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The Health Wrap: Workplace mental health, an Indigenous health mix-bag, and ...
Crikey (blog)
The report also says Aboriginal Community Control Health Organisations are the largest private employer industry of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within Australia, and provides 2.5 million episodes of care to an estimated 342,000 ...

WA Grandmother Helen Humes proof West Australians can become homeowners
The Australian
Assistance from Indigenous Business Australia and the Department of Housing's Housing Pathways unit helped Ms Humes buy a three-bedroom Koondoola home at the end of last year at age 56. “I had to really convince myself that I could do it, that I wasn't ...

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WA Grandmother Helen Humes proof West Australians can become homeowners
The Australian
Assistance from Indigenous Business Australia and the Department of Housing's Housing Pathways unit helped Ms Humes buy a three-bedroom Koondoola home at the end of last year at age 56. “I had to really convince myself that I could do it, that I wasn't ...

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WA Grandmother Helen Humes proof West Australians can become homeowners
Perth Now
She was a single woman with an infant. And she was indigenous. “I really felt it was a kind of privilege to be given a home, but I knew then that here I was, a young Aboriginal woman with a child, a single mum, all the stigma and negative stereotypes ...

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WA Grandmother Helen Humes proof West Australians can become homeowners
Perth Now
She was a single woman with an infant. And she was indigenous. “I really felt it was a kind of privilege to be given a home, but I knew then that here I was, a young Aboriginal woman with a child, a single mum, all the stigma and negative stereotypes ...

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The Crux of the issue with a new Australian flag
The Conversation
In coming years Australians will participate in a referendum to change the Australian Constitution so that it formally acknowledges Indigenous peoples pre-occupation of the Australian continent. The fact the current Australian flag only references a ...

The Crux of the issue with a new Australian flag
The Conversation
The Union Jack is viewed by many Aboriginal and Torres Stait Islander people as a symbol of invasion, whereas a national flag should aim to represent unity. To feature the flag of another country on the Australian national symbol in 2014 to me seems ...

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Whaling Contradictions: Japan, Australia and the International Court of Justice
International Policy Digest
Whaling countries, for that reason, have tiptoed around the commercial restrictions by embracing scientific and aboriginal subsistence arguments. Japan's own response seemed cunning enough, legitimising the faulty scientific premise by creating the ...
Japan's yen for whales blownJamaica Observer

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History textbooks in crosshairs of Australia's curriculum wars
Alaska Dispatch
For Australians, the question is which nation they are studying: a territory invaded in 1788 by white colonialists who clashed violently with indigenous Aborigines or a land that was settled peacefully and where conflict with the inhabitants wasn't the ...

Indigenous Fashion Weekshowcases sexy swimwear
Same Same
It doesn't just look eye-catching – Shaun Edwards' new collection of men's swimwear is a ground-breaking feature at Australia's first Indigenous Fashion Week. Launching this week in Sydney, the Wildbarra collection is designed by Edwards, who his ...

Daily Star
Royals touch down in Sydney...briefly
Illawarra Mercury
The family will spend nine days in New Zealand, before arriving in Sydney on April 16 for a 10-day Australian tour. Encompassing nods to local and indigenous culture, sports, the military and charity support, the tour of 12 cities will include dozens ...
Prince William, Kate and baby George land in SydneySydney Morning Herald
Red, white and blue: Kate striking in scarlet as royals touch downThe Australian
Royal Down Under romance! Kate and William to try for baby number two on ...Daily Star

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Culturally Targeted Drug and Alcohol Training
Pro Bono Australia
A new qualification offering culturally relevant alcohol and other drug training has been opened to Aboriginal workers. The Western Australian Drug and Alcohol Office has expanded its Certificate III in Community Services Work, Aboriginal Alcohol and ...

SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Melton Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Wyndham Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Monash Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Monash Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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Social media hurting indigenous Australians
Cowra Community News
Social media hurting indigenous Australians. MALICIOUS gossip and bullying through social media is fuelling violence within Australia's indigenous communities, a social welfare advocate says. Elka Smirl, who heads an action group dealing with ...

Racism on the rise in Australia: migrants report cultural shift
Illawarra Mercury
The government has sought to water down the act after conservative commentator Andrew Bolt was found to have broken the law in an article about ''fair-skinned Aboriginals''. When Attorney-General George Brandis defended the proposed changes by ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Small-town legends
Sydney Morning Herald
In his script, Australia had become a republic and elected an Aboriginal president (this was one year before Barack Obama became President of the United States). ''Odin's grandfather was telling him the story of his family, it was from the future ...

Once again, Australia is stealing Its indigenous children
The Ecologist
Australia is still stealing Aboriginal children from their families, reports John Pilger. The 'lost generation' policies were meant to have ended in 1969, but a new wave of child thefts is under way - 2013 figures show that 13,914 Aboriginal children ...