Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

UNSW Newsroom
With a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, Australia must fix its record on Indigenous rights
UNSW Newsroom
One would assume the Human Rights Council seat means Australia will lead on issues of human rights domestically, including in the area of Indigenous rights (one of the five pillars of Australia's bid) and self-determination. However, as the UN Human ...

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ABC Online
Historic photos reunited with Indigenous Australians hoping to find a familiar face
ABC Online
A small group is gathered around a photo book in the remote north of Western Australia, Kimberley locals — young and old — searching for familiar faces. The images are from an archive of historic photographs from museums around the world, some going ...

The Conversation AU
With a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, Australia must fix its record on Indigenous rights
The Conversation AU
One would assume the Human Rights Council seat means Australia will lead on issues of human rights domestically, including in the area of Indigenous rights (one of the five pillars of Australia's bid) and self-determination. However, as the UN Human ...

The Guardian
Funding of Indigenous-run groups plummeted over past nine years
The Guardian
The proportion of funding that goes directly to Indigenous-run organisations has fallen over the past nine years, while funding to other organisations that is earmarked as Indigenous spending has increased by one third. Australian governments spent an ...
Progress on pause: the potential of the Service Learning in Indigenous Communities initiativeHoni Soit

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Courier Mail
Malcolm Turnbull risks war with Labor and indigenous groups after rejecting Referendum Council's 'radical' blueprint
Courier Mail
The PM is now moving to personally salvage indigenous Constitutional recognition and prefers a less ambitious proposal, such as simply putting to referendum that the Constitution be changed to acknowledge indigenous Australians. Labor Senator Pat ...

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The Australian
Blot on $5.4bn indigenous housing program
The Australian
“In contrast, we are focused on delivering value for money from any investment in housing and will carefully consider these recommendations of the review, and work with First Australians living in remote Australia, states and territories on future ...

SBS
'Incredible mystery': The Indigenous soldiers of the Light Horse Brigade
SBS
"And one of the things that is very interesting is that the Light Horse had the highest number of Indigenous soldiers in any regiment within the ADF in World War One." At the outbreak of the war, Private Lingwoodock was among 1000 Indigenous ...

SBS
Matildas can win the World Cup, says Indigenous star Kyah Simon
SBS
The 26-year-old striker has been at the forefront of the women's game in Australia ever since she made her international debut in 2007, at the age of 16. She was the first Indigenous Australian - male or female - to score for Australia and was a member ...

Indigenous Australian elder Harold Hunt says yes to marriage equality – video
The Guardian
Harold Hunt OAM expresses his full support for marriage equality for all Australians in this video supplied by the yes campaign, saying: 'We're talking about a fair go.' Hunt received his Order of Australia Medal for services to Indigenous communities ...

Innovation risk as Indigenous students failing to make maths grade
EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous students are eight times more likely to fall behind in maths by Year 9 than non-indigenous students, dampening regional innovation according to the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute's (AMSI) 2017 Discipline Profile of the ...

Sky News Australia
Govt should 'stay out' Australia Day debate
Sky News Australia
Senator Leyonhjelm was responding to a decision by the City of Hobart to become the latest council to move Australia Day celebrations from January 26 out of respect for indigenous people. 'The commonwealth government thinks it should intervene in every ...

SBS
Dodson fears shelving of indigenous plan
SBS
Now that Australia had a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council it had an even greater responsibility to progress reconciliation, Senator Dodson said. "Indigenous people are very frustrated. Our issues and concerns go to the heart of the ...

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Dodson fears shelving of indigenous plan
The Australian
Now that Australia had a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council it had an even greater responsibility to progress reconciliation, Senator Dodson said. "Indigenous people are very frustrated. Our issues and concerns go to the heart of the ...

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Defence Connect
Exhibition remembers those who served
Daily Liberal
An exhibition detailing the contribution of Indigenous Australians to Australia's armed forces is set to open at the Western Plains Cultural Centre on Saturday, October 28. More than 100,000 people have experienced the Shrine of Remembrance's touring ...
Defence prime takes on Indigenous work experience studentsDefence Connect
Invasion Day averted in the Inner WestSydney City News
Progress on pause: the potential of the Service Learning in Indigenous Communities initiativeHoni Soit

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The Conversation AU
Census data shows just how bad we've been at closing inequality gaps
The Conversation AU
One of the targets of the Closing the Gap strategy (which is slated to undergo a “sweeping overhaul”) is to “halve the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a decade (by 2018).” But the latest census data ...

Daily Telegraph
Johnathan Thurston's historic acknowledgment to country to help Kangaroos rise
Daily Telegraph
Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga is a supporter of Thurston's acknowledgment to country. There have been calls for the Kangaroos to do a similar war dance to the Indigenous All Stars. An Australian team did a war cry about 50 years ago. “It wouldn't have ...
Rugby League World Cup: Johnathan Thurston wants pre-game acknowledgement to 'unite Australia'The Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Stargazing tours share traditional Indigenous stories in Queensland's Gulf
ABC Online
Aside from marking a change in season and offering directions in the dark of night, the stars have long been used by Aboriginal Australians for storytelling — and those stories are now being shared. On Australia's largest aggregate salt pans in ...

Deutsche Welle
Aboriginal woman's remains return to Aust
NEWS.com.au
The woman's descendants had designed a cloth with handprints and messages for her return home to family members. The remains of 52 indigenous Australians have already been returned from Germany. Ethnological museums and collections across the ...
German museum returns remains of indigenous Australian womanDeutsche Welle

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Deutsche Welle
Aboriginal woman's remains return to Aust
The Australian
The woman's descendants had designed a cloth with handprints and messages for her return home to family members. The remains of 52 indigenous Australians have already been returned from Germany. Ethnological museums and collections across the ...
German museum returns remains of indigenous Australian womanDeutsche Welle

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Deutsche Welle
German museum returns remains of indigenous Australian woman
Deutsche Welle
The deceased woman's body had been taken from her native Australia by a German mine leaseholder, who in 1909 gave it to the regional museum. The woman's descendants had prepared a cloth with handprints and messages ready for her return to her ...
Aboriginal woman's remains return to AustNEWS.com.au

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