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Aboriginal people are grappling with the risk of “dying early” while ... National Congress of Australia's First Peoples chief executive Geoff Scott told the ...

This study is a collaboration between Macquarie University researchers and the Yaegl Aboriginal Community of northern NSW, Australia to investigate ...

And also Jim Crow was an incredibly common man for Aboriginal man. ... of 1,500 people in Australia and even New Zealand in recent decades.

According to First Nations Foundation chief executive, Trevor Pearce ...
Financial Standard
"ASIC welcomes the enthusiasm and commitment of the [Indigenous Superannuation] Working Group, and in particular its chair, Eva Scheerlink (of Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees), to tackle issues facing indigenous Australians and ...

"There's a preconception that an Aboriginal person is what you see up the Northern Territory, in Arnhem Land, dark skinned, living a traditional lifestyle ...

The Conversation AU
Aboriginal history rewritten again by ignorant political class
The Conversation AU
Last week Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm was widely reported as suggesting that people other than Aboriginal Australians may have occupied the Australian continent in the past. At a doorstop at Parliament House he apparently couldn't name ...
Explainer: Who were the first Australians?ABC Online

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Last week Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm was widely reported as suggesting that people other than Aboriginal Australians may have ...

The Guardian
Future of NSW Indigenous helpline uncertain with funding due to expire
The Guardian
A spokesperson for the NSW attorney general, Gabrielle Upton, and the NSW Aboriginal affairs minister, Leslie Williams, declined to comment. A similar helpline will be set up in Western Australia as part of a state government response to Aboriginal ...

The Guardian
Future of NSW Indigenous helpline uncertain with funding due to expire
The Guardian
A spokesperson for the NSW attorney general, Gabrielle Upton, and the NSW Aboriginal affairs minister, Leslie Williams, declined to comment. A similar helpline will be set up in Western Australia as part of a state government response to Aboriginal ...

A similar helpline will be set up in Western Australia as part of a state government response to Aboriginal deaths in custody, it was announced on ...

The Guardian
For Aboriginal people, just staying alive is the priority, says Mick Gooda
The Guardian
Anne-Marie Lansdown, deputy chief executive of Universities Australia, told the inquiry there had been poor consultation with its members, and that as the peak body it was not asked for input into the design of Indigenous higher education programs. “We ...
The Government's retrogressive Indigenous Advancement StrategyEureka Street (satire) (registration)
$7000 bursary up for grabsHospital & Aged Care

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“The government is trying to manage the risk of Aboriginal people ... Anne-Marie Lansdown, deputy chief executive of Universities Australia, told the ...

Re-imagine the encounter by Lt James Cook and his crew with Aboriginal ... Neil Murray is one of Australia's finest singer songwriters and the man ...

The very next month Aboriginal Communities throughout South Australia were informed they had been 'successful' in their funds application (yes, that ...

Come along and enjoy these unique stories from incredible aboriginal filmmakers & support the celebration of the culture of our first Australians in ...

... and studying at the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts in Brisbane. ... “Oded was in Australia working in Sydney at the time and came over to ...

... TARNANTHI will cast new light on the richness and diversity of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island art culture through an artistic vision that ...

Historic Court Ruling Could Boost Indigenous Employment
Pro Bono Australia
The determination recognises exclusive native title rights over approximately 6053 hectares and non-exclusive native title rights over approximately 1516 hectares of land and water extending from Bowen to north of Home Hill and east into the Coral Sea.

ABC Online
Explainer: Who were the first Australians?
ABC Online
The Bradshaw rock paintings, or the Gwion Gwion figures, found in the north-west Kimberly region of West Australia have in the past been used to argue that Indigenous Australians were not the first Australians. Archaeologists claimed these paintings ...

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A lock of hair taken from an unknown young Indigenous man in the 1920s has provided genetic evidence that Aboriginal Australians are descended ...