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South Australia's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team forms
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MARK COLVIN: A group of women in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia's APY Lands have formed the state's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team. For cultural reasons women in Mimili can't join the Country Fire Service unit in the town.

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South Australia's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team forms
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MARK COLVIN: A group of women in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia's APY Lands have formed the state's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team. For cultural reasons women in Mimili can't join the Country Fire Service unit in the town.

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South Australia's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team forms
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MARK COLVIN: A group of women in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia's APY Lands have formed the state's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team. For cultural reasons women in Mimili can't join the Country Fire Service unit in the town.

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Mimili CFS brigade forms South Australia's first Indigenous female ...
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A group of women in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia's APY Lands have formed the state's first Indigenous female firefighting team. For cultural reasons women in Mimili cannot work with the men in the Country Fire Service (CFS) brigade ...

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Mimili CFS brigade forms South Australia's first Indigenous female ...
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A group of women in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia's APY Lands have formed the state's first Indigenous female firefighting team. For cultural reasons women in Mimili cannot work with the men in the Country Fire Service (CFS) brigade ...

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Hidden in plain sight: Indigenous Australian rock art on Sydney's doorstep
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he asks as we walk down an empty track in the Ku-ring-gai Chase national park, home to around 1,500 pieces of Aboriginal rock art. It's the largest concentration of Indigenous sites in Australia, eclipsing Kakadu which has around 5,000 sites but over a ...

The Guardian
Bill Shorten: without more Indigenous Labor MPs, we can't be true to our values
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It is also despite my firm belief that the Australian Labor party is more in tune with Aboriginal Australia and more deserving of Aboriginal votes than ever before. We have a proud legacy from the former Labor government and have since led the debate ...

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Bill Shorten: without more Indigenous Labor MPs, we can't be true to our ...
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Fewer than half the 16 Indigenous MPs in Australian parliaments are Labor members. We need affirmative action targets to increase this number by 2025. NSW deputy opposition leader Linda Burney addresses members at the launch of the State Labor ...

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Warwick Thornton on his images of Indigenous children in 'fast-food suicide vests'
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Politicians and policy-makers have begun to acknowledge the impact of this loss of heritage and culture on the lives of the first Australians, but Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders continue to bear a disproportionate burden of disease and ...
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Warwick Thornton on his images of Indigenous children in 'fast-food suicide vests'
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Thornton told Guardian Australia that as he was putting the exhibition together, it occurred to him that at 45, he was fast approaching his life expectancy. Indigenous Australian men have an average lifespan of 69.1 years, which is 10.6 years less than ...
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...The Guardian (blog)
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Daily Mail
Were Aborigines the first AMERICANS? Native tribes in the Amazon found to be ...
Daily Mail
They found the Tupí-speaking Suruí people who first came into contact with the modern world in 1969, the Karitiana tribe, who live in western Amazon, and the Ge-speaking Xavante people in Eastern Brazil, all had genetic links to indigenous Australians.

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Ancient DNA link connects Australians, South Americans
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The skull, that of a young woman dubbed “Luzia”, yielded a radiocarbon age of 10,030 years. Its narrow, oval cranium with a projecting face and lower chin, resembled the skulls of modern Australoid peoples like Australia's Aborigines, Melanesians, and ...

The Guardian
Sussan Ley: we have not done enough to curb Indigenous suicide rate
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians have a suicide rate almost double that of non-Indigenous people. Many do not or cannot seek help from primary care providers and are therefore hospitalised or institutionalised at a much higher rate than non-Indigenous people.

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The Australian curriculum offers hope for the future of Indigenous communities
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The three areas – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, and sustainability – will provide opportunities for all students to gain personal and social benefits in addition to becoming ...
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...The Guardian (blog)
Patients fearful ahead of possible closure of western Sydney Aboriginal ...ABC Online
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The Australian curriculum offers hope for the future of Indigenous communities
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The three areas – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, and sustainability – will provide opportunities for all students to gain personal and social benefits in addition to becoming ...
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...The Guardian (blog)
'Different laws' for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people: social justice ...ABC Online
Coca Cola is more of a threat than terrorism, says Warwick ThorntonSydney Morning Herald
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Inside Australia's most dangerous prison yard 'The Circle' at Goulburn prison
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Like all the yards on the Circle, which holds the greatest concentration of Australia's most depraved criminals crammed together in wedge-shaped pens smaller than zoo enclosures, 2 Yard was full of rapists and murderers. Also called 'the human zoo ...

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'Different laws' for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people: social justice ...
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There is a huge disparity between the way Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are sentenced by Australia's justice system, according to the man charged with advocating for the rights of Indigenous people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social ...
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'Different laws' for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people: social justice ...
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There is a huge disparity between the way Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are sentenced by Australia's justice system, according to the man charged with advocating for the rights of Indigenous people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Amazonians' ancient links to Indigenous Australians - Sydney Morning Herald
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Distant DNA links have been discovered between Aboriginal Australians and tribes living deep within the Amazon rainforest. Researchers in the US and Denmark have established that people sharing DNA links with Aboriginal people crossed the Bering land ...

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Amazonians' ancient links to Indigenous Australians - Sydney Morning Herald
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Distant DNA links have been discovered between Aboriginal Australians and tribes living deep within the Amazon rainforest. Researchers in the US and Denmark have established that people sharing DNA links with Aboriginal people crossed the Bering land ...
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