Recent News Headlines : Torres Strait - Papua New Guinea

ABORIGINAL CHILDREN SUFFER 'UNEXPLAINED' INJURIES IN OUT-OF-HOME CARE


A spokesperson for the Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women said the department takes allegations of abuse of children by foster carers very seriously... READ MORE

21st December, 2017 4

BROADCASTING TRAILBLAZER UNCLE LESTER BOSTOCK PASSES AWAY


Uncle Lester Bostock OAM, passed away peacefully last Thursday morning in Sydney... READ MORE

28th November, 2017 452

'I'LL BE BOYCOTTING TRIPLE J THIS AUS DAY' AND OTHER REACTIONS TO HOTTEST 100 MOVE


A decision by Triple J to move its annual Hottest 100 countdown away from Australia Day announced yesterday has been met with mixed reactions... READ MORE

28th November, 2017 4207

BOOST JUICE UNDER FIRE FOR CULTURAL APPROPRIATION


Australian fruit juice franchise Boost Juice has come under fire for what many see as appropriating Indigenous cultures of the world... READ MORE

21st November, 2017 805

A BRITISH EXPLORER IS ENDING HIS LATEST EXPEDITION WITH SOMETHING HE DIDN'T WANT


Benedict Allen had traveled to Papua New Guinea to seek out a remote tribe with no other contact with the outside world... READ MORE

16th November, 2017 47

AUSTRALIAN GONORRHOEA CASES SOAR BY 63 PER CENT


Up until recently, gonorrhoea had been uncommon in young heterosexual people living in major cities... READ MORE

5th November, 2017 63

PACIFIC ISLANDERS CALL FOR AUSTRALIA NOT TO FUND ADANI COALMINE


Australia needs to make a stronger contribution to fight climate change and its impacts, the report says... READ MORE

1st November, 2017 6206

NSW POLICE POLICY FOUND TO DESTRUCTIVELY TARGET INDIGENOUS YOUTH


What we're really concerned about is how difficult it was to get statistics from NSW police... READ MORE

30th October, 2017 2836

GOVERNMENT STALLING ON FIRST NATIONS BODY REFERENDUM, LABOR SAYS


Indigenous recognition Government stalling on First Nations body referendum, Labor says... READ MORE

24th October, 2017 152

Trending News Headlines : Torres Strait

ONE STEP CLOSER TO BECOMING DERBY'S FIRST ABORIGINAL DOCTOR


Last year, NITV's Living Black spent a week with the young doctor-in-training as she undertook a medical placement in her hometown of Derby, Western Australia... READ MORE

17th November, 2016 38394

THE USA CAN LEARN FROM THESE FOREIGN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS


Health care for people with low incomes is subsidized by the government... READ MORE

19th April, 2017 14714

THE 10 SPECIES MOST AT RISK FROM CLIMATE CHANGE


Species such as the hawksbill turtle are dependant on coral reefs which are bleaching and dying with climate change... READ MORE

19th January, 2017 7372

FAITH IN POLITICS: AUSTRALIA'S FIRST MUSLIM MP


Ed Husic is sitting in a bare sports hall on one of a few benches arranged in its centre... READ MORE

12th April, 2017 6471

OVER 1,000 AFRICAN SKULLS IN BERLIN ARE A REMINDER OF EUROPE'S DARK COLONIAL HISTORY


According to Deutsche Welle, ARD identified about 1,000 skulls that originated from what is now Rwanda and about 60 from Tanzania... READ MORE

25th November, 2016 6339

10 TIMES PAULINE HANSON GOT THE FACTS WRONG IN HER MAIDEN SPEECH


Sharia law is harsh and incompatible with Australian law Muslims want to see sharia law introduced in Australia... READ MORE

15th September, 2016 4493

20 INSPIRING BLACK WOMEN WHO HAVE CHANGED AUSTRALIA


She is also known for her work in pushing for improving Indigenous Australians rights through constitutional change... READ MORE

8th March, 2016 4410

WOMAN'S WAY; A COLLECTION OF STORIES, POEMS AND SHORT ESSAYS BY FIRST NATIONS' WOMEN


Out of all my cousins I think I'm the oldest woman on all sides of my family without a child or one on the way... READ MORE

10th March, 2017 4202

INDIA RAISES 'OFFENSIVE' LAMB ADVERT WITH AUSTRALIA


India has lodged a diplomatic protest with Australia over an advert depicting the Hindu god Ganesha enjoying lamb... READ MORE

11th September, 2017 3269

20 INSPIRING BLACK WOMEN WHO HAVE CHANGED AUSTRALIA


During this time she worked on a national campaign to ensure equal rights for Indigenous Australians... READ MORE

7th March, 2015 2580

WHAT DOES JAN 26 SIGNIFY FOR INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS?


In the last survey we did at Reconciliation Australia, about half the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were interviewed felt that discrimination still existed... READ MORE

26th January, 2015 1676

COMMENT: ODE TO MS DHU A POWERFUL MEANS TO EXPOSE RACISM AND DEMAND JUSTICE


So too are the police officers and health personnel who were 'caring' for Ms Dhu at the time of her death... READ MORE

10th January, 2017 1528

18C COMPLAINANT REPORTS 'RACIST' ONLINE ABUSE TO FEDERAL POLICE


Fallout from the case prompted the federal government to set up an inquiry into changing section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act... READ MORE

15th December, 2016 1390

NASA SCANS GREAT BARRIER REEF TO FIND ANSWERS TO CORAL'S POOR HEALTH


According to Malthus, that will change the way coral reefs are studied... READ MORE

14th September, 2016 1314

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER POPULATION GROWING


A total of 150 Australian Indigenous languages were spoken in homes in 2016, reflecting the linguistic diversity of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population... READ MORE

10th July, 2017 1264

LABOR TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL CAUCUS TO INCREASE INDIGENOUS REPRESENTATION


Mr Shorten said for over a century there has been an under-representation of Indigenous Australians in the parliaments and decision-making forums of Australia... READ MORE

21st February, 2017 985

INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA IS THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF OUR MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY


If our politicians understood the accomplishments and knowledge of Indigenous Australians, they might be able to take their political demands seriously... READ MORE

5th August, 2015 941

'43 DIFFERENT NAMES FOR SUGAR': CALLS FOR CLEARER FOOD LABELS TO AVOID 'HIDDEN SUGARS'


Health advocates are lobbying federal, state and territory leaders for clearer sugar labels on food products following the release of Choice's latest report... READ MORE

24th April, 2017 896

PM 'DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED' BY 'ATTACK ON AUSTRALIA DAY'


Any local council that breaches its duties under the Australian Citizenship Ceremonies Code can have its authorisation to conduct citizenship ceremonies revoked, he said... READ MORE

16th August, 2017 747

ISLANDERS SHOCKED AS AUSTRALIA MOVES TO BAN KAVA


A total ban on kava imports because of the actions of a few has shocked the tens of thousands of Pacific Islanders in Australia... READ MORE

20th February, 2015 726

INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN WOMEN STILL FIGHTING DISCRIMINATION


However, Australia has been criticised for its consideration of human rights... READ MORE

7th March, 2015 674

EXPLAINER: WHY BLACKFACE (AND BROWNFACE) OFFEND


In Melbourne, in the 1880s, writes historian Melissa Bellanta, the Apollo Hall was a blackface minstrel venue... READ MORE

27th September, 2016 568

'KOALA BEARS AND KANGAROOS ... [AND] TORTURE ISLANDS'


The message has gotten through to the tightly connected networks of the international refugee community in Germany... READ MORE

4th December, 2016 483

TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER FLAG REPEATEDLY STOLEN AFTER BEING MISTAKEN FOR 'ARABIC' FLAG


It represents the other Indigenous people of Australia, the Torres Strait Islander people... READ MORE

24th February, 2016 305

COMMENT: SORRY, YOU DON'T FEEL THE NEED TO SAY SORRY FOR THE STOLEN GENERATION? THINK AGAIN


The sailor passed on the wealth of four men to his sons while the farmer passed on nothing but his stories of pain and loss... READ MORE

27th May, 2016 297

EXCLUSIVE: SHORTEN 'HOPES FOR CONSENSUS' AT ULURU CONVENTION


The Uluru meeting marks the thirteenth and final dialogue for Indigenous people to discuss constitutional recognition... READ MORE

25th May, 2017 276

AFTER HIS LATEST GAFFE, ONE PICTURE SUMS UP THE WORLD'S REACTION TO TONY ABBOTT (NOT THIS ONE)


Tony Abbott head desk photo After his latest gaffe, this picture sums up the world's reaction to the Australian Prime Minister... READ MORE

11th March, 2015 240

CALL FOR NATIONWIDE INDIGENOUS HEPATITIS B VACCINATIONS


Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are at significant increased risk of Hepatitis B, according to a new World Health Organisation report... READ MORE

29th October, 2016 224

INDIGENOUS HEALTH: WEALTHY NATIONS NOT ALWAYS BETTER THAN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES


Exclusive The Lancet journal and Australia's Lowitja Institute release landmark report on health in the world's indigenous populations... READ MORE

21st April, 2016 190

STAN GRANT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVISER TO PM ON INDIGENOUS RECOGNITION


Journalist and Wiradjuri man Stan Grant has been announced by the PM and Opposition leader as special adviser on Indigenous constitutional recognition... READ MORE

16th April, 2016 182


IMPORTANT TERMS OF USE & DISCLAIMER INFORMATION:

Daily Digital News provides public access to an archive of historical news articles from many popular news sources. Daily Digital News provides keyword searchable summaries, and links, to news articles that were originally publically accessible, and all news articles presented on dailydigitalnews.com were initially freely available to the general public. Daily Digital News does not claim any copyright ownership of the aggregated content of this website. Aggregated news content presented on dailydigitalnews.com may be subject to copyright, and the use made here is consistent with the principles of limited use for research and education. Daily Digital News takes advantage of unique web-crawling technologies and algorithms. This includes the use of services provided by Alchemy API (by IBM Watson) as well as other open source technologies. Daily Digital News operates this website on a not for profit basis. No income, revenue, remuneration, or profit of any kind has been made as a result of providing this website to the public. Use of this website is at the user's own discretion. Daily Digital News exercises no control over the use made of this website and accepts no liability to users or resources in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with this website. Full Terms & Conditions