Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

EducationHQ Australia
Book swap aims to help Indigenous literacy
EducationHQ Australia
While 88 per cent of Indigenous Year 3 students in major cities met or exceeded the national minimum standard for reading in 2017, only 46 per cent of students in very remote areas did so. The ILF has run the Great Book Swap for the past eight years ...

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The Conversation AU
What writers and publishers must learn from the Deadly Woman Blues fiasco
The Conversation AU
With Deadly Woman Blues, Walker sought to produce a chronologically ordered biographical encyclopedia cataloguing the overlooked histories and achievements of black women in Australian music. This included not only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Book swap aims to help indigenous literacy
SBS
While 88 per cent of indigenous Year 3 students in major cities met or exceeded the national minimum standard for reading in 2017, only 46 per cent of students in very remote areas did so. The ILF has run the Great Book Swap for the past eight years ...

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Healthcare IT News (blog)
All-women team set to improve Indigenous health with “highly unusual” grant win
Healthcare IT News (blog)
The exceptional grant to an all-woman team has kick-started work into the prevention of falls, which the researchers said affect one in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people each year, contributing to injuries and deaths. The Ironbark ...

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National Indigenous Times
Protesters set to harness Games exposure
National Indigenous Times
The Commonwealth Games — which will begin on the Gold Coast on April 4 — will be a chance to take the struggles of Australia's Indigenous people to the world, Aboriginal activist Wayne Wharton said. Up to 5000 demonstrators from across Australia are ...

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9Honey
One brilliant idea took Mikaela Jade from bush ranger to game changer
9Honey
... a young Indigenous woman living in a remote area "high risk". But she eventually came upon a company in the UK who said 'we love it, let's do it'. Mikaela now has a small team working offshore and Indigital has taken her all around the world. She ...

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National Indigenous Times
Kickett lines up new career goal
National Indigenous Times
Many of the Indigenous players in the league today are relatives, including Swans star Buddy Franklin. “I think we've got up in the high 60s or 70s national players – three quarters of the players come from WA and they are mostly Noongar players ...

National Indigenous Times
Don't ignore your kidneys, pleads Leanne
National Indigenous Times
The statistics are grim: Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to have indicators of chronic kidney disease and four times more likely to die from it than other Australians. Many people don't even know they have it until the situation ...

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National Indigenous Times
'I know Australia is a better nation than this'
National Indigenous Times
He said only Indigenous people could close the gap, but it would mean changing the relationship Australia has with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Mr Yu said a political settlement to Indigenous constitutional recognition should be tied ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Women in Music Awards announced
The Sydney Morning Herald
The awards come after research published in 2017 found gender inequality is rife in the Australian music industry. Women make up around one fifth of songwriters and composers registered with the Australasian Performing Rights Association and generally ...

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Indigenous dilemma: words are not enough
The Mandarin
Fred Chaney and Bill Gray believe the government's promises to work with Aboriginal people will remain undeliverable rhetoric without changes to delegation and accountability frameworks. In a recent article, Professor Ken Smith, Dean of the Australian ...

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NEWS.com.au
Miranda Live: Warren Mundine asks — Are the words 'indigenous, Aboriginal' racist?
NEWS.com.au
IS it time we changed the way we refer to First Australians? Indigenous leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine is set to tackle the sensitive matter of racism and naming conventions today on Miranda Live. The former National President of the Australian Labor ...

The Guardian
'I won't be the lone voice': Vonda Malone wants Torres Strait Islanders to be heard
The Guardian
In addition to her focus on housing, health and waste management, Malone wants to cement the Torres Strait as an international tourist destination, empowering Indigenous businesses and boosting local employment. She is committed to ensuring Torres ...

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National Indigenous Times
Big jump in school retention rate: report
National Indigenous Times
But while there were some gains for Indigenous Australia in this year's report there were also losses. Nearly 32 percent of Indigenous children up to the age of 14 lived in homes that ran out of money for basic living expenses in 2014-15. They were ...
'I won't be the lone voice': Vonda Malone wants Torres Strait Islanders to be heardThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Classroom 'innovation' leading the way for high Naplan results
The Guardian
“The first [and] ongoing step has been to build teacher and teacher-aide capacity,” she said. Using funds from a Queensland state government grant, the school employed a numeracy coach whose mandate was to improve mathematics results for ESL and ...

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Radio Australia
Black Divaz documentary illuminates what it means to be Indigenous and queer in Australia
Radio Australia
The one-hour documentary was commissioned by NITV and had its world premiere at the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney to a packed 800-seat cinema. It was broadcast last weekend on SBS, and is available on SBS On Demand throughout March. Dedicating ...

ABC Online
Indigenous work for the dole scheme slaps thousands with serious failures
ABC Online
Thousands of people in a controversial work for the dole scheme have been threatened with having their Centrelink payments cut off for eight weeks. The Community Development Programme (CDP) forces unemployed people in remote areas to work up to three ...

The Australian
Green Lee Rhiannon's European kangaroo roadtrip 'absolute insanity'
The Australian
It contains a re-enactment of a phone call from an “anonymous kangaroo harvester”, and shows two activists holding the body of a kangaroo killed by a gunshot declaring: “This kangaroo represents the face of the kangaroo industry.” Mr Littleproud ...

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The Australian
Call to eliminate cap for indigenous uni enrolments
The Australian
Places for indigenous students in Australian universities should be quarantined from any limits on student enrolments, according to the dean of Aboriginal engagement and strategic projects at the University of South Australia, Peter Buckskin. Professor ...

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SBS
Book on black women musicians dumped after explosive claims author didn't interview artists
SBS
A new book detailing the history of black women in Australian music has been killed by its publisher after several of the women featured in its pages made explosive claims it was inaccurate, and that the author did not speak to them at all during the ...
Deadly Woman Blues book to be pulped following backlash over 'distressing' errorsThe Sydney Morning Herald

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