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ABC News
Australia's first Indigenous ophthalmologist enjoys intricate nature of 'elegant' eye surgery
ABC News
There are few areas of medicine more specialised than eye surgery, but it is in that field — which is also highly competitive — that Kristopher Rallah-Baker has made history. Dr Rallah-Baker has become Australia's first Aboriginal ophthalmologist ...

The Guardian
All children in detention in the Northern Territory are indigenous
The Guardian
All children currently in detention in the Northern Territory are Aboriginal, according to data from the families department, prompting calls for reform of the justice system. In response to questioning at an NT Estimates hearing late last week, the ...

The Guardian
All children in detention in the Northern Territory are indigenous
The Guardian
All children currently in detention in the Northern Territory are Aboriginal, according to data from the families department, prompting calls for reform of the justice system. In response to questioning at an NT Estimates hearing late last week, the ...

Daily Telegraph
There are some familiar faces in Survivor Australia this year
Daily Telegraph
I've had to deal with a lot of stereotyping over my life and I always try and break the mould.” “I want to win the money to set my family up long term and I want to show Australia what so many of my family members and friends know about Aboriginal ...

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InDaily
Unveiling the uncomfortable truth of Indigenous youth suicide
InDaily
Youth suicide is a familiar issue for Australia's Indigenous communities. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, from 2012 to 2016 intentional self-harm was the leading cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people between ...

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EducationHQ Australia
Western Desert school 'reimagining' Indigenous education
EducationHQ Australia
The tiny K-12 school is doing big things when it comes to exploring new approaches to Indigenous science education, and it all starts with recognising the incredible resources that it already has at hand. Some 1000 kilometers from Perth and with only ...

The Conversation AU
Getting a heart check early can prevent heart attack and stroke in Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Most heart attacks and strokes can be prevented with appropriate treatment. Yet heart disease, including heart attacks, causes 13% of deaths among Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and is a major contributor to the gap in life ...
The concentration camps of Turnbull and TrumpIndependent Australia

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The Conversation AU
Victoria's treaty with Indigenous peoples must address vexed questions of sovereignty
The Conversation AU
The Victorian parliament has become the first in Australia to pass legislation to begin treaty negotiations with Indigenous peoples. It follows the Northern Territory government making a similar commitment, though not through legislation, and the New ...

The Conversation AU
Getting a heart check early can prevent heart attack and stroke in Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Yet heart disease, including heart attacks, causes 13% of deaths among Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and is a major contributor to the gap in life expectancy with non-Indigenous Australians. New findings from a study ...
The concentration camps of Turnbull and TrumpIndependent Australia

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The Conversation AU
Victoria's treaty with Indigenous peoples must address vexed questions of sovereignty
The Conversation AU
The Victorian parliament has become the first in Australia to pass legislation to begin treaty negotiations with Indigenous peoples. It follows the Northern Territory government making a similar commitment, though not through legislation, and the New ...

The Australian
Getting a line on Marree Man
The Australian
Marree, population 150, sits at the junction of the Oodnadatta and Birdsville tracks in the remote upper north of South Australia, east of one of Australia's great mysteries: the “Marree Man”, a 4.2km-long reproduction of a giant Aboriginal figure ...

ABC News
Australia's citizenship program should focus on Indigenous introduction, Darwin linguistics teacher says
ABC News
As Ganesh Koramannil passed through Sydney Central train station in 2004, a man approached and asked him for $2. It was an interaction he would have long forgotten, except the man was the first Indigenous Australian Mr Koramannil had ever met.

ABC News
Australia's citizenship program should focus on Indigenous introduction, Darwin linguistics teacher says
ABC News
As Ganesh Koramannil passed through Sydney Central train station in 2004, a man approached and asked him for $2. It was an interaction he would have long forgotten, except the man was the first Indigenous Australian Mr Koramannil had ever met.

ABC News
Marching off the mission: Aboriginal girls who took it to white Australia and won
ABC News
It is 1962 in Brisbane and a group of teenage girls sit on an airport fence, brimming with excitement. Their mouths are wide with joy and their polished white shoes gleam in the sun, as they wait for their first plane ride. Many had never before been ...

ABC News
Marching off the mission: Aboriginal girls who took it to white Australia and won
ABC News
It is 1962 in Brisbane and a group of teenage girls sit on an airport fence, brimming with excitement. Their mouths are wide with joy and their polished white shoes gleam in the sun, as they wait for their first plane ride. Many had never before been ...

ABC News
'It's not third world, but it's close': The town of Darlngunaya on the Fitzroy River, where the taps run dry
ABC News
Because of the land tenure — the site is held by the Aboriginal Lands Trust and leased to residents — the WA government says it is not responsible for ensuring a safe and consistent water supply, a situation Greens MP Robin Chapple said was ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'Not soft on crime': push for specialist indigenous court
The Sydney Morning Herald
The state's barristers and police are pushing the NSW government to urgently fund a specific indigenous court in a bid to lower the "spiralling number" of Aboriginal people in jail. In a significant move, the NSW Bar Association and and the Police ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'Not soft on crime': push for specialist indigenous court
The Sydney Morning Herald
The state's barristers and police are pushing the NSW government to urgently fund a specific indigenous court in a bid to lower the "spiralling number" of Aboriginal people in jail. In a significant move, the NSW Bar Association and and the Police ...

The Guardian
Indigenous voices have never been more important to Australian literature
The Guardian
Even in those seven years since, I have seen changes in the Australian literary landscape. Significant programs have fostered a new generation of Aboriginal voices over the past few decades: the David Unaipon award, for instance, which has been running ...

The Guardian
Indigenous voices have never been more important to Australian literature
The Guardian
Even in those seven years since, I have seen changes in the Australian literary landscape. Significant programs have fostered a new generation of Aboriginal voices over the past few decades: the David Unaipon award, for instance, which has been running ...