Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Victoria launches campaign in support of indigenous treaty
The Australian
The five-time Paralympian had to apply for an honorary British passport to attend his first Paralympics, in Rome in 1960, because Aboriginal people were not able to apply for an Australian one. He said a lot has changed since then, but a treaty would ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson's stories from the heart of Australia
The Australian
The indigenous leader's proposed declaration is specific in recognising “ancient indigenous heritage” as the foundation of Australia, followed by “British institutions” that built upon it and the “gift of multicultural migration”. Referring to ...

The Advertiser
AFL Indigenous Round highlights the best and worst of the social problems facing our native Australians
The Advertiser
SO it is the AFL's indigenous round. It's a celebration of the contribution that indigenous players have made to Australian football. Great names, great memories. The AFL trot them out: Farmer, Cable, Nicholls, Winmar, Rioli, Long, McLeod although they ...

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The Advertiser
AFL Indigenous Round highlights the best and worst of the social problems facing our native Australians
The Advertiser
SO it is the AFL's indigenous round. It's a celebration of the contribution that indigenous players have made to Australian football. Great names, great memories. The AFL trot them out: Farmer, Cable, Nicholls, Winmar, Rioli, Long, McLeod although they ...

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The Advertiser
Australian football's celebration of indigenous culture this weekend is a reminder of how much work remains to be ...
The Advertiser
But — as Goodes has pointed out — any celebration of Aboriginal culture in Australian football must also bring change in Australia. The terraces — a fair sample of Australia today — are far from free of the racism and small-minded tone that ...

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Indigenous cricketers to honour 1868 XI
SBS
The 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England is an incredible story of hardship, race relations and colonial attitudes. Arguably even more remarkable is how few Australians now know the tale of the nation's first sporting team to tour overseas, 150 ...

The Cairns Post
AFL Cairns footballers have designs on special Indigenous Round
The Cairns Post
The talented cricketer and footballer has lived in the Northern Territory, represents South Australia in indigenous cricket and now calls the Far North home. McGregor-Cassady's mum is from Broome in Western Australia, his father from Halifax, just ...

The Age
Hunt for AFL Indigenous commissioner continues, but it won't be Goodes
The Age
Based in Adelaide, Hosch came to the AFL from Recognise — an organisation working for the inclusion of Indigenous Australians in the national constitution — and in a sense replaced Mifsud, the author of the advisory council's recommendations to the ...
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The round is named named in honour of Sir Doug Nicholls (1906-1988) who played 54 games for Fitzroy, was the first Aboriginal person to be knighted, was Governor of South Australia, and who devoted much of his life to the wellbeing of Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Eora Nation 79: Should every place in Australia be given Aboriginal name?
ABC Online
Two mountains in Qld have reverted to traditional names. Hobart has been offered an indigenous name during this National Reconciliation Week. How about us? Why can't we in Sydney/NSW have dual naming everywhere? Luke Pearson the founder of ...

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Illawarra Mercury
First of its kind UOW lecture delivered during National Reconciliation Week
Illawarra Mercury
The University of Wollongong Pro-Vice Chancellor (Inclusion and Outreach) thinks it is important all Australians celebrate our rich culture. “Not many countries can say we are 80,000 years-old,” Prof Chandler said. “We now know that Indigenous ...

ABC Local
Reconciliation Week: The story of Guunyu the black swan, the Sydney Swans' Indigenous Round guernsey
ABC Local
"This work that I did on the football guernsey, all of Australia will see it, so that's really special for me. She will attend tonight's game surrounded by 30 members of her family, including young nieces and nephews. "I keep getting asked 'How will ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sport brings out the best in people - Canberra needs to play the game
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last Friday I stood looking at a wonderful aboriginal painting by Gloria Tamerre Petyarre. She was born at Mosquito Bore in the Northern Territory and now lives in Alice Springs. Her painting is from the Western Australian Le Pley family collection and ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Boost recognition of Indigenous history to protect colonial statues: report
The Sydney Morning Herald
Hostility from the public is the greatest threat to Australia's historical monuments, and governments should better recognise Indigenous stories, including "courageous resistance" against European colonisation, a report into a series of attacks on ...

The Australian Financial Review
Why we need an Indigenous 'voice to the Parliament'
The Australian Financial Review
Sure, the body would participate in policy debate and legislation touching Indigenous Australians. Sure, it would carry weight and generate debate. That was the point. Indigenous people have no voice. They are powerless in the regulations and policies ...

SBS
How AI is helping preserve Indigenous languages
SBS
Australia's Indigenous population is rich in linguistic diversity, with over 300 languages spoken across different communities. Some of the languages can be as distinct as Japanese is to German. But many are at risk of becoming extinct because they are ...

ABC Online
Remote NT school reopens after Indigenous ceremony removes 'curse'
ABC Online
On Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Indigenous residents readily acknowledge the existence of curses. So when one was placed on Angurugu School, supposedly by a man after a fight with his wife, it closed for the next 13 days. But the 159 ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal reconciliation and what we can learn from a French philosopher
ABC Online
What can a French historian and philosopher tell us about reconciliation between black and white in Australia? More than a century ago, when in Australia it was still widely presumed that Aboriginal people were a dying race, Ernest Renan was grappling ...

Architecture AU
We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap
Architecture AU
The tenth anniversary of the launch of the Council of Australian Governments' (COAG) Closing the Gap agenda came and went, with the usual (often exasperated) commentators noting the lack of progress. The Australian Human Rights Commission was ...

TIMES NEWS GROUP (press release) (blog)
Australia's Best Indigenous Surfers carve up Bells
TIMES NEWS GROUP (press release) (blog)
Some of the country's best Indigenous surfers congregated on Bells Beach over the weekend for the seventh annual Australian Indigenous Surfing Titles. Surfing Victoria's Jordie Campbell, one of the event's organisers, said the competition had gone from ...