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WATCH: Meet Australia's Indigenous Trans Men, 'Brotherboys'
Advocate.com
WATCH: Meet Australia's Indigenous Trans Men, 'Brotherboys'. A community of Australia's aboriginal trans men is finding its voice through telling 'yarns' and raising awareness of life at the intersections of trans and indigenous identities.

The Guardian
City to consider dual indigenous names for Sydney streets, suburbs
The Australian
Ms Scott said it would provide “an authentic experience of Australia's indigenous peoples” for travellers to Sydney. Dual naming has been championed by Corroboree Sydney creative director Hetti Perkins. “It's wonderful initiative to support the ...
Black Australia Would Be 'Essentially Free Labour' Under Work-For-The-Dole ...New Matilda
Aboriginal people are entitled to be treated as human beings, not just as a ...The Guardian
Remote Aboriginal communities face closure, leaders voice concernsABC Message Stick

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NEWS.com.au
Reading skills progress hits a plateau among indigenous children
The Australian
The reasons for the fall in indigenous reading skills among primary students is unclear. The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority has ruled out any effects of the test or the group of students. ACARA general manager of assessment ...
NAPLAN: Number of students not sitting benchmark tests at all-time highYahoo!7 News
NAPLAN national results strong for VictoriaThe Canberra Times

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The Australian
marketer spruiks 'Aboriginal exit'
The Australian
An Australia-based agent who assisted in marketing the units told The Australian that Great Fortune Investments was a group employed by DeiCorp to market them “to local and international Chinese investors … I don't know of any indigenous buyers who ...

The Australian
marketer spruiks 'Aboriginal exit'
The Australian
An Australia-based agent who assisted in marketing the units told The Australian that Great Fortune Investments was a group employed by DeiCorp to market them “to local and international Chinese investors … I don't know of any indigenous buyers who ...

MARK COLVIN: For the first time in Australia, Indigenous women from around the world are meeting this week, to talk about domestic violence in their communities. The shocking rates of domestic violence in Aboriginal families, is mirrored in communities in New Zealand and North America. A Global Indigenous Domestic Violence conference in Cairns has heard that Indigenous victims won't speak up, unless support services are run by their own people. Bridget Brennan reports. BRIDGET BRENNAN: Aboriginal women are 35 times more likely to be hospitalised with a domestic violence injury than other Australian women. Domestic violence workers say nothing is changing. ANTOINETTE BRAYBROOK: I have been working in this area for 12 years, and I just cannot see that things are getting better for Aboriginal women. You know, we're constantly fighting to make sure that our organisations are properly resourced so that issues can be addressed. BRIDGET BRENNAN: Antoinette Braybrook is chief executive of the Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service in Victoria. In Cairns, she's meeting with women from New Zealand, Canada and the United States. They're all struggling to deal with the high levels of violence in their own Indigenous communities. ANTOINETTE BRAYBROOK: We see the devastation that violence in causing in our communities, and we're all on the same page with what needs to be done - we just need some backing from our governments, and we also need to all stand together on these issues. BRIDGET BRENNAN: Family violence is also affecting Maori women in New Zealand. Susan Ngawati Osborne works at the Maori women’s service the Tu Wahine Trust in Auckland. SUSAN NGAWATI OSBORNE: What we can say is that our women in particular suffer at the hands of violent men and I think more so from men who are not from the same culture. BRIDGET BRENNAN: She says Maori women are reluctant to report domestic violence, but they're having success with programs run by Maori people. SUSAN NGAWATI OSBORNE: It is the proven pathway to creating healthy communities. BRIDGET BRENNAN: From Auckland to Arizona, American social services worker Laura Horsley points out that violence against Indigenous women is systemic. LAURA HORSLEY: It's really interesting to see how similar, even though we come from very different places and very different populations, it's interesting to see how many people are struggling with the same barriers and the same successes and the same types of issues that we're trying to address. BRIDGET BRENNAN: She's been speaking in Cairns about her domestic violence service in Phoenix, which takes support workers into rural communities. LAURA HORSLEY: The Native American population is also scattered in and amongst most of those communities that we provide services in, and so our goal is to put an advocate that is well versed and well trained in that particular culture as the person that goes out to deliver those services. BRIDGET BRENNAN: It's a view shared by Antoinette Braybrook from Victoria's Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention service. She believes the challenge is to build trust. ANTOINETTE BRAYBROOK: Aboriginal people need to be able to do this our way, we don't need strategies imposed on us, and it's about time that we were given that opportunity to make sure that this violence against our women in our communities is stopped. MARK COLVIN: Victorian Aboriginal women Antoinette Braybrook ending Bridget Brennan's report.

The Guardian
Aboriginal people are entitled to be treated as human beings, not just as a ...
The Guardian
And former federal minister for Aboriginal affairs and this year's senior Australian of the year, Fred Chaney, has said that proceeding to de-fund and dissolve remote communities will have catastrophic impacts on the lives of Indigenous men, women and ...
Remote Aboriginal communities face closure, leaders voice concernsABC Message Stick
City to consider dual indigenous names for Sydney streets, suburbsThe Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous infant mortality rate higher than anticipated in Australia's Victoria
Xinhua
MELBOURNE, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The gap in indigenous infant mortality rate Australia's Victoria state has not closed over the last decade but is still higher than anticipated, researcher said on Tuesday. A six-year report on research by fellows from the ...
Victoria's Indigenous infant mortality rate 'has not improved in a decade'The Guardian

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The Guardian
Victoria's Indigenous infant mortality rate 'has not improved in a decade'
The Guardian
“We now have data that shows there has been no significant change in the rate of deaths between 1999 and 2008 of Aboriginal babies in Victoria and the risk of Aboriginal infant deaths in the first year of life remains twice as high as for non ...

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Remote Aboriginal communities face closure, leaders voice concerns
ABC Message Stick
The West Australian Government says it can't afford to maintain power and water to all 274 remote communities across the state now that the Commonwealth has transferred those costs back to WA. The Premier has flagged up to 150 communities will be ...

SBS
Abbott Government 'deliberately targeting' indigenous people in welfare changes
SBS
The new scheme is the Government's first official moves in response to the Forrest Review of Indigenous employment and training – the report by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest. It contrasts with the Work for the Dole Programme in Australia's urban areas.

Australia: Eleven-year-old Aboriginal boy commits suicide
World Socialist Web Site
Two months ago, Peter Little, an 11-year-old Aboriginal boy, tragically committed suicide in the Western Australian city of Geraldton. While the death was met with shock and an outpouring of grief from his family, friends and Aboriginal community, the ...

Australia: Eleven-year-old Aboriginal boy commits suicide
World Socialist Web Site
Two months ago, Peter Little, an 11-year-old Aboriginal boy, tragically committed suicide in the Western Australian city of Geraldton. While the death was met with shock and an outpouring of grief from his family, friends and Aboriginal community, the ...

Indigenous Australians can take pride in disability policy gains
Crikey (blog)
Along with other Indigenous peoples worldwide, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have much to celebrate. At the same time, the Australian disability services sector is undergoing its most [...] significant reform since the Disability ...
Call to address custody disparityThe West Australian

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Indigenous Australians can take pride in disability policy gains
Crikey (blog)
Along with other Indigenous peoples worldwide, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have much to celebrate. At the same time, the Australian disability services sector is undergoing its most [...] significant reform since the Disability ...
Call to address custody disparityThe West Australian

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Aljazeera.com
Shutting down Australia's Aboriginal areas
Aljazeera.com
A recent Productivity Commission report found that despite some success, Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples still face serious issues in areas of mental health and suicide, disability and over-representation in the country's ...

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Aljazeera.com
Shutting down Australia's Aboriginal areas
Aljazeera.com
A recent Productivity Commission report found that despite some success, Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples still face serious issues in areas of mental health and suicide, disability and over-representation in the country's ...

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The Age
Indigenous Australian dance looks beyond the big Bangarra
The Age
"We only have one mainstream indigenous contemporary dance company in Australia - that's Bangarra Dance Theatre - but there is room for another one," Rings says. "I'm hoping that in the next few years there will be a place for that. The students coming ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australian dance looks beyond the big Bangarra
Sydney Morning Herald
"We only have one mainstream indigenous contemporary dance company in Australia - that's Bangarra Dance Theatre - but there is room for another one," Rings says. "I'm hoping that in the next few years there will be a place for that. The students coming ...

Call to address custody disparity
The West Australian
Mr Barnett said a team within his department comprising representatives from the Department of Corrective Services, WA Police and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs was reviewing deaths in custody and the high representation of Aboriginal people in ...

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