Report by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says Indigenous women die in pregnancy and childbirth at more than twice the rate of other Australians
Wayne Quilliam has interviewed and photographed women across Australia for a new UN exhibition, documenting the gender and race issues they face daily.
Proposals for constitutional recognition of Indigenous people are gaining momentum but also raising legal concerns. Here is a form of words to create an advisory council that overcomes those concerns.
Rob Riley Memorial Lecture Mick GoodaAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice CommissionerAustralian Human Rights Commission Friday 8 May 2015Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre, Curtin University, Bentley Campus, Kent Street, Perth
Mick Gooda presented as a gracious, humble man - and also as a great warrior for justice. His response to the call from local Nyungar leader, Jim Morrison, to fight injustice by the state govt towards an Aboriginal family (Native Title issue), was very 'Rob Riley'! See more on Gooda's leadership in today's 'The Australian'.
http://karda.curtin.edu.au A traditional Aboriginal blessing, the Welcome to Country symbolises the traditional owners' consent to an event taking place on their land.
Associate Prefessor Simon Forrest, a Wadjuk Nyungar man and Curtin's Elder-in-Residence, explains the ritual as he performs a 'smoking ceremony'.
A Welcome to Country is performed at all major events at Curtin, acknowledging the Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land upon which the university sits.
The world’s oldest and largest collection of rock art – the Burrup Peninsula, or Murujuga, on the Dampier Archipelago – has been deregistered as a sacred site under new guidelines to the Western Australia’s weak Aboriginal heritage laws, which state there must be evidence of religious activity to qualify it as a ‘sacred site’. The change has led to questions about whether the art will be reinstated to the cultural heritage register following a successful Supreme Court decision that ruled against the WA government’s definition of a ‘sacred site’.
Traditional stories describe how the Great Barrier Reef, pictured, once formed part of the Queensland coastline while other islands around the continent were part of the mainland.
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following images may contain images of deceased persons.
Kennedy Hill is an Aboriginal community in the remote town of Broome in NW- Australia. The community exists in the shadows of Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett’s commitment to close down approximately 100-150 Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. There are more than 270 remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia, home to 12,000 people. Aboriginal Elders and Leaders are shocked and feel closing down communities is a big threat to their people. They believe the impact of such a move will be devastating. Communities are based ‘on Country’. Closing down communities means losing connection to the land in which ancient stories are etched. These stories inform about morals, values and relationships, and are reinforced in Language through song and story at times of ceremony or travel through that Country –there used to be 250 Aboriginal languages before White Invasion. By closing down communities, ancient knowledge that has been passed down through generations will get lost and people will be lost because of this disconnection that nurtures them physically, emotionally and spiritually. Consequently, poverty, disadvantage, alcoholism, unemployment, etc. –which are contained within communities because of ongoing cultural connection– will be relocated and intensified and brought to the bigger towns. History is repeating itself!
On December 11, 2014, the growing RECOGNISE movement hosted community leaders from across Australia at a major event in Redfern. More than 650 people came to show their support for the coming referendum. Hear from leaders across the country about why constitutional recognition matters to them.
This presentation reports on a new ARC Indigenous Discovery Project, which starts from the observation that there are no Australian-Aboriginal language versions of Wikipedia, although minority-language versions do appear elsewhere, including Welsh, Upper Sorbian, Cree and Maori. The project seeks to create the first "Noongarpedia", using the Noongar language of SW-WA to model and assess the extent to which minority languages can thrive by using globally accessible Internet technologies.
'Yorga Baardanginy Boodja' are the Noongar words for 'women bounding'. After a year of training and ongoing fundraising, the deadly 'yorgas' from the Women with Wings Wellbeing Project in Perth are ready to hit the red earth at Uluru to run the Outback Marathon on July 25, 2015.
The Outback Marathon is a fitting event for this intriguing group of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women who have been drawn together by a commitment and passion for women’s health and wellbeing and the love of running.
These women have been drawn together by a shared love for running and passion for women's health and wellbeing. Together, the Women with Wings ran Uluru to the Outback Marathon.
The Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University offers an Indigenous Tertiary Enabling Course designed to fast-track Indigenous students into mainstream university degree programs. The program is offered in a variety of delivery modes to accommodate the sometimes remote and isolated conditions in which the students live. In "block" mode students attend campus for two intensive weeks of engagement and continue their studies independently once they return home. While the program is highly regarded there have been some concerns that there were greater opportunities for incorporating learning technologies to facilitate more effective student engagement. With this in mind the Centre has undertaken to introduce the use of tablet devices (iPad) and notebook computers (MacBook Air) to apply to a strategic shift towards a more student-centred, technology integrated model of student engagement with special emphasis on supporting remote and isolated students. Focussing on a digital curation strategy to build information fluency and regular use of online learning resources this paper will examine the current conditions and the proposed model of intervention with a view to reporting on preliminary outcomes after the first year of implementation.
An advertising campaign that explores the casual racism of Australians towards Indigenous people has been viewed more than 3.75 million times, but 20 per cent of respondents to a beyondblue survey still think it is OK to discriminate against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
Indigenous leaders fight for return of relics featuring in major new exhibition
Three precious examples of bark art taken from the Dja Dja Wurrung people in central Victoria in the 1850s were sold to the British Museum. Now these and other treasures could return to Australia – on loan only – as part of an exhibition
The earnings of Indigenous Australian university graduates appear to be nearly on par with their non-Indigenous colleagues, according to fresh data analysis by a University of Western Australia researcher.
Based on data from Graduate Careers Australia’s annual Graduate Destinations surveys from 2009–11, the analysis by assistant professor Ian Li found the average pay gap between Indigenous Australian graduates and non-Indigenous graduates was just 3 per cent.
TWO new species of marine sponges, found only in the south-west of Western Australia, have been identified and named in recognition of the Aboriginal peoples who are the traditional owners of the region.
The sponges, identified by scientists at the Western Australian Museum and the WA Department of Fisheries were found to be unique to the south-west of Australia and different to any other sponge species in the world.
After consultation with the local Nyoongar people via the WA Museum Aboriginal Advisory Committee, the sponges were named Haliclona durdong—durdong meaning brown and Haliclona djeedara, the latter meaning green.
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