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NSW Health funds scholarships for Indigenous doctors in training
UNSW Newsroom
Roughly 10% of all Indigenous doctors in Australia have received support from the scholarship program. Several graduates have recently taken up placements at Dubbo Base Hospital. “Each of these graduates is not just doing it for themselves, they are ...

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Time Out
Things you only know if you're an Indigenous astronomer
Time Out
“Indigenous Australians were the first people on our continent to look up and take meaning from the night sky, and while a lot of it is spiritual, there is science in it as well. I just released a research paper on the role of planets in Aboriginal ...

Time Out
Things you only know if you're an Indigenous astronomer
Time Out
“Indigenous Australians were the first people on our continent to look up and take meaning from the night sky, and while a lot of it is spiritual, there is science in it as well. I just released a research paper on the role of planets in Aboriginal ...

Katherine Times
$2 million funding to increase Indigenous spectacles access
Insight News
The Federal Government has invested $2 million to increase access to subsidised spectacles for Indigenous Australians. The one-off funding investment has been allocated to Vision 2020 Australia to allow it to work with state and territory governments ...
Katherine 'considered' for syphilis outbreak rolloutKatherine Times

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J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
NSW Labor to support Shalom Gamarada indigenous scholarship program
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
The program has been successful in its goal to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians through higher education and by increasing the number of Indigenous professionals, especially in the critical area of Indigenous health.

Widening the perspective on HIV among Indigenous Australians
The Lancet
bring timely attention to the increasing incidence of HIV among Indigenous Australians. They call for efforts to include Indigenous peoples in prevention strategies, particularly new biomedical interventions such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and ...

The Lancet
HIV incidence in Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Australia: a population-level observational study
The Lancet
Australia has set a national target of ending HIV by 2020, achieving this will require the inclusion of priority populations (eg, Indigenous Australians) in strategies to reach elimination. To assist in evaluating the target of elimination, we analysed ...

The Australian Financial Review
Greg Hunt drops in to see BOSS True Leader Sarah Brown
The Australian Financial Review
The ministers were in Alice Springs for a meeting of COAG health ministers, but in recognition of the Purple House's contribution to improving the health of Indigenous Australians, they dropped into the organisation's main headquarters, where chief ...

Phys.Org
When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?
Phys.Org
Analysis of maternal genetic lineages revealed that Aboriginal populations moved into Australia around 50,000 years ago. They rapidly swept around the west and east coasts in parallel movements—meeting around the Nullarbor just west of modern-day ...

9news.com.au
New indigenous inspired artwork to take pride of place in Sydney
9news.com.au
Despite the animus that has existed between first and colonial Australia, Aboriginal people want modern Australia to know and to appreciate indigenous history. As NSW Governor David Hurley recalled at today's launch, he was having a discussion with a ...
These giant fish hook sculptures will be Sydney's next major public artworkTime Out

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When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?  UNSW Newsroom

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Cold comfort from ancestors as Indigenous monument revealed
The Sydney Morning Herald
As an icy southerly gale tore across the northern end of the Domain, a small crowd gathered on the Tarpeian Lawn yesterday to hear about plans for a massive new public artwork celebrating Australia's First Peoples. As most of those present ...

Cold comfort from ancestors as Indigenous monument revealed
The Sydney Morning Herald
As an icy southerly gale tore across the northern end of the Domain, a small crowd gathered on the Tarpeian Lawn yesterday to hear about plans for a massive new public artwork celebrating Australia's First Peoples. As most of those present ...

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Program announced for Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference
CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
Current features on the program include a chance to hear about the Camping with Custodians program, which is an Australian-first initiative that builds campgrounds on Aboriginal lands. Attendees can also hear about the four-year Aboriginal Tourism ...

Program announced for Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference
CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
A copy of the program can be found online, with key highlights including a keynote presentation from Eddie Fry, Chair of Indigenous Land Council and Indigenous Business Australia. AITC 2018 will take place from 30 October to 1 November at the Mantra in ...

The Guardian
Indigenous children don't need to be fixed – they need rights and opportunities
The Guardian
Our kids need to grow up as Aboriginal children with rights and opportunities, with a voice and the ability to control their own destination. I am mix-matched – a creation by others who decided they knew what was best for me. I am a product of ...

Indigenous children don't need to be fixed – they need rights and opportunities
The Guardian
Our kids need to grow up as Aboriginal children with rights and opportunities, with a voice and the ability to control their own destination. I am mix-matched – a creation by others who decided they knew what was best for me. I am a product of ...

The Guardian
'Don't leave people behind': plea from stolen generation galvanises Garma
The Guardian
With the voice to parliament proposal stalled in a new joint select committee, Garma's key forums and fireside discussions debated the other ways to reach the end goal: substantive change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia ...

UNSW Newsroom
When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia? | UNSW ...
UNSW Newsroom
Aboriginal Australians have effectively been on their country as long as modern human populations have been outside of Africa. shutterstock_628816736.jpg.
When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?The Conversation AU
When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia? | MENAFN.COMMENAFN.COM (press release)

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The Advertiser
The big problem with legalising euthanasia
The Advertiser
In 2013, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released data showing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are 2.6 times more likely to die by suicide compared with non-Indigenous Australians. Suicide rates among young indigenous ...

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