The Australian Government's indigenous education programmes do not specifically target female students.

There are currently no indigenous women in the federal Australian Parliament.

He's an Australian Aboriginal elder, and he's also an artist.

In the same period, Indigenous peoples comprised 2.4 per cent of Australia's population.

Through the Indigenous Employment Policy, the Australian Government provides a focus on improving indigenous employment rates.

The Australian Government is committed to closing the educational divide between indigenous and non indigenous students.

The Australian Government has committed AUS 16.5 million over four years for three initiatives under the indigenous Women's Development Programme

While our indigenous peoples have called Australia home for more than 60,000 years, the evolving kaleidoscope of Australian life has seen many new faces become part of Australia in the last few years.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the cross border region of Australia and Papua New Guinea

The National Indigenous Council was recently appointed to advise the Australian Government on indigenous issues and strategies.

The Indigenous Women's Development Programme forms an integral part of the Australian Government's reform agenda in indigenous affairs.

Life expectancy estimates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians born in the period 1996 2001 indicate that life expectancy at birth is around 18 years lower than the average life expectancy for all Australians.

3,000 indigenous Australians participating in gatherings or workshops focused on local priorities

A year later, the Australian Bureau of Statistics noted that indigenous women were being imprisoned nationally at a rate almost 21 times that of non indigenous women.10

The Australian Government is providing funding to improve indigenous peoples' access to comprehensive primary health care services.

As of 2005, it has restructured the indigenous education funding arrangements to states and territories in order to accelerate improvement in educational outcomes for Australia's indigenous students.

8 Due to the difficulties of indigenous identification in mortality data, only data from Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory are considered to be of publishable standard all cervical cancer mortality data for both indigenous and non indigenous women used in this analysis are therefore confined to these jurisdictions.

The National Network of Indigenous Women's Legal Services, funded as part of this programme, specifically operates to advance the rights and position of indigenous women in Australia.

Other examples of joint initiatives are the Australian Health Care Agreements, Public Health Outcome Funding Agreements, Australian Immunisation Agreements, Home and Community Care Programme, Multipurpose Services and Indigenous Programmes.

Building the general capacity of the Australian Public Service to provide more effective service delivery to indigenous peoples

The Australian Government is providing AUS 37.3 million over four years as of 2004 05 to the Family Violence Partnership Programme, through which the Australian Government is supporting a number of state and territory local projects that address indigenous family violence, particularly in remote areas.

The Programme has been established as one element of the Government's support for developing indigenous leadership.

As at September 2005, there were three indigenous women in the Northern Territory Parliament, one in New South Wales and one in Western Australia.

The first is in an Australian Aboriginal community called Warmun, nearly 1,000 kilometres from the closest large city.

Why you and I are alike, why the Iraqis and the Japanese and the Australian Aborigines and the people of the Amazon River are all alike.

A group of Australian Aboriginal young women in the north of Western Australia have created a dancing group in an extremely isolated community, thus providing teenage girls with an opportunity to participate meaningfully in their community.

It welcomes the commitment of all Australian Governments to work together on this issue through the Council of Australian Governments, as well as the adoption of a national strategy on indigenous family violence.

Prevention of the illicit transfer and unauthorized access to and use of man portable air defence systems

e. In a partnership with the Australian Government, Aboriginal Hostels operates a prison release and diversion hostel in Adelaide, specifically for indigenous women.

It also acknowledges the provisions introduced by the 1998 amendments to the Native Title Act regarding indigenous land use agreements, as well as the creation of the Indigenous Land Fund in 1995 to purchase land for indigenous Australians unable to benefit from recognition of native title (art. 5).

In recognition that some groups of children are missing out , indigenous children are a particular focus of the Agenda.

Australian law requires all transfers of physical currency into or out of the country of AUD 10,000 or more, or the equivalent in foreign currency, to be reported to AUSTRAC.

The 2003 agreement provided AUS 4.75 billion for the provision of public, community, indigenous and crisis housing.

In the 2005 06 budget, the Australian Government announced measures to improve delivery of health services to women in rural Australia, and to address prominent health issues, such as health in indigenous communities, obesity, depression and cancer.

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Upon the recommendations of Mr. Decaux and Ms. Warzazi, the Sub Commission decided, without a vote, the following with respect to the provisional agenda of the fifty eighth session and the order of consideration of agenda items

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The Attorney General's Department operates four specialist programmes intended to assist indigenous Australians achieve equity before the law.

During the financial year commencing 1 July 2005, a total of AUS 77.7 million (US 58.1 million) was allocated to the Indigenous Employment Programme by the Australian Government.

The Australian Government has recently announced the strengthening of Australia's counter terrorism laws.

They apply to Australian citizens, residents of Australia and bodies corporate.

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