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Indigenous Peak Body Warns of Closure
Pro Bono Australia
“In 2014, the federal government failed to honour the bipartisan support for the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples to act as a voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, by not funding the peak body,” co-chair of the National ...
Abbott wants to be Indigenous affairs minister? Well, he ain't qualified for the jobThe Guardian (blog)
41% of Indigenous Australians' Diets Are Nutritionally PoorteleSUR English

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Meet the Indigenous rangers keeping our country healthy
The Sydney Morning Herald
Jess is one of 14 Karajarri rangers responsible for managing their 33,000 square-kilometres of Indigenous Protected Area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Indigenous rangers like Celia Bennett and Reeny Hopiga lead their people by example ...

WAtoday
Meet the Indigenous rangers keeping our country healthy
WAtoday
Jess is one of 14 Karajarri rangers responsible for managing their 33,000 square-kilometres of Indigenous Protected Area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Indigenous rangers like Celia Bennett and Reeny Hopiga lead their people by example ...

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The Age
Meet the Indigenous rangers keeping our country healthy
The Age
Her work has helped pave the way for Aboriginal women living in remote Australia. "I remember at one of the first ranger forums we went to, I was the only woman there," she says. Karajarri Senior Ranger Jess Bangu collects samples for a biodiversity ...

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The Age
Meet the Indigenous rangers keeping our country healthy
The Age
Jess is one of 14 Karajarri rangers responsible for managing their 33,000 square-kilometres of Indigenous Protected Area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Indigenous rangers like Celia Bennett and Reeny Hopiga lead their people by example ...

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41% of Indigenous Australians' Diets Are Nutritionally Poor
teleSUR English
The outlier was in that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in remote areas consumed half a serving more of grain foods and lean meats than people in urban areas. Aunty Kerrie Doyle, associate professor of Indigenous health at the Royal ...
Abbott wants to be Indigenous affairs minister? Well, he ain't qualified for the jobThe Guardian (blog)

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ABC Online
Oldest known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in arid Australia found in Flinders Ranges rock shelter
ABC Online
The site, known as Warratyi, shows Aboriginal Australians settled the arid interior of the country around 49,000 years ago — some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. The shelter, about 550 kilometres north of Adelaide, also contains the ...
49000 Year Old Evidence Of Indigenous Australians In The Outback FoundGizmodo Australia
49000-Year-Old Aboriginal Site Discovered By Bloke Stopping To Take A LeakPedestrian TV
Aboriginal ancestors spread through arid outback 10000 years earlier than thoughtSBS
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ABC Online
Oldest known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in arid Australia found in Flinders Ranges rock shelter
ABC Online
The site, known as Warratyi, shows Aboriginal Australians settled the arid interior of the country around 49,000 years ago — some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. The shelter, about 550 kilometres north of Adelaide, also contains the ...
Shelter proof of oldest arid AboriginalsSBS
Humans lived in SA 49000 years agoThe Advertiser
49,000 Year Old Evidence Of Indigenous Australians In The Outback ...Gizmodo Australia
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The Guardian (blog)
Abbott wants to be Indigenous affairs minister? Well, he ain't qualified for the job
The Guardian (blog)
But subjecting Indigenous Australia to more Abbott by making him minister overseeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, in order to sate his bruised ego, just so he'd be peeing from the inside out rather than directing a steady ...

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Australian Geographic (blog)
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... researchers that found the oldest yet evidence of human occupation in South Australia. The discoveries were made at a rock shelter 20m up a slope in the Adnyamathanha Aboriginal country of the northern Flinders Ranges, about 550km north of Adelaide.

Gizmodo Australia
49,000 Year Old Evidence Of Indigenous Australians In The Outback ...
Gizmodo Australia
A rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges, 550km north of Adelaide has revealed that Aboriginal Australians settled the arid outback region of Australia...
Rock shelter used by speedy early AustraliansBBC News
First discovery of 50,000-year-old human settlements in Australian ...Ars Technica
Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia : Nature : Nature ResearchNature

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Indigenous Australians consuming too much added sugar::
Invest in Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people consume around 14 per cent of their total energy intake as free sugars, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that free sugars ...

Indigenous leader named NT Aussie of year
Courier Mail
Ms Mason was also the first indigenous Australian woman to head a political party, leading the Family First Party in 2004. Sister Anne Gardiner won the NT Senior Australian of the Year for her work in the Tiwi community on Bathurst Island, and healthy ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous leader named NT Aussie of year - News.com.au
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A woman who has dedicated her career to indigenous equity has been crowned the 2017 Northern Territory Australian of the Year.
NT Australian of the Year awards: Aboriginal leader Andrea Mason ...ABC Online

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ABC Online
NT Australian of the Year awards: Aboriginal leader Andrea Mason receives top honour
ABC Online
Indigenous leader Andrea Mason, who leads an organisation giving a voice to 3000 women in a remote part of the Northern Territory, has been named the NT's Australian of the Year. Ms Mason is the chief executive of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and ...

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ABC Online
NT Australian of the Year awards: Aboriginal leader Andrea Mason receives top honour
ABC Online
Indigenous leader Andrea Mason, who leads an organisation giving a voice to 3000 women in a remote part of the Northern Territory, has been named the NT's Australian of the Year. Ms Mason is the chief executive of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and ...
Indigenous leader named NT Aussie of yearYahoo7 News

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australians in remote areas getting 41% of energy intake from sugary foods
The Guardian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in remote Australian areas are getting 41% of their daily energy intake from sugary foods, such as soft drink, alcohol, cakes and confectionery, Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows. The latest data from ...
Indigenous Australians consuming too much sugar, not enough vegetables: dataXinhua

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Dialysis treatments set to soar in NT
The Mercury
The Territory has one of the highest rates of kidney disease in the world, which rises further in indigenous communities. Australian Medical Association NT president Robert Parker called it a "disease of poverty". "Aboriginal people are dying at six ...

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Dialysis treatments set to soar in NT
The Australian
The Territory has one of the highest rates of kidney disease in the world, which rises further in indigenous communities. Australian Medical Association NT president Robert Parker called it a "disease of poverty". "Aboriginal people are dying at six ...

Dialysis treatments set to soar in NT
SBS
The Territory has one of the highest rates of kidney disease in the world, which rises further in indigenous communities. Australian Medical Association NT president Robert Parker called it a "disease of poverty". "Aboriginal people are dying at six ...

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