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The women taking on Australia's global suicide capital

The women taking on Australia's global suicide capital - A 2016 audit of data from 2005 to 2014 found the Indigenous suicide rate in the Kimberley to be more than seven times Australia's average in 2011, ...

Vain social media campaigns won't improve suicide rates – we need to listen

Vain social media campaigns won't improve suicide rates – we need to listen - According to some statistics I just made up, 92% of male social media users know at least one man who has made a hashtag of his life and ended up committing a suicide selfie in the past six months alone.

Your parents are ripping you off

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Your parents are ripping you off - That’s the dire outlook from author and Labor policy adviser Jennifer Rayner who predicts the current generation is being robbed of their future financial security by Baby Boomers.

Warning rising income gap between generations will harm Australia's economic future

Warning rising income gap between generations will harm Australia's economic future - Good jobs, comfortable wealth and the wellbeing that comes with both are increasingly being concentred in the... arthritic hands of older Australians ,” ...

Indigenous empowerment program Dreamtime Project 'creating role models, not fashion models'

Indigenous empowerment program Dreamtime Project 'creating role models, not fashion models' - When supermodel Naomi Campbell came to Australia in 2000, she asked why there were so few Aboriginal models on Australia's catwalks.

Triple J WON'T move its iconic Hottest 100 countdown away from Australia Day despite 'Invasion ...

Triple J WON'T move its iconic Hottest 100 countdown away from Australia Day despite 'Invasion ... - In a public statement released on Tuesday, Wards announced that Triple J will partner with The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) ...

With didgeridoo, Harper marries American blues with Australian aboriginal music

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With didgeridoo, Harper marries American blues with Australian aboriginal music -  Australian harmonica/didgeridoo performer Harper and his band, Midwest Kind, perform Saturday at Vegetable Buddies in South Bend.

Aboriginal Woman Goes From 'Non-Citizen' To Australian Parliament

Aboriginal Woman Goes From 'Non-Citizen' To Australian Parliament - Wearing a cloak decorated with the goanna lizard, the first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia's lower house took her seat in parliament ...