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The Young Witness
Closing the Gap: Six of seven targets 'not on track', life expectancy gap unchanged
The Young Witness
Dr Fadwa Al-Yaman, an Indigenous health expert at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, said the high cancer mortality rates were largely a result of more prevalent risk factors such as smoking, cancer not being detected until later stages ...

The Advertiser
Idiots vandalising ancient Aboriginal rock art in Flinders Ranges
The Advertiser
Sacred Canyon, 19km from Wilpena Pound, holds a “journal” of Aboriginal history in its rock engravings, but have been graffiti attacks over recent years. Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association chief executive Vince Coulthard said that for nearly ...

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The West Australian
Communities action outlined
The West Australian
WA Labor sees enormous value to all of Western Australia of Aboriginal people continuing to practice culture and protect connections to country that have been developed over thousands of years. We support tenure reform to ensure that Aboriginal people ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART GALLERY FOR ALICE SPRINGS?
Aboriginal Art Directory News
The relatively new Northern Territory Labor Government's $50 million election commitment to build an is a major step closer with the announcement of two prominent Aboriginal Central Australians as Co-Chairs for the project's Steering Committee.

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ABC Online
WA election: Aboriginal candidates for both major parties in first for WA seat of Kimberley
ABC Online
... Ms Farrer said the poll would break new ground for Indigenous populations in Western Australia's far north. "It's sad that we have to compete against each other ... because there is only one seat," she said. Remote Aboriginal residents will be ...

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Review: Australian documentary tracks racism issues
Brisbane Times
Off the back of two seasons of First Contact, in which he brought together white and Aboriginal Australia, the five-time Gold Logie winner is headlining SBS' "Face Up To Racism" week of special programming with the eye-opening documentary Is Australia ...

Courier Mail
Aboriginal elders call for unity over Gold Coast Commonwealth Games
Courier Mail
Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Corporation chief Mark Peters said organisers had been extremely sensitive to Aboriginal culture in developing Borobi as a mascot. “Early in the Games planning cycle, to ensure appropriate consultation on indigenous ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Jessica Mauboy: 'Of course I was angry'
dailytelegraph.com.au
She's trodden cautiously when entering public debate about the myriad issues affecting indigenous Australians, eager to be educated, to respect the opinions of elders and make sure she is confident in the expression of her own viewpoint. Mauboy shows ...

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SBS
SA child protection bill slammed
SBS
It's a bill designed to fix a system in crisis, but South Australia's proposed new child protection laws has plenty of critics. Senior lawyers, Aboriginal advocates and the Australian Medical Association are among them. The Child and Young People ...

The Northern Daily Leader
Celebrate Australia Day
The Northern Daily Leader
However, in recent years, efforts have been made to include all Australians, and in 2013, the Australian flag and Aboriginal flag were raised together on the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the first time on Australia Day. “Australia Day is a time to come ...

The Northern Daily Leader
Celebrate Australia Day
The Northern Daily Leader
Traditionally, Australia Day commemorates the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, NSW and the raising of the flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip. Because it marks the day of colonisation ...

The Guardian
Treaty with Aboriginal people could bring change in school curriculum
The Guardian
Hutchins said it was important the representative body had a clear mandate to act on behalf of all Aboriginal Victorians to avoid a situation such as the one seen in Western Australia, where a $1.3bn Indigenous land use agreement between the state ...

The Guardian
Treaty with Aboriginal people could bring change in school curriculum
The Guardian
Hutchins said it was important the representative body had a clear mandate to act on behalf of all Aboriginal Victorians to avoid a situation such as the one seen in Western Australia, where a $1.3bn Indigenous land use agreement between the state ...

Broadsheet
Stories Worth Telling
Broadsheet
Confronting the many guises Indigenous people are made to wear in Australia, Bindi Cole Chocka and Tony Albert use masks in their photography to express ideas around identity. Vernon Ah Kee brings attention to Aboriginal deaths in custody through his ...

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The Australian
Indigenous row over Games mascot
The Australian
The legal action by Mr Aird, who was on the panel of the 2014 McClure review of Australia's welfare payment system, has been attacked by some Yugembeh members and elders as unrepresentative of broader indigenous support for the Commonwealth ...

The Age
Sadly, we are not closing the gap
The Age
Also, if the proposed referendum on whether the constitution should be amended to recognise Indigenous Australians delivers a yes vote, this would have the potential to change the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for the ...

ABC Online
Tasmania on track to get Aboriginal reconciliation council, but not all are happy
ABC Online
Aboriginal elder Rodney Dillon said a Tasmanian-based reconciliation council would help address the challenges Aboriginal Australians faced. He said education, health and justice should be top of the agenda for Tasmania's first reconciliation council.

ABC Online
Tasmania on track to get Aboriginal reconciliation council, but not all are happy
ABC Online
Aboriginal elder Rodney Dillon said a Tasmanian-based reconciliation council would help address the challenges Aboriginal Australians faced. He said education, health and justice should be top of the agenda for Tasmania's first reconciliation council.

ABC Online
'Crisis of violence in Aboriginal families' must stop, judge says in sentencing man for murder
ABC Online
She said she was mindful of the growing number of Aboriginal offenders in custody, but had to balance that against the serious nature of the crime. Justice Kelly said Aboriginal people now represented approximately 25 per cent of South Australia's ...
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What is the most corrupt state in Australia?
Crikey (registration)
Oh, and that the NT should be a full-blown state with control over Aboriginal land and with a full contingent of 12 senators. Groans aplenty at that one. You get the drift. My punch bowl moment — that the NT is the most corrupt jurisdiction in the ...