Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ACT treaty needed to right past wrongs made against Indigenous people
The Sydney Morning Herald
Regrettably, the incoming Liberal government in South Australia has terminated the process for a treaty in that state. However Luke Foley, the Opposition Leader in New South Wales, the jurisdiction with the largest Indigenous population in Australia ...

Pursuit
Duty and honour at the heart of Indigenous recognition
Pursuit
In Australia there are no legal avenues to ensure Indigenous participation in law-making, it's a fact that sets us apart from fellow settler-state Commonwealth countries, New Zealand and Canada. In our legal system Indigenous peoples have no right to ...

The RiotACT
Leading Indigenous Artists present Free Community Workshops
The RiotACT
During the July school holidays, Melbourne's ILBIJERRI Theatre Company will be offering a series of free community workshops in collaboration with Tuggeranong Arts Centre. ILBIJERRI is one of Australia's leading theatre companies creating innovative ...

9news.com.au
Bali's fake 'Made in Australia' boomerangs and didgeridoos robbing artists of a living
9news.com.au
The boomerang and didgeridoo are iconic, highly sought after symbols of Australia's indigenous culture. Handcrafting these artefacts is a tradition that stretches back more than 40,000 years and remains one of the largest sources of independent income ...

ABC News
A stunning part of the Kimberley is back in Aboriginal hands
ABC News
Unspoilt beaches, brilliant blue skies, and saltwater lagoons with glimpses of whales and dugongs. Welcome to the gateway to the Kimberley in remote Western Australia — one of Australia's best kept secrets. If this is your idea of paradise then you ...

cricket.com.au
Short switches tracks to make ODI debut
cricket.com.au
D'Arcy Short has known for months that he'd be touring the United Kingdom this winter – he just didn't think it'd be with Australia's one-day international side. The powerful left-hander was originally named captain of men's Indigenous squad for their ...

Aljazeera.com
Australia's Lost Generation: Battling Aboriginal Suicide
Aljazeera.com
Young Aborigines are four times more likely to commit suicide than non-indigenous Australians. Experts and Aboriginal elders believe a variety of reasons drive Aboriginal youth to suicide, including a disconnection from traditional culture and land. In ...

ABC News
Olympians, Indigenous runners descend on Uluru for Australia's most scenic fun run
ABC News
It was a frosty morning in one of Australia's most scenic landscapes, where more than 150 Indigenous runners and 10 Olympians lined up to run around an Australian icon. The runners took part in the 7th year of the Deadly Fun Run, which is part of the ...

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IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
No better time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be in business
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Fast forward to 2018 and the Australian Federal Government has reported over $1 billion in spend with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses since July 2015; and the Business Council of Australia (BCA) members have reported over $2 billion in ...

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The Australian
Deadly app to track runaway success of indigenous fitness
The Australian
A simple running app may become the first tool that measures the activity level of indigenous Australians across the nation, according to champion marathon runner Rob de Castella. With hundreds of Deadly Runners, the legendary sportsman will take part ...

Business Standard
Indigenous Australian masterworks exhibited at NGMA
Business Standard
"Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from National Gallery of Australia" is open for public viewing at NGMA here from June 16-August 26. --IANS. sj/vd. (This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.).

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Brisbane Times
Up to one in five Indigenous babies 'legally invisible'
Brisbane Times
Queensland has the second-largest Indigenous population in Australia, making up 4 per cent of the residents. LNP Shadow Attorney-General David Janetzki called for the government to act. "Labor need to focus on getting back to basics and make sure the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Up to one in five Indigenous babies 'legally invisible'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Queensland has the second-largest Indigenous population in Australia, making up 4 per cent of the residents. LNP Shadow Attorney-General David Janetzki called for the government to act. "Labor need to focus on getting back to basics and make sure the ...

My Business
First Indigenous entrepreneurship centre unveiled
My Business
However according to the Barayamal website, overall indigenous employment fell from 48 per cent to just 46.6 per cent over the same decade — compared to the considerably higher employment rate of 72 per cent for non-indigenous Australians.

Australian Olympic Committee
Olympians join Indigenous runners in 'deadly' lap of Uluru
Australian Olympic Committee
AOC: A team of ten Australian Olympians will join more than 150 Indigenous runners from across Australia this weekend for a fun run and relay around the base of Uluru. The Deadly Fun Run is one of a series organised by the Indigenous Marathon ...

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The Guardian
Morning mail: Trump and children hit with lawsuit
The Guardian
Every year, the Bagala clan of the Jawoyn people opens their remote community of 350 up to more than 3,000 guests, who camp in their bushland backyards for Barunga festival: a celebration of music, sport and culture for Indigenous Australian audiences.

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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: Dark Emu and the blindness of Australian agriculture
The Conversation AU
The key contention in Pascoe's book is that the whole distinction between the farming colonist and the hunter-gatherer indigene is based on a radical, and frankly self-serving, misunderstanding of the way that the Indigenous peoples of Australia lived ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous treaties are meaningless without addressing the issue of sovereignty
The Conversation AU
The major debate is whether, at the national level, there should be a single treaty, or treaties with each Indigenous nation. A template that could be used across Australia by each Indigenous nation (or a cluster of them) in such negotiations, would ...

2GB
'We've chucked out money willy-nilly': Warren Mudine slams 'untargeted' indigenous spending
2GB
Mudine will be joining a NSW government advisory body tasked with overcoming indigenous disadvantage. He hopes to direct conversation away from tokenistic, virtue signalling debates around Australia Day and get back to what actually Advances ...

NT News
'Our least engaged PM for nearly 50 years'
NT News
Mr Turnbull is the least engaged prime minister in Australia's indigenous affairs since William McMahon, who left office in 1972. The problems facing Aboriginal children appear to discomfort him, as a topic. Worse, he and NT Chief Minister Michael ...