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Sydney Morning Herald
Australia was Stolen by Armed Robbery ... Jason Wing's piece installed as part ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Wing's Australia was Stolen by Armed Robbery features a bust of Captain Cook wearing a black balaclava, pictured. ''Australia was stolen from the Aboriginal people by lethal force,'' he said. Wing added the fate of indigenous people had deteriorated ...

Call for providers to deliver new $1.5b remote jobs program
Invest in Australia
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Bill Shorten said the Remote Jobs and Communities program brings together Job Services Australia, Disability Employment Services, Community Development Employment Projects and the Indigenous ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Australian health authorities under fire over Aboriginal health campaign
Telegraph.co.uk
The health department has recalled copies of the embarrassing Female Human Anatomy poster which were distributed to health centres and indigenous workers around the country as part of its "Live Longer!" public health campaign. The poster confused the ...
Health Dept withdraws inaccurate anatomy postersRadio Australia

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Sky News Australia
Indigenous mayors back alcohol ban review
The Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs Minister Glenn Elmes has started his review of the alcohol management plans (AMPs) in place in 19 indigenous communities. The plans restrict or prohibit the sale and possession of alcohol ...
Slip of the tongues: language and the unintended consequences of Indigenous ...The Conversation
Indigenous councils to rule on liquorNEWS.com.au
Strategy encourages more Indigenous psychologistsRadio Australia
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Langton to deliver Boyer Lectures
The Australian
Marcia Langton has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne since February 2000. An anthropologist and geographer, she has researched Indigenous relationships with place, land tenure and environmental ...

Indigenous doctors share 'cultural education'
ABC Online
More than 300 Indigenous doctors from across the Pacific are gathering in Alice Springs today to share their traditional methods of medicine. Organiser Ngiare Brown says the conference is an opportunity to explore how culture can be used to enrich healing.

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Radio Australia
Health Dept withdraws inaccurate anatomy posters
Radio Australia
The poster is part of the Government's Living Longer program aimed at improving the health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It was taken down from the campaign's website today. Opposition Indigenous health spokesman Andrew ...

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Concern job cuts will stall Indigenous housing projects
ABC Online
Queensland Housing Minister Bruce Flegg has rejected claims that State Government public sector job cuts will affect an Aboriginal housing project. The Commonwealth is funding 150 new houses and more than 300 refurbishments in the state's Aboriginal ...

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Aboriginal health service returns to community
ABC Online
“If we want to close the gap and get the indigenous community on a par with the rest of Australia in relation to its health outcomes then we need to make sure that the indigenous community itself is involved in every step of that process." For more, go ...

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Macklin warns Qld cuts will affect indigenous housing
Business Spectator
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has warned the Queensland state government that recent cuts to its public service have put at risk progress in closing the state's indigenous housing gap, The Australian reports. Ms Macklin has written to ...

Slip of the tongues: language and the unintended consequences of Indigenous ...
The Conversation
This fits with analysis I recently co-authored showing Indigenous Australians who were learning an Indigenous language were significantly more likely to report that they were happy all or most of the time in the previous four weeks compared to those ...

Pune to host Australian cultural festival
Times of India
PUNE: The Australian cultural festival, Oz Fest, which starts on October 16 and concludes on February 5, will have several highlights for Pune, including the Australian indigenous cricket team playing local Indian teams in one-day and Twenty20 matches ...

Cutbacks 'a risk to closing indigenous gap', says Jenny Macklin
The Australian
"I am concerned that the cuts the Queensland government is making to its housing workforce could put at risk delivering better housing for indigenous people," Ms Macklin told The Australian. "It seems Queensland is cutting more than 1400 jobs in the ...

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Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 – 8 August 1959), born Elea Namatjira, was an Australian artist. He was a Western Arrernte man, an Indigenous Australian of the Western MacDonnell Ranges area. Albert Namatjira is perhaps Australia's best known Aboriginal ...
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SBS
Aboriginal language makes a comeback
SBS
The last fluent speaker of Kaurna language died in the 1900s, but now there's more than 100 people, including non-Indigenous Australians, in the process of learning it. Teacher Jack Buckskin, and linguist Dr Robert Amery reintroduced Karuma to the ...

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Study unravels Tasmania's historic languages
ABC Message Stick
Australian researcher Associate Professor Claire Bowern of Yale University says studying Tasmania's Aboriginal language history is difficult because there are no known native speakers and relatively few sources of information. "We don't have any ...

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Eureka Street
Aboriginal Catholics' culturally enriched living
Eureka Street
I acknowledge the traditional owners of this place and pay my respects to elders past and present, present and absent. It is always a great privilege for me as an Australian Catholic priest to be invited the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Radio Australia
Indigenous doctors look to integrate traditional and modern medicine
Radio Australia
The conference brings together Indigenous medical practitioners, students, and health professionals from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States of America, Hawai'i, Taiwan, and across the Pacific. The focus is to promote culturally safe research ...

Brandywine professor's family tree has deep Penn State roots
Penn State Live
Guerin's academic areas of expertise are health psychology and indigenous and refugee health. She co-wrote an award-winning textbook on indigenous health in Australia titled “Health Care and Indigenous Australians: Cultural Safety in Practice.

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Better schooling, not uni quotas
The Australian
Attendance at the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy in Aurukun is up from about 38 per cent in 2009 to about 70 per cent, a majority of students approaching or exceeding national benchmarks. Other regions are considering adopting Pearson's ...