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The Conversation AU
FactCheck Q&A: are Indigenous youth suicide rates in the top of Australia the ...
The Conversation AU
In 2008–2012, the suicide rate for Indigenous Australians was almost twice the rate for non-Indigenous Australians (based on age-standardised rates). For 15–19 year olds, the rate was five times as high as the non-Indigenous rate (34 and 7 per 100,000 ...

New Matilda
Basic Income A No-Brainer For Remote Indigenous Australia
New Matilda
This week is the 8th International Basic Income Week. It made me contemplate yet again Basic Income as an alternative worthy of serious contemplation as the employment situation in remote Indigenous Australia teeters towards disaster. Even the ...

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New Matilda
The 'Right To Development' On Indigenous Lands
New Matilda
In the recently released White Paper on Developing Northern Australia, it is noted that many Indigenous Australians say that native title rights do not provide a basis for active participation in the economy. Indigenous Australians sometimes talk about ...

New Matilda
Basic Income A No-Brainer For Remote Indigenous Australia
New Matilda
This week is the 8th International Basic Income Week. It made me contemplate yet again Basic Income as an alternative worthy of serious contemplation as the employment situation in remote Indigenous Australia teeters towards disaster. Even the ...

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New Matilda
The 'Right To Development' On Indigenous Lands
New Matilda
In the recently released White Paper on Developing Northern Australia, it is noted that many Indigenous Australians say that native title rights do not provide a basis for active participation in the economy. Indigenous Australians sometimes talk about ...

ABC Online
Indigenous art sector wrestles with downturn: 'Perfect storm' blamed for ...
ABC Online
Australia's Indigenous art sector is grappling with a rapid and ruthless period of decline that has resulted in an oversupply of works and little incentive for investors. Sales in the Aboriginal arts sector peaked in 2007, reaching $26 million. But the ...

ABC Online
Indigenous art sector wrestles with downturn: 'Perfect storm' blamed for ...
ABC Online
Australia's Indigenous art sector is grappling with a rapid and ruthless period of decline that has resulted in an oversupply of works and little incentive for investors. Sales in the Aboriginal arts sector peaked in 2007, reaching $26 million. But the ...

The Canberra Times
Coronary heart disease, lung cancer and other conditions that send Australians ...
The Canberra Times
For Indigenous Australians, 80 per cent of all deaths were premature in 2008–2012. The Indigenous mortality rate was higher for both males and females, across every age group. Heart Foundation ACT chief executive Tony Stubbs said the ACT government's ...

Yahoo! Maktoob News
Australian Aboriginal girls visit Emirati designer's workshop
Yahoo! Maktoob News
A group of young Australian girls from indigenous Aboriginal communities got a first-hand look at the world of Emirati fashion design on Thursday with a visit to the workshop of Emirati designer Latifa Al Gurg. The visit was part of the nine-day ...

ABC Online
Kimberley Girl empowers young Aboriginal women in Western Australia
ABC Online
Despite the usual catwalks and high fashion, Kimberley Girl is far more than the average beauty pageant. The event began in 2004 as a leadership program that uses fashion as a hook to attract Aboriginal teenagers and young women aged from 16-25.

gulfnews.com
Aboriginal Australians visit UAE fashionistas
gulfnews.com
Dubai: A group of 10 Aboriginal Australian girls are visiting Dubai on a cultural nine-day to trip to meet some of the UAE's inspiring female talent in the fields of art and fashion. The group of girls, who flew out from their West Australian ...
Australian Aboriginal girls visit Emirati designer's workshopKhaleej Times
Aborigines visit UAE fashionistasYahoo! Maktoob News

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Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' policy
Green Left Weekly
In Sydney, the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy won its demand for affordable housing. In Western Australia Aboriginal activists led the fight and won a partial victory to save pristine Walmadan/James Price Point in the Kimberley region from a $45 ...

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The Guardian
Fears cashless welfare card could discriminate against Indigenous people
The Guardian
New data obtained by the National Welfare Rights Network (NWRN) shows that in one of the trial sites, Ceduna in South Australia, although Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people account for 30% of the population, they would make up 72% of people ...
Violence in Indigenous communities is distressing, but we must talk about itABC Online

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The Guardian
Fears cashless welfare card could discriminate against Indigenous people
The Guardian
New data obtained by the National Welfare Rights Network (NWRN) shows that in one of the trial sites, Ceduna in South Australia, although Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people account for 30% of the population, they would make up 72% of people ...
Violence in Indigenous communities is distressing, but we must talk about itABC Online

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Khaleej Times
Australian Aboriginal girls visit Emirati designer's workshop
Khaleej Times
NA081015-SK-FASHION Latifa Al Gurg, Twisted Roots founder, Emirati Fashion designer demonstrating designed clothes to the girls who comes from Australia at Dubai on Thursday. 08 October,2015. (Picture to go with Bernie's story). Photo by Shihab
Aborigines visit UAE fashionistasgulfnews.com

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Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Keating calls for blending of black and white Australia to create new ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"We had seized the land so violently and dispossessed its inhabitants so shamelessly – that our only way back – back to being at one and at pe ace with ourselves, was to identify more with Aboriginal Australia, while atoning for our opportunist and ...
Keating to launch Aboriginal art festivalSBS
Indigenous artists gather to exhibit contemporary worksABC Online
BHP Billiton proudly supports TARNANTHIYour Oil and Gas News (press release)

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Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Keating calls for blending of black and white Australia to create new ...
Sydney Morning Herald
​Australians will only be at peace with themselves when they identify more with Indigenous Australians, according to former prime minister Paul Keating. Genuine reconciliation also requires blending "two very different cultures" to create a composite ...
Indigenous artists gather to exhibit contemporary worksABC Online
BHP Billiton proudly supports TARNANTHIYour Oil and Gas News (press release)

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The Guardian
Why has an Indigenous artist won best world music in his own country?
The Guardian
On Wednesday the Indigenous Australian musician Gurrumul took to a Sydney stage and received his Australian Record Industry Association award for best world music album. Gurrumul hails from Arnhem Land, in the northern part of Australia and sings in ...

ABC Message Stick
Broome's big buddas put the muscle on Indigenous obesity
ABC Message Stick
While obesity in Australia is at record levels, the 2012-13 Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey found Indigenous Australians were at an even greater risk, coming in at 1.5 times as likely as non-Indigenous people to be obese.

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ABC Message Stick
Broome's big buddas put the muscle on Indigenous obesity
ABC Message Stick
While obesity in Australia is at record levels, the 2012-13 Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey found Indigenous Australians were at an even greater risk, coming in at 1.5 times as likely as non-Indigenous people to be obese.

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