October 2010

27 Oct At Uluru, a silver anniversary gives the owners a key to prosperity (Sydney Morning Herald)

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Lindsay Murdoch RETURNING Ayers Rock to its Anangu traditional owners 25 years ago was a symbolic moment for indigenous land rights. However, it failed to provide the jobs and training for Aborigines that were expected as a luxury desert resort and tourism grew at the...

24 Oct Protocol Seeks to Protect Indigenous Knowledge (Solomon Times Online)

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Press Release - 24 October 2010 Nagoya, Japan - Indigenous knowledge should be protected and communities which possess it must be adequately compensated if such knowledge is used for commercial purposes. How much compensation, however, is one of the issues under the microscope in Nagoya...

23 Oct Major companies act to close the gap (The Australian)

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Patricia Karvelas, Political Correspondent There has been a dramatic rise in the number of major companies creating indigenous job plans in the past year. A total of 40 companies are offering indigenous engagement initiatives, compared with 28 last year. New research by the Business Council of Australia...