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Update on constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians - Government, Public Sector - Australia  Mondaq News Alerts

Article discusses the current situation regarding constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. Australia Government, Public Sector Carroll & O'Dea 21 ...

Closing the Gap strategy for Indigenous health has 'all but unravelled', doctors say  The Guardian

Exclusive: Australian Medical Association says stubborn 'institutional racism' still challenges Aboriginal health.

Closing the Gap strategy for Indigenous health has 'all but unravelled', doctors say  The Guardian

Exclusive: Australian Medical Association says stubborn 'institutional racism' still challenges Aboriginal health.

Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Indigenous Rocky filmmaker awarded top industry fellowship
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
NITV Channel Manager Tanya Orman said: "The world is in an unprecedented golden era of television and Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people enrich it with an inimitable touch. Kaylene's appointment represents not only an exciting new ...

Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Indigenous Rocky filmmaker awarded top industry fellowship
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
... Indigenous Australians in media. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk congratulated Mrs Butler who will receive a one-year professional placement with Screen Queensland and National Indigenous Television (NITV), Australia's home of Indigenous storytelling.

Mondaq News Alerts
Australia: Update on constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians
Mondaq News Alerts
The issue of constitutional recognition remains unresolved. Where is it up to? With the 20 year anniversary of the Bringing Them Home Report in 2017, and subsequent enquiries, the rights of Indigenous Australians have been at the forefront of politics ...
Tony Abbott's lament that prayer needs a greater role ignores a history of Christian invasionThe Guardian
Homelessness issues among indigenous peoples under spotlightMāori Television
Statutory review of Adoption Act tabled in ParliamentMirage News

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Mondaq News Alerts
Australia: Update on constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians
Mondaq News Alerts
The issue of constitutional recognition remains unresolved. Where is it up to? With the 20 year anniversary of the Bringing Them Home Report in 2017, and subsequent enquiries, the rights of Indigenous Australians have been at the forefront of politics ...
Tony Abbott's lament that prayer needs a greater role ignores a history of Christian invasionThe Guardian
Homelessness issues among indigenous peoples under spotlightMāori Television

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Alice Springs News Online
Now $90m earmarked for Aboriginal gallery
Alice Springs News Online
He wrote: “Mr Schutenko doesn't seem to have been reading the Territory's Arts Minister's views on her preference for Alice Springs as 'the heart of Australia, (where) the National Aboriginal Art Gallery (for which only $50m has so far been allocated ...

Bicycling Australia
Brian Mansell: The One And Only
Bicycling Australia
Bicycling Australia is saddened to report the passing of national cycling legend Brian Mansell, the first Indigenous Australian to become a State cycling champion and first Indigenous Australian to medal at the National Championships. During 2017 ...

Bicycling Australia
Brian Mansell: The One And Only
Bicycling Australia
Bicycling Australia is saddened to report the passing of national cycling legend Brian Mansell, the first Indigenous Australian to become a State cycling champion and first Indigenous Australian to medal at the National Championships. During 2017 ...

National Indigenous Times
Native title groups swindled of millions by trustees
National Indigenous Times
These practices also ensure that Aboriginal people are not being treated in the same way as mainstream Australians, such as clients of trustees for superannuation. If it's not acceptable for the average Australian to suffer this kind of fee gouging ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Confluence: Unique collaboration on show at John Curtin Gallery
The Sydney Morning Herald
... of Australia's interior desert country. Her latest ceramic forms include suites of Devil's Marbles, inspired by the striking rock formations in the Karlu Karlu/Devil's Marbles Conservation Reserve, a significant Aboriginal sacred site in Australia ...

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RACGP
Closing the gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health
RACGP
Rates of blindness in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults are six times higher than non-Indigenous Australians and, although 94% of vision loss is preventable or treatable, 35% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults have never had an ...

RACGP
Closing the gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health
RACGP
The roadmap report is based on results from the 2008 National Indigenous Eye Health Survey, which outlines the scope of the issue in Australia, the availability and quality of eye health services, and recommendations for policy change to improve the ...

The Conversation AU
Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody
The Conversation AU
When the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody's report was tabled in 1991, it was not the first official inquiry into this tragic phenomenon. The disproportionately high rate of mortality among Aboriginal convicts in colonial New South ...

The Conversation AU
Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody
The Conversation AU
When the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody's report was tabled in 1991, it was not the first official inquiry into this tragic phenomenon. The disproportionately high rate of mortality among Aboriginal convicts in colonial New South ...

ABC News
Banksias a worthwhile challenge for curators of new display at National Botanic Gardens
ABC News
Indigenous Australians soaked the flower cones in water to extract nectar for sweet drinks and used dry flowers to strain water. Some banksia flowers open to the north, providing a handy compass in the bush. "They're such a tactile and engaging group ...

Pursuit
Working together to close the gap on oral health
Pursuit
“But I also want to make sure that we produce a workforce that cares about the gap in Indigenous oral health and wants to do something about it. “And really mainstreaming Aboriginal culture and knowledge in Australia, making it a celebrated part of how ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Peak Indigenous Bodies Plead For Close the Gap Involvement
Pro Bono Australia
Ngarra Murray, Oxfam Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples program national manager, told Pro Bono News Oxfam were also supporting calls for a formal partnership. “When Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are included and ...

Pro Bono Australia
Peak Indigenous Bodies Plead For Close the Gap Involvement
Pro Bono Australia
Ngarra Murray, Oxfam Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples program national manager, told Pro Bono News Oxfam were also supporting calls for a formal partnership. “When Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are included and ...