Indigenous Australians eat more white bread, processed meat, added butter and added sugar than the average Australian, and fall well short of national fruit and vegetable recommendations, according to new research.

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), and the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) today announced a new agreement to partner in the publication of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA). Wiley-Blackwell will also publish the backfiles from the AAS’s previous publication, Mankind.

Jenny Macklin was confronted with much more than soaring heat and red dirt when she visited troubled communities throughout Western Australia's Kimberley region this week.

According to a study in Respirology published by Wiley-Blackwell, the prevalence of asthma among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is similar to that of mainland Australian children – who have one of the highest asthma rates in the world.

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) wants to boost the number of Indigenous Australians in its ranks.

The Simpson Desert in South Australia's far north is as remote as it is hostile.

The Federal Government is being urged to borrow a third-world education policy and pay Indigenous students to attend school.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has crunched the census figures and not surprisingly, found the 10 worst-off areas in Australia are Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

The University of Sydney will set up a number of outreach clinics to help improve Indigenous health in remote western New South Wales communities, thanks to a mystery $10 million donation.

Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson is calling for a Northern Territory-style intervention in far north Queensland Indigenous communities.

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre says the practice of wrongfully removing Aboriginal children from their families is still going on.

Mounting evidence of global warming has led experts to warn of likely adverse health effects to many Australians who live in rural and remote areas.