Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Adviser to Malcolm Turnbull reveals Indigenous advisory body still 'very much' on table
ABC Online
One of the Prime Minister's chief advisers has revealed the establishment of an Indigenous advisory body is still "very much" on the table in negotiations with the Turnbull Government. On the eve of the Prime Minister's delivery of the tenth Closing ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Spirits unsettled: the apology to the stolen generations 10 years on
The Sydney Morning Herald
What exists is our people's spiritual world. Our existence as Aboriginal people is not a memory bank, it is a spirit. We carry the spirits of our ancestors. Our connection is before time began and so is the trauma of what's been happening since 1788 ...

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SBS
Australia's Windsor ready to fly Aboriginal flag
SBS
While the Aboriginal flag of red, yellow and black is recognised officially in Australia, Windsor could risk the ire of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) which frowns on athletes making acts of "propaganda" at the Games. Raised with eight half ...
Olympics: Australia's Windsor ready to fly Aboriginal flagReuters
Australia's indigenous Winter Olympian inspired by FreemanHerald-Whig
Australia's Indigenous Winter Olympian Impressed by FreemanLuxora Leader

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Action is needed for our First People, not words
Shepparton News
It is reasonable to suggest that indigenous people question the difference the National Apology made, and while the sentiment was definitely needed, 10 years of little action speaks volumes for the way our First Peoples have been catered for by ...

New Jersey Herald
Harley Windsor Is Making History as Australia's First Indigenous Winter Olympian. Here's What to Know About Him
TIME
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor of Australia perform their routine in the Gala exhibition during the ISU Junior & Senior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final at Nippon Gaishi Hall on December 10, 2017 in Nagoya, Japan. Atsushi Tomura - ISU ...
Australia's indigenous Winter Olympian inspired by FreemanNew Jersey Herald

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Lunch with Megan Davis: Indigenous reconciliation in Australia is about 'making Aboriginal people white Australians'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Megan Davis, expert member of the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People (EMRIP) and the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, knows what is going to happen in Canberra on Monday, when Malcolm Turnbull ...
Closing the gap on Indigenous health: this is our national shame, but it can be fixedABC Online

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Lunch with Megan Davis: Indigenous reconciliation in Australia is about 'making Aboriginal people white Australians'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Megan Davis, expert member of the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People (EMRIP) and the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, knows what is going to happen in Canberra on Monday, when Malcolm Turnbull ...
Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languagesInDaily
Closing the Gap requests for Indigenous participation are ironic — at ...Independent Australia
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the GapThe Australian
Borneo Bulletin Online
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ABC Online
Equine therapy can help Aboriginal university students, says researcher
ABC Online
A Sunshine Coast researcher wants to replicate a successful equine therapy program being used in America to improve the retention rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students in Australia. Dr Bindi Bennett, from the University of ...

ABC Local
Change the date: Darwin City Council flags axing Australia Day
ABC Local
Last month, the Indigenous Affairs Minister and Senator for the Northern Territory Nigel Scullion said not a single Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person had approached him about changing the date of Australia Day. Senator Scullion said many ...
Could This Be The First Sydney Council To Ditch Australia Day?Junkee

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Independent Australia
Closing the Gap requests for Indigenous participation are ironic — at best
Independent Australia
Unless overcome, structural issues in the heart of Australian politics and governance seem destined to doom the Turnbull Government's Closing the Gap "refresh", writes Dr Zoe Staines. LAST YEAR was full of highs and lows in Australian Indigenous ...
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the GapWestern Advocate

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Junkee
Could This Be The First Sydney Council To Ditch Australia Day?
Junkee
Sydney's Inner West Council could be the first local government in Australia's largest city to ditch Australia Day festivities if a Greens motion calling for the change is successful next week. Greens councillor Tom Kiat is moving a motion at the next ...

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NEWS.com.au
As a gay man, this is why I want to thank Anthony Mundine for his homophobic outbursts
NEWS.com.au
Got it. And as for Aboriginal culture forbidding homosexuality? Well Dameyon Bonson, the founder of Black Rainbow, a mental health and anti-suicide organisation for LGBTI Indigenous Australians, calls BS on that. “There's no basis in his argument. You ...

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InDaily
Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languages
InDaily
Photo: AIATSIS/Wikimedia Commons. In today's podcast, The Message Pod's Nicole Haack talks to Daniel Bogre Udell, the founder of Wikitongues – a volunteer-driven organisation that has been growing its online database since 2013. The movement has more ...

The Australian
Leave Australia Day alone, Albanese tells Sydney's Inner West Council
The Australian
“I look forward to future citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day and note the Greens political party councillors and state MPs participated in this celebration without telling the new citizens that they didn't think their induction into our nation was ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Turnbull rejects claims government has abandoned strategy
The Guardian
The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has brushed off claims the federal government has ditched the Closing the Gap strategy to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians, saying it is expanding the program and devoting more money to the cause. A ...
Closing the Gap review finds policy 'effectively abandoned' amid 'extensive funding cuts'ABC Online
Australia's Aboriginal life expectancy gap widensABC News
Australia accused of 'effectively abandoning' indigenous goalsBBC News
SBS -Daily Telegraph
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SBS
Figure skating - Aboriginal Windsor breaks ice in Pyeongchang
SBS
... homeland and during Friday's opening ceremony, he will march in the front row of Australia's delegation with chef de mission Ian Chesterman and four-times Olympian snowboarder Holly Crawford. "It's absolutely an honour to be able to do that, a ...

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POPSUGAR Australia
What We're Fighting For: 3 Indigenous Australians Tell Us About the Change They Wish to See
POPSUGAR Australia
This feature is dedicated to our #NoChangeNoFuture initiative. From the Women's March, to Australia voting yes to same sex marriage, and the #MeToo movement, 2017 taught us to look beyond ourselves and come together as a collective of powerful women ...

Daily Telegraph
Labor slams 'hopeless' government for 'abandoning' Closing the Gap
SBS
Indigenous Labor Senator Pat Dodson has condemned the Turnbull government for not committing to Closing the Gap between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians. Speaking at the Close the Gap Campaign review, a frustrated Senator Dodson ...
The flags we fly and holidays we celebrate signal who we are as a nationThe Guardian (blog)
Closing the Gap review finds policy 'effectively abandoned' amid - ABCABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull slammed for leaving indigenous health, Close the Gap breakfast earlyDaily Telegraph
BBC News -Illawarra Mercury
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Daily Mail
Sydney council to consider Aus Day change
SBS
"It's pretty clear coming from the indigenous community that January 26 is not an appropriate day to have an Australia Day event," he told AAP on Thursday. "I think that's shared by probably a majority of people in the inner west who are not indigenous ...
Sydney council considers dumping Australia Day celebrations and replacing them with with an Aboriginal ...Daily Mail

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ABC Online
Youth united by pale skin and Aboriginality here to inspire interest in Indigenous culture
ABC Online
Brianna Martin and Michael James want you to know that beneath their white skin runs a rich and proud Indigenous heritage that they want to share with as many people as possible. The teenagers have heard it before — yes they are Indigenous Australians ...