Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Follow the lede: a story of Australia's indigenous youth "suicide crisis" with Rebecca Trigger
ABC Local
The heart-wrenching story of 15-year-old James was "extremely challenging" to tell, according to journalist Rebecca Trigger. Rebecca wrote about James, a star athlete with a bright future who was another casualty in the crisis that's killing young ...

The Canberra Times
Bringing the Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition alive
The Canberra Times
Desert weavers Dorcas Bennett and Rene Nelson of Western Australia. Photo: Jamila Toderas. The Songlines exhibition, the intriguing tale of the seven sisters, features a dramatic chase across the Australian desert. It's the story at the heart of an ...

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The Sunshine Coast Daily
Woodford Folk Festival releases Speakers Programme
The Sunshine Coast Daily
More than 70 speakers - from singer-songwriter John Butler and former prime minister Bob Hawke to science fanatic Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Indigenous lawyer lawyer Noel Pearson - will appear at the event, lending a thought-provoking element to a ...

ABC Online
Remote Aboriginal school takes out top science award never won outside Perth
ABC Online
A remote Aboriginal school in Western Australia has broken two, long-standing records by winning a state science award. The Science Teachers Association's (STAWA) Secondary School of the Year award — now in its 59th year — had never gone to an ...

NEWS.com.au
Could this Julie Bishop coincidence possibly be true?
NEWS.com.au
Ms Bishop also used her speech to talk up Australia's bid for a 2018-2020 seat on the UN Human Rights Council. Australia would help empower women, girls and indigenous groups to reach their full potential if elected. “Australia is proud to be home to ...

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SBS
Julie Bishop slams North Korea's Kim Jong-Un in UN speech
SBS
Ms Bishop also used her speech to talk up Australia's bid for a 2018-2020 seat on the UN Human Rights Council. Australia would help empower women, girls and indigenous groups to reach their full potential if elected. "Australia is proud to be home to ...

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SBS
Julie Bishop slams North Korea in UN speech
SBS
Ms Bishop also used her speech to talk up Australia's bid for a 2018-2020 seat on the UN Human Rights Council. Australia would help empower women, girls and indigenous groups to reach their full potential if elected. "Australia is proud to be home to ...

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Sky News Australia
Bishop calls for unity against N. Korea
Sky News Australia
Ms Bishop also used her speech to talk up Australia's bid for a 2018-2020 seat on the UN Human Rights Council. Australia would help empower women, girls and indigenous groups to reach their full potential if elected. "Australia is proud to be home to ...

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At least 2000 Australians are married too young
The Australian
In any case, I hope we can find a way to ensure all young Australians, including the indigenous and immigrants, are allowed to live out the entirety of their youth without the burden of making a lifetime commitment to marriage. There's plenty of time ...

Moral panic should be over Aboriginal kids' suicide rate, not SSM
The Australian (blog)
In 2014, the West Australian Ombudsman's report on death by suicide of indigenous youth found that 44 per cent had experienced domestic violence, 25 per cent sexual abuse, 22 per cent physical abuse, and more than a third had experienced neglect.

The Australian
Indigenous prize sparks business awards review
The Australian
The case has prompted the head of the art industry self-regulatory body, the Indigenous Art Code, to call upon federal Small Business Minister Michael McCormack, who endorses the Australian Small Business Champion Awards, to sever his ties. Indigenous ...

The Australian
Grand master lost to history: Namatjira's legacy stifled by deal
The Australian
In the 1940s and early 50s, Australia could not get enough of Aboriginal landscape painter Albert Namatjira. The former cameleer and initiated Aranda man from central Australia was the subject of three documentaries, his exhibitions sold out regularly ...

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NEWS.com.au
Australia, New Zealand is just better than us
NEWS.com.au
It's not just blazing a gender trail for women, New Zealand has also shown superb leadership in issues concerning native rights, campaigning against nuclear testing in the South Pacific, and have some of the strongest environmental laws in the world.

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Daily Telegraph
Australia, New Zealand is just better than us
Daily Telegraph
It's not just blazing a gender trail for women, New Zealand has also shown superb leadership in issues concerning native rights, campaigning against nuclear testing in the South Pacific, and have some of the strongest environmental laws in the world.

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ABS to visit remote outstations, unsure if anyone will be there
ABC Local
Indigenous communities in remote areas of the Territory are about to get a visit from the Australian Bureau of Statistics in a bid to give all Australians the opportunity to have their say in the Same Sex marriage survey, but do these communities want ...

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The West Australian
Gillard delighted with her portrait artist
The West Australian
"Vincent Fantauzzo's portraits of indigenous Australian artists moved me beyond words," she tweeted on Friday following an announcement by the Department of Parliamentary Services. The Melbourne-based artist has won the Doug Moran National Portrait ...
Vincent Fantauzzo to paint official Julia Gillard portraitThe Australian

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SBS
Gillard delighted with her portrait artist
SBS
"Vincent Fantauzzo's portraits of indigenous Australian artists moved me beyond words," she tweeted on Friday following an announcement by the Department of Parliamentary Services. The Melbourne-based artist has won the Doug Moran National Portrait ...
Vincent Fantauzzo to paint official Julia Gillard portraitThe Australian

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ABC Online
Pilbara's Indigenous leaders say no to cashless welfare card at annual Yule River meeting
ABC Online
Aboriginal community leaders from Western Australia's Pilbara have voted to "strongly oppose" the introduction of the cashless welfare card. The decision was made at the annual Yule River meeting which brings together Indigenous leaders from across the ...

The Guardian
From the margins to the mainstream | Pursuit by The University of ...
Pursuit
Professor Marcia Langton from the University of Melbourne on Indigenous activism, the positive impact of land rights and the Australia Day debate.
Indigenous communities need to be part of the solution. Top-down ...The Guardian

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ABC Online
Calls for national taskforce to address Indigenous hearing loss
ABC Online
There are calls for a national taskforce to address hearing loss caused by ear infections in Australia's Indigenous communities. Approximately 70 per cent of Indigenous Australians are affected by hearing loss — and it has been identified as one the ...