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The Globe and Mail
Charlie's Country: A remarkable tale of Aboriginal displacement in Australia
The Globe and Mail
At an Australian hospital, a white doctor addresses an Aborigine simply as “Charlie,” as he has trouble pronouncing “foreign names.” And isn't that a joke, and isn't that appalling – the original dispossessed, the indigenous displaced. It gets to the ...

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It gets to the heart of Charlie's Country, an unfortunate story of societal tensions in modern Australia, told with bittersweet humour, graceful ...

"Story is so important to Aboriginal people, and we have many, many Aboriginal people throughout NSW and Australia who have been taken away ...

The traditional owners want the site to be nominated on Australia's new ... The Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation said it had ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Swap books to support Indigenous literacy
ArtsHub (subscription)
'The advocacy day is about raising awareness of the need for resources and appropriate resources in remote communities because they are the ones with the lowest literacy rates and the most disadvantaged in Australia today,' said Executive Director ...

That is not only an analysis of the British Museum's 'Indigenous Australia : enduring civilisation' ... What a change from the last BM Aboriginal show!

Aboriginal Music Week is in full swing in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Now in its ... She is here, along with Tama Waipara, and Benny Walker from Australia.

Aboriginal leaders Patrick Dodson, Noel Pearson, Kirstie Parker and ... Ms Parker, the co-chairwoman of the National Congress of Australia's First ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Researchers work to preserve richness of Indigenous languages
Sydney Morning Herald
Every few weeks, at least one Indigenous language around the world dies, according to a report from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. More languages are reportedly being lost in Australia than in any other ...
Racing to record Indigenous languages under attack from 'onslaught of English'The Guardian

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Every few weeks, at least one Indigenous language around the world dies, according to a report from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres ...

ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Australian aboriginal communities have world's highest dementia incidence
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Research by The University of Western Australia's Centre for Health and Ageing has confirmed that the incidence of dementia in remote Aboriginal communities is the highest in the world, with head injuries and age the greatest contributing factors.

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... that position in an attempt to regain the support of key Aboriginal leaders. .... NOEL PEARSON: Bill Hassell and the Western Australian Liberals.

Medical Xpress
Aboriginal communities have world's highest dementia incidence
Medical Xpress
Research by The University of Western Australia's Centre for Health and Ageing has confirmed that the incidence of dementia in remote Aboriginal communities is the highest in the world, with head injuries and age the greatest contributing factors.

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Up until the 1970s, the wages and savings of Aboriginal people were mostly controlled by Australian governments and agencies. Indigenous workers ...

MARK COLVIN: Until the 1970s Australian governments and agencies controlled the wages and savings of a startlingly high proportion of Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
Endangered Indigenous languages to be recorded in dictionaries
ABC Online
The Australian National University (ANU) has started forming dictionaries for 10 endangered Indigenous Australian languages, giving undergraduate students the opportunity to take part. ANU Indigenous linguistics chairwoman Jane Simpson told 666 ABC ...
Racing to record Indigenous languages under attack from 'onslaught of English'The Guardian

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Simpson said one of the first things to pique her interest in Aboriginal ... on the biggest dictionary of any Australian language, the Warlpiri dictionary.

The Guardian
Racing to record Indigenous languages under attack from 'onslaught of English'
The Guardian
Professor Jane Simpson from the Australian National University said Australia's Indigenous languages remain “inherently fragile under the onslaught of English and government policies which make it hard to keep [them] going.” A 2014 National Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Prime Minister Tony Abbott facing insider rebellion on referendum to recognise ...
ABC Online
But the simple historical fact that there were peoples here that came upwards to 53,000 years ago ... that's a question of being Indigenous to Australia." West Australian Liberal senator Chris Back said the question of whether to recognise Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal constitutional recognition back on cards after Australian PM ...Xinhua
Tony Abbott changes mind, supports Indigenous meetings on recognitionThe Guardian
Tony Abbott will today talk with indigenous leaders on a Constitutional ...Business Insider Australia
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Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Highest dementia in world in remote Aboriginal communities
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Research by The University of Western Australia's Centre for Health and Ageing has confirmed that the incidence of dementia in remote Aboriginal communities is the highest in the world, with head injuries and age the greatest contributing factors.

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