Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Western Australia signs $122m deal with Canberra for remote housing
The Guardian
The deal comes after the state spent $270,000 on attack ads aimed at ministers in Canberra, with the state housing minister, Peter Tinley, accusing the Coalition of abandoning remote Indigenous people, and admitting that the fight saw Indigenous people ...
'Least worst outcome': Remote housing funded for one more yearWAtoday
State accepts Commonwealth's $121m offer on remote communitiesMirage News

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Broadsheet
Australia's First Indigenous Rooftop Garden and New Public Artworks Are on the Way
Broadsheet
Unless you work or live nearby, the only way you'd know of Eveleigh's Australian Technology Park is by the imposing Channel Seven building that's impossible to miss as your train arrives at Redfern station, or as you drive along Henderson Road in ...
ICYMI: A wrap of this week's arts newsArtsHub

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ArtsHub
How IACA is strengthening regional representation of Indigenous artists
ArtsHub
But all too often, Indigenous artists from regional areas are excluded from conference programs and from opportunities to comment on policy-making decisions pertaining to their art and culture, according to Pam Bigelow, the Manager of IACA, a peak body ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Self-confessed 'hard-arsed' businessman barred from Aboriginal trusts
The Sydney Morning Herald
A blockbuster inquiry into a West Australian Aboriginal charitable trust responsible for handling millions of dollars in mining royalties has prompted legislative reforms that could have national implications. The 681-page report into administration of ...

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Brisbane Times
A state farewell for Ernestine 'Bonita' Mabo, the mother of native title
Brisbane Times
Ernestine "Bonita" Mabo was a small woman who became a giant of Australia's Indigenous land rights and reconciliation movements. Dr Mabo was remembered as the mother of native title as well as a loving mother and grandmother at her state funeral on ...
Indigenous activist Dr Ernestine “Bonita” Mabo farewelled in State funeral in TownsvilleTownsville Bulletin
Bonita Mabo 'one of the greatest matriarchs of all time' farewelled at state funeral in TownsvilleABC News

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The Sydney Morning Herald
A state farewell to Ernestine 'Bonita' Mabo, the mother of native title
The Sydney Morning Herald
Ernestine "Bonita" Mabo was a small woman who became a giant of Australia's Indigenous land rights and reconciliation movements. Dr Mabo was remembered as the mother of native title as well as a loving mother and grandmother at her state funeral on ...
Bonita Mabo 'one of the greatest matriarchs of all time' farewelled at state funeral in TownsvilleABC News
Hundreds farewell Bonita Mabo, indigenous activist, icon at state funeral at Townsville StadiumTownsville Bulletin

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ABC News
Triple j's Hottest 100 to be held on the Sunday after Australia Day again
ABC News
The radio station decided in 2017 to no longer hold the poll on Australia Day amid increasing debate about January 26 and its meaning for Indigenous Australians. However, the station's announcement that the poll would take place during the final ...

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The Guardian
Death in custody prompts push to change Victoria's public drunkenness laws
The Guardian
... regularly recommended in legal reviews dating back to the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991. In a statement, Hennessy told Guardian Australia that it would be inappropriate to comment on a matter that was still before the ...
Court urged to investigate role of 'systemic racism' in Aboriginal woman Tanya Day's death-in-custody caseABC News

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ABC News
Court urged to investigate role of 'systemic racism' in Aboriginal woman Tanya Day's death-in-custody case
ABC News
A Coroners Court of Victoria hearing into the death of an Indigenous woman who was arrested for public drunkenness has heard the mother of four suffered a traumatic head injury while in custody that likely led to her death. In an unusual move, Coroner ...
Death in custody prompts push to change Victoria's public drunkenness lawsThe Guardian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Canberra Capitals launch indigenous round
The Sydney Morning Herald
"In my household, we had kangaroo skins up on the wall, and we had turtle shells and some Aboriginal paintings as well," Mitchell said. "My mum was always proud of her roots and always spoke about Australia. Some of my family from Australia would come ...

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NEWS.com.au
Abbott calls for remote teacher pay hike
NEWS.com.au
Mr Abbott said amidst the "generally depressing" indicators on indigenous Australia, one factor stood out. "Indigenous people who finish school and who do complete a degree have much the same employment outcomes and life expectancies as other ...

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New South Wales Rugby League
Crichton launching charity to educate Australians on Indigenous culture
New South Wales Rugby League
But having observed cousins Delwyn and Leon Wunungmurra struggle to fit in themselves, it opened his eyes to the little knowledge he had of Australia's indigenous community. The pair had ventured from Arnham Land on a scholarship program of their own, ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Oldest European map of Southern Cross acquired by State Library providing explorers with a navigational guide south
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Southern Cross was never lost to Indigenous Australians, but it was to Europeans when its five bright stars disappeared from sight in Roman times. So when adventurer Andrea Corsali saw its "marveylous crosse" after he passed the Cape of Good Hope ...

EducationHQ Australia
Abbott: pay Indigenous area teachers more
EducationHQ Australia
The former prime minister also suggests deducting fines imposed on parents for breaking truancy rules from other government payments, rather using the "often ineffective" threat of jail time for refusing to pay. The proposals are contained in his first ...

ABC News
Lack of HIV prevention education cause of increase in Indigenous Australian infection rates
ABC News
Australia has made huge strides in the battle against HIV — recent data from the University of New South Wales' Kirby Institute revealed HIV diagnoses in Australia hit a seven-year low last year. But it's a different story when it comes to HIV ...

Mirage News
The William Cooper Indigenous Scholarship celebrates spirit of humanity and activism in Australia's Jewish and ...
Mirage News
On this day 80 years ago, Aboriginal elder and activist William Cooper set out from West Footscray to march to the German Consulate in Melbourne, leading a protest against the atrocities committed against Jewish people in Nazi Germany on Kristallnacht.

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Bunbury Mail
Indigenous stories awarded at AACTAs
Bunbury Mail
Indigenous Australian stories told through local film and television productions are being duly recognised at the 60th AACTA and AFI Awards in Sydney. Warwick Thornton won the Best Direction award for his film Sweet Country, starring Hamilton Morris ...
Sweet win for Aussie film at AACTA AwardsThe West Australian

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Blue Mountains Gazette
Indigenous stories awarded at AACTAs
Blue Mountains Gazette
Bryan Brown, Hamilton Morris, Natassia Gorey-Furber and Sam Neill in Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country. Photo: Transmission Films. Indigenous Australian stories told through local film and television productions are being duly recognised at the 60th ...
Indigenous stories awarded at AACTAs | Bunbury MailBunbury Mail
Sweet win for Aussie film at AACTA AwardsThe West Australian
Sweet Country dominates AACTA Awards, with a surprise best actor winThe Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC News
How might an Indigenous voice to Parliament work? Here's what we can learn from Scandinavia
ABC News
Deep in the Arctic Circle, not far from the top of the globe, a new generation of indigenous Sami are learning to herd reindeer and fish for salmon. Like Australia's Indigenous people, the Sami are the custodians of an ancient culture — and they have ...

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The West Australian
Sweet win for Aussie film at AACTA Awards
The West Australian
Indigenous Australian stories told through local film and television productions have been duly recognised at the 60th AACTA and AFI Awards, with Sweet Country taking out six awards in total and the top prize for Best Film. Warwick Thornton won Best ...
Aactas 2018: Warwick Thornton hits out at offshore detention as Sweet Country wins bigThe Guardian
Sweet Country dominates AACTA Awards, with a surprise best actor winThe Sydney Morning Herald
Nicole Kidman begs audiences to look past blockbusters as AACTA awards praise Sweet CountryABC News

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