Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Amnesty urges Queensland to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14
The Guardian
Queensland locks up more 10-to-13-year-olds than any other state; more than 70% are Indigenous. It means an Indigenous child is 30 times more likely to be sent to prison than any other Queenslander. “A child's chance at a bright future can be lost ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Turnbull must pursue treaty with Indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last Friday on the ABC, Julia Baird broadcast a panel discussion comprising Indigenous Australians from the annual Garma Festival in Northern Australia. The day before Andrew Bolt had regurgitated his standard column about the Barbarians now being ...

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New York Times
5 Indigenous Australian Films (and 1 TV series) Everyone Should See
New York Times
A member of the Maramanindji people from the Northern Territory, she sent us her five top movies, plus her favorite television series — all of which are must-see creations from Australia's Indigenous communities. “This is the tip of the iceberg in ...

ABC News
Tasmanian Indigenous artists to show off works at Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
ABC News
The works of 2,000 Indigenous artists will be on show at the fair, coming from 60 art centres around Australia. Tasmania doesn't have an Aboriginal art centre, so former TMAG curator Tony Brown organised the group of 20 artists through Contemporary Art ...

The Guardian
March for makarrata: NSW Aboriginal groups unite to demand a 'new agenda'
The Guardian
“We want to send a clear message to parliament,” the chairman of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and the newly appointed chair of the prime minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Roy Ah See, told Guardian Australia. “Walk with us. Talk with us. Sit ...

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News Of The Area (satire) (press release) (blog)
Medowie Public School won the Best Indigenous Australian Story Award for 'Believe'
News Of The Area (satire) (press release) (blog)
WAKAKIRRI'S 2018 performance season has kicked off in a spectacular fashion, with 235 schools and hundreds of Primary and Secondary school students taking to the stage at professional theatres across Australia to perform Story Dances that reflect their ...

National Indigenous Times
NT besties prepare to guard Australia's coastline
National Indigenous Times
The two best friends from the Northern Territory — Murray is from Darwin and Nilco from Batchelor — are on the adventure of a lifetime after signing up as soldiers-in-training with Norforce, the Australian army's surveillance and reconnaissance unit ...

UNSW Newsroom
NSW Health funds scholarships for Indigenous doctors in training
UNSW Newsroom
Roughly 10% of all Indigenous doctors in Australia have received support from the scholarship program. Several graduates have recently taken up placements at Dubbo Base Hospital. “Each of these graduates is not just doing it for themselves, they are ...

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Time Out
Things you only know if you're an Indigenous astronomer
Time Out
“Indigenous Australians were the first people on our continent to look up and take meaning from the night sky, and while a lot of it is spiritual, there is science in it as well. I just released a research paper on the role of planets in Aboriginal ...

Katherine Times
$2 million funding to increase Indigenous spectacles access
Insight News
The Federal Government has invested $2 million to increase access to subsidised spectacles for Indigenous Australians. The one-off funding investment has been allocated to Vision 2020 Australia to allow it to work with state and territory governments ...
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J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
NSW Labor to support Shalom Gamarada indigenous scholarship program
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
The program has been successful in its goal to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians through higher education and by increasing the number of Indigenous professionals, especially in the critical area of Indigenous health.

Widening the perspective on HIV among Indigenous Australians
The Lancet
bring timely attention to the increasing incidence of HIV among Indigenous Australians. They call for efforts to include Indigenous peoples in prevention strategies, particularly new biomedical interventions such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and ...

The Lancet
HIV incidence in Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Australia: a population-level observational study
The Lancet
Australia has set a national target of ending HIV by 2020, achieving this will require the inclusion of priority populations (eg, Indigenous Australians) in strategies to reach elimination. To assist in evaluating the target of elimination, we analysed ...

The Australian Financial Review
Greg Hunt drops in to see BOSS True Leader Sarah Brown
The Australian Financial Review
The ministers were in Alice Springs for a meeting of COAG health ministers, but in recognition of the Purple House's contribution to improving the health of Indigenous Australians, they dropped into the organisation's main headquarters, where chief ...

Cold comfort from ancestors as Indigenous monument revealed
The Sydney Morning Herald
As an icy southerly gale tore across the northern end of the Domain, a small crowd gathered on the Tarpeian Lawn yesterday to hear about plans for a massive new public artwork celebrating Australia's First Peoples. As most of those present ...

Google News

Program announced for Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference
CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
A copy of the program can be found online, with key highlights including a keynote presentation from Eddie Fry, Chair of Indigenous Land Council and Indigenous Business Australia. AITC 2018 will take place from 30 October to 1 November at the Mantra in ...

Indigenous children don't need to be fixed – they need rights and opportunities
The Guardian
Our kids need to grow up as Aboriginal children with rights and opportunities, with a voice and the ability to control their own destination. I am mix-matched – a creation by others who decided they knew what was best for me. I am a product of ...

The Advertiser
The big problem with legalising euthanasia
The Advertiser
In 2013, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released data showing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are 2.6 times more likely to die by suicide compared with non-Indigenous Australians. Suicide rates among young indigenous ...

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ABC News
Aboriginal teen being punched in face among claims of police mistreatment in Broken Hill
ABC News
Allegations that police punched an Aboriginal teenager in the face and released him without charge are among claims of police misbehaviour in far west New South Wales. Community members in Broken Hill are concerned about the impact of what they say ...

The Conversation AU
When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?
The Conversation AU
Many Aboriginal Australians would say with conviction that they have always been here. Their ancestors and traditional learnings tell them of this history, and their precise place within it. Our review of the scientific evidence, published today in ...

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