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Indigenous housing in urgent need of repair
ABC Online
A Canberra community housing provider says most of its properties are run down or badly in need of repair because of funding shortages. The independent Southside Housing Aboriginal Corporation (SHAC) rents seven houses to Indigenous people on low ...

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Photography workshop trains lens on lives of Indigenous young people
UNICEF Australia (blog)
In May, well-known international UNICEF photographer Giacomo Pirozzi visited communities outside of Darwin to run photography workshops with 20 Indigenous children and youth. Giacomo has run these EYE SEE photography workshops, supported by ...

Australia's indigenous animals and birds have a surprising knack of visiting ...
ChristianToday
A recent AdelaideNow.com news article detailed how a Koala on a very hot day, climbed the garden and pool fence, had it's fill of water being so hot, and then took its rest under the jetty on the cool rocks all afternoon, moreover with the householders ...

Amnesty takes aim at Australia ignoring “rights for all” agenda
National Indigenous Times
Amnesty International's annual State of the World's Human Rights report has taken aim at Australia's neglect of Aboriginal peoples and its maltreatment of asylum seekers declaring Australia was now a country ignoring the "rights for all" agenda. The ...

Dialysis funding offer ignored
The Australian
In a letter dated April 24 to Indigenous Health Minister Warren Snowdon, the Papunya Tula Artists offered to pay the running costs for two dialysis machines in a primary health clinic in the remote community of Kiwirrkurra in Western Australia in the ...

Visionary economist shed light on the plight of Aborigines
The Australian
It was a belief she pursued all through her distinguished career as an academic specialist in development economics, before applying it with spectacular gusto, late in her life, to the remote communities of Aboriginal Australia. Hughes was born in 1928 ...

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Indigenous health initiative in doubt
ABC Online
The Aboriginal Health Council is calling on the State Government to renew its commitment to an indigenous health initiative, saying lives will be lost if action is not taken. The Closing the Gap programme is a joint funding agreement between the state ...

Indigenous broadcaster panned for 'racist' claims
ABC Online
A Northern Territory Indigenous politician has lashed out at an Aboriginal broadcaster over his comments about racism in a Top End town. Country Liberals MLA Bess Price says Brisbane radio host Tiga Bayles is a hypocrite for saying Katherine "reeks of ...

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Indigenous health initiative in doubt
ABC Local
The Aboriginal Health Council is calling on the State Government to renew its commitment to an indigenous health initiative, saying lives will be lost if action is not taken. The Closing the Gap programme is a joint funding agreement between the state ...

The Indigenous fire project generating carbon credits
ABC Online
CLAIRE MACKAY, PRESENTER: A property in the Northern Territory has become the first Indigenous project in Australia to sell carbon credits. Caltex has bought half a million dollars worth of credits from the Indigenous Land Corporation, which runs Fish ...

Streamlined service to deliver stronger employment and training outcomes for ...
Invest in Australia
The Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development, Julie Collins, today announced a new process under the Indigenous Employment Program (IEP) to further strengthen Indigenous employment and economic development opportunities.

Recent indigenous policy failures can't be pinned on Aborigines
The Australian
Mission Australia, the Smith Family and an array of mainstream bodies have pushed indigenous organisations to extinction. Their vast scale and capacity to win large government tenders mean local and regional indigenous organisations cannot compete.

The good news: the ′Journey to Recognition′ Relay
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has received support from across the political spectrum and resulted in the passing of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Peoples Recognition Act 2013 (Cth) (link here) ensuring that a ...

Art from Black Australia calls Brisbane home
ABC Local
... photographs and moving-image works that interrogate and challenge the established history of Australia and installations responding to political and social situations affecting all Australians. "It's not just paintings on canvas; it takes ...

Indigenous broadcaster panned for 'racist' claims
ABC Local
A Northern Territory Indigenous politician has lashed out at an Aboriginal broadcaster over his comments about racism in a Top End town. Country Liberals MLA Bess Price says Brisbane radio host Tiga Bayles is a hypocrite for saying Katherine "reeks of ...

Indigenous water rights stir ripples in ranks
ABC Online
A second Country Liberals MLA has questioned the Northern Territory Government's stand on strategic Indigenous water reserves. Traditional owners had hoped the Government would set aside water reserves for the future economic development of ...

Project improves conditions for Indigenous communities
UQ News
The University of Queensland is working on a collaborative project to improve health and education conditions for Australia's poorest Indigenous communities. The research explores the link between health and education outcomes and socioeconomic ...

Getting mobile mental health into Indigenous communities
ABC Local
The suicide rate for Indigenous people is four times Australia's national rate. Many Indigenous people live in remote parts of Australia where therapists able to deliver suicide prevention treatments are rare or non-existent. And most treatments have ...

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Getting mobile mental health into Indigenous communities
ABC Local
The suicide rate for Indigenous people is four times Australia's national rate. Many Indigenous people live in remote parts of Australia where therapists able to deliver suicide prevention treatments are rare or non-existent. And most treatments have ...

OPINION: Kidney disease's tragic impact on Indigenous community
Newcastle Herald
THE recent death of the lead singer of Yothu Yindi is a high-profile example of an event all too common in Aboriginal Australia. Older Aboriginal Australians (40 to 60 years old) are more than 15 times more likely to die of kidney disease than non ...