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Aboriginal remains returned from Chicago museum to Launceston
ABC Online
The remains of three Tasmanian Indigenous Australians have been returned to the state after almost 200 years. In the 1830s, three skulls were donated to a museum in England and then transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1958.

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Concern over suicide rates in indigenous Australians
Radio Australia
Mental health researchers say the rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is twice what it is for the rest of the Australian population. And they say culturally appropriate programs that connect people to land and culture, must be ...

Artistic fusion of mining, pastoralism and Indigenous culture
ABC Online
Open pit mines aren't exactly known for getting the creative juices flowing, but it's where a bunch of Australian artists chose to work on a collaborative project. Back in 2007, six very different artists from across Australia trekked out to the Tanami ...

Westerner
Indigenous in defence of Australia
Westerner
The courage of indigenous Australians who have served in the military will be honoured at Mt Samson next weekend. “Serving Country: Centenary and Beyond” is the theme of a NAIDOC Week event being hosted by the Kupidabin Cultural Association on 6 ...

Westerner
Indigenous in defence of Australia
Westerner
The courage of indigenous Australians who have served in the military will be honoured at Mt Samson next weekend. “Serving Country: Centenary and Beyond” is the theme of a NAIDOC Week event being hosted by the Kupidabin Cultural Association on 6 ...

The Guardian
COAG reform council chair also warns proposed GP co-payment could lead to ...
The Guardian
The outgoing chair of the Council of Australian Governments reform council has warned of the loss of an independent voice on Indigenous health and education when the prime minister's office takes on the task of reporting outcomes from the Closing the ...
Cost already a barrier for one in eight indigenous seeing a GP, COAG Reform ...Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous groups wary of health data after COAG council cutSBS

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Central Australian Women's Legal Service slams Facebook post of naked ...
Yahoo!7 News
The Central Australian Women's Legal Service says people who posted a picture on Facebook of a naked Indigenous woman acted in a callous and disturbing way. The page shows a photo of the naked woman picking up her clothing at an Alice Springs ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Closing the gap in Indigenous health: how will we know?
Crikey (blog)
Two important reports on Indigenous health were released today amid continuing fears about the future of independent reporting and accountability on health and welfare in Australia in the wake of the axing and merger of key Federal Government agencies.
Cost already a barrier for one in eight indigenous seeing a GP, COAG Reform ...Sydney Morning Herald

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The Nation
Islam in Australia
The Nation
Few Australians are aware that the country's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had regular contact with foreign Muslims long before the arrival of Christian colonisers. And Islam continues to exercise an appeal for some Aboriginal peoples ...

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Intellectually impaired Aboriginal woman Rosie Fulton to be freed after 21 ...
ABC Online
A mentally impaired Aboriginal woman who has been held in jail without trial or conviction for 21 months will be released next week to be closer to her family. Rosie Fulton, 24, will be transferred from Kalgoorlie Prison in Western Australia to Alice ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Cost already a barrier for one in eight indigenous seeing a GP, COAG Reform ...
Sydney Morning Herald
“We report independently on the progress of all nine of Australia's governments — the Commonwealth, the States and the Territories — in closing the gap,” he says in a speech to be delivered to an indigenous health summit on Thursday. “Who will do ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Alexander Downer backs indigenous constitutional recognition
Sydney Morning Herald
London: Australia's new high commissioner in London has used one of his first public speeches to back recognition of indigenous people in the constitution. Former foreign minister Alexander Downer, who recently replaced Mike Rann as Canberra's man in ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Cost already a barrier for one in eight indigenous seeing a GP, COAG Reform ...
Sydney Morning Herald
“We report independently on the progress of all nine of Australia's governments — the Commonwealth, the States and the Territories — in closing the gap,” he says in a speech to be delivered to an indigenous health summit on Thursday. “Who will do ...

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Forrest's womb-to-work strategy
The Australian
MINING magnate Andrew Forrest has delivered the Abbott government a 230-page blueprint that calls for radical, far-reaching changes to the nation's indigenous jobs strategy and the rollout of new integrated childhood services that target kids from ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal woman in jail without conviction to be freed
ABC Message Stick
A mentally impaired Aboriginal woman who has been held in jail without trial or conviction for 21 months will be released next week to be closer to her family. Rosie Fulton, 24, will be transferred from Kalgoorlie Prison in Western Australia to Alice ...
Rosie to return homeABC Online

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Intellectually impaired Aboriginal woman Rosie Fulton to be freed after 21 ...
Yahoo!7 News
A mentally impaired Aboriginal woman who has been held in jail without trial or conviction for 21 months will be released next week to be closer to her family. Rosie Fulton, 24, will be transferred from Kalgoorlie Prison in Western Australia to Alice ...
Rosie to return homeABC Message Stick

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Indigenous rangers: an initiative worth nurturing
WA today
I have worked at the very centre of government as a minister with the federal government, and, in contrast, literally as far as possible from power centres, with indigenous Australians in the outback. One of my formal roles at present is as a board ...
Honest History: The Bone CollectorsABC Online (blog)

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Indigenous rangers: an initiative worth nurturing
Sydney Morning Herald
I have worked at the very centre of government as a minister with the federal government, and, in contrast, literally as far as possible from power centres, with indigenous Australians in the outback. One of my formal roles at present is as a board ...
Honest History: The Bone CollectorsABC Online (blog)

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Local indigenous youth representative returns home
The Transcontinental
The 17-year old was selected as one of 50 young indigenous Australians for the prestigious program this year, which saw hundreds of young hopefuls submit applications in the hope of becoming one of Australia's future leaders. Upon her return, Ms ...

Indigenous nod for Buru fracking
The West Australian
The Aboriginal community that staged Australia's most famous protest against oil drilling on a sacred site has thrown its support behind a plan to frack for gas in the area. The Yungngora Community at Noonkanbah Station has announced its in-principle ...

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