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The Australian
Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
The Australian
As so often in the deep Australian past, landscape and man combine with unexpected consequences. Aboriginal Australians were almost certainly the first people in world history to discover the charms of nicotine, the only plant-based narcotic or ...

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The Australian
Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
The Australian
A plant of daydreams, if not of dreams, of relaxation, of reflection and inwardness, a gift of the desert's hills and sand dunes — a plant that grows far from the settled haunts of man yet helped shape Australia's first human landscape. Half-forgotten ...

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The Australian
Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
The Australian
As so often in the deep Australian past, landscape and man combine with unexpected consequences. Aboriginal Australians were almost certainly the first people in world history to discover the charms of nicotine, the only plant-based narcotic or ...

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Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
The Australian
As so often in the deep Australian past, landscape and man combine with unexpected consequences. Aboriginal Australians were almost certainly the first people in world history to discover the charms of nicotine, the only plant-based narcotic or ...

ABC Online
'Powerful' Noongar letters offer glimpse into Aboriginal history
ABC Online
Curtin University researchers are set to collate letters from state archives and correspondence held by families across Western Australia, dating from the 1860s to the 1960s. Working alongside Noongar advisers, they plan to present the letters together ...

Independent Australia
Racism targets Indigenous people more than any other group
Independent Australia
A report released on last month by the UNSW paints a bleak picture of justice for Indigenous Australians, particularly those with mental health disabilities. The administration of "justice" has failed my people says Natalie Cromb, IA's Indigenous ...

ABC Online
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...
ABC Online
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia will display 151 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts, most of which have not returned to Australia since they were taken by the British in early interactions. The centrepiece of the ...

ABC Online
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...
ABC Online
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia will display 151 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts, most of which have not returned to Australia since they were taken by the British in early interactions. The centrepiece of the ...

SBS
Aboriginal artefacts taken by Captain Cook to feature at national museum
SBS
Dozens of rare Aboriginal artefacts from the first British expedition to Australia will go on display at the National Museum of Australia from Friday. Among them, a shield and two fishing spears, collected on Captain James Cook's 1770 expedition to ...
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...ABC Online
Captured by Cook: artefacts travel from Botany to UK and backThe Australian
National Museum of Australia in Canberra launches Encounters exhibitionThe Canberra Times

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The Guardian
War Memorial ceremony recognises Indigenous soldiers who died in first world war
The Guardian
The army has recognised Indigenous soldiers who died during World War I in a ceremony at the Australian War Memorial. But because their ethnicity wasn't listed in recruitment records, it is not known who they were or how many. “Today we pay our ...

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Indigenous Australians at higher risk of death from diabetes, heart and kidney ...
International Business Times AU
Aboriginal elder Major Sumner performs a ritual dance outside Liverpool's World Museum following the return of an Australian indigenous human skull in Liverpool, northern England, May 13, 2009. The remains which were taken from Australia between 1902 ...

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Perth Now
More Aboriginal police could cut crime
Perth Now
JobTrainWA chief executive Selina Maguire said having more Aboriginal officers in the state's police force would result in fewer indigenous people ending up in the prison system. Ms Maguire said more needed to be done within the Aboriginal community to ...
Push for more indigenous WA policeSBS

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SBS
Aboriginal artefacts taken by Captain Cook to feature at national gallery
SBS
Dozens of rare Aboriginal artefacts from the first British expedition to Australia will go on display at the National Museum of Australia from Friday. Among them, a shield and two fishing spears, collected on Captain James Cook's 1770 expedition to ...
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...ABC Online
Captured by Cook: artefacts travel from Botany to UK and backThe Australian
National Museum of Australia in Canberra launches Encounters exhibitionThe Canberra Times

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Indigenous Australians more likely to suffer from diseases
International Business Times AU
Aboriginal elder Major Sumner performs a ritual dance outside Liverpool's World Museum following the return of an Australian indigenous human skull in Liverpool, northern England, May 13, 2009. The remains which were taken from Australia between 1902 ...

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Perth Now
Lawyers, advocates push for government plan to address soaring Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Lawyers, judges and Indigenous leaders are in Sydney today talking about Aboriginal Australians behind bars. The Law Council of Australia said Aboriginal families and communities are being torn apart because so many Indigenous mothers are incarcerated ...
Dhu inquest: No racism at WA hospital:Perth Now
No racism at WA hospital, inquest told9news.com.au
When unpaid fines mean paying with your life, the system is brokenNEWS.com.au
Junkee -Daily Life -WA today
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ABC Online
Lawyers, advocates push for government plan to address soaring Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Lawyers, judges and Indigenous leaders are in Sydney today talking about Aboriginal Australians behind bars. The Law Council of Australia said Aboriginal families and communities are being torn apart because so many Indigenous mothers are incarcerated ...
No racism at WA hospital, inquest told9news.com.au
When unpaid fines mean paying with your life, the system is brokenNEWS.com.au
Ms Dhu's family calls for end to jail for fines as death in custody inquest beginsThe Guardian
The Australian -Independent Australia -WA today
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ABC Online
South Australian Chief Justice calls for Federal Government to back Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The Chief Justice of the South Australian Supreme Court has voiced support for adopting a "justice target" to help drive down the number of Indigenous Australians behind bars. Chief Justice Chris Kourakis believes the measure could help reduce the ...
Indigenous Australians suffer 'health and justice crisis', doctors' group warnsThe Guardian
Doctors call for target to close gap on indigenous incarceration ratesSydney Morning Herald
Calls to 'close the gap' on prison ratesSBS

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The Australian
Prince Charles helps fund indigenous scholarships for museums
The Australian
Announced by the National Museum of Australia, the scholarships will allow young cultural researchers from rural and remote indigenous communities to take part in study programs at the Prince's School of Traditional Arts and the British Museum in London.

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The Australian
Prince Charles helps fund indigenous scholarships for museums
The Australian
Announced by the National Museum of Australia, the scholarships will allow young cultural researchers from rural and remote indigenous communities to take part in study programs at the Prince's School of Traditional Arts and the British Museum in London.

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ABC Online
West Australian study links Indigenous language to obesity risk
ABC Online
We were thinking that if we could actually get more policies aimed at providing Indigenous Australians with a greater understanding of their culture, perhaps teaching them about the Indigenous diet and those type of things, that would also- that may be ...
Doctors call for target to close gap on indigenous incarceration ratesSydney Morning Herald
Calls to 'close the gap' on prison rates9news.com.au
Indigenous Australians suffer 'health and justice crisis', doctors' group warnsThe Guardian

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