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Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous land rights councils 'in need of a role' - The Australian

Mon, 2017/09/04 - 2:02pm

The Australian

Indigenous land rights councils 'in need of a role'
The Australian
The biggest of them — such as the Northern Territory's Northern Land Council and Central Land Council — are already multi-million-dollar operations that represent thousands of traditional land owners exercising rights over vast tracts of remote ...

Adelaide artist Driller Jet Armstrong exhibition closed over use of indigenous Wandjinaspirit figures - The Advertiser

Mon, 2017/09/04 - 1:16pm

The Advertiser

Adelaide artist Driller Jet Armstrong exhibition closed over use of indigenous Wandjinaspirit figures
The Advertiser
Ms McElwee contacted the region's cultural centre and the Arts Law Centre of Australia, which says Wandjina “are the sacred creation spirits and source of cultural law for the Worrora, Wunambal and Ngarinyin Aboriginal peoples of the Kimberley ...

Coalition won't rewrite history on Cook - The West Australian

Mon, 2017/09/04 - 12:14pm

The West Australian

Coalition won't rewrite history on Cook
The West Australian
Mr Morrison's op-ed follows weeks of debate around the appropriateness of colonial era statues, and Australia Day itself, considering the country's indigenous history. A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park that was defaced last week has now ...

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Future Brisbane: Indigenous culture to be next big thing in tourism - Courier Mail

Mon, 2017/09/04 - 12:01pm

Courier Mail

Future Brisbane: Indigenous culture to be next big thing in tourism
Courier Mail
“We are still underselling that indigenous tourism experience,” he said. “If we have one selling point about Australia that is absolutely unique around the world, it is that we have this amazing living culture that is 50,000 to 60,000 years old. “So if ...

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Join the Great Book Swap to raise money this Indigenous Literacy Day - Herald Sun

Mon, 2017/09/04 - 9:24am

Herald Sun

Join the Great Book Swap to raise money this Indigenous Literacy Day
Herald Sun
According to 2016 NAPLAN data only 25 per cent of indigenous students in remote Australia meet the minimum standard for reading and writing, compared with 90 per cent of non-indigenous kids. The ILF is working to change this by exposing kids to the ...

Burke and Wills descendants speak out on plans to alter monument - The Australian

Mon, 2017/09/04 - 8:39am

The Australian

Burke and Wills descendants speak out on plans to alter monument
The Australian
Calls to recognise the indigenous Australians who explored the continent before Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition and the Aboriginal guides who helped the pair on their journey come as the latest Newspoll revealed 58 per cent of Australians don't want ...

Coalition won't rewrite history on Captain Cook: Morrison - SBS

Mon, 2017/09/04 - 7:12am

SBS

Coalition won't rewrite history on Captain Cook: Morrison
SBS
"However, our modern Australian story has not been without its failures, its shames and tragedies, in particular for indigenous Australians," Mr Morrison conceded. Greens MP Adam Bandt said calls to modify plaques on statues of colonial leaders like ...
Newspoll finds overwhelming support to leave statues aloneThe Australian

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Higher rates of dementia found in Indigenous Australians who suffered childhood trauma - ABC Online

Mon, 2017/09/04 - 3:45am

Higher rates of dementia found in Indigenous Australians who suffered childhood trauma
ABC Online
Researchers following a group of just over 300 Indigenous Australians in New South Wales say they are discovering an association between rates of dementia and those who reported a high level of childhood trauma. Doctor Kylie Radford from Neuroscience ...

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Coalition won't rewrite history on Cook - SBS

Mon, 2017/09/04 - 12:47am

SBS

Coalition won't rewrite history on Cook
SBS
Mr Morrison's op-ed follows weeks of debate around the appropriateness of colonial era statues, and Australia Day itself, considering the country's indigenous history. A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park that was defaced last week has now ...

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Coalition won't rewrite history on Captain Cook: Morrison - SBS

Mon, 2017/09/04 - 12:47am

SBS

Coalition won't rewrite history on Captain Cook: Morrison
SBS
Mr Morrison's op-ed follows weeks of debate around the appropriateness of colonial era statues, and Australia Day itself, considering the country's indigenous history. A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park that was defaced last week has now ...
Newspoll finds overwhelming support to leave statues aloneThe Australian

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An Endeavour for the age: Captain James Cook's epic voyage - The Australian

Sun, 2017/09/03 - 10:06pm

The Australian

An Endeavour for the age: Captain James Cook's epic voyage
The Australian
And that story cannot be told without the oral histories of indigenous Australians told alongside it; the views from the elders whose ancestors occupied the east coast of this glorious land long before Endeavour bobbed into their horizon. Today, part ...

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Noongar man Clinton Pryor walks from Perth to Canberra raise awareness of indigenous issues - The West Australian

Sun, 2017/09/03 - 10:05pm

The Canberra Times

Noongar man Clinton Pryor walks from Perth to Canberra raise awareness of indigenous issues
The West Australian
Over the past year he met with Aboriginal elders and community leaders across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and NSW. His walk included trekking through the Gibson Desert for two weeks in summer, where he had to ...
Clinton Pryor arrives in Canberra after walking from Western AustraliaThe Canberra Times

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Why I cherish Jan 26 in all its complexity - The Australian

Sun, 2017/09/03 - 2:15pm

The Australian

Why I cherish Jan 26 in all its complexity
The Australian
North of Brewarrina, not far from the ancient fish traps where I was just over a week ago, is the site of the Hospital Creek massacre, where 400 indigenous Australians were slaughtered in 1859. Unforgivably, just one of many such episodes that is part ...

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Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians - Gippsland Times

Sun, 2017/09/03 - 2:05pm

Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Gippsland Times
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians - The Transcontinental

Sun, 2017/09/03 - 2:05pm

The Transcontinental

Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
The Transcontinental
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians - Crookwell Gazette

Sun, 2017/09/03 - 2:03pm

Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Crookwell Gazette
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

Newspoll finds overwhelming support to leave statues alone - The Australian

Sun, 2017/09/03 - 2:01pm

The Australian

Newspoll finds overwhelming support to leave statues alone
The Australian
The survey finds those who want additional plaques on statutes to recognise indigenous Australians amount to only 19 per cent of voters, while those who want new inscriptions to replace existing plaques make up 11 per cent. Malcolm Turnbull has accused ...

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Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians - Bellingen Courier Sun

Sun, 2017/09/03 - 1:57pm

Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Bellingen Courier Sun
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

Madeleine Madden: Indigenous actor doesn't want to see historic statues torn down - dailytelegraph.com.au

Sun, 2017/09/03 - 1:44pm

dailytelegraph.com.au

Madeleine Madden: Indigenous actor doesn't want to see historic statues torn down
dailytelegraph.com.au
But Madeleine Madden — who will soon appear in Foxtel's upcoming Picnic at Hanging Rock — does back calls to change the date of Australia Day from January 26. Australian actor Madeleine Madden wants a change to the date of Australia Day — but ...

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Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians - Ararat Advertiser

Sun, 2017/09/03 - 1:41pm

Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Ararat Advertiser
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

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