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Book swap aims to help indigenous literacy
SBS
While 88 per cent of indigenous Year 3 students in major cities met or exceeded the national minimum standard for reading in 2017, only 46 per cent of students in very remote areas did so. The ILF has run the Great Book Swap for the past eight years ...

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The Australian
Aboriginal leaders add their voices to calls for abused children to be removed
The Australian
The Australian asked a range of national and Northern Territory figures whether they thought the soaring STI rates identified among Aboriginal children by a royal commission justified more active intervention on the part of child protection authorities ...

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The Guardian
'Jesus loves nachos': Australian woman trademarks divisive bridge graffiti
The Guardian
“This is how it started apparently: in the mid to late-80s some Aboriginal boys from Barunga community were in Katherine on a Christian convention and they wrote 'Jesus loves' on the bridge,” she says. “Then in the early 90s someone added 'nachos ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal groups push for culturally designed housing, as NT Government confirms it designed tin shed extensions
ABC Online
On the same day as Mr McCarthy's concession, Aboriginal organisations from Arnhem Land to Central Australia met in Darwin to discuss the issue of housing in communities, town camps and homelands. Aboriginal Housing NT co-chair Barbara Shaw said not ...

Healthcare IT News (blog)
All-women team set to improve Indigenous health with “highly unusual” grant win
Healthcare IT News (blog)
The exceptional grant to an all-woman team has kick-started work into the prevention of falls, which the researchers said affect one in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people each year, contributing to injuries and deaths. The Ironbark ...

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Healthcare IT News (blog)
All-women team set to improve Indigenous health with “highly unusual” grant win
Healthcare IT News (blog)
The exceptional grant to an all-woman team has kick-started work into the prevention of falls, which the researchers said affect one in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people each year, contributing to injuries and deaths. The Ironbark ...

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Vic nears treaty with Aboriginal people
NEWS.com.au
Vic nears treaty with Aboriginal people. A working group has finalised its report into how a treaty with Victoria's Aboriginal people should look. Australian Associated PressMarch 7, 20183:27pm. Victoria is a step closer to a treaty with the state's ...

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The Australian
Vic nears treaty with Aboriginal people
The Australian
Victoria is a step closer to a treaty with the state's Aboriginal people, with the government considering recommendations into how it should look. Victoria's Aboriginal Treaty Working Group on Wednesday handed its report to Treaty Advancement ...

National Indigenous Times
Protesters set to harness Games exposure
National Indigenous Times
The Commonwealth Games — which will begin on the Gold Coast on April 4 — will be a chance to take the struggles of Australia's Indigenous people to the world, Aboriginal activist Wayne Wharton said. Up to 5000 demonstrators from across Australia are ...

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National Indigenous Times
Protesters set to harness Games exposure
National Indigenous Times
The Commonwealth Games — which will begin on the Gold Coast on April 4 — will be a chance to take the struggles of Australia's Indigenous people to the world, Aboriginal activist Wayne Wharton said. Up to 5000 demonstrators from across Australia are ...

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9Honey
One brilliant idea took Mikaela Jade from bush ranger to game changer
9Honey
... a young Indigenous woman living in a remote area "high risk". But she eventually came upon a company in the UK who said 'we love it, let's do it'. Mikaela now has a small team working offshore and Indigital has taken her all around the world. She ...

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National Indigenous Times
Kickett lines up new career goal
National Indigenous Times
Many of the Indigenous players in the league today are relatives, including Swans star Buddy Franklin. “I think we've got up in the high 60s or 70s national players – three quarters of the players come from WA and they are mostly Noongar players ...

National Indigenous Times
Kickett lines up new career goal
National Indigenous Times
Many of the Indigenous players in the league today are relatives, including Swans star Buddy Franklin. “I think we've got up in the high 60s or 70s national players – three quarters of the players come from WA and they are mostly Noongar players ...

National Indigenous Times
Don't ignore your kidneys, pleads Leanne
National Indigenous Times
Kidney Health Australia interim chief executive officer Dr Lisa Murphy says kidney disease can progress silently. Those at risk include people with diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems; those who are obese or smoke; those who have had a ...

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National Indigenous Times
Don't ignore your kidneys, pleads Leanne
National Indigenous Times
The statistics are grim: Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to have indicators of chronic kidney disease and four times more likely to die from it than other Australians. Many people don't even know they have it until the situation ...

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National Indigenous Times
'I know Australia is a better nation than this'
National Indigenous Times
“I believe the once laudable concept of a reconciliation whose initial objective was to heal the wounds of our nation's historic injustices and include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in a modern Australia under the terms of an agreed political ...

National Indigenous Times
'I know Australia is a better nation than this'
National Indigenous Times
He said only Indigenous people could close the gap, but it would mean changing the relationship Australia has with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Mr Yu said a political settlement to Indigenous constitutional recognition should be tied ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Women in Music Awards announced
The Sydney Morning Herald
The awards come after research published in 2017 found gender inequality is rife in the Australian music industry. Women make up around one fifth of songwriters and composers registered with the Australasian Performing Rights Association and generally ...

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Indigenous dilemma: words are not enough
The Mandarin
Fred Chaney and Bill Gray believe the government's promises to work with Aboriginal people will remain undeliverable rhetoric without changes to delegation and accountability frameworks. In a recent article, Professor Ken Smith, Dean of the Australian ...

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NEWS.com.au
Miranda Live: Warren Mundine asks — Are the words 'indigenous, Aboriginal' racist?
NEWS.com.au
IS it time we changed the way we refer to First Australians? Indigenous leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine is set to tackle the sensitive matter of racism and naming conventions today on Miranda Live. The former National President of the Australian Labor ...