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NAIDOC Week: Indigenous marathon runner Nadine Hunt is a 'deadly' role model
ABC News
Back in 2011, Ms Hunt and training partner Bianca Graham became the first Australian Indigenous women to compete in the New York Marathon. The experience changed Ms Hunt's life and she's spent every day since working to inspire others to love running ...

Newcastle Herald
Professor Gail Garvey praises University Of Newcastle's Indigenous medical education program
Newcastle Herald
“The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association conducted a survey recently, and of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical students and doctors in Australia, 60 per cent had reported experiencing racism or discrimination on a weekly basis ...
Calls for Indigenous spotlight heardThe PIE News
How government agencies have focused on Indigenous women for NAIDOC WeekThe Mandarin
What to do this NAIDOC weekArtsHub
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ABC News
Aboriginal elder Aunty Esther Kirby calls out racism, saying people should be respected for individuality
ABC News
People share more similarities than differences, according to Aunty Esther Kirby OAM, who has called for respect and support in the face of racism. Baraparapa elder Aunty Esther, from Kerang in northern Victoria, remembers walking into a fish and chip ...

ABC News
Indigenous radio station delivers authentic local voices to remote West Kimberley and beyond
ABC News
Growing up in a large Indigenous family in a remote town in north west Western Australia gave Rebekah O'Meara the inspiration she needed to pursue her dream job. Ms O'Meara landed that job as a broadcaster on radio station 6DBY Larrkardi Radio in ...

ABC News
Indigenous radio station delivers authentic local voices to remote West Kimberley and beyond
ABC News
Growing up in a large Indigenous family in a remote town in north west Western Australia gave Rebekah O'Meara the inspiration she needed to pursue her dream job. Ms O'Meara landed that job as a broadcaster on radio station 6DBY Larrkardi Radio in ...

The Guardian
Australia on a plate: recognising Indigenous rights to bush food
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians have been growing and preparing native foods throughout their history, and that knowledge and those customs should be recognised, says Orcher. She points to the example of early settlers who, after seeing Indigenous Australians ...

The Guardian
Australia on a plate: recognising Indigenous rights to bush food
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians have been growing and preparing native foods throughout their history, and that knowledge and those customs should be recognised, says Orcher. She points to the example of early settlers who, after seeing Indigenous Australians ...

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ANZ hit with allegations of misconduct toward indigenous clients
YourMortgage.com.au
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) saw an increased round of pressure once again last Friday as it faced The Royal Commission for inappropriate behaviour when dealing with a number of indigenous clients. “Halfway through a year of ...

The Australian
Homesickness forges a career goal of helping indigenous children with schooling
The Australian
Now living in Wynnum, on the south side of Brisbane, with her mother and brother, she was supported in her move back to Queensland by the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation charity, which also paid for her to board at Clayfield College in ...

The PIE News
Calls for Indigenous spotlight heard
The PIE News
“Sometimes when international students come over to Australia and are participating in the Australian higher education system, there's not always that interplay between Indigenous students that perhaps the Indigenous students would like [or ...
How government agencies have focused on Indigenous women for NAIDOC WeekThe Mandarin
What to do this NAIDOC weekArtsHub
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UNSW Newsroom
Law alumna adds volume to calls for Indigenous referendum
UNSW Newsroom
UNSW Law alumna Teela Reid has urged both sides of government to use leadership and proceed on a referendum on the Uluru Statement of the Heart, which would give Indigenous Australians constitutional recognition. The lawyer, who was invited by the ...

UNSW Newsroom
Law alumna adds volume to calls for Indigenous referendum
UNSW Newsroom
UNSW Law alumna Teela Reid has urged both sides of government to use leadership and proceed on a referendum on the Uluru Statement of the Heart, which would give Indigenous Australians constitutional recognition. The lawyer, who was invited by the ...

Pedestrian TV
Queer, Female and Aboriginal: Surviving And Thriving As A Minority
Pedestrian TV
All too often Australia's Indigenous queer community can feel like we are invisible. Very little research has gone into understanding or representing First Nations LGBT+ realities or struggles. So our communities often go unheard, unseen and unaided ...

Pedestrian TV
Queer, Female and Aboriginal: Surviving And Thriving As A Minority
Pedestrian TV
All too often Australia's Indigenous queer community can feel like we are invisible. Very little research has gone into understanding or representing First Nations LGBT+ realities or struggles. So our communities often go unheard, unseen and unaided ...

The Ecologist
Aboriginal First Nations and Australia's 'pro-nuclear environmentalists'
The Ecologist
Australia's Aboriginal people have long been mistreated by governments and industry in the pursuit of nuclear projects. The attitudes of 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' or 'ecomodernists' towards Aboriginal people is as disrespectful as those of ...

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ABC News
Canberra Aboriginal driving program changing lives — and not just of the students
ABC News
While 70 per cent of non-Indigenous Australians get their licences, fewer than half of Aboriginal people do, according to the ALS. Indigenous people are also overrepresented in prisons for serving driving offences and more likely to have their licences ...

ABC News
Canberra Aboriginal driving program changing lives — and not just of the students
ABC News
While 70 per cent of non-Indigenous Australians get their licences, fewer than half of Aboriginal people do, according to the ALS. Indigenous people are also overrepresented in prisons for serving driving offences and more likely to have their licences ...

ABC News
The forgotten Aboriginal names for 10 of Melbourne's suburbs
ABC News
Ten previously forgotten Aboriginal names for 19th century sites and suburbs of Melbourne have been recently unearthed at the Melbourne Museum. These include the names for Fitzroy (Ngár-go), Richmond (Quo-yung), Collingwood (Yálla-birr-ang) and ...

ABC News
The forgotten Aboriginal names for 10 of Melbourne's suburbs
ABC News
Ten previously forgotten Aboriginal names for 19th century sites and suburbs of Melbourne have been recently unearthed at the Melbourne Museum. These include the names for Fitzroy (Ngár-go), Richmond (Quo-yung), Collingwood (Yálla-birr-ang) and ...

ABC News
Kurnai elder's supersized work lights up Loy Yang power station for NAIDOC week
ABC News
A spokesperson for power company AGL said that it chose to display the artwork on one of the cooling towers at its Loy Yang power station as a show of support and recognition of the achievements of Indigenous Australians. It's the first time Aboriginal ...