Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

NEWS.com.au
Scullion draws anger over legal funding
NEWS.com.au
Dr Jackie Huggins, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, said the group had long standing concerns funds specifically to benefit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were often siphoned off. "This money needs to be ...

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Scullion draws anger over legal funding
The Australian
Australia's Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has been criticised by Aboriginal groups for giving nearly half a million dollars to non-indigenous lobby groups for legal funding. Northern Land Council chairman Joe Morrison says it is a "poor ...

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ArtsHub
Freda Glynn - from little things, big things grow
ArtsHub
She happens to be the matriarch of a family that includes filmmaking offspring Warwick Thornton and Erica Glynn (who was Head of the Indigenous Department at Screen Australia from 2010 – 2014) and filmmaking grandchildren Dylan River and Tanith ...

ABC News
Indigenous Australians dying from heart disease at far greater rate ...
ABC News
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are dying from heart disease at twice, and in some regions, triple the rate of non-Indigenous people in the same ...
Landmark study to examine health benefits of Indigenous ...The Guardian
Report Exposes Aboriginal Youth Health Issues | PBAPro Bono Australia
Indigenous hearts suffer the most: new Heart Foundation health data ...New Zealand Doctor Online
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ABC News
Tony Abbott considering police-in-schools policy for remote Indigenous communities
ABC News
Mr Abbott has visited remote Indigenous schools as part of his tour, and said allowing police into the grounds was a "very valuable" option that should be more widely considered. "There's been quite a history certainly in South Australia, certainly in ...

ABC Local
Call for Indigenous family court to be rolled out nationally
ABC Local
At a time when media attention is quite rightly focused on ending family violence, Aboriginal women and girls still face unacceptably high levels of assault, homicide and intimidation. Australia needs to specifically address Indigenous women and ...

The Guardian
Landmark study to examine health benefits of Indigenous connection to country
The Guardian
It has taken the Australian National University research team four and a half years, including two and a half years of consultation with dozens of Indigenous communities, to decide how to measure such long-held anecdotal beliefs in a statistically ...
Report Exposes Aboriginal Youth Health IssuesPro Bono Australia
Indigenous hearts suffer the most: new Heart Foundation health dataNew Zealand Doctor Online
Rooted in historyThe Asian Age

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Pro Bono Australia
Report Exposes Aboriginal Youth Health Issues
Pro Bono Australia
Young Indigenous people are mostly happy and in good health, a report says, but they still face far greater challenges to their physical and mental wellbeing than their non-indigenous counterparts. The report, released by the Australian Institute of ...
Indigenous hearts suffer the most: new Heart Foundation health dataNew Zealand Doctor Online

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Indigenous voices on old-school language cards preserved in Miriwoong digitisation project
ABC News
They were created by the Kununurra-based Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre and recently donated to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). AIATSIS curator Charlotte Craw said the ...

The Cairns Post
Gondwana Indigenous Children's Choir on the hunt for new voices
The Cairns Post
... the guidance of Lauren Hannay, Stephanie Grenning and Patrice Hogan. World renowned children's conductor Lyn Williams OAM, who established the Cairns based ensemble 10 years ago, says her Gondwana Indigenous Children's Choir is always welcoming ...

NEWS.com.au
Video
NEWS.com.au
... a way of tackling the low attendance rates riddling Indigenous schools, which average around 65 to 75 per cent in remote communities. The former prime minister has been travelling across South Australia in his role as special envoy for Indigenous ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
More heart woes for indigenous Australians
SBS
Heart Foundation equity manager Jane Potter says Australia can't afford to be complacent about the health of its first peoples. "Heart disease is responsible for around one quarter of the gap in life expectancy compared to non-indigenous Australians ...
'I'm devastated': Paul Davis' disease has killed members of his familyThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Indigenous Australians dying from heart disease at far greater rate than non-Indigenous, report shows  ABC News

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are dying from heart disease at twice, and in some regions, triple the rate of non-Indigenous people in the same ...

Landmark study to examine health benefits of Indigenous connection to country  The Guardian

Researchers will follow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for up to 50 years.

Indigenous Australians dying from heart disease at far greater rate than non-Indigenous, report shows  ABC News

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are dying from heart disease at twice, and in some regions, triple the rate of non-Indigenous people in the same ...

Landmark study to examine health benefits of Indigenous connection to country  The Guardian

The health benefits of connections to identity, culture and land for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are to be measured in a study, beginning on ...

RACGP
Most young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people report great health
RACGP
The report, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent and youth health and wellbeing: In brief, was launched today at the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation ...
It's mob that build our capability in health researchIndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Podcast: Luke Scholes on curating, caring and collaboratingArt Guide Australia
Oz-some Aboriginal dance show has city spellboundBangalore Mirror

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The Conversation AU
Traditional culture may help Indigenous households manage money better
The Conversation AU
Few areas of public policy are as hotly debated as how to close the income gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. There are some uncontroversial goals, such as improving job opportunities and reducing the high rate of Indigenous ...

SBS
'I'll give them a year': Cautious backing for WA police advisory body
SBS
“Establishing the AAD builds upon our apology to Indigenous people earlier this year and enables my strategic intent, to reduce Aboriginal offending and victimisation in Western Australia,” Mr Dawson said in a statement. Half of the team of 10 identify ...

Blue Mountains Gazette
Nominees announced for SA Australian of the Year awards
Blue Mountains Gazette
Vicky is a former SA representative of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Women's Alliance, representing them at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She was inducted in the South Australian Women's Honour Roll in 2015, ...

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