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Daily Mail
Suicide rate of indigenous people in Western Australia one of the highest in the world
Daily Mail
Suicide rates among indigenous people in Western Australia's Kimberley region are among the highest in the world, an audit has found. There were 125 suicides in the Kimberly region between 2005 and 2014, 102 of these suicides were indigenous people.
Indigenous treaty merits election debateThe Age

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The Age
Indigenous treaty merits election debate
The Age
After agreeing British settlement of Australia should be described as an invasion and reaffirming his support for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, Mr Shorten also said we need to look further ahead, to talk about what a post ...

ABC Online
NAAJA cars destroyed in suspicious blaze in Darwin
ABC Online
The fire occurred at the back of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) offices in Shadforth Lane on Saturday night. "We believe all three vehicles belong to NAAJA," Duty Superintendent Brendan Muldoon said. The fire occurred about 8 ...

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Rodney Kelly is the sixth generation descendant of the Gweagal aboriginal warrior, Cooman, who was shot by Captain Cook's landing party at Botany Bay in April 1770. Kelly says Australia was invaded 'by gunfire'. He says the shield belonging to Cooman still has white ochre on it from that day, and a musket hole from when his ancestor was fired upon. The shield has been preserved in the British Museum for more than 240 years. Now, Rodney Kelly is crowdfunding so he can travel to the UK to meet with the British Museum and continue his campaign for the shield's return to Australia. 'We feel [the shield] takes us back to a time before the British come here, it connects us back a long time ago. It's just significant, we have lost a lot of history, we've lost a lot of things,' says Kelly. 'For this shield to be connected to us is very significant and makes us very proud. We we just want it to come back home to Australia.' ABC Radio - RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly

The Sydney Morning Herald
Impact Journalism Day: Global Indigenous youth taking the planet in their hands
The Sydney Morning Herald
"For myself in Australia, I often look to different stories from overseas, particularly around the US and Canada where indigenous communities are sick of waiting around, sick of promises made by governments and are standing up and building solutions ...

Rangers hosting this week's bilby festival in Australia's most remote community are pleased with the amount of knowledge that's been shared on protecting the native animal. Media player: "Space" to play, "M" to mute, "left" and "right" to seek. 00:00 00:00 AUDIO: Kiwirrkurra ranger Patrick Green says this week's bilby festival has been a success and he's pleased with the amount of knowledge that's been shared on protecting the native animal. (ABC Rural) The event in Kiwirrkurra, Pintupi country, 850 kilometres west of Alice Springs has attracted people from all over Australia's central deserts. Kiwirrkurra ranger Patrick Green has been hosting the event and said it was important to share knowledge about Bilby protection because the native animal was endangered and vulnerable.

A new program at West Kimberley Regional Prison near Derby is using this philosophy to try to help the prisoners. Indigenous marathon runner, Adrian Dodson-Shaw talks to ABC Kimberley radio's Fiona Poole about how he will lead a 5km fun run with 21 prisoners. ABC WA

Māori Television
Plans underway for Indigenous Australia vs NZ Māori league match
Māori Television
The New Zealand Māori Rugby League are currently in negotiations to set up an exhibition between the Māori team and an Indigenous Australian team. New Zealand Māori Rugby League Chairman, John Devonshire says, “Everyone within the NZRL ...

Rodney Kelly is the sixth generation descendant of the Gweagal aboriginal warrior, Cooman, who was shot by Captain Cook's landing party at Botany Bay in April 1770. Kelly says Australia was invaded 'by gunfire'. He says the shield belonging to Cooman still has white ochre on it from that day, and a musket hole from when his ancestor was fired upon. The shield has been preserved in the British Museum for more than 240 years. Now, Rodney Kelly is crowdfunding so he can travel to the UK to meet with the British Museum and continue his campaign for the shield's return to Australia. 'We feel [the shield] takes us back to a time before the British come here, it connects us back a long time ago. It's just significant, we have lost a lot of history, we've lost a lot of things,' says Kelly. 'For this shield to be connected to us is very significant and makes us very proud. We we just want it to come back home to Australia.' ABC Radio - RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly

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Aboriginal bush lessons improve education for outback Queensland kids
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"Identity is such a big thing for Aboriginal students in Australia, and some research shows that they may even be clinging to the negative stereotypes of the wider dominant culture so they underperform in school and they don't strive to do their best ...

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Aboriginal bush lessons improve education for outback Queensland kids
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"Identity is such a big thing for Aboriginal students in Australia, and some research shows that they may even be clinging to the negative stereotypes of the wider dominant culture so they underperform in school and they don't strive to do their best ...

Inverse
Australian Superhero Show 'Cleverman' Combines Aboriginal Mythology With Sci Fi
Inverse
Cleverman is an gripping and innovative new show out of Australia, which is propelled by sharp story telling and stellar performances. It's a sci-fi take on some seriously ancient stories from Aboriginal cultures, something that most viewers outside of ...

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Indigenous Australian culture seen through eyes of American photography students in outback
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American students are coming away with a strong understanding of Indigenous culture and contemporary Australia through a photography course called Edge of the Outback. La Trobe University is hosting 20 students from across the United States in ...

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Descendant of Aboriginal first contact warrior wants shield returned to Australia
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A shield owned by Cooman, an Aboriginal warrior shot at Botany Bay in 1770, is at the centre of a dispute involving the British Museum. One of Cooman's descendants says he is considering legal action if the shield is not returned to Australia by Monday.

The Conversation AU
Treaty debate will only strengthen Indigenous recognition process
The Conversation AU
Indigenous affairs had a rare moment in the election spotlight when Opposition Leader Bill Shorten signalled he was open to supporting a treaty with Indigenous Australia. Shorten told a Q&A audience last week that it was important to discuss: … what a ...

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National Indigenous Times
[ June 23, 2016 ] Indigenous candidates in record numbers for July 2 poll ACHIEVEMENT
National Indigenous Times
She says the prospect of becoming the first indigenous woman in the House of Representatives is not only important to her but also the ALP and the Australian community. She says education and health care are the big election issues and Barton will lose ...

Bilbies are desert-dwelling marsupial omnivores; they are members of the order Peramelemorphia. At the time of European colonisation of Australia, there were two species. The lesser bilby became extinct in the 1950s; the greater bilby survives but remains endangered.

The Australian
LiveBlogLast Updated 8:39PM AESTFederal election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull in Cairns, Bill Shorten in Sydney
The Australian
“Obviously what happened back in 1788 and beyond involved a very big change, and it was a change that had pretty big consequences for the Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia, but I would certainly describe it as a settlement, maybe even an occupation ...

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Growing a healthy future with traditional Aboriginal foods
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Australia is said to be facing an obesity epidemic, and now some commentators are speculating that one answer might lie in a greater use of traditional Aboriginal foods. But very few modern Australians know much about which native plants are good to ...