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Speak Your Piece: 'Playing Indian'

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Speak Your Piece: 'Playing Indian'  - I was in the final semester of a degree in Indigenous studies and personally committed to addressing the tragic history of Australia's Indigenous people ...

Group-based drumming program improves mental health of prisoners

Group-based drumming program improves mental health of prisoners  - An independent evaluation by The University of Western Australia of an ... social and emotional learning can improve the mental health of prisoners.

Teen insomnia linked to mental health problems

Teen insomnia linked to mental health problems  - PhD students surveyed 300 South Australian teens to better understand their sleeping habits, mental health condition and the time of day they were ...

Wesley Enoch says Australia lacks the vocal arts leaders it deserves

Wesley Enoch says Australia lacks the vocal arts leaders it deserves  - He says that while for many Indigenous cultural leaders no idea is beyond the realms of possibility, the broader Australian cultural community lacks ...

Sex no longer in eye of the beholder

Sex no longer in eye of the beholder  - So it is at the coalface of Australia's primary art market, where gallery owners ... While men pioneered the contemporary Aboriginal art market, veteran ...

dying young is often too common in Australia

dying young is often too common in Australia  - The infant mortality rate among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the ... " Australia is not doing so great on a global scale," Ms Ryder said.

Racism causing depression among Aborigines

Racism causing depression among Aborigines  - Mr Kennett, the chairman of charity beyondblue, says a survey of more than 1000 non- indigenous Australians showed Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Queensland police woman calls Aborigines 'scum bags' and 'oxygen thieves' on social media but ...

Queensland police woman calls Aborigines 'scum bags' and 'oxygen thieves' on social media but ...  - Ms Capewell started Boomerang Justice last year after 20 years of working in the Western Australia prison system and interacting with Aboriginal  ...