Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Another door opens for student Enoch Mailangi
The Australian
An initiative of youth arts advocate Artology, with collaboration from ABC Indigenous and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, RAW received written entries from budding screenwriters, poets and visual artists. Artology is planning to run ...

The Australian
Australian skating pair qualify for the Winter Olympics
The Australian
Windsor will become Australia's first indigenous Winter Olympian if his partner is granted citizenship under the “distinguished talent'' provision. Individual skater Kailani Craine completed an excellent weekend for the Australian team by winning the ...

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The Australian
Local indigenous leaders back cashless welfare card trial
The Australian
Ian Trust has no regrets about backing to the hilt the introduction of the federal government's controversial cashless welfare card in his hometown of Kununurra, Western Australia. The head of the Wunan Aboriginal development organisation simply says ...

The Australian
State funeral for indigenous rights pioneer Evelyn Scott
The Australian
“Thanks to Dr Scott, more Australians have dared to dream,” the Premier said last night. “Dr Scott was prominent in the successful campaign for the 1967 referendum to give the Australian parliament the power to legislate for Aboriginal peoples. “She ...

ABC Online
Stolen Generations member tired of Aboriginal people being told to 'get over it'
ABC Online
"Do you ask yourself, white Australia, to get over Anzac?' So please don't ask us to get over our history and what we are still going through." The 66-year-old was taken from her Indigenous family at the age of three and forced to live at the Churches ...

Warship builder BAE Systems floats indigenous companies plan
The Australian
The commitment from BAE is to create up to 20 certified indigenous defence companies. It has also agreed to develop a special apprentice program to grow its indigenous workforce. BAE Systems chief executive Glynn Phillips told The Weekend Australian ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal woman jailed over unpaid fines after police call, 10 months on from Ms Dhu inquest
ABC Online
In a statement, WA's Attorney-General John Quigley said the State Government was working to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in jail, with the figures amongst the highest in the country. "Western Australia's Indigenous incarceration ...

ABC Online
Bend the knee: Whether you agree with it or not, the protest is an act of patriotism
ABC Online
I would return home to where that flag, this nation had placed us; an Indigenous family dispossessed, impoverished and marginalised. For the First People's of Australia — like many black Americans — allegiance is fraught and problematic, framed by a ...

Fortescue backs indigenous business loans
The Australian
However Fortescue chief executive Nev Power said consultation with communities in the Western Australia Pilbara region had revealed that one of the key impediments to the growth of indigenous businesses was funding. "They don't have a credit history, ...

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ABC Online
Koori Knockout: Indigenous rugby league carnival a festival of family and community
ABC Online
... of the largest gatherings of Indigenous people in the country. Approximately 145 teams will contest for titles in the men's, women's, under 12s, 15s and 17s competitions. The Redfern All Blacks, the oldest Aboriginal rugby league team in Australia ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Banking barriers broken for Aboriginal business with $50m facility from FMG, ANZ
The Australian Financial Review
"At the moment, Aboriginal businesses that don't have a trading history and don't have a credit history find it very very difficult to secure funding from the bank and what this does is provides a back stop for them," Mr Power told The Australian ...
Fortescue backs indigenous business loansThe Australian

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ABC Online
Boaty McBoatface: Australia sees the light on naming new icebreaker after southern aurora
ABC Online
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre has given formal approval for the use of the Indigenous name. School students from around Australia suggested nearly 800 names for the icebreaker, about a fifth of them Indigenous, many inspired by the southern lights.
Icebreaker name a nod to indigenousYahoo7 News
St Virgil's students break the ice and the recordsTriple M

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Bega District News
Tackling high Indigenous unemployment: 'There's untapped opportunities'
Bega District News
“It's not just about giving someone a job but creating culturally safe workplaces that genuinely support and understand Indigenous Australians,” she said. “There's a lot of inter-generational trauma in Bega, and I feel the community is not over that ...

ABC Online
Boaty McBoatface: Australia sees the light on naming new icebreaker after southern aurora
ABC Online
School students from around Australia suggested nearly 800 names for the icebreaker, about a fifth of them Indigenous, many inspired by the southern lights. 12 of the winning students from St Virgils and Secret Harbour will be flown to Antarctica in ...
Icebreaker name a nod to indigenousYahoo7 News

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The Mandarin (registration)
Martin Parkinson: The promise of 1967: Commonwealth Public Administration of Indigenous Affairs 50 years on
The Mandarin (registration)
It's not a comfortable place, where different knowledge systems intersect. But that's where Australia needs to go if it's to truly succeed in ensuring Indigenous Australians have the same opportunities, economic empowerment, cultural and social health ...

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Lithgow Mercury
Suicide rates in regional areas 'critical'
Lithgow Mercury
“We also need to be looking at increasing expenditure for those living in rural and regional Australia where suicide rates have been twice as high than in capital cities, yet the expenditure in services per head is half as much,” he said. The national ...
We Must #mindthefacts Around Mental Health And Vote YES To Marriage EqualityHuffington Post Australia

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Desert Mob: Biggest opening weekend ever
ArtsHub (subscription)
As one of the major Indigenous art events in Australia, you've probably heard of the annual exhibition Desert Mob, held in Alice Springs. It brings together the latest contemporary art from Aboriginal-owned art centres in Central Australia and is ...

The West Australian
Urgent work needed to save Pilbara languages
The West Australian
IBN Group chairwoman Lorraine Injie said while translation services were readily available for foreign languages in Australia, indigenous translators were hard to come by. “Our languages and our cultures should be Australia's greatest treasures but ...

Human Capital
New learning platform for Indigenous professionals
Human Capital
“There is now a lot of highly educated and skilled Indigenous Australians who are young but extremely motivated to achieve their self-determination aspirations and be in a position to help their community, but they need a bit of mentoring support to ...

The Conversation AU
Friday essay: Dr Joe Gumbula, the ancestral chorus, and how we value Indigenous knowledges
The Conversation AU
Born in Miliŋinbi (Milingimbi) in 1954, Gumbula was descended from a prominent line of Yolŋu leaders of the Gupapuyŋu clan from northeast Arnhem Land, whose contributions to understanding between Indigenous and other Australians have been ...