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Yarning Strong helps teachers bring First Nations perspectives into the classroom with confidence

Newly updated Yarning Strong resources are on their way to classrooms around Australia this month, helping primary teachers bring Aboriginal and ... View article...

Strong and healthy: How Mob-driven leadership is transforming Indigenous health research

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led health research. The history of Indigenous health research in Australia is deeply entwined with ... View article...

Rainbow Serpent rock art grew larger as Europeans colonized Aboriginal Australia

In some cases, Aboriginal artists even painted Rainbow Serpents and other mythically charged animals over or next to depictions of European firearms ... View article...

Case of severe respiratory diphtheria reported in Perth Metro area

All Aboriginal people across Western Australia are eligible for the diphtheria vaccine booster , in addition to non- Aboriginal people residing in ... View article...

Indigenous women and girls bearing the brunt of racism

The Senate Inquiry into racism against Aboriginal people hearing widespread serious reports of racism, Australia wide, is now wrapping up having ... View article...

Aboriginal Pathways program brings students to Adelaide for up-close career guidance

Almost 200 Indigenous students in Year 10 have gathered in Adelaide from across South Australia to explore career opportunities during Aboriginal  ... View article...

How Diphtheria Hit Australia's Indigenous Communities

... Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory and the state of Western Australia. Drivers of an Outbreak. Diphtheria numbers have slowed since ... View article...

The bleak picture of how Indigenous youth are treated in Australia's justice system

"From coast to coast across our lands, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are being criminalised and imprisoned at alarming rates ... View article...

Yarning Circles Flag Risks to Aboriginal Children

According to ABC News, carers in South Australia have raised concerns that Aboriginal children in state care risk losing connection to family, ... View article...

'A feeling you will never forget': Australia's top First Nations artists celebrated at NATSIAA

Dr Shannon Brett, guest curator of the 2026 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, delivered that message to artists on Larrakia ... View article...

South Australia launches first Aboriginal Early Childhood Strategy with $35 million investment

Emotional community leaders welcomed the announcement, saying it is a milestone beginning for Aboriginal families and children in South Australia. View article...

Six Aboriginal organisations receive funding to protect Pilbara heritage sites

Six Aboriginal organisations have secured more than $416000 to safeguard culturally significant sites scattered across Western Australia's Pilbara  ... View article...

SA's largest electorate to be renamed in honour of Aboriginal leader

South Australia 's largest federal electorate will be renamed in honour of an Aboriginal leader. Experts say it is also the state's most likely to ... View article...

Tailoring communication with Aboriginal people to improve diabetes self-management

In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are four times as likely to die from T2D or experience serious T2D-related disease as non- ... View article...

We have survived! Forty years of Aboriginal protest posters – in pictures

Wiradjuri elder Ray Jackson was a prominent activist in Australia. He was the founding secretary of the New South Wales Aboriginal Deaths in ... View article...

Smallpox Scabs That British Doctors Used to Inoculate Patients May Have Introduced the ...

Smallpox devastated Australia 's Aboriginal communities in the late 18th century , not long after British colonists stepped foot on the continent. View article...

First Nations Aged Care Commissioner Role Welcomed

Palliative Care Australia (PCA) says the Australian Government's move to establish the first permanent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Aged ... View article...

Celebrating 50 Years of Deadly Through Swimming

... celebrates the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who contribute so much to our sport and communities across Western Australia . View article...

7000-Year-Old Quarry Examined in South Australia

Researchers from Flinders University and the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation said that chert and silcrete were extracted from the ... View article...

Evidence of ancient Aboriginal mining discovered in South Australia's Riverland

The first detailed investigation into an Aboriginal chert and silcrete quarry in the region estimates Indigenous mining activity dating back 7000 ... View article...

Support 'desperately needed' for Aboriginal-led housing solutions as new data shows social ...

The Council of Aboriginal Services Western Australia has demanded urgent action on the state's housing crisis , with new data out Tuesday painting ... View article...

The end of Australia's last free river?

... Aboriginal communities, ecosystems and future generations. The real question is whether the region's economy will be organised around care and ... View article...

Western Australians reminded to get tested early for blood viruses

Blood-borne viruses remain an ongoing public health issue in Western Australia , with Aboriginal people experiencing disproportionately high rates of ... View article...

High Court can hear cases on Aboriginal sovereignty, new findings show

The long-held legal assumption that Australia's High Court does not have the power to hear claims of Aboriginal sovereignty is wrong, according to new ... View article...

Diphtheria is a disease of poverty that has no place in modern Australia. When we talk about ...

For those of us working in Aboriginal health, the outbreak doesn't come as a surprise. We must invest in housing that keeps remote communities ... View article...