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Crikey (blog)
“Our organs are sacred”: how we fail Aboriginal Australians with Chronic ...
Crikey (blog)
This post is an extract from the catalogue for the exhibition “Get Well Soon: A Diagnosis” by Therese Ritchie and Chips Mackinolty currently showing at David Hancock's Gallery Two Six in Darwin through 11 October 2014. The statistics around chronic ...

Constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians not about race
The Australian
He believes we can “renounce our ethnic identity, because I have done that myself”. That's his choice. But Bolt's circumstances aren't the same as those of indigenous Australians. My ancestors didn't immigrate to Australia a generation ago. They've ...

Constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians not about race
The Australian
He believes we can “renounce our ethnic identity, because I have done that myself”. That's his choice. But Bolt's circumstances aren't the same as those of indigenous Australians. My ancestors didn't immigrate to Australia a generation ago. They've ...

ABC Online
Architecture: The next bastion of Indigenous creativity says architect Jefa ...
ABC Online
One of Victoria's few Indigenous Australian architects says architecture is one of the last bastions of Indigenous creative endeavour and participation is low. Jefa Greenaway, director of Greenaway Architects, cited a lack of understanding in the ...

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Brisbane Times
Fred Hollows Foundation funds Australia's first indigenous ophthalmologist
Brisbane Times
Kris will soon become Australia's first fully qualified indigenous ophthalmologist. It is an extraordinary achievement for this young Queenslander. His graduation will, for those of us who work in eye health, rank alongside the 1959 graduation of ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Fred Hollows Foundation funds Australia's first indigenous ophthalmologist
Sydney Morning Herald
His graduation will, for those of us who work in eye health, rank alongside the 1959 graduation of Australia's first Aboriginal university graduate, Margaret Williams, and that of indigenous leader Charles Perkins – a great mate of Fred Hollows – who ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Fred Hollows Foundation funds Australia's first indigenous ophthalmologist
Sydney Morning Herald
Kris will soon become Australia's first fully qualified indigenous ophthalmologist. It is an extraordinary achievement for this young Queenslander. His graduation will, for those of us who work in eye health, rank alongside the 1959 graduation of ...

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Delegates at a bush meeting by the Yule River Representatives from Pilbara Aboriginal communities vote to reject the proposed changes to the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act.

Crikey (blog)
“Our organs are sacred”: how we fail Aboriginal Australians with Chronic ...
Crikey (blog)
In simple terms, and all other things being equal, this means over 1,000 Territorian and tri-state Aboriginal people will be “on the machine” in the Territory in 14 years. In Central Australia alone, at worst case by 2020, there will be 479 people ...

To Find Meteorites, Listen to the Legends of Australian Aborigines
Smithsonian
The Aboriginal warning is perhaps one of the clearest examples of an oral tradition that has preserved the memory of an ancient meteorite strike, argues Duane Hamacher at the University of New South Wales in Australia. According to Hamacher, such tales ...

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To Find Meteorites, Listen to the Legends of Australian Aborigines
Smithsonian
The Aboriginal warning is perhaps one of the clearest examples of an oral tradition that has preserved the memory of an ancient meteorite strike, argues Duane Hamacher at the University of New South Wales in Australia. According to Hamacher, such tales ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Blind, but soon they'll see ... Australia's first indigenous eye doctor goes ...
Sydney Morning Herald
It is a milestone for a nation in which indigenous adults are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind; in which remote Aboriginal communities endure eye diseases otherwise confined to the developing world; and whose residents rarely ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Blind, but soon they'll see ... Australia's first indigenous eye doctor goes ...
Sydney Morning Herald
It is a milestone for a nation in which indigenous adults are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind; in which remote Aboriginal communities endure eye diseases otherwise confined to the developing world; and whose residents rarely ...

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Blind, but soon they'll see: the nation's first indigenous eye doctor goes to work
WA today
It is a milestone for a nation in which indigenous adults are six times more likely than other Australians to go blind, in which remote Aboriginal communities endure eye diseases otherwise confined to the developing world, and whose residents rarely ...

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WA today
Queen accepts petition for Aboriginal rights, 80 years on
WA today
Its spirit echoes the fresh calls to set aside Senate seats for indigenous Australians that emerged during Prime Minister Tony Abbott's recent trip to Arnhem Land. Mr Abbott called the idea premature. It is unlikely the Queen will formally respond. But ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Why South Sydney Rabbitohs will be forever linked with Aboriginal Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
Peachey, who played most of his career at Cronulla, said the ties that bind indigenous Australia to the Rabbitohs meant he felt he "belonged" at Souths because Redfern was a spiritual home built by Eric Simms and an army of indigenous warriors he ...
What life was like in 1971 when Rabbitohs made last Grand FinalThe Daily Telegraph

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Sydney Morning Herald
Why South Sydney Rabbitohs will be forever linked with Aboriginal Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
Peachey, who played most of his career at Cronulla, said the ties that bind indigenous Australia to the Rabbitohs meant he felt he "belonged" at Souths because Redfern was a spiritual home built by Eric Simms and an army of indigenous warriors he ...
Greg Inglis once vowed to retire if Souths won the NRL premiership but the ...Perth Now

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SBS
Australia welcomes first magazine for Indigenous and multicultural women
SBS
"When you look at the Australian fashion industry, there's a breakdown of 1100 models. With that breakdown, there's 16 Chinese models and 7 Indigenous (models)," she told SBS. "Now that's very minimal to say the least." Ms Sarago has now gone on to ...

SBS
Australia welcomes first magazine for Indigenous and multicultural women
SBS
"When you look at the Australian fashion industry, there's a breakdown of 1100 models. With that breakdown, there's 16 Chinese models and 7 Indigenous (models)," she told SBS. "Now that's very minimal to say the least." Ms Sarago has now gone on to ...

'The Wire' interview with Simon Hawkins - CEO, Yamtji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation - September 2014 Western Australia paved the way for Australia in the issue of Aboriginal heritage. But now, it's making a huge backflip. The state passed the nation’s first laws to protect sites of Aboriginal Heritage. The Government of Western Australia has proposed amendments to the Aboriginal Heritage Act, which will allow the potential destruction of heritage sites by developers. Aboriginal leaders and the local community have condemned the proposal. In fact, the Government has been accused of creating a “stolen heritage generation”. Produced by Ben Nielsen - www.thewire.org.au