By Jill Gralow BANGALOW, Australia (Reuters) - When Lucy was rescued from a rural property in New South Wales two years ago, she was suffering from ch.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Indigenous leaders called on Sunday for a week of silence and reflection after a referendum to recognise the First Peoples in the constitution was decisively rejected by a majority of the population. More than 60% of Australians voted "No" in the landmark referendum on Saturday, the first in almost a quarter of a century, that asked whether to alter the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people through the creation of an Indigenous advisory
By Jill Gralow and Praveen Menon ALICE SPRINGS (Reuters) - Three times a week, Rachel Napaltjarri, an Aboriginal woman suffering from end-stage kidney.
Three times a week, Rachel Napaltjarri, an Aboriginal woman suffering from end-stage kidney failure, receives lifesaving dialysis to cleanse her blood in a mobile medical unit in central Australia's remote outback town of Alice Springs. She's been on dialysis for six years and will need it for the rest of her life unless she gets a kidney transplant. Napaltjarri, 55, is one of dozens of Indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people who are treated each day for kidney failure at remote dialysis clinics run by The Purple House, an Aboriginal community-led health service.