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RACGP
Latest report shows continued positive results for Australian breast screening program
RACGP
This year's Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report, released during Breast Cancer Awareness month, shows continued positive results from the screening program, which has helped diagnose a ...

RACGP
Latest report shows continued positive results for Australian breast screening program
RACGP
This year's Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report, released during Breast Cancer Awareness month, shows continued positive results from the screening program, which has helped diagnose a ...

The Guardian
Songs for Peace: how Roebourne is turning the page on tragedy
The Guardian
To build goodwill, and to bolster community, on Saturday – the weekend anniversary of Pat's death – Big hART and the local Indigenous community launched the inaugural Songs for Peace next door to a memorial that was opened for him last year. “We will ...

The Guardian
Songs for Peace: how Roebourne is turning the page on tragedy
The Guardian
To build goodwill, and to bolster community, on Saturday – the weekend anniversary of Pat's death – Big hART and the local Indigenous community launched the inaugural Songs for Peace next door to a memorial that was opened for him last year. “We will ...

The Guardian
Indigenous council seeks 'clarity' on Tony Abbott's envoy role
The Guardian
Ah See said there was a need to “future-proof” Aboriginal affairs by establishing a voice to parliament in the constitution “as a matter of priority” so that it could not be dismantled by the government of the day. He also reiterated his views about ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous council seeks 'clarity' on Tony Abbott's envoy role
The Guardian
He also reiterated his views about Australia Day falling on 26 January, and Morrison's suggestion for a separate day to celebrate Indigenous people. “I've made no secret of my view that we have to change the date,” Ah See said. “The date has to change ...

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ABC News
Australian bustards, also known as bush turkeys, spotted at Neds Corner, Victoria
ABC News
A native apex predator nearly shot out of existence by the early settlers has been spotted in Victoria's north-west, giving hope that massive regeneration works along the Murray River are enticing the bird back to the state. Known by the Indigenous ...

ABC Life
How living in regional Australia can do wonders for your career
ABC Life
We found three Australians from Wagga Wagga in NSW, Katherine in the NT, and Dodges Ferry in south-east Tasmania, who have found success in their work. They say technology, regional grants and work-life balance play a part, and they share the career ...

Pro Bono Australia
Buy a Dress, Buy Empowerment
Pro Bono Australia
“I moved to Darwin after graduating uni to work as lawyer for the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, and we were going out to remote communities a lot,” McGowan tells Pro Bono News. “I fell in love with the textiles being printed out in the ...

The Guardian
WA Indigenous community tries to rid water supply of unsafe level of uranium
The Guardian
An Aboriginal community in Western Australia is trying to raise money to fix its water supply, which contains unsafe levels of uranium. Buttah Windee is a community of four houses about 3km from Meekatharra, a mining town that's name means “place of ...

The Guardian
WA Indigenous community tries to rid water supply of unsafe level of uranium
The Guardian
An Aboriginal community in Western Australia is trying to raise money to fix its water supply, which contains unsafe levels of uranium. Buttah Windee is a community of four houses about 3km from Meekatharra, a mining town that's name means “place of ...

The Guardian (blog)
Etched in Bone – chronicling Australia's shameful trade in Indigenous remains
The Guardian (blog)
Etched in Bone brings the remarkable insight and sensitivity of Thomas, a multiaward-winning historian and writer – now filmmaker – to the profound cultural impact on one Indigenous community touched by the 1948 American-Australian scientific ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Etched in Bone – chronicling Australia's shameful trade in Indigenous remains
The Guardian (blog)
Etched in Bone brings the remarkable insight and sensitivity of Thomas, a multiaward-winning historian and writer – now filmmaker – to the profound cultural impact on one Indigenous community touched by the 1948 American-Australian scientific ...

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National Indigenous Times
Action needed on regional and remote virus rise
National Indigenous Times
Associate Professor Ward also said while 70 percent of diagnoses in non-Indigenous Australia were men who had sex with other men, in the Indigenous population more than half of all diagnoses were heterosexual people infected through sex or drugs.

The Australian
Abbott must kickstart indigenous business
The Australian
Many indigenous leaders have spent years fighting to help their communities wean off destructive passive welfare: Cape York's Richie Ah Mat, and Gerhardt and Noel Pearson; Western Australia's Wayne Bergmann; Victoria's Marcia Langton; and the far ...

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Courier Mail
Letters to the Editor, October 3, 2018
Courier Mail
Aborigines have a wonderfully rich and diverse cultural history to share with all Australians, and Australia Day is the only day that celebrates not only Aboriginal achievements but also the contributions of citizens originating from all over the world ...

Courier Mail
Letters to the Editor, October 3, 2018
Courier Mail
Australia Day aside, I believe there is strong support for indigenous Australians to have a day to celebrate and display their culture, history and lifestyle. Why not? There are already days that recognise and celebrate the culture of Australian ...

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Daily Telegraph
Call for 'Corroboree Day' petty identity politics
Daily Telegraph
The Veterans Affairs Minister this week has just added more fuel to the NSW government's astonishingly self-inflicted funeral pyre with his idiotic idea of an alternative indigenous Australia Day. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory ...

ABC News
Tasmanian Aboriginal group calls for west coast land handback
ABC News
Tasmania's Aboriginal Land Council is pushing for what would be the first handback of land in more than a decade to preserve "precious" Indigenous sites on the state's west coast. The narrow strip of land running from Granville Harbour in the south to ...

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ABC News
Tasmanian Aboriginal group calls for west coast land handback
ABC News
Tasmania's Aboriginal Land Council is pushing for what would be the first handback of land in more than a decade to preserve "precious" Indigenous sites on the state's west coast. The narrow strip of land running from Granville Harbour in the south to ...

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