow to $700 million in the next five years,  driven by global companies that are pushing new generation  gaming consoles in the Indian market, industry watchers said.
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Australia attempts to address issues facing indigenous communities with a new advisory body.
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Growing world markets for minerals and energy will help push Australia&#39;s commodity exports up 15 percent to a record 95 billion Australian dollars (US$71 billion; euro54 billion) this fiscal year, the government&#39;s chief commodities forecaster said Monday.
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President Bush proposed increasing the Energy Department budget to $24.3 billion, up nearly 7 percent from the $22.8 billion current appropriation.
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Australia is considering compensating 247 people found to have been illegally detained by its immigration authorities over the past 14 years, Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said Monday.
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[Sports India, Cricket]: Sydney, Dec.21 : The West Indies&#39; tour of Australia next month is in jeopardy following a demand by the players that they be paid 500,000 dollars in appearance fees.
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Canada&#39;s prime minister has announced a financial package to help improve the health of the country&#39;s indigenous people, the Inuit.
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Iron ore miner BHP Billiton has announced a further expansion of its Pilbara operations, to meet continuing demand in Asia. Under its $780 million Rapid Growth Project, BHP Billiton will increase its overall
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NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. (CP) - Canada's latest Indian Affairs minister - the seventh in the past 15 years - got a rough reception Wednesday at a meeting of B.C. aboriginal leaders, despite his assertion that aboriginal people are high on the Liberal government's agenda.
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Deals with Native American tribes boost further expansion of gaming in the state.
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For Aborigine Michael Long the blisters on his feet were a small price to pay for putting indigenous issues back onto Australia&#39;s political agenda during a meeting with Prime Minister John Howard on Friday.
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(CP) - An aboriginal group that claims a large section of the route for the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline is in talks to settle two lawsuits that could dramatically stall the &#36;7-billion project in the Northwest Territories.
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In a speech to business and trade union leaders on Tuesday, Jacques Chirac, the French president, said that by 2007 the agency would be given up to 2bn ($2.7bn, 1.4bn) to invest in promising high-growth ...
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Payments to Australia's drought-hit farmers could be linked to climate change schemes, under new plans.
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Thousands are expected to march in protest at the treatment of Australia's indigenous peoples.
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Long-awaited apology for 'profound suffering, grief and loss' inflicted on Aboriginal population