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Pigments and palettes from the past – science of Indigenous art
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australian practices, honed over thousands of years, weave science with storytelling. In this Indigenous science series, we look at different aspects of First Australians' traditional life and uncover the knowledge behind them. Here we ...

ABC Online
Cyclone Tracy: Aboriginal people foresaw 'bad event' in Darwin
ABC Online
It is Darwin folklore that right before Cyclone Tracy hit the city on Christmas Eve 1974, Aboriginal people had already deserted the town. Historians have struggled to find facts to back up the rumour, and even suggested it may have been a way ...

CT Australia
Australia's second National Aboriginal Bishop highlights justice and ...
CT Australia
Chris McLeod is still awaiting the official consecration ceremony at which he will become the Assistant Bishop in the Adelaide Diocese—located in the Australian state of South Australia (SA)—but through an interview with the Bible Society this week ...
Anglican Aboriginal Bishop announced for South AustraliaAnglicannews

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Anglican Aboriginal Bishop announced for South Australia
Anglicannews
The Rev'd Chris McLeod, a Gurindji man who has been involved in ministry among and beside Aboriginal people in Anglican orders for more than 20 years, will be consecrated as an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Adelaide early next year. The Adelaide ...

Families urged to look after each other as Kimberley region records seven ...
ABC Online
Professor Dudgeon is head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention project, which is trying to identify the most effective ways to bring down the extraordinarily high suicide rates in Indigenous Australia. Indigenous Australians ...

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Women and kids suffer most pain
The Australian
Long before white Australia “discovered” that men should be “part of the solution”, Aboriginal women were asking men to walk with them. But it's not working. Why not? Because it's simplistic; for Aboriginal women, disadvantage is compounded by race as ...

BBC News
The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world
BBC News
In 1984 a group of Australian Aboriginal people living a traditional nomadic life were encountered in the heart of the Gibson desert in Western Australia. They had been unaware of the arrival of Europeans on the continent, let alone cars - or even clothes.

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The long struggle to improve Indigenous health in Australia just got a bit easier
ABC Online
Six Indigenous medical students have graduated as doctors from the University of NSW adding to the barely 200 Aboriginal doctors across Australia, and we joined one of those graduating to see what her aims are.

The long struggle to improve Indigenous health in Australia just got a bit easier
ABC Online
Six Indigenous medical students have graduated as doctors from the University of NSW adding to the barely 200 Aboriginal doctors across Australia, and we joined one of those graduating to see what her aims are.

Sussan Ley vows to focus on indigenous health and GP co-payment
Sydney Morning Herald
Incoming Health Minister Sussan Ley has vowed to put more focus on the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, while also listening to crossbench senators to ensure the country gets a "sustainable health policy". Ms Ley will take over ...

Urban living beats benefits
The Australian
... and education cannot be brought to the people, then serious consideration needs to be given to bringing the people to where the opportunities are. The alternative is yet another lost generation. This is not just the Aboriginal people's loss but ...

The Guardian
Queensland police charge Cairns mother with murder of eight children
The Guardian
On Sunday a congregation from the nearby St Luke's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican church, which is attended by relatives of the children, visited the Murray Street shrine of flowers, soft toys and messages left by well-wishers from all ...
8 children stabbed to death in Australia 0Woodstock Sentinel Review

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NSW bail laws and indigenous Australians
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Recent changes to the State's bail laws have drawn criticism for the implications for Indigenous Australians. However, historically NSW bail laws have always had a "disproportionate impact" on the State's Indigenous population. As the Director of the ...

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NSW bail laws and indigenous Australians
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Recent changes to the State's bail laws have drawn criticism for the implications for Indigenous Australians. However, historically NSW bail laws have always had a "disproportionate impact" on the State's Indigenous population. As the Director of the ...

Yahoo!7 News
Mother arrested for murder after children found dead in Australian home
Yahoo!7 News
UK-AUSTRALIA-CRIME-MURDER:Eight children killed in Australia in reported mass A view of a window of the house where a mass stabbing took place, in the suburb of Manoora in Cairns in this December 19, 2014 still image taken from video provided by ...
Manoora community supports each other9news.com.au
In Australia, 8 Youths Die in Mass StabbingVoice of America
8 children stabbed to death IN Cairns tragedy: Mother in hospital with serious ...The Daily Telegraph
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Eight children killed in Australia in reported mass stabbing
Yahoo!7 News
UK-AUSTRALIA-CRIME-MURDER:Eight children killed in Australia in reported mass A view of a window of the house where a mass stabbing took place, in the suburb of Manoora in Cairns in this December 19, 2014 still image taken from video provided by ...
Cairns: Eight children found dead at propertyThe Australian (blog)
In Australia, 8 Youths Die in Mass StabbingVoice of America
8 children stabbed to death IN Cairns tragedy: Mother in hospital with serious ...The Daily Telegraph
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Voice of America
In Australia, 8 Youths Die in Mass Stabbing
Voice of America
Australian media cited the injured woman's cousin, Lisa Thaiday, as saying the children were all siblings and the woman was their mother. The cousin said another sibling, a 20-year-old man, arrived home to find his brothers and sisters dead . Australia ...
Eight children killed in Australia in reported mass stabbingYahoo!7 News
8 dead kids, stabbed woman found in Australia homeCBS News
8 children stabbed to death in AustraliaToronto Sun
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Inhabitat (blog)
Australia is destroying indigenous land with fracking
Inhabitat (blog)
The Mithaka people of Channel Country, Queensland, Australia have a serious problem: Australia wants to frack their traditional homeland, targeting hundreds of wells beneath their rivers and floodplains for extracting shale oil and gas. Despite staunch ...

euronews
Eight children stabbed to death in Cairns, Australia
euronews
... that a woman had been wounded, officers then discovered the bodies of the children. Media outlets reported that the neighbourhood was predominantly inhabited by indigenous Aboriginal Australians, and was known by residents to have a high crime rate.
Queensland police charge Cairns mother with murder of eight childrenThe Guardian
Cairns Australia deaths: Mersane Warria charged with murder of eight children ...The Independent
Australia mass stabbing: 8 children killedBuenos Aires Herald
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Toronto Sun
8 children stabbed to death in Australia
Toronto Sun
Specialist officers were being sent from Brisbane, the state capital, to assist with the investigation, Asnicar said. Media outlets reported that the neighbourhood was predominantly inhabited by indigenous Aboriginal Australians, and was known by ...
In Australia, 8 Youths Die in Mass StabbingVoice of America
Mother arrested over deaths of eight childrenSky News Australia
Mother arrested for murder after eight children stabbed to death in CairnsThe Guardian
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