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New STI figures highlight Indigenous health disparity
ABC Online
Fresh Health Department statistics show a disparity in the number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) between Indigenous Western Australians and non-Indigenous residents. The cases of gonorrhoea from July to September declined by a quarter in the ...

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The Age
Indigenous cultural sites under the spotlight
The Age
An Australian study of Indigenous cultural sites and spaces in urban and regional areas, led by the University of Melbourne in partnership with the City of Melbourne and Traditional Owners, explores what makes a culturally appropriate representation of ...

Indigenous women giving crocodile industry more bite
ABC Local
Since winning the award last year, Giovanna Webb has been working to get more indigenous women involved in Australia's crocodile industry. She says a number of women from Maningrida have now been trained and are keen to use those skills to expand ...

Remote housing on table
The Australian (blog)
Indigenous Australians tell me that they have not got value for money. Delivery of housing in remote communities has been marked by delays, cost blowouts and bureaucracy. New houses can cost more than $600,000 and have an average lifespan of only 10 ...

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Call for inquiry on remote housing
The Australian
The nationally elected indigenous representative body the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has criticised moves revealed by The Weekend Australian that would transform Aboriginal land rights. Congress co-chairs Les Malezer and Kirstie ...

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Concert to raise awareness about inclusion of indigenous Australians in ...
Herald Sun
A COBURG concert aims to change the tune of debate regarding recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia's Constitution. The Recognise Moreland Community Concert will feature “songs of respect and relationship” by Shane ...

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Concert to raise awareness about inclusion of indigenous Australians in ...
Herald Sun
A COBURG concert aims to change the tune of debate regarding recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia's Constitution. The Recognise Moreland Community Concert will feature “songs of respect and relationship” by Shane ...

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Don Weatherburn's the man who translates the statistics on robberies, assaults and drug trafficking. - Over many years as director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, he has tracked the disturbing ascension of the numbers of Aboriginal people in Australian gaols. - Interview: 666 ABC Canberra - 7 March, 2014 By Clare Blumer (with Genevieve Jacobs)

Indigenous incarceration rates still rising
ABC Local
Over many years as director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Don Weatherburn has tracked the disturbing ascension of the numbers of Aboriginal people in Australian gaols. Weatherburn talked to Genevieve Jacobs about his newly ...

Indigenous incarceration rates still rising
ABC Local
Over many years as director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Don Weatherburn has tracked the disturbing ascension of the numbers of Aboriginal people in Australian gaols. Weatherburn talked to Genevieve Jacobs about his newly ...

SBS (blog)
Comment: Indigenous education requires needs-based funding
SBS (blog)
By Tony Dreise, Australian Council for Educational Research. PISA 2012: How Australia measures up shows that Indigenous 15-year-olds remain about two-and-a-half years behind their non-Indigenous peers in schooling. These troubling results yet again ...

Work Opportunities for Indigenous Apprentices
Pro Bono Australia
"My department is the biggest and most diverse federal government employer with a wide range of careers available supporting all Australians through Centrelink, Medicare and Child Support, all agencies that work closely with Indigenous people right ...

Indigenous cricket study heads to Harrow
ABC Local
"It's part of a pilot research project that the National Centre for Indigenous Studies and Cricket Australia have partnered up on to look at some of the issues at getting Indigenous cricketers into the game and what are some of the barriers and what ...

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Aboriginal Australians Managed the Forest Better than Europeans
Care2.com
Yet, Australia has also been inhabited by humans for thousands of years. These humans clearly had a functional relationship with the fires that raged across the continent, or they wouldn't have been able to survive. How did they do it? Australia's ...
Give NDIS a chance, MP tells Top EndThe Australian

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Aboriginal beauty treatments
Stuff.co.nz
Further research led Heron to Aboriginal elder and "healing man", Kakkib Li'Dthia Warrawee'a from the Ya'idt-Midtung people of north-east Victoria, who taught her about "touch therapy" used by Aboriginal Australians. "He agreed to teach me because he ...

Indigenous station manual released
ABC Online
The Department of Agriculture funded the study, which was based on various stations in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Lamboo Station, in WA's Kimberley, and Mistake Creek, in the Northern Territory, were some of the stations ...

Coles has 16000 jobs in pipeline
The Australian
SUPERMARKET giant Coles will create 16,000 new jobs across Australia - including 2000 indigenous jobs - as part of a major store expansion over the next three years. Coles managing director Ian McLeod yesterday announced the $1.1 billion expansion ...

Sky News Australia
Pub condemned for banning indigenous
Sky News Australia
Western Australia's hotels association has joined in the condemnation of a rural landlord who banned service to indigenous customers after her mobile phone was allegedly stolen. Deborah Ovens, the publican of the Denver City Hotel in Coolgardie, placed ...
WA publican apologises after banning Indigenous patronsSBS

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Updated News
Australia: Coles to create more than 16000 new jobs
Updated News
Coles Managing Director Ian McLeod, who met Tony Abbott in Canberra today, also pledged to treble the number of indigenous team members from 1,000 to 3,000 before the year 2020. The expansion announcement comes as the company marks the ...

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Sky News Australia
'No indigenous' pub owner apologises
WA today
"She runs the risk now of offending lots of aboriginal people in Coolgardie... I can't understand why you would do something so stupid." Australian Hotels Association CEO Bradley Woods said he encouraged authorities to prosecute the business to the ...
Pub condemned for banning indigenousSky News Australia
WA publican apologises for barring Indigenous patronsSBS
Manager of Denver City Hotel defends racist note posted in response to stolen ...NEWS.com.au
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