Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Top 10 Australian workplaces
Business Review Australia
The company offers equal opportunities to Australians of all backgrounds, and makes a concerted effort to hire those who have disabilities and/or are of indigenous descent. Once hired, employees have access to a wide range of discounts at Coles stores, ...

ABC Online
NSW introduces nation's first laws to recognise and revive Indigenous languages
ABC Online
Hundreds gathered outside NSW Parliament in Sydney on Wednesday to usher in an historic piece of legislation — the Aboriginal Languages Bill. As part of the new legislation, the State Government said it would appoint an independent panel of Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal jail hotline ignored by statesThe Australian

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Aboriginal jail hotline ignored by states
The Australian
Western Australia has begun negotiations to introduce the service after the government copped criticism over the controversial death in custody of 22-year-old Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu in 2014. Gerry Georgatos, suicide prevention researcher with the ...

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Million-dollar boost for groundbreaking maternity program
UQ News
The project, led by The University of Queensland's Professor Sue Kildea and researchers from the University of Sydney and the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health, will implement Birthing on Country in two sites with a view to an Australia-wide roll out.

techAU (blog)
Ford Australia offering FREE driving skills courses in Wodonga
techAU (blog)
“We are very pleased to expand our Driving Skills for Life in 2017 to support into regional and indigenous communities. While there continues to be a strong national focus on protecting young Australian drivers, research shows that this demographic is ...

Winc launches new indigenous art range
Stationery News
Winc and the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) have launched a new product range, developed by indigenous students that will support young indigenous Australians in education. All profits from the 15 piece collection – a range of ...

Indigenous Australians might be the human cost of Australia's space program
Crikey
Australia's space aspirations have often been in lockstep with the development of weapon technology, and indigenous Australians have often paid the price for such endeavours, finds freelance writer and Adelaide-based researcher Ann Deslandes.

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ABC Online
Why are Indigenous smoking rates high? Colonialism, that's why
ABC Online
Discriminatory practices dating back to Australia's colonial history are at least partly to blame for a comparatively high smoking rate among Indigenous populations, according to a team of academic researchers at the Australian National University.

ABC Online
States urged to back 'life-saving' policy to prevent Indigenous deaths in custody
ABC Online
The program was first recommended more than 26 years ago by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, but is currently only used in New South Wales and the ACT. The family of Ms Dhu, who died in a Western Australian watch house, ...

ABC Online
Fears of racial profiling as number of Indigenous arrests rise in the ACT
ABC Online
In the same period, non-Indigenous apprehensions declined by 5 per cent. Australian National University researcher Tamar Hopkins, lead author of the report now before the Law Reform Commission inquiry, said Australia is a quarter of a century behind ...

NT News
Forum's key updates on major NT projects
NT News
Northern Land Council chief executive officer Joe Morrison will discuss how best to ensure that northern development is sustainable and inclusive, with more than 40 per cent of Northern Australia subject to indigenous land rights under native title ...

Indigenous recognition campaign risked guideline breach
The Australian
However, documents indicate alarm from within the Recognise leadership that the Referendum Council would form a new part of its direct reporting chain, previously restricted to Reconciliation Australia through a $25.73m funding stream beginning in 2012.

SBS
Calls for federal government to change laws to prosecute inciters of racial violence
SBS
Barrister David D. Knoll spoke to delegates at Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia's (FECCA) biannual conference in Darwin about what he believed was a necessary regulation that should be implemented by all Australian states to crack ...

Central Australia battles an 'unprecedented' Meningococcal outbreak
ABC Online
Aboriginal communities in Central Australia are in the grip of a Meningococcal outbreak on an unprecedented scale. The Centre for Disease control today confirmed the 25th case of the disease, and 19 of those cases are children under 10. One doctor said ...

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NT meningococcal outbreak worsens
SBS
More meningococcal diagnoses have been recorded amid an unprecedented outbreak in Central Australia that has so far affected mainly indigenous children. There have been 25 confirmed cases of the W strain of the deadly disease so far this year, with one ...

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'What kind of Aboriginal is right for you?'
The Mandarin
The “Indigenous Affairs and Public Administration: Can't we do better?” conference continues today, bring together public servants, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and academics from across Australia. Follow along on Twitter with ...

cricket.com.au
Australia reveal squads for Women's Ashes
cricket.com.au
Gardner, 20, became only the second Indigenous woman to play for Australia earlier this year when she made her T20I debut against New Zealand and has since cemented her spot in Australia's one-day XI, while Wellington took a wicket with her first ...

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Blue Mountains Gazette
New Varuna fellowship
Blue Mountains Gazette
Indigenous writers will be able to apply for new fellowships under a program developed by the National Writers' House Varuna at Katoomba, Magabala Books, Sydney University and the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund. “Australian Indigenous writing ...

Regional Implementation Manager, First 1000 Days (Moreton Bay)
The Conversation AU
Guided by a Council of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander thought leaders and Elders and Local Implementation Hubs, First 1000 Days Australia will provide critical support to Indigenous Australian families to allow them the same opportunities as ...

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Art and song forge closer bonds between Australia and New Guinea
ArtsHub
Now one of the world's foremost producers of Melanesian music, Bridie went on to co-establish a not-for-profit music label, the Wantok Musik Foundation, which aims to preserve language through music and cultural exchanges between Indigenous Australia ...