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ABC Online
Lawyers, advocates push for government plan to address soaring Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Lawyers, judges and Indigenous leaders are in Sydney today talking about Aboriginal Australians behind bars. The Law Council of Australia said Aboriginal families and communities are being torn apart because so many Indigenous mothers are incarcerated ...
No racism at WA hospital, inquest told9news.com.au
When unpaid fines mean paying with your life, the system is brokenNEWS.com.au
Ms Dhu's family calls for end to jail for fines as death in custody inquest beginsThe Guardian
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ABC Online
South Australian Chief Justice calls for Federal Government to back Indigenous ...
ABC Online
The Chief Justice of the South Australian Supreme Court has voiced support for adopting a "justice target" to help drive down the number of Indigenous Australians behind bars. Chief Justice Chris Kourakis believes the measure could help reduce the ...
Indigenous Australians suffer 'health and justice crisis', doctors' group warnsThe Guardian
Doctors call for target to close gap on indigenous incarceration ratesSydney Morning Herald
Calls to 'close the gap' on prison ratesSBS

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The Australian
Prince Charles helps fund indigenous scholarships for museums
The Australian
Announced by the National Museum of Australia, the scholarships will allow young cultural researchers from rural and remote indigenous communities to take part in study programs at the Prince's School of Traditional Arts and the British Museum in London.

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The Australian
Prince Charles helps fund indigenous scholarships for museums
The Australian
Announced by the National Museum of Australia, the scholarships will allow young cultural researchers from rural and remote indigenous communities to take part in study programs at the Prince's School of Traditional Arts and the British Museum in London.

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ABC Online
West Australian study links Indigenous language to obesity risk
ABC Online
We were thinking that if we could actually get more policies aimed at providing Indigenous Australians with a greater understanding of their culture, perhaps teaching them about the Indigenous diet and those type of things, that would also- that may be ...
Doctors call for target to close gap on indigenous incarceration ratesSydney Morning Herald
Calls to 'close the gap' on prison rates9news.com.au
Indigenous Australians suffer 'health and justice crisis', doctors' group warnsThe Guardian

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ABC Online
West Australian study links Indigenous language to obesity risk
ABC Online
We were thinking that if we could actually get more policies aimed at providing Indigenous Australians with a greater understanding of their culture, perhaps teaching them about the Indigenous diet and those type of things, that would also- that may be ...
Indigenous Australians suffer 'health and justice crisis', doctors' group warnsThe Guardian
Doctors call for target to close gap on indigenous incarceration ratesSydney Morning Herald
Calls to 'close the gap' on prison ratesSBS

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australians suffer 'health and justice crisis', doctors' group warns
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians are enduring a “health and justice crisis”, the Australian Medical Association has warned, as it uses a new report to draw a strong link between poor health and high incarceration rates. Statistics show that Aboriginal and Torres ...
Doctors call for target to close gap on indigenous incarceration ratesSydney Morning Herald
Calls to 'close the gap' on prison rates9news.com.au

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The Guardian
Doctors call for target to close gap on indigenous incarceration rates
Sydney Morning Herald
Doctors are calling on the Turnbull government to set a national target for closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous imprisonment rates. The Australian Medical Association said on Wednesday that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, who ...
Calls to 'close the gap' on prison rates9news.com.au
Indigenous Australians suffer 'health and justice crisis', doctors' group warnsThe Guardian

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ABC Online
WA group represents Indigenous Australia at UN climate change conference
ABC Online
A group of leaders from Northern WA is heading to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris to be the voice of Indigenous Australia. The Kimberley Land Council (KLC) group of five will be led by KLC chairman Anthony Watson, ...

The Guardian
ACCC: jobless Indigenous man unaware of debt from training college course
The Guardian
The allegation forms part of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's statement of claim about the Phoenix Institute of Australia, in the second “unconscionable conduct” case to be launched against a vocational education and training (VET) ...
ACCC crack down on colleges' alleged dodgy practicesThe Australian Financial Review

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ABC Online
Uncovering Australia's Indigenous past: Forgotten 1920s photos reveal insight ...
ABC Online
A rusty tin containing 1920s photographs, hidden away in a Port Macquarie back shed has cast new light on the lives of coastal Aborigines at the turn of last century. The glass plates and lantern slides are considered some of the finest photographs of ...

ABC Online
Uncovering Australia's Indigenous past: Forgotten 1920s photos reveal insight ...
ABC Online
There are very few publications which relate to the history of Port Macquarie that give any significant detail in relations to Aboriginal people. And yet our peoples have been here for hundreds and thousands of years and the penal settlement itself was ...

The Guardian
Noel Pearson: Indigenous Australia thwarted by rednecks and greenies
The Guardian
Noel Pearson has delivered a withering critique of the political right and left in Australia, suggesting the ideologies of both are loaded against the “social uplift” of Indigenous peoples. Pearson, who is from Cape York, said it had become a “proven ...

ABC Online
Number of doctors to be 'severely reduced' by federal policy, Aboriginal ...
ABC Online
The number of doctors working in Western Australia's Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) will be reduced from 56 to 19 under a policy proposed by the Federal Government, according to the Aboriginal Health Council of WA.

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The Guardian
Indigenous landowners want protection from mining: 'I don't know what happens ...
The Guardian
“The park's land tenure provides a framework under which the traditional owners' wishes can be undermined by the government of the day in the Northern Territory, despite having joint management rights,” the application, obtained by Guardian Australia ...

Inhabitat (blog)
Award-winning Wanarn Clinic brings healthcare to Australia's Aboriginal community
Inhabitat (blog)
This small community clinic in the Australian outback is a point of pride for local residents. Working under an extremely tight budget, Kaunitz Yeung Architecture designed the clinic to double as a place where the Aboriginal community could meet and ...

PopMatters
Ready to Soar! 'Ready For This' Offers New Stories of Aboriginal Australia
PopMatters
Ready For This, billed as Australia's first Aboriginal teen drama, kicked off on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) 3 in October; six episodes in, it's made good on its promise to tell a nuanced, engaging story about what it means to be a young ...
Aboriginal researcher fights for indigenous languages, looks to MaoriStuff.co.nz

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ABC Online
Police thought dying Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu was faking it, coronial inquest told
ABC Online
Western Australian police told hospital staff they thought an Aboriginal woman who later died in custody was "faking it", a coronial inquest has heard. Ms Dhu, 22, died in August last year after being held at the South Hedland police station in WA's ...
Ms Dhu's family calls for end to jail for fines as death in custody inquest beginsThe Guardian
Family seek justice on WA custody deathSBS
Death in custody victim complained of painNT News
The West Australian -9news.com.au
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ABC Online
Police thought dying Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu was faking it, coronial inquest told
ABC Online
Western Australian police told hospital staff they thought an Aboriginal woman who later died in custody was "faking it", a coronial inquest has heard. Ms Dhu, 22, died in August last year after being held at the South Hedland police station in WA's ...
Ms Dhu's family calls for end to jail for fines as death in custody inquest beginsThe Guardian
Family seek justice on WA custody deathSBS
WA death in custody victim was in painYahoo7 News
The West Australian -9news.com.au
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AustralianDoctor.com (subscription)
GP registrar training in Aboriginal services under threat
AustralianDoctor.com (subscription)
... packages to just their first 12 months with an Aboriginal Medical Service. Clinics say they will lose registrars — particularly their most experienced registrars — not only in the most remote communities, but also in Australia's larger rural ...

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