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In the Spotlight

Why don’t Aboriginal suicides matter?

by Madelaine Dickie in OPINION

Dr Tracy Westerman is a proud Njamal woman from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Tracy is the Western Australia’s Australian of the Year for 2018, recognised for spending over two decades working to reduce the burden of mental ill health and suicide in Aboriginal communities. The deafening silence across this country following the latest coronial inquest into the suicide deaths of 13 young Aboriginal people in the Kimberley extended [...]

With good boards under his feet and decision-making on point, Soli Bailey’s ready to surf Snapper

March 20, 2019

Byron Bay’s Soli Bailey is in Sydney preparing for his first ever World Surf League event appearance as a qualified [...]
NT’s 2018 Australian of the Year now honoured for huge contribution to AFL

March 20, 2019

The AFL will honour the contribution Michael Long made to the game during the Sir Doug Nicholls Round in 2019. [...]
Indigenous guernsey adorned with symbols of country

March 20, 2019

A life member of the Fremantle Dockers has been revealed as the designer behind the club’s Indigenous guernsey for 2019. [...]

Six remote arts workers study gallery protocol, art handling, conservation

February 27, 2019

The Art Gallery of WA and the Aboriginal Art Centre Hub of WA (AACHWA) have partnered to create an internship [...]
The show that’s busting myths about Kimberley Aboriginal art

February 13, 2019

The Art Gallery of Western Australia is now showcasing Desert, River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley, an exhibition of Aboriginal [...]

Business woman recognised for exquisite, ethical fashion

February 27, 2019

Charmaine Saunders, the creator of luxury Indigenous fashion brand Mainie, has been named as a Queensland finalist for the prestigious [...]
Indigenous businesses behind building on Elcho

February 13, 2019

A contract between Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA) and Northern Territory Government Department of Infrastructure Planning and Logistics has [...]

Boomerang Fest a ‘musical and sensory delight’ on beautiful Bundjalung country

March 13, 2019

A stellar Indigenous line-up has been announced for this year’s Boomerang Festival, including Young Australian of the Year Baker Boy. [...]
A call to arms from Wilcannia’s Barkindji Soldiers

March 13, 2019

Indigenous affairs conference to set new direction for policy

October 17, 2018

Editorial The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), in partnership with the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, will bring public sector leaders, not-for-profits, academics and Indigenous communities together to imagine [...]

Funding trickle untenable for Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service

March 13, 2019

Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service is handing the reins of the Elizabeth Hansen Autumn Centre over to the WA Country Health [...]
It’s the first program of its kind: traditional Ngangkari healers complement Western medicine in hospitals

February 27, 2019

Spiritual and traditional healing practices are being introduced into Adelaide hospitals as complementary care parallel to mainstream treatments, through a [...]
BREAKING: Non-Indigenous health org awarded hefty government grant

February 20, 2019

Over $1.6 million of funding for Indigenous health services has been awarded to a non-Indigenous health organisation. Redimed, a private [...]

‘The right to access an education in your home environment is an accepted human right’

March 13, 2019

Traditional Owners from the Northern Territory have pooled their money together with a local not-for-profit to invest in their children’s [...]
Students skill up at sea; dream of skippering, fishing and crabbing

March 13, 2019

A new traineeship program in Cairns is pushing Indigenous kids to up their skills and earn while they learn. Thirteen [...]
Uni demystified for our little ones

February 27, 2019

Children’s University Charles Darwin (CUCD) Community Day opens the door to tertiary education for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous primary aged [...]

Original designs sought by Royal Children’s Hospital

January 31, 2019

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RHC) and RCH Foundation are seeking applications from First Nations artists, or artist collectives, interested in [...]
Art scam: company swamps market with Aboriginal products made in Indo

October 31, 2018

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