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While English speakers may talk of infinite possibilities, ancient Australian Aboriginal languages very rarely stretched past number five. However ...

Australian Ageing Agenda
Funding boost for program to reduce dementia risk among Aboriginal elders
Australian Ageing Agenda
A $12,500 grant provided by the IRT Foundation will enable Alzheimer's Australia NSW, in partnership with Katungul Aboriginal Medical Service, to hold five 'Aboriginal Dementia Yarn Up' events in the Bega and Eurobodalla shires, where the Aboriginal ...

Gaye Finch, a Dementia Advisor for Alzheimers Australia NSW, chats with ... A project that aims to provide Aboriginal elders with culturally sensitive ...

Twenty per cent still think it's OK to discriminate against Indigenous Australians
Wellington Times
An advertising campaign that explores the casual racism of Australians towards Indigenous people has been viewed more than 3.75 million times, but 20 per cent of respondents to a beyondblue survey still think it is OK to discriminate against Aboriginal ...

... compare the Indigenous population of Australia to the proportional number of Indigenous workers in our health system ... the goals we have outlined in the RACS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Action Plan 2014-2016.

Australia's unenviable reputation for instability is new; looking back, it's possible to .... With his annual visits to Aboriginal Australia, he brought honesty, ...

Biripi Aboriginal Corporation Medical Centre (Biripi ACMC) is a community controlled organisation funded by numerous Agencies and levels of ...

Aboriginal iron ore project a step closer
The Australian
Private company Australian Aboriginal Mining Corp has signed a deal that would allow it to deliver up to 2 million tonnes of iron ore from its Extension and Breakaway iron ore deposits into Fortescue's Pilbara rail and port infrastructure over five years.

Telegraph.co.uk
Australian mining minister told to 'frack off' by protesting Aborigines and ...
Telegraph.co.uk
The protest included an unusual mix of Aboriginal representatives, environmentalists and pastoralists (sheep or cattle farmers) – groups which have at times been at odds over land rights but united to warn against the spread of fracking in northern ...
NT govt told to 'frack off' by farmers9news.com.au
Northern Territory fracking protesters shout down mining ministerThe Guardian

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An Australian mining minister has been jeered and heckled by an angry crowd of Aborigines and farmers on horseback who held an anti-fracking ...

NEWS.com.au
'We're verging on defeatism': Hugh Jackman wants Australia to change
NEWS.com.au
But unlike most lovelorn teenagers, he did that by taking a job building houses in the indigenous community of Areyonga in Central Australia, population 300. It was a “life-changing moment” for the sheltered Sydney youngster, and Hugh wanted to stay ...

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But unlike most lovelorn teenagers, he did that by taking a job building houses in the indigenous community of Areyonga in Central Australia, ...

'We're verging on defeatism': Hugh Jackman wants Australia to change ... The actor has been vocal on Aboriginal issues, posting a photo of himself ...

SBS
Malcolm Turnbull's track record on Indigenous issues
SBS
"Of course there's much that I had still wanted to do – constitutional recognition of Indigenous people; getting the kids to school, the adults to work, and communities safe." "I was the first prime minister to spend a week a year in remote, Indigenous ...

SBS
Malcolm Turnbull's track record on Indigenous issues
SBS
"Of course there's much that I had still wanted to do – constitutional recognition of Indigenous people; getting the kids to school, the adults to work, and communities safe." "I was the first prime minister to spend a week a year in remote, Indigenous ...

Cooktown was to become the second busiest port in Australia. ... She worked with her uncle, Eric Deeral, the first Aboriginal man to be elected to the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
HIV, hep C and STI cases increase in Indigenous communities, remain stable in ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Associate Professor Ward said the link between injecting drug use and infections was "really worrying", and Australia risked the same fate as Canada, where First Nations people accounted for 20 per cent of HIV diagnoses each year, despite being only ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
HIV, hep C and STI cases increase in Indigenous communities, remain stable in ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Associate Professor Ward said the link between injecting drug use and infections was "really worrying", and Australia risked the same fate as Canada, where First Nations people accounted for 20 per cent of HIV diagnoses each year, despite being only ...

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There were 300 more diagnoses among Aboriginal and Torres Trait ... drug use and infections was "really worrying", and Australia risked the same ...

Māori Television
Will new Australian PM address long-standing Aboriginal issues?
Māori Television
New Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull has been sworn as Prime Minister of Australia in a ceremony this afternoon at Australia's Government House. Turnbull ousted Tony Abbott in a leadership challenge last night 54 votes to 44. But will Turnbull finally ...