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19 May Agencies failing to deliver outcomes (The Australian)

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Leo Shanahan AN audit into the NSW government's indigenous policy has found it inefficient and lacking accountability for the $2.65 billion spent on Aboriginal affairs each year. The audit of the Two Ways Together plan introduced by the former Labor government in 2003 -- a policy...

18 May 2 aboriginal MPs picked for cabinet for the first time (Vancouver Sun)

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Randy Boswell OTTAWA — There have been, throughout Canada's past, numerous aboriginal MPs — Louis Riel among them — as well as cabinet ministers of First Nations and (since 2008) Inuit heritage. But Wednesday's unveiling of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new federal cabinet marked the first time...

10 May Indigenous groups want more say at Arctic Council (CBC News)

Posted at 12:47h in News, Posts

Some northern indigenous groups want the Arctic Council to give them the right to vote and other powers that are currently reserved for member countries like Canada, the United States and Russia. Groups like the Inuit Circumpolar Council and the Arctic Athabaskan Council want to have...