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PM wants new day to recognise indigenous
Bendigo Advertiser
Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants a separate day to recognise indigenous Australians. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for a special day to be set aside to recognise indigenous Australians, but doesn't want it to replace Australia Day. The ...

SBS
Scott Morrison calls for special day to honour and recognise Indigenous people
SBS
Every year, the government faces growing calls to change the date of Australia Day out of respect for Indigenous Australians. Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people feel it is wrong to celebrate a day that marked the beginning of British ...

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ABC News
Why doesn't the Northern Territory have an AFL team?
ABC News
AFL was first played in the NT in 1916; It is now its most popular sport; It is particularly popular in Indigenous communities, such as the Tiwi Islands; Participation in the AFL is higher in the Territory per capita than any other Australian ...

ABC Message Stick
Native Mounted Police camps, evidence of frontier battles unearthed in Queensland
ABC Message Stick
Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of paramilitary Native Mounted Police camps across Queensland, shedding light on Australia's violent frontier history. Professor Bryce Barker, an archaeological anthropologist from the University of Southern ...

The Australian
Scott Morrison wants to create a national day for indigenous Australians
The Australian
Scott Morrison wants to create a new national day to honour and acknowledge the 60,000 year history of indigenous Australians. As the Prime Minister stepped up his attack on local councils exploiting divisions over our national holiday, he also ...
Australia Day: Prime Minister Scott Morrison insists on January 26 but wants a new 'indigenous day'Daily Telegraph

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Grafton Daily Examiner
PM's jab at councils as he reveals indigenous day plan
Grafton Daily Examiner
SCOTT Morrison has flagged a new national day for indigenous Australians in a bid to end ongoing division over Australia Day. In his strongest words on the campaign to change the date of the celebration of Australia's national day, the Prime Minister ...

Queensland Times
Council stripped of Australia Day honour
Queensland Times
The Prime Minister slammed the northern NSW Green-leaning council for citing indigenous hurt for moving its Australia Day celebrations a day forward to January 25, but surprisingly flagged a new day to honour First Australians. Mr Morrison told The ...

Mackay Daily Mercury
Embrace national story on day it started
Mackay Daily Mercury
It's the day we celebrate all Australians, all their stories, all their journeys. It is a day for us to come together. We do this on January 26, because that was the day that Australia changed forever. Before that day there was 60,000 years of ...

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The Advertiser
Australian Cancer Atlas allows you to compare your suburb for cancer diagnosis and death rates
The Advertiser
“Indigenous Australians have higher diagnosis rates of the more fatal cancer types such as lung cancer, liver cancer, head and neck cancers, pancreatic cancer and oesophageal cancer, and cervical and uterine cancers among indigenous women,” he said.

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The Australian
Shorten faces push to bring in gay and indigenous MP quotas
The Australian
“We should consider quotas for sections of our community that are under-represented in our parliaments, including indigenous Australians and the LGBTI community,” the manifesto said. The manifesto was covered in major media outlets, with the ABC ...

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Daily Telegraph
Australia Day: Prime Minister Scott Morrison insists on January 26 but wants a new 'indigenous day'
Daily Telegraph
Mr Morrison's position is that Australia Day should be celebrated on January 26, to acknowledge that on this day “Australia changed forever” and, prior to this, there was 60,000 years of indigenous history. “We know there are things that have happened ...
PM attacks Byron's alternative Australia Day planEchonetdaily

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Daily Telegraph
January 26 to stay but ScoMo wants to create a day for indigenous Australians
Daily Telegraph
SCOTT Morrison wants to create a new national day — separate from Australia Day — to honour and acknowledge the history of indigenous Australians. As the Prime Minister stepped up his attack on local councils exploiting divisions over our national ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'Worst HIV outbreak' for Indigenous people clouds drug funding issue
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Queensland government's decision to suddenly withdraw $740,000 from trials of a successful HIV drug trial has put more than 1400 men “in limbo”, according to a sexual health expert closely linked to the trial. That was despite $870,000 in funding ...

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OUPblog (blog)
Missing Persons? Aboriginal people in Western Australian mental hospitals
OUPblog (blog)
Indigenous Australians, like most indigenous peoples, have a long history of engaging with European-style mental health services both in and out of the colonial era. However, their history is poorly documented and largely unexplored. We can't even say ...

ABC News
Australian HIV rates declining overall, but not for everyone
ABC News
963 new cases of HIV infection in Australia in 2017, compared to 2,412 at peak of epidemic in 1987; 7 per cent decline in HIV rates in Australia over past 5 years; 41 per cent increase in HIV rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...
HIV on the rise in straight Australian men, Kirby Institute reportThe Sydney Morning Herald
HIV rates continue to increase in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communitiesABC Local
HIV on the rise among straight Aussie men, finds Kirby Institute reportNEWS.com.au
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ABC News
Australian HIV rates declining overall, but not for everyone
ABC News
963 new cases of HIV infection in Australia in 2017, compared to 2,412 at peak of epidemic in 1987; 7 per cent decline in HIV rates in Australia over past 5 years; 41 per cent increase in HIV rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...
HIV on the rise in straight Australian men, Kirby Institute reportThe Sydney Morning Herald
HIV rates continue to increase in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communitiesABC Local
HIV rates among heterosexuals on the rise in AustraliaSBS
NEWS.com.au -Pharmacy News
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Mandurah Mail
Butler credits Pinjarra for understanding Indigenous struggles
Mandurah Mail
“For me, it was the first time I came in contact with Indigenous Australia and the Noongar people of Pinjarra. “I became really good friends with a couple of families in town.” Butler said he became close with the Kearing family, in particular. “I ...

UNSW Newsroom
UNSW Indigenous Law Centre associate appointed ACT's first Aboriginal magistrate
UNSW Newsroom
... a past member of the ACT Domestic Violence Prevention Council, and former Chair of the ACT Ministerial Advisory Council on Women. She is a member of the Law Council of Australia's Indigenous Legal Issues Committee and was the 2009 recipient of the ...

ABC Local
HIV rates continue to increase in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
ABC Local
Rates of HIV infection in Australia's Indigenous communities remain stubbornly high, even as they drop across the population. New figures released today show that in 2017 Australia had its lowest number of new diagnoses in seven years. But researchers ...

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ABC Local
HIV rates continue to increase in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
ABC Local
Rates of HIV infection in Australia's Indigenous communities remain stubbornly high, even as they drop across the population. New figures released today show that in 2017 Australia had its lowest number of new diagnoses in seven years. But researchers ...

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