Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC News
Bilby survey finds vulnerable species holding steady, but feral cats continue to pose a problem
ABC News
The blitz has involved Indigenous rangers using tracking skills passed down through generations to find active burrows across the Northern Territory and Western Australia. "I was taught by my mum and dad, they showed me a bilby burrow," said Gladys ...

ABC News
Indigenous 'pop songs' travelled thousands of kilometres across Australia, research finds
ABC News
Traditional Indigenous songs used for entertainment by the Northern Territory's Gurindji people have travelled virtually unchanged thousands of kilometres across Australia, research has revealed.

ABC News
How explorer and pirate William Dampier's comments on Aboriginal people in 1697 set the tone for future sentiment
ABC News
While William Dampier is lauded as the first Englishman to set foot in Australia, he published a popular book with a derogatory description of Aboriginal people that would influence the foundations of our nation. "The inhabitants of this country are ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Anita Hess on advocating Indigenous literacy and men who have influenced her
The Sydney Morning Herald
In my latest book, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, I've edited the stories of as many Aboriginal voices as possible. Adam Goodes is in there with a great story; he is incredibly humble and wise, and a genuine leader of moving forward in a peaceful, ...

How explorer and pirate William Dampier's comments on Aboriginal people in 1697 set the tone for future sentiment  ABC News

While William Dampier is lauded as the first Englishman to set foot in Australia, he published a popular book with a derogatory description of Aboriginal people ...

ABC News
Indigenous artists stage sell-out show in Sydney to raise funds for leaking Iwantja Arts
ABC News
Iwantja Arts, based in the tiny town of Indulkuna in the APY Lands in South Australia's far north, have fostered award-winning artists for decades. But the building in the tiny community, almost 400 kilometres south of Alice Springs, has become run down.

ABC News
'Eagle Man' teams with remote outback school's two-way science program to boost attendance
ABC News
... a window for children to see into the desert's ecosystem. He has joined forces with the Wiluna Remote Community School and its two-way science program, which builds on the students' Aboriginal cultural knowledge to teach the Australian Curriculum.

Google News

The Guardian
Indigenous groups call for investigation into Scullion fund stoush
The Guardian
Former NT Indigenous affairs minister, Dr Jak Ah Kit, told Guardian Australia the decision to fund these groups with money set aside for addressing Indigenous disadvantage was “totally immoral and totally against the normal rules that apply”. “I think ...

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RT
Guidelines to boosting indigenous research unveiled
University World News
Although completion rates remain low, Aboriginal Australians are enrolling in universities and graduating in greater numbers than ever before. New guidelines launched on Friday are aimed at assisting indigenous graduates who want to pursue research ...
'Thanks for putting up with invasion': Australia's former PM Abbott greets indigenous people (VIDEO)RT

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The Australian
Western civilisation is not served by pandering to populism
The Australian
Or denying indigenous Australians citizenship rights. Some states still think the national interest is served by criminalising abortion: what happens to research that challenges those laws under a national interest test? Or given euthanasia is banned ...

Google News

The Australian
Running for their lives
The Australian
In 2010, when the seeds of his foundation were being sown, de Castella saw it as a 10-year project; his goal was to have an indigenous long-distance runner in the 2016 Australian Olympic Team. But he was soon mugged by some grim realities. He'd grown ...

SBS
'Thank you for putting up with the invasion': Abbott tells an Indigenous community
SBS
Former prime minister Tony Abbott was greeted with a traditional welcome by the Anangu people when he arrived in Pukatja, one of South Australia's most remote Aboriginal communities. It was the last stop on a three-day visit to the state as part of his ...

SBS
Tony Abbott says: 'Thank you for putting up with the invasion'
SBS
Former prime minister Tony Abbott was greeted with a traditional welcome by the Anangu people when he arrived in Pukatja, one of South Australia's most remote Aboriginal communities. It was the last stop on a three-day visit to the state as part of his ...

Daily Liberal
Australian Conservatives' senate candidates to hold Dubbo meet and greet
Daily Liberal
... is based in Sydney but said it wasn't fair to assume the issues that dominated the recent Wentworth byelection – “rainbow issues”, “climate issues” and whether or not to move the Australian embassy in Israel to Jerusalem – were priorities for ...

The Guardian
Nigel Scullion gave Indigenous funding to his former fishing lobby group to fight land claims
The Guardian
Scullion told Guardian Australia the funding provided to the pastoral and fishing organisations could also be used “to develop education resources and training materials on Aboriginal land and sea country in the Northern Territory, Aboriginal land ...

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The West Australian
Runners ready for New York test
The West Australian
After months of rigorous physical and mental training, two Kimberley runners will be representing WA indigenous communities in the US. Kimberley duo Damien Crispin and Torey Rickerby will be completing the final leg of their Indigenous Marathon Project ...

The Conversation AU
Seagrass, protector of shipwrecks and buried treasure
The Conversation AU
They've locked away thousands of shipwrecks in conditions perfect for preserving the fragile, centuries-old timbers of early European and Asian explorers, and could even hold secrets of seafaring by Aboriginal Australians. Seagrass meadows accumulate ...

NEWS.com.au
Scullion draws anger over legal funding
NEWS.com.au
Dr Jackie Huggins, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, said the group had long standing concerns funds specifically to benefit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were often siphoned off. "This money needs to be ...

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Scullion draws anger over legal funding
The Australian
Australia's Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has been criticised by Aboriginal groups for giving nearly half a million dollars to non-indigenous lobby groups for legal funding. Northern Land Council chairman Joe Morrison says it is a "poor ...

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ArtsHub
Freda Glynn - from little things, big things grow
ArtsHub
She happens to be the matriarch of a family that includes filmmaking offspring Warwick Thornton and Erica Glynn (who was Head of the Indigenous Department at Screen Australia from 2010 – 2014) and filmmaking grandchildren Dylan River and Tanith ...