Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

NEWS.com.au
Indigenous historian Bruce Pascoe says we've got our story all wrong
NEWS.com.au
We are taught Australia's first people were simplistic hunter-gatherers who foraged for plants and randomly hunted kangaroos. We are taught when Europeans landed, the indigenous people who first roamed the land were a disparate group of nomadic tribes, ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Warriors emerge from Patty Mills' Shadows
The Sydney Morning Herald
Club president and ACT Australian of the year Dion Devow is aiming to bring indigenous and non-indigenous communities together and he sees basketball as the perfect avenue to do so, with age groups from under 10s to under 19s in action. The Warriors ...

The RiotACT
Indigenous Canberran Jarrod Hampton proud to be in his own skin
The RiotACT
Since then, Hampton has risen through the ranks of Basketball ACT's junior and senior leagues, representing ACT at Nationals and even playing for Australia in the Australian Indigenous All-Stars team in 2015 and 2017. “Playing for the Australian ...

ABC News
Aboriginal family photos showcase culture and landscape of central Australia
ABC News
Portrait photographer Milly Hooper captures striking images of Indigenous families in the stunning natural surrounds of central Australia. The self-taught mother of four started her business after realising that few Aboriginal people were using ...

The Guardian
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous people
The Guardian
Over another week of scandalous revelations, the royal commission heard Indigenous Australians with poor financial literacy are routinely targeted with sales pitches for valueless insurance, sold faulty cars at usurious interest rates and wrongly ...

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ABC Local
Unconventional family violence program wins funding in Indigenous communities
ABC Local
"And it now stops with me." It's been 18 years since Mr Cuimara has used violence. He is now the founder and chief executive of the Aboriginal Male's Healing Centre, a not-for-profit community organisation based in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

ABC News
Banking royal commission: Predatory practices, exploitation of Indigenous Australians revealed
ABC News
But this week, we heard how deductions and fees costing just a few dollars are taking food out of the mouths of some of Australia's most vulnerable people. Take the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund (ACBF). With that name, you'd understandably think it ...
Funeral insurer may face criminal charges9news.com.au
The Royal Commission revealed financial services woes for many Indigenous customers. Here's what can be doneThe Conversation AU
Indigenous voice must be a win for everyone, says UN officialThe Australian
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The Sydney Morning Herald
'What sustains us?' ACCA's ambitious Indigenous exhibition finds joy amid sorrow
The Sydney Morning Herald
From top to toe there are rainbow colours dyed into the skin, mixed with a collection of traditional Indigenous designs from south-east Australia, as well as some dingo motifs. It's joyous and free-spirited, but also a work with gravitas, referencing ...

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Green Left Weekly
Gurrumul and Indigenous languages offer windows into Australia's past and present
Green Left Weekly
Understanding the deep meaning and significance of songlines is beyond most non-Indigenous Australians, but in the introductory sequence to the song's film clip, Gawurra explains its universality: “It's the thread of love that connects everything, all ...

ABC News
The Alice Springs teen working to shift the way all Australians connect with our First Peoples
ABC News
Moving from Alice Springs to Melbourne to attend university, Rona Glynn-McDonald, a proud Kaytetye woman, was astounded to find how little people local people knew about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. "Anytime I met someone new, they ...

ABC News
Kids are keeping Aboriginal languages alive — and learning just how different they are
ABC News
Ms Pope is project officer at First Languages Australia (FLA), which works to ensure the survival of Australia's traditional languages in the future. She's overseeing a national competition that invites schools to work with their local Indigenous ...

The Conversation AU
Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians' epic story was revealed
The Conversation AU
This month marks the golden jubilee of a watershed event in the history of this nation that should cause all Australians to pause and reflect. On July 15, 1968, while searching for clues to past climates and ancient landscapes on land under the joint ...

ABC News (blog)
Royal commission hears how it takes four months to open an ANZ bank account
ABC News (blog)
It took two Aboriginal customers from a community 90 minutes' drive from Katherine several visits and four months to open a basic, fee-free ANZ transaction account, the royal commission hears. The commission heard from a social worker with Save the ...
Banking royal commission day 38: Let's Insure, ANZThe Australian Financial Review

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The Australian
ANU indigenous treaty edict casts doubt over 'academic freedom ...
The Australian
The Australian National University is demanding all new staff undertake cultural awareness training that endorses a treaty with indigenous Australians, calling ...

ABC News
Super Netball celebrates Aboriginal culture with inaugural Indigenous round
ABC News
In the past we've seen clubs such as the Adelaide Thunderbirds and West Coast Fever wear Indigenous style dresses — but this is the first time there will be an official round with Australia's first nations designs on the outfits of all teams involved ...

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ABC Local
Funeral insurance company targeted Indigenous Australians
ABC Local
The banking Royal Commission is in Darwin for the current round of hearings and has heard testimony about the behaviour and policies of funeral insurance companies in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. The exploitative ...

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The Guardian
Mick Dodson urges PM to reconsider 'shameful' rejection of voice to parliament
The Guardian
He said in any renewed talks between Indigenous people and the government, the various proposals put forward with the objective of correcting the injustices imposed on Australia's Indigenous people throughout the history of white settlement “ought to ...

ABC News (blog)
Banking royal commission: Funeral insurance sellers offered Vespa, cruise incentives
ABC News (blog)
Insurance company Select offered a Vespa scooter and Sydney-Sunshine Coast cruise as an incentive for phone sales staff to sell more policies, resulting in a spike in funeral policies sold to Indigenous customers. The financial services royal ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Next-Gen Indigenous Leader Addresses UN Human Rights Council
Pro Bono Australia
“In joining this council, the Australian government promised to uphold human rights and champion Indigenous peoples' rights. “For as long as Indigenous children are 25 times more likely to be sent to prison than non-Indigenous children, these will be ...

ABC News
Indigenous leaders gather for First Nations summit at Old Parliament House in Canberra
ABC News
Indigenous leaders and thinkers from around the world are in Canberra for the Australian National University's First Nations Governance Forum. They share a history and a journey. Indigenous peoples are 5 per cent of the world's population but represent ...