Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Sporting News
Indigenous All Stars v New Zealand Māori: Greg Inglis leads chorus of stars pumped for fixture's return
Sporting News
Monday's announcement by the NRL - that a star-studded New Zealand Māori team will take on an Australian Indigenous All Stars side in February next year - put smiles on faces, and warmed hearts.
The Indigenous All Stars fixture has finally been given the respect it demandsThe Roar
Benji Marshall says Māori All-Stars inclusion 'massive', but won't commit yetStuff.co.nz

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ABC News
Mount Druitt's 'Home and Away': new soap opera showcases the 'real' Australia
ABC News
The pilot episode of a new soap opera produced by an Indigenous artist and performed by a western Sydney Liberian comedy group, aims to show audiences that there is more to Australia than Summer Bay. Where is Home? premiered at the live event Druitt ...

ABC News
The dental divide – and the decay of public dental services
ABC News
About one in five Australians do not get the recommended level of oral health care. The picture is worse for Indigenous Australians, especially in remote communities where sugar-laden processed foods are ubiquitous but dental services are scarce.

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QNews
Major Grant To Fund Research Into Indigenous LGBTIQ Mental Health
QNews
In July, research published in the Medical Journal of Australia showed a 33 per cent rise in rates of new HIV transmissions among Indigenous Australians, which experts said could jeopardise Australia's goal of ending HIV by 2020 if left unaddressed.

The Conversation AU
Alcohol brewed from trees and other fermented drinks in Australia's Indigenous history
The Conversation AU
There is no doubt that Europeans brought a culture of brewing and consuming alcohol during their early migration and colonisation of Australia. But there is also evidence that Aboriginal people were already aware of fermentation processes to make ...

The Mandarin
Where to for an Australian republic?
The Mandarin
No republic in the 1990s and, still today, no proper recognition of Indigenous Australia in the Constitution. It's not as if reforms haven't been made courtesy of some of our legislatures and the High Court; they have, but their incorporation into the ...
Labor plans a constitutional renovation: republic and recognitionThe Australian Financial Review

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NRL.COM
New Zealand Maori side to face Indigenous All Stars in 2019
NRL.COM
An All-Star New Zealand Maori team will square off against the Australian Indigenous All Stars in a mens and womens double-header in Melbourne next February to open the 2019 NRL season. The NRL has revamped the All Stars concept after a one-year ...
Māori teams to face Australian Indigenous rivals in new NRL season curtainraiserIndependent Community Newspaper
Stars may align for NRL All Stars conceptSports News
Māori All Stars side to face their Indigenous counterparts to kick off 2019 NRL seasonTVNZ
The Roar
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The Guardian
Remains of more than 60 Aboriginal people reburied after Kimberley floods
The Guardian
The remains of more than 60 Aboriginal people have finally been reburied, after floods in 2017 destroyed the Fitzroy Crossing cemetery in Western Australia's Kimberley region, leaving human bones and body bags exposed. The remains of many European ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'I saw the shark's head behind Cooper': How two boys saved their mate
The Sydney Morning Herald
They are among 62 presentations in the Australian Bravery Awards announced today by the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove. .... The gold lettered inscription states 'In memory of Yarri, hero of Gundagai' an Aboriginal man who rescued 49 people'.

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'I saw the shark's head behind Cooper': How two boys saved their mate
The Sydney Morning Herald
They are among 62 presentations in the Australian Bravery Awards announced today by the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove. .... The gold lettered inscription states 'In memory of Yarri, hero of Gundagai' an Aboriginal man who rescued 49 people'.

The Australian Financial Review
Labor plans a constitutional renovation: republic and recognition
The Australian Financial Review
No republic in the 1990s and, still today, no proper recognition of indigenous Australia in the Constitution." Gallop, who was also a politics professor at Sydney University and a delegate to the republic convention before the failed 1999 referendum ...

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ABC News
Both a whitefella and a proud Indigenous man: Growing up in 'shades of grey'
ABC News
Bruce's unusual upbringing has given him a rare and important skill — a deep understanding of how things work in both remote Aboriginal communities and mainstream Australia. "Not too many people have been able to go from somewhere as remote as ...

ABC News
Indigenous community condemns Australia Day play by satirist Jonathan Biggins
ABC News
Members of the Indigenous community in the New South Wales and Victoria border towns of Albury and Wodonga have condemned a local theatre company's plans to stage a play by satirist Jonathan Biggins, best known for The Wharf Revue by the Sydney ...

ABC Local
Adani Indigenous challenge dismissed by Federal Court, Government could cancel mine native title
ABC Local
Mr Burragubba said on Friday it would be a "travesty" for the Government to wipe out native title for Adani. "If Queensland can stop them dredging the reef before Adani has the money, or pull the pin on NAIF [Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility ...
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ArtsHub
Providing literature to remote communities
ArtsHub
'I believe every child in Australia deserves equal access to education and books.' – Justine Clarke ILF ambassador. Photo via Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Suzy Wilson, founder of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, was perplexed when she first heard ...

ABC News
Thomas Bock Aboriginal portraits return to Tasmania after 180 years in storage
ABC News
A collection of 19th century portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people is on show in Australia for the first time after being in storage in England for 180 years. Convict artist Thomas Bock was sentenced to transportation to Australia in 1823 and ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Castle backs greater use of indigenous jersey ahead of first Bledisloe
The Sydney Morning Herald
Raelene Castle will have to make hundreds of difficult calls as Rugby Australia boss but facing the haka as a Wallabies fan for the first time will not be one of them. RA's New Zealand-raised chief executive revealed she was looking forward to belting ...
Let us wear indigenous Wallabies jersey every Test: GeniaRugby.com.au
'I'd love to wear it all the time': Will Genia calls for permanent Wallabies indigenous jerseyNEWS.com.au
Genia calls for permanent Wallabies indigenous jerseyGladstone Observer

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Rugby.com.au
Castle backs greater use of indigenous jersey ahead of first Bledisloe
The Sydney Morning Herald
Raelene Castle will have to make hundreds of difficult calls as Rugby Australia boss but facing the haka as a Wallabies fan for the first time will not be one of them. RA's New Zealand-raised chief executive revealed she was looking forward to belting ...
Let us wear indigenous Wallabies jersey every Test: GeniaRugby.com.au
'I'd love to wear it all the time': Will Genia calls for permanent Wallabies indigenous jerseyNEWS.com.au
Genia calls for permanent Wallabies indigenous jerseyGladstone Observer

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SBS
Stolen Generations sicker, poorer than other Indigenous Australians
SBS
Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are living with poorer health and social outcomes than other Indigenous Australians, according to figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The new report on Australia's ...

The Guardian (blog)
Indigenous MPs say Senator Anning's speech 'deliberately insulting'
SBS
Labor MP Linda Burney says Senator Anning's speech was designed to offend. "[His] comments were deliberately insulting," she told NITV News. "It is completely ignorant of Australia's long and layered history, which began with First Nations people, and ...
Nazi-inspired senator needs a history lessonCrikey
White supremacy was the mainstay of Australian federation. Little has changedThe Guardian (blog)

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