News items

Posted: January 25, 2010
The Federal Government has announced that it will spend $2.5 million to help combat rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and acute rheumatic fever (ARF), through the establishment of RHDAustralia, a new centre dedicated to prevention and management of the disease.

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: 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 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.

Posted: July 2, 2009
The main purpose of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on 2 July 2009 in Darwin, was to discuss further measures to overcome Indigenous disadvantage.