Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
GST changes to channel more funding to remote communities
The Australian
“The category of indigenous in terms of distributing the money has become meaningless — proportionally, the Aboriginal population is doing well on the east coast, and as a population is doing extremely badly in central Australia.” The Papunya ...

Australian Indigenous objects become 'cultural ambassadors' in Rome in new book
The Tablet
Australian Indigenous objects that have become "cultural ambassadors" in Rome feature in a new joint publication of Aboriginal Studies Press and the Vatican Museums, launched recently. 'Australia – The Vatican Museums Indigenous Collection' features ...

Courier Mail
Brisbane Heat's Brendan Doggett hopes his Big Bash form will take him on indigenous UK tour
Courier Mail
Australia is sending an indigenous team to England in July to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the iconic first tour there by an indigenous side and Doggett would love to be a part of it. “That is a massive tour for us — they have spent a long time ...

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NEWS.com.au
Brisbane Heat's Brendan Doggett hopes his Big Bash form will take him on indigenous UK tour
NEWS.com.au
Australia is sending an indigenous team to England in July to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the iconic first tour there by an indigenous side and Doggett would love to be a part of it. “That is a massive tour for us — they have spent a long time ...

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Echonetdaily
Indigenous runners get chance to compete in New York Marathon
Echonetdaily
Each year a group of 12 Indigenous Australians (six men and six women) are selected to train for the New York City Marathon with just six months of training. Education is a compulsory part of the IMP program and all squad members are required to ...

South Coast Register
Shoalhaven athletes to create history with New Zealand tour
South Coast Register
SEVEN of the Shoalhaven's top athletes have been selected in the two Australian indigenous representative football teams, consisting of 18 men and 18 women players, which will travel to Auckland, New Zealand on a historic tour. Wreck Bay trio Lewis ...

Broadsheet
A Voyage Through the Centre of Australia, from a Tree Stump
Broadsheet
Your guides through this eclectic journey are two dancers: Waangenga Blanco of Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia's acclaimed Indigenous performing arts company, and New Yorker Khalif Diouf, who you may know by his rap moniker Le1f, with a score by ...

Eureka Street
Best of 2017: Indigenous rights 50 years after the referendum
Eureka Street
In the face of historically low levels of Indigenous representation within Australian parliaments, the Indigenous caucus between Commonwealth, State and Territory Labor representatives points to some progress. Front page of Abo Call newspaper What it ...

Eureka Street
Best of 2017: ATSI custody needs action not just inquiry
Eureka Street
In 1991, the year of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC), Indigenous Australians comprised 14 per cent of the Australian prison population. In 2016, it was 27 per cent. Yet Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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Shepparton News
Hottest 100 move supported
Shepparton News
The move came after a large national discussion about Australia Day being celebrated on January 26 each year, marking the anniversary of the First Fleet's arrival in 1788 — a day the indigenous community remembers as one of terror and heartbreak ...

The West Australian
Ministers in housing fund war of words
The West Australian
WA Housing Minister Peter Tinley released a statement last month saying the Coalition Government had “turned its back” on the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Housing, with WA facing a funding shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars. He ...

National Geographic Australia
Why These Birds Carry Flames In Their Beaks
National Geographic Australia
Australia is no stranger to fire: The hardy landscape is adapted to blazes, enduring many thanks to humans and lightning. But Australia's Aboriginal peoples have long identified a third cause: birds. In interviews, observations, and ceremonies dating ...
Australian Hawks Caught Starting Fires to Force Prey Into Wide Open SpacesNewsweek
If Australian animals don't poison you or eat you, they'll BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSEThe Register
The only animal that can control fire witnessed in AustraliaInternational Business Times UK

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International Business Times UK
Why These Birds Carry Flames In Their Beaks
National Geographic
The black kite (pictured, an animal at Madagascar's Tsimbazaza Zoo) is one of the birds thought to spread fire in Australia. Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark. By Michael Greshko. PUBLISHED January 8, 2018. Australia is no ...
The only animal that can control fire witnessed in AustraliaInternational Business Times UK

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The Guardian
Helen Kellie obituary
The Guardian
In Stockholm in 2016, Dami Im, a Chinese migrant to Australia, came second, to the consternation of many Europeans. In 2017 Australia's singer was Isaiah Firebrace, an Indigenous Australian, who came ninth. SBS and Helen were propelling Australian ...

Strewth: Latho's last stand
The Australian
Alice Springs councillor and indigenous leader Jacinta Price will be the voice of the campaign to keep January 26 as the national day in a series of radio and online video ads. “We're also looking to raise enough money to get the ads on TV in the week ...

SBS
From sleeping rough to international acclaim: Celebrating the birth of a music legend
SBS
In the 1980s Roach and Hunter formed the Altogethers band with other Indigenous Australians. The pair, who shared a deep love of music, formed a lifelong bond. The couple had two sons, turned their lives around and went on to foster and raise an ...

The Canberra Times
Department of Foreign Affairs spends $100000 on junket for European journalists
The Canberra Times
The visit coincided with some criticism in Europe about the conditions in Australian-run detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea as well as the Mediterranean Sea migrant boat crisis. At the time of the visit, Australia was ...

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Indigenous startup accelerator goes virtual to reach entrepreneurs in remote communities
DynamicBusiness
A national accelerator program geared towards indigenous entrepreneurs has helped nine startups become viable commercial enterprises. Run by early stage investment group Investible, the inaugural Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) accelerator saw ...

Shepparton News
Brightening up CBD
Shepparton News
Tank suggested the street art project could also feature the work of regional indigenous artists on buildings and walls, alongside murals commemorating influential figures. He suggested there would be an opportunity for Shepparton to have one of ...

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ABC Online
Forgotten legacy of Aboriginal stockwomen becomes subject of PhD research
ABC Online
Pushing 60, Maudie Moore was still chasing scrub bulls on horseback — a testament to her reputation as one of the best 'stockmen' you could find around the 1950s in Western Australia. Ms Moore is just one of the women whose stories feature in a thesis ...