Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Indigenous groups renew call for target to reduce incarceration
The Guardian
The letter, obtained by Guardian Australia, places significant emphasis on ensuring the targets are owned “jointly” by federal and state governments, and Indigenous Australians. The letter shows a “high level discussion paper” has been developed for ...

The Australian
Queensland collection finds a sweet spot in history wars
The Australian
As debate swirls around Australia's “history wars” and the interpretation of colonial and indigenous history, the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art's latest exhibition — a reconfiguration of its Australian collection designed to evoke ...

The Guardian
Lucy Treloar on writing about Indigenous Australians: 'I felt filled with conflict'
The Guardian
Bodies such as the Australian Council for the Arts have protocols for writers to follow when tackling Indigenous issues: for example, non-Indigenous writers “should consult and seek consent where use of Indigenous cultural material and histories are ...

Devex
Australian aid tries a new approach: Indigenous to indigenous
Devex
According Ninti One and i2i Development — two indigenous Australian businesses partnering with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in delivering Australia's international development program — an indigenous approach is required in order to ...

NEWS.com.au
Australia Day date change: Third Melbourne council ditches January ...
NEWS.com.au
AMERICANS are renowned for asking a lot of crazy questions about Australia — but a curve-ball from one woman knocked our reporter for six. Kirrily Schwarz.
Indigenous photography - complex, contemporary, surprising and freshArtsHub (subscription)

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Central Western Daily
Latest data reveals suicide rates in regional areas twice that of capital cities
Central Western Daily
“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 ...

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Herald Sun
Australia Day: Port Phillip could become fourth Melbourne council to scrap celebrations
Herald Sun
The motion, which councillors are due to vote on next Wednesday night, calls for a “formal and transparent consultation process” with local indigenous representatives about the issue. In the past two months Yarra, Darebin and Moreland councils have all ...

Katherine Times
Council contract sets up Indigenous-owned NT business for staff expansion
Katherine Times
PRACTICAL APPROACH: Practical Safety Australia's Cindy Salinas and Lance Martin explain the embroidery process to Roper Gulf Regional Council Procurement Coordinator Jerry Amato on September 27 after the Indigenous-owned business won a tender ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous photography - complex, contemporary, surprising and fresh
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is currently staging the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) touring exhibition Resolution: new Indigenous photomedia. It celebrates some of the most significant work made by Indigenous photographers, video and ...

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InDaily
Could karkalla become the next superfood?
InDaily
Motlop told InDaily that the Indigenous-owned Something Wild Australia currently picks about 200kg a week along the Coorong, where it also harvests other native greens such as native rosemary, samphire and sea blight. It supplies the karkalla to around ...

The Border Mail
Fay Moseley gets behind NSW Aboriginal Land Council's treaty campaign
The Border Mail
A survivor of the infamous Cootamundra Girls' Home has welcomed fresh calls for a treaty with Australia's Indigenous people. Fay Moseley was just 10 years old when she was taken from her family and said while a treaty wouldn't heal all wounds, it would ...

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The Cairns Post
All Stars converge on Cairns
The Cairns Post
The Australian Indigenous Basketball All Stars squad, which last month competed at the World Indigenous Basketball Challenge, will play the Maori national men's team in the annual trans-Tasman tournament in Cairns in December. The 2017 tournament ...

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Bendigo Advertiser
Death rate in Greater Bendigo steady, drug deaths across Australia highest in 20 years
Bendigo Advertiser
The ABS also released data about Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, showing it increased by 19 per cent - or 128,500 people - in the five years to June 2016. That's more than double the eight per cent increase for the non ...

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Mirage News
Australia's Indigenous population grows faster than non-Indigenous population: statistics
Xinhua
CANBERRA, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Australia's Indigenous population is growing twice as fast as the nation's non-Indigenous population, while Australia's first people now make up 3.3 percent of all Aussies, according to new figures released by the ...
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Illawarra Mercury
Biggest population surge since 2008
The Australian Financial Review
The figures also confirm the indigenous population is, on average, younger than the rest of the nation. In 2016, the proportion of indigenous Australians younger than 15 years was 34 per cent, compared with 18 per cent for the general population. The ...
Painkillers and meth drive surge in Australian drug deathsIllawarra Mercury
Suicide in regional and rural areas twice that in capital citiesDaily Liberal

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ABC Online
The Aboriginal communities smiling again (and saving millions)
ABC Online
He's part of a public health revolution that's costing less and delivering far more to Aboriginal dental patients. The van travels through rural towns — including Mr Talbot's hometown of Boggabilla — to fit patients with the dentures they desperately ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal remains exposed by floodwaters repatriated to higher ground
ABC Online
The discovery of a human skull has sparked one of Australia's largest repatriation efforts to save the remains of about 100 Aboriginal people in Western Australia's far north. The bones were found earlier this year outside Fitzroy Crossing's Pioneer ...

NEWS.com.au
Australian-themed food chain Outback Steakhouse apologises following accusations it used an Aussie slur
NEWS.com.au
The use of the term “Ab-original” to describe something as trivial as fried vegetables led some social media users to accuse the chain of “making fun” of indigenous Australians. One person said it was “a bit racist”. Outback Steakhouse is owned by ...

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Illawarra Mercury
Painkillers and meth drive surge in Australian drug deaths
Illawarra Mercury
The ABS also released data about Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, showing it increased by 19 per cent - or 128,500 people - in the five years to June 2016. That's more than double the 8 per cent increase for the non ...

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The Age
Yes, councils can snub Australia Day, ban fizzy drinks and plastic bags
The Age
Lydia Thorne from the local Indigenous community at the Darebin public forum to discuss the decision by the council to stop Australia Day celebrations. Photo: Chris Hopkins. The preamble suggests councils are entitled to make decisions that would ...

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