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Indigenous eye health researchers call for boost in funding
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HUGH TAYLOR: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children start off with much better vision than non-Indigenous children. By the time they reach the age of 40 and above, average Torres Strait Islander adults have six times as much blindness and over ...

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Yet tens of thousands more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are ... his 40 year career to eliminating preventable blindness in Australia.

ABC Online
Indigenous eye health researchers call for boost in funding
ABC Online
HUGH TAYLOR: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children start off with much better vision than non-Indigenous children. By the time they reach the age of 40 and above, average Torres Strait Islander adults have six times as much blindness and over ...

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Community Newspaper Group
WA Aboriginal Bill historic but overdue
Community Newspaper Group
TO be classed as flora and fauna still haunts many Noongar people today, WADJAK Northside Aboriginal Community Group chair Shane Garlett says. Mr Garlett said for the older generation of Aboriginal Australians it was very important to be recognised as ...

Mr Garlett said for the older generation of Aboriginal Australians it was very important to be recognised as the first people and custodians of the land.

“In Aboriginal communities there is a whole range of dysfunction. With drugs like ice, people are prone to taking it. and the drug makers, drug dealers ...

He was inducted into the Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 and in 2008, the centenary of rugby league in Australia, he was named ...

The Advertiser
Set up centre to stop Aboriginal children going into state care, expert says
The Advertiser
SOUTH Australia should set up a research centre dedicated to curbing the spiralling numbers of Aboriginal children being taken into state care, a leading expert says. Australian Centre for Child Protection director Professor Fiona Arney, who is based ...

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SOUTH Australia should set up a research centre dedicated to curbing the spiralling numbers of Aboriginal children being taken into state care, ...

Australian Defence Unveils Indigenous Artwork
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This activity is part of a broader Defence Reconciliation Action Plan that aims to attract more Indigenous people to work for Defence, and to educate non-Indigenous staff of the cultural heritage, customs and beliefs of Australia's traditional custodians.

Participants listen as a Larrakia Aboriginal Nation elder Bilawarra Lee speaks Aug. 29 at Larrakeyah Barracks, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, ...

Indigenous 'Welcome to Country' app welcomes you to experience it
iTWire
We've all seen 'Welcome to Country' ceremonies take place at important events, celebrating Australia's indigenous Aboriginal peoples and their custodianship of the land. Now comes an opportunity for anyone with the free 'Welcome to Country' app, local ...

Indigenous 'Welcome to Country' app welcomes you to experience it
iTWire
We've all seen 'Welcome to Country' ceremonies take place at important events, celebrating Australia's indigenous Aboriginal peoples and their custodianship of the land. Now comes an opportunity for anyone with the free 'Welcome to Country' app, local ...

We've all seen 'Welcome to Country' ceremonies take place at important events, celebrating Australia's indigenous Aboriginal peoples and their ...

Duffy, the chief executive of Queensland's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal service, told Guardian Australia: “I think the government's sort of ...

BBC News
AFL star Adam Goodes booed again during Melbourne match
BBC News
Australian football star Adam Goodes has again been booed, just weeks after he became embroiled in a racism row. The Indigenous Australian is regularly jeered by spectators but in recent weeks his treatment sparked a fierce debate over racism in Australia.

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Australian football star Adam Goodes has again been booed, just weeks ... wants to see Aboriginal people recognised by the Australian constitution.

ABC Online
Indigenous recognition must take priority over other national votes
ABC Online
While there is much cynicism, particularly among frustrated Indigenous Australians at the pretty picture opportunities these trips offer, and while there continues to be a painful lack of concrete progress, I prefer to see this PM and future prime ...

Throughout the 1800s, Fremantle Prison was the exclusive domain of Euro-Australian inmates. Aboriginal convicts, by comparison, were sent to ...

The Australian
Tony Abbott committed to helping Aboriginal Australians
The Australian
Yet for all of these undeniable realities, there is an admirable and perhaps redeeming value in Abbott that has not earned him enough credit from critics: his commitment to improving the lives of Aboriginal Australians. It may well be what he is most ...

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