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New Republic
Australia's Other “Flying Doctors”: The Spirits of Aboriginal Bush Healers
New Republic
It's Friday night and still over 35°C in the town of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory. It is market night, and the pubs and streets are full of people. I hear glass shattering and a man and woman yelling at each other in the front yard ...

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The Guardian
Closure of bush court near Uluru 'will hit Indigenous community'
The Guardian
Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT is an alliance of Aboriginal organisations including the Central Land Council, the Northern Land Council, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Central ...

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The Guardian
Closure of bush court near Uluru 'will hit Indigenous community'
The Guardian
Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT is an alliance of Aboriginal organisations including the Central Land Council, the Northern Land Council, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Central ...
Fears closure of Mutitjulu court near Uluru could trigger scale-back of bush courtsABC Online

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ABC Local
Campaign for Indigenous recognition in constitution focuses on southern NSW town
ABC Local
Now, Mr Grant is supporting the group Recognise, a campaign seeking constitutional recognition for Indigenous people. The group has visited 300 towns so far, to bring the conversation to town halls and gatherings across Australia. Its meeting has ...
Indigenous community in cashless welfare trial, but rehab centre seven hours awayABC Online
Indigenous recognition: there are some wounds that defy time and kindnessThe Guardian
Two causes collide as Tony Abbott rides into CootamundraThe Australian (subscription)

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The Australian (blog)
Northern Territory denies claim Aboriginal singer Gurrumul was mistreated in hospital
The Australian (blog)
There are large numbers of indigenous patients at the emergency department at RDH, said Dr Robert Parker, head of the Australian Medical Association NT. “The hospital is almost like an Aboriginal medical service because 60 per cent of the clients at ...
Claims Royal Darwin Hospital left musician Gurrumul Yunupingu untreated for hours despite serious internal bleedingNEWS.com.au

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The Guardian
Crime: Indigenous Australians and African Americans deserve a 'sentencing discount'
The Guardian
Indigenous people living in Australia in 2016 are 13 times more likely than non-Indigenous Australians to be imprisoned. African Americans are six times more likely to be imprisoned than other Americans. The US incarceration rate is 700 per 100,000 ...

NEWS.com.au
Claims Royal Darwin Hospital left musician Gurrumul Yunupingu untreated for hours despite serious internal bleeding
NEWS.com.au
“We know that Aboriginal people that are admitted to hospital are much less likely to get a procedure for that condition than non-Aboriginal people,” he told the ABC. “It's not that individual people are racist, but the whole system is designed for ...
Northern Territory denies claim Aboriginal singer Gurrumul was mistreated in hospitalThe Australian (blog)
Gurrumul racism claim 'disgraceful'Yahoo7 News
Gurrumul's Manager Accuses Darwin Hospital Of Racial ProfilingtheMusic

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Indigenous community in cashless welfare trial, but rehab centre seven hours away
ABC Online
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: The Aboriginal community of Yalata in South Australia's far west has long battled problems with drug and alcohol abuse. The area is being included in the roll-out of the Government's cashless welfare card trial. Senior community ...

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The Sunshine Coast Daily
LETTER: Australia's true history needs to be acknowledged
The Sunshine Coast Daily
Then followed decades of slavery, unspeakable violence, massacres that nearly wiped out our Aboriginal population. The older - and wiser - I get, it is obvious who the uncivilised savages are in Australia's history - and they are not the Aborigines ...

Investment Magazine
80% Indigenous workers won't have a comfortable retirement
Investment Magazine
Only 20 per cent of Indigenous workers in full-time employment will accumulate enough savings to achieve the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's comfortable standard of living in retirement, an academic report has revealed. Meanwhile, 33 ...

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Who speaks for Aboriginal Australia?
Red Flag
The responses to the Sydney Daily Telegraph's “discovery” that universities are acknowledging one or two facts about the British invasion of this land have revealed something else: who gets to speak for and about Aboriginal people. In the popular media ...

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Who speaks for Aboriginal Australia?
Red Flag
The responses to the Sydney Daily Telegraph's “discovery” that universities are acknowledging one or two facts about the British invasion of this land have revealed something else: who gets to speak for and about Aboriginal people. In the popular media ...

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RFI
Aboriginal activists fight to preserve heritage site
RFI
Experts say that it's possible that the Randwick stabling yard site was one of the first places of resistance and information sharing by Aboriginal people in response to white people's invasion of the land. "We went back through the old archives from ...

ABC Online
Fact: Australia was invaded, not peacefully settled
Red Flag
Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler-colonial history on which Australian society is built, Stanner explained that a “cult of disremembering” reduced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to little more than a “melancholy ...
Indigenous Americans' genetic diversity disappeared after European colonisation, study findsABC Online

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Fox Sports
The next frontier for football in Australia
Fox Sports
Such was his devotion to football, his affinity for the game and the doors opened by it - and to it by Australia's new migrant class (Adelaide Juventus at the time) - Moriarty quickly developed into a formidable talent. He was the first indigenous ...
Calls for support of Australia's Indigenous Football weekABC Online
Indigenous Football Week highlights unifying nature of our gameSydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Indigenous rangers farming spinifex for world's strongest, thinnest condoms
ABC Online
The project is being used to help train Indigenous rangers. Spinifex grass covers nearly 30 per cent of outback Australia. Mr Saltmere said he was looking forward to creating a permanent spinifex farming industry with jobs for his people. "There's a ...

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New Matilda
Invisible Aboriginal: Media Bigots Invading Our Senses
New Matilda
Sure, we've moved past the idea of terra nullius – that Australia was a huge, empty land just ready and waiting for European settlement. Most of us would now agree that yes, Australia was invaded. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians had ...
Conservative case for Indigenous recognition: The Forgotten PeopleThe Australian (subscription)
Australia's Indigenous youth suicide crisisThe Saturday Paper (subscription)

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ABC Online
Sacred mountains celebrate decade back under Aboriginal management
ABC Online
Biamanga National Park includes Mumbulla Mountain, further south in the Bega valley. To the Yuin people, Gulaga is known as the Mother Mountain, and has always been a woman's place. It includes sacred sites where Aboriginal women would retreat for ...

New Matilda
Australia's Indigenous youth suicide crisis
The Saturday Paper (subscription)
The children had been staying with their aunt in Looma, population in the hundreds, and for about four weeks had been attending the vibrant Looma Remote Community School, winner of a Western Australian Premier's Excellence in Aboriginal Education ...
Invisible Aboriginal: Media Bigots Invading Our SensesNew Matilda
Conservative case for Indigenous recognition: The Forgotten PeopleThe Australian (subscription)

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Australia's Indigenous youth suicide crisis
The Saturday Paper (subscription)
One in four Indigenous suicides in Australia occurs in WA. But much investment had gone into clinical approaches, ignoring the local advice, Morris says. The incidence of Indigenous suicide in the Kimberley–Pilbara region is the worst in the country ...