Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Spike Lee is in Sydney to discuss race and politics in film.

In his first visit to Australia, American director Spike Lee has backed indigenous rugby league players making a stand during next week's State of Origin.

The co-founder of the Australian Indigenous Football Championships believes Aboriginal football is booming after the Indigenous men's and women's teams ...

An online petition to fly the Aboriginal flag from the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge year-round has won the unanimous support of Eurobodalla Shire ...

Scientists are pushing for Indigenous knowledge to be put into practice to help conserve species in one of the world's unique biodiversity hotspots. Stephen Hopper, a biodiversity professor and author at the University of Western Australia, has spent years learning from Aboriginal elders and absorbing the land management practices of our First Nations people. He suggested that an effective approach to environmental protection boiled down to two simple outlooks: firstly caring for the water and mountains and secondly, adopting a totem. Kaat and beeliar: Water and mountains Professor Hopper s...

The students of today have the biggest stake in our future.

Last year Piper Stewart realised she was the only Indigenous child in her swimming club at Griffith, in the New South Wales Riverina, and decided to do something about it. "I went home, and I was thinking about why and I realised not as many people have as much money to pay, because swimming lessons are pretty expensive," she said. Key points: - Griffith teenager Piper Stewart was the only Aboriginal child in her swimming club - Indigenous Australians are four times more likely to drown than non-Indigenous Australians - Piper started a charity to help fund swimming lessons for local Aborigi...

Last year Piper Stewart realised she was the only Indigenous child in her swimming club at Griffith, in the New South Wales Riverina, and decided to do something about it. "I went home, and I was thinking about why and I realised not as many people have as much money to pay, because swimming lessons are pretty expensive," she said. Key points: - Griffith teenager Piper Stewart was the only Aboriginal child in her swimming club - Indigenous Australians are four times more likely to drown than non-Indigenous Australians - Piper started a charity to help fund swimming lessons for local Aborigi...

Last year Piper Stewart realised she was the only Indigenous child in her swimming club at Griffith, in the New South Wales Riverina, and decided to do something about it. "I went home, and I was thinking about why and I realised not as many people have as much money to pay, because swimming lessons are pretty expensive," she said. Key points: - Griffith teenager Piper Stewart was the only Aboriginal child in her swimming club - Indigenous Australians are four times more likely to drown than non-Indigenous Australians - Piper started a charity to help fund swimming lessons for local Aborigi...

Last year Piper Stewart realised she was the only Indigenous child in her swimming club at Griffith, in the New South Wales Riverina, and decided to do something about it. "I went home, and I was thinking about why and I realised not as many people have as much money to pay, because swimming lessons are pretty expensive," she said. Key points: - Griffith teenager Piper Stewart was the only Aboriginal child in her swimming club - Indigenous Australians are four times more likely to drown than non-Indigenous Australians - Piper started a charity to help fund swimming lessons for local Aborigi...

The Northern Territory government's plan to close courts to the public when dealing with young offenders has been welcomed by legal and social organisations ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people in remote WA communities are being signed up to loans by a "predatory" payday lender they can neither afford nor understand, locals and advocacy groups say. Key points: - Advocates allege a Gold Coast payday lender is targeting vulnerable Aboriginal communities - Aboriginal people have accrued thousands in fees for loans worth a couple hundred dollars - ASIC is aware of the problem but is yet to use new product intervention powers against the firm People living in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands claim that Gold Coast-based Cigno Loans has charged borrowers — some of th...

Indigenous filmmakers are branching into horror to tell their stories in a unique way, with their work set to be showcased at the Sydney Film Festival this month.

The release of the Adam Goodes' documentary next week will provide us with a measure of what, if any, ground we have made with our own racial prejudices in ...

Australia needs to acknowledge colonisation and the impact on Australia's first people, leaders say.

In ringing tones the Uluru Statement declares the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign nations of the Australian continent and possessed it under their own laws and customs. Sovereignty has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown. There is, as well, demand for a Voice to Parliament and national commitment to truth telling. But the question of sovereignty overshadows every other consideration. The statement’s intellectual confidence stands in notable contrast to the confusion about sovereignty in mainstream Australia....

After a moving swearing-in ceremony, Australias first indigenous cabinet minister, Ken Wyatt — who also becomes Minister for Indigenous Australians — has ...

Jade Collard was adored by those around her. She was a happy kid, kind-hearted and loyal.

I see Eddie Mabo as a man for all seasons but one drawn magnetically to the season of hope. Being banished from Mer in the Murray Islands, standing before court and being expelled at the age of 16 for drinking alcohol, might have broken many young men. Poverty, rejection and alienation crushes most young people. Look deeper into the over-incarceration of young Indigenous men and women and the loss of hope expressed in so many suicides and you find family crisis, the early death of a parent, domestic violence, foetal alcohol syndrome, drugs or abuse. A season for hope ... Eddie Mabo, a role ...

Andrew Leigh is indisputably a highly educated, brilliant economist and thinker who has worked for his constituents and the wider community for a very long time ...