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Number of indigenous heavy smokers drops
The Australian
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day almost halved between 1994 and 2008, a report in the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday found. The rate dropped from 17.3 per cent of indigenous people ...
Smoking push to quit for the babySydney Morning Herald
Anti-smoking ads target Indigenous pregnant womenRadio Australia

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Community stores slash prices on Aboriginal lands
The Australian
THE price of fresh fruit and vegetables will be slashed and baby formula sold at cost-price in community stores on South Australia's remote Aboriginal lands that are at threat of a takeover by government-backed Outback Stores. Mai Wiru, an Alice ...

Mundine facing Labor backlash
The Australian
The blowback came as the former ALP national president - who revealed exclusively in The Weekend Australian he had renounced the membership he held for decades - ramped up his condemnation of Labor's record on combating indigenous disadvantage.

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Keona's big dreams finally a reality with Indigenous Allied Health
National Indigenous Times
As a young child, Keona Wilson had big dreams. She knew she wanted a good life, even if she wasn't always sure how to get there. An Aboriginal woman born in Redcliffe Queensland, Keona is a speech pathologist of seven years and is a Board Director at ...

NEWS.com.au
Anti-smoking ads target Indigenous pregnant women
Radio Australia
"The Breaking the chain ads show both Indigenous men and women talking about how they want to be alive to look after their kids, that they want to be strong and healthy and around when their kids grow up," she said. "Those ads have worked very ...
Number of Indigenous heavy smokers down 45%The Conversation
Nurses welcome campaign to butt outNursing Careers Allied Health
Government focuses on pregnant smokersSky News Australia

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NEWS.com.au
Pregnant smokers in government's sights
Herald Sun
PREGNANT women and indigenous Australians are being targeted in a new anti-smoking campaign that comes a month before all cigarettes have to be sold in plain packaging. The latest statistics suggest one in seven Australian women smoke during ...
Anti-smoking ads target Indigenous pregnant womenABC Online

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Teachers to learn Aboriginal English after 'horse' misunderstanding
Perth Now
The new training, touted as a world-first and based on 20 years of research, is designed to ensure indigenous children are not wrongly disciplined or lose confidence. And, it will help teachers who speak standard Australian English to communicate with ...

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Teachers to learn Aboriginal English after 'horse' misunderstanding
The Australian
The new training, touted as a world-first and based on 20 years of research, is designed to ensure indigenous children are not wrongly disciplined or lose confidence. And, it will help teachers who speak standard Australian English to communicate with ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Investors face wait for a glittering prize
Sydney Morning Herald
An estimated one million cinema viewers have now seen a story about Aboriginal women rising above racism with warmth and humour, giving a fresh perspective on indigenous Australia. Only 13 Australian releases have taken more at the local box office - a ...

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NTNews.com.au
Storm stops indigenous runners
The Canberra Times
CANBERRA sporting icon Robert de Castella and his fledgling group of indigenous marathon runners have been left ''devastated'' by the cancellation of the New York Marathon just 31 hours before the race. De Castella has spent nine months training eight ...
Team focuses on marathon clean-upNTNews.com.au

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Spirited Australian festivals
NEWS.com.au
Uplift promotes various perspectives including science, wellness, art, ecology, new economics, indigenous culture and youth and will feature guest speakers including Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jonathan Goldman, Paul Stamets and Bruce Lipton, and ...

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Aboriginal runners to help New York after Sandy
AFP
NEW YORK — Eight indigenous Australians who spent months training for the New York marathon said they were disappointed it was cancelled but will now volunteer to help the city recover from superstorm Sandy. The six men and two women, hand-picked ...

ABC News
Aboriginal runners volunteer to help with recovery after New York marathon ...
Herald Sun
EIGHT indigenous Australians who spent months training for the New York marathon said they were disappointed it was cancelled but will now volunteer to help the city recover from superstorm Sandy. The six men and two women, hand-picked as part of a ...
Aussies dismayed at marathon's cancellationSydney Morning Herald

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AFP
Aussies dismayed at marathon's cancellation
Sydney Morning Herald
Marathon legend Robert de Castella said the eight indigenous Australians who had travelled to New York with him to do the marathon - after nine months of training - were "absolutely devastated". De Castella said the team, part of the Indigenous ...
Aboriginal runners to help New York after SandyAFP

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Should Local Governments be constitutionally recognised?
Coolum News
"Prime Minister Julia Gillard gave an undertaking when coming to office in 2010 to hold referendums by the end of 2013 on both constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians and constitutional recognition of local government," Ms Lewis said ...

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Redfern Now on ABC
National Indigenous Times
Redfern Now, six stories that explores life of Indigenous families, and the first drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians, will begin screening on ABC1 this Thursday 1st November. The series has pulled together Indigenous ...

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Aboriginal people 'in welfare trap'
NTNews.com.au
"It is the kind of question the rest of Australia has been asking for years, as it tries to connect the dots, tries to understand why a long-running mining boom can exist literally next door to a culture of entitlement and welfare dependency.'' In a ...

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My dream: a real future of our own making
The Australian
TODAY I want to provide a statement on the status of Aboriginal communities living in the Northern Territory. Most Australians would have an idea of those communities, whether right or wrong. Even those of us with deep knowledge have to admit how ...

Sick at heart: why a disillusioned Warren Mundine quit the Labor Party
The Australian
I saw that we could end the disparity between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia within a generation. And I believed (government) policies were never going to do it. "It became more about the politics than actually achieving anything. And I began ...

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Yahoo!7 News
A courageous indigenous voice speaks the truth
The Australian (blog)
WHAT a breath of fresh air Northern Territory Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson is for speaking out about the corrosive culture of entitlement and welfare dependency that blights Aboriginal people across this land ("My people must grow up ...
NT Aboriginal politician calls for end to culture of welfareABC Online
Minister slams Indigenous culture of dependencyYahoo!7 News

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