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Diabetes not being taken seriously enough - A survey in Tasmania done by EMRS in February showed 30 per cent of respondents identified, unprompted, that amputation and blindness were key health consequences of diabetes. Yet in Tasmania every four days a Tasmanian has a lower limb amputation related to diabetes, and one in four hospitalisations for diabetes are preventable.

Is it true that older people were promised a pension for life? - Many older people believe the age pension is rightfully theirs. ... bombarded with emails that readers had received from the Mature Australia Party.

NoongarPedia created as first Wikipedia site in Aboriginal language - In Noongar country, in the south-west of Western Australia , researchers are building the first Wikipedia site in an Aboriginal Australian language .

Chronic Conditions Decline with Better Prescription Planning - A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive to lower ...

No investigation into Bill Leak cartoon after complaint dropped - In a cartoon about indigenous parental neglect, Leak depicts a police officer ... On Saturday The Australian reported that Jodie Ball, the commission ...

A New Documentary on Australian Ballet's First Indigenous Dancer - A New Documentary on Australian Ballet's First Indigenous Dancer. A new documentary offers a fly-on-the-wall glimpse into the triumphs and ...

Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has paid tribute to Aboriginal diggers who gave their ... -  Australians have gathered at Remembrance Day services across the country to mark the moment the guns fell silent across the Western Front at the ...

NZ gifts Aboriginal art to Australia - New Zealanders Dame Rosie and Michael Horton are gifting their significant private collection of contemporary Aboriginal art to the Art Gallery of New ...