Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Insight News
History made with Australia's first Indigenous ophthalmologist
Insight News
Australia's first Indigenous ophthalmologist completed his formal training yesterday, blazing a trail that he hopes others will follow. Originally from the ACT, Dr Kristopher Rallah-Baker has been based in WA with the outreach program Lions Outback ...

ABC News
Meet the ABC's first-ever Top 5 humanities researchers
ABC News
In the past 30 years Indigenous Australians have recovered or had interests recognised over more than 40 per cent of Australia's land mass. Aboriginal land is the single greatest contributor to the nations' conservation system, protecting more than 26 ...

The Guardian
Plea to fix 'broken system' as NT reveals child prison population entirely Indigenous
The Guardian
The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency says the situation is “an absolute tragedy” and has called for greater investment in community solutions instead of “building bigger and bigger prisons”. The NT families department told a parliamentary ...

Indigenous academics missing from university ranks
The Australian
The Department of Education and Training shows that a little more than 1 per cent of university employees, which includes academic and general staff, are indigenous. Indigenous Australians are estimated to represent 3.3 per cent of the total Australian ...

National Indigenous Times
The pure appiness of running
National Indigenous Times
“We have worked closely with the IMF on developing this new app with a joint view it can help grow a culture of running and well-being of Indigenous people in remote communities,” TCS Australia and New Zealand head of marketing and communications ...

National Indigenous Times
Eye expert breaks down unseen barriers
National Indigenous Times
Kristopher Rallah-Baker has become Australia's first Indigenous ophthalmologist after the formally completing his training. The Queensland doctor has been based with Lions Outback Vision — the outreach arm of the Lions Eye Institute in Western ...

BuzzFeed News
Every Single Child In Detention In The Northern Territory Is Aboriginal
BuzzFeed News
A report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) said that on an average day in 2016-17, 58% of young people aged 10-17 in detention were Indigenous. These kids make up about 5% of all kids aged 10-17 in Australia. Here's a state and ...
All children in detention in Australia's Northern Territory are IndigenousDaily Mail

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ABC News
Australia's first Indigenous ophthalmologist enjoys intricate nature of 'elegant' eye surgery
ABC News
There are few areas of medicine more specialised than eye surgery, but it is in that field — which is also highly competitive — that Kristopher Rallah-Baker has made history. Dr Rallah-Baker has become Australia's first Aboriginal ophthalmologist ...

The Guardian
All children in detention in the Northern Territory are indigenous
The Guardian
All children currently in detention in the Northern Territory are Aboriginal, according to data from the families department, prompting calls for reform of the justice system. In response to questioning at an NT Estimates hearing late last week, the ...

InDaily
Unveiling the uncomfortable truth of Indigenous youth suicide
InDaily
Youth suicide is a familiar issue for Australia's Indigenous communities. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, from 2012 to 2016 intentional self-harm was the leading cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people between ...

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EducationHQ Australia
Western Desert school 'reimagining' Indigenous education
EducationHQ Australia
The tiny K-12 school is doing big things when it comes to exploring new approaches to Indigenous science education, and it all starts with recognising the incredible resources that it already has at hand. Some 1000 kilometers from Perth and with only ...

The Conversation AU
Getting a heart check early can prevent heart attack and stroke in Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Yet heart disease, including heart attacks, causes 13% of deaths among Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and is a major contributor to the gap in life expectancy with non-Indigenous Australians. New findings from a study ...
The concentration camps of Turnbull and TrumpIndependent Australia

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The Conversation AU
Victoria's treaty with Indigenous peoples must address vexed questions of sovereignty
The Conversation AU
The Victorian parliament has become the first in Australia to pass legislation to begin treaty negotiations with Indigenous peoples. It follows the Northern Territory government making a similar commitment, though not through legislation, and the New ...

ABC News
Australia's citizenship program should focus on Indigenous introduction, Darwin linguistics teacher says
ABC News
As Ganesh Koramannil passed through Sydney Central train station in 2004, a man approached and asked him for $2. It was an interaction he would have long forgotten, except the man was the first Indigenous Australian Mr Koramannil had ever met.

ABC News
Marching off the mission: Aboriginal girls who took it to white Australia and won
ABC News
It is 1962 in Brisbane and a group of teenage girls sit on an airport fence, brimming with excitement. Their mouths are wide with joy and their polished white shoes gleam in the sun, as they wait for their first plane ride. Many had never before been ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'Not soft on crime': push for specialist indigenous court
The Sydney Morning Herald
The state's barristers and police are pushing the NSW government to urgently fund a specific indigenous court in a bid to lower the "spiralling number" of Aboriginal people in jail. In a significant move, the NSW Bar Association and and the Police ...

The Guardian
Indigenous voices have never been more important to Australian literature
The Guardian
Even in those seven years since, I have seen changes in the Australian literary landscape. Significant programs have fostered a new generation of Aboriginal voices over the past few decades: the David Unaipon award, for instance, which has been running ...

ABC News
Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word 'kangaroo'
ABC News
An Indigenous language that has survived for more than 50,000 years and gave Australia the word "kangaroo" is fighting to stay alive amid fears the number of fluent speakers is dwindling. Guugu-Yimidhirr is the mother tongue of people in Hope Vale on ...

ABC News
Workshops share traditional knowledge of 'cultural burns' as fire management
ABC News
Mr Steffensen works with a group called the Firesticks Alliance, an Indigenous organisation that runs programs with communities across Australia to build recognition of cultural fire management, and to reintroduce it onto lands owned and run by ...

ABC News
'Eerily similar' suspected Indigenous murder cases go cold as police explain away the truth
ABC News
And yet 10 years later, a different Aboriginal family is reeling from police mistakes that were "eerily similar" to the Raggett case. This is the real life Mystery Road, where Indigenous deaths are explained away by those who are supposed to find the ...