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Births more deadly for Aboriginal mothers
The West Australian
"Right here in Australia, maternal and perinatal mortality rates in our indigenous population continue to be far worse than the non-indigenous population." There are less than 100 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander midwives registered in Australia ...

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Sky News Australia
Deadlier births for Aboriginal mothers
Sky News Australia
Aboriginal mothers are three to five times more likely to die during childbirth, and their babies two to three times more likely, Australian College of Midwives (ACM) president Sue Kruske says. She said many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

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Aboriginal mothers more likely to die in childbirth, midwife group says
NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal mothers are three to five times more likely to die during childbirth, and their babies two to three times more likely, Australian College of Midwives (ACM) president Sue Kruske says. She said many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

Births more deadly for Aboriginal mothers
The Australian
Aboriginal mothers are three to five times more likely to die during childbirth, and their babies two to three times more likely, Australian College of Midwives (ACM) president Sue Kruske says. She said many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

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Indigenous education needs gutsy leaders
ABC Local
"Looking at it from an Aboriginal perspective, it identifies the extent to which our children are the same as every other Australian child but it's also sophisticated enough to acknowledge the difference that we bring and the challenges that come with ...

Long-grassers: Indigenous women trade sex for food and cigarettes
The Daily Telegraph
Rates of certain sexual infection are reported as higher in the NT than anywhere else in Australia, and especially among indigenous people. "Sometimes use them [condoms],” a woman told the researchers, “but not all the time. The girl might be shame to ...

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Long-grassers: Indigenous women trade sex for food and cigarettes
The Australian
Rates of certain sexual infection are reported as higher in the NT than anywhere else in Australia, and especially among indigenous people. "Sometimes use them [condoms],” a woman told the researchers, “but not all the time. The girl might be shame to ...

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Indigenous business skills workshop to be held on Tuesday
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) is running free Into Business workshops to assist Indigenous Australians in the Rockhampton area who are interested in going into business on Tuesday. Indigenous entrepreneurs who have business ideas they would like ...

NTNews.com.au
Taxis refuse indigenous actors
NTNews.com.au
ACCLAIMED indigenous actors from the Northern Territory were discriminated against when trying to get a taxi in Melbourne. The group of actors, many hailing from across the NT, was unable to get a taxi from the Malthouse Theatre in Southbank to their ...
Aboriginal actors racially abused in MelbourneABC Online
Taxi drivers bar Aboriginal actorsThe Age
Aboriginal actors refused taxis four times before being racially abusedCourier Mail
Sydney Morning Herald
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UQ News
UQ mentors Australia's future leaders
UQ News
“The visit is an opportunity to profile the amazing work that The University of Queensland is doing on the ground to see the day when Indigenous children finish school at the same rate as all Australian children,” he said. “It's so good to see ...

Australia's Aboriginal children detained at the world's highest rates
Sydney Indymedia
Australia's Aboriginal peoples are the world's most imprisoned peoples – adults and children. Former Governor of Western Australia, General John Sanderson once said that in most countries such incarceration rates of any minority population would have ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal actors racially abused in Melbourne
ABC Online
A group of Aboriginal actors say they were refused service by four Melbourne taxis and racially abused on a tram within a 24-hour period. Actor Jada Alberts, one of the cast members of the production The Shadow King, says four booked taxis drove away ...
Taxi drivers bar Aboriginal actorsThe Age
Aboriginal actors were refused Vic taxis - Breaking News - Sydney Morning HeraldSydney Morning Herald

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Bangarra Dance Theatre's BLAK Reaches Out to Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Broadway World
Blak is drawn from the artists' urban perspectives, telling the stories of Indigenous Australia in powerful and moving dance theatre. Exploding with stories about a contemporary clan and the collision of two worlds, the dynamic physicality is ...

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Aboriginal actors refused taxis four times before being racially abused
The Australian
“This is probably the biggest work to come out of our Engine Room,'' Potts said. “It's a large-scale indigenous work that's taken a long time to develop and assembles a cast from all over Australia, so it's hugely exciting for us to be finally doing it ...

Western Australia: it's now the “State of Imprisonment”
National Indigenous Times
Western Australia has become the "State of imprisonment" according to the former Inspector of Custodial Services, Professor Richard Harding after figures released recently revealed the State's prison population now exceeds 5000 people. The jail numbers ...

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Aboriginal squalor among Australia's 'dirtiest secrets' says expat
Courier Mail
To film Utopia he flew to Western Australia to compare the living conditions of Aboriginal communities with the riches of the mining boom, commenting that "barely a fraction of mining, oil and gas revenue has benefited Aboriginal communities, whose ...

Australian Times
Treatment of Indigenous Australians our "dirtiest little secret", says Pilger
Australian Times
An upcoming documentary, Utopia, produced for ITV by expat John Pilger is set to lift the veil on Australia's “racist” treatment of its indigenous population, with the journalist calling the conditions faced by Australian aborigines the country's ...

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Aboriginal squalor among Australia's 'dirtiest secrets' says expat
The Daily Telegraph
To film Utopia he flew to Western Australia to compare the living conditions of Aboriginal communities with the riches of the mining boom, commenting that "barely a fraction of mining, oil and gas revenue has benefited Aboriginal communities, whose ...

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Australian Times
Aboriginal squalor among Australia's 'dirtiest secrets' says expat
Perth Now
To film Utopia he flew to Western Australia to compare the living conditions of Aboriginal communities with the riches of the mining boom, commenting that "barely a fraction of mining, oil and gas revenue has benefited Aboriginal communities, whose ...
Treatment of Indigenous Australians our "dirtiest little secret", says PilgerAustralian Times

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Aboriginal squalor among Australia's "dirtiest secrets" says expat
NEWS.com.au
To film Utopia he flew to Western Australia to compare the living conditions of Aboriginal communities with the riches of the mining boom, commenting that "barely a fraction of mining, oil and gas revenue has benefited Aboriginal communities, whose ...

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