A recent event at AIATSIS was a chance for Indigenous Senior Executive Service (SES) officers in the Australian Public Service (APS) to provide support for newly recruited Indigenous graduates.
Australia’s peak bodies for Indigenous health and specialist medicine have reaffirmed their commitment to working with the Australian Government as partners in reducing the current gap in health outcomes and life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians under the Closing the Gap strategy.
On Sunday, the six men and six women who form the 2018 squad of the Indigenous Marathon Project (IMP) faced their greatest challenge to date: a 30km desert run through Alice Springs. And in an emotional selection ceremony, 11 of them learnt that their hard work over the past six months has earnt them a place at the start line of the New York City Marathon in November.
An awareness raising campaign and training package supporting the safety of community night patrollers on and off the job has been launched in Alice Springs.
2017 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student STEM Achievement Award winner, Jessica Storrar, is passionate about science, technology, engineering and medicine and has her heart set on becoming a paediatric surgeon.
Applications are now open for grants by the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples to attend meetings across the globe on the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Australia’s first Indigenous Protected Area, Nantawarrina IPA recently celebrated their 20th anniversary, marking the beginning of a revolution in land and sea management which has swept Australia resulting in the creation of 75 IPAs.
Cyril Franey is a motivated and talented broadcaster taking his Hip Hop and R&B program each week to remote communities over the airwaves and via a 16 tonne broadcasting truck called Ms Jedda.
