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SmartCompany.com.au
Why Ochre Workforce Solutions founder Joanne Pellew believes indigenous employment policies need to go beyond ...
SmartCompany.com.au
A Western Australian small business owner says more needs to be done by chambers of commerce to give employment opportunities to indigenous people. Joanne Pellew founded Ochre Workforce Solutions in 2010 after her work as an indigenous ...

Australia for the visitor – and not just your usual fare
The Canberra Times
We'd fly to Alice Springs and drive the back road to Uluru, the monolithic metaphor to the astonishing resilience of Aboriginal Australia. No other place on the continent stayed with me as it has, and in few other places are the wishes of the ...

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The Guardian
Rosie Batty shares experience of domestic violence with WA Indigenous community
The Guardian
The former Australian of the year Rosie Batty has spent several days in the remote north of Western Australia to share her own story of family violence with Aboriginal women, telling them: “We feel the same pain.” Batty's son, Luke, was murdered in ...

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The Guardian
Rosie Batty shares experience of domestic violence with WA Indigenous community
The Guardian
The former Australian of the year Rosie Batty has spent several days in the remote north of Western Australia to share her own story of family violence with Aboriginal women, telling them: “We feel the same pain.” Batty's son, Luke, was murdered in ...

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The Canberra Times
'Crisis levels' of Indigenous children in out-of-home care in the ACT
The Canberra Times
The number of children in state care in the ACT has jumped 40 per cent and Canberra now has the second-highest rate of Indigenous children in care in the country. In its latest annual report on child protection for 2015-16, the Australian Institute of ...

SBS
Indigenous producers lead the way in new 360/VR technology
SBS
Australia's INDIGI LAB, NITV and Image Matrix have teamed up with the Māoriland Film Festival to host workshops and panel discussions that inspire the use the latest technology in Indigenous storytelling this past week. “You can feel the cultural and ...

SBS
Indigenous producers lead the way in new 360/VR technology
SBS
Australia's INDIGI LAB, NITV and Image Matrix have teamed up with the Māoriland Film Festival to host workshops and panel discussions that inspire the use the latest technology in Indigenous storytelling this past week. “You can feel the cultural and ...

Sky News Australia
Indigenous Bolivians have healthy hearts
Sky News Australia
A group of indigenous people living deep in the Bolivian Amazon have been found to have some of the healthiest hearts on the planet. US researchers say the Tsimane people, a society of hunter-gatherers, have the lowest-ever recorded levels of clogged ...
Coronary atherosclerosis in indigenous South American Tsimane: a cross-sectional cohort study - The LancetThe Lancet

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ABC Online
RFDS to fly meningococcal vaccinations to Indigenous communities in remote SA
ABC Online
The hospital's Professor Helen Marshall said Aboriginal Australians were more at risk of catching meningococcal disease, although it was not clear why. "Whether it might be overcrowding, or less access to medical services to get diagnosis, and smoking ...

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RFDS to fly meningococcal vaccinations to Indigenous communities in remote SA
ABC Online
The hospital's Professor Helen Marshall said Aboriginal Australians were more at risk of catching meningococcal disease, although it was not clear why. "Whether it might be overcrowding, or less access to medical services to get diagnosis, and smoking ...

Tumut and Adelong Times
Planning underway for Aboriginal referendum anniversary celebrations
Tumut and Adelong Times
May 27 marks the 50th anniversary of the referendum which gave Aboriginal people the right to vote in Australia, and to be counted as Australian citizens. It's an important moment in history, and the Brungle-Tumut Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC ...

Lift GST, says OECD in dismal report card for Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has castigated Australia for inadequate progress on tax, Indigenous affairs and support for business in a report card to be presented to finance ministers from the group of 20 leading ...

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The Stringer
Closing the gap a long way short
Eden Magnet
Thursday marks Australia's annual “Closing the Gap” day where citizens come together to acknowledge the huge gaps in health and education outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Federal Government last month released its ninth ...
Australians must hit the streets in a civil rights movement to end the mass incarcerationThe Stringer
Thousands to come together to say 'we can do better' to Close the GapMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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Ararat Advertiser
Closing the gap a long way short
Ararat Advertiser
Thursday marks Australia's annual “Closing the Gap” day where citizens come together to acknowledge the huge gaps in health and education outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Federal Government last month released its ninth ...
Thousands to come together to say 'we can do better' to Close the GapMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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ABC Online
Aboriginal remains in German museum to be returned to Australia
ABC Online
"The timing is subject to a number of factors including consultation with Australian Indigenous communities, agreement from the institutions for the unconditional return of the ancestors, and other international governance and legislative processes.".

ABC Online
Aboriginal remains in German museum to be returned to Australia
ABC Online
"The timing is subject to a number of factors including consultation with Australian Indigenous communities, agreement from the institutions for the unconditional return of the ancestors, and other international governance and legislative processes.".

The Stringer
Australians must hit the streets in a civil rights movement to end the mass incarceration
The Stringer
The mass incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be a civil rights issue, one of the pressing issues of our generation. The descendants of the First Peoples of this continent number a little over 700,000 but at least 80,000 have ...
Thousands to come together to say 'we can do better' to Close the GapMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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The Stringer
Australians must hit the streets in a civil rights movement to end the mass incarceration
The Stringer
The mass incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be a civil rights issue, one of the pressing issues of our generation. The descendants of the First Peoples of this continent number a little over 700,000 but at least 80,000 have ...
Thousands to come together to say 'we can do better' to Close the GapMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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Thousands to come together to say 'we can do better' to Close the Gap
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
Tens of thousands of Australians are taking part in events on National Close the Gap Day to call for an end to the appalling health gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. More than 1000 events are set to take place around the ...

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Thousands to come together to say 'we can do better' to Close the Gap
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
Tens of thousands of Australians are taking part in events on National Close the Gap Day to call for an end to the appalling health gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. More than 1000 events are set to take place around the ...

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