Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Bush Bands Bash draws huge crowds for Indigenous music concert in Central Australia
ABC Online
More than 2,000 people flocked to a concert in Alice Springs on Sunday night to see the best Indigenous bands from across the Northern Territory. The Bush Bands Bash is the culmination of a week-long workshop, where Indigenous groups refine their acts ...

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ACS (registration)
Indigenous charities get a boost
ACS (registration)
“One of the biggest things holding back charities and social enterprises in Australia from addressing health, social and environmental challenges is a lack of IT capability and capacity,” she said. Iles said this was amplified for Indigenous organisations.

MuMbrella
BuzzFeed launches new podcast, 'Pretty for an Aboriginal'
MuMbrella
BuzzFeed is proud to introduce Pretty For An Aboriginal — the new podcast hosted by Nakkiah Lui and Miranda Tapsell that's set to rock traditional perceptions of Indigenous Australia and challenge rigid mindsets of what women of colour can and cannot do.

ABC Online
Australia lags behind in Indigenous political participation: Expert
ABC Online
Although non-binding, the Declaration recognised the rights of indigenous peoples around the world to self-determination and proposed protections for their land and resources. A decade ago, Canada, New Zealand, the United States and Australia ...

New Matilda
To Close The Gap, Australia Must Address The 'Coloniser In The Room'
New Matilda
Life expectancy is still on average 10 years lower for an Indigenous Australian compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. A person of Aboriginal descent is more than three times as likely to have diabetes and four times as likely to have chronic ...

The Advertiser
Aboriginal leader Malcolm 'Tiger' McKenzie pushing for nuclear waste dump built near his home in the Flinders Ranges
The Advertiser
Some local Aboriginal people are strongly opposed to the storage of radioactive waste in the district but Mr McKenzie said the project would create jobs for indigenous people. “This is modern Australia now, we've got to part of it — native title doesn ...

ABC Online
Arnhem Land rangers blending traditional and high-tech methods to earn carbon credits
ABC Online
Here in this remote pocket of Arnhem Land, Warddeken rangers are doing what Aboriginal people have done for thousands of years, but are now combining traditional knowledge of fire management with new technology to protect the landscape. Through this ...

Daily Telegraph
Tough new laws including jail time and fines for vandals who damage Captain Cook monuments
Daily Telegraph
“Australian history contains many painful chapters — particularly for indigenous Australians — but a free society debates its past, it does not deny it. It builds new monuments as it preserves old ones.” As part of the plan, the Government will today ...

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The Advertiser
Adelaide DNA study shows first Australians came together in today's SA 2000 years after their arrival
The Advertiser
This is just one of the astounding findings that has emerged from a groundbreaking study into Aboriginal DNA being carried out by the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum. The research also backs up Aboriginal beliefs that the ...

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cricket.com.au
Dizzy: I'd love to work with Indigenous XI
cricket.com.au
He's worked in distant locales such as Zimbabwe and Yorkshire, and now current Papua New Guinea coach Jason Gillespie says he would love to do something a little closer to home by helping out Australia's National Indigenous squad during his coaching ...

SBS
Why hasn't Australia developed more diverse regional accents?
SBS
While Indigenous Australians had developed over 250 different languages at the time of European colonisation, he says Australia is a relatively young country in terms of white settlement. "It's limited mainly because we're a young country, we're only ...

Sky News Australia
Aboriginal groups put forward job scheme
Sky News Australia
The Northern Territory plan comes after new West Australian treasurer Ben Wyatt was accused of 'declaring war' on country areas after announcing a major restructure of Royalties for Regions but he denies the program is 'dead'. Australia's first ...

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The Guardian
'6000km for only 20 minutes with the PM.' Clinton Pryor relives his epic walk across Australia
The Guardian
It was roughly the halfway mark of his epic journey for justice, a 5,800km (3,600 miles) walk over 360 days from Perth in the far west of Australia to Canberra in the east. His walk was to highlight the plight of Indigenous Australians and it was here ...

Pedestrian TV
A Third VIC Council Is Set To Vote On Dropping Australia Day Celebrations
Pedestrian TV
Councillor Samantha Ratnam says the motion put forward recognises that 26 January is a “day of mourning for our Aboriginal community” and “seeks that Moreland Council support the campaign to change the date of Australia Day to a more inclusive date ...

The Guardian
Indigenous groups say work for the dole scheme racially discriminatory
The Guardian
That was a position backed by non-profit job service providers, represented by the chief executive of Jobs Australia, David Thompson. “There's been nothing done, nothing of any significant note, to actually increase the stock of jobs in those ...

ABC Online
WA budget 2017: Aboriginal community wanted a water park but was given a $7 million pool
ABC Online
Safety issues around staffing and maintaining a swimming pool at one of Australia's most remote communities of 500 mostly Aboriginal residents made a water park a better option, said Kalumburu Aboriginal Corporation's business manager Melissa Taylor.

Gizmodo Australia
Depressions On Pluto Just Got A Seriously Metal Name From Indigenous Australian Mythology
Gizmodo Australia
A group of surface depressions has been named Djanggawul Fossae, which the IAU described as "three ancestral beings in indigenous Australian mythology who travelled between the island of the dead and Australia, creating the landscape and filling it ...
First map of Pluto includes crater named after 11-year-old English schoolgirlTelegraph.co.uk

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SBS
Building resilient ecosystems for threatened animals
SBS
'European scientists like to use the word 'discovered' to explain their first sight of an animal known and protected by Australian Aboriginal people for 100,000 years. It is an indication that Europeans have no respect for any knowledge but their own ...

Kangaroos and Jillaroos set to have Deadly Rugby League World Cup
Brisbane Times
The Deadly Choices program is aimed at closing the health and life-expectancy gap that currently exists between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, which is currently about 10 years. It's focussed on quitting smoking, eating good food and ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous students launch Yakanarra Song Book at National Library in Canberra
The Canberra Times
After travelling more than 3500km, students from Yakanarra Community School in Western Australia have launched their song book at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. The students and elders presented the Yakanarra Song Book, a collection of ...

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