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The Sydney Morning Herald
The real gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health in Australia: it's worse than you think
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians are losing 2.3 times the number of healthy years to death and disease than their non-Indigenous counterparts, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. In an alarming finding, the gap between ...

Eureka Street (registration)
Aboriginal art installation quickens ancient footprints
Eureka Street (registration)
Australians know that 'stories begin on ground level, with footsteps', as suggested by French Jesuit Michel de Certeau in The Practice of Everyday Life. Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones' sculpture Our tales encompass everything from tender ...

SBS
Aboriginal inmate dies after South Australian jail incident
SBS
An Indigenous inmate has died after an altercation involving prison guards at a South Australian jail. Police say the 29-year-old man, who can't be named for cultural reasons, died early on Monday morning at the Royal Adelaide Hospital where he had ...

SBS
Aboriginal inmate dies after South Australian jail incident
SBS
Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 25 years ago, which was conducted to combat an over-representation, there have been nearly 370 more, according to the Australian Institute of Criminology. Thirty-one of them have occurred in ...
Aboriginal Inmate 'Brain-Dead' After Yatala Jail IncidentHuffington Post Australia
Inmate involved in Yatala fight diesThe Advertiser
Yatala prison brawl and Correction's handling investigation needs oversight, lawyer saysABC Online
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SBS
Aboriginal inmate dies after South Australian jail incident
SBS
An Indigenous inmate has died after an altercation involving prison guards at a South Australian jail. Police say the 29-year-old man, who can't be named for cultural reasons, died early on Monday morning at the Royal Adelaide Hospital where he had ...
Indigenous prisoner dies in South Australia after altercation left him braindeadThe Guardian
Aboriginal inmate left 'brain-dead': familySky News Australia
'He never deserved any of this'NEWS.com.au

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The Guardian
Indigenous prisoner dies in South Australia after altercation left him braindead
The Guardian
An Indigenous man has died after an apparent altercation involving prison guards at a South Australian jail. Police say the 29-year-old man, known only as Mr Morrison for cultural reasons, died early on Monday morning at the Royal Adelaide hospital ...
Aboriginal inmate dies after South Australian jail incidentSBS
Aboriginal inmate left 'brain-dead': familySky News Australia
Family of Yatala prisoner involved in brawl with guards want time to grieve before protestsABC Online

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Griffith University experts solve mystery of Aboriginal bones
The Australian
Jon Olley, who worked on the project alongside Richard Wright, Australia's leading forensic archeologist, consultant archeologist Doug Williams and bio-archeologist Jamie Swift, said Griffith University's optically stimulated luminescence dating ...

ABC Online
Smartphone app could replace traditional atrial fibrillation detection in outback Australia
ABC Online
The iECG replaces a traditional ECG machine to detect atrial fibrillation, which is responsible for one third of all strokes in Australia. A pilot program run by the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Sydney is trialling the ...
The Health News – 26 September 2016Health Professional Radio (press release) (blog)

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ABC Online
Smartphone app could replace traditional atrial fibrillation detection in outback Australia
ABC Online
... one third of all strokes in Australia. A pilot program run by the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Sydney is trialling the technology in far western New South Wales to create the first snapshot of atrial fibrillation rates in ...

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Crikey (registration) (blog)
Blacks in the back cunts in the front. New work by Therese Ritchie
Crikey (registration) (blog)
Blacks in the back, cunts in the front and the response to it, is emblematic of how non-indigenous Australia embraces and yet looks away from aboriginal people at the same time. This ruptured thinking process is the stringy bond with our earlier task ...

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The Guardian
The Gweagal shield and the fight to change the British Museum's attitude to seized artefacts
The Guardian
Almost 250 years ago, Captain James Cook and his men shot Rodney Kelly's ancestor, the Gweagal warrior Cooman, stole his shield and spears, and took them back to England in a presciently violent opening act of Australian east coast Aboriginal and ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal Inmate 'Brain-Dead' After Yatala Jail Incident
Huffington Post Australia
There could be national protests after claims a young Aboriginal inmate has been left "left brain-dead" following a brawl with prison guards at a South Australian ...
Aboriginal inmate 'left braindead' after brawl with guards at SA prisonThe Guardian
Aboriginal inmate left 'brain-dead': familySky News Australia
Aboriginal inmate Wayne Morrison 'left brain dead' after violent clash with prison guards in Adelaide prisonDaily Mail
ABC Online -NEWS.com.au
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ABC Online
SA Aboriginal community of Scotdesco turns to saltbush farming to create remote jobs
ABC Online
The Aboriginal community of Scotdesco on South Australia's west coast, has pinned its hopes on farming to overcome shockingly high levels of unemployment. Robert Larking's office spans 25,000 acres on the edge of the Nullarbor, where he manages the ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal inmate 'left braindead' after brawl with guards at SA prison
The Guardian
An Aboriginal inmate has been left braindead after an altercation with guards at a South Australian prison, his family says. Twenty-nine-year-old Wayne Morrison allegedly attacked five prison guards at Yatala Labour prison on Friday while he waiting ...
Aboriginal Inmate 'Brain-Dead' After Yatala Jail IncidentHuffington Post Australia
Aboriginal inmate left 'brain-dead': familySky News Australia
Prisoner critical and five guards injured during 'critical incident' at Adelaide's Yatala PrisonNEWS.com.au
ABC Online
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ABC Online
SA Aboriginal community of Scotdesco turns to saltbush farming to create remote jobs
ABC Online
The Aboriginal community of Scotdesco on South Australia's west coast, has pinned its hopes on farming to overcome shockingly high levels of unemployment. Robert Larking's office spans 25,000 acres on the edge of the Nullarbor, where he manages the ...

Noise11
Indigenous Australia Included In NASA Voyager Box Set
Noise11
Indigenous music from Australia has been included in a new box set featuring music from NASA's 'Voyager' program. In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions, each of which contained a golden record containing the music, sounds and languages of ...

Herald Sun
The call for NRL indigenous players to refuse to stand for the national anthem is an empty gesture
Herald Sun
They called on indigenous players to refuse to stand for the national anthem during the league's grand final next Sunday. The reason? Racism. The result? A “closing of the gap” between black and white Australia. This poses lots of questions. Might this ...

SBS
Whadjuk man walking across Australia to meet Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to discuss Aboriginal Affairs
SBS
A Whadjuk man from the Noongar people of South West Western Australia has told SBS World News he is walking across Australia to bring Aboriginal Affairs to the head of the Prime Minister's agenda. Clinton Pryor said that he wanted the walk to catch the ...

SBS
Whadjuk man walking across Australia to meet Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to discuss Aboriginal Affairs
SBS
A Whadjuk man from the Noongar people of South West Western Australia has told SBS World News he is walking across Australia to bring Aboriginal Affairs to the head of the Prime Minister's agenda. Clinton Pryor said that he wanted the walk to catch the ...

ABC Online
Boyer Lectures: Sir Michael Marmot says wealth inequality threatens Australia's egalitarian dream
ABC Online
Sir Michael, the president of the World Medical Association, says Australia's claim to be an egalitarian country has always relied on ignoring the plight of its Indigenous population. Now, he says, the egalitarian claim of Australia's non-Indigenous ...

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