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Red Flag
'Still waiting for justice' Aboriginal stolen wages in Western Australia
Red Flag
From 1905 until 1972, thousands of Aboriginal workers in Western Australia had their wages stolen and placed in trust accounts operated by the state government, never to be seen again. In 2012 – four years after a WA taskforce recommended official ...

ABC Online
NT Aboriginal community of Kintore buys $30000 custom-made European church bell
ABC Online
A remote Central Australian Aboriginal community has used money from mining royalties and leases to purchase a new church bell and tower from France at a cost of almost $30,000. A committee of senior people from Kintore, 530 kilometres west of Alice ...

ABC Online
Indigenous Australians 'frowned upon', unable to access medical help for ice ...
ABC Online
Two Indigenous Australians who suffered through ice addictions have told a Parliament House forum they did not get any professional help on their journey to sobriety. The former methylamphetamine addicts spoke at the event, hosted by the National ...

ABC Online
Indigenous Australians 'frowned upon', unable to access medical help for ice ...
ABC Online
Two Indigenous Australians who suffered through ice addictions have told a Parliament House forum they did not get any professional help on their journey to sobriety. The former methylamphetamine addicts spoke at the event, hosted by the National ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal woman in WA fined $500 for stealing $6.75 box of tampons
The Guardian
An Aboriginal woman has been fined $500 for stealing a $6.75 box of tampons under a system of on-the-spot infringement notices introduced in Western Australia to free up police time. The 20-year-old woman received the infringement notice on Tuesday ...

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The Guardian
Aboriginal woman in WA fined $500 for stealing $6.75 box of tampons
The Guardian
An Aboriginal woman has been fined $500 for stealing a $6.75 box of tampons under a system of on-the-spot infringement notices introduced in Western Australia to free up police time. The 20-year-old woman received the infringement notice on Tuesday ...

CBC.ca
Improved indigenous cancer programs needed
NT News
... health surveillance and targeted prevention, early detection and vaccination programs. The study, published in The Lancet Oncology, is the first to look at the scale and profile of cancer in indigenous peoples of the USA, Canada, Australia and New ...
High lung, cervical cancer rates in indigenous people points to need for ...CBC.ca
The Lancet Oncology: Study reveals high rates of preventable cancers in ...Science Codex
'High cancer rate in indigenous people in West'The Asian Age
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CBC.ca
Improved indigenous cancer programs needed
The Australian (blog)
... health surveillance and targeted prevention, early detection and vaccination programs. The study, published in The Lancet Oncology, is the first to look at the scale and profile of cancer in indigenous peoples of the USA, Canada, Australia and New ...
High lung, cervical cancer rates in indigenous people points to need for ...CBC.ca
The Lancet Oncology: Study reveals high rates of preventable cancers in ...Science Codex
'High cancer rate in indigenous people in West'The Asian Age
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PS News
Indigenous cricket scores at last
PS News
Executive General Manager, Game and Market Development at Cricket Australia, Andrew Ingleton said the study would complement Australian Cricket's Indigenous programs. "This is the first time an Indigenous cricket study of this scale has been undertaken ...

Indigenous accounting 'needs to grow significantly'
AccountantsDaily
“There are currently less than 30 qualified Indigenous Australian accountants from a pool of approximately 180,000 accountants in Australia. This number needs to grow significantly,” said Ms Lombardi. She stressed that accounting and business skills in ...

International Business Times AU
DFAT Security to strengthen commitment towards indigenous businesses
International Business Times AU
Lance-corporal Vinnie Rami, an indigenous soldier from Australia's North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE) unit, prepares to throw a spear as he hunts on Astell Island, part of the English Company Islands, located inside Arnhem Land in the Northern ...

The Guardian
Footprint spotted by Aboriginal elder led searchers to missing bushman
The Guardian
“They [Aboriginal elders] read the land like a book – they see things I can't see and it just blows me away,” he said. The team split up so they could continue their work, while also tracking the steps for a couple of kilometres, and passed on what ...
Aboriginal elder helped save WA bushmanPerth Now

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TIME
Australia's Largest Indigenous Urban Community Wants to Keep the Name Blacktown
TIME
Australia's largest urban community of indigenous people is resisting plans to change the name of its local government area. The Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders who live in the area say that the name Blacktown, given to a suburban area of ...
The settlers gave this place the name Blacktown. Now should they take it away?The Guardian

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TIME
Australia's Largest Indigenous Urban Community Wants to Keep the Name Blacktown
TIME
Australia's largest urban community of indigenous people is resisting plans to change the name of its local government area. The Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders who live in the area say that the name Blacktown, given to a suburban area of ...
The settlers gave this place the name Blacktown. Now should they take it away?The Guardian

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The Guardian
NT prepares to honour Indigenous people's efforts in Darwin bombing
The Guardian
“It's where I learned English,” she told Guardian Australia. “We weren't born in those days but the story was kept through the old people from one generation to another. “He put his axe at his side and said, 'Stick 'em up' to the Japanese, and then the ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Six reasons Tarnanthi may be our most important Indigenous Festival yet
ArtsHub (subscription)
Opening Tarnanthi, South Australia's Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, former Prime Minister Paul Keating called for a blending of black and white Australia, noting that Australia will only have a truly composite ...
First Aboriginal Art symposium for Grafton GalleryClarence Valley Daily Examiner

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Six reasons Tarnanthi may be our most important Indigenous Festival yet
ArtsHub (subscription)
Opening Tarnanthi, South Australia's Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, former Prime Minister Paul Keating called for a blending of black and white Australia, noting that Australia will only have a truly composite ...
First Aboriginal Art symposium for Grafton GalleryClarence Valley Daily Examiner

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Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
First Aboriginal Art symposium for Grafton Gallery
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
AN Aboriginal Art Symposium to be held this weekend will be the first of it kind for the Clarence. The two-day event on October 17-18 at the Grafton Regional Gallery will offer a rare opportunity to hear directly from some of Australia's leading and ...

Deal struck to end removal of Aboriginal children
ABC Local
A long-awaited agreement has been reached to prevent Aboriginal children from being forcibly taken from their families and communities in western New South Wales. The group ... Mr Shoebridge said the deal could be rolled out across Australia. "This is ...

ABC Online
Governments must focus on ice problem in Aboriginal communities, say SA leaders
ABC Online
Aboriginal leaders have told a forum in Adelaide that governments need to have a specific focus on ice use in Aboriginal communities. The South Australian Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council is concerned the Federal Government is not getting enough ...

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