Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

How ad agencies can better cater to Indigenous communities
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A RAP aims to build a bridge between the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and non-Indigenous Australians, through a series of tangible, long-term commitments. Our first commitment was the launch of a series of panel discussions on 'The ...

The Mandarin
Indigenous Affairs' latest shakeup brings in a former military chief
The Mandarin
A shakeup inside Australia's federal Indigenous Affairs bureaucracy will see its top official, Andrew Tongue, replaced with the recently retired Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Ray Griggs. Tongue, who has been Associate Secretary, Indigenous Affairs ...

The Mandarin
Indigenous Affairs' latest shakeup brings in a military chief
The Mandarin
A shakeup inside Australia's federal Indigenous Affairs bureaucracy will see its top official, Andrew Tongue, replaced with the recently retired Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Ray Griggs. Tongue, who has been Associate Secretary, Indigenous Affairs ...

ABC News
Tasmanian Liberal backbencher Adam Brooks sides with Greens over anthem change
ABC News
"When it says 'we are young' it completely disregards the Indigenous Australians who were here before us for over 50,000 years," Harper said. "When it was originally written, Advance Australia Fair meant advance the white people of Australia." Ms ...

Grafton Daily Examiner
Advancing Australia with a new anthem
Grafton Daily Examiner
It certainly doesn't rejoice in the multicultural society that Australia has become, nor does it honour the contribution of indigenous Australians. Certainly there are people who believe the song is not inclusive of all Australians. Nine-year-old ...

The Australian
Indigenous 'alien' case referred to High Court
The Australian
Lawyers for 39-year-old Daniel Love said he should not have been subject to the mandatory visa cancellation, and have filed for leave to challenge the decision in the High Court. Mr Love's indigenous father had Australian citizenship and he has lived ...

The Australian
Brendan Nelson's advice to ex-PMs: butt out
The Australian
Dr Nelson urged her to rethink her position, given that indigenous Australians had shed “rivers of blood” for Australia in times of conflict. “Please at least open your mind to understanding what it really means and what stands behind it. “You know on ...

National Indigenous Times
Indigenous patients in need of new kidneys aren't getting a fair go
National Indigenous Times
Indigenous patients with kidney disease are missing out on transplants because they are not being put on waiting lists for the potentially life-saving surgery, new research has found. The research by experts in South Australia and the Northern ...

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National Indigenous Times
Key land rights organisation celebrates 40th birthday Kimberley-style
National Indigenous Times
In 1978 Aboriginal people faced off against a convoy of police and miners to protect their sacred land at Nookanbah in Western Australia's far north. On Monday, a re-enactment of the historic Nookanbah march marked the start of the Kimberley Land ...

National Indigenous Times
Tiwi sister girl steals scene, defies hillbilly stereotype
National Indigenous Times
A seven-storey high mural of Tiwi Island transgender woman Shaniqua now towers over the Darwin cityscape. The artwork in Darwin's West Lane adorns the side of an apartment block and was painted by Melbourne-based street artist Kaff-eine as part of the ...

Bega District News
Women set to inspire at Eden's Giiyong Festival
Bega District News
The inaugural Giiyong Festival will bring with it a stellar line-up of Indigenous artists from all over Australia to celebrate and share culture, language, music and art. Within the mix, a number of renowned female artists and speakers are set to empower.

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The Big Smoke Australia
Five books that inspired me: Author and Indigenous leader, Warren Mundine
The Big Smoke Australia
All except Australia's first peoples of course. There was very little written about Aboriginal people in any of the books I read, even in Australian history books. Aboriginal people began to come out of the shadows of public life from the 1970s. When ...

The Australian
Abbott to deliver indigenous schools blueprint this year
The Australian
He said it was important to address the “reluctance to expect the same of indigenous kids that we expect of other Australian kids” and to tackle the “instinct that indigenous kids need to be treated differently”. Some key problem areas identified by Mr ...

Neos Kosmos
What multicultural gay communities can teach mainstream Australia
Neos Kosmos
Currently a Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Indigenous Studies, Dr Hodge is a contributor to yet another publication, Living and Loving in Diversity, An anthology of Australian Multicultural queer adventures ...

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ABC News
Remote kidney clinic heralds a homecoming for Aboriginal patients after years spent away
ABC News
Barbara Reid wishes she could have been there for those important early moments in her granddaughter's young life — her first steps, first words and big smile. Instead, Ms Reid, an Aboriginal woman from remote Western Australia, was stuck in a ...

ArtsHub
Why the arts sector needs to let Australia's First Peoples lead
ArtsHub
Walley, a Nyoongar man from south-west Western Australia, is one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers and writers. A former Australia Council Board member, he was named a State Living Treasure in 2015 for his lifetime contribution to arts and ...

ABC News
Aboriginal man Daniel Love facing deportation to PNG, lawyers say
ABC News
Daniel Love has an Aboriginal father and mother from Papua New Guinea, and has lived in Australia since he was five; He has an extensive criminal history including assault occasioning bodily harm; The Government wants to deport him to PNG but his ...

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ABC News
Virtual Songlines preserving Aboriginal heritage through video games
ABC News
Brett leavy is the leader of Virtual Songlines, a collection of first nations and non-indigenous game developers specialising in the recreation of precolonial Australia. He has been working with students at St Saviours college in Toowoomba to ...

The Australian
NT indigenous child abuse rate rises 30pc in past year
The Australian
The overall rate rose by about 23 per cent in the same period, masking a slight decline in abuse and neglect substantiations in the non-indigenous population. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Children's Headline Indicators study showed ...

The Australian
Call to let remote communities rule on indigenous funding
The Australian
The report said there was scant evidence about what worked in service delivery in indigenous Australia, but US and Canadian research showed “active involvement of indigenous residents” was crucial to the success in tacking the causes of dysfunction.