Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

SBS
Will Australia follow the NT's promise to raise the age of criminal responsibility?
SBS
One of such 'in principle' commitments was the promise to raise the age of criminal responsibility. Following the announcement, Amnesty International's Indigenous Rights Campaigner, Roxanne Moore, pointed out the NT government must raise the age of ...

Beef Central
Indigenous cattlemen experience eye-opening trip to Indonesia
Beef Central
Terrance Long, 38, overseer at Gunbalanya Station, Northern Territory, and Robbie Kelly, 24, stockman at Roebuck Export Depot, Western Australia, travelled to Indonesia under a partnership between Halleen Australasian Livestock Traders and the ILC's ...

SBS
Redress scheme is racist towards Indigenous people, Senate committee hears
SBS
Some eligibility requirements of the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse have been labelled as racist towards Indigenous Australians. In the 2017-2018 budget the Australian Government committed $33.4 million towards the ...

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Deadly Woman Blues book to be pulped following backlash over 'distressing' errors
The Sydney Morning Herald
She added that her frustration with the project was perfectly encapsulated in the words of indigenous activist and actor Shareena Clanton on the ABC's Q&A on February 19. "I'm really tired of non-Indigenous peoples making commentaries about Indigenous ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Canberra woman Mikaela Jade wins national award for rock art app
The Sydney Morning Herald
("Veuve" is French for widow.) Mikaela, who has been working on Indigital Storytelling for six years, mostly recently collaborating with Microsoft to use the content on its mixed reality device, HoloLens, felt the award was further validation of her ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Canberra woman Mikaela Jade wins national award for rock art app
The Sydney Morning Herald
("Veuve" is French for widow.) Mikaela, who has been working on Indigital Storytelling for six years, mostly recently collaborating with Microsoft to use the content on its mixed reality device, HoloLens, felt the award was further validation of her ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous Canberra woman Mikaela Jade wins national award for rock art app
The Canberra Times
It was like a double-edged sword, because I could see it so clearly," she said. "I think just chipping away at it and doing it in a remote community was probably the best thing I ever did because we could just get on with it. There wasn't a whole ...

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UNSW Newsroom
UNSW student wins prestigious Indigenous law scholarship
UNSW Newsroom
On Tuesday, the UNSW Sydney student was awarded the Law Council of Australia's 2018 John Koowarta Reconciliation Law Scholarship. The prestigious award is the only national scholarship dedicated to helping Indigenous law students achieve their ambition ...

The North West Star
Kalkadoon woman to speak at business conference
The North West Star
A Cloncurry businesswoman is one of the keynote speakers at the first national Indigenous Women in Business conference this May. The Strong Women, Strong Business conference will draw together more than 120 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

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The Advocate
Aussie tennis legend Evonne Goolagong visits Burnie.
The Advocate
Evonne Goolagong Cawley had three dreams, to win Wimbledon, start a grassroots foundation and to see Indigenous Australian recognised in the constitution. The former world number one and seven-time singles grand slam winner has achieved the first two ...

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The Advocate
Aussie tennis legend Evonne Goolagong visits Burnie.
The Advocate
Evonne Goolagong Cawley had three dreams, to win Wimbledon, start a grassroots foundation and to see Indigenous Australian recognised in the constitution. The former world number one and seven-time singles grand slam winner has achieved the first two ...

The Australian
Aboriginal children's sexual health a national tragedy
The Australian
... born to mothers with syphilis are dying. Labor senator Patrick Dodson has been quoted as saying the national response was inadequate. “Something's not working here,” Senator Dodson said. “If this was happening in Victoria …” But of course, it's ...

MuMbrella
Philanthropy supports journalism initiative with Indigenous affairs at its heart
The Guardian
“I'm delighted and honoured to join the team at the Guardian, who are making this significant public commitment to the coverage of Indigenous affairs, with the support of The Balnaves Foundation. Our stories matter. Now more than ever there's a need to ...
Guardian Australia and the University of Melbourne launch journalism trustMuMbrella

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The Guardian
Queensland police say they used 'minimum force' to restrain Indigenous man who died
The Guardian
Queensland police have defended their use of force prior to the death of Shaun Coolwell in custody. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP. Queensland police used the “minimum force necessary” when they restrained an Indigenous man during a violent, drug-induced ...

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ABC Online
Melbourne Dreaming app makes understanding city's rich Aboriginal history easier
ABC Online
Mr Ritchie said Aboriginal stories could often be overlooked as something that happened in the past or in faraway parts of Australia. "When most people think about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia, they think of it either as something ...

The Australian
Abbott slams Qantas's 'corporate thought police'
The Australian
“Many of our members employ indigenous Australians and we suggest having a more sensitive understanding of the history. They can use whatever words they want, but they have to realise that if they've got a workplace with indigenous people, it might be ...
Qantas staff told to avoid 'gender inappropriate' terms like 'wife' and 'husband'NEWS.com.au

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The Conversation AU
Three charts on: the changing status of Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
A new dataset has shed fresh light on the changing socioeconomic status of Indigenous Australians. It shows that what appears to be slow progress or steady outcomes for the whole population may be masking worsening results. This stems from how the ...

The Weekly Review
Dan Hunter on creating his Australian cuisine
The Weekly Review
Dan Hunter's yam daisies are been misbehaving. The chef and owner of 44th-ranked World's Best Restaurant, Brae, in Birregurra, planted several hundred of the indigenous root vegetable – once widespread on the plains of south-eastern Australia – on his ...

The Guardian (blog)
Pressure builds for a national keeping place for Indigenous remains
The Guardian (blog)
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians the incorporation into the list of the Melbourne Domain Parkland and Memorial Precinct (including the Kings Domain Resting Place where the elders are buried) represents long overdue official ...

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Indigenous child removal puts burden of care on relatives
The Australian
The preference for family carers has left a generation of Aboriginal grandparents overwhelmed and without enough support, according to Ann Oakley, from the Aboriginal child reunification agency Kinship Connections. And retired Aboriginal magistrate Sue ...

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