Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Townsville Bulletin
Indigenous leader slams 'dysfunctional' youth crime system
Townsville Bulletin
“Unfortunately there's a lot of it (crime) happening in regional and remote Australia. “What we have to do is very simply confront that it's a major issue. “We have to confront the dysfunctionality in the communities.” Mr Mundine said putting youth ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous archives provide window into hidden heritage of thousands of Australians
ABC Online
Lost in Australia's vast archive collection are records of Indigenous people, places and languages, once not seen as valuable enough to bother documenting — but now the forgotten stories are being unravelled. John Morseu is a Torres Strait Islander ...
'National shame': Push for courts to consider Aboriginal background in sentencingThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'National shame': Push for courts to consider Aboriginal background in sentencing
The Sydney Morning Herald
Attorney-General George Brandis announced an inquiry last year into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration rates, headed by the Australian Law Reform Commission. In its submission to the inquiry, the NSW Bar Association sets out a series ...

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Christopher Wilson First Indigenous Australian Archaeology Doctrine
National Geographic Australia
Christopher Wilson, a Ngarrindjeri man, will be the first Indigenous Australian to receive a Ph.D. in archaeology. Wilson's work in South Australia's Lower Murray uncovered an 8,500-year occupancy by the Ngarrindjeri people, a site far older than the ...

Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous Australians Face Lack of Access to Cataract Surgery
Pro Bono Australia
The research paper said: “A considerable proportion of Indigenous Australians, particularly those of older age and those living in non-metropolitan areas, may be at higher risk for undiagnosed eye disease and vision loss due to the infrequency of eye ...

Research Fellow Lime Network (Indigenous Applicants Only)
The Conversation AU
Only Indigenous Australians are eligible to apply as this position is exempt under the Special Measure Provision, Section 12 (1) of the Equal Opportunity Act 2011 (Vic). Salary: $69,148 - $93,830 p.a. (Level A) or $98,775 - $117,290 p.a. (Level B ...

The Conversation AU
Excluding Indigenous youth from schools may severely increase their risk of incarceration
The Conversation AU
Many Indigenous children, particularly boys aged 10 to 17 years, are receiving lengthy suspensions from schools throughout Australia. Even more concerning is the over-representation of young Indigenous males incarcerated in Australia's juvenile ...

ABC Online
An athlete who couldn't outrun his past
ABC Online
His story was unique, but his death is recorded as just one of the dozens of young Aboriginal people who take their own lives in Australia each year. From 2011 to 2015, of the 317 Australian children who ended their lives, 85 were Indigenous. That is 9 ...

ABC Online
Australia's 'big' problem: What are we going to do with our ageing super statues?
ABC Online
Indigenous artist Munganbana Norman Miller has proposed the Cook statue be given a Big Boomerang to hold. Then there is South Australia's "Larry" the Lobster. Created in 1979, the 17-metre fibreglass crustacean has been on the market intermittently ...

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ABC Online
Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin
ABC Online
Yorta Yorta soprano and Dean of Indigenous performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Deborah Cheetham, said Dr G Yunupingu's music changed the landscape for Indigenous artists. "[He] ignited a fire for Aboriginal Australians that singing in ...

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EOI - Manager, State Schools - Indigenous Education
EducationHQ Australia
EOI - Manager, State Schools - Indigenous Education. Temporary full-time job recruited via Department of Education and Training (Queensland) (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia). Job Reference QLD/CO253793/17E. Closing date September 25, 2017.

The Australian
$53m spent but gap widens in troubled town of Roebourne
The Australian
Aboriginal residents in the troubled town of Roebourne are falling behind the rest of Australia, and particularly behind other Aboriginal Australians, at a rate that defies huge spending programs by state and commonwealth governments, an unpublished ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au

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The Australian
Linda Burney wants Turnbull to prioritise question for constitutional referendum
The Australian
A process of engagement with indigenous and non-indigenous Australians would be needed to thrash out finer details of the constitutional shake-up. Ms Burney said the urgency of the task was heightened by a number of obstacles to change, including the ...

The Australian
Tracks divide locals, outrage experts
The Australian
“The middens there are unlike anything anywhere else in Australia — incredibly important Aboriginal sites that are several thousand years old, and they want to open them to vandals.” The three tracks were closed in 2012 after damage to middens, dunes ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Advance Australia Fair translated into Ngunawal for the first time, sung at Parliament House
The Sydney Morning Herald
Minerals Council chief executive Brendan Pearson said Indigenous communities were "one of the most important partnerships for Australia's mining industry", and this was one way of honouring that. "We always look to pay respect to Indigenous communities ...

Herald Sun
Community pays financial and emotional costs for increased imprisonment
Herald Sun
Those studies proved that the common factor for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians was entrenched disadvantage, leading to social alienation, crime and imprisonment. Of course, individuals make decisions about their own lives and should be ...

Bellingen Courier Sun
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bellingen Courier Sun
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Bunbury Mail
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bunbury Mail
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Bendigo Advertiser
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bendigo Advertiser
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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ABC Online
Mining millions to lift traditional Aboriginal landowners out of 'poverty', says Ngadju elder
ABC Online
Twenty-five years since the High Court's landmark Mabo decision, traditional landowners in one of Western Australia's biggest mining regions are finally starting to see the benefits of native title. The resources wealth of WA's Goldfields, which ...