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North Stradbroke Island could soon ban dogs and cats in an effort to save its koala population.
Topics: dog, animal-attacks, animals, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, local-government, conservation, marsupials, dunwich-4183, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedConsumer advocates welcome an Appeal Court decision which will allow the Commonwealth to ban Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund, a private business that provides funeral insurance almost exclusively to Aboriginals, from accessing the Government's Centrepay system.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, courts-and-trials, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, qld, southport-4215
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The ILC's agribusiness subsidiary generated over $28 million in the last financial year, thanks largely to its cattle operations in northern Australia.
Topics: rural, pasture, beef-cattle, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, broome-6725
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government is funding a new legal service to help young people interacting with the youth detention royal commission.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, royal-commissions, youth, darwin-0800
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Indigenous Australians continue to be disproportionately represented in HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates compared to the wider population, new research has found.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, aids-and-hiv, health, diseases-and-disorders, sexually-transmitted-diseases, healthcare-facilities, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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| UpdatedIndigenous Australians continue to be disproportionately represented in HIV and sexually transmitted infection rates compared to the wider population, new research finds.
Topics: aids-and-hiv, sexually-transmitted-diseases, sexual-health, healthcare-facilities, health-administration, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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An Aboriginal woman who lodged a racial discrimination complaint against Australian newspaper cartoonist Bill Leak says she dropped the case because she did not think he was going to cooperate with the conciliation process.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, discrimination, race-relations, information-and-communication, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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Tracey Burchall, Worawa teacher.
Topics: community-and-society, rural-youth, youth, education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, healesville-3777, vic
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Shaquille Swan wants to study audio engineering and become a producer.
Topics: community-and-society, youth, rural-youth, education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, healesville-3777, vic
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| UpdatedImagine leaving behind your family, your country, your way of life. All at the age of 12. That is what it takes for young women to pursue an education at Worawa Aboriginal College — Victoria's only independent Aboriginal school and the first of only two Aboriginal-controlled boarding schools in Australia.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-culture, education, women, healesville-3777
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Lorraine Williams, mother and Worawa cultural advisor.
Topics: community-and-society, rural-youth, youth, education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, healesville-3777, vic
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Kateena Norris hopes to become a police officer.
Topics: community-and-society, youth, rural-youth, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, education, healesville-3777, vic
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Jahmai Tolentino, Pat Dodson’s great granddaughter, wants to become an aviation pilot.
Topics: community-and-society, youth, rural-youth, education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, healesville-3777, vic
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Indigenous women from across the country vow to empower themselves and each other at a national forum in Canberra.
Topics: indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, women, federal-parliament, parliament, activism-and-lobbying, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Topics: women, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, climate-change, environment, federal-parliament, parliament, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, climate-change, environment, women, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Little Mob, an Aboriginal-focused playgroup on the outskirts of Hobart, is helping children develop cultural connections and improve their education.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, hobart-7000, tas
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Federal Government backbencher Eric Abetz welcomes the withdrawal of a race discrimination complaint against cartoonist Bill Leak.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, race-relations, australia
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| UpdatedTopics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedA kidney health program at a Top End health service is making inroads in the battle against dramatically rising numbers of patients with dialysis-dependency and renal failure.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800
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An Aboriginal soldier's remains will be returned home to Raukkan, near the Murray Mouth, almost 100 years after he was buried in an unmarked grave in Adelaide.
Topics: world-war-1, history, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, army, defence-forces, adelaide-5000, raukkan-5259, sa
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| UpdatedA piece of Northern Territory history linked to the land rights movement is set to be immortalised in the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
Topics: history, community-and-society, land-rights, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, kalkaringi-0852
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| UpdatedAboriginal leader Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools Australia organisation has been involved in "high risk" business practices potentially leaving the schools open to possible fraud and official misconduct, according to a confidential government audit of the Cape York Academy schools.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, government-and-politics, education, indigenous-policy, aurukun-4871, weipa-4874, qld, australia
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The corporate regulator has put traders exploiting customers in Aboriginal communities through dodgy 'book up' practices on notice, following a landmark ruling in the Federal Court.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, consumer-finance, courts-and-trials, sa
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| UpdatedIndigenous leader Noel Pearson advised the Queensland Government that the non-profit group he founded will cease "all negotiations" in relation to the troubled Aurukun school, briefly closed in May due to alleged violence.
Topics: education, access-to-education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, aboriginal, aurukun-4871, brisbane-4000, qld