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AllAfrica.com
Africa: Indigenous People Miss Out On Vital Services
AllAfrica.com
The study, which evaluated more than half of the world's indigenous communities, found they scored lower across the board than non-indigenous people on access to basic services. This reduces their life expectancy and educational attainment, and ...

Alice Springs meeting to battle self-harm
Yahoo7 News
Almost 400 people gathered in Alice Springs from around the country have similar questions, and they have united for Australia's first conference on the prevention of indigenous suicide. Suicide is the leading cause of death for indigenous people aged ...

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Bruce Pascoe's work presents a radically different picture of Australia's original inhabitants, and how they maintained their culture over millennia. From the journals and records of early explorers and surveyors, Bruce has accumulated astonishing descriptions of a pre-colonial Aboriginal life. Mitchell, Sturt and others describe scenes all around the country of Aboriginal people engineering sophisticated dwellings and irrigation systems. They also describe the cultivation of vast areas of land for yam fields; and the harvesting, storage and milling of grain crops. Bruce is of Tasmanian, Bunurong and Yuin heritage and he lives on country, deep in the Victorian bush.

ABC Local
Former Aboriginal mission site becomes a focus for cultural education and a celebration of survival
ABC Local
This piece of furniture is a direct link to a chapter of Australia's past when Indigenous people were rounded up and placed on missions by the Aboriginal Protection Board. Now back in Aboriginal hands, this site of the former Bulgandramine Mission is ...

The Adelaide Review
Aboriginal Shields: Power, Protection and History
The Adelaide Review
The current exhibition at the South Australian Museum, Shields: Power and Protection in Aboriginal Australia, explores these key associations while also laying out the full range of hardwood and softwood shields (narrow and broad, painted and carved, ...

The Guardian
The budget's response to Indigenous unemployment borders on negligence
The Guardian
Remember that in the 2014 budget $500m was taken off Indigenous Australians by the then, self-described, “prime minister for Indigenous affairs”. And ongoing disappointing outcomes vividly described by the Productivity Commission in National Indigenous ...

The Guardian
Outgoing MP Linda Burney decries 'paternalistic' approach to Aboriginal affairs
The Guardian
Outgoing NSW Labor MP Linda Burney: 'My time in [NSW parliament] has been shaped, though not defined, by my Aboriginality.' Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP. Australian Associated Press. Wednesday 4 May 2016 21.49 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 4 ...

The Guardian
Outgoing MP Linda Burney decries 'paternalistic' approach to Aboriginal affairs
The Guardian
Outgoing NSW Labor MP Linda Burney: 'My time in [NSW parliament] has been shaped, though not defined, by my Aboriginality.' Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP. Australian Associated Press. Wednesday 4 May 2016 21.49 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 4 ...

The Guardian
No data exists on suicide among gay and trans Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
'Homelessness and suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is high, and homelessness and suicide among LGBTQI is high. If you're both, the risk isn't going to reduce,' says campaigner Dameyon Bonson. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP.
Budget 2016: 'Silent on the important indigenous issues'The Australian
The budget's response to Indigenous unemployment borders on negligenceThe Guardian

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The Australian
Budget 2016: Aboriginal legal services to lose staff with $6m cut
The Australian
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chief executive Priscilla Collins warned her agency would have to “cut deep” into frontline services, while Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) head Gary Oliver said in NSW alone about 4800 Aboriginal people ...

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ABC Online
African drumming helping Indigenous children overcome anger
ABC Online
It is physical, sometimes frantic and often loud — and it has emerged as one of the most promising suicide prevention programs for young Indigenous kids in Australia. It is called Drumbeat and it uses African drums as a focal point in workshops run ...

ABC Online
African drumming helping Indigenous children overcome anger
ABC Online
It is physical, sometimes frantic and often loud — and it has emerged as one of the most promising suicide prevention programs for young Indigenous kids in Australia. It is called Drumbeat and it uses African drums as a focal point in workshops run ...

ABC Online
Government urged to address 'epidemic' Indigenous suicide rates in remote Australia
ABC Online
Aboriginal people and health workers will travel from across Australia to attend the conference in the wake of escalating Indigenous suicide rates, particularly over the past five years. The Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project, chaired by ...
Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'The Guardian
Australia's indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in OttawaSudbury.com
The budget's response to Indigenous unemployment borders on negligenceThe Guardian
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ABC Online
Government urged to address 'epidemic' Indigenous suicide rates in remote Australia
ABC Online
Mr Calma said suicide rates in remote Australia could be described as an epidemic. He said there had been a doubling of Indigenous suicide rates in the Kimberley during the past five years, and that the problem was larger than official statistics ...
Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'The Guardian
Australia's indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in OttawaTimes Colonist
Budget 2016: 'Silent on the important indigenous issues'The Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'
The Guardian
“The government's loan will un-encumber the ILC from the crippling impact of an existing debt that is diverting resources from its core business of supporting the economic aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,” said ...
Government urged to address 'epidemic' Indigenous suicide rates in remote AustraliaABC Online
Australia's indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in OttawaWinnipeg Free Press
Budget 2016: 'Silent on the important indigenous issues'The Australian

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The Australian
Scholarship to help indigenous doctors suit up for surgery
The Australian
“Growing up seeing lots of health issues that indigenous people face, but also growing up in community where you're pretty much one big family that rely on each other, that's important,” he said. “And when you have an indigenous patient, you feel the ...

Care2.com
Stop Australia from Committing 'Cultural Genocide' and Environmental Injustice
Care2.com
Australia is about to make a horrible mistake. The country has (at least, tentatively) earmarked the location of its first nuclear dumping site next to an aboriginal cultural site. And the aboriginal community is speaking out — calling the proposed ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Burney farewells parliament, calls for recognition of Aboriginal history
Sydney Morning Herald
"It's time [Anzac Day] also speaks of the wars fought on Australian soil," she said of the at least 20,000 aboriginal people who died over 150 years of Australia's white settlement. "The history of these conflicts is not well kept, if not to avoid ...
Burney delivers farewell in NSW parliamentThe Australian

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The Age
Calls for curriculum to say Australia was invaded not settled
The Age
Education Minister James Merlino has reignited debate about whether the curriculum should refer to Australia being invaded rather than settled. It follows the Minister recently declaring that in the eyes of Aboriginal people, Australia was invaded ...

The Age
Calls for curriculum to say Australia was invaded not settled
The Age
Education Minister James Merlino has reignited debate about whether the curriculum should refer to Australia being invaded rather than settled. It follows the Minister recently declaring that in the eyes of Aboriginal people, Australia was invaded ...