Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Third-world life in the heart of a first-world city
ABC Online
In the past couple of years she's lost both her son and her husband, Dave Timber, who spent many years vehemently fighting for this land to stay in Aboriginal hands. He was also the glue that held the place together. One Mile Dam has long been an open ...

The Conversation AU
We won't close the gap if the Commonwealth cuts off Indigenous housing support
The Conversation AU
Most worrying are reports that Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland have been advised that remote Indigenous housing is a state responsibility and that Commonwealth funding may end when the current program ends. Even in the Northern ...

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Katherine Times
More young Indigenous people studying and working
Katherine Times
... with the vast majority of those (89 per cent) moving within the state or territory that they lived in. Looking at the homes in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live, 56 per cent are rented, a further 26 per cent are owned with a ...

ABC Online
Q&A: Indigenous Australians are tired of being spoken for, says actress Shareena Clanton
ABC Online
On an episode with plenty of political point-scoring on energy policy and tax cuts, the biggest cheer of the night went to Ms Clanton as she argued for giving Indigenous Australians more of a say in policy decisions. Answering a question by Mick ...

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SBS
Why is the number of male circumcisions declining in Australia?
SBS
In Australia, it said 59 per cent of men were circumcised. But there is evidence showing that is substantially declining with new generations. Based on Medicare records, there were 6309 newborn males circumcised in the 2016/17 financial year. That is a ...

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The Conversation AU
Pro Vice Chancellor (Indigenous)
The Conversation AU
La Trobe University acknowledges that our campuses are located on the lands of many Indigenous Australian traditional custodians in Victoria. We recognise their ongoing connection to the land and value their unique contribution to the University and ...

Pro Vice Chancellor (Indigenous)
The Conversation AU
La Trobe University acknowledges that our campuses are located on the lands of many Indigenous Australian traditional custodians in Victoria. We recognise their ongoing connection to the land and value their unique contribution to the University and ...

ABC Online
Legal stoush continues over artwork of renowned Indigenous painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye
ABC Online
A prominent art dealer has been ordered to "put his money where his mouth is" as a long-running legal dispute involving Australia's highest paid female artist continues in court. The late Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who died in 1996 at the age of 86, is one ...
Qantas Dreamliner artwork inspired by celebrated Australian artistLonely Planet Travel News

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Crikey
Mundine's proposal for remote Indigenous Australia poses more questions than answers
Crikey
With one more ad hoc solution piled on another, it's desperate times for the Mundine-Pearson model of remote-area development. Guy Rundle — Correspondent-at-large · Guy Rundle. Correspondent-at-large. Share. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to ...

NEWS.com.au
Intertwining indigenous art for Festival 2018 on the Gold Coast
NEWS.com.au
At the weekend, local Indigenous models took part in workshops to prepare for the show. Ms Lee has been working with six artists from the Gold Coast to transform their artwork into wearable art. ''The collection is quite tropical,'' Ms Lee said, noting ...
Latest Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander data releasedMirage News

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The Guardian
Progress made on Indigenous retention rates masks growing racial divide at schools
The Guardian
While the proportion of Indigenous enrolments is growing in all sectors, the pace of growth is significantly faster in the poorest schools. Photograph: Peter Hendrie/Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images. Indigenous students are disproportionately ...

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The Guardian
Most Indigenous students consigned to schools with least capacity to help
The Guardian
Most concerning is how we are consigning most Indigenous students, especially the strugglers, to the schools with the least capacity to address their pre-existing disadvantage. These are the schools at the bottom end of the school socio-educational ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Pushing Indigenous business policy past picking winners
The Australian Financial Review
Another big Indigenous affairs announcement got much less attention: the release of the Indigenous Business Sector Strategy (IBSS). The Indigenous-owned business sector is growing faster than the rest of the economy. This is good news. Increasing ...

Asia Times
Why Indigenous Australians aren't 'closing the gap'
Asia Times
This year's Closing the Gap report tells a more positive story than the 2017 report on the seven measurable gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in the areas of health, education and employment. According to the government's figures ...

South Coast Register
Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services
South Coast Register
Jacob Keed believes he's invented a "one stop shop" for Australians looking to find local Indigenous services. Mr Keed's app, Nations Connect, allows people to search near them for local elders or businesses and nearby health, cultural and social ...
Intertwining indigenous art for Festival 2018 on the Gold CoastNEWS.com.au

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ABC Local
Why Australia's fishy history is reely important to us all
ABC Local
Australia's wealth may have ridden on a sheep's back in the early 20th century, but for many their very survival has weighed on the scales of fish. People have been wetting a line across this vast land as long as it has been inhabited. Anna Clark from ...

The Canberra Times
Nations Connect app to bring together Australia's Indigenous services
The Canberra Times
He said the inspiration for the project was his mother, a "very hardworking single mother" who was always looking for Indigenous programs for him and his brother to take part in. "What if there was something that held all the information in one spot ...

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ABC Online
Closing the gap: Marketing firm and Indigenous community team up for bottled water campaign
ABC Online
But a remote Northern Territory Indigenous family and a Sydney marketing firm have teamed up for an ambitious plan to bottle water from an Arnhem Land spring for distribution across Australia. It is one of the latest projects resulting from renewed ...

SBS
Historic Buthera agreement first step towards Indigenous treaty in South Australia
SBS
SA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher and Narungga Elders sign the Buthera Agreement. Source: SBS News. Efforts between the South Australian government and Indigenous leaders to reach a treaty agreement took a step forward in Adelaide on Friday ...

The Mandarin
Aboriginals of Australia: Ten Years from the Apology – How Much Has Changed?
UNPO (press release)
Tuesday, 13 February 2018, marked 10 years since former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations of Australia and launched the Closing the Gap initiative. Both marked a 'new era' in indigenous affairs in Australia but in the ...
Closing the Gap: improvements in living standards take root through steady school attendanceThe Australian
Indigenous people can't simply trade their way out of disadvantageThe Mandarin
Sorry – Again!Pro Bono Australia
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