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They once dominated the stock camps, but in recent times Aboriginal stockmen have been scarce on the ground, while jobless rates for Indigenous youth climb. In the Northern Territory, a cattle station run by the third generation of an Aboriginal family is working to save young people struggling with unemployment, alcohol and violence.

Hundreds of workers at one of Australia's biggest power plants have been told it will close next year. The French owner of the Hazelwood plant has not confirmed the reports but is expected to do so shortly.

Victoria is a major energy supplier to other states, and has had historically had among the lowest cost for electricity generation in the country. Tony Wood, Director of the Energy Program at the Grattan Institute, says the closure of heavy polluting brown coal Hazelwood power plant will have an effect on power prices for Victorians but it will depend on what replaces it.

The Prime Minister has laughed off talk of chaos in the Senate, with the High Court to consider whether two cross bench Senators were eligible to run at the last election. It's changed the landscape in the Senate for the government, which now won't say if it hopes to pass its flagship industrial relations bills before the end of the year.

The former headmaster of Shalom Christian College in Queensland has told a public hearing that sexual abuse was a serious problem during his time at the school. Christopher Shirley has been called to appear at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, in light of allegations that a girl was abused by other students at the Townsville school in 2006.

Under the Tasmanian State Government's plans to make forest that was going to be protected under the Forest Peace Deal available for logging, two areas of forest next to the Three Capes track will be made available for logging. Although he state government maintains that while the forest next the Three Capes track is in the area that is available for logging, they are not going to cut down the trees.

Science and maths teachers in NSW are calling for a major revision of draft HSC syllabuses, describing them as poorly structured, confusing and containing serious blunders. The teachers say they want further consultation before the syllabuses are approved by the NSW Board of Studies. The Board says it is taking the criticisms on board, but that a major rewrite is not necessary. It has rejected calls for a further round of consultation, saying its quality assurance procedures are robust.

Consumers are being warned they do not own the private data that governments and private companies hold about them, but the Productivity Commission is calling for the legal right for people to be able to access their own information. The Productivity Commission has argued in a new report that a move to mandate unrestricted access to private data is in the national interest and wants the government to introduce legislation to force government agencies and the private sector to share private information.

Climate groups say Australia is likely to come under pressure from other countries at global climate talks which begin in Morocco next week. They say there's been significant global progress on emissions reduction since last year's landmark Paris talks, but Australia is failing to keep up. The government's expressed confidence it will meet its 2030 emissions reduction targets, but climate groups say other countries have raised concerns about Australia's capacity to meet the targets.

A new report into gender diversity in the workforce shows women in senior management are being grossly underpaid. Now that the reporting season is over, the ABC can reveal a gender pay gap between male and female CEOs of nearly 30 per cent. Taking the average pay packet of an Australian CEO, that means some women are forgoing close to a million dollars a year in remuneration.