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The Guardian
WA minister says Scullion 'unsuitable' to resolve remote Indigenous housing dispute
The Guardian
Nigel Scullion is “unsuitable” to resolve a dispute over funding for housing in remote Indigenous communities, according to Western Australian Aboriginal affairs minister Ben Wyatt. WA has been at odds with the federal government since December over ...

The Australian
Indigenous illness 'triple the norm' - The Australian
The Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are plagued by chronic illnesses at a rate 2.6 times that of other Australians, the problem fuelled by poverty and limited ...
Rates of newly diagnosed HIV among Indigenous people rise 33 per ...The Sydney Morning Herald

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Rates of newly diagnosed HIV among Indigenous people rise 33 per cent
The Sydney Morning Herald
Immediate action is needed to stem new cases of HIV among Australia's Indigenous people, researchers have argued. National data shows a 33 per cent increase in new cases of HIV diagnosed in Indigenous people, from 4.8 per 100,000 people in 2012 to ...
Indigenous illness 'triple the norm'The Australian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Rates of newly diagnosed HIV among Indigenous people rise 33 per cent
The Sydney Morning Herald
Immediate action is needed to stem new cases of HIV among Australia's Indigenous people, researchers have argued. National data shows a 33 per cent increase in new cases of HIV diagnosed in Indigenous people, from 4.8 per 100,000 people in 2012 to ...
Indigenous illness 'triple the norm'The Australian

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AGPT Program Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Salary Support Program Policy 2023  Australian Government Department of Health

AGPT Program Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Salary Support Program Policy 2023  Australian Government Department of Health

The Guardian
Funeral funds scrutinised for targeting Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
The targeting of Indigenous Australians, including children, for funeral insurance plans will be investigated by the banking royal commission. The inquiry moves to Darwin this week to focus on how financial issues affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Banking royal commission to look at funeral insurance that 'targets vulnerable people'ABC News

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The Guardian
Funeral funds scrutinised for targeting Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
The targeting of Indigenous Australians, including children, for funeral insurance plans will be investigated by the banking royal commission. The inquiry moves to Darwin this week to focus on how financial issues affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Banking royal commission to look at funeral insurance that 'targets vulnerable people'ABC News

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The Guardian
Northern Territory 'should be test bed' for Uluru statement proposals
The Guardian
The Northern Territory should become the “test bed” for reforms proposed in the Uluru statement and establish a formal Indigenous voice to Parliament, a former Labor parliamentarian and political analyst says. On Sunday, the Territory is marking 40 ...

ABC News
Banking royal commission to look at funeral insurance that 'targets vulnerable people'
ABC News
ACBF is a Gold Coast-based private business that sells funeral insurance almost exclusively to Indigenous Australians. In 2015 it was revealed thousands of Aboriginal children and babies were being signed up to insurance schemes through the fund that ...

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ABC News
Banking royal commission to look at funeral insurance that 'targets vulnerable people'
ABC News
ACBF is a Gold Coast-based private business that sells funeral insurance almost exclusively to Indigenous Australians. In 2015 it was revealed thousands of Aboriginal children and babies were being signed up to insurance schemes through the fund that ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous sentencing trial overdue
The Canberra Times
The framework for an "Australian-first" sentencing system to combat increasing Indigenous incarceration rates in Canberra has been revealed in documents released under freedom of information laws. Legal Aid ACT was commissioned by the ACT ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous sentencing trial overdue
The Canberra Times
The framework for an "Australian-first" sentencing system to combat increasing Indigenous incarceration rates in Canberra has been revealed in documents released under freedom of information laws. Legal Aid ACT was commissioned by the ACT ...

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Fox Sports
Patty Mills heaps praise on young Indigenous-Australian star Tamuri Wigness Jr. ahead of FIBA U17 World Cup
Fox Sports
He points to Nathan Jawai – the Cairns Taipans centre – as one of his role models, and was recently an Australian indigenous Basketball All Star. For Mills, whose father, Benny, is a Torres Strait Islander, giving back to his community has long been a ...

Fox Sports
Patty Mills heaps praise on young Indigenous-Australian star Tamuri Wigness Jr. ahead of FIBA U17 World Cup
Fox Sports
He points to Nathan Jawai – the Cairns Taipans centre – as one of his role models, and was recently an Australian indigenous Basketball All Star. For Mills, whose father, Benny, is a Torres Strait Islander, giving back to his community has long been a ...

ABC News
Last Rabbit-Proof Fence girl, Daisy Kadibil, laid to rest in her homeland
ABC News
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following story contains images and names of people who have died. Hundreds of people have travelled to the remote West Australian community of Jigalong to farewell the ...

The Australian
Trial tries to lift Aboriginal vote
The Australian
Ms Dhamarrandji, an Aboriginal woman from Galiwin'ku on tropical Elcho Island off the Arnhem Land coast, is working for the Australian Electoral Commission to educate people about how the democratic process works and why it is important. Young men ...

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Funeral funds scrutinised for targeting Indigenous Australians  The Guardian

Indigenous Australians have been paying for four or five funeral insurance policies for their families, consumer groups say.

Pro Bono Australia
UN Set To Review Australia's Record On Women's Rights – And May Find it Wanting
Pro Bono Australia
The committee is expected to question the government on the endemic nature of violence against women in Australia, and the disproportionate impact this has on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women with disability (who are 40 per cent more ...

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Outcry over word 'Aboriginal' continues as historians push for ban on changing certificates
ABC News
The decision by a West Australian bureaucrat to redact the word "Aboriginal" from official documents has created an outcry among archivists, genealogists and historians across Australia. WA is the only jurisdiction in Australia to deem the word ...