Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Local
New remote dialysis clinics funded in Federal budget
ABC Local
Hooked up to a dialysis machine in Adelaide, Inawintji Williamson smiles as she thinks about returning home to her remote Aboriginal community for a holiday. "I still go visiting when the dialysis bus is going there, but I want to stay there longer for ...

Starts at 60
Cousin of HIV virus wreaking havoc in rural Australian communities
Starts at 60
Worryingly, a cousin of the HIV virus known as the HTLV-1 virus is still causing devastation across the world, with rates in rural communities in Australia's Northern Territory feeling the impact more than anywhere else in the world. According to CNN ...

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Indigenous eye health neglected across the world: CERA
Insight News
First author of the review, University of Melbourne PhD candidate Mr Joshua Foreman, said despite the existence of thousands of research publications addressing vision impairment, the team's search of the global literature found just 64 studies on eye ...

Katherine Times
Spending for First Australians
Katherine Times
The 2018-19 Budget builds on the Coalition's highly successful Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP), which has seen an incredible increase in the contracts awarded to Indigenous businesses. Prior to the IPP, Indigenous businesses were under represented ...
Indigenous communities are reworking urban planning, but planners need to accept their historyMENAFN.COM

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous communities are reworking urban planning, but planners need to accept their history
The Conversation AU
Nearly 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia live in urban areas but cities often exclude and marginalise them. Urban planning and policy have been central to this, and the harms can be seen in key moments and processes that ...

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The Cairns Post
Indigenous and Torres Strait servicemen to be recognised
The Cairns Post
AWM director Dr Brendan Nelson said the sculpture would recognise the “equality of sacrifice” of indigenous servicemen. “In the Second World War, in the Torres Strait especially, they formed a unit to defend the northern part of Australia,” Dr Nelson ...

The Australian
Budget 2018: State alliances rolled out for indigenous health
The Australian
The government will implement a new primary care funding model for the Indigenous Australians' Health Program to provide greater transparency of funding and improve health outcomes. This new transparency initiative would be based on patient numbers ...

NT not happy about 5-year road cash delays
SBS
Ms Manison was happy with confirmation in the budget that indigenous Australians living in remote areas of the Territory are set to benefit from a $550 million funding boost from the federal government. The Turnbull government confirmed it would match ...

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The New Daily
The ancient virus that's 'off the charts' in Australia
The New Daily
Global experts are sounding alarm bells about an incurable HIV-like virus that is endemic among Australians living in remote communities. There are no programs in place to identify why the Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1 (HTLV-1) – which has infected ...
Ancient cancer-causing virus that's sexually transmitted is surging in parts of AustraliaThe Sun
Doctors raise alarm about ancient virus in AustraliaChannel3000.com - WISC-TV3

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The Advertiser
Budget 2018 boosts aged care, rural health and medical research: health experts respond
The Conversation AU
Additional funding (given in budget papers as A$83.3 million over five years but more accurately described as A$122.4 million over 2018-19 and 2019-20, with savings of A$55.6 million taken in 2020-21 and 2021-22) is provided for rural health that ...
FIVE-MINUTE GUIDE: The Federal Budget ... fast.The Advertiser
Aged care gets $1.6bn in budget package for older Australians and pension bonus increaseThe Guardian
Budget 2018: Aged-care sector gets $1.6b to assist older Australians with services in their own homesABC Online

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The Guardian
2018 health budget boosts aged care, rural health and medical research: experts respond
The Conversation AU
Additional funding (given in budget papers as A$83.3 million over five years but more accurately described as A$122.4 million over 2018-19 and 2019-20, with savings of A$55.6 million taken in 2020-21 and 2021-22) is provided for rural health that ...
Older Australians to benefit from home care packages and pension bonus increase in budgetThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Coalition launches new round of welfare 'robodebt' recovery scheme in budget
The Guardian
... compliance measures as any other jobseekers “regardless of where they live, or which government program they participate in”, said the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion. There will be 6,000 wage subsidy positions available to eligible ...

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The Advertiser
FIVE-MINUTE GUIDE: The Federal Budget ... fast.
The Advertiser
The Budget commitments will enable 14,000 more elderly Australians to receive high-level aged-care in their own homes, 13,500 to enter live-in facilities and 775 to receive short-term, restorative care. Barbara and Clive Spriggs, Rina Serpo and Alma ...
Budget 2018 boosts aged care, rural health and medical research: health experts respondThe Conversation AU
Aged care gets $1.6bn in budget package for older Australians and pension bonus increaseThe Guardian

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The Guardian
The complete 2018 Australian budget: choose what matters to you
The Guardian
Build your own budget coverage by choosing the topics you're interested in. You can also put in some optional biographic information which will be used to rank the news items. Or, leave the buttons alone for the Guardian Australia-selected order. Tue ...
Here's The Full 2018 Australian Federal Budget SpeechGizmodo Australia
Here's the full federal budget speech by Scott Morrison MPBusiness Insider Australia
Budget: $10 tax cuts for low and middle income earners, surplus in 2019-20 and multibillion-dollar package for seniorsNEWS.com.au
The Conversation AU
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Gizmodo Australia
Federal budget 2018: Scott Morrison's election pitch serves up tax cuts and strategic spending
The Guardian
It wants the budget to reboot its political fortunes, with Tuesday night's economic statement the last fiscal word before Australians go to the polls for the next election due early next year. The government could trigger an election any time after ...
Here's The Full 2018 Australian Federal Budget SpeechGizmodo Australia
Federal Budget 2018: a state-by-state spending analysisThe Conversation AU
Here's the full federal budget speech by Scott Morrison MPBusiness Insider Australia
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The West Australian
Protect indigenous ranger funds: Senate
The West Australian
"I urge the government to heed the calls of the Senate and go back to the drawing board and ensure they do not impinge on civil society and democracy in Australia," Senator Siewert said. But Liberal frontbencher James McGrath said rangers' foreign ...

SBS
Budget 2018: Turnbull government's Indigenous strategy blasted
SBS
Budget 2018: The Indigenous Advancement Scheme was supposed to be a reset for Commonwealth funding to the Indigenous sector, but the problems are piling up. Updated Updated 2 hours ago. It's been four years since the government introduced one of the ...

Gympie Times
Dangerous ancient virus spreads in Australia
Gympie Times
AN ANCIENT virus infecting residents across Australia is forging a path of death and despair, with doctors calling for greater efforts to stop the spread of infection. The rates of infection of human T-cell leukaemia virus type 1, or HTLV-1, are ...

Fraser Coast Chronicle
Dangerous ancient virus spreads in Australia
Fraser Coast Chronicle
AN ANCIENT virus infecting residents across Australia is forging a path of death and despair, with doctors calling for greater efforts to stop the spread of infection. The rates of infection of human T-cell leukaemia virus type 1, or HTLV-1, are ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Deborah Cheetham's Songs of Belonging brings our Indigenous past into focus
The Sydney Morning Herald
The celebrated Indigenous soprano and composer is looking forward to a time when Australians are mature enough to say: "There's 70,000 years of history here that, if I'm conversant enough in it, I can be a continuation of it". Deborah Cheetham says ...