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The Age
Push to make flu vaccine free for children after Rosie's tragic death
The Age
A plan to make the influenza vaccine free for children is being considered by health authorities after the tragic death of an eight-year-old girl in Melbourne's outer-east. Rosie Andersen had been sick with the flu for a number of days before she ...

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Research Fellow Lime Network (Indigenous Applicants Only)
The Conversation AU
Only Indigenous Australians are eligible to apply as this position is exempt under the Special Measure Provision, Section 12 (1) of the Equal Opportunity Act 2011 (Vic). Salary: $69,148 - $93,830 p.a. (Level A) or $98,775 - $117,290 p.a. (Level B ...

Huffington Post Australia
Three Promises Kept Clinton Pryor Walking Across Australia
Huffington Post Australia
Originally started to raise awareness of the forced closure of indigenous communities, Pryor's walk opened his eyes to a raft of problems that weren't being covered on the news. "There's so much that needs to be done here to improve this country," said ...

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The Conversation AU
Excluding Indigenous youth from schools may severely increase their risk of incarceration
The Conversation AU
Many Indigenous children, particularly boys aged 10 to 17 years, are receiving lengthy suspensions from schools throughout Australia. Even more concerning is the over-representation of young Indigenous males incarcerated in Australia's juvenile ...

The Conversation AU
Excluding Indigenous youth from schools may severely increase their risk of incarceration
The Conversation AU
Many Indigenous children, particularly boys aged 10 to 17 years, are receiving lengthy suspensions from schools throughout Australia. Even more concerning is the over-representation of young Indigenous males incarcerated in Australia's juvenile ...

ABC Online
From Antarctica to the Vatican, remote Indigenous community sends crosses to the world
ABC Online
Catholic crosses hand-painted by women in a remote Northern Territory Indigenous community are gaining popularity across the world, being sold in places as far away as Antarctica and the Vatican. The women work on the crosses in the traditional ...

Morning Headlines
Business News
Aboriginal residents in the troubled town of Roebourne are falling behind the rest of Australia, and particularly behind other Aboriginal Australians, at a rate that defies huge spending programs by state and commonwealth governments, an unpublished ...

ABC Online
An athlete who couldn't outrun his past
ABC Online
His story was unique, but his death is recorded as just one of the dozens of young Aboriginal people who take their own lives in Australia each year. From 2011 to 2015, of the 317 Australian children who ended their lives, 85 were Indigenous. That is 9 ...

ABC Online
An athlete who couldn't outrun his past
ABC Online
His story was unique, but his death is recorded as just one of the dozens of young Aboriginal people who take their own lives in Australia each year. From 2011 to 2015, of the 317 Australian children who ended their lives, 85 were Indigenous. That is 9 ...

ABC Online
Australia's 'big' problem: What are we going to do with our ageing super statues?
ABC Online
Indigenous artist Munganbana Norman Miller has proposed the Cook statue be given a Big Boomerang to hold. Then there is South Australia's "Larry" the Lobster. Created in 1979, the 17-metre fibreglass crustacean has been on the market intermittently ...

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ABC Online
Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin
ABC Online
Yorta Yorta soprano and Dean of Indigenous performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Deborah Cheetham, said Dr G Yunupingu's music changed the landscape for Indigenous artists. "[He] ignited a fire for Aboriginal Australians that singing in ...

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ABC Online
Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin
ABC Online
Yorta Yorta soprano and Dean of Indigenous performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Deborah Cheetham, said Dr G Yunupingu's music changed the landscape for Indigenous artists. "[He] ignited a fire for Aboriginal Australians that singing in ...

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EOI - Manager, State Schools - Indigenous Education
EducationHQ Australia
EOI - Manager, State Schools - Indigenous Education. Temporary full-time job recruited via Department of Education and Training (Queensland) (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia). Job Reference QLD/CO253793/17E. Closing date September 25, 2017.

The Independent
$53m spent but gap widens in troubled town of Roebourne
The Australian
Aboriginal residents in the troubled town of Roebourne are falling behind the rest of Australia, and particularly behind other Aboriginal Australians, at a rate that defies huge spending programs by state and commonwealth governments, an unpublished ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au
Australian town gripped by paedophile epidemic with '90% of school-age children sexually abused'The Independent

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The Australian
$53m spent but gap widens in troubled town of Roebourne
The Australian
Aboriginal residents in the troubled town of Roebourne are falling behind the rest of Australia, and particularly behind other Aboriginal Australians, at a rate that defies huge spending programs by state and commonwealth governments, an unpublished ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au

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The Australian
Linda Burney wants Turnbull to prioritise question for constitutional referendum
The Australian
A process of engagement with indigenous and non-indigenous Australians would be needed to thrash out finer details of the constitutional shake-up. Ms Burney said the urgency of the task was heightened by a number of obstacles to change, including the ...

The Australian
Tracks divide locals, outrage experts
The Australian
“The middens there are unlike anything anywhere else in Australia — incredibly important Aboriginal sites that are several thousand years old, and they want to open them to vandals.” The three tracks were closed in 2012 after damage to middens, dunes ...

The Australian
Tracks divide locals, outrage experts
The Australian
“The middens there are unlike anything anywhere else in Australia — incredibly important Aboriginal sites that are several thousand years old, and they want to open them to vandals.” The three tracks were closed in 2012 after damage to middens, dunes ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Advance Australia Fair translated into Ngunawal for the first time, sung at Parliament House
The Sydney Morning Herald
Ngunawal elder Mr Bell, who was assisted with the translation by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies linguist Doug Marmion, is seeking the intellectual property rights for the translation, which he then hopes to share ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Advance Australia Fair translated into Ngunawal for the first time, sung at Parliament House
The Sydney Morning Herald
Minerals Council chief executive Brendan Pearson said Indigenous communities were "one of the most important partnerships for Australia's mining industry", and this was one way of honouring that. "We always look to pay respect to Indigenous communities ...