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Peter Macdonald, heart transplant pioneer, helping close the Indigenous life-expectancy gap
ABC News
"They are seriously disadvantaged and, as you know, we've got this awful gap in life expectancy between the Aboriginal community and non-Indigenous Australians. "What I do coming out here won't solve this problem but at least it's something. It's an ...

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Peter Macdonald, heart transplant pioneer, helping close the Indigenous life-expectancy gap
ABC News
"They are seriously disadvantaged and, as you know, we've got this awful gap in life expectancy between the Aboriginal community and non-Indigenous Australians. "What I do coming out here won't solve this problem but at least it's something. It's an ...

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Champions of Indigenous recognition to feature in Mason Conversation
UNSW Newsroom
“The 2018 Mason Conversation is the opportunity to hear from these two inspiring Aboriginal women from different generations and backgrounds, about this landmark process in Australian law and politics, and the personal journey that brought them to be ...

UNSW Newsroom
Champions of Indigenous recognition to feature in Mason Conversation
UNSW Newsroom
“The 2018 Mason Conversation is the opportunity to hear from these two inspiring Aboriginal women from different generations and backgrounds, about this landmark process in Australian law and politics, and the personal journey that brought them to be ...

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Unpaid domestic violence leave comes into effect across Australia
ABC News
In Alice Springs, the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (CAAC) has offered employees paid domestic violence leave since December 2017. General manager of health services Tracey Brand said the new legislation fell short of what she thought would ...
New work change to affect millions of AussiesQueensland Times

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Unpaid domestic violence leave comes into effect across Australia
ABC News
In Australia, one in three women will be affected by domestic violence, with Indigenous women disproportionately impacted. Indigenous women and girls are 32 times more likely to be hospitalised from family violence than the rest of the population.
Millions of Australians now eligible for domestic violence leaveHRM Asia

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The Conversation AU
'Digital land rights': co-designing technologies with Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
For the last 248 years, Indigenous Australians have experienced disruption and disadvantage as a result of colonisation. Now with the advent of the internet, the same structures that keep Indigenous people marginalised and isolated in the real world ...

The Conversation AU
'Digital land rights': co-designing technologies with Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
For the last 248 years, Indigenous Australians have experienced disruption and disadvantage as a result of colonisation. Now with the advent of the internet, the same structures that keep Indigenous people marginalised and isolated in the real world ...

The Australian
Noumea, Broome dancers explore independence movements
The Australian
The dancers in Le Dernier Appel come from a range of backgrounds, including indigenous Australian, Kanak from New Caledonia, Vietnamese and Indonesian. The performers bring with them their personal stories, experiences and their own dance styles, ...

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The Weekly Times
Australian Native Food and Botanicals: Amanda Garner raising interest in native foods
The Weekly Times
One couple who have pledged to put Aboriginal communities before their own profit is Gayle and Mike Quarmby, of indigenous plant, fruit and vegetable business Outback Pride in South Australia's Reedy Creek, 100km west of the Victorian border.

The Weekly Times
Australian Native Food and Botanicals: Amanda Garner raising interest in native foods
The Weekly Times
The organisation was established about a decade ago by Vic Cherikoff — regarded as a pioneer of the native Australian food industry — Chris Reid of Tasmanian native mountain pepper business Diemen Pepper, and a handful of others to develop native ...

The Australian
Dismantling ATSIC probably a mistake, says Amanda Vanstone
The Australian
The committee examined earlier examples of indigenous advisory bodies as well as current ones, such as the Murdi Paaki Regional Authority in western NSW, the Torres Strait Regional Authority, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and others.

The Australian
Dismantling ATSIC probably a mistake, says Amanda Vanstone
The Australian
The committee examined earlier examples of indigenous advisory bodies as well as current ones, such as the Murdi Paaki Regional Authority in western NSW, the Torres Strait Regional Authority, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and others.

ABC News
Indigenous Land Corporation to hand FNQ cattle stations back to traditional owners without cattle
ABC News
... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people to acquire land and manage assets. It runs 6 million hectares of cattle country across more than a dozen properties in far north Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia with around 78,000 ...

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Indigenous Land Corporation to hand FNQ cattle stations back to traditional owners without cattle
ABC News
... Territory and Western Australia with around 78,000 cattle. Many of the properties are used to not only breed and fatten cattle, but provide vocational training for Indigenous people. Mr Entsch said the ILC was failing in its charter to assist ...

The Guardian
Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction
The Guardian
It also recommended that Australia commit to a process of agreement-making and truth telling. Malcolm Turnbull rejected the voice idea, calling it undemocratic, but it has the support of Labor, the Greens and Australia's peak legal, community, and ...
Why the Law Council backs an Indigenous voice to ParliamentInDaily
First Nations Voice would 'inevitably' improve lives, says expertThe Mandarin

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The Guardian
Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction
The Guardian
It also recommended that Australia commit to a process of agreement-making and truth telling. Malcolm Turnbull rejected the voice idea, calling it undemocratic, but it has the support of Labor, the Greens and Australia's peak legal, community, and ...
Why the Law Council backs an Indigenous voice to ParliamentInDaily
First Nations Voice would 'inevitably' improve lives, says expertThe Mandarin

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Moree Champion
Noeline Briggs-Smith's achievements recognised in nomination for Australian of the Year
Moree Champion
Aunty Noeline Briggs Smith OAM has stood at the vanguard of social change for most of her life, as she has constantly fought to make a positive difference in the local Aboriginal community. While the achievements of the stalwart are well known in Moree ...

Moree Champion
Noeline Briggs-Smith's achievements recognised in nomination for Australian of the Year
Moree Champion
Aunty Noeline Briggs Smith OAM has stood at the vanguard of social change for most of her life, as she has constantly fought to make a positive difference in the local Aboriginal community. While the achievements of the stalwart are well known in Moree ...

Australian Ageing Agenda
Lack of integration between home support and primary care: report
Australian Ageing Agenda
Meanwhile, the report describes the drop in the number of indigenous people in home care over the last three years as concerning. According to a 2017 Aged Care Financing Authority report 330 fewer indigenous Australians were receiving home care in ...

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