Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Art Guide Australia
Jefa Greenaway on blak design and why it matters
Art Guide Australia
Blak Design Matters, an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne's Federation Square, will showcase the eclectic and often uncategorisable nature of Indigenous Australian design. Across a range of disciplines, the survey proves that blak ...

ABC News
The influence of black American music on Australian Indigenous musicians
ABC News
When Indigenous jazz and blues singer Georgia Lee approached the microphone to sing Strange Fruit at the Sydney Town Hall in 1948, she was uncharacteristically nervous. The song, about the lynchings of black men in the American Deep South, was first ...

ABC News
Salon in remote Indigenous community gives more than just hair cuts
ABC News
At the washbasin of the first ever hair salon to open in the remote Aboriginal community of Santa Teresa in Central Australia, owner and hairdresser Kim Marshall is showing her newest student the proper technique to blow-dry hair. "So far I've learnt ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous playwright Nakkiah Lui could be Australia's next David Williamson
The Sydney Morning Herald
The little red Suzuki is whizzing along Sydney's M4, in the direction of the far western suburbs, specifically the Indigenous urban heartland of St Marys and Mount Druitt. At the wheel is Nakkiah Lui, the 27-year-old playwright, actor, director and ...

The Australian
Art brings good fortune, but also damage to APY Lands
The Australian
An explosion of international interest in the work of artists from South Australia's remote indigenous lands has delivered an economic boon of non-welfare money while fuelling social problems as disputes driven by jealousy and gambling lead to violence ...

Australian Defence Magazine
Indigenous lead for Garden Island refurb
Australian Defence Magazine
“These works are essential to ensure the RAN can safely berth and maintain its ships at Garden Island, which is the major home-port on the east coast of Australia.” “The Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP) has supercharged the Indigenous business ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Some people in government wish we had died out, says Anita Heiss
The Sydney Morning Herald
Remarkably, debate over what happened to Indigenous Australians when this country was settled by Europeans continues to this day. Statistics on the Reconciliation Australia website show one in three Australians don't recognise the Stolen Generations.

ABC News
Dingo arrival coincides with decline of native predators on Australian mainland: fossil study
ABC News
If dingoes did enter Australia during the timeframe suggested by the study, this could help explain the decline of other native predators around this time. The study highlights evidence that Tasmanian tiger and devil populations began waning around the ...
Dawn of the dingo: Iconic Australian dog was brought to the continent aboard Aboriginal ships 1500 years later than ...Daily Mail

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The Conversation AU
Explainer: how Tasmania's Aboriginal people reclaimed a language, palawa kani
The Conversation AU
Across Australia, an estimated 250 Indigenous Australian languages and hundreds more dialects were spoken before the British arrived. The cultural disruption caused by invasion has resulted in more than half of these languages vanishing. In parts of ...

SBS (blog)
Expert Opinion: Traditional Indigenous healers should work alongside doctors to help close the gap
SBS (blog)
Ngangkari are Aboriginal healers of the Anangu of the Western Desert in Central Australia, which includes the Pitjantjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra and Yankunytjatjara peoples. In some places, particularly South Australia, ngangkari are increasingly being ...

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The Guardian
Native title system 'embeds racism', Australia's first Indigenous silk says
The Guardian
Australia's first Indigenous silk, Tony McAvoy, says the native title system “embeds racism” and puts traditional owners under “duress” to approve mining developments or risk losing their land without compensation. McAvoy, speaking at a forum in ...

NEWS.com.au
Aust breaching standards: Indigenous group
NEWS.com.au
A submission by the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations group, representing traditional owner organisations across the Murray-Darling Basin, says the Water Act is inconsistent with Australia's international obligations under the Biodiversity ...
Call for Water Act to further recognise Indigenous rights, interestsABC News

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Aust breaching standards: Indigenous group
NT News
A submission by the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations group, representing traditional owner organisations across the Murray-Darling Basin, says the Water Act is inconsistent with Australia's international obligations under the Biodiversity ...

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The Conversation AU
Ten classics of Indigenous design
The Conversation AU
Blak Design Matters is the first exhibition in Australia specifically dedicated to contemporary Indigenous design. Its curator, architect and academic Jefa Greenaway, describes the show as a snapshot that “takes the pulse of what's happening now ...

The Australian
'White feminists' blame colonisation for indigenous domestic violence
The Australian
Aboriginal women victims of domestic violence are ending up in jail at astonishing rates.” The latest statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, released in February, show that indigenous women are 32 times more likely than non ...

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Pursuit
Q&A: The Indigenous design perspective
Pursuit
In Australia, and many other countries with colonial pasts, mainstream design - including architecture, town planning, as well as fashion, interior, product and landscape design - has largely eshewed both Indigenous design and designers. But, with ...

EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous boarding students face great challenges but reap big rewards
EducationHQ Australia
More than 4000 secondary Indigenous students received ABSTUDY boarding payments in 2015, and Indigenous boarding school scholarships receive major government and philanthropic funding. One of Australia's largest funding providers, the Australian ...

Travel+Leisure
Australia's Uluru Is Back in the Hands of the Aboriginal People — and There's Never Been a Better Time to Visit
Travel+Leisure
But since 1993, when the government reinstated the rock's local name, Uluru, and awareness began growing that the indigenous community considers it sacred, clambering to the summit has been controversial. Australia's more than 500 Aboriginal tribes are ...

Daily Telegraph
Australia campaigned for Nelson Mandela's freedom but disappointed indigenous Australians by not wanting to 'interfere'
Daily Telegraph
During his visit to Australia in 1990 Mandela was presented with a cricket bat signed by Bradman. But the Australian visit was not without controversy. Indigenous leaders, many of whom regarded Mandela as a hero and had been active anti-apartheid ...

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Cashless cards' success could extend to most welfare recipients
The Australian
However, a significant proportion of indigenous people would be considered “mainstream”, in that they live like other Australians. This group is lifting the averages for the indigenous population, meaning the gaps for indigenous people who are ...

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