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AMA releases Indigenous Health Report Card - Sky News Australia


Sky News Australia

AMA releases Indigenous Health Report Card
Sky News Australia
The Australian Medical Association has released its latest annual Report Card on Indigenous Health, aiming to completely eliminate Rheumatic Heart Disease by 2031. At the launch in Darwin, AMA President Dr Michael Gannon used his speech to highlight ...

Australian of the Year awards hijacked by activists, say former winners - The Australian


The Australian

Australian of the Year awards hijacked by activists, say former winners
The Australian
Another politically aligned finalist for the Australian of the Year award is Andrea Mason, who runs a network of women's councils in Northern Territory. The former Telstra Australian Business Woman of the Year was “the first indigenous Australian woman ...

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Why we need to educate journalists about Aboriginal women's experience of family violence - The Conversation AU


The Conversation AU

Why we need to educate journalists about Aboriginal women's experience of family violence
The Conversation AU
when attempting to reduce the rate of domestic violence or marital dissolution experienced by the Indigenous populations (for example), it is important to keep in mind that the majority of the partners of Indigenous Australians who experience such ...

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Why we need to educate journalists about Aboriginal women's experience of family violence - The Conversation AU


The Conversation AU

Why we need to educate journalists about Aboriginal women's experience of family violence
The Conversation AU
... you are 35 times more likely than non-Indigenous women to experience family violence. These statistics vary depending on where you live and your access to resources including support. But one thing is for sure: Aboriginal women in Australia ...

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The quiet revolution - The Monthly (subscription) (blog)


The Monthly (subscription) (blog)

The quiet revolution
The Monthly (subscription) (blog)
The great majority of Australians who currently identify as “Indigenous” speak English, live in suburbs, and produce children with Australians who do not identify as Indigenous … Many of them do quite well in the mainstream economy and society ...
Precarious state of our Indigenous languagesOn Line opinion

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Liberals split on negative gearing tax policy - The Australian


The Australian

Liberals split on negative gearing tax policy
The Australian
The Council voted in August in favour of moving the day out of sensitivity to indigenous Australians who believe that January 26 is “invasion day.” Mr Turnbull said there was “obviously controversy” about Australia day, but said it was best to stand by ...

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Fremantle shifts Australia Day to January 28 to be 'culturally inclusive' - The Australian


The Australian

Fremantle shifts Australia Day to January 28 to be 'culturally inclusive'
The Australian
At the time of that decision, Fremantle mayor Brad Pettitt said for many indigenous people, Australia Day was a day of sadness. “Australia Day is not a one-dimensional day of universal celebration of this free, prosperous and peaceful place in which we ...

Fremantle shifts Australia Day to January 28 to be 'culturally inclusive' - The Australian


The Australian

Fremantle shifts Australia Day to January 28 to be 'culturally inclusive'
The Australian
For many Aboriginal people it is a day of sadness, a day which marks when their dispossession began with British settlement almost 220 years ago.” Last night, former West Australian of the Year and former head of the Australia Day Council WA, Robert ...

Precarious state of our Indigenous languages - On Line opinion


Precarious state of our Indigenous languages
On Line opinion
Last week the NSW Government announced new measures to protect Aboriginal languages. In the context of seeking to preserve part of Australia's threatened native culture, the measures superficially come across as a potentially great idea. According to ...

Precarious state of our Indigenous languages - On Line opinion


Precarious state of our Indigenous languages
On Line opinion
Last week the NSW Government announced new measures to protect Aboriginal languages. In the context of seeking to preserve part of Australia's threatened native culture, the measures superficially come across as a potentially great idea. According to ...

Fremantle has a new date for Australia Day - The West Australian


The West Australian

Fremantle has a new date for Australia Day
The West Australian
Dr Pettitt said the council had heard “loud and clear” from Aboriginal elders in the area that Australia Day was not simply a day of celebration. “For us as a city, we thought it was time to acknowledge it wasn't a day of celebration for everybody and ...
WA council moves Australia Day to Jan 28The Australian
Fremantle moves Australia Day events to 28 JanuaryThe Guardian

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Freo's new Australia Day - The West Australian


The West Australian

Freo's new Australia Day
The West Australian
Dr Pettitt said the council had heard “loud and clear” from Aboriginal elders in the area that Australia Day was not simply a day of celebration. “For us as a city, we thought it was time to acknowledge it wasn't a day of celebration for everybody and ...

X Factor Australia winner Isaiah Firebrace dreams of one day buying a house for his family - Daily Mail


Daily Mail

X Factor Australia winner Isaiah Firebrace dreams of one day buying a house for his family
Daily Mail
He's the sweet kid from the rural New South Wales town of Moama that uses his talent of singing to bring an income to his family. And, Isaiah Firebrace's emotional acceptance of 2016 The X Factor Australia title has lifted his spirits. Speaking to Who ...

Western Desert Dialysis helping Indigenous people in 'kidney disease capital of the world' - ABC Online


ABC Online

Western Desert Dialysis helping Indigenous people in 'kidney disease capital of the world'
ABC Online
Morgan Hitchcock from Western Desert Dialysis does not mince words on why his organisation is so badly needed in Central Australia. "This is the kidney disease capital of the world and Aboriginal people bear the burden the most," he said. Mr Hitchcock ...

Australian of the Year nominees strong on migrant, Indigenous work - SBS


SBS

Australian of the Year nominees strong on migrant, Indigenous work
SBS
The Northern Territory's Australian of the Year, Andrea Mason, has spent her working life helping Indigenous women and children. Ms Mason is chief executive of the NPY Women's Council. It combines Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal thinking to fight ...

'Reclaim Australia' Is The Raw, Undeniable Protest Music That Australia Needs - Tone Deaf


Tone Deaf

'Reclaim Australia' Is The Raw, Undeniable Protest Music That Australia Needs
Tone Deaf
More than a hip-hop supergroup, this Indigenous rap pack embodies generations of their black brothers and sisters as they call on Australia, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, to plant its feet in the red dust and pump its fists towards the black sky ...
New Briggs album tells it like it isShepparton News
AB Original on Reclaim Australia, the album: 'Being black, everything you do becomes a protest'The Guardian

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Aboriginal groups paid to burn land to cut carbon emissions - The Australian Financial Review


The Australian Financial Review

Aboriginal groups paid to burn land to cut carbon emissions
The Australian Financial Review
But since 2015, the federal government has paid indigenous groups, including the Pormpuraaw Aboriginal Shire Council in North Queensland, to burn excess vegetation on their land, all in the name of reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.

Partnership formed between Maori and Aboriginal Australians - Scoop.co.nz (press release)


Partnership formed between Maori and Aboriginal Australians
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The National Maori Authority, Nga Ngaru and one of Australia's oldest and largest Aboriginal service organisations, Babana Aboriginal, have today embarked on a strategic relationship with the signing of a memorandum of understanding that will lead to a ...

Imagining the future of Indigenous performing arts - ArtsHub (subscription)


ArtsHub (subscription)

Imagining the future of Indigenous performing arts
ArtsHub (subscription)
In light of a recent report by the Australia Council for the Arts which found that only 2% of the 6000 works programmed by presenters in 2015 was by or about Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island peoples – and that two thirds of presenters did not program ...

Hanson decries reverse racism in Australia - SBS


SBS

Hanson decries reverse racism in Australia
SBS
He spoke about his own fight for freedom, having been born before the 1967 referendum, when indigenous Australians were not counted in the census. There was a hell of a lot wrong with freedom if you had to fight to experience it, Senator Dodson said.

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