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Aboriginal Women Artists and Their Visions of Infinity

NEW ORLEANS — Despite the million-dollar auction price for works by Aboriginal Australian artists in 2007, the controversy about whether or not Australian Aboriginal art should be included in the ...
Medical Xpress

Aboriginal women share their stories on keeping the heart strong

More than a decade after committing $130+ billion to Closing the Gap, there has been little improvement in health outcomes experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. A ...
The Conversation

During NAIDOC Week, many Indigenous women are assigned unpaid work. New research shows how prevalent this is in the workplace

With NAIDOC week coming up, there is already a surge in expectations for extra labour from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in workplaces. Events like NAIDOC Week see employers across the ...
CBC.ca

Aboriginal women imprisoned in soaring numbers

The swelling ranks of aboriginal women in the federal prison system amount to "nothing short of a crisis," says a report commissioned by the Public Safety Department. The Conservative government's ...
insider.si.edu

First voices : an Aboriginal women's reader / edited by Patricia A. Monture and Patricia D. McGuire

Introduction / Patricia A. Monture and Patricia D. McGuire -- Profiles of Aboriginal Women -- Kohkum would be Mad at me / Patricia A. Monture -- Response to Canada's Apology to Residential Shool ...
The Carousel

NSW Backs Aboriginal Women To Lead Environmental And Cultural Heritage Protection

Read about Currie Country Social Change, the Supporting Women in Business Grants, and NSW’s Closing the Gap Priority Reforms ...
Mandurah Mail

In from the cold: Indigenous women find home after jail

They are just two of the vulnerable people helped by Legal Aid NSW's Aboriginal Women Leaving Custody service, which has ...

National inquiry should be led by indigenous women, says Idle No More organizer

A Saskatoon-based organizer for the Idle No More movement has entered into the debate over whether or not a national inquiry is needed into the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women. Alex ...
Medical Xpress

Program designed by and for Aboriginal women sees 30% diabetes remission in participants

An innovative study, co-designed by Aboriginal Women, has led to remission of type 2 diabetes. The research described and measured how using Shared Medical Appointments, continuous glucose monitors ...
Phys.org

We dated a sacred Aboriginal women's site used for birthing ceremonies and discovered 7,000 years' worth of tool making

Investigation of a sacred area at Avon Downs in Jangga Country, Central Queensland, has uncovered evidence of stone tool production in a place that was traditionally restricted to women. We detail our ...
The Conversation

We need to better support First Nations women with violence‑related brain injuries. Here’s how

Please be advised this article contains details of family violence. Domestic violence causes disability for women through lasting impacts on their brains. Traumatic brain injury refers to damage to, ...
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Female Aboriginal prisoner dies in custody in Tasmania, coroner to investigate

An Aboriginal woman has died while in custody in a southern Tasmanian prison, the state's Aboriginal legal service has confirmed. The woman was remanded in the Mary Hutchinson Women's Prison on Hobart ...