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Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future – Helping First Nations Australians to heal complex trauma as parents

December 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

Becoming a parent is a major change in life for anyone. It is filled with hope, joy, and fear — and this is the case if you have grown up in a stable and safe environment. [...]

Antibiotic resistance is an even greater challenge in remote Indigenous communities

December 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Asha Bowen, Telethon Kids Institute and Steven Tong, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Antibiotic-resistant infections already cause at least 700,000 [...]

Indigenous voices are speaking loudly on social media but racism endures

April 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University and Ryan Frazer, Macquarie University Social media are a vital resource for Indigenous [...]

Indigenous Leader Tells Pauline Hanson She Is Disgraceful , Intellectually Dishonest & Not Welcomed

July 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Indigenous Leader, Murrandoo Yanner, took Pauline Hanson to task yesterday when she tried to gain entrance to an arts fair in far north Queensland. Mr Yanner who is a Gulf [...]

Labor : We Will Invest In Indigenous Students

May 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Australian Labor Party has announced that under a Shorten Labor Government an additional $100 million will invested to support Indigenous students to succeed at school, [...]

Levels of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students at a record high

March 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

According to a report on Australian schools issued today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school [...]

Proud Yawuru Man Pat Dodson To Replace Joe Bullock In The Senate

March 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bill Shorten has announced that Pat Dodson is set to replace outgoing Labor Senator Joe Bullock. Bill Shorten has said “His advocacy and perspective will challenge all of [...]

We wouldn’t be mourning lost languages if we embraced multilingualism

March 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made news shedding tears over the plight of an elderly Indigenous woman. Turnbull wiped away [...]

Indigenous Australians retire with 23% less savings

February 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Osei K. Wiafe, Griffith University Indigenous people will retire with 23% less income than non-Indigenous Australians, according to new research by Griffith Centre for [...]

Unsentenced prisoners at the highest level in a decade

December 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Unsentenced prisoners now make up more than a quarter of the total Australian prisoner population. The highest proportion since 2005. The number of Aboriginal and Torres [...]