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Indigenous health workers converge on Gold Coast
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"The mobile ear clinic that is based in South Australia will be presenting the successes on improving the ear health of Indigenous children," she said. "Then another aspect is the sexual and reproductive health ... to ... [prevent] contracting diseases ...

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Indigenous health workers converge on Gold Coast
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More than 100 professionals from the Indigenous health sector will share insights and experiences at a three-day conference that opened on Queensland's Gold Coast today. Organiser Maria Edubas says issues including children's health, the prevention of ...

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winner finds stories in her identity
Sydney Morning Herald
She says the experiences of young Aboriginal people living in the suburbs is not the same as outback dwellers, let alone indigenous people from Redfern. ''I love theatre but I couldn't see a story that explored an indigenous Australia that I could ...
Law student wins first Indigenous playwright awardSBS
Lui tests contemporary watersThe Australian

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winner finds stories in her identity
The Age
She says the experiences of young Aboriginal people living in the suburbs is not the same as outback dwellers, let alone indigenous people from Redfern. ''I love theatre but I couldn't see a story that explored an indigenous Australia that I could ...

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'Make Indigenous mental health national priority'
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Commission member, and chairwoman of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association, Professor Pat Dudgeon, says the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has long been overlooked. "I believe that Indigenous issues have been ...

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'Make Indigenous mental health a national priority'
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Commission member, and chairwoman of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association, Professor Pat Dudgeon, says the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has long been overlooked. "I believe that Indigenous issues have been ...

Lessons from Australia? Engaging indigenous peoples in carbon markets
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Carbon markets have long been a tool to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change. But globally, they remain fragmented, spanning mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations' REDD+ program and voluntary markets. Currently ...

Remote kids need full Western education
The Australian
WEST Australian indigenous MP Ben Wyatt says Aboriginal children in remote communities need a "full Western education" and many parents must compromise on activities they consider part of cultural life for the sake of their children's economic futures.

Sydney Morning Herald
Sapphires sparkle with 12 AACTA nods
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The feel-good feature tells the story of an all-girl singing group plucked from a remote Aboriginal community to play for Australian troops serving in Vietnam. Three of the nominations are for the film's cast, including best actor for Chris O'Dowd ...
Sapphires in running for 12 'Aussie Oscars'Brisbane Times
The Sapphires top of the AACTAs with 12 nominationsNEWS.com.au
Stars bright after making cut for awardsSydney Morning Herald
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Indigenous mining jobs push misguided, spokesman says
Australian Mining
The mining industry's drive to increase the number of Indigenous Australian in resources work is 'misguided' according to Indigenous spokesperson David Collard. His comments came yesterday at an Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations ...
Non-indigenous business owners exploiting Aboriginal employment and training ...The Australian
Mining job push for Aboriginals 'misguided'The West Australian
Indigenous corporate mentorship 'opening doors'SBS

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SA moves to recognise first peoples
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It came a day after the federal government introduced an Act of Recognition into parliament to recognise that Australia was first inhabited by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The federal Act has been proposed because efforts to reform the ...

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Blogger backs new packaging laws
Sky News Australia
Mr Pearson, a 32-year-old Aboriginal from Newcastle, ditched the durries on Friday - the day before Australia's world-first plain packaging laws began. His quit attempt is not linked to the laws, which force cigarette manufacturers to produce olive ...

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Grog-ban challenge sparks ire
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leaders have attacked a decision by the nation's peak Aboriginal body, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, to apply to join a High Court challenge against alcohol bans in Queensland. The High Court has agreed to hear a claim ...

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Non-indigenous business owners exploiting Aboriginal employment and training ...
The Australian
The founder of The Willmett Group was at the University of Western Australia yesterday to offer his thoughts on indigenous employment to the annual Indigenous Business Enterprise and Corporations Conference. Professor Marcia Langton, chairwoman of ...
Indigenous mentorship 'opening doors'SBS

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First People's bid to join alcohol-ban challenge sparks Warren Mundine anger
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leaders have attacked a decision by the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples to apply to join a High Court challenge against alcohol restrictions in Queensland, arguing the nation's peak Aboriginal body should instead be thinking ...

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Shell to help combat petrol sniffing
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Minister for Indigenous Health Warren Snowdon announced on Monday Shell would join BP in producing and supplying the fuel in remote Australia. BP will continue supplying the fuel in Central and South Australia and parts of Western Australia, including ...

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Blogger backs new packaging laws
The Australian (blog)
Mr Pearson's blogs have already spurred several other people to quit and he particularly wants to inspire young indigenous Australians. Smoking causes one out of every five deaths among Australia's indigenous population, according to the Menzies School ...

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Murgon woman a show stopper
The Queensland Times
Born to an Aborginal mother and a white Australian father, the actress has come a long way since she moved from Murgon to Brisbane when she 19. Purcell is currently starring in the ABC1 drama Redfern Now, a six-part series about indigenous Australians ...

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Celebration of Aboriginal culture comes to the Central Coast
ABC Online
The ABC Central Coast studio was filled with the sounds of Indigenous music from NAISDA Dance College - Australia's National Indigenous Dance Training College. The Datiwuy clan from Elcho Island in North East Arnhem Land played the didgeridoo, clap ...

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Indigenous corporate mentorship 'opening doors'
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+ Comment. 0. The Melbourne Business School and Victoria's Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce, Kinaway, built the program in response to research showing Australian Indigenous entrepreneurs have few fellow Indigenous role-models in business. (AAP) ...

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