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Posted: January 13, 2010
The inaugural Ethics Council has been established for the new representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples.

Posted: January 11, 2010
Nagel T, Thompson C (2009) The central role of Aboriginal families in motivational counselling: family support and family ‘humbug’. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin 10(1). Retrieved [access date] from http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/the-central-role-of-aboriginal-families-in-motivational-counselling-family-support-and-family-humbug/

Posted: December 16, 2009
Mr Mick Gooda will be the next Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, replacing Tom Calma who has been in the position since 2004. Mr Gooda’s five-year appointment will begin in February 2010. Attorney General Robert McClelland formally named Mick Gooda as the new commissioner on 16 December 2009. Mr McClelland said “Mr […]

Posted: November 23, 2009
Tom Calma has announced that a new national Indigenous representative body will be called the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples.

Posted: October 19, 2009
The Deadly Awards have again highlighted the outstanding achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

Posted: October 12, 2009
Kowanko I, Stewart T, Power C, Fraser R, Love I, Bromley T (2009) An Aboriginal family and community healing program in metropolitan Adelaide: description and evaluation. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin 10 (3). Retrieved [access date] from http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/an-aboriginal-family-and-community-healing-program-in-metropolitan-adelaide-description-and-evaluation/

Posted: October 1, 2009
The Healing Foundation Development Team has released the report Voices from the campfires: Establishing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation.

Posted: September 18, 2009
The Australian Government released a discussion paper on 13 August 2009 about possible amendments to the Native Title Act 1993 to accelerate the process for the construction of public housing and infrastructure in remote Indigenous communities.

Posted: August 28, 2009
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, has provided a report outlining a proposed new structure for a body to replace ATSIC, which was disbanded in 2005.

Posted: July 20, 2009
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has awarded $2.5 million to Professor John Kaldor of the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR) to develop a Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Aboriginal health with a focus on sexually transmissible and blood-borne viral infections.