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Eden Aboriginal language program takes students out of the classroom and on country

... and also accessed material held at AIATSIS [Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies] that was recorded in the 1960s." ... View article...

Aboriginal Australians in cities have dementia rates as high as those in rural areas

Studies have shown that Aboriginal Australians living in remote areas of the country are disproportionately affected by dementia, ... View article...

Task Force forged new path for indigenous education

Task Force forged new path for indigenous education The Aboriginal Task Force formed at the then-SA Institute of Technology broke new ground, paving the way eventually for the first Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in any university in Australia . Many of those associated with the ...

First Nations language boost in the Year of Indigenous Languages

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies CEO, Craig Ritchie said accurately identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

La Trobe offers new studies into Multicultural Australia and the Greek contribution

La Trobe offers new studies into Multicultural Australia and the Greek ... of reconciliation with Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. View article...

Australia -| Local student studies abroad

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Local student studies abroad : Inow have an open mindedness towards other cultures that I did not have before going to Australia .” One of his most memorable experiences was a week his class spent with an Aboriginal host family in Kimbereley near Broome, Western Australia . ... 日本(Japan) | 中国 (China) | 한국 (Korea) | ราชอาณาจักรไทย (TH) | AU-Malaysia | Tiếng Việt

Manchester Museum becomes first in country to hand sacred objects back to aboriginal ...

Craig Ritchie, from the Australia Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), welcomed the decision as significant not only for ... View article...

Aboriginal woman in prison 'made to go without medication for days'

Aboriginal woman in prison 'made to go without medication for days'  - Pat Dudgeon, a professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Western Australia and a national mental health commissioner, said it was ...

Mentally disabled population in Asia Pacific: Some facts

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  ...

Indigenous language puzzle receives missing piece after freak find buried in old book

This month the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) hosted a two-week workshop to help revive endangered ... View article...

Talking Tiwi: local languages helping Indigenous customers

Talking Tiwi: local languages helping Indigenous customers - Talking Tiwi: local languages helping Indigenous customers ... CEO of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ...

Sacred Indigenous Lorrkkon ceremony performed outside Kakadu for first time

Sacred  Indigenous  Lorrkkon ceremony performed outside Kakadu for first time  -  Place in Canberra, which marked the 50th anniversary of the  Australian  Institute for  Aboriginal  and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

Australia's new cashless welfare card could hit casino spending

Australia's new cashless welfare card could hit casino spending - Studies carried out in areas of Australia where cashless welfare is being ... Aboriginal leaders have also spoken out against the card, despite having ...

Report calls for new Indigenous institution in Parliamentary Zone

Report calls for new Indigenous institution in Parliamentary Zone - A new natural history museum and the relocation of an expanded Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to the ...

Australia -| Celebration of indigenous writers

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Celebration of indigenous writers : AustLit partners with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and other university partners to expand BlackWords' coverage of this dynamic and exciting part of Australia's literary culture. The BlackWords ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Spears taken 254 years ago finally returned to Indigenous people in Australia

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Stephen Smith, and Noeleen Timbery of La Perouse ... View article...

New Zealand -| Maori more valued in Australia than NZ - researcher

Maori more valued in Australia than NZ - researcher : An historian who specialises in Maori in Australia says Maori seem to be more valued in Australia than in New Zealand, and are held in higher esteem by white Australians than Aboriginal people. Paul Hamer from the School of Maori Studies at Victoria ...

Native title 'cultural loss' compensation payouts likely to cost billions of dollars — so how does it ...

Dr Lisa Strelein from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) said the wider community did not have a good ... View article...

Appoint indigenous commissioners: inquiry

Appoint indigenous commissioners: inquiry Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) spokesman Russell Taylor told the inquiry he was concerned there was no plan about how to build necessary support to achieve a positive referendum outcome. He also ...

Struggling Indigenous people need business, not bureaucrats

Struggling Indigenous people need business, not bureaucrats Professor Marcia Langton is one of Australia's top Aboriginal leaders and thinkers and chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the Centre for Health and  ...