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Factors influencing health care utilisation among Aboriginal cardiac patients ... Aboriginal Australians suffer from poorer overall health compared to the general Australian population, particularly in terms of cardiovascular disease and prognosis following a cardiac event. Despite such disparities, Aboriginal Australians utilise ...

Aboriginal juvenile crime on rise : He says what is more alarming is that Aboriginal boys represent 61 per cent of those juveniles. "Given that Aboriginal people make up about two per cent of our population in Western Australia that is a staggering over-representation in that age group ... 日本(Japan) | 中国 (China) | 한국 (Korea) | ราชอาณาจักรไทย (TH) | AU-Malaysia | Tiếng Việt

Diabetes study in Whyalla - The Nunyara Aboriginal Health Service Aboriginal Diabetes Study team. The Nunyara Aboriginal Health Service is conducting a study into diabetes and how it affects the Aboriginal community in Australia and Whyalla. In Australia , about 30% of the adult Indigenous population has diabetes, ...

How Aboriginal women with disabilities are set on a path into the criminal justice system  -  Aboriginal women only make up between 2% and 3% of the Australian female population. But the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

Understanding the abominable jail & suicide rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders  - The national trend for suicide for the Australian population is 10 per 100,000 population but for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders standalone the ...

GST changes to channel more funding to remote communities - The category of indigenous in terms of distributing the money has become meaningless — proportionally, the Aboriginal population is doing well on the east coast, and as a population is doing extremely badly in central Australia .” The Papunya-Parramatta comparison was “a good argument”, she said.

Australia and its Aboriginal prison population - But as Jenny Munro, Wiradjuri nation, has stated: “[A]s from time immemorial, we believe as Aboriginal people, Australia has been here from the first ...

Aboriginal elder threatens cull of booming Coorong seal population if Govt doesn't intervene  - A South Australian Aboriginal elder from the Coorong at the mouth of the Murray River says if the State Government doesn't do ...

Aboriginal prison population increases despite fall in national level ... : The number of indigenous prisoners has increased for the 11th year in a row, despite the prisoner population falling for the first time in a decade. Inga Ting reports a history of failed government policy.

Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population has reached 984000 or 3.8 per cent of the total Australian population, according to ... View article...

12.4% of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population are carers, compared to 10.5% of the non-Indigenous Australian population. Aboriginal ... View article...

Charting Australia's Colonial-Era Massacres - For decades, historians, politicians and just about everyone else with strong opinions on Australian nationhood have argued heatedly about whether or not massacres of the Aboriginal population played a substantial part in the genesis of modern Australia . In one corner, those who wholeheartedly say ...

Aboriginal university enrolments grow 24 per cent THE growth rate in Aboriginal university enrolments is almost double that of the overall population, finds a federal government report to be released today.

Australia still struggling to improve Aboriginal lives, report says -  Australia is making some progress in improving health and education among its indigenous population, an annual report said Monday, but it is still missing most targets to reduce Aboriginal disadvantage a decade after launching a major campaign. The 10th "Closing the ...

Mentally disabled population in Asia Pacific: Some facts - Recent studies have suggested that the percentage of people with mental disabilities among their indigenous population, i.e. the Aboriginal and Maori  ...

"NSW is home to Australia's largest Aboriginal population represented by more than 80 groups each with a unique story to tell," Stuart Ayres, the NSW ... View article...

CNN's Zain Asher speaks with Marcia Langton, a First Nations Referendum Working Group member who has been working to get legislation passed. View article...

Aboriginal women in Australia face abuse, says an aborigine ... : Australia's aboriginal female community experiences much higher rates of abuse than the rest of the population, says Cathy Eatock, a senior policy officer in ...

You should know her name: Miss Dhu was Aboriginal , 22, and died four days after being in custody  - In terms of infrastructure, Australia is a developed nation. ... Aboriginal people make up only 2.3% of the Australian population, yet they accounted for ...

Indigenous jail population: Prison reforms must go beyond justice - A 1991 royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody led to a lot of soul-searching about how Australia treats its indigenous population, but did ...