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Call for more practising Indigenous doctors in Australia to help improve ...
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Health experts have long called for more medical professionals with cultural understanding to help close the gap in life expectancy and medical outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. To address this, the University of New South ...

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Call for more practising Indigenous doctors in Australia
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Health experts have long called for more medical professionals with cultural understanding to help close the gap in life expectancy and medical outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. To address this, the University of New South ...
Abbott scores a win on Aboriginal healthCrikey (blog)

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Call for more practising Indigenous doctors in Australia to help improve ...
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Health experts have long called for more medical professionals with cultural understanding to help close the gap in life expectancy and medical outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. To address this, the University of New South ...
Abbott scores a win on Aboriginal healthCrikey (blog)

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Call for more practising Indigenous doctors in Australia to help improve ...
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Health experts have long called for more medical professionals with cultural understanding to help close the gap in life expectancy and medical outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. To address this, the University of New South ...

Call for more practising Indigenous doctors in Australia
ABC Online
Health experts have long called for more medical professionals with cultural understanding to help close the gap in life expectancy and medical outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. To address this, the University of New South ...
Abbott scores a win on Aboriginal healthCrikey (blog)
From Famed Fashion Photographer To Social Entrepreneur: The Unlikely Story ...Forbes

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Closing the Gap 'missing' from Indigenous Advisory Council terms
The Australian
He said that before the September election the Coalition said it was committed to the additional targets to ensure 90 per cent of eligible indigenous Australians would receive funded support from DisabilityCare by 2020, and improve community safety and ...

SBS
Indigenous leaders praise Mandela
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NSW Aboriginal Land Council chief Craig Cromelin said Mr Mandela's passing brought a sad day for indigenous communities across Australia. "We've got our own history of deep racial injustices here in Australia, some that continue to this day," he said ...
Australians react to Mandela's deathSBS

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Economic Times
Indigenous leaders praise Mandela
The West Australian
NSW Aboriginal Land Council chief Craig Cromelin said Mr Mandela's passing brought a sad day for indigenous communities across Australia. "We've got our own history of deep racial injustices here in Australia, some that continue to this day," he said ...
Mandela, Madiba, father of a nationABC Online

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ABC Science Online
Bead currency used in Australia's first export industry
ABC Science Online
Bead currency Indigenous Australians took European glass beads from Macassan seafarers in return for giving them fishing rights on traditional lands as early as the 18th Century, say archaeologists. They say the findings could have relevance for native ...

The Coranderrk Inquiry was the only official commission in 19th century Victoria which addressed Aboriginal peoples’ calls for justice, land rights and self-determination. It was one of the few times Aboriginal witnesses were called to give evidence on matters concerning their own lives and interests. - Phillip Adams from 'Late Night Live' on ABC Radio National interview with Giordano Nanni and Andrea James.

Crikey
Peris, Wyatt their people's first
The Australian
FOR the first time in the nation's history, two Aborigines will head a parliamentary committee after Labor nominated Nova Peris to be deputy chair of a panel charged with delivering a referendum to change the Constitution to recognise indigenous ...
Aboriginal health is everybody's businessCrikey (blog)

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Imagine if Cricket Australia can discover an Aboriginal Brett Lee
The Australian
For cricket to be a game for "all Australians", as former Australia captain Steve Waugh has often demanded, then Cricket Australia has been forced to look at its programs for indigenous people. Where the Australian Football League has been quick to ...

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Tony Abbott's indigenous council terms of reference issued
The Australian
TONY Abbott has released the terms of reference for his 12 person indigenous council with an emphasis on practical advice on policies and programs that could improve the lives of Indigenous Australians. "While the Council's remit is broad, I have asked ...
Aboriginal health is everybody's businessCrikey (blog)

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PM's indigenous advisory council to meet
The Australian
The council will also be involved in mining magnate Andrew Forrest's review of indigenous employment and training programs as well as a separate review into Indigenous Land Corporation and Indigenous Business Australia. The federal government is ...

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Indigenous Affairs Minister reviewing future of National Congress of Australia ...
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The future of the national body elected to represent the views of Indigenous people in Australia is under review by the Federal Government. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has questioned the expenditure of $29 million on the establishment ...

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Indigenous Affairs Minister reviewing future of National Congress of Australia ...
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The future of the national body elected to represent the views of Indigenous people in Australia is under review by the Federal Government. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has questioned the expenditure of $29 million on the establishment ...

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SBS
Wise words from Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience finalists
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia may still be decades away from having its first indigenous prime minister, but there are plenty of willing candidates. Three young indigenous students met Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Canberra on Wednesday morning before making their own ...
Search begins for Australia's first Indigenous PMSBS

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Remote welfare 'deters success'
The Australian
... of Indigenous Training and Employment Programs, which is examining the employment disparity between indigenous and non-indigenous people and will provide recommendations on how to better connect unemployed indigenous Australians with jobs.

The Canberra Times
Indigenous kids dream of better days ahead
The Canberra Times
AIME has been running for 10 years and it currently mentors 2000 indigenous youth around Australia. The organisation's objective to reduce the gap in education and it has submitted a request for federal government funding to expand its program to 10 ...
Search begins for Australia's first Indigenous PMSBS

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Search begins for Australia's first Indigenous PM
SBS
Their speeches, read as if they had just been elected the first Indigenous prime minister, were chosen as the top three out of 600 entries. Winners Danae, Jayden and Shannon were chosen from hundreds of AIME students from across the country. The trio ...