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The Guardian
Kimberley suicide rates: government urged to support Indigenous-led solutions
The Guardian
Broome cemetery in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Rates of Indigenous suicide in the Kimberley are seven times higher than the national average and three times higher than the national Indigenous average. Photograph: Janine Israel for the ...
Indigenous suicide linked to bigger picture issues, psychologist saysABC Message Stick
Aboriginal Suicide Rates Have Hit Crisis Point and Prevention Isn't WorkingVICE
A Fundraising Event for Indigenous Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention with David Suzuki & Clover MooreRenewEconomy

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Targeted care is creating better outcomes for Indigenous mothers
SBS
Senior Advisor for the NSW Aboriginal Nursing and Midwifery Strategy Leona McGrath is working to ensure Indigenous women continue to access prenatal care. Leona is one of only 230 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander midwives in Australia. As a mother ...

Targeted care is creating better outcomes for Indigenous mothers
SBS
Senior Advisor for the NSW Aboriginal Nursing and Midwifery Strategy Leona McGrath is working to ensure Indigenous women continue to access prenatal care. Leona is one of only 230 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander midwives in Australia. As a mother ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Life in the Northern Territory for Indigenous Australians 'distressing', royal commission hears
The Sydney Morning Herald
This was a version of Indigenous life in the Northern Territory given to the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory as bureaucrats and health specialists gave evidence on Thursday about government ...
Aboriginal survival rests on success of royal commission ...The Guardian
Aboriginals treated as subhuman: Anderson - Yahoo7Yahoo7 News
Agencies can't keep track of where kids are living, commission toldThe Australian
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Life in the Northern Territory for Indigenous Australians 'distressing', royal commission hears
The Sydney Morning Herald
This was a version of Indigenous life in the Northern Territory given to the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory as bureaucrats and health specialists gave evidence on Thursday about government ...
Aboriginal survival rests on success of royal commission ...The Guardian
Agencies can't keep track of where kids are living, commission toldThe Australian
Aboriginals treated as subhuman: Anderson - 9news.com.au9news.com.au

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ABC Message Stick
Indigenous suicide linked to bigger picture issues, psychologist says ...
ABC Message Stick
An Indigenous psychologist says a big picture approach is needed to tackle high rates of suicide among Indigenous Australians.
Kimberley suicide rates: government urged to support Indigenous ...The Guardian
Aboriginal Suicide Rates Have Hit Crisis Point and Prevention Isn't ...VICE
A Fundraising Event for Indigenous Wellbeing and Suicide ...RenewEconomy

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The Guardian
Australian rock formation could be older than Stonehenge, researchers say
The Guardian
Researchers investigating a historic Aboriginal site in Australia believe an ancient astronomical stone formation could prove to be older than Stonehenge, and are now working with elders to determine its age. The Wurdi Youang stone arrangement 45km ...
Ancient site could rival Stonehenge as world's oldest observatoryMashable
Ancient Aust'n Aboriginal site could be "oldest observatory in the world": expertsXinhua

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The Guardian
Australian rock formation could be older than Stonehenge, researchers say
The Guardian
Researchers investigating a historic Aboriginal site in Australia believe an ancient astronomical stone formation could prove to be older than Stonehenge, and are now working with elders to determine its age. The Wurdi Youang stone arrangement 45km ...
Ancient site could rival Stonehenge as world's oldest observatoryMashable
Ancient Aust'n Aboriginal site could be "oldest observatory in the world": expertsXinhua

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SBS
This non-binary Indigenous artist uses blood to explore the relationship between body and place
SBS
Sarah-Jane Norman bakes scones for the audience during 'Take this, for it is my body,' using their blood as one of the ingredients. It is one of three works they have as part of the Dance Territories: Border Lines show, which all "speak to the complex ...

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Adelaide-based Mr Fry, who is the chair of Indigenous Business Australia, co-authored a paper on the rise of indigenous entrepreneurs with KPMG partner James Mabbott as part of a series of proposals contained in a new Igniting the Indigenous Economy ...

ABC Online
Danny Ferguson sentenced to jail on top of traditional Aboriginal spearing over manslaughter
ABC Online
An Oodnadatta man will spend at least 12 years behind bars before a traditional Aboriginal punishment of being speared in the legs for the manslaughter of his partner. Danny Ferguson, 36, was found guilty of the July 2015 manslaughter of partner ...
Jailed man faces spearing for SA killingThe Australian

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VICE
Aboriginal Suicide Rates Have Hit Crisis Point and Prevention Isn't Working
VICE
A new report from the University of Western Australia's Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP) says Aboriginal suicide rates across Australia are at a crisis point, and government policies are failing to address ...
A Fundraising Event for Indigenous Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention with David Suzuki & Clover MooreRenewEconomy

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National Indigenous Times
[ October 13, 2016 ] Drug scourge creating entire 'ice families', warns expert NEWS
National Indigenous Times
Mr Wilson said the federal government's Close the Gap campaign, aimed at closing the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, ends in 2030. “What we're trying to say with the ...

From the BBC (edited) Were Australia's prehistoric Aboriginal people the world's first true astronomers, predating European and ancient Greek and Indian astronomers by thousands of years? The stunning discovery of what is being called an "Aboriginal Stonehenge", the first of its kind to be found in Australia, could change that continent's history and with it our whole understanding of how and when humans began to accurately chart the night skies. The 50 metre egg-shaped arrangement of stones in a farmer's field in Victoria, was forgotten after the arrival of European settlers some 200 years ago and until recently overgrown by meadow grass. Now, the site called Wurdi Youang has got Aborigines and astronomers scratching their heads. How did its stones come to be perfectly aligned with summer and winter Solstices and the autumn and winter Equinoxes, like Britain's 4,500 year-old Stonehenge? The problem is that there are very few Aboriginal records in the literature and nobody left to explain what they meant and what they were used for. What is becoming clear is that Australia's ancient indigenous people had a command of astronomy and mathematics, and ability to observe and keep accurate astronomical records. The stones at Wurdi Youang will be a test of Australia's scientists and of Australia’s willingness to properly appreciate its ancient indigenous past.

The Guardian
Coalition embarrassed by mistaken support for Labor vote – politics live
The Guardian
Indigenous people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia are seven times more likely to kill themselves and up to 20 times more likely to self-harm than other Australians, creating a situation where suicide has become “normalised behaviour”, a ...

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The Guardian
Coalition embarrassed by mistaken support for Labor vote – politics live
The Guardian
Indigenous people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia are seven times more likely to kill themselves and up to 20 times more likely to self-harm than other Australians, creating a situation where suicide has become “normalised behaviour”, a ...

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The Australian
Call for cultural respect in indigenous worker drug tests
The Australian
His call has been supported by rivals national drug testers Safe Work Laboratories, which cited 75 per cent of an indigenous apprentice program in Western Australia testing positive to drugs or alcohol, but being educated during training with ambitions ...

The Australian
Call for cultural respect in indigenous worker drug tests
The Australian
His call has been supported by rivals national drug testers Safe Work Laboratories, which cited 75 per cent of an indigenous apprentice program in Western Australia testing positive to drugs or alcohol, but being educated during training with ambitions ...

ABC Online
Collaborative performance features dancers from Indian, Maori and Aboriginal cultures
ABC Online
Cultures are set to collide on stage as part of a new performance work by a group of Australian dancers. Indian brother and sister performance duo Isha Shavani and Tao Issaro have joined forces with Maori and Aboriginal dancers to share techniques and ...

ABC Online
The world's oldest observatory? How Aboriginal astronomy provides clues to ancient life
ABC Online
Dr Duane Hamacher is a leader in the study of Indigenous astronomy and has been working with Aboriginal elders at the site to reconstruct their knowledge of the stars and planets. "Some academics have referred to this stone arrangement here as ...

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