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Indigenous child health improves when fruit and veg are cheap, study finds
Medical Xpress
The new findings, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, showed that eating fruit and vegetables improved the children's levels of haemoglobin, reduced emergency department attendances and hospital visits for illness. The researchers analysed ...

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Fears for Tasmanian indigenous heritage
ABC Online
The far western coastal stretch of the Arthur Pieman that runs from Marawah to Granville Harbour was granted national heritage listing this year for its indigenous values. The region holds claim to the highest concentration of indigenous heritage sites ...

50 years on, Yirrkala celebrates bark petitions that sparked Indigenous land ...
ABC Local
Local NAIDOC week co-ordinator Rosealee Pearson says what the leaders achieved at a time before Indigenous Australians were even counted on the national census cannot be overstated. "It's pretty astounding that a group of people who weren't even ...

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Local NAIDOC week co-ordinator Rosealee Pearson says what the leaders achieved at a time before Indigenous Australians were even counted on the national census cannot be overstated. "It's pretty astounding that a group of people who weren't even ...

50 years on, Yirrkala celebrates bark petitions that sparked Indigenous land ...
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Local NAIDOC week coordinator Rosealee Pearson says what the leaders achieved at a time before Indigenous Australians were even counted on the national census cannot be overstated. "It's pretty astounding that a group of people who weren't even ...

Yarrabah, near Cairns, touts cruise-ship terminal to cash in on indigenous tourism
The Australian
Australia's biggest Aboriginal township is the latest to make a multimillion dollar pitch to become a tourism hotspot. The plan proposes an $80 million cruise ship jetty, an 18-hole golf course and country club and a private villa estate on 250ha of ...

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Indigenous traditions run deep at Wilpena
ABC Online
According to the tradition of the Adnyamathanha people, the indigenous inhabitants of this part of South Australia, Wilpena Pound was formed when two Dreamtime serpents travelled south and carved the landscape in their wake. Vince Coulthard, the chair ...

Indigenous body claims success on quit campaign
ABC Online
Yesterday the Coalition criticised the Federal Government for wasting taxpayer's money after the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found education campaigns have done little to reduce smoking among Indigenous women. But Sharelle Eggmolese ...

Indigenous body claims success on quit campaign
ABC Online
Yesterday the Coalition criticised the Federal Government for wasting taxpayer's money after the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found education campaigns have done little to reduce smoking among Indigenous women. But Sharelle Eggmolese ...

The West Australian
Australia 'lagging' on Indigenous doctors
SBS
"Well, this is a landmark agreement between the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association and the Committee of Presidents of Medical Colleges, which represents the specialist medical colleges of Australia. And our aim is threefold. (First,) to close ...
Fruit improves health of indigenous kidsThe West Australian
Doctor training deal aims to close gapYahoo!7 News

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More Indigenous women urged to enter politics
ABC Local
Academics, researchers and students are gathering today in Cairns, in far north Queensland, for an international conference to discuss better ways to build sustainable Indigenous communities. PhD student Michelle Deshong says having Indigenous women ...

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Aust Post honours Indigenous pioneers
PS News
Australia Post is honouring five eminent Indigenous Australians who have campaigned for the rights of Indigenous people in a new stamp issue. The new stamp issue comprises five domestic base-rate (60c) stamps featuring Shirley Smith AM, Neville Bonner ...
A need to formally recognise first peopleThe Australian
Coming together to celebrate Aboriginal cultureABC Local
Changemaker- Tammy KimptonPro Bono Australia
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Subsidised fruit and vegetables aids Aboriginal health
ABC Message Stick
A scheme in northern New South Wales offering subsidised fruit and vegetables to low-income Aboriginal families has led to a significant improvement in community health. The project subsidised by the Bulgarr Ngaru health service costs $90,000 a year ...

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Food subsidy program improves health of indigenous kids
ABC Message Stick
ELEANOR HALL: Research published in the Medical Journal of Australia today shows a significant improvement in the health of children from low-income Indigenous families participating in a subsidised fruit and vegetable program. More than 50 families in ...

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Doctor training deal aims to close gap
Yahoo!7 News
A 2010 UN report on indigenous life expectancies found indigenous Australians die up to 20 years earlier than their non-indigenous counterparts, on par with Nepal. Kate Leslie, chair of the Committee of Presidents of Medical Colleges (CPMC), says most ...

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Indigenous community farm boosts tomato production
ABC Online
An Indigenous community farm has expanded its commercial tomato growing operation in the Northern Territory this year. The tomatoes are being harvested at the Kalano Community Farm, near Katherine, to meet a supply contract with a major supermarket ...

New resources for Indigenous dementia
Coffs Coast Advocate
John Watkins, said it is important we support all Australians who are living with dementia, but the work of Professor Tony Broe and the Koori Growing Old Well Study shows dementia prevalence in Aboriginal Australians is three times that of Australia's ...

Food subsidy program improves health of indigenous kids
ABC Online
ELEANOR HALL: Research published in the Medical Journal of Australia today shows a significant improvement in the health of children from low-income Indigenous families participating in a subsidised fruit and vegetable program. More than 50 families in ...
Subsidised fruit and vegetables aids Aboriginal healthABC Message Stick

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SBS
Comment: Time to draft Aussie Rules to tackle Indigenous mathematic
SBS
When discussing how to embed Indigenous Australian knowledge and practices into the Australian national curriculum effectively – particularly the maths curriculum – there's no better place to start than analysing our own distinctively Australian ...