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Aboriginal affairs roundtable held in WA
NEWS.com.au
Representatives from Western Australia, the ACT, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Victoria met on Friday for the first roundtable meeting in seven years to discuss their progress on Aboriginal affairs. WA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben ...

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Aboriginal affairs roundtable held in WA
9news.com.au
State and territory Aboriginal affairs leaders say it is inevitable the federal government will need to have treaty negotiations with indigenous people. Representatives from Western Australia, the ACT, the Northern Territory, South Australia and ...

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Aboriginal affairs roundtable held in WA
9news.com.au
State and territory Aboriginal affairs leaders say it is inevitable the federal government will need to have treaty negotiations with indigenous people. Representatives from Western Australia, the ACT, the Northern Territory, South Australia and ...

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The Conversation AU
Why more schools need to teach bilingual education to Indigenous children
The Conversation AU
The schools desperately needed Aboriginal teachers, and training programs were developed through the establishment of Batchelor College and the School for Australian Linguistics (now combined as Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education).

Smithsonian
Australia to Return Remains of Japan's Indigenous Ainu People
Smithsonian
In the early 20th century, Japanese anthropologists flocked to the northern island of Hokkaidō to study the indigenous Ainu people. Researchers excavated Ainu burial sites and shipped several sets of Ainu skeletal remains to scholars overseas ...

The Australian
Indigenous art plan stakes out fresh territory
The Australian
If you believe the hype, northern and central Australia's cultural institutions are in for a transformation. There will be a new fine art museum outside the Northern Territory parliament, perhaps part-funded with revenue from a carpark to be rebuilt ...

The Mercury
It's time to talk about Australia Day, says Rebecca White
The Mercury
“There's shared concern I think that at the moment it excludes indigenous Australians and that's certainly very worthy of us to give consideration to how we make sure Australia Day is an inclusive day that celebrates everything we're really proud of as ...

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The Mercury
It's time to talk about Australia Day, says Rebecca White
The Mercury
“There's shared concern I think that at the moment it excludes indigenous Australians and that's certainly very worthy of us to give consideration to how we make sure Australia Day is an inclusive day that celebrates everything we're really proud of as ...

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The Stringer
Australia soaked in apartheid; national shame continues with jailing First Peoples at world's highest rate
The Stringer
White Australians are incarcerated at the nation's lowest rate. Migrant Australians and Australians born of non-White backgrounds are incarcerated at higher rates. But Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are incarcerated at both the highest rates in ...

ABC Online
Meet the Aboriginal women kicking goals in their Top End communities
ABC Online
Aussie Rules has long been the sport of Aboriginal Australia. But women's place has been on the sidelines, cheering men along at local games. Now, East Arnhem Land women have set up a competition with teams from local Aboriginal communities because ...

National Indigenous Times
Marcia Langton takes aim at 'cashed-up green groups'
National Indigenous Times
The majority of Indigenous Australians are being thwarted in their efforts to build better lives by green groups that hijack debates and lobby against projects that would provide an economic return to communities, according to Marcia Langton. In a hard ...

Australia's greatest health burden: the five big killers
The Border Mail
"Indigenous Australians experienced a cancer burden 1.7 times that of non-Indigenous Australians, and the gap was particularly notable when it came to lung cancer," she said. Indigenous males had a lung cancer burden 2.3 times that of non-Indigenous ...

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Teacher Magazine
Financial literacy – where Australia sits
Teacher Magazine
In addition, the average financial literacy score for Indigenous students was 411 points, significantly lower than the OECD average of 489 points and also significantly lower than the average for non-Indigenous Australian students of 508 points. This ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous picture books offering windows into worlds
The Conversation AU
But in the scope of its ambition, the depth and complexity of its range, and its commitment to bringing the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to all Australians, Magabala Books looms large on the Australian literary landscape.

Community Newspaper Group
Northam: aboriginal students land jobs with Greening Australia
Community Newspaper Group
ABORIGINAL students have landed jobs with Greening Australia after learning more about land restoration and conservation at an agricultural college in Northam. The not-for-profit group snapped up the new recruits who recently completed a Certificate II ...

The Age
The big five cancer killers: Australia's greatest health burden revealed in Australian Institute of Health and ...
The Age
"Indigenous Australians experienced a cancer burden 1.7 times that of non-Indigenous Australians, and the gap was particularly notable when it came to lung cancer," she said. Indigenous males had a lung cancer burden 2.3 times that of non-Indigenous ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The big five cancer killers: Australia's greatest health burden revealed in Australian Institute of Health and ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
"Indigenous Australians experienced a cancer burden 1.7 times that of non-Indigenous Australians, and the gap was particularly notable when it came to lung cancer," she said. Indigenous males had a lung cancer burden 2.3 times that of non-Indigenous ...
Cancer has biggest health burden: reportSBS

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Lawyers Weekly
Uluru summit delivers clear message to Australian lawmakers
Lawyers Weekly
Lawyers and legal academics have weighed in on new calls for constitutional reform to empower Australia's first peoples as part of the nation's next serious step towards Indigenous reconciliation. A group of Indigenous Australians have issued a ...

Independent Australia
Why Marcia Langton is wrong on Adani
Independent Australia
For all her powerful and peerless leadership of Aboriginal rights, Professor Marcia Langton has it wrong on Adani. Her speech to the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) this week made headlines because she provocatively accused environmentalists of ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Australians Have Said How They Want To Be Heard, But We're Not Listening
Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from across this vast and diverse nation met in Uluru for the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, having had a series of meetings around Australia over the previous six months. Two hundred and fifty ...