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Grants Help Improve Indigenous Health
Pro Bono Australia
Of the $7 million distributed through the Partnership Projects scheme, over $5 million was awarded to researchers to investigate ways to improve the health outcomes of Indigenous Australians - described as the largest proportion allocated for this ...
Being encouraged into health careersPort Lincoln Times
GPs win mental health awardAvon Valley Advocate

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Former PM Gough Whitlam has died
The Australian Financial Review
“Gough Whitlam recognised the journey that our country needed to take with indigenous Australians. The image of soil passing from Gough Whitlam's hand to Vincent Lingiari's is a reminder that all Australians share the same land and the same hopes,'' he ...
Former prime minister Gough Whitlam dead at 98Sydney Morning Herald
Gough Whitlam: Tributes flow for hero who shaped AustraliaSBS
PM Abbott pays tribute to 'giant' WhitlamSky News Australia

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Push for separate lessons on indigenous culture
The Australian
As reported by the New Matilda website, Professor Spurr, who has since been suspended by the university, criticises the English curriculum for giving priority to indigenous texts when their impact on literature in Australia “has been minimal” and ...

Push for separate lessons on indigenous culture
The Australian
As reported by the New Matilda website, Professor Spurr, who has since been suspended by the university, criticises the English curriculum for giving priority to indigenous texts when their impact on literature in Australia “has been minimal” and ...

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Push for separate lessons on indigenous culture
The Australian
As reported by the New Matilda website, Professor Spurr, who has since been suspended by the university, criticises the English curriculum for giving priority to indigenous texts when their impact on literature in Australia “has been minimal” and ...
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The racist emails from Abbott's curriculum expertThe New Daily
Bigoted Barry Spurr: Christopher Pyne's racist reviewerIndependent Australia
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Push for separate lessons on indigenous culture
The Australian
As reported by the New Matilda website, Professor Spurr, who has since been suspended by the university, criticises the English curriculum for giving priority to indigenous texts when their impact on literature in Australia “has been minimal” and ...
Bigoted Barry Spurr: Christopher Pyne's racist reviewerIndependent Australia
English review unlikely despite professor's suspensionABC Message Stick
More of Barry Spurr's 'racist' emails emergeDaily Mail
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The Conversation AU
Non-Indigenous Australians have to reconcile their needs
The Conversation AU
Non-Indigenous people currently make up 22.8 million (97%) of Australia's 23.5 million residents. That means any major change to the laws or to national culture must find acceptance with this bloc. Any claim to a national process of Aboriginal ...
Why coal is not good for humanityEureka Street

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The Conversation AU
Non-Indigenous Australians have to reconcile their needs
The Conversation AU
I'm part of a research team that's adapting a successful project in Canada, where – as with Kevin Rudd's apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples – the prime minister, Stephen Harper, said sorry to the survivors of Canada's Indian Residential Schools ...
Why coal is not good for humanityEureka Street

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The Age
Banker Kyle Zandipour charged with murdering indigenous student Joshua ...
The Australian
Mr Hardy, who grew up in Darwin before moving to Melbourne for his final years of high school and university, volunteered as a mentor for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience while studying. Melbourne University and Trinity College said in a ...
McDonald's attack Tell kids you love them: bash victim's dadHerald Sun
'Sensitive and generous' Joshua Hardy was full of promise, say relativesSydney Morning Herald

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CBC.ca
Indigenous perspectives from Winnipeg to Sydney
CBC.ca
I was making comparisons with everything I learned about Australian aboriginal people to my people in Canada. I was in Australia on a journalism exchange made possible by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. I spent two weeks working with ...

New Matilda
Black Leaders Condemn Barry Spurr's Assault On Aboriginal People And Culture
New Matilda
He refers to award-winning Aboriginal musician Gurrumul Yunupingu as “well known Aboriginal singer, Wingabanga Gumberumbul”. He also takes aim at “bogans” “fatsoes”, “Mussies” and “Chinky-Poos”, and laments the reality that Australia is less white ...

Making a difference in indigenous education
The Australian (blog)
In other words, not only are indigenous students in remote Northern Territory communities years behind non-indigenous students, they are also years behind indigenous students in other remote parts of Australia. And in very remote parts of the Territory ...

Phys.Org
Australian rock art is threatened by a lack of conservation (w/ Video)
Phys.Org
But now, impending changes to the Aboriginal Heritage Act by the Western Australian government means Aboriginal heritage will be worse off than ever before. This is because one person, possibly without relevant expertise, will be given the power to say ...

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The Conversation AU
Australian rock art is threatened by a lack of conservation
The Conversation AU
Australian rock art is extremely significant for Indigenous peoples of Australia, with its preservation important for Indigenous well-being. But it also should be a part of Australian national identity and World Heritage pride. The earliest Australian ...

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The Conversation AU
Australian rock art is threatened by a lack of conservation
The Conversation AU
Australian rock art is extremely significant for Indigenous peoples of Australia, with its preservation important for Indigenous well-being. But it also should be a part of Australian national identity and World Heritage pride. The earliest Australian ...

The Guardian
Australia's defining moments: a great conversation-starter for our entire nation
The Guardian
Abbott's timing coincided with his government's faltering resolve to prosecute the case this parliamentary term to incorporate Indigenous Australians into the Constitution, and with a national curriculum review that would restore weight to the legacy ...

Programs closes the gap on indigenous breast cancer screening
The Australian
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer experienced by indigenous women yet their participation in BreastScreen Australia remains lower (37 per cent in 2011-12) than the general population (55 per cent) and the national participation target of ...

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Programs closes the gap on indigenous breast cancer screening
The Australian
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer experienced by indigenous women yet their participation in BreastScreen Australia remains lower (37 per cent in 2011-12) than the general population (55 per cent) and the national participation target of ...

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Programs closes the gap on indigenous breast cancer screening
The Australian
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer experienced by indigenous women yet their participation in BreastScreen Australia remains lower (37 per cent in 2011-12) than the general population (55 per cent) and the national participation target of ...

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Indigenous enrolments on the rise at CSU amongst the highest in Australia
Central Western Daily
Head of campus Heather Robinson said the university had always been dedicated to reaching parity with the 2.5 per cent of Indigenous people who make up the Australian population. “The number of indigenous students have steadily increased over the past ...

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