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Since local health services in north-west Queensland took over the management of renal services from a distant regional hospital, more patients can get ...

One of Australia's best architects has revealed how uninspiring we've all become.

By Indigenous affairs analyst Stan Grant Aboriginal people can laugh; there are few things more joyous for me than hearing Aboriginal people laugh. It is a laugh that defies the pain and struggle and grief of their daily lives. This reconciliation week I was at dinner with a group of elders, women from Swan Hill in Victoria. For me it was like being back home, these women were like the women who raised me, just like my mother or my aunties. They told me stories of their childhood, we mapped our families and found that some of them were personally related to me. They told me about their fear...

1. The voices we don't hear are the ones we need to seek out  ABC News
2. Piers Akerman: Indigenous 'Voice' will do nothing more than divide Australia  Daily Telegraph
3. Wake me when Reconciliation Week is over  IndigenousX
4. Melbourne Storm and NRL supporting reconciliation efforts in Australia  NRL.COM
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Exclusive: National Living Treasure Ernie Dingo has threatened to take a lump of wood to vegan protesters harassing hardworking Aussie farmers.

Exclusive: National Living Treasure Ernie Dingo has threatened to take a lump of wood to vegan protesters harassing hardworking Aussie farmers.

From Uluru to the wetlands in Kakadu, here's why you should visit Australia's Northern Territory.

So, Tony Abbott, what are your actual plans now, that your quarter-century in Parliament is over? Tony Abbott heading out for a bike ride on the day after he lost his seat. Photo: ninevms “I don’t know,” he said frankly, “because I had no Plan B. The only thing I know for certain is that I would like to resume my role as deputy captain of the Davidson Rural Fire Brigade.” The occasion was Friday’s commemoration out at North Head of the Japanese mini-sub attack on Sydney on May 31, 1942, a ceremony that Abbott began early in his parliamentary tenure and was now presiding over for likely the ...

The former PM had no plan B after politics and told me he wasn't interested in one obvious step.

It makes Nowra grandmother Janelle Burnes' day when her grandson Lucas* says, "Nanny, you've got a beautiful smile. I love you." The Wiradjuri woman has been punched and kicked by eight-year-old Lucas, who hears voices and suffers psychosis. Janelle Burnes had to give up work to care for her eight-year-old grandson. He suffers from a range of mental illnesses, including psychosis, attributed to his parents' ice addictions. Photo: Louise Kennerley Abandoned by his mother as a baby, Lucas has fetal alcohol and drug syndrome attributed to his parents' ice use when he was conceived. Experts tol...

It makes Nowra grandmother Janelle Burnes' day when her grandson Lucas* says, "Nanny, you've got a beautiful smile. I love you." The Wiradjuri woman has been punched and kicked by eight-year-old Lucas, who hears voices and suffers psychosis. Janelle Burnes had to give up work to care for her eight-year-old grandson. He suffers from a range of mental illnesses, including psychosis, attributed to his parents' ice addictions. Photo: Louise Kennerley Abandoned by his mother as a baby, Lucas has fetal alcohol and drug syndrome attributed to his parents' ice use when he was conceived. Experts tol...

Left-wing US folk singer Pete Seeger sang the question: When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn in 1955 and now the leftist grandchildren of his ...

As the song goes, the Silva sisters are "doing it for themselves". They're ringing bells to champion female Indigenous role models on Instagram. Marlee Silva, 23, started the account Tiddas 4 Tiddas (sisters for sisters) with her younger sister, Keely Silva, 21, to maintain momentum after last year's NAIDOC Week showcased women's achievements. Marlee Silva is one of two sisters behind a rapidly growing Instagram account Tiddas 4 Tiddas, showcasing Indigenous women's achievements across the nation. Photo: Louie Douvis "We wanted that to continue by sharing the stories of Indigenous women acr...

The Silva sisters from Sydney's Sutherland Shire are "doing it for themselves" – ringing the bells to champion female Indigenous leaders and role models of all ...

Scott Morrison won the election by disagreeing with the Labor Party, not by snuggling up to them on tax, energy, and identity politics. If the government now spends the next three years pandering to the climate cult or creating new, politically-correct bureaucracies — instead of actually getting common sense things done, like dams and better energy generation — electoral retribution will be swift. RELATED: Constitution change work delicate, says Wyatt And let’s not forget how tight the margin is. Our nation’s politics has slipped further and further to the left largely because the Liberals ...

A powerful government investigation into a worsening crystal methamphetamine epidemic in Australia is to examine its impact on Aboriginal communities. The New South Wales Special Commission of Inquiry into the drug was set up last year. “It does not take long for ice to cause damage, a public service announcement running on Australian media warns. Crystal methamphetamine, known in Australia as ‘ice’ is highly addictive. It is usually injected or smoked, and its immediate effects are intense pleasure and clarity of thought. But when the drug wears off users can suffer paranoia and hallucinat...

American director Spike Lee has praised indigenous rugby league players who plan to remain silent during the national anthem at next weeks State of Origin.

He's one of our most acclaimed architects, whose buildings have been lauded for their imagination and connection to landscape, but Peter Stutchbury says he's ...

Hes one of our most acclaimed architects, whose buildings have been lauded for their imagination and connection to landscape, but Peter Stutchbury says hes ...

Reconciliation Week is almost another for another year, and for me it couldn't have come sooner.