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Forgotten by the media: Why a raped Aboriginal girl doesn't matter  - But that figure rose to nearly eight times in both Victoria and Western Australia . According to Dr. Kyllie Cripps, the acting director of the Indigenous Law ...

The luwamakuna (rock carvings) are returned to Aboriginal ownership at Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston, Australia, in a crate bearing the ... View article...

From left, flags representing Australia, Victoria and Aboriginals, ... suggestion that the Aboriginal flag be flown at half-mast on Australia Day. View article...

Fourteen Aboriginal players from western Victoria played 47 matches in England in 1868 and while Cricket Australia gave them retrospective cap ... View article...

Aboriginal groups join anti-fracking bid - If Western Australia moves to prohibit fracking, it would follow the Labor government in Victoria, which put a ban in place in March last year. Continue ...

“It is the first time a government in Australia has funded the Aboriginal community to develop policy responses to a complex issue like this. View article...

It's same the whole world over! When the British came to Australia they 'acquired' which had, until then, been communally owned by members of various Aboriginal language groups. With the exception of a few trinkets handed over by John Batman in Victoria the rights of the existing ...

Pregnant smoker rate high - Dr White said Quit Victoria saw higher smoking rates in Aboriginal communities everywhere in Australia which was related to historical challenges. "We are seeing are significant improvements in terms of smoking going down in Aboriginal communities which is wonderful," Dr White said. "We do have an ...

The move brings Victoria into line with other states in Australia and will pave the way for a state Treaty with Aboriginal People. Premier Daniel ... View article...

Across Australia, First Nations adults are currently jailed at a rate 13 times higher than non-Aboriginal people. And for children, the rate is 24 times ... View article...

Indigenous treaties 'just playing games with words' - This assessment, from constitutional lawyers Greg Craven and Anne Twomey, comes after moves toward state-based treaties with Aboriginal communities emerged in Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Professor Craven, vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, said state governments were misleading Aboriginal communities and raising false expectations by holding out the prospect of treaties.

Budj Bim, in Victoria state, is the first site in Australia to receive World Heritage status solely for its Aboriginal cultural importance. Nineteen other World ... View article...

Indigenous domestic violence concerns : The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Rashida Manjoo's most recent trip to Australia was sponsored by the Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service in Victoria. Follow us: Follow us on Facebook; Follow us on Twitter ... SBS

Our Yorta Yorta tribe has contributed to historical decisions that have had a direct impact on aboriginal people right around Australia that are landmark ... View article...

Indigenous corporate mentorship 'opening doors' : The Melbourne Business School and Victoria's Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce, Kinaway, built the program in response to research showing Australian Indigenous entrepreneurs have few fellow Indigenous role-models in business. (AAP) ... SBS

Bold, brilliant Indigenous Australian women's art – in pictures - A new exhibition at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria puts the work of female Indigenous artists front and centre. With more than 200 pieces by 118 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, Who’s Afraid of Colour? features paintings, installations, sculpture and textural work from some of Australia’s most important contemporary artists – some never before shown to the public

Piece of paper bridges a divide : These graduates are the product of a targeted bid to close that critical gap in indigenous education. It's called the Australian Cultural Heritage Management Program, a partnership between La Trobe and Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, in which the state ... The Age

Authorities in Victoria have confirmed the death of an Aboriginal prisoner, marking the third Indigenous death in custody across Australia over a week- ... View article...

Victoria state's Budj Bim is the only World Heritage Site in Australia listed purely for its Aboriginal cultural values. The landscape features one of the ... View article...

Take charge of your life  - A SUCCESSFUL Aboriginal “men's business” group established in Mildura is being used as a model for similar groups in South Australia and Victoria.