Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Mandarin
The People & Culture Podcast: in conversation with Peter McIntyre, CEO Engineers Australia
The Mandarin
We also discuss Indigenous Australian participation in the profession and some of the oldest engineering in the world – complex fish and eel traps in Victoria. Peter also explains how the profession has had to adapt and move much closer to the ...

AdNews
15 years of Vice in Australia
AdNews
The first local documentary for Vice Australia, which Slonim said put Vice on the map over here, was its film on underground kingpin Mark Chopper Read in 2007. Since then, Vice has set itself apart from the pack with documentaries on indigenous ...

ABC Online
Royal wedding: Meghan Markle's race is not a question worth debating
ABC Online
The Australian Law Reform Commission lists historically more than 60 different definitions of who was considered as Indigenous. Today, I am asked to tick a box on the census form identifying whether I am Aboriginal. It is an entirely invented category ...

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Junkee
WA Is Finally Taking Steps To Help Prevent Indigenous Deaths In Custody
Junkee
After years of pressure and campaigning, Western Australia is finally getting a custody notification service to help prevent Indigenous deaths in police custody. Under the new system, which will be up and running before the end of the year, WA police ...

Men's Health
Puma Celebrates Indigenous Culture With New Range
Men's Health
“The history and importance of the Indigenous culture is something that we at PUMA are honoured to be able to recognise and celebrate with this collection,” says PUMA Oceania General Manger, Pancho Gutstein. “Being able to support such a talented ...

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Architecture AU
Do Indigenous cultural landscapes matter?
Architecture AU
Australians and visitors are exposed to Indigenous place attachments through Indigenous settlements, everyday encounters and highly stylized cultural presentations in tourism and community facilities. The Gold Coast conurbation forms a part of what was ...

Herald Sun
How Australia celebrated the bicentenary in 1988
Herald Sun
At the same time, an estimated 40,000 people marched through the streets of Sydney, with protests in other cities, demanding land rights for Aboriginal people. The Uniting Church urged Australians to boycott bicentennial events unless indigenous rights ...

ABC Online
Queensland Government launches lawsuit against Kingvale Station owners over Cape York land clearing
ABC Online
The Queensland Government has launched legal action against the owner of a Cape York cattle station at the centre of a land-clearing controversy for allegedly breaching an obligation to care for Indigenous heritage. The owner of Kingvale Station on the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Greens MP Lidia Thorpe says she may oppose treaty legislation
The Guardian
she told Guardian Australia. “We are a patient people, it's taken us 200 years to get this far.” The legislation, titled the Advancing the treaty process with Aboriginal Victorians bill 2018, sets out the process for establishing an Aboriginal ...

Research reveals boat journey of the first Australians
The Australian
Scientists from the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA in South Australia contributed genetic modelling from mitochondrial DNA from living indigenous Australian lineages to show that the original gene pool came from a founding population of up to 200 ...

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The Australian
Cheesemaker ups the anty and US says yes
The Australian
Weaver ants — a traditional indigenous foodstuff in far north Australia — may not be the next sheep's back for our nation but, for Lloyd and her company Woodside Cheesewrights, they have proven the catalyst for a whole new business exporting cheese ...

Carlton Football Club
Indigenous guernsey unveiled
Carlton Football Club
“The canoe tree is an important symbol for Aboriginal groups. It was used for transport, hunting and trade and provided many resources for Indigenous Australians, including the boomerang, which also features in the monogram,” Young said. “Each winding ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Clay Stories brings Indigenous arts communities vividly to life
The Sydney Morning Herald
Clay Stories: Contemporary Indigenous Ceramics from Remote Australia. Various artists. Strathnairn Arts. Until July 1. We are indeed privileged in Canberra at the present time to be able to enjoy two exhibitions by Indigenous artists. At Craft ACT ...

Gippsland Times
Chris Sarra, Andrea Mason spearhead Malcolm Turnbull's bid to reboot Indigenous policy
Gippsland Times
The Turnbull Government has moved to transform its relationship with Indigenous Australia by announcing a new advisory group that includes Aboriginal educator Chris Sarra. In a bid to rebuild trust, the Prime Minister has opted for a two-stage process ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal astronomy can teach us about the link between sky and land
The Guardian
If you've had any form of state education in Australia, I'm sure you must have heard an Indigenous dreamtime story at least once in your life. Maybe it was Tiddalick the Frog, or maybe even the Rainbow Serpent. These stories you may have heard as a ...
Crime rates drop but Indigenous people being jailed more than everRed Flag

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Red Flag
Crime rates drop but Indigenous people being jailed more than ever
Red Flag
Throughout Australia, crime rates have decreased, but the incarceration rate –particularly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders – has increased dramatically. Despite making up only 3 percent of the population, Indigenous people are 28 percent of ...
Uprooted: how an Aboriginal woman stopped being MāoriStuff.co.nz

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Red Flag
Another life lost in WA's criminal injustice system
Red Flag
A single Facebook post on 7 May, among a sea of local news articles, was the only acknowledgement of a young Indigenous man's sudden death days earlier in the West Kimberley Regional Prison, near Derby in north-west Western Australia.

Herald Sun
The tragic life and death of Aussie rules founder Tom Wills
Herald Sun
... 23 in Melbourne began dreaming up an alternative. It is believed his exposure to the indigenous game marngrook, which involved the kicking of marsupial skins over large areas by up to 50 people, may have inspired Wills' development of Australian rules.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
The 'aitch' or 'haitch' debate has a dark side
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous children in colonial nations like Australia and Canada have suffered everything from shame to corporal punishment for speaking their native language in schools, boarding houses, and public places. Suppression of minority languages is driven ...

The Guardian
Labor uses female MPs in question time to make gender point – as it happened
The Guardian
Today, I pay my respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging, as well as to those of all Indigenous Australians in this room, and beyond it.

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