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Culture celebrated at launch of Reconcilliation Action Plan

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 6:56pm
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are up to three time more likely to have a disability ...

Care of at-risk <b>Aboriginal</b> kids reconsidered

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 6:22pm
Australia's Northern Territory Government is reviewing child protection legislation because of concerns that placing at-risk Aboriginal children with ...

<b>Australian</b> Ambassador Bill Tweddell&#39;s iftar dinner talk

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 2:48pm
They traded with the Aboriginal people living along Australia's northern coast for trepang (or, as it is less eloquently called sea slugs). This trade and ...

Recognition a lever to end the cycle of indigenous imprisonment

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 2:15pm
When the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody shocked the ... There can be no doubt that the historical basis on which Australia was ...

'Drinking to die' in Aboriginal communities, says Sharman Stone - The Australian


The Australian

'Drinking to die' in Aboriginal communities, says Sharman Stone
The Australian
... year-long parliamentary review into alcohol in indigenous communities has recommended limiting the supply and promotion of liquor as a way to reduce harm, but has also called for action to address the underlying causes of alcoholism in remote ...

'Drinking to die' in Aboriginal communities, says Sharman Stone | The Australian - The Australian


The Australian

'Drinking to die' in Aboriginal communities, says Sharman Stone | The Australian
The Australian
Picture: Andrew Rogers Source: News Corp Australia. A minimum floor price on alcohol and a tax on liquor by volume should be urgently pursued to address the problem of harmful drinking in Aboriginal communities, a national inquiry has found.

&#39;Drinking to die&#39; in <b>Aboriginal</b> communities, says Sharman Stone

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 2:03pm
The prevalence of the disorder in some Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... The inquiry has urged the Council of Australian Governments to place the ...

ATCO backs indigenous art | Business News - Business News


Business News

ATCO backs indigenous art | Business News
Business News
Perth-based energy infrastructure company ATCO Australia has announced it will support two new exhibitions to be presented by indigenous art group Nomad Two Worlds. ATCO Australia previously partnered with Nomad in 2011 to support its Portrait of ...

Google News

CCI to deliver 300 indigenous jobs

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 1:42pm
“CCI is proud to have been selected as the largest VTEC provider in Australia creating pathways into real jobs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Big ideas welcome for Uluru tourism

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 7:30am
ON Thursday the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Parks Board of Management announced that one of Australia's most famous sites is open to boosting ...

Bush plants could be a saviour of western medicine as antibiotics fail

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 6:11am
"Aboriginal people have centuries of knowledge and are identifying things that we ... Australia is signatory to an international protocol which guides the ...

Cultural applause

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 5:34am
Phyllis Williams of Victor Harbor gave a Ngarrindjeri Welcome to Country and Aboriginal, Torres Strait Island and Australian flags were raised at ...

Aboriginal Australia: DNA Evidence Confirm Indigenous People Were First To ... - Headlines & Global News


Headlines & Global News

Aboriginal Australia: DNA Evidence Confirm Indigenous People Were First To ...
Headlines & Global News
But a biologist and anthropologist, Michael Westway from the Griffith University in Queensland, has confirmed --- with the help of genome sequencing --- that the paintings were indeed done by the Aborigines, according to ABC News Australia. They were ...

Aboriginal Australia: DNA Evidence Confirm Indigenous People Were First To ... - Headlines & Global News


Headlines & Global News

Aboriginal Australia: DNA Evidence Confirm Indigenous People Were First To ...
Headlines & Global News
But a biologist and anthropologist, Michael Westway from the Griffith University in Queensland, has confirmed --- with the help of genome sequencing --- that the paintings were indeed done by the Aborigines, according to ABC News Australia. They were ...

<b>Aboriginal Australia</b>: DNA Evidence Confirm Indigenous People Were First To Inhabit Oz

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 5:26am
The Bradshaw rock art found in Australia is believed to be 20,000-years-old and was drawn by the Aborigines who inhabited the continent 50,000 ...

Nuclear dump would destroy our land: elder

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 5:23am
Aboriginal elders from across the country have joined scores of university ... plans for a nuclear waste dump, in South Australia or anywhere else.

WA stance on indigenous Australia a worrying sign - Geelong Advertiser


Geelong Advertiser

WA stance on indigenous Australia a worrying sign
Geelong Advertiser
During NAIDOC Week, it should be noted that this move comes in clear contrast to the actions of the Barnett Government in Western Australia, which seem to be taking us back generations when it comes to Aboriginal land rights. Many Victorians may not be ...

NAIDOC Week reconnects <b>Aboriginal</b> people with country

Google News - Thu, 2015/07/09 - 4:18am
A small group of indigenous people ranging from a babe in arms to elders gathered yesterday on the Teeluk property north of Kingston SE on the ...

OPINION: Get on with it Australia - Byron Shire News


Byron Shire News

OPINION: Get on with it Australia
Byron Shire News
The danger is the changes made to the Constitution may be so lily-livered that there is no substantive meaning to them - leaving non-Aboriginal Australia with a warm fuzzy feeling that we have made a difference when entrenched injustice and ...

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