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Indigenous dementia needs urgent action
ABC Online
That's the finding of a Northern Territory study that has prompted calls for urgent action to address the growing number of Indigenous Australians with dementia. And researchers say the burden of the condition will only increase as the population ages ...

Indigenous dementia needs urgent action
ABC Online
That's the finding of a Northern Territory study that has prompted calls for urgent action to address the growing number of Indigenous Australians with dementia. And researchers say the burden of the condition will only increase as the population ages ...

The Indigenous Population Is Getting Dementia At Three Times The Rate Of ...
Business Insider Australia
A detail as Prince William shakes hands with a Aboriginal man. Scott Barbour/Getty Images. Australia's indigenous population is getting dementia at a rate three times that of non-indigenous residents, according to research published in the Medical ...

The Indigenous Population Is Getting Dementia At Three Times The Rate Of ...
Business Insider Australia
A detail as Prince William shakes hands with a Aboriginal man. Scott Barbour/Getty Images. Australia's indigenous population is getting dementia at a rate three times that of non-indigenous residents, according to research published in the Medical ...

Australian art laws: Dealing with fraud
The Star Online
In Australia, Aboriginal paintings, with the widespread use of simple geometry and dot patterns, are fair game to potential forgers, while for modern art, abstract paintings prove to be more popular targets. This piece was on display at the Beyond The ...

In 2012 the WA State Government announced the stolen wages reparation scheme which invited people born before 1958 to apply for payments of up to $2,000 if they had directly experienced government control over their income. Kimberley Community Legal Service solicitor Judy Harrison, says that Aboriginal people her organisation has spoken to are not happy with the 2012 reparation scheme. "The government came up with a figure and said 'Well here it is. We'll give you this. You don't have to give up your rights. We're not apologising to you, so take it if you care to take it and this will be the end of it,'" she says. Read more: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/node/897/edit

In search of the indigenous little people of northern Australia
The Australian
THEY are everywhere in north Australia, and nowhere. They are real and unreal; mythical and historical. They are depicted in the rock art, they are in the stories, they are in the minds of men and women from Cape York and the Top End right across to ...

In search of the indigenous little people of northern Australia
The Australian
THEY are everywhere in north Australia, and nowhere. They are real and unreal; mythical and historical. They are depicted in the rock art, they are in the stories, they are in the minds of men and women from Cape York and the Top End right across to ...

Defection of Indigenous MPs poses big challenges
The Australian
By attaching herself, as a symbol of Australia's fight against indigenous disadvantage, to Clive Palmer's Punch and Judy show, Anderson may have limited her ability to manoeuvre in a policy area dominated by the intelligentsia. It remains to be seen ...

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Defection of Indigenous MPs poses big challenges
The Australian
By attaching herself, as a symbol of Australia's fight against indigenous disadvantage, to Clive Palmer's Punch and Judy show, Anderson may have limited her ability to manoeuvre in a policy area dominated by the intelligentsia. It remains to be seen ...

Scullion rejects report on indigenous body overhaul
The Australian
The report has angered Indigenous Minister Nigel Scullion, who said “it presents ambiguous and confused findings” after he requested options for an overhaul of the Indigenous Land Corp and Indigenous Business Australia. “It provides support for both, ...

Scullion rejects report on indigenous body overhaul
The Australian
The report has angered Indigenous Minister Nigel Scullion, who said “it presents ambiguous and confused findings” after he requested options for an overhaul of the Indigenous Land Corp and Indigenous Business Australia. “It provides support for both, ...

In search of the indigenous little people of northern Australia
The Australian
THEY are everywhere in north Australia, and nowhere. They are real and unreal; mythical and historical. They are depicted in the rock art, they are in the stories, they are in the minds of men and women from Cape York and the Top End right across to ...

Australian Teacher Magazine
Plan to lift Indigenous school attendance
Australian Teacher Magazine
Prime Minister Tony Abbott used the annual Closing the Gap speech in February to set a new target of lifting Indigenous school attendance to the same level as non-Indigenous children within five years. Of the 184,000 Indigenous students in Australia ...

Plan to lift indigenous school attendance
Ninemsn
Prime Minister Tony Abbott used the annual Closing the Gap speech in February to set a new target of lifting indigenous school attendance to the same level as non-indigenous children within five years. Of the 184,000 indigenous students in Australia ...

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Justice or just us? Lack of Aboriginal jurors sparks concerns
ABC Local
Despite Indigenous people making up about 45 per cent of the population of Central Australia, they are only a small fraction of people who sit on juries. The issue of racial balance on juries in the Northern Territory was raised during the trial of ...

The Guardian
Education vouchers in plan for indigenous affairs overhaul
The Australian
The radical proposal comes as the audit commission argues that disadvantage faced by indigenous Australians be better targeted, with programs that are failing to be slashed. It also calls for the merger of Indigenous Business Australia and the ...
Indigenous programs should be consolidated, audit report saysThe Guardian
Condemnation over audit's proposed welfare cutsSBS
Cut early, cut often: where the Commission of Audit wants the axe to fall on ...Government News
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Education vouchers in plan for indigenous affairs overhaul
The Australian
The radical proposal comes as the audit commission argues that disadvantage faced by indigenous Australians be better targeted, with programs that are failing to be slashed. It also calls for the merger of Indigenous Business Australia and the ...
Condemnation over audit's proposed welfare cutsSBS
Cut early, cut often: where the Commission of Audit wants the axe to fall on ...Government News

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The Guardian
Five questions to Eugenia Flynn on racism, and loving Australia | IndigenousX
The Guardian
I feel like if we can work to reduce systemic racism it will lead to the betterment of our (Indigenous Australian's) position and therefore the betterment of Australia as a whole. The very document that gives Australia its mandate, the Constitution of ...

The Guardian
Five questions to Eugenia Flynn on racism, and loving Australia | IndigenousX
The Guardian
I live in Melbourne, but my family is originally from Darwin in the Northern Territory and I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. My father was Tiwi and Larrakia and my mum was Teo Chew Chinese from Malaysia. I identify as both Aboriginal and Chinese ...