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The Conversation AU
Three charts on: the changing status of Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
A new dataset has shed fresh light on the changing socioeconomic status of Indigenous Australians. It shows that what appears to be slow progress or steady outcomes for the whole population may be masking worsening results. This stems from how the ...

The West Australian
Vic Aboriginal lung cancer deaths high
The West Australian
The Victorian Cancer Registry data prompted a call from Cancer Council Victoria to urge the state's indigenous population who smoke to get support and quit, to reduce cancer risk. "Lung cancer accounts for more than one-in-four cancer deaths in ...

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Vic Aboriginal lung cancer deaths high
The Australian
The Victorian Cancer Registry data prompted a call from Cancer Council Victoria to urge the state's indigenous population who smoke to get support and quit, to reduce cancer risk. "Lung cancer accounts for more than one-in-four cancer deaths in ...

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Radio Australia
Does Broome host Australia's most remote Mardi Gras?
Radio Australia
Mr Waina is from Kalumburu — one of the most isolated Aboriginal communities in Australia. It has a population of about 500, no mobile reception, and for months of the year the only way in and out is by plane. "There is no mobile reception; there was ...

The Weekly Review
Dan Hunter on creating his Australian cuisine
The Weekly Review
Dan Hunter's yam daisies are been misbehaving. The chef and owner of 44th-ranked World's Best Restaurant, Brae, in Birregurra, planted several hundred of the indigenous root vegetable – once widespread on the plains of south-eastern Australia – on his ...

The Guardian
Morning mail: lobbying forced backdown over land clearing
The Guardian
“The commonwealth's National Heritage List has finally recognised a symbolic part of central Melbourne where the bones of many Indigenous elders lay buried,” writes Paul Daley. “For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, the incorporation ...

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Vision Christian Media
'Going the Distance' – Mark Short
Vision Christian Media
The Bush Church Aid Society of Australia has a heart for people living in remote and regional Australia. We are committed to going the distance to reach Australia for Christ. What a privilege it is to share in God's mission to the world He loves! At ...

The Guardian (blog)
Pressure builds for a national keeping place for Indigenous remains
The Guardian (blog)
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians the incorporation into the list of the Melbourne Domain Parkland and Memorial Precinct (including the Kings Domain Resting Place where the elders are buried) represents long overdue official ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Pressure builds for a national keeping place for Indigenous remains
The Guardian (blog)
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians the incorporation into the list of the Melbourne Domain Parkland and Memorial Precinct (including the Kings Domain Resting Place where the elders are buried) represents long overdue official ...
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Indigenous child removal puts burden of care on relatives
The Australian
The preference for family carers has left a generation of Aboriginal grandparents overwhelmed and without enough support, according to Ann Oakley, from the Aboriginal child reunification agency Kinship Connections. And retired Aboriginal magistrate Sue ...

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Indigenous child removal puts burden of care on relatives
The Australian
Children found to be living in unsafe homes in Western Australia are more likely than ever to be placed in the care of a close relative, an economical shift that satisfies the policy aim of keeping indigenous children connected to family but one that ...

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The Australian
Bill Leak would have nailed these politically correct episodes
The Australian
Like admission rules for a harem, women are welcome, eunuchs maybe, but men need not apply. The Daily Telegraph reported in early August the Australian Army put the kybosh on male recruits. Of 50 jobs advertised, 35 were restricted to women. The ...

The Australian
Tourism concerns if sacred mountain sites declared off limits
The Australian
South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher did not respond to requests for comment. Opposition environment spokesman David Speirs said the Liberal Party “supports the right for people to access the (St Mary Peak) summit”. Access to the ...

Port Macquarie News
Oztag World Cup: Greg Smith, Brad Degenaars, Steve vanGemert and Greg Gleeson picked for Australia
Port Macquarie News
By the time the tournament starts on November 1, the Australian team will only have had three compulsory training sessions together. “It is a challenge because it's hard to get blokes from all over the country together at once, but most of the players ...

Crikey (blog)
Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 7 – the 2008 Yuendumu Petition
Crikey (blog)
Supporti-ki karlipa wangkami, tala manu nyiya kanti-kanti yungungurlu ngalpa yinyi nyampurla ngurungka. Nyampurla Yurntumu-rla panu karlipa madarni nyiya-ningki-jarra ngula karliparla yulkami. Madarni karlipa jana Mt Theo program, kurdu kurdu kurlangu ...

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Crikey (blog)
Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 7 – the 2008 Yuendumu Petition
Crikey (blog)
Supporti-ki karlipa wangkami, tala manu nyiya kanti-kanti yungungurlu ngalpa yinyi nyampurla ngurungka. Nyampurla Yurntumu-rla panu karlipa madarni nyiya-ningki-jarra ngula karliparla yulkami. Madarni karlipa jana Mt Theo program, kurdu kurdu kurlangu ...

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NT News
Cervical cancer may be eliminated from Australia
NT News
Cancer Council Victoria screening manager Kate Broun said it was incredible to foresee the end of a cancer but it would require higher vaccination rates in “underscreening groups” such as indigenous Australians, those from culturally diverse ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Prince Philip was not being racist with 'spears' remark, says indigenous Australian performer
Telegraph.co.uk
An indigenous performer who met Prince Philip during a royal visit to Australia in 2002 has defended him against accusations of racism, saying he was taken out of context. The Duke of Edinburgh raised eyebrows during the trip to Cairns 16 years ago ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Prince Philip was not being racist with 'spears' remark, says indigenous Australian performer
Telegraph.co.uk
An indigenous performer who met Prince Philip during a royal visit to Australia in 2002 has defended him against accusations of racism, saying he was taken out of context. The Duke of Edinburgh raised eyebrows during the trip to Cairns 16 years ago ...

Business Insider Australia
One of the new Qantas Dreamliners is covering in a painting by one of Australia's most famous Indigenous artists
Business Insider Australia
Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of Australia's acclaimed painters. One of her works Earth's Creation 1, painted in 1994, set a new record for a work by an Australian female painter went it sold at auction last year for $2.1 million. Born ...

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