Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Salon
How food reveals the suppressed history of Chinese and Aboriginal Australian kinship
Salon
Despite the longevity of Indigenous culture in Australia, most tourist knowledge and interest in the Native people extends no further than boomerangs and didgeridoos, and even there exists a multitude of misinformation: Americans tend to see these ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'Predatory' funeral plans for Indigenous Australians under attack
The Sydney Morning Herald
The royal commission into misconduct in finance will investigate concerns of "predatory" behaviour by funeral insurance companies, which have been accused of targeting Indigenous people with unsuitable products. As the inquiry focuses on issues ...
Indigenous illness 'triple the norm'The Australian
Major exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art to open at UQ Art MuseumUQ News

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SBS
'Little J & Big Cuz' and Hazem Shammas win big at the 2018 Logie Awards for SBS programs
SBS
The series is the first ever animated TV series to focus on indigenous Australian culture. The show features the voices of some of the country's most prominent Indigenous talent, Miranda Tapsell, (Little J) Deborah Mailman (Big Cuz), Aaron Fa'Aoso (Old ...

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The Guardian
Australian students who dressed as KKK forced to study Indigenous subject
The Guardian
Charles Sturt University announced on Monday that five students had received punishments ranging from exclusion and suspension to a requirement to complete the university's Indigenous Australian Cultures, Histories and Contemporary Realities subject.

The Canberra Times
These Indigenous prints provide a dazzling and enriching experience
The Canberra Times
Indigenous prints made and editioned by non-Indigenous master printers have always been considered as contested ground in the Australian art market. They should not be. Pablo Picasso and David Hockney in Europe, and Brett Whiteley and Lloyd Rees in ...

The Guardian
Morning mail: 'Mammoth cost' of tobacco plain packaging fight
The Guardian
The cost to taxpayers of the Australian government's six-year legal battle with the tobacco giant Philip Morris over plain packaging laws can finally be revealed, despite the government's efforts to keep the cost secret. The commonwealth government ...

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The Guardian
WA minister says Scullion 'unsuitable' to resolve remote Indigenous housing dispute
The Guardian
Nigel Scullion is “unsuitable” to resolve a dispute over funding for housing in remote Indigenous communities, according to Western Australian Aboriginal affairs minister Ben Wyatt. WA has been at odds with the federal government since December over ...

The Australian
Indigenous illness 'triple the norm' - The Australian
The Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are plagued by chronic illnesses at a rate 2.6 times that of other Australians, the problem fuelled by poverty and limited ...
Rates of newly diagnosed HIV among Indigenous people rise 33 per ...The Sydney Morning Herald

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Rates of newly diagnosed HIV among Indigenous people rise 33 per cent
The Sydney Morning Herald
Immediate action is needed to stem new cases of HIV among Australia's Indigenous people, researchers have argued. National data shows a 33 per cent increase in new cases of HIV diagnosed in Indigenous people, from 4.8 per 100,000 people in 2012 to ...
Indigenous illness 'triple the norm'The Australian

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AGPT Program Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Salary Support Program Policy 2023  Australian Government Department of Health

The Guardian
Funeral funds scrutinised for targeting Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
The targeting of Indigenous Australians, including children, for funeral insurance plans will be investigated by the banking royal commission. The inquiry moves to Darwin this week to focus on how financial issues affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Banking royal commission to look at funeral insurance that 'targets vulnerable people'ABC News

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The Guardian
Northern Territory 'should be test bed' for Uluru statement proposals
The Guardian
The Northern Territory should become the “test bed” for reforms proposed in the Uluru statement and establish a formal Indigenous voice to Parliament, a former Labor parliamentarian and political analyst says. On Sunday, the Territory is marking 40 ...

ABC News
Banking royal commission to look at funeral insurance that 'targets vulnerable people'
ABC News
ACBF is a Gold Coast-based private business that sells funeral insurance almost exclusively to Indigenous Australians. In 2015 it was revealed thousands of Aboriginal children and babies were being signed up to insurance schemes through the fund that ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous sentencing trial overdue
The Canberra Times
The framework for an "Australian-first" sentencing system to combat increasing Indigenous incarceration rates in Canberra has been revealed in documents released under freedom of information laws. Legal Aid ACT was commissioned by the ACT ...

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Fox Sports
Patty Mills heaps praise on young Indigenous-Australian star Tamuri Wigness Jr. ahead of FIBA U17 World Cup
Fox Sports
He points to Nathan Jawai – the Cairns Taipans centre – as one of his role models, and was recently an Australian indigenous Basketball All Star. For Mills, whose father, Benny, is a Torres Strait Islander, giving back to his community has long been a ...

Fox Sports
Patty Mills heaps praise on young Indigenous-Australian star Tamuri Wigness Jr. ahead of FIBA U17 World Cup
Fox Sports
He points to Nathan Jawai – the Cairns Taipans centre – as one of his role models, and was recently an Australian indigenous Basketball All Star. For Mills, whose father, Benny, is a Torres Strait Islander, giving back to his community has long been a ...

Funeral funds scrutinised for targeting Indigenous Australians  The Guardian

Indigenous Australians have been paying for four or five funeral insurance policies for their families, consumer groups say.

Smithsonian
Daisy Kadibil's Story of Escape Called Attention to the “Stolen Generations” of Aboriginal Australians
Smithsonian
In 1931, an 8-year-old Australian Aboriginal girl named Daisy Kadibil was snatched up by a local constable and taken from her family in the Pilbara region of western Australia to an assimilation camp some 800 miles away. Her sister Molly and her cousin ...

The Australian
Funds targeted kids for funeral insurance
The Australian
The sorry business of predatory funeral insurers pushing policies on indigenous Australians will be picked through by the royal commission as it investigates cases of company dealings with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Funeral insurers ...

The Australian
Searching for a home
The Australian
It's not as if there haven't been plans, almost as many as there have been West Australian arts ministers. Going back to the 1980s, a plan was hatched for an indigenous art centre that would “float” out from the banks of the Swan River. In 2007, the ...

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