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| UpdatedPoliticians from both major parties — including the PM and Opposition Leader — link arms with Indigenous campaigners in Canberra to say "no more" to domestic violence.
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Famed singer-songwriter Archie Roach says having a referendum on Indigenous recognition is not the whole answer, but a start.
Topics: music, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia
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| UpdatedThe Australian women running one of the world's largest studies of Indigenous mothers and babies know they're crucial.
Topics: indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, infant-health, health, tamworth-2340
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| UpdatedClaims Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson bullied senior Queensland Government staff, calling one of them a "maggot" and "bucket of shit", highlight a strained relationship between the two parties.
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| UpdatedLeading experts in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder believe Australia's record rates of Indigenous incarceration could be dramatically reduced if children were clinically assessed when their troubled behaviour first emerged in the classroom or at home.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, child-health-and-behaviour, pregnancy-and-childbirth, health, australia
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| UpdatedAlice Springs-born director Warwick Thornton, famous for his work on Australian film Sampson and Delilah, is back in Central Australia with acting greats Sam Neill and Bryan Brown to tell the nation a tale of frontier-era violence.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, alice-springs-0870, nt
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| UpdatedFour Aboriginal faces will soon watch over the tiny farming community of Sheep Hills in north-west Victoria, as another large-scale work of art is produced on the disused silos of Victoria's far west.
Topics: contemporary-art, arts-and-entertainment, street-art, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, regional, rural, sheep-hills-3392, brim-3391, patchewollock-3491
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A new agreement between the NSW Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and the State Government aims to grow Indigenous business ownership, entrepreneurship and employment.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, work, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA disease "virtually unheard of in non-Indigenous communities" is still running through remote townships and needs to be urgently eradicated, the Australian Medical Association says.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, heart-disease, health, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, australia, nt
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| UpdatedAustralians need to promote generational change in their communities to combat men's harmful attitudes towards women, the NT Police Commissioner says, as hundreds of people march for White Ribbon Day.
Topics: domestic-violence, police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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In this episode: Healing the legacy of indigenous missions in WA, Tasmania farewells an icon of its national parks, gender identity in South Australian and The Great Melbourne Telescope restoration. #AustraliaWide.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, child-abuse, charities, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, stolen-generations, rural-tourism, australia
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| UpdatedWhen Aboriginal people in remote parts of Australia need treatment for kidney disease, Western Desert Dialysis is there to help them out.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, healthcare-facilities, alice-springs-0870, kintore-0872
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Fences are being fixed and a bore and tanks put in, as life is restored at what had been an abandoned pastoral station in outback South Australia.
Topics: environmental-management, community-and-society, community-development, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, port-augusta-5700, sa
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Topics: health, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, charities, alice-springs-0870, kintore-0872
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| UpdatedArchaeologists uncover teeth from the extinct Diprotodon, a giant wombat-like marsupial, and giant kangaroo bones during a dig at Lancefield Swamp, north of Melbourne.
Topics: archaeology, palaeontology, science-and-technology, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, lancefield-3435, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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A petition to lower the retirement age for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders due to their decreased life expectancy has been tabled in the Senate, with the organiser saying many of his friends are dying while still working.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, parliament, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service launches a Supreme Court challenge to the Andrews Government's decision to send teenagers involved in the Parkville youth detention centre riot to an adult prison.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, rights, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, parkville-3052, melbourne-3000
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New businesses are starting up in the remote Cape York community of Lockhart River as part of the local council's push to empower home-grown entrepreneurship.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, small-business, local-government, emergency-planning, community-education, lockhart-river-4871, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedIn the wake of Indigenous leader Noel Pearson's searing attack on the "racist" ABC, former ABC staffer Quentin Dempster reflects on whether Mr Pearson's accusations have merit.
Topics: journalism, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, australia
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A Tasmanian elder warns some people are reconsidering their support for a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution because they do not feel culturally safe attending public consultations.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, constitution, government-and-politics, tas
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| UpdatedRevelations the Kimberley town of Broome is being reconsidered for inclusion on Western Australia's Aboriginal heritage register takes local residents by surprise after the original application was knocked back two years ago.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, land-management, broome-6725
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An Aboriginal-run organisation that provides frontline community services, such as assisting the homeless and returning impoverished, stranded people to their communities, rallies outside the Northern Territory Parliament.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe NSW Government's recent move to consult on draft legislation to recognise and protect NSW Aboriginal languages is being supported by the peak body for Indigenous languages.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal-language, aboriginal, community-and-society, education, nambucca-heads-2448, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThe ABC rejects criticism of its coverage of Indigenous affairs after Queensland Indigenous leader Noel Pearson described the organisation as miserable and racist.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia