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Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Sports Commission acknowledges Indigenous Australians' contribution to sport
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is this week acknowledging the outstanding contribution Indigenous Australians make to sport with NAIDOC Week celebrations at its facilities across the country. Following an official Welcome to Country at the AIS ...
NAIDOC Week: King William IV 'intended a treaty' be negotiated with SA Aboriginal peopleABC News
The national scandal that blights our shared futureThe Sydney Morning Herald
High achieving women take top NAIDOC Week honoursThe Australian
InDaily -Brisbane Lions (press release) (blog) -IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
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ABC News
Domestic violence prevention brings together Indigenous men and women in outback community
ABC News
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 34 times more likely to be hospitalised as a result of domestic violence than any other group of women in Australia. One in 10 men have witnessed violence towards their mother by a partner before the age ...

ABC News
Domestic violence prevention brings together Indigenous men and women in outback community
ABC News
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 34 times more likely to be hospitalised as a result of domestic violence than any other group of women in Australia. One in 10 men have witnessed violence towards their mother by a partner before the age ...

The Guardian
Common struggle: Black Lives Matter leader talks of painful parallels with Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
He sees similarities in the experiences of Indigenous Australia and black America: in the historical dispossession and dislocation, and in the continuing disproportionate rates of incarceration, early death and suicide, in poorer health and shortened ...

ABC News
Low literacy levels among Indigenous children, young adults 'appalling', local elder and educator says
ABC News
"We know that at least 40 per cent, and up to 85 per cent, of Indigenous people aged 15 have low literacy," Mr Beetson said. "Wherever you go across Australia, there's a minimum of 40 per cent [with low literacy]." Mr Beetson said Indigenous literacy ...

ABC News
Low literacy levels among Indigenous children, young adults 'appalling', local elder and educator says
ABC News
"We know that at least 40 per cent, and up to 85 per cent, of Indigenous people aged 15 have low literacy," Mr Beetson said. "Wherever you go across Australia, there's a minimum of 40 per cent [with low literacy]." Mr Beetson said Indigenous literacy ...

The Advertiser
The cricketing pioneer we need to immortalise in bronze
The Advertiser
Before Nova Peris became the first Indigenous Australian to win Olympic gold, before Cathy Freeman lit up the stadium and our hearts in Sydney 2000 and before Evonne Goologong-Cawley went on to win 14 Grand Slams, there was Faith. And because of ...

The Advertiser
The cricketing pioneer we need to immortalise in bronze
The Advertiser
Faith was the first Indigenous woman to be selected to play for Australia for any sporting code. Let's take a moment here: any sporting code. Before Nova Peris became the first Indigenous Australian to win Olympic gold, before Cathy Freeman lit up the ...

WA Police formally apologise to Indigenous Australians  SBS

WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson has delivered an unprecedented speech apologising for the "devastating" mistreatment of Indigenous people by law ...

WA Police formally apologise to Indigenous Australians  SBS

WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson has delivered an unprecedented speech apologising for the "devastating" mistreatment of Indigenous people by law ...

ABC News
Remote work-for-the-dole scheme has 'devastating' impact on Indigenous people, say participants
ABC News
Ms Ulah, who lives in the remote Aboriginal community of Warburton, Western Australia, had been away without a mobile phone and had missed activities required under the remote work-for-the-dole scheme. She is one of 148 people in her community of 500 ...
Work-for-the-Dole participants slam schemeABC Local

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ABC News
Remote work-for-the-dole scheme has 'devastating' impact on Indigenous people, say participants
ABC News
Ms Ulah, who lives in the remote Aboriginal community of Warburton, Western Australia, had been away without a mobile phone and had missed activities required under the remote work-for-the-dole scheme. She is one of 148 people in her community of 500 ...

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Newcastle Herald
Opinion | The Ripple Effect: Improving health outcomes for Indigenous Australians
Newcastle Herald
Thirty-four years later, the Indigenous Medical Education entry program is recognised as one of the most successful and empowering models of Indigenous medical education, graduating more than a third of Australia's Indigenous doctors – a wonderful ...

Newcastle Herald
Opinion | The Ripple Effect: Improving health outcomes for Indigenous Australians
Newcastle Herald
Thirty-four years later, the Indigenous Medical Education entry program is recognised as one of the most successful and empowering models of Indigenous medical education, graduating more than a third of Australia's Indigenous doctors – a wonderful ...

ABC News
Indigenous women take out top gongs at annual NAIDOC awards
ABC News
A Bunuba woman, from Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia, Dr Oscar is one of the most respected Aboriginal leaders in the nation and has championed the rights of Indigenous girls and the preservation of languages. In 2007, she drove a community-led ...
The national scandal that blights our shared futureThe Sydney Morning Herald
Greens call for end to fake Indigenous art tradeInDaily
High achieving women take top NAIDOC Week honoursThe Australian
Brisbane Lions (press release) (blog) -The CEO Magazine (blog) -SBS
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ABC News
Pedestrians are seven times more likely to be killed in the NT — especially those who are Indigenous
ABC News
(Source: Australian police units / Australian Bureau of Statistics population data December 2017). But service providers are not surprised by the statistics, explaining that there are a range of factors putting Indigenous Australians in particular at risk.

ABC Local
Remote Indigenous Australia an 'untapped' talent pool for soccer, Matildas coach says
ABC Local
The head coach of the Matildas believes it is time soccer caught up to other sporting codes and tapped into the talent pool of remote Indigenous Australia. The revelation brought Alen Stajcic, the man at the helm of the national women's soccer team, ...

ABC Local
Remote Indigenous Australia an 'untapped' talent pool for soccer, Matildas coach says
ABC Local
The head coach of the Matildas believes it is time soccer caught up to other sporting codes and tapped into the talent pool of remote Indigenous Australia. The revelation brought Alen Stajcic, the man at the helm of the national women's soccer team, ...

ABC News
Council issues littering fine to former councillor who donated firewood to Aboriginal camp
ABC News
A West Australian man who donated cardboard and timber to people at an Aboriginal short-stay campsite has vowed to fight a littering fine in court. Up to 15 people a night stay at Boulder Camp, which was set up in the mid-1990s to temporarily ...

ABC News
Canberra's Indigenous rangers take park management back in time
ABC News
There are currently nine rangers spread across Canberra's parks depot, working to preserve Aboriginal heritage sites, conducting cultural burns, and enthusiastically sharing their knowledge of ancient Australia with school groups. Their name comes from ...