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Mental health services for Aboriginal Australians inadequate, inappropriate ... - Yahoo!7 News

Thu, 2014/11/06 - 10:25am

Yahoo!7 News

Mental health services for Aboriginal Australians inadequate, inappropriate ...
Yahoo!7 News
Mental health services for Aboriginal Australians are "both inadequate and inappropriate", and immediate changes are needed to address growing rates of suicide, depression and other mental health issues among Indigenous youth, a new report says.
A nation shamed when child sees suicide as the solutionThe Australian
Community-led programs the key to reducing Indigenous suicide, experts sayABC Message Stick
Neglect in early years may have led to foster teen taking own life: coronerABC Online
HealthCanal.com -The Stringer -Phys.Org
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Mental health services for Aboriginal Australians inadequate, inappropriate ... - Yahoo!7 News

Thu, 2014/11/06 - 10:25am

Yahoo!7 News

Mental health services for Aboriginal Australians inadequate, inappropriate ...
Yahoo!7 News
Mental health services for Aboriginal Australians are "both inadequate and inappropriate", and immediate changes are needed to address growing rates of suicide, depression and other mental health issues among Indigenous youth, a new report says.
A nation shamed when child sees suicide as the solutionThe Australian
Community-led programs the key to reducing Indigenous suicide, experts sayABC Message Stick
Neglect in early years may have led to foster teen taking own life: coronerABC Online
HealthCanal.com -The Stringer -Phys.Org
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Mental health services for Aboriginal Australians inadequate, inappropriate ... - ABC Online

Thu, 2014/11/06 - 10:12am

ABC Online

Mental health services for Aboriginal Australians inadequate, inappropriate ...
ABC Online
Mental health services for Aboriginal Australians are "both inadequate and inappropriate", and immediate changes are needed to address growing rates of suicide, depression and other mental health issues among Indigenous youth, a new report says.
Plight of remote Australians is 'a global shame'Phys.Org

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Secret Outback nuclear testing site handed back to Aboriginal owners - Daily Mail

Thu, 2014/11/06 - 7:58am

Daily Mail

Secret Outback nuclear testing site handed back to Aboriginal owners
Daily Mail
The traditional Aboriginal owners of Maralinga, the remote South Australian outback land on which Britain detonated seven atomic bombs 50 years ago, will finally be allowed back on the nuclear testing site. The Australian Government has officially ...
Outback British nuclear test site handed back to Aborigines in AustraliaTelegraph.co.uk
From nuclear test site to tourist hotspot?NEWS.com.au
Maralinga traditional owners get land backSky News Australia
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Aboriginal art aims for sky - Australian Geographic (blog)

Thu, 2014/11/06 - 5:06am

Australian Geographic (blog)

Aboriginal art aims for sky
Australian Geographic (blog)
Following a visit from several Australian aboriginal artists to SKA's Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory at Boolardy Station, WA, the gears were set to create celestial art, says Charmaine Green, managing director of the Yamaji Art Centre in ...

Aboriginal Land Rights Safe for Now - Pro Bono Australia

Wed, 2014/11/05 - 9:53pm

Aboriginal Land Rights Safe for Now
Pro Bono Australia
An Aboriginal land rights advocacy group has welcomed the New South Wales Government's decision to drop a plan that could have retrospectively extinguished almost 2000 Aboriginal land claims, some dating back as far as two decades. The NSW ...

Noel Pearson's eulogy for Gough Whitlam praised as one for the ages - Sydney Morning Herald

Wed, 2014/11/05 - 7:19pm

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Noel Pearson's eulogy for Gough Whitlam praised as one for the ages
Sydney Morning Herald
"When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians." Thousands of those gathered outside Sydney's Town Hall sang along to From Little Things, Big Things Grow, about the Indigenous ...
Gurindji people from Wave Hill to farewell friend Gough Whitlam at Sydney ...ABC Online
Thousands pay tribute to 'visionary' Australian ex-PM WhitlamYahoo!7 News
Tributes flow for Gough Whitlam in SydneyThe New Daily
Business Insider Australia -Herald Sun
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Outback British nuclear test site handed back to Aborigines in Australia - Telegraph.co.uk

Wed, 2014/11/05 - 11:16am

Telegraph.co.uk

Outback British nuclear test site handed back to Aborigines in Australia
Telegraph.co.uk
Ian Hunter, the Aboriginal affairs minister in the state of South Australia, said the British conducted a "cursory" clean-up of the area in the 1960s but the area remained dangerously radioactive for decades. "At the instigation of the Maralinga ...
Defence force releases last Maralinga ancestral lands to traditional ownersThe Guardian
Maralinga traditional owners get land backSky News Australia
British atomic test site returned to Aboriginal ownersZee News
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'Best political speech of our time' - NEWS.com.au

Wed, 2014/11/05 - 10:59am

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'Best political speech of our time'
NEWS.com.au
He labelled Whitlam “Australia's greatest white elder” and emphasised the former leader's enduring legacy on indigenous affairs, highlighting the Racial Discrimination Act and progress on land rights. “Only those who have known discrimination truly ...
Noel Pearson Gave Possibly One Of Australia's Greatest Speeches In Honour Of ...Junkee
Gough Whitlam memorial: The great man would have loved itSydney Morning Herald
Gurindji people from Wave Hill to farewell friend Gough Whitlam at Sydney ...ABC Online
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Indigenous activist Rosalie Kunoth-Monks awarded NT Australian of the Year - Yahoo!7 News

Wed, 2014/11/05 - 9:53am

Yahoo!7 News

Indigenous activist Rosalie Kunoth-Monks awarded NT Australian of the Year
Yahoo!7 News
Central Australian Indigenous woman Rosalie Kunoth-Monks has been named the Northern Territory Australian of the Year for 2015. In her varied career Ms Kunoth-Monks has worked as an actor, a nun, a political adviser, a shire president, an environmental ...
Kunoth-Monks named NT Australian of the YearSky News Australia

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Indigenous activist Rosalie Kunoth-Monks awarded NT Australian of the Year - ABC Online

Wed, 2014/11/05 - 9:48am

ABC Online

Indigenous activist Rosalie Kunoth-Monks awarded NT Australian of the Year
ABC Online
Central Australian Indigenous woman Rosalie Kunoth-Monks has been named the Northern Territory Australian of the Year for 2015. In her varied career Ms Kunoth-Monks has worked as an actor, a nun, a political adviser, a shire president, an environmental ...
Kunoth-Monks named NT Australian of the YearSky News Australia

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Gough Whitlam's Indigenous and reforming legacy hailed at memorial - The Guardian

Wed, 2014/11/05 - 9:39am

The Guardian

Gough Whitlam's Indigenous and reforming legacy hailed at memorial
The Guardian
“Apart from Medibank and the Trade Practices Act, cutting tariff protections and no-fault divorce and the Family Law Act, the Australia Council, the federal court, the Order of Australia, federal legal aid, the Racial Discrimination Act, needs-based ...
Pearson's incredible eulogy for GoughThe Canberra Times
Gough Whitlam memorial: Tony Abbott, former PMs and dignitaries farewell titan ...ABC Online

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Nutrition is key to closing the Aboriginal life expectancy gap - The Conversation AU

Wed, 2014/11/05 - 3:50am

The Conversation AU

Nutrition is key to closing the Aboriginal life expectancy gap
The Conversation AU
Recent reports estimated a life expectancy gap of 11.5 years for Aboriginal males and 9.7 years for Aboriginal females compared to non-Aboriginal Australians. About 80% of this difference is due preventable chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes ...

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Defence force releases last Maralinga ancestral lands to traditional owners - The Guardian

Tue, 2014/11/04 - 11:51pm

The Guardian

Defence force releases last Maralinga ancestral lands to traditional owners
The Guardian
South Australia's Aboriginal affairs and reconciliation minister, Ian Hunter, said the land was as significant to the Maralinga Tjarutja people as any other part of their country. “When the British completed their testing program a cursory clean-up of ...
Maralinga traditional owners get land backSky News Australia
From nuclear test site to SA tourist meccaYahoo!7 News
British atomic test site returned to Aboriginal ownersGlobalPost

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Australia's top Aboriginal organisations announced - National Indigenous Times

Tue, 2014/11/04 - 7:55pm

Australia's top Aboriginal organisations announced
National Indigenous Times
p 11_IGA A leading Central Australian women's group and an up-and-coming theatre troupe from country Victoria have received top honours at the 2014 Indigenous Governance Awards. At a gala dinner at BHP Billiton's headquarters in Melbourne, Waltja ...

Indigenous people pay respects to Whitlam, the prime minister who cared about ... - Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2014/11/04 - 1:15pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Indigenous people pay respects to Whitlam, the prime minister who cared about ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"He was a man who sat down with our people and treated them with respect," said Kirstie Parker, a co-chairwoman of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, the latest of a number of Aboriginal representative bodies that followed the council ...
Gurindji people from Wave Hill to farewell friend Gough Whitlam at Sydney ...ABC Online
Australia: How and why the Gough Whitlam government's far-reaching reforms ...Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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Martu indigenous corporation in turmoil over mining money scrutiny in Western ... - Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2014/11/04 - 12:46pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Martu indigenous corporation in turmoil over mining money scrutiny in Western ...
Sydney Morning Herald
WDLAC, which is responsible for the Martu people and has been associated with some of indigenous Australia's most influential business leaders, said in a statement last week that its board had not authorised "both the terms of this inquiry and the ...

Plan to boost northern Australia farming 'must involve Indigenous groups' - The Guardian

Tue, 2014/11/04 - 8:37am

The Guardian

Plan to boost northern Australia farming 'must involve Indigenous groups'
The Guardian
In a panel discussion on Indigenous participation, Leigh “Tracker” Tilmouth, the former CEO of the Central Land Council, said Australia needed a “segregated economy”. “An economy [in which] we can develop our own systems of trade, our own systems and ...

'Invasion Day' argument led to fight at Aboriginal Tent Embassy - ABC Online

Tue, 2014/11/04 - 6:35am

ABC Online

'Invasion Day' argument led to fight at Aboriginal Tent Embassy
ABC Online
An argument about referring to Australia Day as "Invasion Day" led to a brutal attack at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, the ACT Magistrates Court has heard. The court heard 50-year-old Peter Hill and a 71-year-old man had argued over the ...
Dog mauls man at tent embassy fightThe Canberra Times

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New South Wales tries to block Aboriginal land claims on coastal areas - The Guardian

Mon, 2014/11/03 - 6:08am

The Guardian

New South Wales tries to block Aboriginal land claims on coastal areas
The Guardian
The New South Wales government is seeking to ban Aboriginal communities from making land claims on coastal areas and to cancel around 1,800 outstanding claims to beachfront land. Hundreds gathered in Sydney on Monday to protest against the ...
Controversial NSW land rights laws on iceSky News Australia

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