Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Trend for Australians to live longer reshapes economy
The Sydney Morning Herald
Although there is one factor that tempers this national achievement – the life expectancy of indigenous Australians is about 10 years lower than for the non-Indigenous population. Australian women outlive men, on average, but blokes are closing the gap.

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theMusic
Gurrumul, Baker Boy Win Big At The 2018 National Indigenous Music Awards
theMusic
Australia's biggest celebration of First Nations music, tonight's NT-based event saw some of the country's best indigenous artists recognised, with Artist of the Year winner Gurrumul's posthumous masterpiece, Djarrimirri (Child of the Rainbow), picking ...
Baker Boy, Gurrumul big winners at National Indigenous Music AwardsThe Guardian

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Macquarie Sports Radio
Robert De Castella's vision for future Indigenous athletes
Macquarie Sports Radio
“One day we will see superstars come out of Indigenous Australia just like Cathy Freeman.” Despite winning the City to Surf event in his prime in 1977, these days his focus is on promoting a healthy lifestyle and mind. “There is a saying – If you want ...

ABC News
Surfing competition celebrates forgotten hero, an Indigenous surf lifesaver in the early 1900s
ABC News
Mr Slabb's father started one of the first Indigenous surfing competitions in Australia at Fingal in 1996. It ran until 1999 when their sponsor Billabong dropped out. Joel and Mary Slabb revived the event in 2016 but the Juraki Surf Invitational is not ...

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cricket.com.au
Doggett dares to dream of Test debut
cricket.com.au
While Brendan Doggett remains coy about his chances of a Test berth, the speedster admits it would be a source of immense pride to become the third Indigenous Australian to pull on the Baggy Green. This week's confirmation that star quicks Pat Cummins ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
At last, the work of Australia's Indigenous filmmakers is paying off
The Sydney Morning Herald
A revolution was taking place in Australia in 2002. Indigenous filmmaking was beginning to find its voice – and the results were up on the screen for the world to see. That year Ivan Sen's Beneath the Clouds won two awards at the Berlin International ...

ABC News
Coffee meet-ups invigorate Indigenous small businesses as many hit hurdles to success
ABC News
A movement where Indigenous small business owners meet over coffee is gaining momentum across Australia as many continue to have it tougher than their non-Indigenous counterparts. It is called Black Coffee and allows Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...

Aboriginal call for justice at Garma
NEWS.com.au
One vows Aboriginal Australians will never give up fighting for the constitutional voice Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has denied them. He then attacks the Greens for wanting to lock up Aboriginal land and stop it being developed, and bloated ...

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The Australian
Aboriginal call for justice at Garma
The Australian
With the Garma Festival dominated by talk of indigenous Australians being given a "voice to parliament" it is tempting to wonder how relevant it is to Aboriginal people living in poverty around the country. But it does matter and it's the personal ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Crystal-clear vision on Indigenous legacy
The Sydney Morning Herald
Never before has anyone with such crystal-clear vision made a case that Australia should finally become home to the 65,000-year legacy of our Indigenous Australians as does Catherine McGregor ("Turnbull must pursue treaty with Indigenous Australians", ...

The Australian
Brisbane dreaming
The Australian
“I think people are finally realising there's a massive gap in their knowledge when it comes to Australia's indigenous heritage,” says Shannon Ruska, Spirits of the Red Sand's co-founder and a pivotal performer. “Most people know more about the ...

Daily Telegraph
Emily Wurramara and Baker Boy star at National Indigenous Music Awards with ancient pop songs
Daily Telegraph
... have captured global attention as well as Australia's airwaves. Emily Wurramara has captured the hearts of Triple J fans in the past two years. Picture: AAP. Wurramara said this year's NIMAs nominations “definitely bury all stereotypes of ...

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ABC News
Indigenous artists preyed on and sent into debt by 'carpetbagging' art dealers, inquiry told
ABC News
A federal parliamentary committee was called to investigate the growing presence of inauthentic "Indigenous-style" art and craft products for sale. According to the Arts Law Centre of Australia, around 80 per cent of the pieces of "Indigenous art ...
Artists share culture at Darwin fairThe West Australian

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Movers & shakers: Home Affairs, Indigenous Affairs, Industry portfolios and more
The Mandarin
New Senior Executive Services promotions in the Australian government, including a new Director-General and 6 new First Assistant Secretaries, plus a large cohort of new senior executives in Home Affairs. Also, what John Fraser did next.

Human Rights Watch
The Nightmare Lives of Indigenous Prisoners in Australia
Human Rights Watch
For Waru (not his real name), an Indigenous prisoner with a psychosocial disability (mental health condition), the unspeakable is almost routine. As an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander man with a disability in an Australian prison, Waru was ...
Health and self-determination on International Day of the World's Indigenous PeoplesRACGP
'It takes a village to raise a child'Medical Xpress
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples: 2018PRWire (press release)
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
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Aljazeera.com
What's behind high Aboriginal youth suicide rates?
Aljazeera.com
Young Aboriginal Australians are four times more likely to commit suicide than non-indigenous Australians and in one remote community in the country's Kimberley region, the Aboriginal suicide rate is estimated to be seven times the national average.

The Guardian
The vision splendid? A24 and its grassroots push for a new Australia
The Guardian
That was the question civil society groups, unions, welfare groups and Indigenous representatives asked themselves nearly three years ago. Faced with competing world views of the US president, Donald Trump, One Nation, the Business Council of Australia ...

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The Guardian
Marching together: world's Indigenous peoples day in Sydney – in pictures
The Guardian
March for makarrata was also a call to non-Indigenous Australia. Photograph: Carly Earl for the Guardian. Facebook Twitter Pinterest · March for makarrata was also a call to non-Indigenous Australia.

Turnbull must pursue treaty with Indigenous Australians  The Sydney Morning Herald

Malcolm Turnbull declared John Howard 'broke the nation's heart'. But he will stand indicted by his own words if he refuses to face this challenge.

RACGP
Health and self-determination on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
RACGP
'The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers and health practitioners in Australia are the only ethnic-based health professions in the world that have legislation and regulation, as well as a national training curriculum, to support them ...
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples: 2018PRWire (press release)

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