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Voice of America
Program Tackles Sky High Rates of Aboriginal Smoking in Australia
Voice of America
A new program in Sydney is helping indigenous Australians quit smoking. It's also exploring the deeper reasons why about a third of aboriginal adults smoke, a much higher proportion than the national average. The organizers of the “Talking About ...

The West Australian
Turnaround brings bright future
The West Australian
The 24-year-old was recently named the nation's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student of the year at the Australian Training Awards, just one month after winning the State version of the accolade. Miss White's success came about after ...

Australian Indigenous talent set to shine at World Cup
FTBL Australia
“It's great that the First Nations people of Australia have been invited to be part of it,” he told FTBL. “It's quite exciting times because for a lot of Indigenous players making the Matildas and the Socceroos is a long way off but this way they get ...

Brisbane Times
School strikers are going places but the dole queue isn't one of them
Brisbane Times
The great social movements that defined modern Australia—the movements for women's liberation, gay rights, Indigenous rights, and environmental protection—all inspired school students to get out on the streets, wave banners and chant slogans.

Newshub
Report explains why New Zealand's Māori are better off than Australia's Aborigines
Newshub
New Zealand's Māori have better outcomes than Australia's Aboriginal people because our Government treats its indigenous people better, according to a report. The Economist states Aboriginal people living in Australia face a decade-wide gap in life ...

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Business Insider Australia
The popular and prize-winning Aboriginal artist Kathleen Petyarre has died
Business Insider Australia
“About” that age, because Petyarre was born out bush, delivered by Anmatyerr midwives at Atnangker on Anmatyerr country in Australia's northeast Central Desert. Petyarre's birth was not recorded in any official birth register, although it is believed ...

Best in Australia
Indigenous voice in constitutional reform backed by bipartisan committee
Best in Australia
This idea was the result of an historic gathering of hundreds of Indigenous Australian delegates during the Uluru Convention in 2017. Scott Morrison argued that the concept would not gain public approval. However, the bipartisan committee now calls on ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Easing of adoption laws is not in the best interests of children
The Sydney Morning Herald
Nearly 18,000 of the 48,000 young people in out-of-home care are Indigenous – 10 times the non-Indigenous rate, as noted in the recent Family Matters Report 2018. Across Australia, only four Indigenous children had adoption orders finalised in 2016-17 ...

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The Canberra Times
Easing of adoption laws is not in the best interests of children
The Canberra Times
Nearly 18,000 of the 48,000 young people in out-of-home care are Indigenous – 10 times the non-Indigenous rate, as noted in the recent Family Matters Report 2018. Across Australia, only four Indigenous children had adoption orders finalised in 2016-17 ...

National Geographic Australia
Has Australia seen the end of AIDS?
National Geographic Australia
“Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, HIV notifications have been increasing over the past five years, with rates more than one and a half times than the Australian born non-Indigenous population in 2017,” Mr. Jonathon King explains.

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National Geographic Australia
Has Australia seen the end of AIDS?
National Geographic Australia
“Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, HIV notifications have been increasing over the past five years, with rates more than one and a half times than the Australian born non-Indigenous population in 2017,” Mr. Jonathon King explains.

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The Guardian
Hopes and fears: which way forward for an Indigenous voice to Australia's parliament?
The Guardian
So, for some in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, the chance that an Indigenous voice to parliament could come to life in the first term of a Labor government is a glimmer of hope. But others are worried the process could lead to “a ...
Bangarra to farewell six dancers with final pieceDaily Telegraph

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The Guardian
Hopes and fears: which way forward for an Indigenous voice to Australia's parliament?
The Guardian
So, for some in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, the chance that an Indigenous voice to parliament could come to life in the first term of a Labor government is a glimmer of hope. But others are worried the process could lead to “a ...
Bangarra to farewell six dancers with final pieceDaily Telegraph

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NEWS.com.au
Anthony Mundine denied final divisive act
NEWS.com.au
All throughout the build-up to the fight Mundine said there was no way he was going to stand for the “white supremacist” Australian national anthem because of the injustice it represented towards indigenous Australians. He even brought along support ...
Mundine Horn River City Rumble: Horn Knocks Mundine Out After 90 Seconds. Fight Overten daily

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Indigenous HIV Rates Are On The Rise, Here's What's Being Done To Stop It
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HIV rates among the Indigenous community are 1.6 times higher than the rest of the country. At the same time, HIV in Australia is going down for all groups other than Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. It is estimated that there are 582 Aboriginal ...

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Indigenous HIV Rates Are On The Rise, Here's What's Being Done To Stop It
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HIV rates among the Indigenous community are 1.6 times higher than the rest of the country. At the same time, HIV in Australia is going down for all groups other than Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. It is estimated that there are 582 Aboriginal ...

The Australian
Aboriginal backlash warning on voice delay
The Australian
The nation's biggest land council representing 23,000 Aboriginal members across NSW has warned of a massive backlash from indigenous Australia if the referendum question is not put in the next term of government. Roy Ah-See, chair of the NSW ...

The Australian
A culture left behind
The Australian
Aboriginal children are rarely punished physically but are controlled psychologically. I recall when I was a little girl my female kin playing cards at Yuendumu. A Japangardi, one of my potential husbands, walked past. The women pretended he was coming ...

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The Australian
Aboriginal backlash warning on voice delay
The Australian
The nation's biggest land council representing 23,000 Aboriginal members across NSW has warned of a massive backlash from indigenous Australia if the referendum question is not put in the next term of government. Roy Ah-See, chair of the NSW ...

The Australian
State stikes gold with New Museum for Western Australia
The Australian
In time, a translucent skin of glass and gold mesh will be wrapped around the upper floor. Interior lighting will see it glow at night; by day, the gold mesh will faintly glisten in a nod to the West Australian gold rush that enabled the first museum ...