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Indigenous anti-gambling program helping hundreds

Indigenous anti-gambling program helping hundreds  -  Indigenous anti-gambling program helping hundreds of families ... Mr Gordon said it was time for Australia to rethink its reputation as a nation of ...

Australia targets 2017 referendum on Aboriginal recognition

Australia targets 2017 referendum on Aboriginal recognition  -  Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Thursday said a referendum on recognising Aboriginal people in the constitution was ...

Australia Is The Only Developed Country To Still Have Trachoma

Australia Is The Only Developed Country To Still Have Trachoma  - Our teams visited more than 465 communities and screened about 100,000 people, 62,000 of whom were Indigenous Australians . They found that ...

Stolen generations hail the power of 'collective healing'

Stolen generations hail the power of 'collective healing'  - It was “pretty military run, pretty cruel,” Peeters told Guardian Australia , but ... to close the gap between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians .

Australian kids unlikely to ever grow old

Australian kids unlikely to ever grow old  - The average lifespan of indigenous Australians is 69 for males and 73 for females, about 10 years less than that of non- indigenous Australians .

Australia failing to close Aboriginal life expectancy gap: PM

Australia failing to close Aboriginal life expectancy gap: PM  -  Australia is failing to close an “unacceptably wide” gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and non- indigenous people, officials admitted ...

Grandmothers rally in Canberra over high number of Aboriginal children in care

Grandmothers rally in Canberra over high number of Aboriginal children in care  - There are about 15,000 Aboriginal children in out-of-home care across Australia , and that figure has gone up by 65 per cent since the apology.

Gap closing on vow to fight indigenous disadvantage

Gap closing on vow to fight indigenous disadvantage  -  EFFORTS to Close the Gap on indigenous disadvantage have fallen ... report on Wednesday, pledging to improve the lives of Australia's First Peoples.