Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Culture can never be used as an excuse for abuse of children
The Australian
The main reason indigenous children are seven times likelier than non-indigenous children to be the subject of a “substantiated” (proven) report of abuse and neglect — as the report released yesterday, Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence in Australia ...

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National Indigenous Times
50 years since Rose beat the world, where are we?
National Indigenous Times
Fifty years ago this week, Lionel Rose became the first Aboriginal Australian to win a world championship. On 26 February 1968, he defeated Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan for the world bantamweight boxing title. His success occurred nine months ...
Closing the Indigenous accountancy gapINTHEBLACK
Introducing Weave: a month-long celebration of Indigenous art, culture and film in AustraliaHappy

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Now To Love
Nuclear weapon testing killed and blinded Aussies in our own backyard
Now To Love
When we hear about nuclear weapons, we think of the notorious and devastating Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, but what about Australia? For years, Indigenous communities in South Australia endured extreme nuclear weapon testing at the hands of the ...
Australia and nuclear strategy: the empty middle ground?The Strategist (blog)

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The Interpreter
2017 Australia–Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue Outcomes Report
The Interpreter
Participants noted that some populations, for example Indigenous Australians, are more at risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and heart disease and that health promotion campaigns should be designed appropriately to combat this. Programs ...

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Closing the Indigenous accountancy gap
INTHEBLACK
“At its worst, a lack of financial literacy leaves Indigenous peoples vulnerable to financial exploitation …” Cable's experience, however, is not typical of Indigenous Australians and the accounting profession. Of the 200,000 accountants accredited in ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Canberra Now: News in 90 seconds for Wednesday, February 28, 2018
The Sydney Morning Herald
San Antonio Spurs' Patty Mills, center, from Australia, drives between Cleveland Cavaliers' Jeff Green, left, and Kyle Korver in the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak). Photo: TONY DEJAK ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Claim that some indigenous activists are considering terror ahead of Commonwealth Games should be taken deadly ...
Gold Coast Bulletin
That evil is rearing its head again, and this time the Gold Coast is in the gun-sights. A report by Richard Ferguson in Monday's Australian carried alarming quotes from indigenous activist Wayne Wharton, who claimed that young Aboriginals harbour such ...

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New research reveals higher domestic violence rates for indigenous
The Australian
The report, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, suggests indigenous women are 32 times more likely than non-indigenous women to be admitted to hospital due to family violence. Indigenous men are 23 times more likely to be ...

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SBS
Australia's Peter Cosgrove vows to promote religious freedoms, Indigenous rights in new UN human rights position
SBS
Sorry, it appears as though your operating system and/or web browser does not support modern standards. Please consider updating your web browser. It is the first time Australia has been elected a member of the UN Human Rights Council. Updated Updated ...

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InDaily
Marshall's grand old RAH plan running behind interstate rival
InDaily
Marshall's concept also appears likely to delay – or even kill off – hopes for a broader contemporary art gallery for the site, which is currently the subject of an international design competition. He said today the absence of a national indigenous ...
SA Libs want art gallery on hospital siteSBS

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SBS
This native superfood is 8 times as nutritious as potato and tastes as sweet as coconut
SBS
We all know about the North American yam and its place on the Thanksgiving table (even if candied yams are actually made with sweet potatoes), but did you know that Australia has native varieties of the root vegetable, too? There's a long agricultural ...

The Australian
PoliticsNow: live news, analysis from the House of Representatives and Senate
The Australian
“Governments make the mistake of hand selecting people that they will listen to.” Earlier this month, Mr Turnbull said the government would not support the “voice” concept and warned it would become a third chamber of parliament. “If it were to succeed ...
Politics Live: Malcolm Turnbull tries to shake off Barnaby Joyce sagaThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
Morning mail: voters not troubled by Joyce affair
The Guardian
Two of Australia's most acclaimed writers, Helen Garner and Kim Scott, took to the stage together at Perth writers' week. Brigid Delaney hears them sharing their thoughts on literature, writing communities, #MeToo and more. “Garner could deliver her ...

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The Guardian (blog)
When Douglas Grant met Henry Lawson: new light on Australia's dark story
The Guardian (blog)
Grant's life was complex, incorporating so many competing narratives of Australian history. There is the frequently overlooked story of modern Australia – that of violent dispossession and all its profound reverberations through intergenerational ...

The Australian
'Silenced' indigenous abuse victims living in fear
The Australian
Documents obtained by The Australian under Freedom of Information laws show child neglect was the most widespread issue in the communities visited by the former National Indigenous Intelligence Taskforce established by the Australian Criminal ...

Wild Australia Tour: safe encounters with the exotic, the native, the savage, the other
The Australian
We are probably the first international arts exports of this colonised country. From the early 1800s we entertained the elite of Germany, England, North America and most notably in “return seasons” at the Paris world's fair. Our culture, songs and ...

The Advertiser
SA Liberals propose national Aboriginal Art and Culture Gallery, high-end hotel for old RAH site
The Advertiser
AUSTRALIA'S leading indigenous art gallery would become the centrepiece of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site, under a bold new Liberal redevelopment plan. With two and a half weeks until the state election, The Advertiser can reveal the Opposition's ...

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Indigenous model Charlee Fraser is proud to represent her culture on the fashion world stage
Daily Telegraph
Fraser will appear on the magazine's cover alongside Australian models Fernanda Ly, Akiima and Andreja Pejic as a move to promote diversity in the industry. Vogue Australia editor in chief Edwina McCann said the magazine was proud of the revolutionary ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Museum festival, Weave, tackles myths of Sydney's first people
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's Aboriginal people were the first known astronomers, the world's first known bread makers and pioneered ground-edge axe technology – but you wouldn't know it from most historic accounts of early white settlement. The colonial rush to ...

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SBS
The mobile restaurant popping up in a gorge or over a river in Western Australia
SBS
If you don't know much about Australia, you may assume our local cuisine is a strange conglomerate of our most famous exports – lamingtons and meat pies, for example. Paul Iskov, head chef and owner of Western Australian pop up restaurant Fervor is ...