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Outcomes much poorer for Indigenous Australians with cancer
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The University of Western Australia's School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care is investigating different models of cancer treatment and how they could be used to boost Indigenous survival rates. Preliminary research indicates Aboriginal ...

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Fred Chaney, Senior Australian of the Year nominee
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While he says Australia has come a long way since the 1950s, he says Indigenous incarceration rates are still at catastrophic levels and he says it's the number one barrier to reconciliation in his home state of WA. "If there's a single barrier to ...

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What changes to teaching of Indigenous history?
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"There are two aspects to Australia's history that are paramount. The first of course is our Indigenous history, because for thousands of years Indigenous Australians have lived on this continent. The second aspect of our history is our beginnings as a ...
Rocking the education debate all over againThe Age
Kathy Marks: Review set to stoke culture fireNew Zealand Herald
Australia: New school curriculum to promote war and nationalismWorld Socialist Web Site

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SBS
What changes to teaching of Indigenous history?
SBS
"There are two aspects to Australia's history that are paramount. The first of course is our Indigenous history, because for thousands of years Indigenous Australians have lived on this continent. The second aspect of our history is our beginnings as a ...
Australia: New school curriculum to promote war and nationalismWorld Socialist Web Site

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From utopia to Utopia
artsHub Australia (subscription)
Two years in the making, Utopia is Pilger's fourth documentary on Indigenous Australia and includes interviews with those he first met during the making of his seminal film, The Secret Country, in 1985. Pilger's film moves from Sydney to Canberra, and ...

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to show in Ak
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Highlighting the many relationships to place and sparking debate as to the politics of land, My Countrycelebrates the powerful art of Indigenous Australians today. The exhibition comes to New Zealand thanks to support from the Australia Council for the ...

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to show in Ak
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Highlighting the many relationships to place and sparking debate as to the politics of land, My Countrycelebrates the powerful art of Indigenous Australians today. The exhibition comes to New Zealand thanks to support from the Australia Council for the ...

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Development Manager, Indigenous Strategy & Services
Pro Bono Australia
In 2012, the University launched the Wingara Mura – Bunga Barrabugu, a comprehensive strategic plan to renew the University's efforts to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with opportunities to engage with one of Australia's best ...

Development Manager, Indigenous Strategy & Services
Pro Bono Australia
In 2012, the University launched the Wingara Mura – Bunga Barrabugu, a comprehensive strategic plan to renew the University's efforts to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with opportunities to engage with one of Australia's best ...

The Guardian
Where exactly does Christopher Pyne stand on teaching Indigenous history?
The Guardian
Last week when he announced a supposedly independent review of the national curriculum by experts clearly hostile towards the status quo, it was framed in terms of competing aspects of Australia's past – Indigenous history and “western civilisation”.
Inquiry labelled "disgusting"6minutes

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The Guardian
Where exactly does Christopher Pyne stand on teaching Indigenous history?
The Guardian
There are two aspects of Australia's history that are paramount. First of course is our Indigenous history because for thousands of years Indigenous Australians have lived on this continent. The second aspect of our history is our beginnings as a ...
Inquiry labelled "disgusting"6minutes

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Indigenous hepatitis B program cash uncertainty
The West Australian
"I am concerned that the [Hepatitis Australia] document is taking a fairly simplistic view that there is a lot of hep-B in Aboriginals and we are not doing enough, and it is just a matter of more money and we will fix the problem," he said. "It won't ...

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Indigenous hepatitis B program cash uncertainty
The West Australian
The chief executive of Hepatitis Australia says Commonwealth money meant to help Indigenous people deal with hepatitis B has yet to be distributed. Helen Tyrell says that, in August last year, then-health minister Tanya Plibersek assigned $5.8 million ...

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Indigenous hepatitis B program cash uncertainty
ABC Online
The chief executive of Hepatitis Australia says Commonwealth money meant to help Indigenous people deal with hepatitis B has yet to be distributed. Helen Tyrell says that, in August last year, then-health minister Tanya Plibersek assigned $5.8 million ...

Indigenous hepatitis B program cash uncertainty
ABC Online
The chief executive of Hepatitis Australia says Commonwealth money meant to help Indigenous people deal with hepatitis B has yet to be distributed. Helen Tyrell says that, in August last year, then-health minister Tanya Plibersek assigned $5.8 million ...

The Guardian (blog)
Black Diggers: challenging Anzac myths
The Guardian (blog)
But like so much about the clichéd Australian Anzac, this entrenched cultural caricature overlooks the extraordinary experiences of minorities who fought as Australian sons of the empire – not least those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait lslanders. Now ...

The Guardian (blog)
Black Diggers: challenging Anzac myths
The Guardian (blog)
According to the Australian War Memorial, more than 400 Indigenous Australians fought for the British empire in the first world war. This is probably a conservative estimate: thanks to curious Commonwealth rules about who was eligible to fight ...

New exhibition presents indigenous views from across Aust
Voxy
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o TÄ maki is bringing the largest and most significant exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian art yet seen in New Zealand to Auckland with My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia from Friday 28 March.

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Indigenous Peoples Higher Risk Bird Flu
Indian Country Today Media Network
Studies of indigenous populations in Alaska and Australia by researchers at Australia's University of Melbourne have found that genetic differences is the driver that puts Indigenous Peoples at higher risk of severe complications from the new, severe ...
Some indigenous people more susceptible to new flu strainsMENAFN.COM
Study indicates some groups have specific genetic make-up that prevents from ...News-Medical.net

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Food security plan for Aboriginal land bears fruit
ABC Online
It's harvest time at one of Australia's most remote orchards, on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of northwest South Australia. Kenmore Park is an Indigenous community 460 kilometres south west of Alice Springs and is home to about ...