Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Aboriginal Art Directory News
Mawurndjul Makes Headlines in DC
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Smee has certainly reviewed Australian Indigenous art shows before at US galleries and museums. But I sense that his report from Australia is part of a serious reawakening of interest in Aboriginal art generally across America, vastly helped by the ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
25 years of Screen Australia's Indigenous Department
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Penny Smallacombe, Head of Indigenous at Screen Australia spoke at the event and remarked on the significance of the milestone, “When Walt Saunders set up the Indigenous Department in 1993, it would have been unthinkable that over 160 First Nations ...

SBS
Family still searching for Indigenous digger's lost medals
SBS
In his monumental official history of the war, Charles Bean noted the actions of “Australian half-caste” Private Irwin. It is the historian's only reference to an Indigenous person in his 12-volumes on World War One. More than 1,000 Indigenous ...

The Big Smoke Australia
Deep Time Dreaming – Billy Griffiths on Indigenous Australia
The Big Smoke Australia
But this line of thinking – which seeks to devalue, discredit and dehumanise the Australia's Indigenous population – is far from a relic of some bygone era. Today the spectres of racism and white supremacy can still be observed in the continued loss of ...

The Independent
How chef Jock Zonfrillo is helping bring back Australia's indigenous food culture
The Independent
He was told there were no interesting indigenous ingredients in Australia. But Jock Zonfrillo found the only aboriginal people he could in Sydney, who confirmed what he knew: it wasn't true. It took 17 years to learn about the oldest surviving culture ...

The Guardian
Police said HN was 'good as gold' to be in custody, three days later he was dead
The Guardian
HN is one of 147 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to die in custody in Australia since 2008, according to an investigation by Guardian Australia. He is also one of 45 Indigenous people who did not receive all appropriate health care in ...

ABC News
Arnhem Land children suffer world's highest known rates of rheumatic heart disease
ABC News
There are fears for about 400 other children in the community who were not part of the study. The Northern Territory's only paediatric cardiologist, Bo Remenyi, said up to 100 Indigenous children with rheumatic heart disease die each year in Australia.

Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
New documentary follows Indigenous Rangers' journey to Kenya to share knowledge, culture and music with Masai ...
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
A soon-to-be-released documentary, Ranger to Ranger, will follow the journey of acclaimed Indigenous musician Dan Sultan and a group of Indigenous Australian Rangers as they travel to Kenya to share knowledge, culture and music with a tribe of Masai ...

NEWS.com.au
What do special envoys do and why have Barnaby Joyce and Tony ...
ABC News
Barnaby Joyce and Tony Abbott have been asked to serve as special envoys under Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Here's what that means and why they've been ...
Scott Morrison: Tony Abbott accepts job offer on Indigenous affairsNEWS.com.au
Abbott's consolation prize won't help Indigenous peopleThe Sydney Morning Herald
Anger over Tony Abbott's Indigenous envoy role: 'Haven't we been punished enough?'ABC News

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Daily Telegraph
Screen Australia's indigenous department celebrate 25 years
Daily Telegraph
Rob Collins and Shari Sebbens were among the community leaders present yesterday to celebrate 25 years of Screen Australia's indigenous Department. Sebbens, who rose to international fame in The Sapphires, said she was proud to be part of the ...
Indigenous actors celebrate 25-year milestoneThe Sydney Morning Herald
Screen industry celebrates 25 years of Indigenous storytellingInside Film
Australia Celebrates 25 Years of Indigenous Screen CultureVariety

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One of Australia's leading Indigenous voices joins the CBAA Conference lineup
Radioinfo
APRA AMCOS Ambassador Emily Wurramara will join the line-up for the CBAA's 2018 national conference. One of Australia's leading voices in Indigenous music, Emily grew up in remote Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria before moving to Brisbane to ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott's consolation prize won't help Indigenous people
The Sydney Morning Herald
As a non flag-waving, but loyal, Australian I believe we should be told more about the new Special Envoys for Drought Assistance and Recovery (Barnaby Joyce), and Indigenous Affairs (Tony Abbott). Will they be given job descriptions and will key ...
Backlash after Tony Abbott accepts new role as special envoy on indigenous affairsNEWS.com.au
What do special envoys do and why have Barnaby Joyce and Tony Abbott been given the job?ABC News
Tony Abbott Set to be Appointed Indigenous Affairs Envoy After Controversial CommentteleSUR English
New Zealand Herald -ABC News
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ABC Message Stick
Aboriginal ancestors laid to rest on Kaurna land as fight to return remains continues
ABC Message Stick
After spending more than a century on foreign land, the remains of two Aboriginal elders have returned home and been reburied in the sand dunes at Tennyson Beach in South Australia. The remains were returned by overseas institutions to the Kaurna ...

ArtsHub
Screen Australia Crows about 25 Years of Indigenous Support
ArtsHub
Screen Australia is glowing today as it celebrates the 25-year anniversary of the Indigenous department which was set up in 1993 to provide training, resources and financial support to empower Indigenous people to tell their own stories, both in front ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous actors celebrate 25-year milestone
The Sydney Morning Herald
Seasoned and up-and-coming Indigenous actors are celebrating 25 years of Screen Australia funding. This month marks two and a half decades since Australia's peak film and television funding body established its Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander ...
Screen industry celebrates 25 years of Indigenous storytellingInside Film
What is working in Indigenous education: new findings releasedEducationHQ Australia

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Inside Film
Screen industry celebrates 25 years of Indigenous storytelling
Inside Film
Purcell told the audience that with no formal training her career as a writer and director would never have seen the light of day without the support of the Indigenous unit at Screen Australia and the AFC. “When I grew up Indigenous characters were ...

NEWS.com.au
Backlash after Tony Abbott accepts new role as special envoy on indigenous affairs
NEWS.com.au
But some Indigenous leaders and commentators have voiced concern over Mr Abbott taking up the role. Rod Little, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, said Abbott's record on the issue was poor and that he did not consult ...
Tony Abbott set to accept Indigenous envoy roleNew Zealand Herald
Abbott's history with Indigenous Affairs 'nothing to crow about': Rod LittleABC News

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SmartCompany.com.au
“More harm than good”: The Indigenous employment gap is widening and we don't know how to fix it
SmartCompany.com.au
The Closing the Gap framework sought to halve the employment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, among other targets. But the employment target expired unmet this year. In remote parts of Australia, the gap has actually widened ...

The Guardian
More than half of 147 Indigenous people who died in custody had not been found guilty
The Guardian
More than half of the Indigenous people who died in custody since 2008 had not been convicted of a crime. A Guardian Australia investigation has found that while 44% of deaths in custody were of sentenced prisoners, 56% were people held after being ...

'In 1788 it was nothing but bush': Tony Abbott on Indigenous Australia  The Guardian

With former PM to be government's special envoy on Indigenous affairs, we look at his comments on the issue.