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SBS
New push to give Indigenous soldiers recognition
SBS
Indigenous Australians have served the nation in all major conflicts since before Federation, for many this was the first time they experienced equality. But back on home soil they faced enduring discrimination, now two exhibitions hope to shine a ...

Reshaping Digital Innovation for Indigenous Communities
Pro Bono Australia
Australia's first Indigenous-led digital social impact initiative is being launched to empower disconnected and disadvantaged communities and ensure people “don't get left behind” in the new digital economy. D:HIVE, which is being launched on 3 May in ...

Tone Deaf
Nick Cave throws support behind suicide prevention app for Aboriginal communities
Tone Deaf
Nick Cave has thrown his support behind a suicide prevention app for indigenous people of Australia. The Warlpiri community of Lajamanu in the Australian Tanami desert are crowdfunding the app which could provide hope for communities in need.

Tone Deaf
Nick Cave throws support behind suicide prevention app for Aboriginal communities
Tone Deaf
Nick Cave has thrown his support behind a suicide prevention app for indigenous people of Australia. The Warlpiri community of Lajamanu in the Australian Tanami desert are crowdfunding the app which could provide hope for communities in need.

ABC Online
The World Today - National park on Fraser Island renamed K'gari 24 ...
ABC Local
THOMAS ORITI: The national park that spans almost all of Queensland's Fraser Island has been re-named K'gari, recognising the name used by the traditional ...
Fraser Island's national park renamed K'gari, meaning paradise - ABCABC Online
National park renamed to recognise Butchulla People | Fraser Coast ...Fraser Coast Chronicle

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EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous kids' desert ride honours vets
EducationHQ Australia
The Arrarnta Tribe Ride for Pride commemorates the role of Aboriginal diggers and the brumbies they used in the Light Horse Infantry during the 1914-1918 conflict. Ntaria School student Sheila Rubuntja, 15, has been sleeping under the stars and camping ...

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EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous kids' desert ride honours vets
EducationHQ Australia
The Arrarnta Tribe Ride for Pride commemorates the role of Aboriginal diggers and the brumbies they used in the Light Horse Infantry during the 1914-1918 conflict. Ntaria School student Sheila Rubuntja, 15, has been sleeping under the stars and camping ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous Anzacs: Letters home from Aboriginal WWI diggers reveal humour, sadness
ABC Online
Letters from Aboriginal men who served Australia during the First World War are extremely rare. But as the history of Aboriginal military service during the Great War is given greater attention, their firsthand accounts illustrate better than anything ...

ABC Online
Indigenous Anzacs: Letters home from Aboriginal WWI diggers reveal humour, sadness
ABC Online
Letters from Aboriginal men who served Australia during the First World War are extremely rare. But as the history of Aboriginal military service during the Great War is given greater attention, their firsthand accounts illustrate better than anything ...

The Australian
Can Artificial Intelligence help close the indigenous healthcare gap?
The Australian
Improving the health and welfare of indigenous Australians has been a longstanding challenge for our nation. Earlier this year, the government's ninth annual Closing the Gap report showed only one of the seven targets will be met this year. And unless ...

The Australian
Can Artificial Intelligence help close the indigenous healthcare gap?
The Australian
Improving the health and welfare of indigenous Australians has been a longstanding challenge for our nation. Earlier this year, the government's ninth annual Closing the Gap report showed only one of the seven targets will be met this year. And unless ...

Echonetdaily
Indigenous campus model 'irresponsible'
Echonetdaily
Professor Rigney – who was the 2011 National Aboriginal Scholar of the Year and has worked in Aboriginal education for more than 20 years – said 83.9 per cent of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) students were enrolled in public ...

Echonetdaily
Indigenous campus model 'irresponsible'
Echonetdaily
Professor Rigney – who was the 2011 National Aboriginal Scholar of the Year and has worked in Aboriginal education for more than 20 years – said 83.9 per cent of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) students were enrolled in public ...

The Guardian
Brandis backflips on legal aid cuts
NEWS.com.au
The funds will be targeted to the areas of greatest need with $39 million going to family law and family violence services and $16.7 million going to legal aid for indigenous Australians over the next three years. The extra funding will reverse earlier ...
Legal centres welcome cut backflipThe Mercury
Federal budget 2017: George Brandis to reverse community legal centre cutsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Government backs down on cuts to community legal centresThe Guardian
The Australian -Sky News Australia
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The midwives breaking the cycle of distrust
Blayney Chronicle
Over 15,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children currently live out of home, and the number is expected to triple by 2040, according to the peak national non-government body advocating for Indigenous Australian children, SNAICC. Aboriginal ...

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The Guardian
Black diggers are hailed on Anzac Day. But the Indigenous 'Great War' was in Australia
The Guardian
I've visited many massacre sites in Australia. But usually I've been in the company of a local Indigenous custodian, someone who rubbed their scent on my face and hands and chanted to warn the spirits that this white man comes in peace. While it feels ...

The Guardian
Black diggers are hailed on Anzac Day. But the Indigenous 'Great War' was in Australia
The Guardian
I've visited many massacre sites in Australia. But usually I've been in the company of a local Indigenous custodian, someone who rubbed their scent on my face and hands and chanted to warn the spirits that this white man comes in peace. While it feels ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'Terrified they will take their babies': Aboriginal midwives break cycle ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
Vanessa Smith could not overstate the role she and other Aboriginal health workers play in breaking the cycle of distrust Indigenous families feel for health ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'Terrified they will take their babies': Aboriginal midwives break cycle of distrust in health services
The Sydney Morning Herald
"Having Indigenous midwives sends the message that this is a culturally safe environment and ultimately women will be more likely to access that service," she said. There are roughly 230 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander midwives in Australia, the ...

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Push for Prime Minister's public servants to move to Alice Springs
Southern Cross
Mike Reed, Chairman of the NT branch of Regional Development Australia, Northern Territory, says the indigenous programs and services being pursued by the federal government are failing, and that PM&C might have better luck if more of its people were ...