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Medical history: Leprosy is a terror of the past. Right?
RACGP
The disease remained relatively rare in Australia until the late 1800s. It mainly afflicted Chinese immigrants, from where it spread to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and then became more common in the white community, as ...

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Bega District News
Giiyong Festival the first of its kind in Yuin Nation
Bega District News
Also, she recommended the “incredible” talk panel featuring co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples Jackie Huggins as well as Uncle Noel Butler's traditional cooking demonstration and tasting, and the women's dance ceremony by ...

Bega District News
Giiyong Festival the first of its kind in Yuin Nation
Bega District News
Also, she recommended the “incredible” talk panel featuring co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples Jackie Huggins as well as Uncle Noel Butler's traditional cooking demonstration and tasting, and the women's dance ceremony by ...

The Guardian
Morning mail: Australia's lax lobbying regime laid bare
The Guardian
As part of Victoria's treaty push, Australians were encouraged to ask anything they had ever wanted to know about Aboriginal people. Now, a group of prominent Indigenous Victorians has answered them. Of the questions submitted by 2,600 Victorians, 19% ...

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ABC News
Learning how to tame Australia's 'wild, crazy, untrusting' desert brumbies
ABC News
Ian Conway, the owner and manager of Kings Creek Station, said many Aboriginal people in the area were opposed to culling — they see it as horses being destroyed for no reason. "When the cull was on they really didn't want them shot, and they ...

The Guardian
Indigenous campaign's Deadly Questions revealed as Victoria pushes for treaty
The Guardian
“[They have asked] how our quality of life is going in Australia because they actually want to know. It's odd to me that some people have gone through their life without actually having a conversation with an Aboriginal person, but apparently they exist.”.
Vic project spurs indigenous treaty debateSBS

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The Guardian
Indigenous campaign's Deadly Questions revealed as Victoria pushes for treaty
The Guardian
“[They have asked] how our quality of life is going in Australia because they actually want to know. It's odd to me that some people have gone through their life without actually having a conversation with an Aboriginal person, but apparently they exist.”.
Vic project spurs indigenous treaty debateSBS

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Vic project spurs indigenous treaty debate
SBS
Looking back on her own schooling, she knows most people's education about indigenous Australia is limited. "We never got to hear about our mob doing great things and achieving things," Ms Lee said. The Victorian parliament passed legislation in June ...

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Vic project spurs indigenous treaty debate
SBS
Looking back on her own schooling, she knows most people's education about indigenous Australia is limited. "We never got to hear about our mob doing great things and achieving things," Ms Lee said. The Victorian parliament passed legislation in June ...

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The Australian
Health system struggling with organ donation success
The Australian
Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt in June announced an expert panel would investigate and identify any barriers faced by First Nations people in need of kidney donations. A study in the Medical Journal of Australia today confirms indigenous people ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'Advance Australia Fair is an anthem that is racist at so many levels'
The Sydney Morning Herald
“When it says 'we are young' it completely disregards the Indigenous Australians who were here before us for over 50,000 years," she said. “When it was originally written, Advance Australia Fair meant advance the white people of Australia." So for ...

Pursuit
Truth telling at Garma
Pursuit
“We aim to build a reconciliation culture for all Australians, supporting Indigenous development and contributing to the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.” Djawa Yunupingu is deputy chair of the Yothu Yindi Foundation. He is a ...

Pursuit
Truth telling at Garma
Pursuit
Professor Langton is a descendant of an Iman ancestor from the Upper Dawson Valley in Queensland and holds the University's Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies. “The partnership of the Yothu Yindi Foundation and the University of ...

Indigenous campaign's Deadly Questions revealed as Victoria pushes for treaty  The Guardian

Organisers feared the project might amplify racist opinions but were pleasantly surprised by the results.

SBS
Doctors urged to quiz pregnant women about drinking habits
SBS
Australia's first ever prevalence study of FASD, conducted in an Aboriginal community in Western Australia in 2012, found a prevalence rate of 12 per cent among children. Critics of the study have noted its high-risk population and small sample size ...

The Guardian
'I just want answers': Mr Yeeda's death in custody and the health warnings that failed to save him
The Guardian
The Miriuwung and Gajerrong man had rheumatic heart disease, a preventable condition that affects 400 people in the Kimberley and about 6,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia. Before he was jailed he received regular ...

The Guardian
'I just want answers': Mr Yeeda's death in custody and the health warnings that failed to save him
The Guardian
The Miriuwung and Gajerrong man had rheumatic heart disease, a preventable condition that affects 400 people in the Kimberley and about 6,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia. Before he was jailed he received regular ...

ABC News
Australia facing an 'epidemic of child abuse and neglect', according to experts
ABC News
"Previously estimates would have been around 10 per cent of children being the subject of re-reports," she said. "We've actually found that 90 per cent of those children are the subject of re-reports." The results on the study of Aboriginal families is ...

ABC News
WA remote community offers money for feral cat killing to protect native Australian bilby
ABC News
The desert community in the heart of Western Australia has experienced a spike in the number of the pests in recent years, according to Kate Crossing from the Kiwirrkurra Indigenous Protection Agency. "Over the last four years that we've been recording ...

ABC News
WA remote community offers money for feral cat killing to protect native Australian bilby
ABC News
The desert community in the heart of Western Australia has experienced a spike in the number of the pests in recent years, according to Kate Crossing from the Kiwirrkurra Indigenous Protection Agency. "Over the last four years that we've been recording ...