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African drumming helping Indigenous children overcome anger
ABC Online
It is physical, sometimes frantic and often loud — and it has emerged as one of the most promising suicide prevention programs for young Indigenous kids in Australia. It is called Drumbeat and it uses African drums as a focal point in workshops run ...

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Government urged to address 'epidemic' Indigenous suicide rates in remote Australia
ABC Online
Aboriginal people and health workers will travel from across Australia to attend the conference in the wake of escalating Indigenous suicide rates, particularly over the past five years. The Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project, chaired by ...
Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'The Guardian
Australia's indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in OttawaSudbury.com
The budget's response to Indigenous unemployment borders on negligenceThe Guardian
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Government urged to address 'epidemic' Indigenous suicide rates in remote Australia
ABC Online
Mr Calma said suicide rates in remote Australia could be described as an epidemic. He said there had been a doubling of Indigenous suicide rates in the Kimberley during the past five years, and that the problem was larger than official statistics ...
Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'The Guardian
Australia's indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in OttawaTimes Colonist
Budget 2016: 'Silent on the important indigenous issues'The Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'
The Guardian
“The government's loan will un-encumber the ILC from the crippling impact of an existing debt that is diverting resources from its core business of supporting the economic aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,” said ...
Government urged to address 'epidemic' Indigenous suicide rates in remote AustraliaABC Online
Australia's indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in OttawaWinnipeg Free Press
Budget 2016: 'Silent on the important indigenous issues'The Australian

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The Australian
Scholarship to help indigenous doctors suit up for surgery
The Australian
“Growing up seeing lots of health issues that indigenous people face, but also growing up in community where you're pretty much one big family that rely on each other, that's important,” he said. “And when you have an indigenous patient, you feel the ...

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Stop Australia from Committing 'Cultural Genocide' and Environmental Injustice
Care2.com
Australia is about to make a horrible mistake. The country has (at least, tentatively) earmarked the location of its first nuclear dumping site next to an aboriginal cultural site. And the aboriginal community is speaking out — calling the proposed ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Burney farewells parliament, calls for recognition of Aboriginal history
Sydney Morning Herald
"It's time [Anzac Day] also speaks of the wars fought on Australian soil," she said of the at least 20,000 aboriginal people who died over 150 years of Australia's white settlement. "The history of these conflicts is not well kept, if not to avoid ...
Burney delivers farewell in NSW parliamentThe Australian

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The Age
Calls for curriculum to say Australia was invaded not settled
The Age
Education Minister James Merlino has reignited debate about whether the curriculum should refer to Australia being invaded rather than settled. It follows the Minister recently declaring that in the eyes of Aboriginal people, Australia was invaded ...

The Age
Calls for curriculum to say Australia was invaded not settled
The Age
Education Minister James Merlino has reignited debate about whether the curriculum should refer to Australia being invaded rather than settled. It follows the Minister recently declaring that in the eyes of Aboriginal people, Australia was invaded ...

SciDev.Net
Indigenous people miss out on vital services
SciDev.Net
A lack of access to education and healthcare harm indigenous people throughout their lives, the study says. Most indigenous groups studied had significantly lower incomes than non-indigenous people in the same country, perpetuating a cycle of ill ...

The Guardian
Indigenous dancer Damian Smith returns to Australia for final pas de deux
The Guardian
In 1989 Damian Smith, then a 16-year-old Indigenous kid from Newcastle, appeared in Death in Venice at the Sydney Opera House – where, at such a young age, he performed in awe of the shadow of the national icon. Shortly afterwards Smith left Australia ...

ABC Online
Cashless welfare card: Geraldton Indigenous elders reject 'unfair social experiment'
ABC Online
Aboriginal elders and community advocates in regional Western Australia have rejected a proposed trial of the Commonwealth's cashless welfare card, describing it as a social experiment. Geraldton, 400 kilometres north of Perth, has been widely tipped ...

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Cashless welfare card: Geraldton Indigenous elders reject 'unfair social experiment'
ABC Online
Aboriginal elders and community advocates in regional Western Australia have rejected a proposed trial of the Commonwealth's cashless welfare card, describing it as a social experiment. Geraldton, 400 kilometres north of Perth, has been widely tipped ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Homelessness, Indigenous Affairs And Dementia Groups React To The Federal Budget
Huffington Post Australia
Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke said this lack of recognition showed the rhetoric of 'Closing The Gap' in healthcare and life expectancy for Indigenous Australians had not prompted any additional funding on top of previously announced ...

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The man who connects Indigenous Australia and Nazi Germany
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Hitler's Final Solution to the Jewish Question was carried out with very few instances of public protest... Well someone did take action... It was Indigenous Australian and Indigenous rights activist William Cooper. In November 1938... William, along ...

ABC Online
Health funding for aged care, chronic pain and Indigenous diabetes testing in federal budget
ABC Online
Rates of chronic disease are much higher in regional and rural Australia, with one in three Australians have at least one chronic condition and one in five having two or more. The Health Care Homes trial will allow patients a 'home base' for their care ...

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SBS
Budget 2016 – What it means for Indigenous people
SBS
The Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies will get $10 million a year for the next four years to preserve and protect Indigenous artefacts. AIATSIS was given a funding bump in the last Budget and endorsed by the Prime ...

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SBS
Budget 2016 – What it means for Indigenous people
SBS
The Indigenous Student Success Program is the latest brainchild from the government to get more Indigenous people completing tertiary education. It will see nearly $10 million redirected to the Education Department but will see the ITAS – Tertiary ...

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The Canberra Times
Nicholas Schofield jailed for stealing from Indigenous Business Australia
The Canberra Times
A finance manager will spend at least three years behind bars for stealing $1.4 million from vulnerable Indigenous Australians and using it to fund a lavish lifestyle of luxury cars, designer fashion, and overseas holidays. Nicholas Schofield, 46 ...
Man who stole $1 million from Indigenous authority for sports car, wedding jailedABC Online

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Geraldton photo exhibition explores Aboriginal identity and place
ABC Message Stick
A photographic exhibition has just been launched in Geraldton, Western Australia to give a voice to young Aboriginal people on their identity and place. In partnership with WA arts organisation Disability and Disadvantage in the Arts (DADAA), UK artist ...