Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

National Indigenous Times
Will ScoMo blow off the dust?
National Indigenous Times
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, the peak representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, intends to meet Mr Morrison in the first few months of his prime ministership. Congress co-chair Rod Little said they ...

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National Indigenous Times
Unthinkable: an Australian screen industry without Indigenous stories
National Indigenous Times
Head of Indigenous at Screen Australia, Penny Smallacombe, said the anniversary was a special landmark in Australia's cultural history. “When Wal Saunders set up the Indigenous Department in 1993, it would have been unthinkable that over 160 First ...

Independent Australia
Australia's child suicide epidemic
Independent Australia
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicides comprise 7% of Australia's total suicides but shockingly 80% of Australia's child suicides aged 12 years and less are of Aboriginal children. I have often said the nation should weep at this harrowing ...

The Conversation AU
Speaking with: Author Anita Heiss on Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
The Conversation AU
Anita Heiss is one of the most prolific writers documenting Aboriginal experiences in Australia today through non-fiction, historical fiction, poetry and children's literature. Her memoir, Am I Black Enough for You?, was a finalist in the 2012 Human ...

NEWS.com.au
Unearthing Queensland's 'native police' camps gives us a window into colonial violence
NEWS.com.au
Our archaeological work is revealing the day-to-day livelihoods that underpinned the chilling work of these police. This is an important part of reckoning with Australia's colonial violence, given the difficulties in identifying physical evidence of ...

EducationHQ Australia
New Indigenous book series aimed at improving literacy
EducationHQ Australia
... celebration of Indigenous culture, stories, language and literacy. Through activities on the day, attention is focused on the disadvantages experienced in remote communities and the rest of Australia is encouraged to raise funds and advocate for ...

ABC News
Indigenous art at Maningrida's Djomi Museum the most significant community collection in nation
ABC News
In a small building in one of the most northern, remote parts of Australia, lies the most significant community collection of Indigenous art in the country. The decades-old bark paintings, which independent experts describe as priceless, were recently ...

The Conversation AU
Australia's UN report card: making progress, could do better on inequality and climate
The Conversation AU
And the Closing the Gap report illustrates the vast inequality gulf between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Of all the UN Sustainable Development Goals goals, taking urgent action to combat climate change is the area where Australia is most ...

The Australian
Closing the Gap: reconciling a policy mess
The Australian
Academic Marcia Langton has called the appointment a “punch in the guts to indigenous Australia”, and it has been described by others as being more about solving Scott Morrison's political problems than black Australia's lived ones. The Prime Minister ...

The Australian
Tony Abbott challenged to support indigenous 'bush university'
The Australian
A remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community that was at the heart of Tony Abbott's 2013 declaration that he would be a “prime minister for indigenous affairs” has challenged him to back its comprehensive plan for educational reform in his new role ...
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointmentABC News
Indigenous council wary of new Abbott roleNEWS.com.au

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ABC News
Indigenous council wary of new Abbott role
The Australian
But indigenous leaders reacted angrily to the snap appointment. Rod Little, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, said last week Mr Abbott had a poor record on indigenous affairs as prime minister. Ms Mason criticised the lack ...
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointmentABC News

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ABC News
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointment
ABC News
The Prime Minister's hand-picked Indigenous advisory council has written to Scott Morrison demanding a meeting and an explanation on the appointment of Tony Abbott as special envoy for Aboriginal affairs.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Molly the Weet-Bix pig drives Indigenous reading campaign
The Sydney Morning Herald
In the Binjari community of northern Australia, a domesticated pig by the name of Molly has inspired one of nine new children's books written and illustrated by Binjari women in their first language, Kriol, the largest contemporary Aboriginal language ...

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The Conversation AU
How will Indigenous people be compensated for lost native title rights? The High Court will soon decide
The Conversation AU
Today, the High Court of Australia will begin hearing the most significant case concerning Indigenous land rights since the Mabo and Wik native title cases in the 1990s. For the first time, the High Court will consider how to approach the question of ...

ABC Local
Sunrise segment on Indigenous children ruled 'inaccurate', Channel Seven seeks judicial review
ABC Local
The Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA) today released its findings into the 'Hot Topics' segment, which was broadcast during breakfast show Sunrise on March 13. The discussion, in which an all-white panel gave opinions on the removal ...
Seven breaches code over Sunrise segment on indigenous childrenNEWS.com.au
Broadcast Watchdog Slams 'Sunrise' For That Cooked Stolen Generation PanelPedestrian TV

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The Weekly Times
Growcom project set to build horticulture knowledge in indigenous businesses.
The Weekly Times
Growcom's innovation coach Steve Tiley and members of the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia joined Mr Canavan in Townsville last week where he announced $4 million worth of research projects to create jobs in Northern ...

The World Game
This is why Darwin is the laksa capital of Australia
The World Game
So, I thought, why not combine Asian herbs and spices with Indigenous protein to create a dish that feels very Australian.” The spirit of Green's dish would no doubt draw approval from laksa's original inventors. “It's part of Darwin life to go down to ...

ABC News
Type 2 diabetes: Understanding Australia's fastest growing chronic condition
ABC News
Research shows people from South-East Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania have higher rates of diabetes than other Australians. Indigenous Australians are also around four times as likely to have type 2 diabetes as non-Indigenous Australians.

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Herald Sun
City of Port Phillip to consider proposal to include nod to indigenous massacres in Australia Day events
Herald Sun
Cr Gross has proposed retaining Australia Day on January 26, but to include a “morning of mourning” ceremony that acknowledged “contrition and atonement of the impacts of colonial settlement on indigenous people, including a rite based upon the ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
10 questions I get from non-Indigenous students
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
I find that this question is generally connected with an attempt to give British colonisation credit for any and all technological/scientific advancements in the past two centuries, as though Indigenous Australia was not already trading and ...