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THE Lowitja Institute is at risk of closure
The Australian
THE Lowitja Institute, Australia's only national research body committed to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, is at risk of closure. Despite the Gillard government's commitment to close the gap in health by 2030, it has not yet committed to ...

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Food vans promote bush tucker meals
SBS
Protein low fat is great for you, great iron content," said Indigenous celebrity chef Mark Olive. The Ministry of Food van will spend the next two and a half years travelling the state. On-site cooking courses have been designed to help Australia's ...

New world opens for indigenous teen tyros
The Australian
Under an initiative from the Role Models and Leaders Australia program, the four were chosen by their schools in Perth and sponsored by UON, also the major sponsor of the SB20 titles. Yet initially they took some convincing to throw caution to the wind.

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On reconciliation, Howard outdid Keating
The Australian (blog)
He was right to ask Australians to embrace the challenge of overcoming indigenous disadvantage: "We cannot give indigenous Australians up without giving up many of our own most deeply held values, much of our own identity - and our own humanity." ...

Rottnest Island's dark past
The Australian
From 1838, for nearly 100 years, Rottnest Island, about 20km off the coast of Western Australia, was a prison where 3700 Aboriginal men and boys, ranging in age from eight to 70, were brought from right across the state to be imprisoned, often for ...

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Indigenous Australians vulnerable to lupus
Medical Xpress
"In Far North Queensland, compared to non-Indigenous Australians, they have less photosensitivity which is an abnormal reaction of the skin to the sunlight, more renal involvement which means that their kidney function is often affected. In the ...

Indigenous All Stars to play Tigers in Red Centre
ABC Online
The AFL has confirmed an Indigenous All Stars team will play Richmond at Alice Springs next year. The match will be staged at Traeger Park in February. Former Sydney Swans star Michael O'Loughlin will coach the All Stars and will be assisted by Roger ...

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Tough existence for indigenous women | News | NT News | Darwin, Northern ...
NTNews.com.au
INDIGENOUS women are still by far the most vulnerable Territorians, according to the latest crime figures. Tennant Creek residents are four times more likely to be assaulted or have their homes broken into than any other NT town, and Nhulunbuy is the ...

Learning for the western world? The Indigenous education dilemma
The Conversation
Last week the Western Australian Indigenous Labor MP, Ben Wyatt, told a conference in Perth that Aboriginal children in remote communities need a “full Western education”. Wyatt went on to say that the State had delivered “a palliative education system ...

Mundine says radical change needed in indigenous jobs training
The Australian
GENERATIONONE boss Warren Mundine has revealed there are 12,301 indigenous Australians in real jobs under the scheme founded by mining magnate Andrew Forrest, but another 48,020 jobs are waiting to be filled. Mr Mundine told The Australian the ...

Indigenous Aussies 'should vote for their own senators'
SBS
Indigenous Australians should be able to elect Indigenous senators, a human rights lawyer says. Geoffrey Robertson QC told Living Black presenter Karla Grant that Australia lags behind other countries when it comes to recognising the rights of ...

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Indigenous Aussies embrace round ball game
Fifa.com
Now Football Federation Australia (FFA) are hoping to unearth the next generation of stars from Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The FFA relaunched their indigenous development programme earlier this year under the title ...

Indigenous Australians 'still seeking to be heard'
SBS
Although the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, or ATSIC, was closed down amid controversy and corruption allegations, it was seen by many Indigenous Australians as "their" representative body. Regional councils were elected with ...

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Indigenous Australians 'still seeking to be heard'
SBS
Regional councils were elected with representatives from those councils then attending national meetings, giving many Indigenous people in even the remotest regions of Australia the feeling of having their voices heard. When the Howard government axed ...

Menopause and the influence of culture: another gap for Indigenous Australian ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
There is great variation in experience of menopause in women around the world. The purpose of this study was to review current understanding of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) women's experiences of menopause.

Indigenous Aussies embrace round ball game
Fifa.com
Indigenous Australians have long made a strong contribution to the nation's rich sporting landscape, but until recently few had made a major impact in football. That is now changing with a host of male and female Aborigines featuring not only in the ...

'Mood of change' needed for referendum: PM
SBS
The federal government in September put on hold plans for a referendum to constitutionally acknowledge Indigenous Australians until there was more community awareness and support. Ms Gillard says it would be devastating if the proposal didn't succeed.

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'Mood of change' needed for Indigenous referendum: PM
SBS
The federal government in September put on hold plans for a referendum to constitutionally acknowledge Indigenous Australians until there was more community awareness and support. Ms Gillard says it would be devastating if the proposal didn't succeed.

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Dazzling windows into indigenous art - The West Australian
The West Australian
Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art by Pamela McClusky, Wally Caruana, Lisa Graziose Corrin and Stephen Gilchrist (Seattle Art Museum/Yale, $65) was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name and to celebrate the first collection of ...

Sydney Morning Herald
New TV channel has indigenous voice
Sydney Morning Herald
Yet today in the dusty red centre of Australia, and very close, appropriately, to the spectacular natural wonder that is Uluru, the switch was flicked on for Channel 34 – the National Indigenous Television network. NITV, as it is branded, has ...
The first storytellers: The history of NITVSBS

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