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SBS
'Tears of joy': Aboriginal Australian descendants from Vanuatu begin family search
SBS
An estimated 7000 Melanesian workers were deported after 1901 when the White Australia policy kicked in. “We've always been aware of the Australian Aboriginal descendants living in Vanuatu,” says Ms Davis. Details of exactly how they ended up there ...

The Guardian
Inquiry into teen killed by crocodile recommends foetal alcohol screening
The Guardian
The 15-year-old boy, referred to as HLS, was found dead in mangroves about 5km from a remote Aboriginal community at La Djadarr Bay on the Dampier Peninsula, about 140km north of Broome, Western Australia, on 14 March 2013. A large saltwater ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders say remote housing in jeopardy after 'devastating' budget cut
The Guardian
Indigenous leaders have warned that community housing will fall into disrepair – and crucial local employment programs will be scrapped – after the federal government set aside no money for remote housing in three states. Queensland, Western Australia ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders say remote housing in jeopardy after 'devastating' budget cut
The Guardian
Indigenous leaders have warned that community housing will fall into disrepair – and crucial local employment programs will be scrapped – after the federal government set aside no money for remote housing in three states. Queensland, Western Australia ...

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The Guardian
Police car filmed veering across road and hitting Aboriginal man
The Guardian
The Western Australian police minister has been asked to explain why a police car seemingly drove into a young Aboriginal man walking along the side of the road in the Perth suburb of Thornlie on Sunday afternoon. Footage recorded by a witness in a ...

The Guardian
Police car filmed veering across road and hitting Aboriginal man
The Guardian
The Western Australian police minister has been asked to explain why a police car seemingly drove into a young Aboriginal man walking along the side of the road in the Perth suburb of Thornlie on Sunday afternoon. Footage recorded by a witness in a ...

The Guardian
Police car in WA runs into Aboriginal man – video
The Guardian
The Western Australia police minister has been asked to explain why a police car seemingly drove into a young Aboriginal man walking along the side of the road in the Perth suburb of Thornlie on Sunday afternoon. Footage recorded by a witness in a ...

InDaily
Aboriginal art dynasty projects its story to new audiences
InDaily
“It's been known to be one of the Indigenous communities with the worst conditions in Australia,” Torres says. “We do have the government resources but no one has pointed the funds to our community, probably because we don't have that front leading ...

InDaily
Aboriginal art dynasty projects its story to new audiences
InDaily
“It's been known to be one of the Indigenous communities with the worst conditions in Australia,” Torres says. “We do have the government resources but no one has pointed the funds to our community, probably because we don't have that front leading ...

ABC Online
Indigenous foods more than just the flavour of the month as top Italian chefs visit Arnhem Land
ABC Online
Mangrove worms, magpie goose, desserts garnished with green ants — the Indigenous ingredients traditionally eaten in Australia's most remote areas are making their way to menus in its major cities. Now, international Michelin-starred chefs have had a ...

The Conversation AU
How we're using fish ear bones as 'time capsules' of past river health
The Conversation AU
The endangered iconic Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii), Australia's largest native freshwater species, is currently known to reach lengths of around 180 centimetres, weigh up to 100 kilograms, and live to an age of around 48 years. It is one large fish.

The Conversation AU
Deal on Murray Darling Basin Plan could make history for Indigenous water rights
The Conversation AU
Our research estimated that Indigenous-specific water entitlements comprise much less than 1% of Australian water allocations. The agreed measures include A$40 million for Aboriginal communities to invest in water entitlements for both economic and ...

The Conversation AU
Deal on Murray Darling Basin Plan could make history for Indigenous water rights
The Conversation AU
Our research estimated that Indigenous-specific water entitlements comprise much less than 1% of Australian water allocations. The agreed measures include A$40 million for Aboriginal communities to invest in water entitlements for both economic and ...

ABC Online
Budget 2018: Aboriginal patients convinced the Government to help them get home
ABC Online
"There's been a push up from strong people with good hearts, strong people with strong brains, talking up on behalf of Australia-wide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people." Ms Amagula, 55, spoke to the ABC last year about the heartache she had ...
Indigenous Round provides a fitting recognitionNRL.COM

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ABC Online
Budget 2018: Aboriginal patients convinced the Government to help them get home
ABC Online
Indigenous dialysis patients have been mobilising for change. At a forum last year, patients said too many people were dying a lonely death in cities and towns because there were few treatment centres in remote Australia. Over the next four years, the ...
Indigenous Round provides a fitting recognitionNRL.COM

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The Guardian
'One-stop liver shop': chronic hepatitis B 'will be eradicated in NT in five years'
The Guardian
“Only your blood can tell the story,” an elder from Galiwin'ku told researchers who were trying to eliminate chronic hepatitis B in Aboriginal communities. His message has helped inspire an “intensive effort” across the Northern Territory using a ...

The Australian
Federal budget 2018: Indigenous groups slam budget's 'squandered opportunity'
The Australian
Oxfam Australia chief executive Helen Szoke called the budget “yet another squandered opportunity to work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to drive the solutions to the challenges they face” and warned its lack of ...

The Australian
Federal budget 2018: Indigenous groups slam budget's 'squandered opportunity'
The Australian
Oxfam Australia chief executive Helen Szoke called the budget “yet another squandered opportunity to work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to drive the solutions to the challenges they face” and warned its lack of ...

ABC Local
New remote dialysis clinics funded in Federal budget
ABC Local
Hooked up to a dialysis machine in Adelaide, Inawintji Williamson smiles as she thinks about returning home to her remote Aboriginal community for a holiday. "I still go visiting when the dialysis bus is going there, but I want to stay there longer for ...

ABC Local
New remote dialysis clinics funded in Federal budget
ABC Local
Hooked up to a dialysis machine in Adelaide, Inawintji Williamson smiles as she thinks about returning home to her remote Aboriginal community for a holiday. "I still go visiting when the dialysis bus is going there, but I want to stay there longer for ...