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The Australian
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youth
The Australian
The report 'There is always a brighter future: Keeping Indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Western Australia', was three years in the making, and includes research in Albany, Bunbury, Perth, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Broome, Mowanjum, ...
Indigenous stockmen and women honoured in outback QueenslandABC Online
Indigenous youth 53 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
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“Unless the extremely high rate of Aboriginal youth detention is urgently ... “WA spent over $36 million on locking up Aboriginal children last financial year ... said Claire Mallinson, National Director of Amnesty International Australia.

... with the worst rates seen in Western Australia, Amnesty International says. ... "Unless the extremely high rate of Aboriginal youth detention is urgently ... an increasing number of Aboriginal young people will move into the adult ...

The Guardian
Indigenous dancers help open Arnhem Land's Injalak art centre – video
The Guardian
Indigenous dance groups and the Northern Territory chief minister, Adam Giles, took part in the opening of the Injalak art centre in West Arnhem Land's Gunbalanya community on Wednesday. The centre has been given about $1m in federal and territory ...

The Guardian
Indigenous recognition to 'complete' constitution, says Tony Abbott – video
The Guardian
Prime minister Tony Abbott says Australians must 'go forward together' to find a form of constitutional recognition which is a 'completion' rather than a 'substantial change' to the constitution. He refused to be drawn into a disagreement between ...

The Aboriginal Learning on Country (ALOC) program is coordinated by the SA ... and provides hands-on training and mentoring for Aboriginal people, ... and adopted in other areas of South Australia, including the Monarto Zoo.

SBS
More Indigenous women dying from pregnancy complications
SBS
Indigenous Australian women are at greater risk of dying due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, despite Australia's otherwise low rates of maternal death. A new report shows Indigenous women are dying at more than twice the rate of ...
Indigenous death rate in childbirth comparable to developing countriesThe Guardian
'Maternal deaths' are rare in Australia9news.com.au

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The ancient sites associated with a rich Aboriginal history and culture are ... Northern Australia's indigenous communities are streets ahead of their ...

With the honourable exception of The Australian, his historic comments have ... Mundine's comments will not make him popular with some Aboriginal ...

This has finally contributed to a broader mainstream recognition that Aboriginal people have been in Australia for thousands of years and that their ...

She calls Australia the 'child-stealing capital of the world'. ... But the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander minority, overly represented at the bottom of ...

SBS
More indigenous women dying from pregnancy complications
SBS
Indigenous Australian women are at greater risk of dying due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, despite Australia's otherwise low rates of maternal death. A new report shows Indigenous women are dying at more than twice the rate of ...
Indigenous death rate in childbirth comparable to developing countriesThe Guardian
'Maternal deaths' are rare in AustraliaThe Australian (blog)

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Indigenous Australian women are at greater risk of dying due to ... general health of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in Australia.

The Guardian
Indigenous death rate in childbirth comparable to developing countries
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians are receiving substandard medical care that sees them dying during childbirth at a rate comparable to women in developing countries, the regional manager of maternal and child health at the Institute of Urban Indigenous Health ...
More indigenous women dying from pregnancy complicationsSBS
'Maternal deaths' are rare in AustraliaThe Australian (blog)

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Incidence of maternal death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who gave birth from 2008 to 2012 was 13.8 per 100,000, compared with ...

Mr Scullion visited the APY Lands a number of times in the past and said he's happy to give Federal Government money to Aboriginal organisations ...

“The provision of PBS medicines to remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... whose mortality and morbidity still lags behind the majority of Australians.

WA Aboriginal Legal Service Chief Executive Dennis Eggington said it was very common for Indigenous people to have no identification papers.

Several students from various Fleurieu Peninsula schools will attend the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) Aboriginal Pathways ...

eTurboNews
Bunbury Geographe region to host Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference
eTurboNews
Western Australia Indigenous Tourism Operators Council (WAITOC) Chairman, Robert Taylor, is pleased to announce that the next national Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference (AITC) 2016 will be held in Bunbury, Western Australia. The conference is ...