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What's behind high Aboriginal youth suicide rates?  Al Jazeera English

Pat Dudgeon explains why suicide rates among young Aboriginals are so high and what can be done to stem the tide.

The Guardian
Premier says NSW prepared to negotiate for 'better deal' with Aboriginal groups
The Guardian
The New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, says her government is prepared to negotiate three priorities with the new coalition of peak Aboriginal organisations. Her commitment follows a march and rally by around 1,000 Aboriginal people outside ...

RACGP
Health and self-determination on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
RACGP
'The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers and health practitioners in Australia are the only ethnic-based health professions in the world that have legislation and regulation, as well as a national training curriculum, to support them ...
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples: 2018PRWire (press release)

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RACGP
Health and self-determination on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
RACGP
'The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers and health practitioners in Australia are the only ethnic-based health professions in the world that have legislation and regulation, as well as a national training curriculum, to support them ...
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples: 2018PRWire (press release)

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The Guardian
Amnesty urges Queensland to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14
The Guardian
Queensland locks up more 10-to-13-year-olds than any other state; more than 70% are Indigenous. It means an Indigenous child is 30 times more likely to be sent to prison than any other Queenslander. “A child's chance at a bright future can be lost ...

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The Guardian
Amnesty urges Queensland to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14
The Guardian
Queensland locks up more 10-to-13-year-olds than any other state; more than 70% are Indigenous. It means an Indigenous child is 30 times more likely to be sent to prison than any other Queenslander. “A child's chance at a bright future can be lost ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Turnbull must pursue treaty with Indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last Friday on the ABC, Julia Baird broadcast a panel discussion comprising Indigenous Australians from the annual Garma Festival in Northern Australia. The day before Andrew Bolt had regurgitated his standard column about the Barbarians now being ...

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New York Times
5 Indigenous Australian Films (and 1 TV series) Everyone Should See
New York Times
A member of the Maramanindji people from the Northern Territory, she sent us her five top movies, plus her favorite television series — all of which are must-see creations from Australia's Indigenous communities. “This is the tip of the iceberg in ...

ABC News
Tasmanian Indigenous artists to show off works at Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
ABC News
"To go up there and pin that against Aboriginal artists who have been doing it for generations with their families, and seeing some of the artwork coming out of central Australia, I'm nervous ours won't be up to par." The idea of the Tasmanian stall ...

ABC News
Tasmanian Indigenous artists to show off works at Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
ABC News
The works of 2,000 Indigenous artists will be on show at the fair, coming from 60 art centres around Australia. Tasmania doesn't have an Aboriginal art centre, so former TMAG curator Tony Brown organised the group of 20 artists through Contemporary Art ...

The Guardian
March for makarrata: NSW Aboriginal groups unite to demand a 'new agenda'
The Guardian
“We want to send a clear message to parliament,” the chairman of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and the newly appointed chair of the prime minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Roy Ah See, told Guardian Australia. “Walk with us. Talk with us. Sit ...

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The Guardian
March for makarrata: NSW Aboriginal groups unite to demand a 'new agenda'
The Guardian
“We want to send a clear message to parliament,” the chairman of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and the newly appointed chair of the prime minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Roy Ah See, told Guardian Australia. “Walk with us. Talk with us. Sit ...

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The Gold Rush brought people from all over the world to live together in one big multicultural melting pot
Herald Sun
The sudden rush of people from all over the world displaced* many Aboriginal Australians, who had lived on and looked after the land where gold was found for tens of thousands of years. The miners and their families didn't know much about Aboriginal ...

Australian Times
When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia? | Australian Times
Australian Times
SPECIAL FEATURE: Have Aboriginal people been in Australia for some 50,000 years or as long as 65,000 years? Either way, they have effectively been on ...

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News Of The Area (satire) (press release) (blog)
Medowie Public School won the Best Indigenous Australian Story Award for 'Believe'
News Of The Area (satire) (press release) (blog)
WAKAKIRRI'S 2018 performance season has kicked off in a spectacular fashion, with 235 schools and hundreds of Primary and Secondary school students taking to the stage at professional theatres across Australia to perform Story Dances that reflect their ...

National Indigenous Times
NT besties prepare to guard Australia's coastline
National Indigenous Times
The two best friends from the Northern Territory — Murray is from Darwin and Nilco from Batchelor — are on the adventure of a lifetime after signing up as soldiers-in-training with Norforce, the Australian army's surveillance and reconnaissance unit ...

ABC News
National Portrait Gallery's 20th anniversary exhibition presents Australia's hidden histories
ABC News
Most artists looked to the past: Carol McGregor's possum skin cloaks reconstruct Aboriginal histories that have been riven, broken and ignored; Bern Emmerichs' painted ceramics humorously bring to life the 180 convict women who sailed to Tasmania in ...

UNSW Newsroom
NSW Health funds scholarships for Indigenous doctors in training
UNSW Newsroom
Roughly 10% of all Indigenous doctors in Australia have received support from the scholarship program. Several graduates have recently taken up placements at Dubbo Base Hospital. “Each of these graduates is not just doing it for themselves, they are ...

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Time Out
Things you only know if you're an Indigenous astronomer
Time Out
“Indigenous Australians were the first people on our continent to look up and take meaning from the night sky, and while a lot of it is spiritual, there is science in it as well. I just released a research paper on the role of planets in Aboriginal ...

Time Out
Things you only know if you're an Indigenous astronomer
Time Out
“Indigenous Australians were the first people on our continent to look up and take meaning from the night sky, and while a lot of it is spiritual, there is science in it as well. I just released a research paper on the role of planets in Aboriginal ...