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BBC News
Indigenous mums in Australia face high murder rate
BBC News
Indigenous Australian women who have children are 17.5 times more likely to be murdered than other mothers, new research says. Researchers said that the high homicide rates appeared to be a long-standing phenomenon. Domestic violence, poverty and ...
Do police dismiss Aboriginal women experiencing domestic violence?ABC Online
High homicide rates for WA Aboriginal mumsWAtoday

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BBC News
Indigenous mums in Australia face high murder rate
BBC News
Indigenous Australian women who have children are 17.5 times more likely to be murdered than other mothers, new research says. Researchers said that the high homicide rates appeared to be a long-standing phenomenon. Domestic violence, poverty and ...
High homicide rates for WA Aboriginal mumsWAtoday

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ABC Message Stick
Fears for Indigenous HIV epidemic as north Queensland's diagnosis rates rise
ABC Message Stick
Public health authorities are warning that Australia could be on its way to an HIV epidemic in Indigenous communities. Cathy Van Extel reports on the latest figures from far north Queensland. In the same week that Australia declared AIDS was no longer ...

The Guardian
Lisa Bellear captures decades of Indigenous Australian protests – in pictures
The Guardian
By the time she died at the age of 45 in 2006, Lisa Bellear had collected more than 30,000 images documenting the Indigenous Australian community, largely in Melbourne, where she was based. They capture protests, marches, graffiti, community ...

WAtoday
High homicide rates for WA Aboriginal mums
WAtoday
Aboriginal mothers in Western Australia are 17.5 times more likely to die from homicide than other mothers in the state, researchers at Perth's Telethon Kids Institute have found. Their study, published in BMC Public Health, also found indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Call for more Indigenous people to help manage homelands
ABC Online
Scientists are urging the Federal Government to help more Indigenous people move back into their homelands, to help improve the management of some of Australia's most pristine landscapes and biodiversity hotspots. On the Northern Territory-Queensland ...

New Matilda
Without Video Evidence, Australians Find It Hard To Believe That Black Lives Matter
New Matilda
Sometimes it's easy for Australians to look overseas, and believe that the outrages that gave rise to movements like Black Lives Matter are foreign. But for Aboriginal Australia, this is a common story. The problem is, of course, that it is less ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Arts sector silence fails Indigenous peak bodies
ArtsHub (subscription)
Australia's current Indigenous peak bodies include; Indigenous dance, BlakDance, and Indigenous visual arts peak bodies; Desart, UMI Arts and Arnhem Northern and Kimberley Artists Aboriginal Corporation (ANKA), have been operational for over a decade ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Australians Want A Royal Commission Into Indigenous Suicide Rates
Huffington Post Australia
Petition creator and suicide prevention researcher Gerry Georgatos told The Huffington Post Australia statistics of Indigenous suicide was underestimated including the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 2010 finding that five percent of all suicides were ...
Arts sector silence fails Indigenous peak bodiesArtsHub (subscription)

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Australians Want A Royal Commission Into Indigenous Suicide Rates
Huffington Post Australia
Petition creator and suicide prevention researcher Gerry Georgatos told The Huffington Post Australia statistics of Indigenous suicide was underestimated including the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 2010 finding that five percent of all suicides were ...

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SBS
10 things you might not know about the Aboriginal Flag
SBS
Harold Thomas said the red was to represent the ochre colour of the earth (focusing on the relationship that Aboriginal people have with the land), the yellow to represent the sun (the giver of life) and the black to represent the Aboriginal people of ...
Indigenous Australia's flag first flownAustralian Geographic (blog)

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First Wind Tower Ever To Feature Australian Indigenous Art – Hornsdale Wind Farm Switches On
CSO Australia
South Australia's newest wind farm, the Neoen and Siemens developed Hornsdale project, was switched on to the grid in a special 'energisation ceremony' which included the announcement that local indigenous Australian art will feature on one of the wind ...

Since he was Prime Minister Bob Hawke has been calling for a Nuclear Watse dump on Aboriginal Land - It's a Win-Win situation This Audio from 'The Wire' 2014

Australian Geographic (blog)
Indigenous Australia's flag first flown
Australian Geographic (blog)
ON 12 JULY, 1971, a new flag flew proudly over Australia as the red, yellow and black Aboriginal flag was hoisted in Adelaide's Victoria Square for NAIDOC day (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee day). Designed earlier that year, ...

Australian Geographic (blog)
Indigenous Australia's flag first flown
Australian Geographic (blog)
ON 12 JULY, 1971, a new flag flew proudly over Australia as the red, yellow and black Aboriginal flag was hoisted in Adelaide's Victoria Square for NAIDOC day (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee day). Designed earlier that year, ...

Adventist Review
75% of One Aboriginal Community Is Baptized in Remote Australia
Adventist Review
Remote communities in the Northern Territory are being reached for the first time, with local pastors overjoyed about how God is working through them to win souls. The Mungkarta Aboriginal community, located 45 miles (75 kilometers) south of the ...

ABC Online
Australian identity and indigenous recognition
ABC Online
To mark Australian Constitution Day, speakers give their thoughts on indigenous constitutional recognition and Australian identity. Years have passed since it was proposed that indigenous Australians be formally recognised in the constitution. Many ...

ABC Local
Native American students explore Aboriginal cultures with Sydney's Eora College in study tour
ABC Local
The students, who are being hosted by Sydney TAFE's Eora College, will learn about the Indigenous cultures of Australia, learn local languages and explore Aboriginal cultural sites. "There is nothing like coming here and receiving first hand about ...

Pro Bono Australia
Aboriginal Employment Reaches Significant Milestone in NT
Pro Bono Australia
Diversity Council Australia CEO, Lisa Annese, said it was a “huge step forward”. “The idea is that under the principle of self determination that individual Indigenous Australians take control of their own lives and create policy and outcomes that are ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Aboriginal Employment Reaches Significant Milestone in NT
Pro Bono Australia
Chief Minister and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Adam Giles announced during NAIDOC Week that more than 10 per cent of territory public servants are now Aboriginal. Diversity Council Australia CEO, Lisa Annese, said it was a “huge step forward”. “The ...