The success of a local empowerment project designed to reduce the high rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has led a team of researchers from The University of Western Australia to hope it will be useful for Indigenous communities across the rest of the nation.

Mature-age Indigenous people will be able to gain direct entry to The University of Western Australia's postgraduate law degree, the Juris Doctor, through a new diploma to be launched tomorrow.

Indigenous people must avoid relying on government to "fix" their social and economic problems and take a leading role in driving sustainable economic development, a national Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference at The University of Western Australia was told this week.

It's time Australia's "blackfellas" started talking about having careers, not just a job, leading Indigenous business leader Neil Willmett told more than 300 delegates at this week's national Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference at The University of Western Australia.

Australia must reform legal and tax laws that stop Indigenous people from benefitting fully from the nation's mining boom, leading Indigenous scholar Professor Marcia Langton AM told an Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference at The University of Western Australia.

Dr Catherine Engelke, a UWA medical graduate, recently was presented the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) General Practice Registrar of the Year Award 2012.

Addressing the needs of unpaid carers of older Aboriginal people, The Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase II and the long-term consequences of IVF treatment on offspring are among 50 research projects to benefit from new medical grants totalling more than $31 million for The University of Western Australia.

The University of Western Australia will tomorrow launch an Advanced Diploma in Indigenous Legal Studies to offer an alternative pathway for Indigenous students seeking to become lawyers through UWA’s new Juris Doctor degree.

Recently three Indigenous students from the Kimberley won awards from Garnduwa Amboorny Wirnan's Kimberley Klub program.