Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Guards at Victoria's youth jails receive just 30 minutes of Indigenous cultural training
The Guardian
Guards at Victorian youth detention centres receive just 30 minutes of compulsory Indigenous cultural training despite Indigenous children making up one in five children in detention, a report has found. The youth detention system also has just four ...

ABC News
Family the remedy for young Indigenous mother for whom punishment has been no deterrent
ABC News
Trudy Murray has been in and out of prison five times over the past two years. The 24-year-old mother has regularly breached an intensive corrections order designed to keep her out of trouble. "If I didn't get mixed back up with my old friends, I ...

Katherine Times
Indigenous peoples are critical to conservation
Katherine Times
“Understanding the extent of lands over which Indigenous Peoples retain traditional connection is critical for several conservation and climate agreements,” said Professor Stephen Garnett, from Charles Darwin University in Australia, who led the ...
More than a quarter of the globe is controlled by indigenous groupsUPI.com

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Program Manager Indigenous Health (Indigenous Applicants Only)
The Conversation AU
The University of Melbourne is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, at number 1 in Australia and number 32 in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017-2018). We are globally engaged, comprehensive, ...

ABC News
Who were Australia's original crocodile hunters?
ABC News
They were the real-life Crocodile Dundees. The blue-blooded, rough as guts Aussies who took on monster reptiles and lived to tell the tale. Crocodile hunting in the Top End was first pioneered by Indigenous Australians, but it's the beer-swilling ...

New York Times
'I Can't Breathe': Video of Indigenous Australian's Prison Death Stirs Outrage
New York Times
SYDNEY, Australia — David Dungay Jr., a prisoner at a Sydney jail, told the guards pinning him to his bed that he couldn't breathe, according to a video recording. He said it at least 12 times, in a high, panicky scream. One guard's response to Mr ...
'I Can't Breathe': Footage Shows Indigenous Man Dying After Restraint by Prison OfficialsNewsweek

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The Pew Charitable Trusts (blog)
Australia to Fund Five New Indigenous Protected Areas
The Pew Charitable Trusts (blog)
Australia's Indigenous Protected Areas are like national parks, but they are managed by local Aboriginal peoples, who use a combination of traditional methods and Western science to safeguard their land and culture in collaboration with government.

The Australian
Queensland considers treaty talks as federal bids stall
The Australian
The Queensland government will consider treaty talks with the state's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, bringing it into line with moves by Victoria, the Northern Territory and Western Australia and potentially forging ahead of stalled ...

The Guardian
Harrowing video footage shows death in custody of Aboriginal man
The Guardian
The number of Aboriginal people being incarcerated has steadily increased over the last decade. Indigenous adults are now 13 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Indigenous Australians, and juveniles are 24 times more likely to be incarcerated.

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The Canberra Times
With NAIDOC week wrapped, here are 8 ways to keep supporting Indigenous Australians in the arts
Happy
The National Indigenous Music Awards is an annual event that recognises some of the best Indigenous musicians across Australia, celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2018. This year's event will be held at the Darwin Amphitheatre on Saturday August 11 ...
Indigenous children's access to hearing aids on rise: reportThe Canberra Times
Queensland considers treaty talks as federal bids stallThe Australian
Sports Commission acknowledges Indigenous Australians' contribution to sportAustralasian Leisure Management (press release)
ABC News -National Indigenous Times -The Sydney Morning Herald
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EducationHQ Australia
Darkinjung Barker a 'paradigm shift' for Indigenous Ed
EducationHQ Australia
We're inching forward in Central Australia to create a school in partnership with the very remote Akaye community,” Heath says. He's adamant the idea was “hatched simultaneously” between Barker and the local Indigenous community there. Barker's ...

The Canberra Times
Indigenous children's access to hearing aids on rise: report
The Canberra Times
But according to Australian Hearing, there is more work to be done to reduce the significantly higher rates of hearing problems Indigenous Australians face compared to other Australians. Australian Hearing tracked Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Saving A Critically Endangered Aboriginal language in AustraliaVoice of America

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Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Sports Commission acknowledges Indigenous Australians' contribution to sport
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is this week acknowledging the outstanding contribution Indigenous Australians make to sport with NAIDOC Week celebrations at its facilities across the country. Following an official Welcome to Country at the AIS ...
NAIDOC Week: King William IV 'intended a treaty' be negotiated with SA Aboriginal peopleABC News
The national scandal that blights our shared futureThe Sydney Morning Herald
High achieving women take top NAIDOC Week honoursThe Australian
InDaily -Brisbane Lions (press release) (blog) -IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
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ABC News
Domestic violence prevention brings together Indigenous men and women in outback community
ABC News
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 34 times more likely to be hospitalised as a result of domestic violence than any other group of women in Australia. One in 10 men have witnessed violence towards their mother by a partner before the age ...

The Guardian
Common struggle: Black Lives Matter leader talks of painful parallels with Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
He sees similarities in the experiences of Indigenous Australia and black America: in the historical dispossession and dislocation, and in the continuing disproportionate rates of incarceration, early death and suicide, in poorer health and shortened ...

ABC News
Low literacy levels among Indigenous children, young adults 'appalling', local elder and educator says
ABC News
"We know that at least 40 per cent, and up to 85 per cent, of Indigenous people aged 15 have low literacy," Mr Beetson said. "Wherever you go across Australia, there's a minimum of 40 per cent [with low literacy]." Mr Beetson said Indigenous literacy ...

The Advertiser
The cricketing pioneer we need to immortalise in bronze
The Advertiser
Faith was the first Indigenous woman to be selected to play for Australia for any sporting code. Let's take a moment here: any sporting code. Before Nova Peris became the first Indigenous Australian to win Olympic gold, before Cathy Freeman lit up the ...

WA Police formally apologise to Indigenous Australians  SBS

WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson has delivered an unprecedented speech apologising for the "devastating" mistreatment of Indigenous people by law ...

ABC News
Remote work-for-the-dole scheme has 'devastating' impact on Indigenous people, say participants
ABC News
Ms Ulah, who lives in the remote Aboriginal community of Warburton, Western Australia, had been away without a mobile phone and had missed activities required under the remote work-for-the-dole scheme. She is one of 148 people in her community of 500 ...

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Newcastle Herald
Opinion | The Ripple Effect: Improving health outcomes for Indigenous Australians
Newcastle Herald
Thirty-four years later, the Indigenous Medical Education entry program is recognised as one of the most successful and empowering models of Indigenous medical education, graduating more than a third of Australia's Indigenous doctors – a wonderful ...