Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

WAtoday
Deadly rat poisons could threaten WA's indigenous communities
WAtoday
This was probably a severe underestimate of the total number of species impacted, as Australia had limited research done compared to other parts of the world. And the situation could be worse in Australia as a warm country with diverse, abundant ...

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NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal superhero kills white people in Sydney Theatre Company comedy production
NEWS.com.au
The story follows “mild-mannered archaeologist Dr Jacqueline Black”, played by Megan Wilding, who uncovers a mass grave “somewhere in the Australian bush”. “She picks up a skull and is overpowered by the spirit of her great-great-grandmother ... BAM ...

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The West Australian
Story for all to see
The West Australian
Then she found a clip of the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir on the internet. “It blew my mind,” she says. “I'd never heard anything like it.” Three years later her debut documentary feature The Song Keepers received its world premiere at ...

Talking Aged Care
Nation's first people at heart of new dementia research project grants
Talking Aged Care
The individual projects, which aim to boost dementia prevention, slow its onset and improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living with dementia, have been allocated the finding through the National Health and Medical Research ...

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Moree Champion
Tackling under-representation in accounting | Moree Champion
Moree Champion
Out of 300000 people in the accounting profession, only 39 identify as Indigenous Australian.

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Moree Champion
Mitchell Johnson on a crusade to bump up number of Indigenous Australians in accounting profession
Moree Champion
MOREE Plains Shire director of corporate services Mitchell Johnson is on a mission to raise the number of Indigenous people in the business sector after he cited concerning statistics. “Out of the 300,000 people in the accounting profession, only 39 ...

The Advertiser
SA Museum's Aboriginal artefacts part of gigabit challenge
The Advertiser
Supported by the Department for State Development and the University of South Australia's Innovation & Collaboration Centre, the SA Gigabit Challenge, titled Preserve, is asking local developers, entrepreneurs, students, hackers, makers and other ...

The Australian
Revisionists see an Australia alien to so many of us
The Australian
Yet today we are presented with two competing foundation narratives. The first imagines Australia as the fatal shore, casting Cook and Captain Arthur Phillip as the agents of death, misery and destruction. The second sees Australia as a laboratory for ...

The Australian
Matt Canavan threatens challenge to tree-clearing laws
The Australian
Federal Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Matthew Canavan confirmed that advice was being sought to possibly intervene in the High Court over the state laws. Senator Canavan said the federal government was responding to calls from ...

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The Canberra Times
Are white policymakers maintaining the Indigenous gap?
The Canberra Times
Despite greatly increased effort in recent years, the policies of Australian governments towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders continue to fail on many levels. According to the latest Closing the Gap report, while there have been advances that ...
Aboriginal ranger jobs a boost for native land conservationGovernment News
The shocking truth of Australia's Indigenous incarceratedIndependent Australia

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Independent Australia
The shocking truth of Australia's Indigenous incarcerated
Independent Australia
Gerry Georgatos explores the reasons behind Australia's devastatingly high Indigenous imprisonment rate. AS A PREDOMINATELY experiential researcher and journeyer to homeland communities, and having worked for more than two decades alongside the ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Solar energy plus water equals indigenous industry, says Israeli pioneer
The Australian Financial Review
Australia could boost social development in remote Indigenous communities by using Israeli know-how to provide clean solar energy and water and build small-scale agriculture and micro-industries, an Israeli solar pioneer says. Yosef Abramowitz, who ...

The Guardian
Medicare change to give greater dialysis access to remote Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
The federal government has added dialysis services to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) to provide remote-living Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people better access to lifesaving treatment. The sector has welcomed the move as a lifeline for ...

ABC Online
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnostic centre opens in Alice Springs amid 'huge demand'
ABC Online
The centre, launched by the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (CAAC), will use the first commonly adapted diagnostic tool to ensure early diagnosis of the disorder. It will also offer a team of paediatricians, psychologists and other health ...

Government News
Aboriginal ranger jobs a boost for native land conservation
Government News
An indigenous ranger employment program in remote south-western Australia is tackling rural unemployment while rehabilitating native plants through traditional indigenous agricultural techniques. Under the program, announced last week by the West ...

The Guardian
South Australia halts Indigenous treaty talks as premier says he has 'other priorities'
The Guardian
The funding allocated under the agreement will go to a range of education, child protection and youth justice diversionary programs. Sansbury said he was concerned but not surprised by Marshall's comments. “It is most probably not a priority for Steven ...

Are white policymakers maintaining the Indigenous gap?  The Sydney Morning Herald

Conventional bureaucracies cannot address the needs of Aboriginal communities.

Katherine Times
No mention of Katherine prison farm
Katherine Times
“We are working to create generational change by partnering with Indigenous communities through our Aboriginal Justice Unit to source the solutions needed and establish the Territory's first ever Aboriginal Justice Agreement. “Today's announcement of ...

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South Burnett Times
Researching Indigenous dementia to tackle rising statistics
South Burnett Times
INDIGENOUS Australian seniors are three times more likely to experience dementia than other Australians. This high rate of dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities will be targeted by five ground-breaking research projects, aiming ...

ABC Online
Diabetes program gives hope to resident who was 'waiting to die'
ABC Online
These monumental wins for the two women were small by comparison to battles others still face. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were almost four times more likely than non-Indigenous Australians to have diabetes, according to Diabetes ...