Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
'Blatantly discriminatory': changes to remote work-for-dole scheme criticised
The Guardian
The scheme covers 75% of Australia's land mass and about 1,000 remote communities. About 83% of its 35,000 participants are Indigenous. Participants earn, on average, about $11 an hour for up to 25 hours of work or work-like activity for 46 weeks a ...

The Australian
Indigenous actor Tom E Lewis dies aged 59
The Australian
His break out role was the wild character of Jimmie in the 1978 movie Chant of the Jimmie Blacksmith, which explored the racism towards indigenous Australians in colonial Australia. He was also known for his role in A Town Like Alice, a mini-series ...

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The Guardian
Time to eradicate HTLV-1, World Health Organisation is warned
The Guardian
HTLV-1 affects roughly 20 million people but a lack of awareness and testing mean there could be many more. Guardian Australia has revealed that in five Aboriginal communities around Alice Springs, an estimated 45% of adults tested have the virus, a ...
HIV's Ancient Cousin, HTLV-1, Surging Through Indigenous Australian CommunitiesContagionlive.com

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The Conversation AU
How Captain Cook became a contested national symbol
The Conversation AU
These include the development of digital heritage resources and exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum, National Library, AIATSIS and the National Museum of Australia, as well as support for training “Indigenous cultural heritage professionals in ...

The Australian
Early warning over finances of indigenous group Black Arm Band
The Australian
The financial affairs of failed indigenous arts company the Black Arm Band — including questions about $450,000 of federal grants — were reported to the Australia Council two years before the company folded in December. Former Black Arm Band ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Once a reluctant role model, Inglis now wears heart on his sleeve
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Round has become far more than a buzzword for the NRL. Its First Nation players take the week to heart, using it as an expression of their family and culture and helping to raise awareness for the issues at the heart of many of Australia's ...

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Daily Telegraph
Indigenous national anthem moves NRL players and fans at Leichhardt Oval
Daily Telegraph
Rebecca Hatch, an HSC student from Campbelltown Performing Arts High School, received praise for her unique performance that used traditional indigenous words and instruments to the tune of the national anthem. Hatch then continued with the English ...

Australia expanding Aboriginal land rights
Cyprus Mail
Recognition of land rights for an Aboriginal group in Adelaide after an 18-year legal battle could spur more Australian cities to acknowledge such claims and make urban spaces more inclusive of indigenous communities, an analyst said. A land use deal ...

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SBS
Exclusive: Footage shows police car appearing to cross road to hit Indigenous teen
SBS
New footage of an incident in which West Australian Police hit an Indigenous man with an unmarked police car has emerged, appearing to show the police car crossing the road and cutting him off before knocking the man to the ground. Video that initially ...

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SBS
'Tears of joy': Indigenous descendants from Vanuatu begin family search
SBS
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following article contains images of deceased persons. Chief Richard David Fandanumata has travelled to Australia from Vanuatu to see the land his great-grandfather came from.

SBS
'Tears of joy' as Aboriginal Australian descendants from Vanuatu begin search for families
SBS
An estimated 7000 Melanesian workers were deported after 1901 when the White Australia policy kicked in. “We've always been aware of the Australian Aboriginal descendants living in Vanuatu,” says Ms Davis. Details of exactly how they ended up there ...

SBS
'Tears of joy': Aboriginal Australian descendants from Vanuatu begin family search
SBS
An estimated 7000 Melanesian workers were deported after 1901 when the White Australia policy kicked in. “We've always been aware of the Australian Aboriginal descendants living in Vanuatu,” says Ms Davis. Details of exactly how they ended up there ...

The Guardian
Indigenous leaders say remote housing in jeopardy after 'devastating' budget cut
The Guardian
Indigenous leaders have warned that community housing will fall into disrepair – and crucial local employment programs will be scrapped – after the federal government set aside no money for remote housing in three states. Queensland, Western Australia ...

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The Guardian
Police car filmed veering across road and hitting Aboriginal man
The Guardian
The Western Australian police minister has been asked to explain why a police car seemingly drove into a young Aboriginal man walking along the side of the road in the Perth suburb of Thornlie on Sunday afternoon. Footage recorded by a witness in a ...

InDaily
Aboriginal art dynasty projects its story to new audiences
InDaily
“It's been known to be one of the Indigenous communities with the worst conditions in Australia,” Torres says. “We do have the government resources but no one has pointed the funds to our community, probably because we don't have that front leading ...

ABC Online
Indigenous foods more than just the flavour of the month as top Italian chefs visit Arnhem Land
ABC Online
Mangrove worms, magpie goose, desserts garnished with green ants — the Indigenous ingredients traditionally eaten in Australia's most remote areas are making their way to menus in its major cities. Now, international Michelin-starred chefs have had a ...

The Conversation AU
How we're using fish ear bones as 'time capsules' of past river health
The Conversation AU
The endangered iconic Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii), Australia's largest native freshwater species, is currently known to reach lengths of around 180 centimetres, weigh up to 100 kilograms, and live to an age of around 48 years. It is one large fish.

The Conversation AU
Deal on Murray Darling Basin Plan could make history for Indigenous water rights
The Conversation AU
Our research estimated that Indigenous-specific water entitlements comprise much less than 1% of Australian water allocations. The agreed measures include A$40 million for Aboriginal communities to invest in water entitlements for both economic and ...

ABC Online
Budget 2018: Aboriginal patients convinced the Government to help them get home
ABC Online
Indigenous dialysis patients have been mobilising for change. At a forum last year, patients said too many people were dying a lonely death in cities and towns because there were few treatment centres in remote Australia. Over the next four years, the ...
Indigenous Round provides a fitting recognitionNRL.COM

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The Australian
Federal budget 2018: Indigenous groups slam budget's 'squandered opportunity'
The Australian
Oxfam Australia chief executive Helen Szoke called the budget “yet another squandered opportunity to work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to drive the solutions to the challenges they face” and warned its lack of ...