Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Australian of the Year: Who has inspired us the most in 2017?
The Australian
The Weekend Australian today opens nominations for its Australian of the Year for 2017, with the winner to be announced on Saturday, January 20. The award recognises the achievements of Australians in all walks of life, be it politics, sport, science ...

The Australian
Malcolm Turnbull is ashamed of himself, Bob Hawke tells festival crowd
The Australian
Malcolm Turnbull is ashamed of himself for giving up his principles to roll Tony Abbott and should resign, former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke says. Speaking at the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland on Friday, Mr Hawke also told the alternative ...
Woodford Folk Festival: Bob Hawke makes annual appearanceNEWS.com.au
Bob Hawke's advice for Malcolm Turnbull: 'resign'Brisbane Times
'He should resign': Bob Hawke, 88, blasts Malcolm Turnbull and says the prime minister should be 'ashamed' of how he ...Daily Mail

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Eternity News
A tribute to the pioneers of a national Aboriginal fellowship
Eternity News
Aboriginal Christians not only had to overcome cultural and geographical barriers to form the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship 47 years ago; they also had to defy opposition waged by some of the missionaries, who accused them of wanting to create a ...

The Guardian
Family of Indigenous man who died in custody confront guards
The Guardian
A NSW Corrective Services spokeswoman said the commissioner, Peter Severin, “deeply regrets” Dungay's death. The commissioner and the department's Aboriginal strategy and policy staff have met with Dungay's family to “discuss their concerns and provide ...

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Australia Day 'noise' distracting from bigger issues
4BC
Doctor Anthony Dillon, postdoctoral fellow at Australian Catholic University, has called Australia Day protesters a “noisy minority”. Dr Dillon, an Indigenous Australian, tells Chris Kenny protestors should be focusing on “far more important issues ...

The Sunshine Coast Daily
Australian personalities 2017: The names on everyone's lips
The Sunshine Coast Daily
Love them or loathe them, these high-profile identities had the nation talking. League legend kicks goals off the field. HE MIGHT be best known for his State of Origin prowess but Johnathan Thurston's work off the field also scored him accolades in ...

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Toowoomba Chronicle
Australian personalities 2017: The names on everyone's lips
Toowoomba Chronicle
Love them or loathe them, these high-profile identities had the nation talking. League legend kicks goals off the field. HE MIGHT be best known for his State of Origin prowess but Johnathan Thurston's work off the field also scored him accolades in ...

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The Independent
Sol Bellear: Indigenous Australian civil rights leader, rugby player and veteran of the land rights movement
The Independent
Dogs and cats and pigs and sheep were counted in Australia before Aboriginal people.” Bellear's sacking from the Rabbitohs only served to fuel his sense of injustice. In 1970, he was part of a delegation that travelled to Atlanta to address the United ...

Victoria Police seem to be ignoring reality, hoping it'll go away
The Australian
Price chooses to attack Elise Klein for her evidence-based critique of the CDC trial in Kununurra, but ignores a growing number of reputable studies that highlight possible unintended harm to Aboriginal children including in lower school attendance and ...

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The Advertiser
State election: Liberals pledge to appoint Aboriginal children's commissioner if it wins office
The Advertiser
Liberal child protection spokeswoman Rachel Sanderson told The Advertiser her party would appoint an Assistant Commissioner for Aboriginal Children if it wins the March state election. The new role, within the Office of the Commissioner for Children ...

Herald Sun
Take our Great 2017 Aussie Quiz and test your knowledge
Herald Sun
17 At the Rio 2016 Olympics, Australia's Kyle Chalmers won the 100m freestyle gold medal after being in which place at the 50m turn (a) third (b) fifth (c) seventh? 18 Australian landscape painter, Arthur Streeton, was a leading member of which art ...

SBS
Why is this Indigenous student learning Mandarin?
SBS
With the help of CareerTrackers, a not-for-profit organisation that assists Indigenous university students in securing internships, Clark started an internship with global law firm Dentons. He says speaking Mandarin has been helpful, as most of the ...

The Conversation AU
How our arts critics saw 2017
The Conversation AU
There was no shortage of brilliant new Australian theatre. Muriel's Wedding: the Musical was a roaring tribute to Australia's most-loved dag. As Caroline Wake wrote, Barbara and the Camp Dogs was a pub-rock gig that became a comment on an exhausting ...

Toowoomba Chronicle
2018 health trends: Best places to go in Toowoomba
Toowoomba Chronicle
LOOK forward to a year of native Australian superfoods, high-fat diets, and new yoga trends. These new food and fitness trends are on the rise in 2018 according to dietitian and founder of The Australian Superfood Co Hayley Blieden. "Over the last ...

OUPblog (blog)
Does the route to equality include Indigenous peoples?
OUPblog (blog)
How then does that affect, if at all, Indigenous peoples in Australia? Shireen Morris of the Cape York Institute argues that the same as the matter of recognition is important to the same-sex couples (who otherwise can legally co-habit in Australia ...

Brisbane Times
Sydney Festival's Bayala: How we all speak some Darug
Brisbane Times
Mahboob and Professor Jakelin Troy, Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research at the University of Sydney, are planning ambitious research with indigenous communities from Asia, Europe, South America and Australia to explore the ...

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Triple M stars distance themselves from Ozzest 100
9news.com.au
Triple M radio stars Mick Molloy and Jane Kennedy have distanced themselves from their employers after it took a jab at Triple J for changing the date of its Hottest 100 countdown. Molloy and Kennedy, who joined forces in October for Triple M's ...

The Sunshine Coast Daily
How 12000 Aussie children now have shoes on their feet
The Sunshine Coast Daily
The foundation runs Shoes and Socks 4 Kids and Uniforms 4 Kids programs which help address the reality of an Australian economy in which half of all indigenous and one-in-seven non-indigenous children live in poverty, according the Australian Research ...

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The Australian
Name cleared in Commonwealth Games mascot koala blue
The Australian
Wesley Aird, a member of the local Yugambeh clan — and a former indigenous adviser to John Howard — launched legal action over the use and trademark of the mascot for the Games in April. Despite months of consultation with Yugambeh representatives ...

The Australian
Banks extend remote area fee-free ATMs for another five years
The Australian
Remote indigenous communities around Australia will have access to fee-free ATMs for another five years under an agreement between the federal government and banking industry. After a difficult year for the banks, in which increased political pressure ...