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Consider the current controversy surrounding the proposals to cease funding some remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, with some ...

Mick Dodson reckons that if the Australian Constitution is to have any relevance to Aborigines, it has to “affirm our basic identity as human beings”.

ABC Online
Remote Aboriginal communities: Clear outcomes needed for government ...
ABC Online
Remote Western Australian communities appear likely to face specific accountability measures as part of the State Government's soon to be announced governance framework. Premier Colin Barnett and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Peter Collier have ...

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Remote Western Australian communities appear likely to face specific ... Premier Colin Barnett and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Peter Collier have ...

Indigenous employment making tracks
PS News
Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Nigel Scullion said the 300 new jobs would be delivered through ILC subsidiary companies, Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia and National Indigenous Pastoral Enterprises Pty Ltd (NIPE) and at the ILC-operated ...

The Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide continues with a Third World living conditions, a Third World avoidable mortality rate, continuing forced removal of ...

It's about bringing the two communities together; settler Australians and Aboriginal Australians.” Ian believes that when the Rock is installed in Ryrie ...

Remote Aboriginal communities deserve to receive government subsidies to ... "We do live in Australia, it's supposed to be a modern civilisation, those ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Cataract surgery 'blitzes' not a long-term solution for Indigenous communities ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"[Indigenous people] who manage to get onto a waiting list will wait almost twice as long as non-Indigenous Australians, sometimes waiting several years or more before receiving surgery," the authors said. Australia's first eye surgical blitzes, called ...
Doctors say cataract surgery blitzes aren't helping fix eye problems for ...Business Insider Australia
Cataract blitzes not long-term solutionPerth Now

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are six times more likely to go blind than non-Indigenous Australians, mostly from clouding of the eye's lens from ...

Domestic abuse of Indigenous women a 'national crisis'
Radio Australia
The situation is deeply worrying, with two women killed in Australia every week as a result of domestic violence. So far this year, 32 women have lost their lives. However, for Indigenous women the statistics are even more appalling. In fact ...

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The situation is deeply worrying, with two women killed in Australia every .... 'There's a lot of different issues about reporting, especially in Aboriginal ...

"That's the real team Australia. ... "The great thing about being a woman of Aboriginal heritage in 2015, we are seeing more and more roles where race ...

MuMbrella
Investigative journalist, indigenous Australians, top marketers and creative ...
MuMbrella
They include panels featuring some of Australia's top marketers; a discussion on the media industry's responsibilities to recruit more indigenous Australians; the five questions that any brand should ask with advice from Melbourne's most awarded ...

The West Australian Government says it will only fund long-term, ... "With $115 million going into Aboriginal youth services a lot of these kids were still ...

Derby is a small town sitting at the gateway to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. About a two hour drive from Broome, the town greets you with ...

But in some parts of Aboriginal communities around Australia, the headlines triggered an enormous amount of interest. The thinkers among a younger ...

... occupy Brisbane's City Hall to object to the closure of remote Aboriginal ... Some of the actions have been supported by the Australian Council of ...

Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protesters stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protesters stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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