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Indigenous health improving, report shows
The Sunshine Coast Daily
INDIGENOUS health is improving around the nation, with maternal drinking and smoking falling marginally, but it still has a long way to go, a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare revealed on Friday. The Healthy for Life report ...

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Helping Riverland Indigenous Live Longer
ABC Online (blog)
Helping Riverland Indigenous Live Longer. 01/03/2013 , 2:29 PM by Narelle Graham. A Riverland group's been given some funding to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people. About $300-thousand dollars been given to the Live Longer Campaign and ...

Indigenous party change of guard flags poll tilt
ABC Local
The former president of an Indigenous political party says he has stepped down to make way for new blood. Australia's First Nations Political Party founder Maurie Japarta Ryan has been replaced by Ken Lechleitner from Alice Springs. But Mr Ryan, 64 ...

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Indigenous party change of guard flags poll tilt
ABC Online
The former president of an Indigenous political party says he has stepped down to make way for new blood. Australia's First Nations Political Party founder Maurie Japarta Ryan has been replaced by Ken Lechleitner from Alice Springs. But Mr Ryan, 64 ...

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SBS
Indigenous kids at risk in out-of-home care: report
SBS
+ Comment. 0. A report has found Indigenous children move six times on average during their time in out of home care. (AAP). A report on children in out-of-home care throughout Australia has found that Indigenous Australians face particularly dire ...

A bright mind in Aboriginal child healthcare
Neos Kosmos
Whether it is children from Aboriginal and generally indigenous communities, refuge families or developing countries, the aim is the same for this top child health researcher - Australia must do more to help its most disadvantaged children. One of the ...

Indigenous Marathoners Get Delayed Satisfaction in Tokyo
Runner's World Newswire
Led by Korey Summers' 3:08:51 clocking, three Indigenous Australian runners crossed the finish line of the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday, marking the end of a year-long journey that was nearly blown off-course by Hurricane Sandy. The runners were part of an ...

ABC Online
Push to send Indigenous children to boarding schools
Radio Australia
Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies, Marcia Langton, is calling for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to be taken out of their own communities and sent to boarding schools in order to remove them from poverty and give them a better ...
Inspirational Abbott's Indigenous aspirationEureka Street

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Senator sorry for opposing Kevin Rudd apology
The Australian
In a speech in the Senate yesterday backing the government's "Act of Recognition" -- which commits Australia to changing the Constitution in a referendum to acknowledge first Australians -- Senator Scullion said he had seen big changes in Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
Push to send Indigenous children to boarding schools
ABC Online
There is a push to take Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students out of their communities and send them to boarding schools to improve their education. Professor Marcia Langton, an expert in Indigenous studies, says far from creating another ...
Inspirational Abbott's Indigenous aspirationEureka Street
OPINION: Identity key step to reconciliationNewcastle Herald

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Curable eye disease still rife among Indigenous Australians
Medical Xpress
While it disappeared from mainstream Australian society 100 years ago, trachoma continues to be a significant problem among remote Indigenous communities. Professor Hugh Taylor, Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of ...

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Indigenous dancers from across Australia meet in Adelaide
SBS
Indigenous dancers from across Australia meet in Adelaide. 26 Feb 2013, 8:19 pm - Source: Nancia Guivarra, NITV. Share This. 0 0 0. + Comment. 0. In an unusual show of cultural unity, a spectacular ceremony in Adelaide recently brought dancers together ...

Curable eye disease still rife among Indigenous Australians
HealthCanal.com
Professor Hugh Taylor, Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of Melbourne, told Flinders Indaily that while trachoma rates in some areas of central Australia had plunged in the four years since the Rudd Government's ...

Australian Geographic
On this day: Mungo Man fossil found
Australian Geographic
The discovery, made in the midst of the Aboriginal rights movement – which would quickly intergrate the findings into its slogans – would later double the time that Australia's first humans were thought to have arrived on the continent. Jim Bowler, now ...

Inspirational Abbott's Indigenous aspiration
Eureka Street
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said 'on this special anniversary we acknowledge the courage that enabled Kevin Rudd to offer the Apology and the generosity of spirit that enabled Indigenous Australians to accept it'. She spoke of the Constitution as 'a ...

Leader holds fears for Nyoongar language
inmycommunity
This marked the anniversary of the 2008 day that then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to indigenous Australians, particularly the Stolen Generation, for past wrongs. Mr Collard said more than symbolic gestures were needed to stop the Nyoongar ...

A new look at Aboriginal sentencing?
SBS
"What would significantly reduce the incarceration rate of Indigenous Australians is if the court indicated that prior convictions should no longer have a profound aggravating impact on penalty. At the moment, on prior convictions, the fact that a ...

Food gardens 'foisted' on indigenous lands
The Australian
South Australia's Labor government has defended its controversial $250,000 failed market gardens program, saying the gardens were set up in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands because communities wanted them. Aboriginal Affairs ...

Identity played out on stage
The Australian
It's a work that draws on unlikely sources -- a notorious column by Andrew Bolt and the SBS miniseries Women of the Sun -- for a story that confronts sensitive topics in indigenous Australia. "That whole question of our identity and our skin colour is ...

PM missed native title chance: Keating
The Australian
"I took the opportunity at Redfern Park in December 1992 of laying out fully, openly and honestly, providing a context for history of our humanity and thoughtlessness, our disregard of Australia's indigenous people. "At Redfern I made clear that we did ...