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Researchers Appeal to Government to Offer Indigenous Healing Practices
National Geographic Australia
The remote province of Nauiyu, around 250km South of Darwin, is the first of the four Australian analyses to investigate indigenous trauma and healing from a local and communal standpoint. Gavin Morris, a researcher from Charles Darwin University, ...

The Guardian
As Indigenous people we exist outside of sporting arenas and welfare dependency
The Guardian
Indigenous and mainstream Australians often have very different ideas about the concept of “success”. For non-Indigenous Australians success opportunities are almost exclusively economic concepts, based on stolen and inherited resources and privilege.

EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous community more educated: census
EducationHQ Australia
Nearly half (47 per cent) of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons aged 20 to 24 years reported they had finished Year 12 during the 2016 census. There has been further growth across other educational categories, with an increase of more than ...

ABC Online
Census shows Australians working shorter weeks, but women still bear most household responsibilities
ABC Online
[shows] a 27 per cent increase in fitness instructors, a 25 per cent rise in the number or beauty therapists and a 23 per cent increase in bar attendants and baristas," Ms Kindermann said. Professionals were also on the rise among Indigenous ...

ABC Online
Census shows Australians working shorter weeks, but women still bear most household responsibilities
ABC Online
And Ms Kindermann said education for Indigenous Australians had also improved across the board. There was a 150 per cent increase in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people holding Cert III and Cert IV level qualifications since 2006.

Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous Closing the Gap strategy facing overhaul | Illawarra ...
Illawarra Mercury
Up to $300 billion in government spending will come under scrutiny as state and territory leaders consider a "refresh" of the Closing the Gap strategy to reduce ...
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Courier Mail
Australia beat England at Allan Border Field to take lead in women's Ashes series
Courier Mail
Alex Blackwell topscored with 67 not out but 20-year-old indigenous all-rounder Ash Gardner, with 27 off 18 balls including two sixes, provided the late innings cannon fire that broke the game after Australia were feeling the pressure of a mounting run ...
Women's Ashes: First blood to Australia with ODi winThe Australian

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ABC Online
Samuel Johnson, Magda Szubanski among Victorian nominees for Australian of the Year
ABC Online
Aboriginal community leader Graham Atkinson, volunteer fitness instructor for the elderly, Eleanor Griffiths, philanthropist Rhonda Renwick and scientist Professor Paul Zimmet have all been nominated in the Victorian Senior Australian of the Year. In ...

Armidale Express
Indigenous 'closing the gap' strategy facing overhaul
Armidale Express
Up to $300 billion in government spending will come under scrutiny as state and territory leaders consider a "refresh" of the Closing the Gap strategy to reduce Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. Australia's Indigenous affairs ministers will ...
As Indigenous people we exist outside of sporting arenas and welfare dependencyThe Guardian
Indigenous community more educated: censusEducationHQ Australia

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous 'closing the gap' strategy faces sweeping overhaul by Turnbull government
The Sydney Morning Herald
Up to $300 billion in government spending will come under scrutiny as state and territory leaders consider a "refresh" of the Closing the Gap strategy to reduce Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. Australia's Indigenous affairs ministers will ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous 'closing the gap' strategy faces sweeping overhaul by Turnbull government
The Sydney Morning Herald
Up to $300 billion in government spending will come under scrutiny as state and territory leaders consider a "refresh" of the Closing the Gap strategy to reduce Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. Australia's Indigenous affairs ministers will ...

ABC Online
Giant Indigenous artwork returns to Australian desert after 20 years
ABC Online
On the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, a piece of history is returning home. It has been praised as the most extraordinary piece of Indigenous art, painted 20 years ago. But for the Ngurrara people it is not just a painting. Ngurrara Canvas II is a map ...

ABC Online
Giant Indigenous artwork returns to Australian desert after 20 years
ABC Online
On the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, a piece of history is returning home. It has been praised as the most extraordinary piece of Indigenous art, painted 20 years ago. But for the Ngurrara people it is not just a painting. Ngurrara Canvas II is a map ...

ABC Online
Wallabies Indigenous jersey can stay on one condition — match it with real action, writes Richard Hinds
ABC Online
It was a jersey that, three decades after the Ella brothers' finest performances, made the Wallabies look like Australia's team. Not just Pymble's. Such was the transformation in both performance and fashion statement, it was tempting to watch ...

Courier Mail
Australia beat England at Allan Border Field to take lead in women's Ashes series
Courier Mail
Alex Blackwell topscored with 67 not out but 20-year-old indigenous all-rounder Ash Gardner, with 27 off 18 balls including two sixes, provided the late innings cannon fire that broke the game after Australia were feeling the pressure of a mounting run ...
Women's Ashes: First blood to Australia with ODi winThe Australian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Tucking into the Australian superfood market
The Sydney Morning Herald
Photo: Dean Schmideg Photographer. Entrepreneur, nutritional scientist and native food expert Vic Cherikoff runs Australian Functional Ingredients. Among the range of products he markets via his online store are sauces (Illawarra plum), syrups (lemon ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Tucking into the Australian superfood market
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cherikoff's research work at the University of Sydney's biochemistry department, analysing the nutritional composition of Australian Aboriginal bush food, spurred him on to launch his own business. "My first business began in 1984 when I started ...

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Voice of America
Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia's Rarest Birds
Voice of America
Aboriginal rangers have discovered new evidence of one of Australia's rarest and most mysterious birds. The Night Parrot was feared extinct until it was spotted in 2013. There have been precious few sightings since, but indigenous wildlife rangers say ...

The Australian
Green apartments on the way: Small Giants founder Liberman
The Australian
There are some big property developers definitely who are asking the question and are looking for really purpose-driven, mission-driven product in the pipeline,” Ms Liberman told The Australian. “The more demand there is from the market for this highly ...

Herald Sun
Contenders for the Victorian Australian of the Year announced
Herald Sun
The other finalists for the Victorian Australian of the Year are cancer crusader Karen Livingstone and animal advocate Lyn White. Ms Livingstone said she was “extremely honoured” to be nominated after 27 years of work in the field. “The work I've done ...

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