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The Canberra Times
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairs
The Canberra Times
No prime minister came to the job with more exposure to Indigenous Australia, or promised more. Abbott, after all, was the country's first self-proclaimed Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Addressing the country's "national failure" in this area ...
Abbott denies an 'about face' on Indigenous forumsBulletin Leader

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The Canberra Times
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairs
The Canberra Times
No prime minister came to the job with more exposure to Indigenous Australia, or promised more. Abbott, after all, was the country's first self-proclaimed Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Addressing the country's "national failure" in this area ...
Abbott denies an 'about face' on Indigenous forumsBulletin Leader

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The Age
Time running out for the Prime Minister for Indigenous affairs
The Age
No prime minister came to the job with more exposure to Indigenous Australia, or promised more. Abbott, after all, was the country's first self-proclaimed Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Addressing the country's "national failure" in this area ...

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Abbott denies an 'about face' on Indigenous forums
Bulletin Leader
Far North Queensland's Noel Pearson, West Australian Indigenous leader Patrick Dodson, Indigenous lawyer and constitutional expert Megan Davis and National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co- chair Kirstie Parker were all asked to meet with the ...

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CBC.ca
Aboriginal Music Week brings in NZ, Australian acts to mentor locals
CBC.ca
"I find the people out here are incredible passionate about their people," said Walker, an indigenous singer-songwriter who has been nationally recognized in Australia. "It's great to connect with people on the other side of the world that can relate ...

CBC.ca
Aboriginal Music Week brings in NZ, Australian acts to mentor locals
CBC.ca
Australia's Benny Walker and New Zealand's Tama Waipara are in town to mentor the city's indigenous artists for Aboriginal Music Week. "I find the people out here are incredible passionate about their people," said Walker, an indigenous singer ...

The Globe and Mail
Charlie's Country: A remarkable tale of Aboriginal displacement in Australia
The Globe and Mail
At an Australian hospital, a white doctor addresses an Aborigine simply as “Charlie,” as he has trouble pronouncing “foreign names.” And isn't that a joke, and isn't that appalling – the original dispossessed, the indigenous displaced. It gets to the ...

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Swap books to support Indigenous literacy
ArtsHub (subscription)
'The advocacy day is about raising awareness of the need for resources and appropriate resources in remote communities because they are the ones with the lowest literacy rates and the most disadvantaged in Australia today,' said Executive Director ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Researchers work to preserve richness of Indigenous languages
Sydney Morning Herald
Every few weeks, at least one Indigenous language around the world dies, according to a report from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. More languages are reportedly being lost in Australia than in any other ...
Racing to record Indigenous languages under attack from 'onslaught of English'The Guardian

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ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Australian aboriginal communities have world's highest dementia incidence
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Research by The University of Western Australia's Centre for Health and Ageing has confirmed that the incidence of dementia in remote Aboriginal communities is the highest in the world, with head injuries and age the greatest contributing factors.

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Medical Xpress
Aboriginal communities have world's highest dementia incidence
Medical Xpress
Research by The University of Western Australia's Centre for Health and Ageing has confirmed that the incidence of dementia in remote Aboriginal communities is the highest in the world, with head injuries and age the greatest contributing factors.

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ABC Online
Endangered Indigenous languages to be recorded in dictionaries
ABC Online
The Australian National University (ANU) has started forming dictionaries for 10 endangered Indigenous Australian languages, giving undergraduate students the opportunity to take part. ANU Indigenous linguistics chairwoman Jane Simpson told 666 ABC ...
Racing to record Indigenous languages under attack from 'onslaught of English'The Guardian

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The Guardian
Racing to record Indigenous languages under attack from 'onslaught of English'
The Guardian
Professor Jane Simpson from the Australian National University said Australia's Indigenous languages remain “inherently fragile under the onslaught of English and government policies which make it hard to keep [them] going.” A 2014 National Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Prime Minister Tony Abbott facing insider rebellion on referendum to recognise ...
ABC Online
But the simple historical fact that there were peoples here that came upwards to 53,000 years ago ... that's a question of being Indigenous to Australia." West Australian Liberal senator Chris Back said the question of whether to recognise Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...Xinhua
Tony Abbott changes mind, supports Indigenous meetings on recognitionThe Guardian
Tony Abbott will today talk with indigenous leaders on a Constitutional ...Business Insider Australia
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Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Highest dementia in world in remote Aboriginal communities
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Research by The University of Western Australia's Centre for Health and Ageing has confirmed that the incidence of dementia in remote Aboriginal communities is the highest in the world, with head injuries and age the greatest contributing factors.

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Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Highest dementia in world in remote Aboriginal communities
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Research by The University of Western Australia's Centre for Health and Ageing has confirmed that the incidence of dementia in remote Aboriginal communities is the highest in the world, with head injuries and age the greatest contributing factors.

ABC Online
Indigenous leader: 2017 unlikely for constitutional referendum
ABC Online
The Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been meeting in Canberra today with four indigenous representatives including lawyer and constitutional expert Megan Davis; Cape York representative Noel Pearson; National Congress of Australia's First Peoples ...
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...Xinhua
Indigenous leaders to meet with PMThe Australian (blog)
Tony Abbott changes mind, supports Indigenous meetings on recognitionThe Guardian
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ABC Online
Indigenous leader: 2017 unlikely for constitutional referendum
ABC Online
... four indigenous representatives including lawyer and constitutional expert Megan Davis; Cape York representative Noel Pearson; National Congress of Australia's First Peoples co-chair Kirstie Parker and West Australian Indigenous leader Patrick Dodson.
Tony Abbott changes mind, supports Indigenous meetings on recognitionThe Guardian
Indigenous leaders to meet with PMThe Australian (blog)
PM to meet indigenous leadersYahoo7 News
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The Guardian
Tony Abbott changes mind, supports Indigenous meetings on recognition
The Guardian
Pearson, who joined the head of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, Kirstie Parker; Indigenous constitutional lawyer Megan Davis and Broome leader Patrick Dodson, said the foursome fought hard for the outcome. “It's a rumble we had to ...
PM calls meeting to address impasse on referendum ahead of week in remote ...ABC Online
PM to meet indigenous leadersYahoo7 News
Tony Abbott will today talk with indigenous leaders on a Constitutional ...Business Insider Australia

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ABC Online
Prime Minister Tony Abbott facing insider rebellion on referendum to recognise ...
ABC Online
West Australian Liberal senator Chris Back said the question of whether to recognise Aboriginal people in the constitution was "very, very vexed." He said he was concerned the process was not rushed and said he was very keen to hear the debate around ...
Indigenous leaders to meet Tony Abbott over constitutional recognitionThe Guardian
Indigenous leaders to meet with PMThe Australian (blog)
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...Xinhua
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