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Santanol targets Aboriginal workers in Australia
Recruiter
Indian sandalwood oil producer Santanol has held recruitment days specifically targeting Aboriginal people in the far North of Western Australia. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) news website reports the firm held two information and ...

SBS
Documentary highlights heart disease killing Indigenous Australians
SBS
A documentary, filmed over two years across Australia, highlights the unusually high prevalence of rheumatic heart disease among the nation's Indigenous community. It focused on remote communities in the Northern Territory, where about 98 per cent of ...
Tackling rheumatic heart disease in remote Indigenous communities 'key to Closing the Gap'ABC Online

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Quartz
An ancient Australian connection to India?
Quartz
When was the remote Australian continent first settled? Where did these ancient Australians come from? Was the island settled once, or on multiple occasions? Is there a genealogical connection between the indigenous people of Australia and India?

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Quartz
An ancient Australian connection to India?
Quartz
When was the remote Australian continent first settled? Where did these ancient Australians come from? Was the island settled once, or on multiple occasions? Is there a genealogical connection between the indigenous people of Australia and India?

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BBC News
Australia town shocked as girl, 10, 'takes own life'
BBC News
A remote community is reeling and support agencies are searching for answers after the apparent suicide of an Indigenous Australian girl, aged 10. The girl's body was found at Looma in the Kimberly region on Sunday. It was the 19th Indigenous suicide ...
Suicide of girl incomprehensible: Nova PerisSky News Australia

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Huffington Post Australia
Why Are So Many Indigenous People Killing Themselves?
Huffington Post Australia
Like so many other Indigenous people, I remember looking at my skin when I was younger and wishing that I wasn't Aboriginal. Wondering why I was born cursed with this brown skin, the visual representation of everything that made me so different from ...

Huffington Post Australia
Why Are So Many Indigenous People Killing Themselves?
Huffington Post Australia
Like so many other Indigenous people, I remember looking at my skin when I was younger and wishing that I wasn't Aboriginal. Wondering why I was born cursed with this brown skin, the visual representation of everything that made me so different from ...

Huffington Post Australia
Why Are So Many Indigenous People Killing Themselves?
Huffington Post Australia
Like so many other Indigenous people, I remember looking at my skin when I was younger and wishing that I wasn't Aboriginal. Wondering why I was born cursed with this brown skin, the visual representation of everything that made me so different from ...

Huffington Post Australia
Why Are So Many Indigenous People Killing Themselves?
Huffington Post Australia
Like so many other Indigenous people, I remember looking at my skin when I was younger and wishing that I wasn't Aboriginal. Wondering why I was born cursed with this brown skin, the visual representation of everything that made me so different from ...

Newcastle Herald
Suicide of 10-year-old 'incomprehensible'
Sky News Australia
Labor Senator Nova Peris says it is incomprehensible a girl as young as 10 took her own life. A 10-year-old Aboriginal girl committed suicide on Sunday in the remote community of Looma, near Derby in Western Australia's Kimberley region. 'I can't ...
The road to safety isn't always clear, but children's rights must come firstNewcastle Herald

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Sky News Australia
Suicide of 10-year-old 'incomprehensible'
Sky News Australia
Labor Senator Nova Peris says it is incomprehensible a girl as young as 10 took her own life. A 10-year-old Aboriginal girl committed suicide on Sunday in the remote community of Looma, near Derby in Western Australia's Kimberley region. 'I can't ...

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Junkee
Introducing 'Spear': A Must-See Film About Indigenous Experience In Modern Australia
Junkee
What does it mean to be a young Indigenous person today? As we've seen recently, it often involves calling people out on their ignorance. Not only has Australia had a number of baffling incidents of blackface, they've inevitably been followed up by a ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal Heritage Act changes give traditional owners less say: Indigenous groups
ABC Online
"This is going to help people who want to access lands and destroy heritage, rather than improving the protection of Aboriginal heritage," he said. There are tens of thousands of sacred Indigenous sites across South Australia, from ancient song lines ...
Indigenous Business Partnership Changes LivesNewsMaker (press release)

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ABC Online
Aboriginal Heritage Act changes give traditional owners less say: Indigenous groups
ABC Online
"This is going to help people who want to access lands and destroy heritage, rather than improving the protection of Aboriginal heritage," he said. There are tens of thousands of sacred Indigenous sites across South Australia, from ancient song lines ...
Indigenous Business Partnership Changes LivesNewsMaker (press release)

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Buenos Aires Herald
Australia's Aborigines: 'The most imprisoned people in the world'
Buenos Aires Herald
SYDNEY — An 11-year-old boy charged with murder has come to epitomize Australia's great shame: the plight of its Aboriginal citizens. The boy is one of the youngest people to be charged with murder in Australia. He was part of a gang of seven or eight ...

The Guardian
As an Aboriginal teen I thought about killing myself every day
The Guardian
I just don't want people to think that this problem is separate from them. The Australia where suicide rates of Aboriginal people are rising is separate from the Australia they live in - because it's not. Or that it only applies to certain groups of ...

Daily Liberal
Partnership to deliver better health results for Indigenous Australians
Daily Liberal
A UNIQUE new partnership, established to deliver better health outcomes for Aboriginal people in the western parts of NSW, will be launched on Thursday. The first meeting of the Western NSW Primary Health Network (WNSWPHN) will be held to inform of ...

Daily Liberal
Partnership to deliver better health results for Indigenous Australians
Daily Liberal
Of the 31 Primary Health Networks (PHN) in Australia, Western NSW is the only one that has an Aboriginal Health Council, meaning it is a trailblazer as far as the commitment to Indigenous health is concerned. William 'Smiley' Johnstone has taken on the ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal girl who killed herself suffered 'trauma and harm': minister
The Guardian
The 10-year-old Aboriginal girl who took her own life in Western Australia “had experienced a significant amount of accumulated trauma and harm”, the state's mental health minister, Helen Morton, has said. The girl, who took her own life on Sunday, is ...
WA girl, 10, commits suicideThe Australian Women's Weekly
Children As Young As Ten Are Killing Themselves In Western Australia And The Number Is GrowingBuzzFeed News
A community is in shock following the death by suicide of a 10-year-old girl. Picture: File photoNEWS.com.au
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Dr. David Suzuki reveals seven things Australia could learn from its Indigenous peoples
SBS
5: “Indigenous people celebrate and thank the creator for the world that they live in, that's not the way science does it and the knowledge acquired through that way of living is absolutely essential for the survival of those people, if their knowledge ...