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Fred's vision still pushing indigenous healthcare
The Australian
Fred Hollows Foundation chief executive Brian Doolan said the technology was the next big jump in the delivery of health services to indigenous Australians since Hollows's time. "It puts the best of technology right into the hands of Aboriginal ...

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Australia's first ever Indigenous health survey results revealed
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"Smoking rates have declined since 2002, so they've come down from 51 per cent to 41 per cent. This is a really major impact on smoking rates and a major impact on long term health," says the Australian Bureau of Statistics Head of Health, Dr Paul Jelfs.
Indigenous anger over exclusionThe Australian
BLOG: Understanding and respect key to reconciliationIllawarra Mercury (blog)
Indigenous groups call for specific focus from Royal Commission into child ...Crikey (blog)

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Namatjira shares his watercolours with the world
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Members of the iconic Australian family have travelled from the Northern Territory to London where tickets to 'Namatjira' the stage performance have sold out well ahead of opening night. Despite being the first Indigenous Australian to be granted ...
Namatjira's legacy remembered at Buckingham PalaceThe Age
Aboriginal artists meet Queen sixty years after grandfatherThe Queensland Times
Albert Namatjira's grandchildren meet Her Majesty The QueenAustralian Times
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Remote Aboriginal communities need more assistance
The Australian
It comes as peak indigenous body the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has written to the Prime Minister and requested an "early meeting" to discuss the relationship between the government of Australia and the congress. Mr Shergold told ...

Indigenous anger over exclusion
The Australian
THE Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse must consider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues, according to the nation's peak indigenous groups, which will today release a statement condemning their exclusion. A ...
BLOG: Understanding and respect key to reconciliationIllawarra Mercury (blog)

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Pat Dodson calls for 'treaty' between indigenous people and government
The Australian
THE father of the reconciliation movement, Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson, has declared that Australia still needs a "treaty" between indigenous people and the government, arguing the acknowledgement in the constitution is the first step. Mr Dodson, who ...

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Exhibition blends story of modern Australia with Indigenous history
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Curator of Indigenous works Judith Ryan said it was a powerful expression of our contemporary artists as they blended the modern with traditional to tell stories about our history and relationship to country. Koori artists featured include Steaphan ...

Pat Dodson calls for 'treaty' between indigenous people and government
The Australian
THE father of the reconciliation movement, Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson, has declared that Australia still needs a "treaty" between indigenous people and the government, arguing the acknowledgement in the constitution is the first step. Mr Dodson, who ...

Tony Abbott taps Ken Wyatt for indigenous referendum
The Australian
KEN Wyatt, the nation's first lower house Aboriginal MP, has met Tony Abbott and accepted the appointment as chairman of the committee to deliver a referendum to change the Constitution to recognise indigenous Australians, arguing it sends a powerful ...

Rio Tinto ends talks to salvage Gove refinery
The Australian
MINING giant Rio Tinto is expected to decide as early as this week to wind down its Gove alumina refinery in Arnhem Land, potentially devastating a 1500-strong workforce that includes many indigenous employees, after telling Australian governments ...

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Indigenous art flies around the world
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The team behind the project included Mr Bedford's family, the Bedford Trust, the National Gallery of Australia, an Indigenous owned design company, Qantas and Boeing. They spent 18 months translating some of Mr Bedford's original vision into a form ...
Getting reconciliation plans rightHuman Capital Magazine Online
Paddy Bedford art on a higher planeThe Canberra Times

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Indigenous art flies around the world
ABC Online
A new piece of Indigenous art is taking to the skies on a Qantas plane to promote Australian culture around the world. The team behind the airborne art project hopes it will prompt greater recognition and curiosity towards Aboriginal art. An ochre ...
Getting reconciliation plans rightHuman Capital Magazine Online

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Indigenous art flies around the world
ABC Online
A new piece of Indigenous art is taking to the skies on a Qantas plane to promote Australian culture around the world. The team behind the airborne art project hopes it will prompt greater recognition and curiosity towards Aboriginal art. An ochre ...
Getting reconciliation plans rightHuman Capital Magazine Online

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Abbotts Indigenous Advisory Council mean business
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The 12 members handpicked by the Prime Minister from the 230 applications put forward are from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds. They include representatives from Yolngu Country in Arnhem Land and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, ...

Welfare, economic reform top indigenous wish list
The Australian
Some of Australia's most influential business and indigenous figures have been recruited to the panel, including Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly and Rio Tinto managing director David Peever, as revealed in The Weekend Australian on Saturday.

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Corporate big hitters Gail Kelly and David Peever recruited to Prime Minister ...
ABC Online
Prominent business figures have been recruited to Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council as part of the Prime Minister's aim of creating a "new engagement" with Aboriginal people. Westpac's chief executive Gail Kelly and Rio Tinto boss David Peever ...

PM names Indigenous advisory council
Sky News Australia
Among those chosen include Westpac Bank chief executive officer Gail Kelly and Rio Tinto Australia's managing director David Peever who will draw on their business experience to help improve economic development in indigenous communities.

Indigenous advisory council announced
Sky News Australia
Among those chosen include Westpac Bank chief executive officer Gail Kelly and Rio Tinto Australia's managing director David Peever who will draw on their business experience to help improve economic development in indigenous communities.

Indigenous advisory council announced
Sky News Australia
Among those chosen include Westpac Bank chief executive officer Gail Kelly and Rio Tinto Australia's managing director David Peever who will draw on their business experience to help improve economic development in indigenous communities.

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Indigenous advisory council announced
Sky News Australia
Among those chosen include Westpac Bank chief executive officer Gail Kelly and Rio Tinto Australia's managing director David Peever who will draw on their business experience to help improve economic development in indigenous communities.