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Indigenous News Update – Health

by Robbo on 07/08/2010

News

  • Indigenous campaign to change people’s attitudes to smoking around kids has been more effective than stopping smokers http://bit.ly/du3Ema

  • Mr Tom Calma appointed as New National Coordinator to Tackle Indigenous Smoking http://bit.ly/9zw4e1

  • Indigenous graduates enjoy better health http://bit.ly/9jCiod

  • 500 kids participate at an Toowoomba Indigenous event focusing on health http://bit.ly/d9DSKt

  • CHILD-PROTECTION workers have called for aid to be delivered to starving Aboriginal children in remote communities http://bit.ly/c5iJa7

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 Update – Justice

by Robbo on 29/01/2010

News

  • Child Protection Australia 2008-09 report author says no data to measure effect of Intervention http://bit.ly/6JDZQD

  • Indigenous children are eight times more likely to be placed on a protection order than non-Indigenous counterparts http://bit.ly/6pERMZ

  • Indigenous Australians are over-represented in the homeless. 9%per cent of the homeless but only 2% of the population http://bit.ly/8Y9Ftd

  • Inaugural Ethics Council up and running for new representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples http://bit.ly/542lP7

  • Not just black and white in caring for kids at risk http://bit.ly/6xtXEa – great article on helping out

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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Tagged as: aboriginal, child protection, Indigenous, Intervention, justice, news

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