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Mandurah Mail
Three Summers Mandurah premiere to raise funds at gala event
Mandurah Mail
... Summers team are looking forward to supporting two great local charities and the region in which the film was shot, with proceeds from the event going to Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health (FISH) and the Lord's Taverners Australia Peel ...

RETURN OF MUNGO MAN
Aboriginal Art Directory News
This invitation from the Elders has gone out to Indigenous communities across the country, and extends to all Australians, as well. Mungo Man was first discovered in 1974 by geophysicist Jim Bowler working on the shoreline of an ancient Ice Age lake in ...

Aboriginal jail hotline ignored by states
The Australian
Western Australia has begun negotiations to introduce the service after the government copped criticism over the controversial death in custody of 22-year-old Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu in 2014. Gerry Georgatos, suicide prevention researcher with the ...

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Aboriginal jail hotline ignored by states
The Australian
Western Australia has begun negotiations to introduce the service after the government copped criticism over the controversial death in custody of 22-year-old Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu in 2014. Gerry Georgatos, suicide prevention researcher with the ...

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Million-dollar boost for groundbreaking maternity program
UQ News
The project, led by The University of Queensland's Professor Sue Kildea and researchers from the University of Sydney and the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health, will implement Birthing on Country in two sites with a view to an Australia-wide roll out.

Million-dollar boost for groundbreaking maternity program
UQ News
The project, led by The University of Queensland's Professor Sue Kildea and researchers from the University of Sydney and the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health, will implement Birthing on Country in two sites with a view to an Australia-wide roll out.

The Conversation AU
New research reveals the origin of Australia's extinct flightless giants, the mihirung birds
The Conversation AU
Australia's living flightless birds - the emu and close relative the cassowary - once roamed alongside much larger birds that resembled dinosaurs. These huge creatures are known as mihirungs, based on the Aboriginal term for “giant bird”. The mihirungs ...

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techAU (blog)
Ford Australia offering FREE driving skills courses in Wodonga
techAU (blog)
“We are very pleased to expand our Driving Skills for Life in 2017 to support into regional and indigenous communities. While there continues to be a strong national focus on protecting young Australian drivers, research shows that this demographic is ...

Winc launches new indigenous art range
Stationery News
Winc and the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) have launched a new product range, developed by indigenous students that will support young indigenous Australians in education. All profits from the 15 piece collection – a range of ...

Indigenous Australians might be the human cost of Australia's space program
Crikey
Australia's space aspirations have often been in lockstep with the development of weapon technology, and indigenous Australians have often paid the price for such endeavours, finds freelance writer and Adelaide-based researcher Ann Deslandes.

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ABC Online
Why are Indigenous smoking rates high? Colonialism, that's why
ABC Online
Discriminatory practices dating back to Australia's colonial history are at least partly to blame for a comparatively high smoking rate among Indigenous populations, according to a team of academic researchers at the Australian National University.

ABC Online
Why are Indigenous smoking rates high? Colonialism, that's why
ABC Online
Discriminatory practices dating back to Australia's colonial history are at least partly to blame for a comparatively high smoking rate among Indigenous populations, according to a team of academic researchers at the Australian National University.

Daily Telegraph
Fruit bats inspire an upside-down art installation on Observatory Hill
Daily Telegraph
Sala's reimagined version, recorded with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, substitutes the original tempo instructions with wind conditions noted on a voyage to Australia in 1838. Bettina Kaldor, John's daughter and general manager of the public art ...

ABC Online
States urged to back 'life-saving' policy to prevent Indigenous deaths in custody
ABC Online
The program was first recommended more than 26 years ago by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, but is currently only used in New South Wales and the ACT. The family of Ms Dhu, who died in a Western Australian watch house, ...

ABC Online
States urged to back 'life-saving' policy to prevent Indigenous deaths in custody
ABC Online
The program was first recommended more than 26 years ago by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, but is currently only used in New South Wales and the ACT. The family of Ms Dhu, who died in a Western Australian watch house, ...

ABC Online
Fears of racial profiling as number of Indigenous arrests rise in the ACT
ABC Online
In the same period, non-Indigenous apprehensions declined by 5 per cent. Australian National University researcher Tamar Hopkins, lead author of the report now before the Law Reform Commission inquiry, said Australia is a quarter of a century behind ...

NT News
Forum's key updates on major NT projects
NT News
Northern Land Council chief executive officer Joe Morrison will discuss how best to ensure that northern development is sustainable and inclusive, with more than 40 per cent of Northern Australia subject to indigenous land rights under native title ...

Indigenous recognition campaign risked guideline breach
The Australian
However, documents indicate alarm from within the Recognise leadership that the Referendum Council would form a new part of its direct reporting chain, previously restricted to Reconciliation Australia through a $25.73m funding stream beginning in 2012.

SBS
Calls for federal government to change laws to prosecute inciters of racial violence
SBS
Barrister David D. Knoll spoke to delegates at Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia's (FECCA) biannual conference in Darwin about what he believed was a necessary regulation that should be implemented by all Australian states to crack ...

Central Australia battles an 'unprecedented' Meningococcal outbreak
ABC Online
Aboriginal communities in Central Australia are in the grip of a Meningococcal outbreak on an unprecedented scale. The Centre for Disease control today confirmed the 25th case of the disease, and 19 of those cases are children under 10. One doctor said ...

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