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Critical response program to tackle high WA Indigenous suicide rate
ABC Online
"One in three deaths across the country among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 to 35 is a suicide," he said. "The rates of suicide for First Australians is twice that of other Australians. "The Critical Response Project helps to ...
$1m program to curb indigenous suicideThe Australian

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ABC Online
Critical response program to tackle high WA Indigenous suicide rate
ABC Online
An on-call service will allow Indigenous West Australians to contact the critical response team when they are affected by suicide or traumatic events. Senator Scullion said the initiative was being trialled in Western Australia because it had the ...
$1m program to curb indigenous suicideThe Australian

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ABC Online
Indigenous student demands answers from Google and Apple over game that encourages death of Aboriginal ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The Gadigal woman who began a successful petition for the removal of a game that requires players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death is pushing for an explanation as to why Google and Apple hosted the app in their stores. The Turnbull ...
Game removed from app stores after backlash and online petitionABC Online
Game Requiring Users To Kill Aboriginal Australians Removed From App StoresHuffington Post Australia
Survival Island 3 encouraging death of Aboriginal Australians pulled from app storesThe Marshalltown
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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous student demands answers from Google and Apple over game that encourages death of Aboriginal ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The Gadigal woman who began a successful petition for the removal of a game that requires players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death is pushing for an explanation as to why Google and Apple hosted the app in their stores. The Turnbull ...
Minister orders investigation into game promoting killing of Aboriginal AustraliansSBS
Indigenous Australians Could Have Fatal Side Effects From Common Drug UseAustralia Network News
Game that rewards players for killing Indigenous Australians pulled from app storesThe Guardian
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Warning on drug side effects for Aborigines
The Australian
An article published today in the Medical Journal of Australia warns that doctors are working in the dark when they recommend common preventive medications to Aboriginal people. It says little is known about the specific side effects experienced by ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Lack of drug safety data is putting Aboriginal lives at risk, says report
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney: A lack of data on the safety of medicines for indigenous Australians is putting their health at risk, experts say. Writing in the latest Medical Journal of Australia, Dr Tilenka Thynne, from Flinders Medical Centre, and Dr Genevieve Gabb, from ...
Drug data absent for indigenous AussiesNEWS.com.au

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Sydney Morning Herald
Lack of drug safety data is putting Aboriginal lives at risk, says report
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney: A lack of data on the safety of medicines for indigenous Australians is putting their health at risk, experts say. Writing in the latest Medical Journal of Australia, Dr Tilenka Thynne, from Flinders Medical Centre, and Dr Genevieve Gabb, from ...

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Business Insider Australia
A game that encouraged players to kill Indigenous Australians was removed from ...
Business Insider Australia
The game tasked the player with surviving in ancient Australia, and screenshots used to promote the app in the App Store told the player to “beware of Aborigines!” Several people who had bought and played the game uploaded videos to YouTube showing ...
Survival Island 3: Australia Story 3D game that encourages players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death ...Sydney Morning Herald
Survival Island 3: Outrage over app where gamers hunt 'Aborigines'NEWS.com.au
Apple and Google pull down 'racist' game that promotes killing of Aboriginal ...SBS
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Drug data absent for indigenous Aussies
NEWS.com.au
While attention is given to reporting the safety of medications in older people, children, and pregnant and breastfeeding women, there are no specific reporting requirements for ethnic groups, including indigenous Australians. The median age of the ...

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The Australian
$1m program to curb indigenous suicide
The Australian
Mr Scullion sought advice on the program partly because of the harrowing case of Peter Little, an 11-year-old Aboriginal boy from the West Australian port town of Geraldton who took his own life in October 2014. His mother, Rhoda Narrier, 37, killed ...

The Canberra Times
Where are they now? Daniel Billing getting hundreds of Indigenous kids reading
The Canberra Times
So far, 441 Indigenous students from communities across Australia have successfully completed the e-literacy program. Last year the program placed 200 tablets with Indigenous kids in about 90 schools and 172 out of 200 students successfully completed ...

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The Mercury
VDL investors warned over Cameron
The Mercury
Circular Head Progress Group president John McNab said Ms Cameron's potential investment in Australia's largest dairy farm in the far North- West of the state would not be welcomed. Mr McNab said community sentiment was running high over Ms Cameron's ...

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SBS
Bowie's 'political tune still resonates'
SBS
In a 1983 interview with Australian music show, Countdown, David Bowie explained his inclusion of Ms King and Mr Roberts, was a political statement. My idea was to present an Indigenous people in a capitalist, white, mainly white society and the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Australian filmmaker Lynette Wallworth uses virtual-reality technology to take Indigenous story to Sundance Film ...
Sydney Morning Herald
When Indigenous elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan first caught sight of Lynette Wallworth's virtual-reality camera, he quickly recognised its storytelling potential. "Nyarri looked at this camera and said: 'It's got 16 eyes and four ears'," Wallworth says. A ...

Sky News Australia
Senator slams racist mobile phone game
Sky News Australia
A mobile phone game which promoted the killing of Aboriginal people has been removed from app stores. In the 'Survivor Island 3 - Australia Story 3D' app, set in a cliched digital rendition of Australia, players complete a range of tasks to stay alive ...

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Green Left Weekly
Celebrating genocide and conquest
Green Left Weekly
Since at least the centenary of conquest, 1888, Aboriginal people have protested on January 26, marking it as Invasion Day or Survival Day. The establishment response is to feature “Aboriginal inclusion” at official Australia Day events and express ...

Green Left Weekly
Recognising the CON in Constitutional Recognition
Green Left Weekly
When nations enter into treaties they share economic power. The federal government is proposing to hold a referendum to formally recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian Constitution. Sounds like a good progressive idea?

ABC Online
Game removed from app stores after backlash and online petition
ABC Online
The petition was started by Gadigal woman Georgia Mantle who raised concerns that it required players to survive in the Australian outback and rewarded them with weapons and food for killing Aboriginal people. "What this is doing is making ...
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ABC Online
Game removed from app stores after backlash and online petition
ABC Online
The petition was started by Gadigal woman Georgia Mantle who raised concerns that it required players to survive in the Australian outback and rewarded them with weapons and food for killing Aboriginal people. "What this is doing is making ...
Home / News / USyd Student's Petition Has Racist Game RemovedHoni Soit

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The Reporter
Racist, violent video game shut down thanks to petition
The Reporter
A RACIST game calling on players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death has been removed from sale after a petition attracted 40,000 signatures. 'Survival Island 3: Australian Story 3D' was available on both the iTunes and Android app stores until ...

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