Liberal candidate for Gilmore Warren Mundine
The battle for the marginal seat of Gilmore on the New South Wales south coast is shaping up as one of the uglier, more interesting contests in the federal election.
Category Archives: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)
Focusing on strengths, not ‘the gap’, will help improve Indigenous health
Only looking at the size of "the gap" doesn't tell us anything about how things are going for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Instead, it may hide the progress that is happening and decrease people's willingness to adopt healthy practices.
Focusing on strengths, not ‘the gap’, will help improve Indigenous health
Only looking at the size of "the gap" doesn't tell us anything about how things are going for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Instead, it may hide the progress that is happening and decrease people's willingness to adopt healthy practices.
Horse program teaches employment skills, responsibility to detained youth
Detainees at the NT's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre are learning invaluable work and life skills through a new equine husbandry and riding program.
Grieving family left stranded by police asks: ‘Where’s the sorry so everyone can see it?’
When Gwen Sturt's son died on a remote outstation in 2015, WA police flew in on a helicopter to remove his body, but left her family stranded in heavy floods with no food or electricity. They are still seeking answers.
‘They were back to being black’: The land withheld from returning Indigenous soldiers
Indigenous soldiers returning home from the horrors of World War I were plunged headlong into another long-running battle.
The next Crocodile Dundee? Government hopes Top End Wedding will boost tourist numbers
The NT Government invested $1.5 million in Top End Wedding and is hoping that the movie, filmed at "romantic and beautiful" destinations across the Territory, will have as big an impact as Crocodile Dundee did back in 1986.
Discrimination watchdog seeks greater powers afters Adelaide Oval incident
SA's anti-discrimination commissioner seeks expanded powers to investigate complaints in the wake of Aboriginal football fans being turned away from a match at Adelaide Oval last year.
Meet the Indigenous ice hockey team inspired by The Mighty Ducks
The first Indigenous representative ice hockey team — the Kaurna Boomerangs — hopes to make its mark on the international stage at the Arafura Games in Darwin later this month.
Funeral insurer slammed by the banking royal commission rebrands with help from former NRL star
Former rugby league player Jamal Idris is the new ambassador for Youpla — a rebrand of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund, which was the subject of scathing criticism during the Hayne inquiry, accused of exploiting the significance of funerals to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.