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The Guardian (blog)
Indigenous treasures, briefly on loan to Australia, are about to be taken away – again
The Guardian (blog)
Ye-I-Nie, whose possessions are part of the British Museum collection and are now on loan to an exhibition, Encounters, at the National Museum of Australia. Yidindji woman Henrietta Fourmile Marrie, Ye-I-Nie's great-granddaughter, has spoken about her ...

The Guardian (blog)
Indigenous treasures, briefly on loan to Australia, are about to be taken away – again
The Guardian (blog)
Ye-I-Nie, whose possessions are part of the British Museum collection and are now on loan to an exhibition, Encounters, at the National Museum of Australia. Yidindji woman Henrietta Fourmile Marrie, Ye-I-Nie's great-granddaughter, has spoken about her ...

Kotaku Australia
How Video Games Are Inspiring Indigenous Kids To Get Into Maths And Science
Kotaku Australia
Indigenous students in Australia are graduating from school at nearly half the rate (41.5 per cent) of their non-Indigenous peers (81.2 per cent). Australian students' performance in maths and science has declined over the past 10 years, and Indigenous ...

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Gizmodo Australia
How Video Games Are Inspiring Indigenous Kids To Get Into Maths And Science
Gizmodo Australia
Indigenous students in Australia are graduating from school at nearly half the rate (41.5 per cent) of their non-Indigenous peers (81.2 per cent). Australian students' performance in maths and science has declined over the past 10 years, and Indigenous ...

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Junkee
Aboriginal Activist Gary Foley Destroyed Politicians At A Sydney Biennale Installation This Weekend
Junkee
Then, giving truth to his words, he delivered a glorious hour-long discussion monologue laying into white Australians' treatment of Aboriginal people and the way the “bastard” politicians — kind of like those supporting the festival — continue to ...

Star Observer
It's time to talk about the suicide rates of Indigenous LGBTI people in Australia
Star Observer
Held in 2015, the Sexuality and Gender Diverse Populations Roundtable hosted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP) brought together about 25 Indigenous people from around Australia to discuss ...
Momentum building for a Royal Commission in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicidesThe Stringer
Renewed calls for action to address Indigenous disadvantageSBS
Competitive tendering disadvantages indigenous groupsThe Mandarin (registration)

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Star Observer
It's time to talk about the suicide rates of Indigenous LGBTI people in Australia
Star Observer
Held in 2015, the Sexuality and Gender Diverse Populations Roundtable hosted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP) brought together about 25 Indigenous people from around Australia to discuss ...
Renewed calls for action to address Indigenous disadvantageSBS
Competitive tendering disadvantages indigenous groupsThe Mandarin (registration)
Momentum building for a Royal Commission in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicidesThe Stringer

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National Indigenous Times
Hollows team revisits Fred's old stomping ground
National Indigenous Times
Australia's first Indigenous eye doctor, Kristopher Rallah-Baker (pictured on the Team Hollows' bus), was also on the trip, as was a number of leading ophthalmologists and health workers. Prominent Australian journalist Ray Martin was also there, the ...

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SBS
Indigenous Australians take Apple, Facebook, Google to Human Rights Commission for racist game
SBS
"It is important that we reflect on the intergenerational trauma of Indigenous Australians. The RDA seeks to protect vulnerable and marginalised minorities from racially based offensive, insulting and humiliating conduct by publicly outing such ...

SBS
Indigenous Australians take Apple, Facebook, Google to Human Rights Commission for racist game
SBS
"It is important that we reflect on the intergenerational trauma of Indigenous Australians. The RDA seeks to protect vulnerable and marginalised minorities from racially based offensive, insulting and humiliating conduct by publicly outing such ...

JURIST
Canada indigenous people appeal seismic testing case to Supreme Court
JURIST
[JURIST] Canadian indigenous people, including Inuits of Nunavut and the Chippewa, were granted an appeal [docket] to the Supreme Court of Canada [official website] earlier this month, challenging the use of seismic testing to find natural gas under ...

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The Advertiser
Council votes against flying Aboriginal flag
The Advertiser
At a meeting last week, councillors narrowly voted against a request from its Reconciliation Advisory Committee to spend $2000 on a new flag pole so the Aboriginal flag could fly alongside the Australian flag. Cr Max Amber told the meeting that ...

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The Advertiser
Adelaide council votes against flying Aboriginal flag
The Advertiser
At a meeting last week, councillors narrowly voted against a request from its Reconciliation Advisory Committee to spend $2000 on a new flag pole so the Aboriginal flag could fly alongside the Australian flag. Cr Max Amber told the meeting that ...

SBS
Renewed calls for action to address Indigenous disadvantage
SBS
Progress on meeting targets remains slow - with Indigenous life expectancy still well behind non-Indigenous Australia, and Aboriginal incarceration rates still well above the national average. Sixteen year old Mikayla Nelson of Yorta Yorta heritage is ...

Green Left Weekly
Tragic suicide of 10-year-old Aboriginal girl
Green Left Weekly
Earlier this month, a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl took her own life in a small Kimberly community near the town of Derby in Western Australia. It is believed that her life leading to her suicide was marred by “trauma and tragedy” and she had previously ...
End the silences, they're toxic – pack up the myth and conspiracy of shame and tabooThe Stringer

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Green Left Weekly
Packed forum discusses Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Treaty
Green Left Weekly
It would have to involve land rights for Aboriginal people and reparations for land and resources stolen. It would also have to involve guaranteed representation in an Australian republic, environmental protection and changes to land tenure agreements.

The Guardian
Indigenous organisations have been 'disadvantaged' by grants program
The Guardian
The opposition Indigenous affairs minister, Shayne Neumann, told Guardian Australia the report showed the Indigenous advancement strategy was “full of cuts and confusion”. “Even the department has admitted that they'd never put people through the ...

The Australian (subscription) (blog)
Aboriginal women at vanguard as US collects 'mesmerising' art
The Australian (subscription) (blog)
Exhibitions dedicated to indigenous Australian artists have shown during the past few months and years, or will tour in the next two years in museums in more than a dozen US cities including Chicago, New York, Miami, Detroit, Reno, Portland (Oregon), ...

The Moscow Times (registration)
Yiwarra Kuju: Australian Aboriginal Art at Moscow's Artplay
The Moscow Times (registration)
Artplay Design Center is hosting an exhibition that is rare for Russia called "Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route." It is an international travelling exhibition presented by the National Museum of Australia that lets senior and emerging Aboriginal ...

National Indigenous Times
[ March 18, 2016 ] Bowel cancer survival rates hit rock bottom HEALTH
National Indigenous Times
“These findings further add to the existing data we have that outlines the large gap in cancer survival outcomes between Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people. When we look at prostate and breast cancer, Aboriginal people have a far greater risk ...

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