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New focus for Indigenous suicide prevention
ABC Online
ANNA VIDOT: The disturbingly high rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is bad enough, but according to psychologist and professor, Pat Dudgeon, from the University of Western Australia's School of Indigenous Studies, the ...

New focus for Indigenous suicide prevention
ABC Online
ANNA VIDOT: The disturbingly high rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is bad enough, but according to psychologist and professor, Pat Dudgeon, from the University of Western Australia's School of Indigenous Studies, the ...
Concern over suicide rates in indigenous AustraliansRadio Australia
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...ABC Message Stick

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Employing Indigenous Australians
WA today
You can enhance your business with the different perspectives, experience and knowledge of Indigenous employees. They can contribute to the development of cross-cultural awareness in your workplace, which is vital in communicating with suppliers and ...

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Employing Indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
... workplace open to diversity when you consider that: 56% of Indigenous Australians are under 25 years old, compared with about 33% in the rest of the population. the Indigenous population in Australia is growing faster than the non-Indigenous ...

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Photo exhibition remembers 2000 Aboriginal Reconcilation Walk
The Daily Telegraph
Around About 250,000 people turned out for the walk – the largest political demonstration held in Australian history – marking a milestone in the process of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. “The walk exceeded all ...

Radio Australia
Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
Radio Australia
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.
Tasmania wecoming back Aboriginal remains after traders scattered them ...Australian Times

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Radio Australia
Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
Radio Australia
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.

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Aboriginal heritage takes a contemporary twist in Western Australia
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The Western Australian Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Hon Peter Collier, has released the Aboriginal Heritage Amendment Bill 2014 (WA) (the Bill). The Bill proposes a number of amendments to the current Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA) (Act) and the ...

Australian Times
Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
ABC Online
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.
Tasmania wecoming back Aboriginal remains after traders scattered them ...Australian Times

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Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
ABC Online
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.

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Concern over suicide rates in indigenous Australians
Radio Australia
Mental health researchers say the rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is twice what it is for the rest of the Australian population. And they say culturally appropriate programs that connect people to land and culture, must be ...

Artistic fusion of mining, pastoralism and Indigenous culture
ABC Online
Open pit mines aren't exactly known for getting the creative juices flowing, but it's where a bunch of Australian artists chose to work on a collaborative project. Back in 2007, six very different artists from across Australia trekked out to the Tanami ...

Westerner
Indigenous in defence of Australia
Westerner
The courage of indigenous Australians who have served in the military will be honoured at Mt Samson next weekend. “Serving Country: Centenary and Beyond” is the theme of a NAIDOC Week event being hosted by the Kupidabin Cultural Association on 6 ...

Westerner
Indigenous in defence of Australia
Westerner
The courage of indigenous Australians who have served in the military will be honoured at Mt Samson next weekend. “Serving Country: Centenary and Beyond” is the theme of a NAIDOC Week event being hosted by the Kupidabin Cultural Association on 6 ...

The Guardian
COAG reform council chair also warns proposed GP co-payment could lead to ...
The Guardian
The outgoing chair of the Council of Australian Governments reform council has warned of the loss of an independent voice on Indigenous health and education when the prime minister's office takes on the task of reporting outcomes from the Closing the ...
Cost already a barrier for one in eight indigenous seeing a GP, COAG Reform ...Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous groups wary of health data after COAG council cutSBS

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Central Australian Women's Legal Service slams Facebook post of naked ...
Yahoo!7 News
The Central Australian Women's Legal Service says people who posted a picture on Facebook of a naked Indigenous woman acted in a callous and disturbing way. The page shows a photo of the naked woman picking up her clothing at an Alice Springs ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Closing the gap in Indigenous health: how will we know?
Crikey (blog)
Two important reports on Indigenous health were released today amid continuing fears about the future of independent reporting and accountability on health and welfare in Australia in the wake of the axing and merger of key Federal Government agencies.
Cost already a barrier for one in eight indigenous seeing a GP, COAG Reform ...Sydney Morning Herald

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The Nation
Islam in Australia
The Nation
Few Australians are aware that the country's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had regular contact with foreign Muslims long before the arrival of Christian colonisers. And Islam continues to exercise an appeal for some Aboriginal peoples ...

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Intellectually impaired Aboriginal woman Rosie Fulton to be freed after 21 ...
ABC Online
A mentally impaired Aboriginal woman who has been held in jail without trial or conviction for 21 months will be released next week to be closer to her family. Rosie Fulton, 24, will be transferred from Kalgoorlie Prison in Western Australia to Alice ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Cost already a barrier for one in eight indigenous seeing a GP, COAG Reform ...
Sydney Morning Herald
“We report independently on the progress of all nine of Australia's governments — the Commonwealth, the States and the Territories — in closing the gap,” he says in a speech to be delivered to an indigenous health summit on Thursday. “Who will do ...

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