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Indigenous News – Health

by Robbo on December 30, 2011

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Nothing worth having a smoke – Aboriginal Health Worker speaks from experience after heart attack http://t.co/paCw2ICe

More Indigenous students need to sign up to medical courses to help improve health standards in remote communities http://t.co/GMtcuUxe

Qld Government taking steps to give local health orgs more control over services in Aboriginal communities. http://t.co/ZsdTmvQb

Port Macquarie gets a $20mil medical campus with a rural research centre focusing on rural and Indigenous health http://t.co/FTuNyBpj

In twelve months to June 65 children known to Qld child safety officers died. 26% of deaths were Indigenous http://t.co/PqbfOuwt

OUTBACK satellite networks face “saturation” when new e-health record systems are placed on top of existing systems http://t.co/LWx7uzlS

Only 37% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women underwent screening in 2008 and 2009 – one line in article http://t.co/73XPH2e8

Rodney Junga-Williams, Aboriginal advocate for Indigenous Australians living with HIV, died on Nov 24 2011 in Sydney http://t.co/zhTwdtS2

Incidence of cancer was lower in Indigenous Australians than that for non-indigenous Australians. Death rates higher http://t.co/X6aqBAiX

Will WA Health Minister argue for new laws to force sniffers into treatment? http://t.co/yVZxTXp2

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.



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Indigenous News – Sport

by Robbo on December 26, 2011

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Coerver Coaching Australia donating year’s worth of coaching for indigenous children in communities around Australia http://bit.ly/p69ojK

From June: Latest AFL racism incident shows need for an Indigenous Commissioner within the AFL http://bit.ly/oVkOhs

AFL Sydney swans working with group of 50 Indigenous players from NT and WA trying to find a star player http://t.co/PchWA35F

Waylen Manson from remote WA may struggle to adjust to city life http://t.co/QVZWlFc2

Remembering rugby great Artie Beetson – from Dec 1 http://t.co/onVbvKCu

Fifty young indigenous and non-indigenous athletes participated in workshops at Athletics for the Outback http://t.co/uJV7a9c7

THE AFL’S Flying Boomerangs program have won a prestigious Beyond Sport Award http://t.co/g1fHaL6A

More on Beetson from Nov on the SCG tribute for the rugby great http://t.co/b2py2wyr

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.



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Indigenous News – Art

by Robbo on December 22, 2011

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Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country – a play about an uprising for self determination 130 years ago http://t.co/iadmMZDY

I didn’t know The Last Kinection has a new album out “Next of Kin” http://t.co/EBz5SSIj

Northern Territory musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has won an ARIA award for best world music album. http://t.co/V076dCBr

Tjilpi – homage to the art of and the artist Willy Tjungurrayi http://t.co/pyl0jI7M

Redfern Now – a TV series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians http://t.co/OJ3YtStN

Listen to Warren H Williams discuss his new album and his background http://t.co/cUs60cUz

Blackfella Films run by Darren Dale and Rachel Perkins has had a bit of controversy in both film and production http://t.co/F3HvrDxi

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.



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Intervention may lead to further cultural breakdown. young saying whitefellas don’t listen to elders so why should we http://bit.ly/rbHI4s

Bitter divide over selling out songlines. A NZ report on Woodsides proposal in WA http://t.co/dbbpbmSB

Indigenous elders travel to Darwin to try and prevent pipeline crossing their land http://t.co/QlEHdp13

Indigenous pearl diver still waiting for back pay from Qld government from 60years ago http://t.co/Smp7dNzl

Council on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula was fighting against transfer of land to a traditional owner group. http://t.co/kRACwWgI

Rift between Maribyrnong Shire & Gathering Place health service led to no show by the health service at NAIDOC ceremony http://bit.ly/osrv79

Describing the ‘invasion’ of Australia may be a necessary concession to Aboriginal sensibilities, says Oscar Humphries http://tgr.ph/qWyzL2

Social inequality needs to end: Gooda’s NAIDOC speech at University of Notre Dame http://bit.ly/qKpgF1

Roebourne community demands apology for Andrew Forrest’s slur of Roebourne girls in 4corners program http://bit.ly/oT1ajD

More talk, no action in indigenous affairs: Online Opinion http://bit.ly/puREWv

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.



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