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UOW adapts US trauma program to assist Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Educators and health professionals from around the country gathered at the University of Wollongong this week to finalise the curriculum for Australia's first course in Indigenous Trauma Recovery. It is adapted from a program developed at the USA's ...

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The Guardian
He renounced Australia and lives solely by tribal law. Now Murrumu is hitting ...
The Guardian
For Murrumu (formerly the National Indigenous Television political journalist known as Jeremy Geia) leaving Australia almost a year ago began with a series of small practical and equally symbolic steps. He renounced his Australian citizenship, returned ...

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The Ecologist
Utopia - breaking the Great Australian Silence
The Ecologist
Australia must acknowledge the horrors lurking in its own history, writes Fiona Broom, and admit to its continuing Aboriginal genocide. It's made harder by the deliberate ignorance of Australia's mainstream culture, politics and media. But with John ...

The Ecologist
Utopia - breaking the Great Australian Silence
The Ecologist
Australia must acknowledge the horrors lurking in its own history, writes Fiona Broom, and admit to its continuing Aboriginal genocide. It's made harder by the deliberate ignorance of Australia's mainstream culture, politics and media. But with John ...

UOW academic to steer indigenous trauma program in Australia
Illawarra Mercury
One of Australia's first indigenous medical graduates Dr Ngiare Brown said over her 20 years of practice she had witnessed the effect of indigenous trauma on community health. "We have evidence linking chronic disease to childhood trauma, adults have a ...

Further medical professionals needed in remote communities says audiologist
ABC Local
"It was when it became obvious there was such huge gaps in health outcomes for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians." And Sue arrived in the Northern Territory she was not surprised by the amount of hearing problems present. "We have actually got ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
Jack Dale Revealing Australia's Hidden past
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Photographer Neil McLeod professional entree to Aboriginal Australia was through Pastor Doug Nicholls, the first Aboriginal to be knighted and first to be appointed to vice-regal office (he served as Governor of South Australia in the 1970s). The ...

The Age
Tiriki Onus wins new Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship for possum skin cloak ...
The Age
But he says over the past 10 generations so much of the knowledge about the cultural role of the possum skins has been scattered, devalued and replaced with a growing sense of displacement and alienation for many Aboriginal Australians. “I constantly ...

Response to rash of suicides in remote WA regions 'pitiful'
The Australian
He said local, Aboriginal-led suicide prevention bodies such as the Halls Creek Healing Taskforce had been unable to attract funding from the West Australian government, leaving programs at risk. Mr Georgatos said the state government's response to the ...

Response to rash of suicides in remote WA regions 'pitiful'
The Australian
He said local, Aboriginal-led suicide prevention bodies such as the Halls Creek Healing Taskforce had been unable to attract funding from the West Australian government, leaving programs at risk. Mr Georgatos said the state government's response to the ...

Heart condition twice as common in Indigenous people
HealthCanal.com
Research from the University of Adelaide shows Indigenous Australians suffer from a serious heart rhythm disorder twice as commonly as non-Indigenous people. A study in the University's Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders is the first of its kind to ...

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Heart condition twice as common in Indigenous people
NewsMaker (press release)
Researchers studied the data of more than 200,000 people managed at the Royal Adelaide Hospital over a 10-year period in South Australia. The results, published in the journal BMJ Open, show that Indigenous Australians diagnosed with atrial ...

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Mammoth task ahead to bring Aboriginal remains back on country
ABC Online
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Indigenous remains and artefacts kept in museums across Australia and around the world. At one time, museums and explorers would organise expeditions with the specific intent of collecting "Aboriginal specimens ...

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Mammoth task ahead to bring Aboriginal remains back on country
ABC Local
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Indigenous remains and artefacts kept in museums across Australia and around the world. At one time, museums and explorers would organise expeditions with the specific intent of collecting "Aboriginal specimens ...

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Equity Trustees initiative supports indigenous youth
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According to a statement from Equity Trustees, the foundation awarded close to $68,000 to programs that assist indigenous youth living in foster, residential or kinship care. One grant recipient is a Save the Children program in Western Australia which ...

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Australia's cultural institutions lacking diversity
Human Capital Magazine Online
A mere 0.5% of the gallery's workforce is made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the Herald reported – the national benchmark is 2.6%. It was also revealed that this was a decrease from 2012, when indigenous people made up 1.2% of the ...

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Meet the Mob: Deborah Swan
ABC Online
Deborah grew up in Toukley, on the NSW Central Coast. While her indigenous heritage comes from South Australia, she has grown up on Darkinjung land. Her father was killed in a car accident when Deborah was 19, she gave birth to a daughter a year later.

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Saltwater Country Opens in the Netherlands
Aboriginal Art Directory News
A new exhibition Saltwater Country is set to open at the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht on January 11, showing a great diversity of art produced by sixteen artists from Queensland's coastal regions in north-east Australia. They have ...

When simplistic outrage clouds a complex issue
The Australian (blog)
Conflating all indigenous people of colour as sharing a culture also can help to entrench a sense of their universal victimhood, and such conflation is often simply bewildering. Early in PNG's independent life, meetings with Aboriginal Australians were ...
“Try a little kindness” and other collective resolutions for 2015Crikey (blog)

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The Australian
APY artists see red as pop-up auctions peddle fake works
The Australian
She said all her works sold through Tjala Aboriginal Arts Centre in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands community of Amata in South Australia, where she paints, were genuine. “Ricky brought in a roll of canvasses and told me to write my ...