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Aboriginal Health Council commits funds to mental health training
SafeToWork
Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA) has allocated $1 million of funding to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal communities. Communities that are set to receive mental health training by the end of 2019 include the mining ...

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Banking royal commission: Superannuation has failed indigenous Australia
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous Australians have been failed by the superannuation system with balances that are 23 per cent lower than non-indigenous Australians and mean balances at retirement that are 46 per cent lower than what is needed for a comfortable retirement.

B&T
BWM Dentsu Group Launches Reconciliation Action Plan To Address Industry Inequality
B&T
BWM Dentsu Group's RAP framework will help to review and enhance existing relationships, respect and trust between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians, through a series of tangible, long-term commitments.

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B&T
BWM Dentsu Group Launches Reconciliation Action Plan To Address Industry Inequality
B&T
BWM Dentsu Group's RAP framework will help to review and enhance existing relationships, respect and trust between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians, through a series of tangible, long-term commitments.

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On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
ArtsHub
Stokes has worked for the Australia Council for the Arts as a Project Officer for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board (ATSIA). He has also been Production Assistant on Living Black on SBS TV; Content Division Manager at National ...

ABC Local
Government-controlled supermarkets accused of ripping off remote shoppers
ABC Local
The "inflated" prices were recorded last month at remote stores in Queensland, many of which are run by a group controlled by the State Government. Lockhart River Mayor Wayne Butcher said shoppers in remote Indigenous communities were being ripped ...

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The Australian
Gunybi Ganambarr wins top prize at Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
The Australian
“If you look across contemporary practice in Australia and internationally, people are always working with teams of people to help realise a vision, and so indigenous practitioners are now doing the same, and I think that's really exciting because it ...

Aljazeera.com
Can Aboriginal ecotourism save communities as companies eye land?
Aljazeera.com
Broome, Australia - Bart Pigram leads a group of tourists through a mangrove thicket, telling stories and discussing the landscape. The group is a mix of Australian and international visitors, all having travelled significant distances to be here in ...

ABC News
Living and working at Maralinga, the legacy of Australia's nuclear ambitions
ABC News
... of far-west South Australia for an atomic testing site. Official remediation of the site was completed in 2000, but there is still controversy about the safety of the site, especially regarding the long-term health of the Maralinga Tjarutja ...

ABC News
One hundred years of history reflected in extraordinary community-built Kimberley 'mother of pearl' church
ABC News
Gleaming white and often described as a slice of Germany in Australia's far north-west, the church can seem incongruous to those who do not appreciate the long history of connection between Kimberley Aboriginal people and Catholicism. The spectacular ...

Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Details announced for 2018 Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Initial program details have been released for the 2018 Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference (AITC), set to take place in Lorne from 30th October to 1st November. Current features on the program include a chance to hear about the Camping with ...

Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Details announced for 2018 Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Initial program details have been released for the 2018 Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference (AITC), set to take place in Lorne from 30th October to 1st November. Current features on the program include a chance to hear about the Camping with ...

ABC News
National Indigenous Music Awards 2018: Gurrumul and Baker Boy win big
ABC News
The Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir was awarded a NIMA Special Achievement Award. The B-Town Warriors from Bourke High School in north-western New South Wales won Community Clip of the Year for their Thundercloud video.

ABC News
National Indigenous Music Awards 2018: Gurrumul and Baker Boy win big
ABC News
The Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir was awarded a NIMA Special Achievement Award. The B-Town Warriors from Bourke High School in north-western New South Wales won Community Clip of the Year for their Thundercloud video.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Trend for Australians to live longer reshapes economy
The Sydney Morning Herald
Although there is one factor that tempers this national achievement – the life expectancy of indigenous Australians is about 10 years lower than for the non-Indigenous population. Australian women outlive men, on average, but blokes are closing the gap.

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theMusic
Gurrumul, Baker Boy Win Big At The 2018 National Indigenous Music Awards
theMusic
Australia's biggest celebration of First Nations music, tonight's NT-based event saw some of the country's best indigenous artists recognised, with Artist of the Year winner Gurrumul's posthumous masterpiece, Djarrimirri (Child of the Rainbow), picking ...
Baker Boy, Gurrumul big winners at National Indigenous Music AwardsThe Guardian

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theMusic
Gurrumul, Baker Boy Win Big At The 2018 National Indigenous Music Awards
theMusic
Australia's biggest celebration of First Nations music, tonight's NT-based event saw some of the country's best indigenous artists recognised, with Artist of the Year winner Gurrumul's posthumous masterpiece, Djarrimirri (Child of the Rainbow), picking ...
Baker Boy, Gurrumul big winners at National Indigenous Music AwardsThe Guardian

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Macquarie Sports Radio
Robert De Castella's vision for future Indigenous athletes
Macquarie Sports Radio
“One day we will see superstars come out of Indigenous Australia just like Cathy Freeman.” Despite winning the City to Surf event in his prime in 1977, these days his focus is on promoting a healthy lifestyle and mind. “There is a saying – If you want ...

ABC News
Surfing competition celebrates forgotten hero, an Indigenous surf lifesaver in the early 1900s
ABC News
Mr Slabb's father started one of the first Indigenous surfing competitions in Australia at Fingal in 1996. It ran until 1999 when their sponsor Billabong dropped out. Joel and Mary Slabb revived the event in 2016 but the Juraki Surf Invitational is not ...

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cricket.com.au
Doggett dares to dream of Test debut
cricket.com.au
While Brendan Doggett remains coy about his chances of a Test berth, the speedster admits it would be a source of immense pride to become the third Indigenous Australian to pull on the Baggy Green. This week's confirmation that star quicks Pat Cummins ...