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Lower drug copays lead to reduction in hospitalizations among indigenous people in Australia
News-Medical.net
A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive to lower drug copayments, hospitalizations to treat the population's chronic conditions declined by 40 percent in just two years. The study ...
Cut copays to improve healthcare for indigenous people?Futurity: Research News

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ABC Online
Number of children removed from Indigenous families set to triple in 20 years
ABC Online
The Family Matters coalition wants the over-representation of Indigenous children in out-of-home care eliminated by 2040. "We need to get very deliberate about acknowledging that high number of children that have been removed, and be committed in a ...

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The Conversation AU
Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal ...
The Conversation AU
New reports show a widespread lack of care for the cultural needs of many of the 19000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and ...
Crisis for kids 'our top rights concern' - The AustralianThe Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australians demand return of shield taken by Captain Cook
The Guardian
The descendant of an Indigenous Australian warrior who was the first to confront Captain Cook as he landed on the shores of Australia in 1770 has demanded that the British Museum give back a shield “stolen” by the English invaders. Rodney Kelly, the ...

The Australian
Indigenous kids in care to triple in 20 years
The Australian
Victoria is performing best across a range of measures, the report finds, including investment in early intervention, access to early childhood education and Aboriginal families being involved in decision making around child welfare. Western Australia ...

Crisis for kids 'our top rights concern'
The Australian
Protesters campaigning against the high number of indigenous children taken into state care in Western Australia say that is a far more pressing human rights issue for the Aboriginal Legal Service than preparing complaints about the Bill Leak cartoon ...

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The Australian
Indigenous kids in care to triple in 20 years
The Australian
Western Australia has the highest rates of over-representation of indigenous children in care and the lowest investment in evidence based strategies. The Northern Territory's record on child protection was “particularly appalling”, Professor Bamblett said.

Courier Mail
Revealed: The SA Australians of the Year
Courier Mail
A proud Narrunga Kaurna woman, Patricia Buckskin's passion for Aboriginal education began in 1972, when she was appointed to Mansfield Park Primary School as its first Aboriginal teacher aide. In 1987, she was appointed as the first Aboriginal state ...

The Australian
Islamic preacher Junaid Thorne 'not obliged to be loyal to Australia'
The Australian
Asked why two teenagers would want to carry out an attack in Australia, Mr Thorne, a part-Aboriginal man born in Perth and raised in Saudi Arabia, said Muslims can feel targeted by foreign military intervention in predominantly Muslim countries. “As ...

The Advertiser
Revealed: The SA Australians of the Year
The Advertiser
A proud Narrunga Kaurna woman, Patricia Buckskin's passion for Aboriginal education began in 1972, when she was appointed to Mansfield Park Primary School as its first Aboriginal teacher aide. In 1987, she was appointed as the first Aboriginal state ...
Dementia advocate is SA Aust of the YearSky News Australia

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The West Australian
We'll close Uluru: Indigenous community
The West Australian
Mr Thomas said the same issues were raised in the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report yet things are now worse for his people. Indigenous Australians made up 14 per cent of the national prison population 25 years ago - by ...

We'll close Uluru: Indigenous community
The Australian
On Thursday, federal Attorney-General George Brandis announced an Australia-wide inquiry to examine the "national tragedy" of persistently high indigenous incarceration rates. Mr Gooda says people still feel powerless almost a decade after the ...

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We'll close Uluru: Indigenous community
NEWS.com.au
Mr Thomas said the same issues were raised in the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report yet things are now worse for his people. Indigenous Australians made up 14 per cent of the national prison population 25 years ago - by ...

ABC Local
Dementia advocate Kate Swaffer announced as SA Australian of the Year
ABC Local
Award organisers said she was a strong advocate for education and drove the development of the first culturally-based education award in Australia and was instrumental in setting up the Kaurna Plains Aboriginal School, the first public Aboriginal ...

Sky News Australia
Dementia advocate is SA Aust of the Year
Sky News Australia
Aboriginal education leader Patricia Buckskin was named SA Senior Australian of the year at the awards ceremony at Adelaide Oval on Tuesday night. Ms Buckskin, 67, drove the development of the first culturally-based education award in Australia and was ...

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The Advertiser
Jet-setters donate $100k to SA Museum
The Advertiser
AN art-loving jetset couple is so puzzled by contemporary Aboriginal art they are pouring $100,000 into research at the South Australian Museum. Ever since Cillin Perera and Giuliana Picco fell in love with Aboriginal art they have devoured every bit ...

Daily Mail
Pauline Hanson wants plebiscites on gay marriage, euthanasia and Indigenous Australians
Daily Mail
Controversial senators Pauline Hanson and Jacqui Lambie hatched plans over dinner for plebiscites on gay marriage, euthanasia and constitutional recognition of indigenous. They met on the same night the Senate voted 33 to 29 to kill off Prime Minister ...
Lambie pushing for wide referendum next electionNEWS.com.au

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The Stringer
Who'd believe Australian towns and communities at 600 times the national suicide rate?
The Stringer
The Inuit peoples of Greenland, the Guarani peoples of South America and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples of the Australian continent endure the world's highest suicide rates. However, when we disaggregate to regions, towns and ...

Mashable
Indigenous Australians are calling for new, more inclusive tech hub
Mashable
Two Indigenous Australians are hoping to change that. Leigh Harris and Julie-Ann Lambourne want to create technology hubs, led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, to help share digital skills with communities in the northern city of ...

Mashable
Indigenous-led technology hub to open in regional Australia
Mashable
Because the majority of Australia's population clings to its coastal cities, people in regional areas are often left out when it comes to the so-called "digital economy." Two Indigenous Australians are hoping to change that. Leigh Harris and Julie-Ann ...