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The Sydney Morning Herald
As housing fight intensifies, 12000 West Australians wait in limbo
The Sydney Morning Herald
Preventable third-world diseases such as rheumatic fever are rife in the 165 communities housing about 21 per cent of WA's Aboriginal population (you can explore their names, locations and rough population estimates by clicking on the map below).

SBS
New $50 banknote to aid the blind through updated features
SBS
The portraits on the note remain the same with Australia's first published Aboriginal author and inventor David Unaipon and the first female member of an Australian parliament Edith Cowan. All new banknotes, released by the RBA, will have a series of ...

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Suicide intervention program trains Aboriginal communities to 'ask the question'
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Aboriginal adults are more than twice as likely than non-Indigenous Australians to commit suicide. It is the biggest killer of Indigenous children, accounting for 40 per cent of all deaths of Aboriginal youth. Robyn Martin knows the pain caused by suicide.

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Suicide intervention program trains Aboriginal communities to 'ask the question'
ABC Message Stick
Aboriginal adults are more than twice as likely than non-Indigenous Australians to commit suicide. It is the biggest killer of Indigenous children, accounting for 40 per cent of all deaths of Aboriginal youth. Robyn Martin knows the pain caused by suicide.

The Australian
Bid to banish child-killing 'disease of poverty'
The Australian
The End RHD campaign, flagged by experts in Darwin in February, will be rolled out in communities with high concentrations of disease by Aboriginal medical services in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia and Perth ...

The Aboriginal language taught more than Spanish in NSW schools
The Sydney Morning Herald
Junior school students at St Andrew's Cathedral College are already well beyond those stages in their lessons in Wiradjuri, one of Australia's largest Aboriginal languages, and recently sang in it when Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove visited the ...

The Age
An Indigenous day has much merit
The Age
In proposing a new national day to recognise and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is advancing a valuable discussion for Australia. The perennial, and often divisive, debate about the date of ...

The Age
An Indigenous day has much merit
The Age
In proposing a new national day to recognise and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is advancing a valuable discussion for Australia. The perennial, and often divisive, debate about the date of ...

SBS
Australia needs to deal with hard truth on racism: Indigenous commissioner June Oscar
SBS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner June Oscar said racism is "alive and kicking" and needs to be confronted for the country to move forward. Speaking on ABC TV, Dr Oscar said she disagreed with remarks by newly appointed ...

SBS
Australia needs to deal with hard truth on racism: Indigenous commissioner June Oscar
SBS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner June Oscar said racism is "alive and kicking" and needs to be confronted for the country to move forward. Speaking on ABC TV, Dr Oscar said she disagreed with remarks by newly appointed ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
State codifies 'white privilege' slur for bureaucrats
The Australian
Government departments in South Australia have been criticised for seemingly forcing bureaucrats to acknowledge “white privilege” in Aboriginal cultural awareness training. Conservative crossbench senator Cory Bernardi told The Australian that public ...
Unpacking 'is Australia a racist country?'IndigenousX (press release) (blog)

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IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Unpacking 'is Australia a racist country?'
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
We have governments spending more than ever on Indigenous businesses, but conversations about self-determination or reparations have entirely disappeared from federal politics. How do we balance the steps forward against the steps backwards to arrive ...

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IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Unpacking 'is Australia a racist country?'
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
'You're being too sensitive'. 'I didn't mean it that way – you're taking it out of context!'. 'They can't be racist, they are a lovely person!'. 'I can't be racist – I have an Aboriginal friend!'. 'I can't be racist, I've never even met an Aboriginal ...

ABC News
Preventing suicide
ABC News
Each year, around 3,000 people in Australia die at their own hand. More young people die by suicide than in car accidents, and Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to take their own lives. Hear some of the latest thinking in prevention ...

A First Nations Voice enshrined in the Australian Constitution will not make a difference, in fact, it will make matters worse and it will cede your Aboriginal sovereignty status.

The First Nations people in Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Finland explain what has happened over there, and they were not even colonised countries. (AUDIO 28 minutes)

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Independent Australia
BOOK REVIEW: A Long Way From No Go by Tjanara Goreng Goreng
Independent Australia
This memoir A Long Way From No Go, outlines Indigenous Australian woman Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng's struggles to overcome myriad adversity. But more than that, it also inspires fierce and unwavering resilience by detailing the fraught childhood Tjanara ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Bushfire threatening Aboriginal community in WA's north downgraded
The Sydney Morning Herald
Homes and lives are no longer under threat in the state's north after firefighters were able to contain a raging bushfire burning near a remote Aboriginal community on Sunday morning. The fire started near Looma in Camballin, and was reported to the ...
Lives, homes under threat as bushfire rages in WA's northThe Canberra Times

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ABC News
'Racism is alive and kicking': Indigenous commissioner challenges new race appointee's stance
ABC News
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner June Oscar has declared that racism in Australia is "alive and it's kicking" in response to comments by the nation's newly appointed race discrimination commissioner that Australia is ...

ABC News
'Racism is alive and kicking': Indigenous commissioner challenges new race appointee's stance
ABC News
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner June Oscar has declared that racism in Australia is "alive and it's kicking" in response to comments by the nation's newly appointed race discrimination commissioner that Australia is ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Bakers rise to use of native grains as kangaroo grass hops into recipes
The Sydney Morning Herald
When a group of sustainability and agriculture aficionados were hoping to make bread using native Australian grains, James Partington was just the baker to rise to the occasion. Mr Partington, who owns Staple Bread & Necessities at Seaforth in Sydney's ...

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