Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Family the best form of welfare
The Australian
That ideal, however, is the basis of successful non-government initiatives such as the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, which has opened doors for indigenous students at the nation's leading schools. Mr Wyatt, Australia's first indigenous ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Stolenwealth Games indigenous protest creates traffic chaos in Southport
Gold Coast Bulletin
Up to 30 protesters sat across the tram tracks and blocked motorists and trams after starting the protest inside Australia Fair shopping centre at 3.30pm. Aboriginal protesters crowd around the shops in Australia Fair. Photo: Brianna Morris-Grant. It ...
Emma Manix-Geeves picked in Australian indigenous squad which will tour the UK for first timeThe Mercury
Surprise! Australia Is Run Almost Entirely By White PeopleJunkee
Tenterfield Tours expands its indigenous heritage experienceTenterfield Star
Hit 107 -The Australian
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NEWS.com.au
For $340000 a year, we deserve better than Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane
NEWS.com.au
Although those who have non-European and indigenous backgrounds make up an estimated 24 per cent of the Australian population, such backgrounds account for only 5 per cent of senior leaders. “In a society where nearly one-quarter is estimated to have a ...

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Junkee
Surprise! Australia Is Run Almost Entirely By White People
Junkee
It found that of the 2490 most senior posts in Australian state and federal governments, 95 per cent are held by white people. Despite making up three per cent of the population, Indigenous Australians compose just 0.4 per cent of those positions. In ...

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ABC Online
Too many Aboriginal kids are cycling from out-of-home care to the justice system — here's how we stop it
ABC Online
The trajectory from out-of-home care to the justice system is glaringly obvious to many Aboriginal people. I know: I have lived it. As a young boy, I lost both of my parents. I was placed with family in what is considered "kinship care", but I was ...

WAtoday
Fake indigenous art inquiry to hear from West Australian Gija artists
WAtoday
Photograph shows examples of souvenirs featuring fake or unlicensed Indigenous art and designs. Photo: Indigenous Art Code. The parliamentary committee was set up by Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion to look into the growth of bogus Aboriginal ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Fake indigenous art inquiry to hear from West Australian Gija artists
The Sydney Morning Herald
The parliamentary committee was set up by Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion to look into the growth of bogus Aboriginal art flooding the market and robbing artists of their income. Artists and representative bodies from across WA have called ...

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Radio Australia
Commonwealth Games: Historian hits back at 'romanticised' Indigenous representation
Radio Australia
Indigenous protesters have gathered at the Commonwealth Games in the past week to put the spotlight on broader Indigenous issues in Australia. A group of Indigenous rights activists blocked the path of the Commonwealth Games baton last week, forcing ...

ABC Online
Commonwealth Games: Historian hits back at 'romanticised' Indigenous representation
ABC Online
Indigenous protesters have gathered at the Commonwealth Games in the past week to put the spotlight on broader Indigenous issues in Australia. A group of Indigenous rights activists blocked the path of the Commonwealth Games baton last week, forcing ...

ABC Online
Indonesia turns to Australian Indigenous elders for help with marine sustainability
ABC Online
Indigenous elders on the Mid North Coast are sharing their knowledge about environmental sustainability with Indonesian marine and fisheries leaders. The group, from the Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku, are on a four-week tour of ...

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SBS
Renewed calls for diversity in top jobs after Human Rights Commission report
SBS
... self-image. "The general Australian population has about 24 per cent of people who have non-European and Indigenous background. What we're seeing then, is a significant under-representation of cultural diversity in senior leadership," he told SBS ...

The Guardian
Australia's political and business leaders overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic, research finds
The Guardian
“Described another way, about 95% of senior leaders in Australia have an Anglo-Celtic or European background,” the report says. “Although those who have non-European and Indigenous backgrounds make up an estimated 24% of the Australian population, such ...

Service delivery will never improve until indigenous Australians own assets to protect
The Australian
Very few individuals in Aboriginal communities have an asset the value of which will be increased by the services that Australian governments are trying to deliver. Individuals who own a house on freehold or long-term leasehold land (as in Canberra ...

New York Times
In a Proudly Diverse Australia, White People Still Run Almost Everything
New York Times
SYDNEY, Australia — Australia prides itself on its fairness and multiculturalism. But wander through Sydney's corporate towers or Canberra's halls of Parliament, and you'll notice that Australia's power structure is overwhelmingly white, nowhere near ...

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The Mercury
Emma Manix-Geeves picked in Australian indigenous squad which will tour the UK for first time
The Mercury
Manix-Geeves is the sole Tasmanian in either squad and joins a youthful female outfit which has an average age of just 20.5. However the keeper-batter will be far from out of her depth, having won player of the tournament at the National Indigenous ...

The Queensland Times
Malcolm Turnbull didn't know the words to a classic Aussie hit
NEWS.com.au
However, the ceremony was dominated by a celebration of indigenous culture on the Gold Coast and included a traditional smoking ceremony performed by contemporary Aboriginal artist Luther Cora and his family. It's what makes the closed caption blunder ...
PM busted in embarrassing Aussie pop-culture gaffThe Queensland Times

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australian cricketers to commemorate 1868 tour with trip to UK
The Guardian
Ashleigh Gardner will captain the Australian women's team on the tour of the UK in June. Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA. D'Arcy Short and Dan Christian will commemorate 150 years since their fellow Aboriginal cricketers became the first sporting team from ...

SBS - The World Game
'I grew up in a sheep yard' and 'appears to be over land rights', Sunrise baffled by Indigenous protest
SBS - The World Game
The group have been protesting Australia's treatment of Indigenous people at a series of events over the last week and are calling the games the "Stolenwealth Games". Chanting “Shame on Sunrise”, “they say justice, we say murder” and “always was ...

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SBS
Short, Christian on indigenous tour of UK
SBS
Indigenous Australian cricketers will tour the UK to mark the 150th anniversary of the landmark 1868 tour. Updated Updated 3 mins ago. D'Arcy Short and Dan Christian will commemorate 150 years since their fellow Aboriginal cricketers became the first ...
Indigenous cricketers to tour UKABC Online

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NEWS.com.au
Rugby Australia announces $3.8m loss for 2017 after AGM in Sydney
NEWS.com.au
RA recorded a surplus of $17.8 million following a $3.7 million surplus in 2016 but the year also included $21.6 million in government funding for the new RA headquarters in Sydney. Without that one off injection, RA recorded an operational deficit of ...

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