Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Pursuit
Connecting to country through architecture
Pursuit
Place is important to Indigenous people and yet there are only a handful of Aboriginal architects in Australia. Jefa Greenaway is working to change that. Share selection to: There are many Indigenous heroes who have paved the way, opening the door for ...

ABC Online
Indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme 'cannot and should not continue', Senate committee report warns
ABC Online
"People on income support in remote Australia were being fined for not showing up to hygiene classes and 3D printing training, it is farcical." Most of the approximately 15,000 people required to undertake CDP activities are Aboriginal or Torres Strait ...

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A new Vatican publication showcases Australia's Indigenous culture
mnnews.today
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Chairperson, Professor Michael McDaniel, said the process taken to reconnect these cultural forms with their communities is particularly significant. “Through the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Now the royal commission is over, society faces a test
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been a five-year investigation, and ultimately an assertion, of the rights of the child. But it's been much more than that. It's been an exhaustive examination of what can ...

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ABC Online
Army scouts trained to use Indigenous bushcraft skills through Tulugal Program
ABC Online
The Army is using ancient Indigenous bushcraft, tracking and survival skills to help give its scouts a vital edge. Lieutenant Colonel James Molnar created the Tulugal Program to improve the ability of light cavalry scouts to conduct reconnaissance ...

9news.com.au
Harold Holt's disappearance still baffles 50 years on
9news.com.au
He made the role of prime minister more informal, developed relationships with the media and was "superb" on television, Brown added. "He was a modern presence, a much more approachable and affable kind of guy." During his almost two years as prime ...

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Brisbane Times
Indigenous methods meet western science for ANU graduate Sam Provost
Brisbane Times
"They should rightly be very proud of their achievements and on behalf of the whole university, I offer my best wishes for the future." Mr Provost graduated the ANU with a Bachelor of Science (Resource and Environmental Management) and will continue ...

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Courier Mail
Letters to the Editor, December 15, 2017
Courier Mail
Successive federal governments have poured billions of taxpayer dollars into redressing these issues and alleviating the circumstances in which Aboriginal people live. It appears to have done little good and many ask where the money has gone. The ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal artists of Ernabella celebrate 50-year link with renowned Sturt craft workshop
ABC Online
Australia's oldest Indigenous arts centre. The skills and life experience the young artists gained at Sturt helped to shape the direction of Ernabella Arts, and continue to have influence as their knowledge is passed onto the next generation. Original ...

ABC Online
Proving the link between living on country and improved Indigenous health
ABC Online
Understanding culture the gamechanger for Indigenous health. Remote Indigenous communities across Australia report some of the highest rates of chronic disease and preventable illnesses. But Dr Wenitong said it was a misconception that people in those ...

Noosa News
Indigenous recognition is overdue, Australia must act now
Noosa News
A GREAT many of us who do not have indigenous heritage feel a gnawing discomfort when discussing issues that pertain to Australia's first nation people. We worry what we say might be rude, or insensitive or - worse - culturally offensive. And those in ...

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Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
Indigenous recognition is overdue, Australia must act now
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
A GREAT many of us who do not have indigenous heritage feel a gnawing discomfort when discussing issues that pertain to Australia's first nation people. We worry what we say might be rude, or insensitive or - worse - culturally offensive. And those in ...

ABC Online
Racism likely at play in low Indigenous kidney transplants, AMA says
ABC Online
"It's certainly not fair, and we, myself and several colleagues, have called — and will continue to call — for fairness as part of our system of allocating the scarce resource of kidney donations," he said. Kidney specialist, Professor Steve Chadban ...

Courier Mail
Indigenous recognition long overdue
Courier Mail
Indigenous Australians are at a serious disadvantage in health, education and employment. Among other things, they have the highest incarcerations rates of any First Nation people on the planet. Their children are disproportionately taken from their ...

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The Australian
Ballet meets indigenous dance in Milngia, Milky Way — River of Stars
The Australian
He arrived in Perth in 2013 with his French ballerina wife Sandy Delasalle and son Matteo to take up the leadership of Australia's oldest ballet company. One of the first people he met in Perth was Northern Territory choreographer Gary Lang, born in ...

The Australian
Nationals new deputy silent on weekend trip to Gold Coast
The Australian
She also listed additional expenses for her following week in Canberra, starting on September 21, writing she was in the nation's capital because it was a parliamentary sitting week. On other 2014 trips she claimed further allowances. She explained a ...

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SBS
Migrant students outperforming native English speakers: NAPLAN results
SBS
Nationally, the group had a higher mean scale score by 31 points, compared to the native English speaking students. It is a marked contrast from the Year 1 results for migrant students when hundreds start school with limited or no English language ...
Children from migrant families are standout performers in spelling, NAPLAN results showABC Online
High school reading stalls in NAPLAN 'wake-up call'The Australian
NAPLAN 2017: results have largely flat-lined, and patterns of inequality continueThe Conversation AU

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EducationHQ Australia
Woeful scores for Indigenous NT students
EducationHQ Australia
The more remote an Aboriginal NT child lives, the less likely they are to attain the national minimum standard, with 92 per cent of Year 9 Indigenous students in very isolated regions failing to reach that benchmark for reading. In stark contrast, 92 ...

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National Indigenous Times
Mundine: 'My mates call me a media tart'
National Indigenous Times
One of Indigenous Australia's most influential political figures has revealed he doesn't believe Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has “any real interest in Indigenous affairs”. Warren Mundine makes the claim in his new autobiography Warren Mundine: In ...

National Indigenous Times
New song captures Elijah's spirit
National Indigenous Times
Some of Australia's most recognisable names in Indigenous music have released a song in memory of 14-year-old Elijah Doughty, whose death in Western Australia last year sparked riots in the Goldfields town of Kalgoorlie and protests around Australia ...