Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

UOW academic to steer indigenous trauma program in Australia
Illawarra Mercury
One of Australia's first indigenous medical graduates Dr Ngiare Brown said over her 20 years of practice she had witnessed the effect of indigenous trauma on community health. "We have evidence linking chronic disease to childhood trauma, adults have a ...

Further medical professionals needed in remote communities says audiologist
ABC Local
"It was when it became obvious there was such huge gaps in health outcomes for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians." And Sue arrived in the Northern Territory she was not surprised by the amount of hearing problems present. "We have actually got ...

Response to rash of suicides in remote WA regions 'pitiful'
The Australian
He said local, Aboriginal-led suicide prevention bodies such as the Halls Creek Healing Taskforce had been unable to attract funding from the West Australian government, leaving programs at risk. Mr Georgatos said the state government's response to the ...

Heart condition twice as common in Indigenous people
HealthCanal.com
Research from the University of Adelaide shows Indigenous Australians suffer from a serious heart rhythm disorder twice as commonly as non-Indigenous people. A study in the University's Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders is the first of its kind to ...

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Heart condition twice as common in Indigenous people
NewsMaker (press release)
Researchers studied the data of more than 200,000 people managed at the Royal Adelaide Hospital over a 10-year period in South Australia. The results, published in the journal BMJ Open, show that Indigenous Australians diagnosed with atrial ...

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Equity Trustees initiative supports indigenous youth
ifa
According to a statement from Equity Trustees, the foundation awarded close to $68,000 to programs that assist indigenous youth living in foster, residential or kinship care. One grant recipient is a Save the Children program in Western Australia which ...

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Australia's cultural institutions lacking diversity
Human Capital Magazine Online
A mere 0.5% of the gallery's workforce is made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the Herald reported – the national benchmark is 2.6%. It was also revealed that this was a decrease from 2012, when indigenous people made up 1.2% of the ...

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Time to Recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution
Independent European Daily Express
SYDNEY, Dic 30 (IPS) - Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders comprise 2.5 per cent (some 548,370) of Australia’s 24-million strong population, but they are not recognised by the Constitution. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

The Australian
Alliance with Jacqui Lambie gives indigenous women a voice
The Australian
“From years of experience in Australia's biggest city, they have a good understanding of what will work best to protect our children from drugs, violence and unemployment.” One of the advisers will be Bronwyn Penrith, who chairs the Aboriginal women's ...

The Australian (blog)
Tanya Hosch is an activist fighting for indigenous recognition. Source: News ...
The Australian (blog)
THE battle for indigenous Australians to be recognised in the Constitution took a tangible turn in the past year, with Tony Abbott announcing last month that he wanted the nation to vote on reform on May 27, 2017, on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 ...

The Guardian
Mining royalties may save WA's remote Indigenous communities from closure
The Guardian
Yu, who is now chairman of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, said moving Indigenous communities from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to Redman's Department of Regional Development was a “significant change of ...

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Indigenous soldiers who hid their identity to serve: the untold story
ABC Message Stick
PETER COSTER: RSL Queensland aims to support Indigenous veterans and recognise their service to our country from not only recent times but also recognising that Indigenous Australians have been serving our country so well since before we even formed ...

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Indigenous soldiers who hid their identity to serve: the untold story
ABC Message Stick
PETER COSTER: RSL Queensland aims to support Indigenous veterans and recognise their service to our country from not only recent times but also recognising that Indigenous Australians have been serving our country so well since before we even formed ...

The Australian
Search for a defining centre
The Australian
There are already indigenous culture centres strewn across Australia, in every state capital and in places as far-flung as the Grampians, Mossman Gorge in far north Queensland, Kakadu, Tennant Creek, even Thursday Island in the Torres Strait — in fact ...

End tiptoeing on abuse: Mundine
The Australian
Figures obtained by The Australian reveal the number of Aboriginal children taken into care in NSW — which already had the highest rates of indigenous child removal — jumped almost 10 per cent over the past year. Warren Mundine, chairman of the Prime ...

New SBS documentary Prison Songs confronts issue of indigenous incarceration
Sydney Morning Herald
When it comes the vexed topic of incarceration rates for indigenous Australians, the statistics are blunt and often overwhelming. In the new SBS documentary Prison Songs, the numbers are no less confronting: 80 per cent of the inmates in Darwin's ...

Australia Eyes Indigenous Recognition Vote
Fiji Sun Online
Unlike other settler nations such as Canada and New Zealand, Australia's constitution makes no mention of its indigenous people and still has two so-called “race provisions”, including one that allows the states to ban people from voting based on their ...

World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
ABC Online
There is a growing push for better recognition of Indigenous soldiers, many of whom had to lie about their identity to serve their country. Some of those soldiers' names are still not honoured in the Australian War Memorial, despite their active service.

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World War I: Relatives of Indigenous soldiers fight for them to be recognised ...
Yahoo!7 News
"There's sometimes a forgetting, a very convenient forgetting of what Indigenous Australians have done and I think World War I is one of those things when we have this commemoration to say, in fact this nation has been a very diverse nation for a very ...

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Financial Times
Aboriginal villages in Australia under threat
Financial Times
Dickie Bedford was born in the 1960s at a time when thousands of aboriginal people were being evicted from pastoral cattle stations. Half a century later a new generation of indigenous Australians faces a similar fate as budget cuts threaten to close ...