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Aboriginal people will be consulted on changes to service delivery in remote communities, the WA Government says, under plans it expects to result in ...

The exact number of Aboriginal Australians who fought in WWI is difficult to pin down as they were not included in the census and generally not ...

Dr John Boffa, from the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, described the trial of a seven-week program designed to increase attendance and ...

He then pointed to social problems in the communities, including child abuse, drawing the ire of opposition Aboriginal affairs spokesman Ben Wyatt, ...

"Bickering" about the source of statistics on sexual abuse of children in remote Aboriginal communities is missing the point, West Australian Police ...

... who are helping to close the gap in health outcomes for Māori, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. ... nose and throat surgeon at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Western Australia, and Dr Ollapallil Jacob, ...

A Ngurrara Ranger with a boy in the Warlu Jilajaa Jumu Indigenous protected area in Western Australia. Photograph: Kimberley Land Council/Pew ...

NEWS.com.au
Blame booze, not the past: Pearson
NEWS.com.au
The Australian reports that the noted academic used a speech in Brisbane to urge indigenous people to “rise above historic trauma”, likening that process to the way in which Jewish people have endured after the Holocaust. “I have to push back against ...

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NEWS.com.au
Blame booze, not the past: Pearson
NEWS.com.au
Mr Pearson told the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists conference that blaming the past had become “a convenience”, but the greater problem facing Aboriginal communities today was alcohol abuse — a state of affairs he called ...

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NOEL Pearson says Australia's indigenous people are more degraded by ... The major challenge facing Aboriginal communities today was alcohol and not the ... Mr Pearson told the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Christian Thompson tells Indigenous Australia's story in The Imperial Relic
Sydney Morning Herald
In one photograph, Christian Thompson's head can be just seen emerging from a fabric sheath resembling an old-fashioned gramophone horn. In another, he wears an elaborate helmet made of maps, including one of the distribution of Aboriginal language ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Christian Thompson tells Indigenous Australia's story in The Imperial Relic
Sydney Morning Herald
In one photograph, Christian Thompson's head can be just seen emerging from a fabric sheath resembling an old-fashioned gramophone horn. In another, he wears an elaborate helmet made of maps, including one of the distribution of Aboriginal language ...

Bundaberg News Mail
Letters: This is why the Aboriginal flag needs to fly
Bundaberg News Mail
This is not the "Black Arm Band View" of the history of Australia since 1788 this is the "White View" written by White Australian historians. On the 10th, December 1992 then Prime Minister the Hon Paul Keating gave a speech on Aboriginal reconciliation ...

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Aboriginal means; The First Inhabitants of a Country, also relates to our ... The invasion of Australia by the British was in fact contrary to both the ...

Her experiences as a woman of Asian-Aboriginal descent growing up in Broome, northwestern Australia, which are vividly captured in the hour-long ...

teleSUR English
Uranium Contaminated Indigenous Australian Communities' Water
teleSUR English
Unsafe levels of uranium were found in the water supplies of four Indigenous communities during tests between 2012 and 2014, according to a report from the Office of the Auditor General Western Australia. “Uranium leaches naturally from soils, rocks ...

Get over historical indigenous wrongs: Noel Pearson
The Australian
“But too many white Australians think the door opens to opportunity from the outside, when you've got to be let into the door from the inside.'' Mr Pearson said constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as Australia's first ...

Get over historical indigenous wrongs: Noel Pearson
The Australian
“We've constructed a major industry out of indigenous disadvantage. Australia spent $33 billion last year in the name of indigenous people … yet the results are the poorest you can imagine.'' Mr Pearson said white Australia believed indigenous people ...

The subsequent media coverage by The Australian placed enormous ... confronting Aboriginal communities across remote and regional Australia.

Get over historical indigenous wrongs: Noel Pearson
The Australian
“We've constructed a major industry out of indigenous disadvantage. Australia spent $33 billion last year in the name of indigenous people … yet the results are the poorest you can imagine.'' Mr Pearson said white Australia believed indigenous people ...