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Newcastle Herald
Suicide of 10-year-old 'incomprehensible'
Sky News Australia
Labor Senator Nova Peris says it is incomprehensible a girl as young as 10 took her own life. A 10-year-old Aboriginal girl committed suicide on Sunday in the remote community of Looma, near Derby in Western Australia's Kimberley region. 'I can't ...
The road to safety isn't always clear, but children's rights must come firstNewcastle Herald

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Sky News Australia
Suicide of 10-year-old 'incomprehensible'
Sky News Australia
Labor Senator Nova Peris says it is incomprehensible a girl as young as 10 took her own life. A 10-year-old Aboriginal girl committed suicide on Sunday in the remote community of Looma, near Derby in Western Australia's Kimberley region. 'I can't ...

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Junkee
Introducing 'Spear': A Must-See Film About Indigenous Experience In Modern Australia
Junkee
What does it mean to be a young Indigenous person today? As we've seen recently, it often involves calling people out on their ignorance. Not only has Australia had a number of baffling incidents of blackface, they've inevitably been followed up by a ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal Heritage Act changes give traditional owners less say: Indigenous groups
ABC Online
"This is going to help people who want to access lands and destroy heritage, rather than improving the protection of Aboriginal heritage," he said. There are tens of thousands of sacred Indigenous sites across South Australia, from ancient song lines ...
Indigenous Business Partnership Changes LivesNewsMaker (press release)

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ABC Online
Aboriginal Heritage Act changes give traditional owners less say: Indigenous groups
ABC Online
"This is going to help people who want to access lands and destroy heritage, rather than improving the protection of Aboriginal heritage," he said. There are tens of thousands of sacred Indigenous sites across South Australia, from ancient song lines ...
Indigenous Business Partnership Changes LivesNewsMaker (press release)

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Buenos Aires Herald
Australia's Aborigines: 'The most imprisoned people in the world'
Buenos Aires Herald
SYDNEY — An 11-year-old boy charged with murder has come to epitomize Australia's great shame: the plight of its Aboriginal citizens. The boy is one of the youngest people to be charged with murder in Australia. He was part of a gang of seven or eight ...

The Guardian
As an Aboriginal teen I thought about killing myself every day
The Guardian
I just don't want people to think that this problem is separate from them. The Australia where suicide rates of Aboriginal people are rising is separate from the Australia they live in - because it's not. Or that it only applies to certain groups of ...

Daily Liberal
Partnership to deliver better health results for Indigenous Australians
Daily Liberal
A UNIQUE new partnership, established to deliver better health outcomes for Aboriginal people in the western parts of NSW, will be launched on Thursday. The first meeting of the Western NSW Primary Health Network (WNSWPHN) will be held to inform of ...

Daily Liberal
Partnership to deliver better health results for Indigenous Australians
Daily Liberal
Of the 31 Primary Health Networks (PHN) in Australia, Western NSW is the only one that has an Aboriginal Health Council, meaning it is a trailblazer as far as the commitment to Indigenous health is concerned. William 'Smiley' Johnstone has taken on the ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal girl who killed herself suffered 'trauma and harm': minister
The Guardian
The 10-year-old Aboriginal girl who took her own life in Western Australia “had experienced a significant amount of accumulated trauma and harm”, the state's mental health minister, Helen Morton, has said. The girl, who took her own life on Sunday, is ...
WA girl, 10, commits suicideThe Australian Women's Weekly
Children As Young As Ten Are Killing Themselves In Western Australia And The Number Is GrowingBuzzFeed News
A community is in shock following the death by suicide of a 10-year-old girl. Picture: File photoNEWS.com.au
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Dr. David Suzuki reveals seven things Australia could learn from its Indigenous peoples
SBS
5: “Indigenous people celebrate and thank the creator for the world that they live in, that's not the way science does it and the knowledge acquired through that way of living is absolutely essential for the survival of those people, if their knowledge ...

Dr. David Suzuki reveals seven things Australia could learn from its Indigenous peoples
SBS
5: “Indigenous people celebrate and thank the creator for the world that they live in, that's not the way science does it and the knowledge acquired through that way of living is absolutely essential for the survival of those people, if their knowledge ...

ABC Online
Nhulunbuy independent candidate Yingiya Mark Guyula calls for treaty with Indigenous people
ABC Online
Yingiya Mark Guyula will run in the NT seat of Nhulunbuy with the backing of the Yolngu Nations Assembly, a group of Arnhem Land Aboriginal leaders. He said Australian Government ministers needed to hold the same diplomatic talks with Arnhem Land ...

ABC Online
Nhulunbuy independent candidate Yingiya Mark Guyula calls for treaty with Indigenous people
ABC Online
Yingiya Mark Guyula will run in the NT seat of Nhulunbuy with the backing of the Yolngu Nations Assembly, a group of Arnhem Land Aboriginal leaders. He said Australian Government ministers needed to hold the same diplomatic talks with Arnhem Land ...

ABC Online
Sandalwood oil producer Santanol recruits Aboriginal workers in Western Australia's far north
ABC Online
Santanol held two information and recruitment sessions at the Waringarri Aboriginal Corporation in the East Kimberley yesterday. More than 50 people applied for the six labourer and two machine operator jobs starting in Kununurra on Monday. Santanol ...

ABC Online
Sandalwood oil producer Santanol recruits Aboriginal workers in Western Australia's far north
ABC Online
Santanol held two information and recruitment sessions at the Waringarri Aboriginal Corporation in the East Kimberley yesterday. More than 50 people applied for the six labourer and two machine operator jobs starting in Kununurra on Monday. Santanol ...

The Guardian
A 10-year-old girl has taken her own life. How can we possibly look away?
The Guardian
I have spent these last weeks travelling Australia speaking to people about how we – Indigenous people – live with the weight of our history. We are connected directly to the darkness of our past. We are born out of the legacy of dispossession and ...

ABC Online
Tree clearing: Indigenous leader Noel Pearson hits out at changes to Queensland's Native Vegetation Act
ABC Online
Prominent Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has hit out against the tightening of Queensland's tree clearing laws, arguing the changes could hurt Indigenous people trying to break out of poverty. The Palaszczuk Government wants to make it harder ...

New Matilda
Looking Past White Australia And White Feminism
New Matilda
Aboriginal women from the remote Central Australian community of Ampilatwatja performing at a public ceremony in 2010 to protest against the Northern Territory intervention. (IMAGE: Chris Graham, At Large Media).

The Guardian
Ten-year-old Aboriginal girl kills herself in far north Western Australia
The Guardian
A 10-year-old Aboriginal girl has taken her own life in far north Western Australia, the youngest of 19 Indigenous people to kill themselves in remote areas of the state since December. Guardian Australia understands the girl died on Sunday in the ...
WA community in shock after suicide of Aboriginal childThe Australian (subscription) (blog)
Apparent suicide of 10-year-old Indigenous girl shocks remote WA communityABC Online

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