Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Ten Eyewitness News
Report: prescription drugs cause more deaths in Australia than illegal drugs
Ten Eyewitness News
In 2016 there were 1,808 drug-induced deaths in Australia, according to the research. Benzodiazepines prescribed to improve sleep and treat stress, were the most common single drug type identified in 663 deaths, according to the report, followed by ...
Prescription medications cause more deaths than illegal drugs: reportSBS
Prescription pharmaceutical misuse on the riseAustralian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)

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Broadsheet
A New, All-Australian Gin
Broadsheet
Lyrebird uses only native ingredients. Rawson and Lumsden knew what they wanted to do, but not where to start. They met with Renmark's Twenty Third Street Distillery and the Adelaide Hills' Applewood Distillery before settling on Red Hen as their base ...

Herald Sun
Shrine of Remembrance has welcomed more than three million visitors over the last three years
Herald Sun
Minister for Veterans John Eren said: “It's wonderful to see so many families, students and visitors honouring Victoria's heroes at one of our most iconic landmarks.” “We're proud to give the Shrine and all its volunteers the support they need to ...

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Cold, hard warning
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Tragically crystal meth/ ice is having a shocking impact on many suburbs and areas of Australia. It is true to say that in many parts of Australia, crystal meth/ice is cheaper to buy than even a takeaway pizza. It is very disturbing. I write to warn ...

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)
Prescription pharmaceutical misuse on the rise
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)
Earlier this year, the AIHW's 2016 National Drug Strategy Household Survey showed that Indigenous Australians were more than twice as likely to have recently used a pharmaceutical for non-medical purposes than non-Indigenous Australians. The Survey ...

Big Think (blog)
Blood on the Map: Charting Australia's Colonial-Era Massacres
Big Think (blog)
It's hard to argue with a map. These two examples of documentary cartography, shocking though they are, may finally spell the end for Australia's History Wars. For decades, historians, politicians and just about everyone else with strong opinions on ...

The Hindu
Woman through the ages
The Hindu
What does one get when Indigenous Australian, Indian and Non-residential Indian (NRI) women meet on the same platform to share experiences and folklore? A surprisingly prominent common thread, if performance artiste Priya Srinivasan and Chennai-based ...

cricket.com.au
CA tips its cap to Indigenous pioneers
cricket.com.au
Cricket Australia will assign individual cap numbers to every man and woman to have played for its national Indigenous teams, including the pioneering group of players who embarked on a historic tour of England almost 150 years ago. Players who ...

Daily Telegraph
Australia's first indigenous protest album by Vic Simms named in 110 Best Australian Albums collection
Daily Telegraph
His debut album, The Loner, first released in 1973, has been named in The 110 Best Australian Albums: The Ultimate List of Australia's Best and Most Influential Music of All Time, a compendium of the best rock and pop albums of the past 50 years ...

The North West Star
Cloncurry boy Zurack Dempsey selected for ABC Heywire story comp
The North West Star
ZU ZU'S STORY: Representing Cloncurry as winner of ABC Heywire storytelling competition, Zurack Dempsey; 'How hairdressing saved me'. Photo: supplied. Regional Australia is about to hear captivating stories from its young people in ABC's Heywire ...

The Cairns Post
Call for diplomatic intervention after PNG villagers found to have broken treaty to poach dugong
The Cairns Post
An internal document, released under FOI, shows that while poaching and illegal sale of dugong and turtle meat throughout Queensland was “almost certainly minimal and usually opportunistic”, the poaching activities of PNG nationals in the Torres Strait ...

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Brisbane Times
Two out of three children in detention in Queensland are Indigenous
Brisbane Times
Youth Minister Di Farmer said the Palaszczuk government was deeply concerned about the rates of Indigenous youths in detention and was actively addressing the issue. "We have established a Youth Justice First Nations Action Board, the first of its kind ...

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Daily Telegraph
Indigenous disadvantage is driven by a lack of participation in the Australian economy
Daily Telegraph
Business isn't something that Australians normally associate with indigenous people. It's usually disadvantage, welfare, remote communities with “no jobs” and disparity. The disparity is real and exists for one reason — too many indigenous people don ...

9news.com.au
Fifty years on, Harold Holt's family remember 'genuine humanitarian' and loving father
9news.com.au
He had helped changed migration for Non-Europeans, assisted with the abolition of the White Australia policy, improved the lives of Indigenous Australians, oversaw major reforms to the banking industry and was the minister responsible for the ...
Opinion: Malcolm Turnbull and Harold Holt share many traits except the will to take risksCourier Mail
The life and death of Harold HoltThe Australian
Harold Holt: the legacy is evident, 50 years after his disappearanceThe Guardian

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Daily Telegraph
It's not racist to be worried about immigration
Daily Telegraph
For many years, as a nation, we have accepted immigrants from around the world — it's part of what makes Australia unique. If you're not the child of an indigenous Australian, you're the child of an immigrant. I am — my family came here in the mid ...

Courier Mail
Opinion: Malcolm Turnbull and Harold Holt share many traits except the will to take risks
Courier Mail
Formerly as treasurer, Holt also launched our decimal currency in 1966 — and resisted Menzies' awful idea to name the new notes “royals” — and steered the iconic 1967 indigenous Australians referendum. Holt, unlike Menzies, also cultivated ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Ashes 2017/18: Numbers up for Cricket Australia's Indigenous teams milestones
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cricket Australia has commissioned a project to assign cap numbers for every player who has represented the national Indigenous male and female teams. The initiative is part of the celebrations commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1868 tour of ...

The Guardian
Beyond Batman: how Indigenous superheroes are turning comics inside out
The Guardian
In 1988, while Australia was disingenuously promising a treaty to placate the First Peoples protesting against bicentenary celebrations, an Aboriginal character called Gateway appeared in the comic Uncanny Xmen #229. The mutant superhero Wolverine was ...

The Australian
Anna Clark's The Catch: The Story of Fishing in Australia
The Australian
Smith dominates England · Steve Smith of Australia reacts on Day 2 of the Third Test match between Australia and Wayne Smith. Steve Smith, take a bow. By stumps, the Australian captain had almost singlehandedly wrested control of the third Ashes Test ...

Vogue Australia
What it takes to design the world's most sustainable lamp
Vogue Australia
The PET Lamp project in Australia — a weaver works on a lamp in Arhem Land. First in Colombia, followed by Chile, Ethiopia, Japan and Chile again, and now to Australia's own Arnhem Land, the PET lamp project has seen some of the most remote indigenous ...