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DNA study confirms Aboriginal history
9news.com.au
The largest study on the DNA of indigenous Australians confirms Aboriginal people were here tens of thousands of years before European colonisation. The study by La Trobe University analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 594 indigenous people from across ...

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DNA study confirms Aboriginal history
9news.com.au
The largest study on the DNA of indigenous Australians confirms Aboriginal people were here tens of thousands of years before European colonisation. The study by La Trobe University analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 594 indigenous people from across ...

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SBS
Animated installation turns global challenges into art for Sydney Festival
SBS
It highlights the cultures and languages around the globe that are in danger of extinction - about 3500 of them, including Australia's Indigenous communities. Projects such as My Grandmother's Lingo - backed by SBS - are trying to ensure their survival.

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SBS
Centrelink wipes surprise $7800 debt after Indigenous woman seeks answers
SBS
The Centrelink welfare debt crisis engulfing the Department of Human Services has been affecting Aboriginal Australians, with NITV receiving more than one hundred claims from people saying they have received of demands for repayment despite correctly ...

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SBS
Centrelink wipes surprise $7800 debt after Indigenous woman seeks answers
SBS
The Centrelink welfare debt crisis engulfing the Department of Human Services has been affecting Aboriginal Australians, with NITV receiving more than one hundred claims from people saying they have received of demands for repayment despite correctly ...

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ABC Online
Australia unlikely to follow in international footsteps and adopt opt-out organ donation policy
ABC Online
"In Australia organ and tissue donation is recognised as an altruistic decision, it is not forced upon the community," she said. The OTA said culturally sensitive engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, multicultural and multi-faith ...

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Investment Magazine
Stop superannuation from becoming 'stolen wages'
Investment Magazine
In January 2016, a woman from a remote Indigenous community aged in her early fifties contacted Financial Counselling Australia looking for help. She was desperate to be granted an early release of $20,000 from her superannuation account to pay for ...

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Perth Now
Daniel's spare time well spent
Perth Now
He has helped youngsters through Curtin University's Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, which runs workshops for Aboriginal schoolchildren. He is studying health promotion and health and safety and cheerfully said he is “chipping away” at his ...

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Perth Now
Daniel's spare time well spent
Perth Now
He has helped youngsters through Curtin University's Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, which runs workshops for Aboriginal schoolchildren. He is studying health promotion and health and safety and cheerfully said he is “chipping away” at his ...

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The Australian
Tackling Aboriginal ear disease will help close the gap
The Australian
We should be embarrassed that Aboriginal Australians have the world's worst incidence of middle ear infection and the worst deafness rates because of those infections. More than 90 per cent of young Aboriginal children have hearing-aid-level deafness ...

The Australian
Tackling Aboriginal ear disease will help close the gap
The Australian
We should be embarrassed that Aboriginal Australians have the world's worst incidence of middle ear infection and the worst deafness rates because of those infections. More than 90 per cent of young Aboriginal children have hearing-aid-level deafness ...

ABC Local
Andrew Quilty's Everyday Australia Instagram account more than just 'beaches and bikini babes'
ABC Local
Or how about a flood-stricken suburban street, cousins shooting hoops or a cattle farm? Two years ago photojournalist Andrew Quilty set out to tell the stories of everyday Australia that weren't just about "beer, beaches and bikini babes". The 2016 ...

ABC Online
Australia's first Aboriginal grower group established in Western Australia
ABC Online
The Noongar Land Enterprises (NLE) group has been set up by the Department of Agriculture and Food WA (DAFWA) in the hope it will maximise the potential for industry investment and international supply opportunities. DAFWA project organiser Kelvin ...

ABC Online
Australia's first Aboriginal grower group established in Western Australia
ABC Online
The Noongar Land Enterprises (NLE) group has been set up by the Department of Agriculture and Food WA (DAFWA) in the hope it will maximise the potential for industry investment and international supply opportunities. DAFWA project organiser Kelvin ...

The Australian
Tougher test to be a citizen mooted
The Australian
The questions asks candidates about subjects such as the Australian national anthem, the purpose of Anzac Day, the colours of the Aboriginal flag, the purpose of the commonwealth coat-of-arms, the role of government and role of the governor-general.

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The Indian Express
India has inspired Australia to act on black money, may demonetise: Australian envoy
The Indian Express
There is a humanitarian element. Is there humanitarian concern for Australia's aboriginal community? That problem isn't unique to us, it's what indigenous communities face around the world. Entrenched disadvantage goes from one generation to another.

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The Australian
Philanthropist Andrew Forrest aims to end slavery and disparity
The Australian
We should be fiercely and passionately proud to be Australian,” Mr Forrest said at the ceremony in November. “If we in Australia say we're not going to stand for any form of modern slavery, like we're not going to stand for any form of indigenous ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Why Australia must stand united with Israel
dailytelegraph.com.au
That's akin to saying the Aboriginal people have no claim to Uluru. Shamefully, several Australian politicians on the Left celebrated the resolution, among them former NSW premier Bob Carr and the first Muslim elected to the NSW parliament, Labor MP ...
Opinion: Turnbull's stand against UN resolution on Israel worth toastingCourier Mail

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The Guardian
The biggest threat to culture is not an LNG plant: the real battle for James Price Point
The Guardian
The federal court met in Broome recently to hear from anthropologists in the Bindunbur native title claim, a case in which several Aboriginal groups are claiming ownership over large areas of the Dampier Peninsula, in the Kimberley, Western Australia.

Katherine Times
Turnbull must right the wrongs for Aboriginal Australians
Katherine Times
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull must use May's 50th anniversary of the referendum recognising Australian Aborigines to finally deliver the promises that have been broken by governments since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Cabinet papers 1992-93: Aboriginal deaths in custody inquiry prompted $400m packageThe Australian

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