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16-Sep-2009

ABS predicts Indigenous population boom

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is predicting that Australia's Indigenous population will have grown to more than 700,000 in 12 years' time.

 

02-Nov-2009

Aboriginal content will keep kids at school

But is it possible to have culturally balanced education for indigenous students that allows for the maintenance of language, culture and heritage, given the level of rigidity in the "standardising" of education?

 

19-Sep-2009

There's a big catch: law change nets Aboriginal fishers

Eva Leon, an elderly Aboriginal woman who rows across a lake in Forster each week to catch a feed, will be branded a criminal by changes before the NSW Government.

 

06-Oct-2009

Communities hold the key to better health

He said conditions had improved markedly on the lands and the facility was so successful because it was run by indigenous people and others who understood community issues.

 

01-Oct-2009

Deadline extended for Aborigines' stolen wages

Thousands of indigenous workers seeking millions of dollars in unpaid wages have won a two-week extension on the deadline after which all claims will be capped at $11,000.

 

23-Sep-2009

Doctors urged to better understand Aboriginal culture

The heads of Australian and New Zealand medical schools say understanding Aboriginal culture will help doctors provide better treatment to Indigenous Australians.

 

20-Sep-2009

Healing indigenous youth

It takes just four days for the staff at the Red Dust Healing program to transform an angry young man into someone with respect for others and respect for himself.

 

25-Nov-2010

Larissa Behrendt is NSW Australian of the Year

Indigenous advocate and author Larissa Behrendt has been named NSW Australian of the Year at an awards ceremony in Sydney.

 

20-Sep-2009

Let's finally give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders a voice

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are not represented in our Federal Parliament. Five years ago, they ceased altogether to have a representative voice when the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) was abolished. We have suffered as a result.

 

22-Sep-2009

Moree corroboree: hushed songs shouted

The people of Moree knew the late Gamilaraay elder Dave Spearim as a Christian minister but in his home on the Aboriginal ''mission'' he taught his 23 children their forbidden language, songs and dance.

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