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The McGowan Government has announced they will inject nearly $10 million towards developing and implementing a region-by-region approach to Aboriginal suicide prevention in Western Australia. The regional plans will prioritise Aboriginal-led and locally endorsed initiatives that accommodate a culturally informed social and emotional wellbeing approach to suicide prevention. This includes the principles: nothing for Aboriginal […]
Tags: Aboriginal, ben wyatt, first nations, indigenous, Mental Health, Roger Cook, Suicide Prevention
24 Jul 2020 /
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NSW LGBTIQ+ health and support organisation ACON are hosting a series of online sessions aiming to connect LGBTIQ+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. ACON is inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who identify as LGBTIQ+ to join the conversation, and take part in a series of sessions that provide tools for taking care […]
Tags: Aboriginal, ACON, first nations, indigenous, Mental Health, yarning circle
25 Jun 2020 |
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This week is National Reconciliation Week, a time to celebrate the culture of First Nations people and explore Australia’s shared histories, cultures and achievements. 2020 marks two decades since the groundbreaking reconciliation walks of 2000, with 250,000 indigenous folks and allies coming together at bridges across the country to call for greater recognition and equality […]
Tags: Aboriginal, black rainbow, first peoples rainbow mob, rainbow KINection, reconciliation, torres strait islander
29 May 2020 |
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A Long Way From No Go by Tjanara Goreng Goreng Wild Dingo Press Christened Patricia Mary Williams, Tjanara spent her first years at No Go cattle station before moving into the town of Longreach in central western Queensland. She remembers that her family as being “impeccable Catholics” with a house so spotless that nobody could […]
Tags: a long way from no go, Aboriginal, Alice Springs, arrante, book, deanella mack, first australians, indigenous, Lezly Herbert, Literature, memoir, tjanara goreng gorent
12 Sep 2018 |
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Between 1905 until the section was repealed in 1955, The Aborigines Act 1905 (WA), (entirely repealed in 1964), specified that our First Nation Peoples in WA could not marry a non-Aboriginal person without permission from the so-called ‘Chief Protector’ (Between 1905 and 1936, this only applied to Aboriginal women marrying non-Aboriginal people, after 1936 it […]
Tags: Aboriginal, anthony k j smith, indigenous, Marriage, marriage equality, postal survey, religious freedom, safe schools
3 Nov 2017 |
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‘Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance’ – Verna Myers Dameyon Bonson, recipient of the Dr. Yunupingu Human Rights Award 2016, is working to strengthen Indigenous communities and improve the access to mental health services by Indigenous Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Transgender and Intersex people and decrease homophobia and […]
Tags: Aboriginal, Bella Broadway, black rainbow, Dameyon Bonson, dr yunupingu human rights award, indigenous, torres strait islander
19 Oct 2017 |
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Voters in the Northern Territory have elected Australia’s first openly gay indigenous man to office, voting for Chansey Paech to represent the state seat of Namatjira. The Labor MP and former Alice Springs town councillor told the chamber in his maiden speech that he is proud to represent Australia’s diversity. “Madam Speaker, I am young, I […]
Tags: Aboriginal, ALP, chansey paech, indigenous, Labor, michael gunner, Northern Territory, NT
19 Oct 2016 |
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Greens Senator for Western Australia Rachel Siewert has secured senate support to launch an inquiry into Australia’s aged care sector workforce. Senator Siewert’s motion calls for the government Community Affairs Reference Committee to look into the future of aged care in Australia in a number of areas, including its current composition and challenges and factors impacting […]
Tags: Aboriginal, aged, care, Greens, islander, LGBTI, rachel, senator, siewert, strait, torres
1 Dec 2015 |
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Last night James Clarke was awarded WA Young Person of the Year in a ceremony presented by the Youth Affairs Council of WA and the Department of Local Government and Communities with support from Lotterywest. 17 year old Clarke was recognized for having overcome prejudice as an Aboriginal and out homosexual youth. He has been […]
Tags: Aboriginal, Homosexual, James Clark, LGBTI, queer, Torries Strait Islander, WA Young Person of the Year
21 Nov 2014 |
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Boxer Anthony Mundine has criticised an episode of the critically acclaimed ABC TV program ‘Redfern Now’ for showing a gay aboriginal man . Mudine reportedly posted to his Facebook account, “Watching Redfern Now & they promoting homosexuality! (like it’s ok in our culture) that ain’t in our culture & our ancestors would have there (sic) […]
Tags: Aboriginal, Anthony Mundine, Homophobia, Indigenous Culture, Luke Carroll, Rachel Perkins, Redfern Now
1 Nov 2013 |
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