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ABC Online
Emotional Pat Dodson calls for action to stop devastating rate of Indigenous suicide
ABC Online
"I know it happened in Fitzroy [Crossing], a dear 12-year-old boy whose parents found him. "Whatever caused that, I don't know, and it's very hard for us to understand." Nearly a third of children who take their own lives in Australia are Indigenous.
Dodson sheds tears on indigenous suicideNEWS.com.au

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Warren's Indigenous Football legacy
FourFourTwo Australia
The late great Johnny Warren was a passionate advocate of the Indigenous community and their potential role that Aboriginal athletes had in growing the game of football in Australia. Jamie Warren, who runs the Australian football legend's foundation ...

FourFourTwo Australia
Warren's Indigenous Football legacy
FourFourTwo Australia
The late great Johnny Warren was a passionate advocate of the Indigenous community and their potential role that Aboriginal athletes had in growing the game of football in Australia. Jamie Warren, who runs the Australian football legend's foundation ...

SBS
Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
SBS
Many people don't know this, but Indigenous Australian children are born with much better eyesight than non-Indigenous children. Yet, at the population level, Indigenous people at the age of 40 have rates of vision loss three times that of non ...

SBS
Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
SBS
Although it doesn't exist in mainstream Australia, trachoma persists in remote Aboriginal communities that still lack safe washing facilities and have notoriously poor and chronically overcrowded housing. Young children with constant eye and nose ...

SBS
Comment: "I have found strength in the resilience of my people"
SBS
What it means for me to be Indigenous is that I had to grow a thick skin as a young kid, all because of the colour of my skin. I have suffered abuse for trying to find out who I really was and what it meant to be Indigenous in Australia for me. While ...

No race-based uni support, says senator
NEWS.com.au
The NSW senator during a debate on support for indigenous students on Thursday said the disadvantage suffered by Aboriginal Australians continued to be "Australia's greatest policy failure" but throwing money at the problem was not the answer.

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Skill 360 Australia Indigenous pre-employment course boosts skills
The Cairns Post
Tori Warkill is a one of the success stories to come out of Skill 360 Australia's Cairns indigenous pre-employment training courses. The two-week program provides resume-building and interview tips. Ms Warkill completed a course in April and started a ...

ABC Online
Family from remote WA town travel to Canberra for launch of Indigenous suicide report
ABC Online
At the time, suicide was the fifth leading cause of death among Aboriginal people, twice as high as non-Aboriginal people in Australia. Late last year, a number of young people suicided in the northern WA Goldfields town of Leonora, including Norma ...

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The Australian
Oxfam Straight Talk summit focus on domestic violence in indigenous communities
The Australian
Eighty indigenous women from all over Australia visited parliament yesterday as part of the annual Oxfam Straight Talk summit, meeting politicians including Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, her Labor counterpart Penny Wong, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert ...

Daily Mail
Aboriginal community vows to cut tourist access to Australia's Uluru ...
Daily Mail
Mutitjulu, a remote indigenous community in the Northern Territory has threatened to close Uluru if their people continue to be neglected by the government as ...
We'll close Uluru: Indigenous community – EchonetdailyEchonetdaily

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Daily Mail
Aboriginal community vows to cut tourist access to Australia's Uluru
Daily Mail
A remote indigenous community near Uluru has threatened to 'close the rock' if their voices aren't heard and people continue to live in poverty. The Northern Territory royal commission into juvenile justice has visited, a small community where the ...

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FourFourTwo Australia
Indigenous Championships will grow participation
FourFourTwo Australia
The Inaugural National Indigenous Football Championships held in Nowra over the weekend have been hailed a success. Out of 24 teams from across the country, Illawarra Bungarra defeated Northern Nations 4-0 to win the Women's Division, while SE QLD ...

Australian satellite dish gets Aboriginal makeover
Newshub
Picture a satellite dish - it's huge, it's white, and it looks the same as every other dish, right? Not this one. A dish in the Australian outback has had not just its technology updated, but its appearance - giving any would-be visitors to Earth a ...

Lower drug copays lead to reduction in hospitalizations among indigenous people in Australia
News-Medical.net
A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive to lower drug copayments, hospitalizations to treat the population's chronic conditions declined by 40 percent in just two years. The study ...
Cut copays to improve healthcare for indigenous people?Futurity: Research News

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ABC Online
Number of children removed from Indigenous families set to triple in 20 years
ABC Online
The Family Matters coalition wants the over-representation of Indigenous children in out-of-home care eliminated by 2040. "We need to get very deliberate about acknowledging that high number of children that have been removed, and be committed in a ...

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The Conversation AU
Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal ...
The Conversation AU
New reports show a widespread lack of care for the cultural needs of many of the 19000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and ...
Crisis for kids 'our top rights concern' - The AustralianThe Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australians demand return of shield taken by Captain Cook
The Guardian
The descendant of an Indigenous Australian warrior who was the first to confront Captain Cook as he landed on the shores of Australia in 1770 has demanded that the British Museum give back a shield “stolen” by the English invaders. Rodney Kelly, the ...

The Australian
Indigenous kids in care to triple in 20 years
The Australian
Victoria is performing best across a range of measures, the report finds, including investment in early intervention, access to early childhood education and Aboriginal families being involved in decision making around child welfare. Western Australia ...

Crisis for kids 'our top rights concern'
The Australian
Protesters campaigning against the high number of indigenous children taken into state care in Western Australia say that is a far more pressing human rights issue for the Aboriginal Legal Service than preparing complaints about the Bill Leak cartoon ...

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