Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Conversation AU
'Digital land rights': co-designing technologies with Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
For the last 248 years, Indigenous Australians have experienced disruption and disadvantage as a result of colonisation. Now with the advent of the internet, the same structures that keep Indigenous people marginalised and isolated in the real world ...

The Australian
Noumea, Broome dancers explore independence movements
The Australian
The dancers in Le Dernier Appel come from a range of backgrounds, including indigenous Australian, Kanak from New Caledonia, Vietnamese and Indonesian. The performers bring with them their personal stories, experiences and their own dance styles, ...

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The Weekly Times
Australian Native Food and Botanicals: Amanda Garner raising interest in native foods
The Weekly Times
The organisation was established about a decade ago by Vic Cherikoff — regarded as a pioneer of the native Australian food industry — Chris Reid of Tasmanian native mountain pepper business Diemen Pepper, and a handful of others to develop native ...

The Australian
Dismantling ATSIC probably a mistake, says Amanda Vanstone
The Australian
The committee examined earlier examples of indigenous advisory bodies as well as current ones, such as the Murdi Paaki Regional Authority in western NSW, the Torres Strait Regional Authority, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and others.

ABC News
Indigenous Land Corporation to hand FNQ cattle stations back to traditional owners without cattle
ABC News
... Territory and Western Australia with around 78,000 cattle. Many of the properties are used to not only breed and fatten cattle, but provide vocational training for Indigenous people. Mr Entsch said the ILC was failing in its charter to assist ...

The Guardian
Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction
The Guardian
It also recommended that Australia commit to a process of agreement-making and truth telling. Malcolm Turnbull rejected the voice idea, calling it undemocratic, but it has the support of Labor, the Greens and Australia's peak legal, community, and ...
Why the Law Council backs an Indigenous voice to ParliamentInDaily
First Nations Voice would 'inevitably' improve lives, says expertThe Mandarin

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Lack of integration between home support and primary care: report
Australian Ageing Agenda
Meanwhile, the report describes the drop in the number of indigenous people in home care over the last three years as concerning. According to a 2017 Aged Care Financing Authority report 330 fewer indigenous Australians were receiving home care in ...

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ABC News
Banking royal commission: Indigenous Australians face barriers to accessing superannuation
ABC News
Financial counsellor Alan Gray goes the extra mile to assist some of his clients. He travels from his Broome base to remote Aboriginal communities in WA's Dampier Peninsula. Two of the communities he works in are more than 200 kilometres up a dirt road ...

The Australian
Goolagong's search for the next indigenous star starts in Darwin
The Australian
It is now 37 years since Goolagong Cawley, who turns 67 today, won the French Open and Wimbledon and in that time, Australia has not produced another indigenous grand slam champion. Ash Barty, who recently became a National indigenous Tennis ...
Indigenous breakthrough a matter of time, says Goolagong-CawleyEurosport.com AU

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous playwright: Australian theatre is "whitesplaining" stories
The Sydney Morning Herald
But instead of revelling in the standing ovation on Friday night and the warm reviews over the weekend, Indigenous playwright H. Lawrence Sumner was upset about the latest example of what he called "whitesplaining" Aboriginal stories in Australian theatre.
The Long Forgotten DreamAboriginal Art Directory News
The Long Forgotten Dream review – play prods old wounds of colonisationThe Guardian

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Eurosport.com AU
Indigenous breakthrough a matter of time, says Goolagong-Cawley
Eurosport.com AU
MELBOURNE, July 30 (Reuters) - Nearly half a century after Evonne Goolagong-Cawley became the first Aboriginal Australian to win a grand slam title at the 1971 French Open, the nation still waits for another indigenous talent to emerge and claim the ...

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Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction  The Guardian

A parliamentary committee established to examine the proposals of the Uluru statement has heard there is strong support for the concept of an Indigenous voice ...

Indigenous voice idea has strong support – but no firm direction  The Guardian

A parliamentary committee established to examine the proposals of the Uluru statement has heard there is strong support for the concept of an Indigenous voice ...

Banking royal commission: Indigenous Australians struggle to access their own super  ABC News

Financial counsellors like Alan Gray are driving hundreds of kilometres up dirt roads on a regular basis to help their clients in remote Indigenous communities ...

Rugby.com.au
Indigenous jersey just one part of embracing culture: Ella
Rugby.com.au
Wallabies great Glen Ella hopes Indigenous Australian culture can be embraced in Australian rugby like New Zealand embraces its Maori heritage. The Wallabies donned an Indigenous jersey in last year's third Bledisloe Test in Brisbane, an historic mark ...

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SBS
Far-right Canadian duo's vile rampage against Aboriginal culture at Sydney event
SBS
The offensive comments painted a dehumanising depiction of Indigenous Australians, in keeping with the extreme views of these far-right, self-appointed commentators. Mr Molyneux is known for his controversial theories that link race with IQ, denying ...

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SBS (blog)
Far-right Canadian duo's vile rampage against Aboriginal culture at Sydney event
SBS (blog)
The controversial speakers finished their Australian tour in front of a large Australian audience, where they mocked Aboriginal culture and launched a tirade against multiculturalism and Islam, according to an audience member. The event was live ...

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The Australian
Indigenous prosperity is key to Closing the Gap
The Australian
A decade ago the federal government launched the watershed Closing the Gap strategy, which set several key targets aimed at reducing the health, educational and economic disparities faced by indigenous Australians. Ten years later, the strategy is ...

Aljazeera.com
Could Australia soon recognise sovereigns other than the Queen?
Aljazeera.com
"We have many difficulties with the Australian governments because they do not recognise our sovereignty. We are the only indigenous people of a Commonwealth country that does not have the respect or dignity of a treaty with our people," they told him.

ABC News
Provenance Arts joins the costly fight against unethical Indigenous art
ABC News
Felicity Wright knows the market of art buyers who wander through Injalak Arts in West Arnhem Land. Customers were often cautious, she said, because they knew so little about ethically buying Indigenous art. "They hear scary stories about the ...