Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Art Guide Australia
Yhonnie Scarce wins 2018 Indigenous Ceramic Award
Art Guide Australia
Congratulations to Yhonnie Scarce who has taken out the 2018 Indigenous Ceramic Award (ICA) with her porcelain and glass work, Servant and Slave, 2018. The $20,000 award is acquisitive and Scarce's piece will join the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) ...

The West Australian
World Heritage listing of Burrup Peninsula rock art edges closer with nomination process starting
ABC News
A landmark agreement over a future World Heritage listing of the Burrup Peninsula's ancient rock art has been signed by the West Australian Government and the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation. The WA Premier, state ministers, Indigenous stakeholders ...
World Heritage-list call for Burrup Peninsula rock artThe West Australian
Ball rolling on Burrup Peninsula rock-art listingThe Australian
State to seek World Heritage Listing for Burrup Peninsula rock artWAtoday
The Guardian
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The Guardian
Morning mail: Aboriginal leaders call for review of deaths in custody
The Guardian
Aboriginal leaders have called for an immediate review of the “absolutely unacceptable” numbers of Indigenous deaths in custody, following the launch of Guardian Australia's Deaths Inside project which tracks all such deaths since 2008 – 147 of them.

ABC News
Being born in a remote leprosy institution just the beginning of life's challenges for health pioneer
ABC News
With newspapers highlighting the threat to the white population of the Kimberley, a leprosarium called Bungarun, which forcefully detained Indigenous patients, was established by the West Australian government in 1936. Ms Watson's parents were just two ...

ABC News
After 'whitesplaining' row, Indigenous theatre voices back calls for national company
ABC News
A few weeks ago, accusations that Australian theatre is hijacking Indigenous stories and "whitesplaining" them for the audience rippled through the industry. They were made by Indigenous playwright H Lawrence Sumner after the launch of his play, The ...

The Guardian
We examined every Indigenous death in custody since 2008. This is why
The Guardian
From May 2018, the reporting team has been reading every coronial finding relating to an Indigenous death in custody from 2008 onwards in Australia, and following up reports of cases that are still awaiting inquest. For the years 2010-2015, we ...

The Guardian
Deaths inside
The Guardian
Guardian Australia's reporting team has spent months collecting and analysing all available coronial data and other sources to build this searchable database. “Deaths inside” tracks every known Indigenous death in custody in every jurisdiction from ...

The Guardian
The 147 dead: terrible toll of Indigenous deaths in custody spurs calls for reform
The Guardian
Aboriginal leaders have called for an immediate review of the “absolutely unacceptable” numbers of Indigenous deaths in custody and are demanding Australia develop an independent system for monitoring them as a priority. The social justice commissioner ...

The Australian
Australia 'is sadly sleepwalking' towards a US-style drug crisis
The Australian
Australia's Annual Overdose Report 2018 pinpoints a disproportionate drug use among indigenous Australians. The report also notes drug use has climbed in rural areas compared with metropolitan Australia. It says 7088 people died of benzodiazapine ...

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NEWS.com.au
Adelaide Fringe goes round the river bend with indigenous nature and cultural hub
NEWS.com.au
Yabarra: Gathering of Light will illuminate the river's reeds, surrounding grasslands and paths at the Karrawirra Parri river bend to bring to life native animals and share traditional stories of the Kaurna people. The free walking adventure will run ...

The Guardian
Indigenous prisoner restrained by 14 officers before death in custody, footage shows
The Guardian
Shocking footage has been played to a coronial inquest of the lead-up to the death of an Indigenous man who died after being restrained while on remand in a South Australian jail. Wayne Fella Morrison, 29, died at Royal Adelaide hospital on 26 ...

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SBS
PM Morrison and what he might mean for Indigenous Australia
SBS
After last week's historic double spill and leadership coup, Scott Morrison is setting up office as Australia's 30th prime minister. In selecting his cabinet, the former Treasurer has chosen to keep Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion in his ...
Tony Abbott 'not retiring' and calls Peter Dutton a 'reluctant challenger'The Guardian
Tony Abbott holds out on Scott Morrison's special envoy offerThe Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson says Tony Abbott job offer of indigenous envoy is condescendingThe Australian
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PM Morrison and what he might mean for Indigenous Australia  SBS

Newly sworn in Prime Minister Scott Morrison's first move on Indigenous affairs has been to offer a new special envoy role to Tony Abbott.

NEWS.com.au
Radio host Alan Jones admits he called MPs before spill: 'There had to be change'
NEWS.com.au
It is important that change was made for Australia's sake. The writing was on the wall. It is Australia that matters here. When people can't afford electricity, for goodness sake. When people can't afford a house or job because of immigration levels ...

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The Australian
Patrick Dodson says Tony Abbott job offer of indigenous envoy is condescending
The Australian
Mr Dodson said as prime minister Mr Abbott cut more than $500 million from the indigenous portfolio in the divisive 2014-15 budget and made “profoundly offensive comments” in 2015 when he suggested indigenous Australians were making “lifestyle ...

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NEWS.com.au
Bid to improve justice for indigenous
NEWS.com.au
"This is the biggest investment in the agreement's history and sets out a framework for reducing the over-representation of Aboriginal people in Victoria's justice system," Attorney General Martin Pakula said. The investment is part of a five-year ...

The Guardian
Tony Abbott 'not retiring' but questions Morrison's Indigenous envoy role
The Guardian
Abbott told 2GB on Monday he would “love to do a fair dinkum job” but wants to see “what this new role entails” because he did not want to “trip over the toes” of the Indigenous affairs minister. “I've been going to Indigenous Australia for years and ...
Tony Abbott holds out on Scott Morrison's special envoy offerThe Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott offered Indigenous envoy roleSBS
PoliticsNow: Dodson blasts Abbott job offer and 'offensive track record'The Australian
NEWS.com.au -Daily Telegraph -Business Insider Australia
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ArtsHub
Career Spotlight: Aboriginal Art Centre Manager
ArtsHub
More recently, ArtsHub spoke with the art centre managers of Ernabella Arts – also in the APY Lands, and Australia's oldest continuously running Indigenous Art Centre – and Bula'bula Arts at Raminginging in remote Arnhem Land (NT), to find out what it ...

SBS
Tony Abbott offered Indigenous envoy role
SBS
Scott Morrison has offered Tony Abbott a role as special envoy for indigenous affairs, but the former prime minister is yet to accept the appointment. The new prime minister has been in discussions with Mr Abbott after leaving him out of his new-look ...
PoliticsNow: Tony Abbott confirms he will stay in parliamentThe Australian
Dutton stays but no job for Abbott in Morrison's 'new generation' ministryThe Guardian
New Prime Minister Scott Morrison offers Tony Abbott envoy on indigenous affairs roleDaily Telegraph
NEWS.com.au -The Sydney Morning Herald -Business Insider Australia
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The Cairns Post
Busby Marou reach out to indigenous Far North Qld communities
The Cairns Post
“We get to come to a few indigenous communities in Australia and we love it. “But what we really want is to be invited out by the locals and the elders to take us out to country because we've heard big and awesome stories.” Originally from the Torres ...

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