Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

National Indigenous Times
Adoptions threaten culture: peak body
National Indigenous Times
Any move to have Aboriginal children adopted by non-Indigenous families would be a backward step, according to Australia's peak body representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. SNAICC (National Voice for Our Children) chairwoman ...

The Guardian
Indigenous group 'offered $10m in water' to help pass Murray-Darling plan
The Guardian
The government offered an Indigenous group $10m in water entitlements as it tried to get its plan to reduce water for environmental flows in the Murray-Darling basin through the Senate, a senior Indigenous leader has said. Fred Hooper, who heads the ...

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National Indigenous Times
Clancy of the over throw set to shine
National Indigenous Times
Australia's golden girl of beach volleyball, Taliqua Clancy, is expecting her toughest competition at the Commonwealth Games to come from Canada, Vanuatu and New Zealand. Two years ago Clancy, 25, became the first Indigenous beach volleyballer to ...

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Warwick Daily News
Indigenous language link reveals common ancestor
The University of Newcastle, Australia
“These findings show that Indigenous Australian languages were not the likely languages spoken by the first inhabitants of Australia, raising more questions around how the languages spread and how the linguistic findings connect to the genetic findings ...
'White Australia needs to know it has a very black history'Warwick Daily News
Carnegie starts building 10-MW solar park in AustraliaRenewables Now

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ABC Online
Sketch on Tom Ballard show Tonightly cops criticism, Cory Bernardi says 'someone needs to lose their job'
ABC Online
ABC Comedy show Tonightly aired a sketch last week labelling Australian Conservatives candidate for the Batman by-election, Kevin Bailey, a "c***". Cast member Greg Larsen used the same language to criticise the man who the electorate is named after ...

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ABC Online
Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum?
ABC Online
Most recently, the Indigenous actor Shareena Clanton said on ABC TV's Q&A program: "My mother was born in 1965 and she was not considered a human being until the referendum came through from the flora and fauna act in 1967." Warren Mundine, a ...

Spear Hill site a 'spiritual centre': report
National Indigenous Times
Roland Coppin, Ronald Hicks and Terry Hughes take a break during a cultural evaluation of Ngajanha Kanyja. A cultural evaluation report for traditional owners has found the Eastern Guruma people of Western Australia's Pilbara used and occupied an area ...

National Indigenous Times
Multiple bids for SA salt lake fall over
National Indigenous Times
Three Aboriginal groups have failed in competing claims over Australia's second biggest salt lake, the 250km Lake Torrens in central South Australia. The Full Court of the Federal Court this month dismissed separate appeals by the Kokatha People, the ...

National Indigenous Times
New crop of rangers look out for country
National Indigenous Times
Mutitjulu elders have launched a new Central Land Council ranger group to manage the vast Katiti Petermann Indigenous Protected Area around the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park. Central Land Council chairman Francis Kelly said Mutitjulu's Tjakura rangers ...

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National Indigenous Times
Music's big guns set to ignite Karijini
National Indigenous Times
Some of Australia's biggest Aboriginal music stars will take to the red gorges of Karijini next month. Archie Roach, Deborah Cheetham and Gina Williams will be among the line-up at the sixth annual Karijini Experience, which will run from April 17-22 ...

ABC Online
'There are bones all through our beaches': Why people are finding skeletons in the Kimberley
ABC Online
It is surprisingly common for historical skeletons to turn up in bushland and coastal cliffs in remote areas. That is because for thousands of years, Aboriginal people interred the remains of people who died in rock ledges, caves, sand dunes and even ...

ABC Online
As ice use has climbed, so has the number of children removed from families
ABC Online
I was homeless for so many years." Now, she has been clean for more than two years, is studying for a career in social work, and has set up a support group for other mums involved with child-protection services. Megan said the drug ice was "devastating ...

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The Australian
Syphilis spread sourced back to funding cut in Queensland
The Australian
The syphilis epidemic ravaging remote indigenous communities across northern and central Australia might have been averted if public sexual health services had survived 2012 spending cuts by the Newman government, it has been claimed. The outbreak ...

The Australian Financial Review
How FIFO activists are doing down Indigenous Australia
The Australian Financial Review
Here it also hurts the poorest Australians, people in remote and regional Australia and Indigenous people engaging in economic activities on their traditional lands. This was demonstrated by the weekend byelection in Batman, where mostly affluent Labor ...

ABC Online
Bilingual bilby tracking app to map endangered marsupial across central Australian desert
ABC Online
A bilingual mobile app is at the centre of a huge effort by Indigenous rangers to track and record bilby movements in central Australia. The Bilby Blitz program, run by the Northern Territory-based Central Land Council, involves 20 ranger groups ...

ABC Online
Israel in the Kimberley: How the Top End nearly became a global Jewish hub
ABC Online
Just before the outbreak of World War II, a bold plan was proposed by a former Soviet official which could have saved tens of thousands of Jewish lives. In 1939, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation identified the Kimberley in ...

Tony Abbott given extra entitlements as former prime minister
The Guardian
Tony Abbott was given an additional entitlement as a former prime minister to use Comcars in Sydney. Photograph: Ben Macmahon/AAP. Malcolm Turnbull granted Tony Abbott extra travel entitlements for the use of chauffeured cars in Sydney after replacing ...

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IT Brief Australia
Fujitsu Australia rolls out 12-month Reconciliation Action Plan
IT Brief Australia
Fujitsu Australia has reached another milestone in its 12-month Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), an initiative that promotes equality for Australia Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people. The RAP, launched at the company's Macquarie Park Head ...

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New Matilda
We Do Need To Be Concerned About Creating 'Another Stolen Generations'
New Matilda
The state intervenes often into the realm of family to ensure the protection of Australia's children, investigating 119,173 cases of suspected child abuse or neglect last financial year (2016-17). More than 36% of all Australian children living in care ...

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Independent Australia
Dutton, Sunrise and the invisible system of white privilege
Independent Australia
Dr Jennifer Wilson discusses the ethos of white superiority and entitlement in recent comments by Peter Dutton and Channel 7's 'Sunrise' panel. HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER PETER DUTTON last week postulated the interesting notion that white farmers in South ...

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