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Indigenous children more likely to fear lack of safety, bullying and discrimination  The Guardian

Study finds 'concerning level of despair' among young Indigenous Australians compared with their peers.

Western Advocate
Peter Fitzsimmons awarded Susan Green Memorial Medal on Indigenous Australia Rugby tour
Western Advocate
BATHURST'S Peter Fitzsimmons was left speechless when he was presented with the Susan Green Memorial Medal for outstanding leadership during the recent Indigenous Australian Invitational Rugby Team tour of the USA and Canada. GREAT ...

Western Advocate
Peter Fitzsimmons awarded Susan Green Memorial Medal on Indigenous Australia Rugby tour
Western Advocate
BATHURST'S Peter Fitzsimmons was left speechless when he was presented with the Susan Green Memorial Medal for outstanding leadership during the recent Indigenous Australian Invitational Rugby Team tour of the USA and Canada.

Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous People With Disability Have a Double Disadvantage the NDIS Can't Handle
Pro Bono Australia
The prevalence of disability among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is twice that experienced by other Australians. It is more complex in terms of more than one disability or health issue occurring together, and it is compressed within a ...

Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous People With Disability Have a Double Disadvantage the NDIS Can't Handle
Pro Bono Australia
The prevalence of disability among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is twice that experienced by other Australians. It is more complex in terms of more than one disability or health issue occurring together, and it is compressed within a ...

The West Australian
Duo get past last hurdle to NYC run
The West Australian
Crispin also received the Charlie Maher Leadership Award, named for the first indigenous Australian man to run the NYC Marathon in 2010, in recognition of his strong leadership skills. “I was surprised and excited to receive the award,” Crispin said ...

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Mixdown
Mixdown's top 5 jobs in the music industry (this week)
Mixdown
... offices in Sydney. This position, only open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants, reflects the ABC's commitment to the ABC Reconciliation Action Plan, ABC Equity and Diversity Plan and the Equal Employment Opportunity (Commonwealth ...

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Mirage News
More Aged Care Places for First Australians
Mirage News
“Aged care providers are invited to apply for funding under the expanded NATSIFAC program's first grants round, which is designed to improve access to culturally-safe aged services in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities,” Minister ...

UQ News
Indigenous fire practice protecting the Gibson Desert's biodiversity
UQ News
Traditional Indigenous burning practices are protecting plant biodiversity in Australia's Gibson Desert, according to University of Queensland research. The study analysed how environments dominated by flammable spinifex grasses and fire-sensitive ...

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The Australian
Gooda to improve remote housing in Qld
The Australian
Mick Gooda has taken on the role, with Deputy Premier Jackie Trad saying the human rights advocate has a "wealth of experience" in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. "This is especially important as we are ...

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NEWS.com.au
Gooda to improve remote housing in Qld
NEWS.com.au
Mick Gooda has taken on the role, with Deputy Premier Jackie Trad saying the human rights advocate has a "wealth of experience" in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. "This is especially important as we are ...

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ArtsHub
How dance connects First Peoples on the world stage
ArtsHub
'And the thing we're learning also is that unsurprisingly, a lot of the ways that stories are told are very similar – as they are through dance in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia, they would be in India for Indigenous people there as ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
The Aboriginal Memorial – A Smouldering Reproach
Aboriginal Art Directory News
His enthusiasm drew in the Australia Council's Aboriginal Arts Board; followed by James Mollison at the NGA who was looking for “inspirational Australian art to match the drawing power of Blue Poles”. As people walk through the Aboriginal Poles today, ...

Independent Australia
The unique circumstance of Australian racism
Independent Australia
The media's continual call for Aboriginal people to counteract the most basic forms of racism suggests its vested interest in propagating this racism, writes Celeste Liddle. LAST WEEK, I nearly gave up commentary. I have, over the six years that I have ...

Independent Australia
The unique circumstance of Australian racism
Independent Australia
The media's continual call for Aboriginal people to counteract the most basic forms of racism suggests its vested interest in propagating this racism, writes Celeste Liddle. LAST WEEK, I nearly gave up commentary. I have, over the six years that I have ...

The Australian
Indigenous voice to parliament 'can't fail', says Tickner
The Australian
Australia's longest-serving Aboriginal affairs minister has warned that efforts to establish a proposed advisory “voice” for parliament “absolutely must not be allowed to fail” if the gap on indigenous disadvantage is to be closed. Robert Tickner, in ...

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The Australian
Indigenous voice to parliament 'can't fail', says Tickner
The Australian
Australia's longest-serving Aboriginal affairs minister has warned that efforts to establish a proposed advisory “voice” for parliament “absolutely must not be allowed to fail” if the gap on indigenous disadvantage is to be closed. Robert Tickner, in ...

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The Canberra Times
Morrison's selfish arrogance on climate change
The Canberra Times
And where's the "exclusively" Aboriginal in all Australians saying sorry for how our first people have been treated? Do those who are sorry have no part? What's only Aboriginal, rather than for everyone, in Harmony Day? Are only Aboriginals reconciled ...

The Australian
Common Ground leads Rona Glynn-McDonald to family tradition
The Australian
Glynn-McDonald is a Kaytetye woman, a granddaughter of Freda Glynn, co-founder of the pioneering Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, and her filmmaking ties include her parents, Warwick Thornton and Penny McDonald, and her brother ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Eating disorders, youth and Indigenous mental illness priorities of $125m government mission
The Sydney Morning Herald
“More than three-quarters of mental health problems begin before the age of 25, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders experience higher levels of certain mental illness and higher rates of suicide deaths than other Australians, and that eating ...

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