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Utopia: Aboriginal elderly sleeping on ground with dogs amid calls for improved aged care
ABC Online
Ms Ngale, aged about 87, lives at Camel Camp where she was born, an outstation in the remote Utopia region of Central Australia, about 260 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs. "I sit here hungry sometimes, and we sit here with nothing," she said in ...

The Conversation AU
Read, listen, understand: why non-Indigenous Australians should read First Nations writing
The Conversation AU
Do you read Australia's First Nations (Indigenous) writers? If not, why not? People read for many reasons: information, entertainment, escape, to contemplate in company, to be moved. Reading can also be a political act, an act of solidarity, an ...

Jukurrpa-kurlu Yapa-kurlangu-kurlu
The Conversation AU
The Warlpiri language is co-author Valerie Napanangka Patterson's mother tongue. Like most Australian Aboriginal languages, Warlpiri is threatened from multiple directions, including by the Australian education, health and legal systems, and the ...

ABC Online
New map records massacres of Aboriginal people in Frontier Wars
ABC Online
After years of painstaking research, an online map marking the massacres of Aboriginal clans across Australia's colonial frontier has launched. More than 150 sites have been recorded along the east coast, where violent attacks on Aboriginal people took ...

ABC Online
New map records massacres of Aboriginal people in Frontier Wars
ABC Online
After years of painstaking research, an online map marking the massacres of Aboriginal clans across Australia's colonial frontier has launched. More than 150 sites have been recorded along the east coast, where violent attacks on Aboriginal people took ...

cricket.com.au
National Indigenous Captains recognised
cricket.com.au
Dan Christian and Ashleigh Gardner have been named Cricket Australia's National Indigenous Captains, while extended squads for male and female players have been selected ahead of next year's tour. The Indigenous teams will have a series of high ...

cricket.com.au
National Indigenous Captains recognised
cricket.com.au
Dan Christian and Ashleigh Gardner have been named Cricket Australia's National Indigenous Captains, while extended squads for male and female players have been selected ahead of next year's tour. The Indigenous teams will have a series of high ...

The Australian
World-class focus on boosting remote health
The Australian
So the announcement of a new central Australian academic health science centre, led by the Aboriginal community-controlled health service sector and bringing together a consortium of 11 clinical and research groups, is a big deal for her and many women ...

The Australian
World-class focus on boosting remote health
The Australian
The Alice Springs-based enterprise will aim to tackle a cancer-causing virus endemic in indigenous central Australia, its only significant instance outside South America and central Africa. The human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 causes a slow death over ...

The Australian
Alice Springs: the Red Centre of medical innovation
The Australian
The work of the Central Australia partners is practical and responsive. Interested in resolving what had become a troubling issue at Alice Springs Hospital, a resident physician researcher initiated a study that found nearly half of all admitted ...

The Mercury
Tasmanian twins eye a slice of history on England tour
The Mercury
But the big goal is a tour of England next year to mark the 150th anniversary of the Australian Aboriginal cricket tour in 1868 — the first organised overseas Australian sports tour. Rhys, 18, and older than Liam by one minute, said for indigenous ...

The Mercury
Tasmanian twins eye a slice of history on England tour
The Mercury
But the big goal is a tour of England next year to mark the 150th anniversary of the Australian Aboriginal cricket tour in 1868 — the first organised overseas Australian sports tour. Rhys, 18, and older than Liam by one minute, said for indigenous ...

NT indigenous life expectancy has risen
The Australian
Between 2008 and 2012, NT Aboriginal men were expected to live until 64, compared to 80 for those in the general population. The indigenous female Territorian life expectancy was 68 during that time, compared to other Australian women who were ...

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NT indigenous life expectancy has risen
The Australian
It shows the gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal people and other Australians living in the NT declined by nearly five years for women, but increased by one year for men. Between 2008 and 2012, NT Aboriginal men were expected to live until 64, ...

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SBS
Young blood keeping ancient Indigenous languages alive
SBS
Young High in rural NSW is one of a growing number of high school around Australia teaching an Indigenous language. The students and staff at Young High say learning Wiradjuri, the language of country, not only keeps the language alive but is having ...

SBS
Young blood keeping ancient Indigenous languages alive
SBS
Young High in rural NSW is one of a growing number of high school around Australia teaching an Indigenous language. The students and staff at Young High say learning Wiradjuri, the language of country, not only keeps the language alive but is having ...

NT indigenous life expectancy has risen
SBS
Life expectancy for indigenous Territorians has risen by more than a decade since 1967, but the health divide with other Australians won't be bridged unless disadvantage in remote communities is curbed, a study has found. Researchers analysed NT death ...

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Adelaide Crows
Betts breaking new ground
Adelaide Crows
Betts will mark the milestone in NAIDOC Week, which celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and achievements and is an opportunity to recognise the contributions that Indigenous Australians make to our country and our society.

Catholic Leader
Aboriginal man David Miller's prayer for Australia: 'Equality for everybody'
Catholic Leader
David would normally be at the cathedral today (July 2) for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mass at the start of NAIDOC Week but he is in Cairns for the 2017 NAIDOC Awards Ceremony and Ball. He was attending the ball last night (July ...
NAIDOC week Aboriginal damper competition winner made with love, hope - and glitterThe Canberra Times
Symbolic flag raising to start NAIDOC WeekRiverine Herald
New funding for Cherbourg groups in NAIDOC weekThe South Burnett Times
New Matilda
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Catholic Leader
Aboriginal man David Miller's prayer for Australia: 'Equality for everybody'
Catholic Leader
It's a ritual he performs leading into the indigenous Acknowledgement of Country before Mass begins. David would normally be at the cathedral today (July 2) for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mass at the start of NAIDOC Week but he ...
NAIDOC week Aboriginal damper competition winner made with love, hope - and glitterThe Canberra Times
Symbolic flag raising to start NAIDOC WeekRiverine Herald
Mount Druitt Hospital celebrates Indigenous culture for NAIDOC WeekSt Marys-Mt Druitt Star
The South Burnett Times -New Matilda
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