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Response to rash of suicides in remote WA regions 'pitiful'
The Australian
He said local, Aboriginal-led suicide prevention bodies such as the Halls Creek Healing Taskforce had been unable to attract funding from the West Australian government, leaving programs at risk. Mr Georgatos said the state government's response to the ...

Response to rash of suicides in remote WA regions 'pitiful'
The Australian
He said local, Aboriginal-led suicide prevention bodies such as the Halls Creek Healing Taskforce had been unable to attract funding from the West Australian government, leaving programs at risk. Mr Georgatos said the state government's response to the ...

Heart condition twice as common in Indigenous people
HealthCanal.com
Research from the University of Adelaide shows Indigenous Australians suffer from a serious heart rhythm disorder twice as commonly as non-Indigenous people. A study in the University's Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders is the first of its kind to ...

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Heart condition twice as common in Indigenous people
NewsMaker (press release)
Researchers studied the data of more than 200,000 people managed at the Royal Adelaide Hospital over a 10-year period in South Australia. The results, published in the journal BMJ Open, show that Indigenous Australians diagnosed with atrial ...

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Mammoth task ahead to bring Aboriginal remains back on country
ABC Online
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Indigenous remains and artefacts kept in museums across Australia and around the world. At one time, museums and explorers would organise expeditions with the specific intent of collecting "Aboriginal specimens ...

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Mammoth task ahead to bring Aboriginal remains back on country
ABC Local
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Indigenous remains and artefacts kept in museums across Australia and around the world. At one time, museums and explorers would organise expeditions with the specific intent of collecting "Aboriginal specimens ...

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Equity Trustees initiative supports indigenous youth
ifa
According to a statement from Equity Trustees, the foundation awarded close to $68,000 to programs that assist indigenous youth living in foster, residential or kinship care. One grant recipient is a Save the Children program in Western Australia which ...

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Australia's cultural institutions lacking diversity
Human Capital Magazine Online
A mere 0.5% of the gallery's workforce is made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the Herald reported – the national benchmark is 2.6%. It was also revealed that this was a decrease from 2012, when indigenous people made up 1.2% of the ...

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Meet the Mob: Deborah Swan
ABC Online
Deborah grew up in Toukley, on the NSW Central Coast. While her indigenous heritage comes from South Australia, she has grown up on Darkinjung land. Her father was killed in a car accident when Deborah was 19, she gave birth to a daughter a year later.

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Saltwater Country Opens in the Netherlands
Aboriginal Art Directory News
A new exhibition Saltwater Country is set to open at the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht on January 11, showing a great diversity of art produced by sixteen artists from Queensland's coastal regions in north-east Australia. They have ...

The First Nations Soldiers were equals on the battlefield, but when they returned, they were not given the recognition or entitlements that they deserved. Once forgotten, the Aboriginal and Islander people who went off to fight for Australia in the First World War have been getting increasing recognition a hundred years later. But many of the stories of soldiers who had to hide their true identity to fight are still untold. Some of their names are still not honoured in the Australian War Memorial, despite their active service.

When simplistic outrage clouds a complex issue
The Australian (blog)
Conflating all indigenous people of colour as sharing a culture also can help to entrench a sense of their universal victimhood, and such conflation is often simply bewildering. Early in PNG's independent life, meetings with Aboriginal Australians were ...
“Try a little kindness” and other collective resolutions for 2015Crikey (blog)

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The Australian
APY artists see red as pop-up auctions peddle fake works
The Australian
She said all her works sold through Tjala Aboriginal Arts Centre in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands community of Amata in South Australia, where she paints, were genuine. “Ricky brought in a roll of canvasses and told me to write my ...

Time to Recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution
Independent European Daily Express
SYDNEY, Dic 30 (IPS) - Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders comprise 2.5 per cent (some 548,370) of Australia’s 24-million strong population, but they are not recognised by the Constitution. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

The Australian
Alliance with Jacqui Lambie gives indigenous women a voice
The Australian
“From years of experience in Australia's biggest city, they have a good understanding of what will work best to protect our children from drugs, violence and unemployment.” One of the advisers will be Bronwyn Penrith, who chairs the Aboriginal women's ...

The Australian
Alliance with Jacqui Lambie gives indigenous women a voice
The Australian
“From years of experience in Australia's biggest city, they have a good understanding of what will work best to protect our children from drugs, violence and unemployment.” One of the advisers will be Bronwyn Penrith, who chairs the Aboriginal women's ...

Transcript from World News Australia Radio - SBS (January 2014) - There were concerns a review of the national curriculum could re-ignite the so-called history wars about Australia's past. - One particular area of contention is how Australian children should be taught about the early interaction - and often conflict - between Indigenous people and European settlers. Christopher Pyne, the eurocentric Minister for Education said that he was concerned about a left-wing bias on the teachings of Indigenous Australians and the culture of the Europeans who arrived after them. - Thea Cowie reports

Sydney Morning Herald
Cabinet papers 1988-89: lost in the space race; Aboriginal treaty; body ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"If manufacture were to occur in Australia it could generate considerable economic benefits. It would employ up to 800 people directly, involve capital expenditure of around $300 million and could generate significant export earnings," Button told cabinet.
Cabinet papers 1988-89: Deaths in custody outgrew cabinet's expectationsThe Australian
Cabinet papers 1988-1989: Hawke feared Indonesia was developing nuclear ...Forbes Advocate

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The Australian (blog)
Tanya Hosch is an activist fighting for indigenous recognition. Source: News ...
The Australian (blog)
THE battle for indigenous Australians to be recognised in the Constitution took a tangible turn in the past year, with Tony Abbott announcing last month that he wanted the nation to vote on reform on May 27, 2017, on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 ...

The Guardian
Mining royalties may save WA's remote Indigenous communities from closure
The Guardian
Yu, who is now chairman of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, said moving Indigenous communities from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to Redman's Department of Regional Development was a “significant change of ...

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