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Lighthouse Project seeks to reduce heart disease among Indigenous Australians - ABC Online

Sun, 2016/10/30 - 4:19am

ABC Online

Lighthouse Project seeks to reduce heart disease among Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
A joint venture by eight hospitals around Australia is working to reduce the high rate of heart disease among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. An estimated 60 per cent of the Indigenous community is likely to die from coronary heart ...

Lighthouse Project seeks to reduce heart disease among - ABC - ABC Online

Sun, 2016/10/30 - 4:18am

ABC Online

Lighthouse Project seeks to reduce heart disease among - ABC
ABC Online
A joint venture by eight hospitals around Australia is working to reduce the high rate of heart disease among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and ...
WHO Report recommends free hepatitis B vaccinations for ... - SBSSBS
Indigenous incarceration: Too little action on national disgraceThe Age

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Australian Rugby League Indigenous Council announced - NRL.COM

Sat, 2016/10/29 - 9:18pm

Australian Rugby League Indigenous Council announced
NRL.COM
The newly appointed Australian Rugby League (ARL) Indigenous Council was announced today, with five new Council members joining three returning members. The ARL Indigenous Council was appointed by the Australian Rugby League Commission in ...

Australian Rugby League Indigenous Council announced - NRL.COM

Sat, 2016/10/29 - 9:18pm

Australian Rugby League Indigenous Council announced
NRL.COM
The newly appointed Australian Rugby League (ARL) Indigenous Council was announced today, with five new Council members joining three returning members. The ARL Indigenous Council was appointed by the Australian Rugby League Commission in ...

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WHO Report recommends free hepatitis B vaccinations for ... - SBS - SBS

Sat, 2016/10/29 - 8:07am

SBS

WHO Report recommends free hepatitis B vaccinations for ... - SBS
SBS
SBS World News Radio: A new Australian report for the World Health Organisation calls for a national hepatitis B immunisation program for Indigenous ...

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the changing face of Australian hip-hop - The Sydney Morning Herald

Sat, 2016/10/29 - 3:09am

The Sydney Morning Herald

the changing face of Australian hip-hop
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous rapper Briggs entered the mainstream with his 2014 album Sheplife. With this, his third release, he refined his percussive political rap enough to become a Chuck D-style commentator on Australian discrimination. On single Bad Apples, he took ...

No, Shireen. Apartheid in Australia is a real danger - Herald Sun (blog)

Fri, 2016/10/28 - 10:18pm

No, Shireen. Apartheid in Australia is a real danger
Herald Sun (blog)
In my experience, having talked with indigenous people about constitutional recognition for almost six years, very few indigenous Australians want a separate state in the international sense, as Windschuttle suggests. Few feel this is desirable, let ...

Reflecting on the Freedom Rides 50 years on from Charlie Perkins' graduation as first Aboriginal to complete university - ABC Online

Fri, 2016/10/28 - 1:43pm

ABC Online

Reflecting on the Freedom Rides 50 years on from Charlie Perkins' graduation as first Aboriginal to complete university
ABC Online
It was an unremarkable feat for most other students at the time, but for Charlie Perkins — and for Aboriginal people across Australia — it was part of a movement that propelled Indigenous rights forward, on to the front pages of our newspapers and to ...

Pridham donates $5m to UniSA - The Australian

Fri, 2016/10/28 - 1:02pm

Pridham donates $5m to UniSA
The Australian
Investment banker and Sydney Swans chair Andrew Pridham will today donate $5 million to his alma mater, the University of South Australia, to help with major building works and provide scholarships to indigenous students and elite international athletes.

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'Separatism' through indigenous recognition an irrational fear - The Australian

Fri, 2016/10/28 - 1:02pm

'Separatism' through indigenous recognition an irrational fear
The Australian
Last Saturday, Inquirer ran an extract from Keith Windschuttle's new book, The Break-Up of Australia: The Real Agenda Behind Aboriginal Recognition, which contends that indigenous activists seek constitutional recognition because it will lead to ...

Listen or lose it: Indigenous community threatens to close Uluru | NITV - SBS

Fri, 2016/10/28 - 9:00am

SBS

Listen or lose it: Indigenous community threatens to close Uluru | NITV
SBS
A remote Indigenous community near Uluru has threatened to "close the rock" if their voices aren't heard and people continue to live in poverty.

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Call for nationwide Indigenous Hepatitis B vaccinations - SBS

Fri, 2016/10/28 - 8:06am

SBS

Call for nationwide Indigenous Hepatitis B vaccinations
SBS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are at significant increased risk of Hepatitis B, according to a new World Health Organisation report. Its authors say that with the higher rate of Hepatitis B for Indigenous Australians - 3.6 cases per ...

Stan Grant to join ABC as editor of Indigenous Affairs - ABC Online

Fri, 2016/10/28 - 7:37am

ABC Online

Stan Grant to join ABC as editor of Indigenous Affairs
ABC Online
Stan Grant, one of Australia's best known and most respected journalists, is joining ABC News as an editor of Indigenous Affairs coverage. Starting in December, Grant will lead and drive ABC News's coverage of Indigenous Affairs, overseeing planning ...
ABC axes Friday edition of 7.30 programThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Overhaul crisis-hit NT jail system: report - 9news.com.au

Fri, 2016/10/28 - 7:07am

ABC Online

Overhaul crisis-hit NT jail system: report
9news.com.au
A scathing report on the Northern Territory's correctional system calls for a complete overhaul to address a "devastating" crisis unfolding for Indigenous Australians. NT attorney-general and justice minister Natasha Fyles released the executive ...
'Gross over-representation' of Indigenous people in NT jails a 'crisis of devastating proportions': Hamburger reportABC Online

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Top 20 names for Indigenous babies 2016 - SBS

Fri, 2016/10/28 - 12:40am

SBS

Top 20 names for Indigenous babies 2016
SBS
With our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population making up such a small percentage of overall Australia, the most common or 'trending' names in Indigenous communities are submerged into the culture of the wider Australia only. Although an ...

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When Australian cricket was a relief from Indigenous misery - The Age - The Age

Fri, 2016/10/28 - 12:24am

The Age

When Australian cricket was a relief from Indigenous misery - The Age
The Age
Across the dreaming grasslands of western Victoria, in the shadow of the mountain range named by homesick Scottish settlers The Grampians and Gariwerd by ...

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Threats to make Uluru off-limits to tourists - NEWS.com.au

Thu, 2016/10/27 - 11:35pm

NEWS.com.au

Threats to make Uluru off-limits to tourists
NEWS.com.au
The Australian Law Reform Commission will be asked to examine the factors leading to the over-representation of indigenous Australians in the country's prison system. Residents filled a whiteboard with ideas to help the community, and the first ...
Threats to close Uluru to touristsPerth Now

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Bush tucker taking off as Qantas adds Kakadu plum to its menu - ABC Message Stick

Thu, 2016/10/27 - 8:21pm

ABC Message Stick

Bush tucker taking off as Qantas adds Kakadu plum to its menu
ABC Message Stick
Kakadu plums are harvested from the wild each year across northern Australia, mostly by Indigenous communities, and are regarded as having more vitamin C than any other fruit on the planet. Tahlia Mandie from Kakadu Plum Co. has teamed up with ...

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Remote indigenous Anangu tribe threaten to 'close down' Uluru if their voices aren't heard - Daily Mail

Thu, 2016/10/27 - 2:49pm

Daily Mail

Remote indigenous Anangu tribe threaten to 'close down' Uluru if their voices aren't heard
Daily Mail
The monolith, which is located the heart of Australia's 'red centre', is sacred to Indigenous people - but it is also popular with large numbers of tourists from around the world, who clamber up its sides and take dramatic dawn and sunset photos.

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Domestic violence action plan to focus on indigenous women, kids - The Australian

Thu, 2016/10/27 - 1:01pm

The Australian

Domestic violence action plan to focus on indigenous women, kids
The Australian
The plan, to be unveiled at a special Council of Australian Governments summit in Brisbane, will note that domestic violence cost Australia up to $26 billion in the past year, and indigenous women were 34 times more likely to be hospitalised for family ...
Brisbane summit on family violence9news.com.au

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