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WA Aboriginal remains to return from UK
The West Australian
Friday's ceremony at Australia House involved the signing over of remains from Birmingham and Brighton and Cambridge University to the Whadjuk community in Perth and the Ngarrindjeri people in South Australia. Major Sumner, of the Ngarrindjeri, told ...
Virtual reality tells Indigenous story in London as bones set to return to AustraliaThe Sydney Morning Herald
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Virtual reality tells Indigenous story in London as bones set to return to Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
London: As old, stolen bodies return to Australia, Britain is being repaid in virtual reality. In a neat coincidence this week, London's film festival was treated to a cutting-edge, VR demonstration of the story-telling-power of Indigenous culture ...
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Indigenous remains returned to Australia
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The ancestral remains will be returned to members of the Advisory Committee for Indigenous Repatriation and to representatives of the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia and the Whadjuk community in Western Australia. The remains have been held ...

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Indigenous leaders express hope and cynicism ahead of Kimberley suicide roundtable
ABC Online
The meeting is a part of the Federal Government's election policy to trial prevention-of-suicide programs across Australia and has been hastily arranged according to Broome Indigenous leader Marty Sibosado. "It's part of the national suicide policy ...

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Kimberley suicide rates: government urged to support Indigenous-led solutions
The Guardian
Broome cemetery in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Rates of Indigenous suicide in the Kimberley are seven times higher than the national average and three times higher than the national Indigenous average. Photograph: Janine Israel for the ...
Indigenous suicide linked to bigger picture issues, psychologist saysABC Message Stick
Aboriginal Suicide Rates Have Hit Crisis Point and Prevention Isn't WorkingVICE
A Fundraising Event for Indigenous Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention with David Suzuki & Clover MooreRenewEconomy

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Targeted care is creating better outcomes for Indigenous mothers
SBS
Senior Advisor for the NSW Aboriginal Nursing and Midwifery Strategy Leona McGrath is working to ensure Indigenous women continue to access prenatal care. Leona is one of only 230 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander midwives in Australia. As a mother ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Life in the Northern Territory for Indigenous Australians 'distressing', royal commission hears
The Sydney Morning Herald
This was a version of Indigenous life in the Northern Territory given to the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory as bureaucrats and health specialists gave evidence on Thursday about government ...
Aboriginal survival rests on success of royal commission ...The Guardian
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Agencies can't keep track of where kids are living, commission toldThe Australian
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Australian rock formation could be older than Stonehenge, researchers say
The Guardian
Researchers investigating a historic Aboriginal site in Australia believe an ancient astronomical stone formation could prove to be older than Stonehenge, and are now working with elders to determine its age. The Wurdi Youang stone arrangement 45km ...
Ancient site could rival Stonehenge as world's oldest observatoryMashable
Ancient Aust'n Aboriginal site could be "oldest observatory in the world": expertsXinhua

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Danny Ferguson sentenced to jail on top of traditional Aboriginal spearing over manslaughter
ABC Online
An Oodnadatta man will spend at least 12 years behind bars before a traditional Aboriginal punishment of being speared in the legs for the manslaughter of his partner. Danny Ferguson, 36, was found guilty of the July 2015 manslaughter of partner ...
Jailed man faces spearing for SA killingThe Australian

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VICE
Aboriginal Suicide Rates Have Hit Crisis Point and Prevention Isn't Working
VICE
A new report from the University of Western Australia's Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP) says Aboriginal suicide rates across Australia are at a crisis point, and government policies are failing to address ...
A Fundraising Event for Indigenous Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention with David Suzuki & Clover MooreRenewEconomy

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The Guardian
Coalition embarrassed by mistaken support for Labor vote – politics live
The Guardian
Indigenous people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia are seven times more likely to kill themselves and up to 20 times more likely to self-harm than other Australians, creating a situation where suicide has become “normalised behaviour”, a ...

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The Australian
Call for cultural respect in indigenous worker drug tests
The Australian
His call has been supported by rivals national drug testers Safe Work Laboratories, which cited 75 per cent of an indigenous apprentice program in Western Australia testing positive to drugs or alcohol, but being educated during training with ambitions ...

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Collaborative performance features dancers from Indian, Maori and Aboriginal cultures
ABC Online
Cultures are set to collide on stage as part of a new performance work by a group of Australian dancers. Indian brother and sister performance duo Isha Shavani and Tao Issaro have joined forces with Maori and Aboriginal dancers to share techniques and ...

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The world's oldest observatory? How Aboriginal astronomy provides clues to ancient life
ABC Online
Dr Duane Hamacher is a leader in the study of Indigenous astronomy and has been working with Aboriginal elders at the site to reconstruct their knowledge of the stars and planets. "Some academics have referred to this stone arrangement here as ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal survival rests on success of royal commission – Indigenous advocate
The Guardian
Taken by counsel to a portion of her statement which said the issues raised by the 2006 report had been advocated by Aboriginal people for years prior, Anderson launched into a blistering critique on Australia's long history of investigating issues ...

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SBS
How to make Australia the 'lucky country' for all children
SBS
The largest growing area of inequality is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, with 19.3 per cent living in poverty compared to 12.4 per cent of non-indigenous children. Indigenous children aged 10 – 17 years are 26 times more likely to ...

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Indigenous-led suicide prevention plan needed to fight Aboriginal death crisis: report
ABC Online
Aboriginal suicides are at record levels in remote Australia and mainstream prevention programs are failing, a major report has concluded. The ABC has obtained a copy of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project ...

Daily Mail
Shock blow for tragic teen's family
The Advertiser
The Goldfields are among many Australian regions plagued by suicides and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner Tom Calma has described remote indigenous suicide as an “epidemic” and called on a bipartisan approach ...
Kalgoorlie suicide: Woman takes her life at scene where teenager Elijah Doughty diedABC Online
Relative of Aboriginal boy Elijah Doughty killed in Kalgoorlie takes her own lifeDaily Mail
Elijah Doughty relative kills herself at site of 14-year-old's death in KalgoorlieThe Guardian

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Tas Aboriginal recognition on the cards
The West Australian
Opposition Aboriginal affairs spokeswoman Madeleine Ogilvie says she's proud of the initiative, which makes a "small but significant step". Tasmania is the only state in Australia not to acknowledge Aboriginal people in its constitution, according to ...

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Tas Aboriginal recognition on the cards
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Opposition Aboriginal affairs spokeswoman Madeleine Ogilvie says she's proud of the initiative, which makes a "small but significant step". Tasmania is the only state in Australia not to acknowledge Aboriginal people in its constitution, according to ...

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