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The Conversation AU
Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
The Conversation AU
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 ...

The Guardian
Indigenous activist leads class action to recover wages 'stolen' by state
The Guardian
... earnings of Indigenous men, women and children between 1939 and 1972. The case could be followed by class actions elsewhere, with the firm Shine Lawyers signalling possible claims in New South Wales, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, ...

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The West Australian
Police frustrated with youth crime, family dysfunction in Kalgoorlie: Gordon
The West Australian
Dr Gordon was speaking with other leading WA indigenous figures at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia event in Perth yesterday. The retired magistrate, who served on the bench of the Children's Court for 20 years, said many Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
Triple J backs Australia Day poll despite indigenous campaign
The Australian
National youth radio station Triple J will not move its annual Hottest 100 poll from its Australia Day slot next year, but will consider shifting the date from 2018 onwards due to increasing public pressure to do so to avoid insulting the indigenous ...
Triple j will hold 2017 Hottest 100 on Australia Day, despite calls to change dateABC Online
Triple J is considering moving the Hottest 100 from Australia DayThe Sydney Morning Herald
Triple J Hottest 100 will remain on Australia Day despite 'Invasion Day' controversyNEWS.com.au
MuMbrella -Pedestrian TV -SBS -Change.org
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Clinton Pryor is concerned for his people and aboriginal communities. He wants the Federal Government to listen to their cry for help and he's doing that by walking to Canberra from WA. "Why the heck are our people living in poverty out in communities and they get away with mining the land and making billions of dollars", he said. Mr Pryor is stopping into aboriginal communities along the way to talk with elders about what they want to say to Malcolm Turnball. " The government think that they know what is best but it's time to listen to us. They need to sit around the fire, proper way and talk to the elders", he said. "We might as well start forming an aboriginal party group so that we can vote our own into parliament to represent us". Clinton Pryoraboriginal communitieswalk for justice Show more

ABC Online
Half of all Australians suffer from chronic diseases, but 85 per cent believe they're healthy: report
ABC Online
And while there were some improvements in the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, they continued to have lower life expectancy rates than non-Indigenous Australians — more than 10 years shorter. Health Minister Sussan Ley said ...
Calls for better, culturally appropriate health servicesSBS
Are we delusional? 85% of Australians say they're healthyClarence Valley Daily Examiner
Cancer overtakes heart disease as Australia's biggest killerBusiness Insider

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ABC Online
Half of all Australians suffer from chronic diseases, but 85 per cent believe they're healthy: report
ABC Online
And while there were some improvements in the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, they continued to have lower life expectancy rates than non-Indigenous Australians — more than 10 years shorter. Health Minister Sussan Ley said ...
Calls for better, culturally appropriate health servicesSBS
Australia's health report card: Smoking and drinking down, chronic diseases and obesity on riseThe Australian
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare releases health report card on the nationNEWS.com.au
The Advertiser -The Sydney Morning Herald -Business Insider
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ABC Online
Indigenous empowerment program Dreamtime Project 'creating role models, not fashion models'
ABC Online
When supermodel Naomi Campbell came to Australia in 2000, she asked why there were so few Aboriginal models on Australia's catwalks. Sixteen years later, little seems to have changed. But a project in WA is hoping to bring more diversity to the runway, ...

ABC Online
Triple j will hold 2017 Hottest 100 on Australia Day, despite calls to change date
ABC Online
Although the date will remain the same for next year, triple j announced a collaboration with the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) for the Hottest 100 "to create a meaningful connection between all communities, including Indigenous ...
Triple J is considering moving the Hottest 100 from Australia DayThe Sydney Morning Herald
Triple J Hottest 100 to remain on Australia DayNEWS.com.au
Triple J lobbied to move Hottest 100 from Australia DayThe Australian
MuMbrella -Pedestrian TV -9news.com.au -Change.org
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The Australian
Triple J lobbied to move Hottest 100 from Australia Day
The Australian
A Facebook events page asked people to contact the radio station “to ask them to show respect for first nations people and acknowledge that the 26th of January is an incredibly painful day, and that oppression of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Triple J considering changing date of Hottest 100Crikey (registration)
Triple J announce Hottest 100 date may be revised but not for 2017The Sydney Morning Herald
Triple J will NOT move its iconic Hottest 100 countdown away from Australia Day despite 'Invasion Day' controversyDaily Mail
NEWS.com.au -Pedestrian TV -Newcastle Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald
One-quarter of Australians do not visit art museums, survey finds
The Sydney Morning Herald
Some of the greats of Australian art, such as Tom Roberts, whose works were described by former arts minister George Brandis last year as "some of Australia's best known and best loved", have relatively little appeal to Aboriginal and migrant Australians.

CT Australia
Aboriginal Australians headed into new battle for land rights
CT Australia
Nearly a quarter of a century after Australia's Aboriginal people won the legal right to make claims on their 'country', they are fighting a new battle - a complex network of red tape required to manage the lands, a leading lawyer has warned. Australia ...
Irene Watson appointed University of South Australia's first Indigenous pro-vice chancellorABC Online
Factbox: At a glance - Australia's native title lawReuters

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Perth Now
Health campaign urges 'never share needles'
Perth Now
“New diagnoses of hepatitis C have been gradually increasing in the Aboriginal population across Australia over the past five years, most commonly in 20 to 49 year olds,” he said. “In WA, hepatitis C notifications in Aboriginal people reached a 10-year ...

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ABC Online
Australia's Aboriginal people heading into the next 'wicked' land battle
Reuters Australia
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly a quarter of a century after Australia's Aboriginal people won the legal right to make claims on their 'country', they are fighting a new battle - a complex network of red tape required to manage the lands, ...
Irene Watson appointed University of South Australia's first Indigenous pro-vice chancellorABC Online

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ABC Online
Irene Watson appointed University of South Australia's first Indigenous pro-vice chancellor
ABC Online
The University of South Australia is hoping to increase Indigenous enrolments with the appointment of its first Indigenous pro-Vice Chancellor Irene Watson. The inaugural position was created after the university announced it would close its David ...
Australia's Aboriginal people heading into the next 'wicked' land battleReuters Australia
FACTBOX - At a glance: Australia's native title lawThomson Reuters Foundation

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The Australian
Australia's health report card: Smoking and drinking down, chronic diseases and obesity on rise
The Australian
Indigenous Australians have lower life expectancies than other Australians, are 3.5 times more likely to have diabetes, five times more likely to have end-stage kidney disease, and twice as likely to have coronary heart disease. The rate for indigenous ...
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report card: seven ways to grade our healthThe Sydney Morning Herald
Aussie health let down by lifestyle habitsAustralian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Most Australians say they are in good health but 50% have a chronic diseaseThe Guardian

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This audio report from ABC PM with Mark Culvin Ear, nose and throat specialists have declared war on one of the most preventable and treatable conditions undermining the wellbeing and learning of Aboriginal children - serious ear disease. Brisbane-based ENT surgeon Chris Perry, president of the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, said the chronic problem was not factored into "Closing the Gap" practical reconciliation metrics and even the Australian Medical Association ignored the problem, "but it should be part of gap closure, because as many as 90 per cent of Aboriginal children … have deafness more than three months of the year. "The incidence is seasonal," Dr Perry said. "In the Northern Territory, about 25 per cent have perforated eardrums and in the APY lands of South Australia it is 35 per cent, many times the incidence in caucasian children. It's responsible for delayed language development, difficulty with comprehension, boredom and inattention at school … and is a major contributing factor to truancy." In turn, poor hearing and poor school performance set up a cycle of poor skills, unemployment, substance abuse, violence, high incarceration rates and suicide. Dr Perry and more than 20 other Queensland ENT surgeons regularly spend several weeks a year in indigenous communities, performing up to 10 operations a day to clear children's ears and remove adenoids to reduce reinfections. They work as part of Queensland's Deadly Ears program, which visits people in remote communities regularly. On Wednesday, ENT specialists, audiologists, Aboriginal health workers, scientists and administrators will meet in Newcastle to discuss middle-ear infections and a proposed national initiative to standardise an evidence-based approach to the infections, deafness and its educational effects and to hear from Australia's only indigenous ENT specialist, Kelvin Kong, a member of the Worimi people of Port Stephens, north of Newcastle. Dr Perry cited a Senate committee report released in May 2010 that concluded indigenous Australians suffered deafness and ear problems at 10 times the rate of non-indigenous Australians. "Little has been done since then," Dr Perry said. He believed Queensland's Deadly Ears program would serve as an ideal model to start from, but Aboriginal communities needed a program specifically designed for their circumstances.

ABC Online
Life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians remains about one decade
ABC Online
The life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians remains about one decade, according to new statistics. The latest report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) said that while health outcomes had improved ...
Aboriginal Australians headed into new battle for land rightsCT Australia
FACTBOX - At a glance: Australia's native title lawThomson Reuters Foundation

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Triple J is considering moving the Hottest 100 from Australia Day
The Sydney Morning Herald
Triple J is in serious discussions to shift the Hottest 100 away from Australia Day in response to the increasing momentum of a campaign to move it out of respect to Indigenous Australians. It is understood senior management at the ABC has been ...
HUGE: Triple J “In Serious Talks” To Move 'Hottest 100' From Australia DayPedestrian TV
Looks Like Triple J Is Seriously Considering Changing The Hottest 100 Date From Australia DayMusic Feeds
Triple J may move Hottest 100 over 'Invasion Day'NEWS.com.au
The Australian -MuMbrella -Daily Review
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The Australian
Triple J considering changing date of Hottest 100
Crikey (registration)
The day is increasingly dubbed Invasion Day by Aboriginal Australians, as it marked the beginning of the colonisation of Australia by Europeans and the dispossession of its native inhabitants. The discussions within Triple J were revealed yesterday by ...
Triple J lobbied to move Hottest 100 from Australia DayThe Australian
Why Triple J Moving The 'Hottest 100' Could Reset The Convo About Aus DayPedestrian TV
Triple J is considering moving the Hottest 100 from Australia DayThe Sydney Morning Herald
NEWS.com.au
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