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National Indigenous Times
Hollows team revisits Fred's old stomping ground
National Indigenous Times
Australia's first Indigenous eye doctor, Kristopher Rallah-Baker (pictured on the Team Hollows' bus), was also on the trip, as was a number of leading ophthalmologists and health workers. Prominent Australian journalist Ray Martin was also there, the ...

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SBS
Indigenous Australians take Apple, Facebook, Google to Human Rights Commission for racist game
SBS
"It is important that we reflect on the intergenerational trauma of Indigenous Australians. The RDA seeks to protect vulnerable and marginalised minorities from racially based offensive, insulting and humiliating conduct by publicly outing such ...

SBS
Indigenous Australians take Apple, Facebook, Google to Human Rights Commission for racist game
SBS
"It is important that we reflect on the intergenerational trauma of Indigenous Australians. The RDA seeks to protect vulnerable and marginalised minorities from racially based offensive, insulting and humiliating conduct by publicly outing such ...

JURIST
Canada indigenous people appeal seismic testing case to Supreme Court
JURIST
[JURIST] Canadian indigenous people, including Inuits of Nunavut and the Chippewa, were granted an appeal [docket] to the Supreme Court of Canada [official website] earlier this month, challenging the use of seismic testing to find natural gas under ...

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The Advertiser
Council votes against flying Aboriginal flag
The Advertiser
At a meeting last week, councillors narrowly voted against a request from its Reconciliation Advisory Committee to spend $2000 on a new flag pole so the Aboriginal flag could fly alongside the Australian flag. Cr Max Amber told the meeting that ...

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The Advertiser
Adelaide council votes against flying Aboriginal flag
The Advertiser
At a meeting last week, councillors narrowly voted against a request from its Reconciliation Advisory Committee to spend $2000 on a new flag pole so the Aboriginal flag could fly alongside the Australian flag. Cr Max Amber told the meeting that ...

SBS
Renewed calls for action to address Indigenous disadvantage
SBS
Progress on meeting targets remains slow - with Indigenous life expectancy still well behind non-Indigenous Australia, and Aboriginal incarceration rates still well above the national average. Sixteen year old Mikayla Nelson of Yorta Yorta heritage is ...

Green Left Weekly
Tragic suicide of 10-year-old Aboriginal girl
Green Left Weekly
Earlier this month, a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl took her own life in a small Kimberly community near the town of Derby in Western Australia. It is believed that her life leading to her suicide was marred by “trauma and tragedy” and she had previously ...
End the silences, they're toxic – pack up the myth and conspiracy of shame and tabooThe Stringer

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Green Left Weekly
Packed forum discusses Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Treaty
Green Left Weekly
It would have to involve land rights for Aboriginal people and reparations for land and resources stolen. It would also have to involve guaranteed representation in an Australian republic, environmental protection and changes to land tenure agreements.

The Guardian
Indigenous organisations have been 'disadvantaged' by grants program
The Guardian
The opposition Indigenous affairs minister, Shayne Neumann, told Guardian Australia the report showed the Indigenous advancement strategy was “full of cuts and confusion”. “Even the department has admitted that they'd never put people through the ...

The Australian (subscription) (blog)
Aboriginal women at vanguard as US collects 'mesmerising' art
The Australian (subscription) (blog)
Exhibitions dedicated to indigenous Australian artists have shown during the past few months and years, or will tour in the next two years in museums in more than a dozen US cities including Chicago, New York, Miami, Detroit, Reno, Portland (Oregon), ...

The Moscow Times (registration)
Yiwarra Kuju: Australian Aboriginal Art at Moscow's Artplay
The Moscow Times (registration)
Artplay Design Center is hosting an exhibition that is rare for Russia called "Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route." It is an international travelling exhibition presented by the National Museum of Australia that lets senior and emerging Aboriginal ...

National Indigenous Times
[ March 18, 2016 ] Bowel cancer survival rates hit rock bottom HEALTH
National Indigenous Times
“These findings further add to the existing data we have that outlines the large gap in cancer survival outcomes between Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people. When we look at prostate and breast cancer, Aboriginal people have a far greater risk ...

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The Conversation AU
More Indigenous Australians studying at school than ever before: stats
Xinhua
CANBERRA, March 18 (Xinhua) -- More Indigenous Australians are enrolled in schools than ever before, according to a report on Australian schools from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Friday. The report showed that 200,563 students from an ...
Three ways to increase the number of Indigenous academics in Australian universitiesThe Conversation AU

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SA Aboriginal nuclear protest intensifies
NEWS.com.au
We remember the atomic weapons tests at Maralinga and Emu Fields and the ongoing denial around the lost lives and health impacts for Aboriginal people," he said. "We won't become the world's nuclear waste dump." Adnyamathanha woman Enice Marsh ...

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The Conversation AU
Three ways to increase the number of Indigenous academics in Australian universities
The Conversation AU
Too few Indigenous Australians are making it as academics in our universities. This has a significant impact on Indigenous development. While the number of research students from Indigenous backgrounds has increased slightly over the years, from 0.84% ...

The Moscow Times (registration)
Yiwarra Kuju: Australian Aboriginal Art at Moscow's Artplay
The Moscow Times (registration)
Artplay Design Center is hosting an exhibition that is rare for Russia called "Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route." It is an international travelling exhibition presented by the National Museum of Australia that lets senior and emerging Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
10 Years On: Just How Close Are We To Closing The Gap?
Huffington Post Australia
The goal was to eliminate the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians by 2030. The campaign was built on evidence that significant improvements in the health status of ...
Cancer Council NSW says more Indigenous workers needed in light of disparity in health outcomesABC Online
Locking up Indigenous kids costs $236 million a yearSydney Morning Herald
Rise in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth seeking headspace mental health servicesABC Local
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ABC Online
Indigenous prime minister of Australia inevitable, Aboriginal journalist Stan Grant says
ABC Online
Mr Grant, 52, is the International Editor for SkyNews, Managing Editor of NITV and Indigenous Affairs Editor at The Guardian. He hosts a nightly news bulletin on NITV titled The Point with Stan Grant. He was born in Griffith to a Wiradjuri father and ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous prime minister of Australia inevitable, Aboriginal journalist Stan Grant says
ABC Online
Mr Grant, 52, is the International Editor for SkyNews, Managing Editor of NITV and Indigenous Affairs Editor at The Guardian. He hosts a nightly news bulletin on NITV titled The Point with Stan Grant. He was born in Griffith to a Wiradjuri father and ...

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