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Imagining an Indigenous led performing arts venue
ArtsHub (subscription)
A handful of venues including NORPA and Sydney Opera House have dedicated programs led and driven by Indigenous artists but there is not one major performing venue in Australia dedicated to Indigenous performance. 'We don't have Indigenous-owned ...

ECU News
Western Australia's Indigenous Prisoner Dilemma
ECU News
Western Australia's Indigenous Prisoner Dilemma. Western Australia Holds More Indigenous Australians Prisoner Than Any Other State. WA+prisons%27+Indigenous+population+makes+up+the+. Close. WA prisons' Indigenous population makes up the ...

ECU News
Western Australia's Indigenous Prisoner Dilemma
ECU News
Two years ago, former Premier Colin Barnett stood on the steps of Parliament and addressed 500 indigenous Australians protesting for change of government policy regarding indigenous incarceration. “I would be failing you as the Premier of this state if ...

Ararat Advertiser
UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detention
Ararat Advertiser
Indigenous Australians are living in "appalling" conditions and young Aborigines in detention are "essentially being punished for being poor", the United Nations has declared in a scathing report. A 15-day tour of Indigenous communities and high-level ...

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EducationHQ Australia
Using dance to learn Indigenous cultures
EducationHQ Australia
While they were there, the duo were joined by an Indigenous artist and a visiting Balinese 'Dalang' to really flesh out the links between the ancient cultures. “The commonalities were just really amazing, every time we met we would just get goosebumps ...

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The Advertiser
Aged care probe after scabies scare
The Advertiser
Mr Norvill said he was organising to move his mother out of the home, who was a member of the Stolen Generation and was well respected in her adviser role in the South Australia's Aboriginal Health Research Ethics Committee since 1986. “She helped ...

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ABC Online
Artist Waniwa Lester tells Bible stories through Indigenous dot paintings
ABC Online
More than 60 Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal artists have contributed to Our Mob, God's Story, a book just launched in Adelaide. It tells Old and New Testament stories through the eyes of Indigenous Australians and was seven years in the making.

ABC Online
Nigel Scullion rejects United Nations' call for Australia to establish Indigenous justice target
ABC Online
She backed calls from the Greens, Labor, the Australian Medical Association, lawyers, unions and other groups to establish a justice target. "There should be a justice target that will look into the high levels of Indigenous people [in prison along ...
UN expert slams high levels of discrimination against Aboriginals in AustraliaThe Canary

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ABC Online
Nigel Scullion rejects United Nations' call for Australia to establish Indigenous justice target
ABC Online
Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The UN Special Rapporteur visited Perth's Bandyup Women's Prison, the Children's Koori Court in ...
UN expert slams high levels of discrimination against Aboriginals in AustraliaThe Canary
UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detentionNambucca Guardian News

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NT elders hope app can save young lives
NEWS.com.au
Warlpiri elders from Lajamanu have partnered with the Black Dog Institute to develop Australia's first indigenous community-led suicide prevention app. Young Aboriginal people die from suicide at five times the national rate. But Lajamanu has been ...

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NT elders hope app can save young lives
NEWS.com.au
The clinical psychologist says indigenous Australians rarely seek help for mental illness due to geographical isolation, stigma and concerns about confidentiality. But the Kurdiji 1.0 app breaks down those barriers. "This is an early intervention ...

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NT elders hope app can save young lives
SBS
... hope to save lives by bringing their traditional wisdom into the digital age. Warlpiri elders from Lajamanu have partnered with the Black Dog Institute to develop Australia's first indigenous community-led suicide prevention app. Young Aboriginal ...

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National Indigenous Times
18C battle won but war not over: Congress NEWS
National Indigenous Times
The Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) said the defeat of the proposed changes was “a commonsense victory for Aboriginal Australians and human rights”. ALS Chairman and Walbunga elder Bunja Smith thanked the Senators who defeated the changes.

National Indigenous Times
18C battle won but war not over: Congress NEWS
National Indigenous Times
The Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) said the defeat of the proposed changes was “a commonsense victory for Aboriginal Australians and human rights”. ALS Chairman and Walbunga elder Bunja Smith thanked the Senators who defeated the changes.

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National Indigenous Times
Treaty talks begin for South Australia
National Indigenous Times
South Australia's Treaty Commissioner Roger Thomas began consultations this week with Aboriginal people to discuss what a state Treaty might look like. Initial talks will focus on whether Aboriginal people want a treaty, whether there should be a ...

National Indigenous Times
Treaty talks begin for South Australia
National Indigenous Times
South Australia's Treaty Commissioner Roger Thomas began consultations this week with Aboriginal people to discuss what a state Treaty might look like. Initial talks will focus on whether Aboriginal people want a treaty, whether there should be a ...

Treaty talks begin for South Australia NEWS
National Indigenous Times
South Australia's Treaty Commissioner Roger Thomas began consultations this week with Aboriginal people to discuss what a state Treaty might look like. Initial talks will focus on whether Aboriginal people want a treaty, whether there should be a ...

Treaty talks begin for South Australia NEWS
National Indigenous Times
South Australia's Treaty Commissioner Roger Thomas began consultations this week with Aboriginal people to discuss what a state Treaty might look like. Initial talks will focus on whether Aboriginal people want a treaty, whether there should be a ...

A $1.5 million price tag for unlawfully exploiting Aboriginal intangible heritage introduced into Victoria
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Nine out of 10 Australians agree that Aboriginal art is an important part of Australian culture.1 This recognition, however, is not always reflected in laws that would ordinarily be expected to protect Australian cultural heritage. The significant ...

The Guardian
Stronger Indigenous culture would cut suicide rates, health congress told
The Guardian
Those deficits – poverty, lack of adequate housing, poor education, poor healthcare – are stark and are common across the indigenous communities of the three countries involved in the world leaders suicide prevention forum: Canada, Australia and New ...

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