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Aboriginal artist shares conservation stories in Hong Kong
Radio Australia
Billy Doolan feels at ease in Hong Kong. The connection runs deep through his bloodlines. Billy's maternal great-great-grandfather was Chinese and came to Australia during the gold rush in the late nineteenth century. Interestingly some of his ...

GP co-payment to hit indigenous population hard
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians have vastly poorer health than average, and there is still a life expectancy gap of about 11 years between indigenous and non-indigenous men in Australia, according to the latest Closing the Gap report. Donna Ah Chee, CEO of the ...

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GP co-payment to hit indigenous population hard
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians have vastly poorer health than average, and there is still a life expectancy gap of about 11 years between indigenous and non-indigenous men in Australia, according to the latest Closing the Gap report. Donna Ah Chee, CEO of the ...

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 87 events ...
Sydney Indymedia
personal pain and ongoing damage caused by our nation's failure to respect Aboriginal and. Torres Strait Islander people as equals." ANTaR. Event details: http://www.nsdc.org.au. Event details: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/events/national-sorry-day

The Guardian
Five questions to Megan Davis: on Aboriginal self-determination
The Guardian
My family is Aboriginal, South Pacific Islander and Australian. Part of my family came to Australia via the practice of "blackbirding" –that is, the kidnapping and enslaving of South Pacific Islanders to work on plantations, especially in Queensland ...
remote 'can ill afford co-payment'The Australian
REGIONAL PORTS: Gladstone funds boost in indigenous educationLloyd's List Daily Commercial News

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Wall Street Journal
Skeleton mystery's Aussie link
NEWS.com.au
Picture: Paul Nicklen Source: AFP. A SKELETON of a teenager more than 12,000 years old with a facial structure resembling that of an indigenous Australian is offering new clues about the origins of the first Native Americans. Named “Naia” by scientists ...
Ancient Skeleton May Settle Debate on First AmericansNewser
Prehistoric girl's bones in underwater cave links ancient, modern Native AmericansMontreal Gazette
Where did Native Americans come from? 'Naya' skeleton paints detailed picture.Alaska Dispatch
Ars Technica
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The Guardian
Cash for jails: Tony Abbott's budget for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
Aboriginal Australia anticipated a tidal wave of cuts, but seeing more than half a billion dollars ripped out from under a people who have been chronically underfunded for decades still sent shockwaves through our communities (although budget analysis ...

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Cash for jails: Tony Abbott's budget for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
Since the end of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, Indigenous incarceration rates have jumped in every state and territory: 90% in the NT, 53% in NSW, and 50% in Western Australia. On Tuesday night, the scared eyes of that small ...

Australia-Taiwan Indigenous Music Exchange starts
China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Australian Office Taipei (澳洲辦事處) and the Council of Indigenous Peoples (原民會) yesterday launched the Australia-Taiwan Indigenous Music Exchange, a series of performances co-organized by the Lovely Taiwan Foundation (台灣 ...

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cuts 'could have reached 10pc'
The Australian
But the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples argued Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people would suffer disproportionately. “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander measures in the budget are already causing considerable anxiety among our ...

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remote 'can ill afford co-payment'
The Australian
The body that oversees Australia's not-for-profit Aboriginal health organisations yesterday said it believed Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders should be exempt from the co-payments “to prevent any backward steps in Aboriginal health”. The National ...
Five questions to Megan Davis: on Aboriginal self-determinationThe Guardian
REGIONAL PORTS: Gladstone funds boost in indigenous educationLloyd's List Daily Commercial News

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remote 'can ill afford co-payment'
The Australian
The body that oversees Australia's not-for-profit Aboriginal health organisations yesterday said it believed Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders should be exempt from the co-payments “to prevent any backward steps in Aboriginal health”. The National ...

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Aboriginal councillor Dominic Wy Kanak wants the First Fleet settlement in ...
The Daily Telegraph
The report to the council states the plan will help “gain recognition and official endorsement by Reconciliation Australia” of its work with our indigenous people. Reconciliation Australia chief executive Leah Armstrong applauded the council's efforts ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Mokuy review – an Indigenous journey with beauty and tenderness
The Guardian (blog)
As one of the most colonised Aboriginal peoples in northern Australia, Larrakia art and culture is usually sidelined in preference for the more “traditional” work of their Top End neighbours. This Garrmalang turnaround is due in no small part to the ...

Rethinking indigenous Australia's agricultural past
ABC Online
Historians, indigenous writers and academics are rethinking Australia's perception of indigenous land management, arguing the first Australians had complex systems of agriculture that went far beyond the the hunter gatherer tag. "I came across repeated ...

Rethinking indigenous Australia's agricultural past
ABC Online
Historians, indigenous writers and academics are rethinking Australia's perception of indigenous land management, arguing the first Australians had complex systems of agriculture that went far beyond the the hunter gatherer tag. "I came across repeated ...

Indigenous schooling in NT a 'human tragedy'
ABC Online
The state of Indigenous schooling in the Northern Territory has been described as a 'human tragedy'. A report into Indigenous education in the Top End has found the system is failing students and things are only getting worse. Caroline Winter. Source ...

REGIONAL PORTS: Gladstone funds boost in indigenous education
Lloyd's List Daily Commercial News
Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) has set a goal of ensuring a long-term employment rate of 5% of employees are of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander or Australian South Sea Islander heritage. Currently around 2.6% of its workforce identifies as ...

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UPI.com
Aboriginal art, 60000 years old, vandalized in Australia
UPI.com
DAMPIER, Australia, May 14 (UPI) --Aboriginal art carved into rocks 60,000 years ago in Australia has been vandalized, officials said Wednesday. The rock art on the Burrop Peninsula of Western Australia, now a national heritage-listed part of Murujunga ...

Budget 2014: fuel excise, cuts to Indigenous programs will hurt regional WA ...
ABC Online
The increase in the fuel excise levy and deep cuts to Indigenous funding announced in last night's federal budget will hit regional Western Australia hard, interest groups say. The Federal Government said parts of the budget would be tough on regional ...