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Report explains why New Zealand's Māori are better off than Australia's Aboriginals

Report explains why New Zealand's Māori are better off than Australia's Aboriginals -  New Zealand's Māori have better outcomes than Australia's Aboriginal people because our Government treats its indigenous people better, according ...

Enterprise draws on art to help Australia's Aboriginals

Enterprise draws on art to help Australia's Aboriginals  - With no qualification or experience by her side, the 24-year-old is also an Aborigine living in Australia , which made her five times more likely to be ...

Australia's Aboriginals

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Australia's Aboriginals There were once about 250 distinct Aboriginal languages, hundreds more dialects, and many more clans and subgroups. But there is deep spiritual and cultural overlap among them, and indigenous Australians I spoke with said it was not insulting to ... Other geolocations

Photographing What Endures For Australia's Aboriginals

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Photographing What Endures For Australia's Aboriginals : In Australian media, there is no shortage of coverage of the Aboriginal population. And, according to photographer Amy Toensing, the coverage is not always favorable. "On paper, the truth is there's some really hard stuff going on [within the ... NPR

Australia's aboriginals reclaim stolen artifacts

Australia's aboriginals reclaim stolen artifacts - An Australian aboriginal group has just completed a tour of European museums in a bid to retrieve items taken from their ancestors in the 18th century.

No easy answers to Australia's Aboriginals debates

No easy answers to Australia's Aboriginals debates  - I was ranting about the shocking disparity in Australia between indigenous - Aboriginal - people and everybody else. On average, Aboriginal  ...

Australia aboriginals protest land seizure

Australia aboriginals protest land seizure  -  Australia's aboriginals have staged a rally against government plans to ... Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) has planned to start a commercial ...

Linguistic Barriers in Healthcare for Australia's Aboriginals

Today, Aboriginal Australians face some of the highest rates of chronic diseases in the country. Although Aboriginals make up only 3% of Australia's  ... View article...

Aboriginals 'must fight for cultural survival'

Aboriginals 'must fight for cultural survival'  - One of Australia's top reconciliation advocates says Aboriginals will have to "fight for cultural survival" if they want to preserve their language and culture.

Reconciliation or récupération? Indigenous soldiers in WWI

Reconciliation or récupération? Indigenous soldiers in WWI  - In Australia too, the “great silence” concerning black diggers has undergone ... Australia's Aboriginals were formally excluded from military service, but ...

Australia -| Australian Aboriginals call money-management policy racist

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Australian Aboriginals call money-management policy racist : Today, Australia's 500000 indigenous people make up about 2 per cent of the population. Life expectancy for Aboriginals is about 17 years lower than for ... Toronto Star

A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey

A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey - A Long Way from Home (whose title acquires multiple meanings as the novel progresses) closes in, by a devious route, on the dispossession of Australia's Aboriginals . What opens as a story about a race ends as one about race. As Willie the teacher learns a great deal, pages fill with graphic instances ...

Little J and Big Cuz, Australia's first animated show to feature Aboriginals, offers 'relatable ...

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Little J and Big Cuz, Australia's first animated show to feature Aboriginals, offers 'relatable ... - The new TV show Little J and Big Cuz is the first animated kids show to feature Indigenous Australians and their culture. Award-winning Aboriginal  ...

What Life Is Like as a Night-Shift Worker Looking After Australia's Incarcerated Aboriginals

What Life Is Like as a Night-Shift Worker Looking After Australia's Incarcerated Aboriginals   - In Australia , Client Service Officers (CSOs) are responsible for checking in on the wellbeing of every Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander taken into ...

What Life Is Like as a Night-Shift Worker Looking After Australia's Incarcerated Aboriginals

What Life Is Like as a Night-Shift Worker Looking After Australia's Incarcerated Aboriginals  - In Australia , Client Service Officers (CSOs) are responsible for checking in on the wellbeing of every Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander taken into ...

Invading Aboriginals Was a 'Good Thing' For Everybody Says Former Australian Leader

Invading Aboriginals Was a 'Good Thing' For Everybody Says Former Australian Leader -  Australia's former Prime Minister Tony Abbott believes the invasion of the aboriginal people in 1788 was a “good thing”. Australia Day, referred to as "Invasion Day" by Aborigines, is held annually on January 26. The date celebrates the arrival of the first fleet of ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, ...

Australia -| Aboriginals of Australia: Business Alliance Calls For More Financial Assistance

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Aboriginals of Australia: Business Alliance Calls For More Financial Assistance : Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) has been urging Australian banks to increase their financial assistance to Aborigines, in order to provide a growing number of Australia's indigenous population with the opportunity to start their own business. UNPO

Australia's Health System Squanders Care On Unnecessary End-Of ...

Australia's Health System Squanders Care On Unnecessary End-Of ...  - Like many other cultures, Australian Aboriginals believe death serves as a transition from one plane of existence to another, one not much different from life on  ...

Loss of Aboriginal cultural burning leaves Australia's forests overgrown, ready to explode ...

proving Aboriginals used fire to carve Australia's forests into open landscapes of scattered trees, with little undergrowth, is being ignored in ... View article...

Australia's Indigenous people face COVID crisis within a crisis

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Australia's 670,000 Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders have long suffered from poor health ... View article...  - Al Jazeera