Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Superannuation policy should be reformed to promote the economic wellbeing of indigenous Australia, argues KPMG ...
Financial Standard
The professional services company said indigenous Australians face unique issues when participating in Australia's compulsory retirement savings regime, including low levels of financial and language literacy, the onerous administration requirements of ...

Indigenous remains returned to Australia
ArtsHub UK (subscription)
The ancestral remains will be returned to members of the Advisory Committee for Indigenous Repatriation and to representatives of the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia and the Whadjuk community in Western Australia. The remains have been held ...

ABC Online
Indigenous leaders express hope and cynicism ahead of Kimberley suicide roundtable
ABC Online
The meeting is a part of the Federal Government's election policy to trial prevention-of-suicide programs across Australia and has been hastily arranged according to Broome Indigenous leader Marty Sibosado. "It's part of the national suicide policy ...

The Guardian
Kimberley suicide rates: government urged to support Indigenous-led solutions
The Guardian
Broome cemetery in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Rates of Indigenous suicide in the Kimberley are seven times higher than the national average and three times higher than the national Indigenous average. Photograph: Janine Israel for the ...
Indigenous suicide linked to bigger picture issues, psychologist saysABC Message Stick
Aboriginal Suicide Rates Have Hit Crisis Point and Prevention Isn't WorkingVICE
A Fundraising Event for Indigenous Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention with David Suzuki & Clover MooreRenewEconomy

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Targeted care is creating better outcomes for Indigenous mothers
SBS
Senior Advisor for the NSW Aboriginal Nursing and Midwifery Strategy Leona McGrath is working to ensure Indigenous women continue to access prenatal care. Leona is one of only 230 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander midwives in Australia. As a mother ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Life in the Northern Territory for Indigenous Australians 'distressing', royal commission hears
The Sydney Morning Herald
This was a version of Indigenous life in the Northern Territory given to the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory as bureaucrats and health specialists gave evidence on Thursday about government ...
Aboriginal survival rests on success of royal commission ...The Guardian
Agencies can't keep track of where kids are living, commission toldThe Australian
Aboriginals treated as subhuman: Anderson - 9news.com.au9news.com.au

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ABC Message Stick
Indigenous suicide linked to bigger picture issues, psychologist says ...
ABC Message Stick
An Indigenous psychologist says a big picture approach is needed to tackle high rates of suicide among Indigenous Australians.
Kimberley suicide rates: government urged to support Indigenous ...The Guardian
Aboriginal Suicide Rates Have Hit Crisis Point and Prevention Isn't ...VICE
A Fundraising Event for Indigenous Wellbeing and Suicide ...RenewEconomy

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The Guardian
Australian rock formation could be older than Stonehenge, researchers say
The Guardian
Researchers investigating a historic Aboriginal site in Australia believe an ancient astronomical stone formation could prove to be older than Stonehenge, and are now working with elders to determine its age. The Wurdi Youang stone arrangement 45km ...
Ancient site could rival Stonehenge as world's oldest observatoryMashable
Ancient Aust'n Aboriginal site could be "oldest observatory in the world": expertsXinhua

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SBS
This non-binary Indigenous artist uses blood to explore the relationship between body and place
SBS
Sarah-Jane Norman bakes scones for the audience during 'Take this, for it is my body,' using their blood as one of the ingredients. It is one of three works they have as part of the Dance Territories: Border Lines show, which all "speak to the complex ...

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Indigenous ideas for empowerment
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Adelaide-based Mr Fry, who is the chair of Indigenous Business Australia, co-authored a paper on the rise of indigenous entrepreneurs with KPMG partner James Mabbott as part of a series of proposals contained in a new Igniting the Indigenous Economy ...

National Indigenous Times
[ October 13, 2016 ] Drug scourge creating entire 'ice families', warns expert NEWS
National Indigenous Times
Mr Wilson said the federal government's Close the Gap campaign, aimed at closing the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, ends in 2030. “What we're trying to say with the ...

The Guardian
Coalition embarrassed by mistaken support for Labor vote – politics live
The Guardian
Indigenous people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia are seven times more likely to kill themselves and up to 20 times more likely to self-harm than other Australians, creating a situation where suicide has become “normalised behaviour”, a ...

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The Australian
Call for cultural respect in indigenous worker drug tests
The Australian
His call has been supported by rivals national drug testers Safe Work Laboratories, which cited 75 per cent of an indigenous apprentice program in Western Australia testing positive to drugs or alcohol, but being educated during training with ambitions ...

ABC Online
The world's oldest observatory? How Aboriginal astronomy provides clues to ancient life
ABC Online
Dr Duane Hamacher is a leader in the study of Indigenous astronomy and has been working with Aboriginal elders at the site to reconstruct their knowledge of the stars and planets. "Some academics have referred to this stone arrangement here as ...

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The Guardian
Aboriginal survival rests on success of royal commission – Indigenous advocate
The Guardian
Taken by counsel to a portion of her statement which said the issues raised by the 2006 report had been advocated by Aboriginal people for years prior, Anderson launched into a blistering critique on Australia's long history of investigating issues ...

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Funding policies silence Indigenous DV victims
Eureka Street (registration)
There is a general lack of trust among Indigenous Australians towards the Australian government. The effects of post colonisation are a primary contributor to this. To help reconcile the relationship between Indigenous communities and government, ...

SBS
How to make Australia the 'lucky country' for all children
SBS
The largest growing area of inequality is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, with 19.3 per cent living in poverty compared to 12.4 per cent of non-indigenous children. Indigenous children aged 10 – 17 years are 26 times more likely to ...

ABC Online
Indigenous-led suicide prevention plan needed to fight Aboriginal death crisis: report
ABC Online
Aboriginal suicides are at record levels in remote Australia and mainstream prevention programs are failing, a major report has concluded. The ABC has obtained a copy of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project ...

SBS
Stillbirth rate in Australia is 'horrifying'
SBS
The rate of stillbirths among Indigenous mothers dropped 16 per cent. Despite this positive drop, Indigenous mothers are still 1.8 times more likely to loose a baby to stillbirth, according to the report. That's approximately 17.1 deaths per 1000 ...
ACT had second-highest rate for still births in country in 2012, new data showsThe Canberra Times

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The Australian
Indigenous hunters cruel to sealife, says Warren Entsch
The Australian
Liberal MP Warren Entsch has questioned why Australia has been so quick to oppose Japanese whaling but not paid the same attention to the plight of dugongs and sea turtles, as he called for tougher regulations against a “very small number” of ...
Coalition urged to regulate Indigenous hunting of endangered animalsThe Guardian

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