Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Daily Review
NGV's Brave New World reveals an Australia charged with idealism – and anxiety
Daily Review
This was a period in which art found new forms in Expressionism, Social Realism and Surrealism as artists reacted to the ideas of Communism, the urbanisation of Australia, a new interest in Indigenous Australia and the growing threat of Fascism in Europe.

Herald Sun
Darebin council votes to dump Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...
Melbourne's City of Darebin council decides to dump Australia Day ceremoniesABC Online
This is how councils can lose their citizenship powersThe Border Mail
Second Melbourne council votes to cancel Australia Day ceremony and celebrationsThe Guardian

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Pro Bono Australia
NFPs Set to Benefit From $1M of Free Tech Expertise
Pro Bono Australia
This year's recipients ranged from medical charities to social enterprises as well as four organisations that aim to improve the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. First Australians Capital CEO Jocelyn King said the support would help their ...

The Macleay Argus
Ice use out of control in regional Australia
The Macleay Argus
Mr Wilson says ice has become inter-generational in some Indigenous communities with parents, grandparents and children all using the drug. He says there is a huge misconception that alcohol is the major issue for Indigenous Australia and that close to ...

ABC Online
NBL star Kevin White uses hoops to inspire Aboriginal youngsters in central Australia
ABC Online
He is exactly the kind of person to inspire Aboriginal youngsters in central Australia to lock onto a goal, and chase it. He has recently returned from a trip to Nyewente and Ltyentye Apurte Aboriginal communities with Charity Bounce — an organisation ...

ABC Online
The 'life school' helping Indigenous teenage mums kick drugs and ...
ABC Online
Only 62 per cent of Indigenous girls on Cape York graduate high school, and it is even harder to finish when you fall pregnant. But one boarding school is ...

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The Guardian
'We are begging for housing': the crisis in Indigenous communities
The Guardian
The community, which is 90% Indigenous, is one of many to be dealing with overcrowding. A Guardian Australia analysis of census data, using the variables of average household size and persons per bedroom as indicators, suggests improvements in the ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal women empowering schoolgirls in Central Australia to fight domestic violence
ABC Online
Sitting under the shade of a gum tree in a dry river bed in Central Australia, senior Aboriginal women are working to empower a group of schoolgirls in the fight against domestic violence. Central Australia has one of the highest rates of domestic ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Yarra City Council's Australia Day policy is not a surprise
The Sydney Morning Herald
Many foolish statements get trotted out when Indigenous affairs are debated. In a recently broadcast documentary, You are here: Occupation Native, we were told for example that: "We [the Indigenous people of Australia] are the only Indigenous people in ...
PAUL MURRAY: Leave Australia Day aloneToowoomba Chronicle
Don't Just Change The Date Of Australia Day...Get Rid Of It All TogetherBuzzFeed News

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Yarra Mayor: This is why we unrecognised Australia Day
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal Australians often talk about connection to land. Not only does the City of Yarra contain many ancient connections for the Wurundjeri people around the Yarra River itself, but our urban landscape is the birthplace of many modern Aboriginal ...
PAUL MURRAY: Leave Australia Day aloneToowoomba Chronicle
Don't Just Change The Date Of Australia Day...Get Rid Of It All TogetherBuzzFeed News

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ABC Online
Traffic fines could come out of welfare cheques in WA bid to reduce 'scandalous' rate of Indigenous incarceration
ABC Online
In some remote areas, almost half of Indigenous inmates are behind bars for unpaid traffic fines. WA Attorney-General John Quigley said he had been discussing the idea with Federal Social Services Minister Christian Porter. "[It would be] a modest ...

Mackay Daily Mercury
PAUL MURRAY: Leave Australia Day alone
Mackay Daily Mercury
Yarra City Council, in a very lefty part of Melbourne, voted to stop marking the day because they think it's a day of sadness for the Indigenous community. They claimed the locals wanted it, but didn't try that hard to really find out what they thought ...
Don't Just Change The Date Of Australia Day...Get Rid Of It All TogetherBuzzFeed News

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Toowoomba Chronicle
PAUL MURRAY: Leave Australia Day alone
Toowoomba Chronicle
Yarra City Council, in a very lefty part of Melbourne, voted to stop marking the day because they think it's a day of sadness for the Indigenous community. They claimed the locals wanted it, but didn't try that hard to really find out what they thought ...
Don't Just Change The Date Of Australia Day...Get Rid Of It All TogetherBuzzFeed News

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Don't celebrate Australia in shame or ignorance
The Sydney Morning Herald
They are not the first council to make moves in this direction, and won't be the last. The crux of the opposition to Australia Day is that it is a day of mourning for Indigenous Australians. Hence the name of the broader social movement opposed to ...
Gold Coast Bulletin guest columnist Paul Murray: 'Leave Australia Day alone'Gold Coast Bulletin
Tom Elliott: Reality a rare visitor to Yarra councilHerald Sun
Australia Day: Darebin council to follow City of Yarra with controversial vote on local eventsABC Online
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The Australian
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, National Museum of Australia
The Australian
The Seven Sisters project was born in Canberra in 2010, when a small group of indigenous elders met art centre managers, museum staff and Australian National University academics to discuss applying for a joint Australian Research Council grant.

Pursuit
Australia's referendum drought
Pursuit
Australia's worst performing referendum was the 1988 'Rights and Freedoms' in which only 31% of voters supported the proposal, and was not carried by one state. The best performing referendum was in 1967 to include and recognise Indigenous Australians ...

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The Conversation AU
Controlled experiments won't tell us which Indigenous health programs are working
The Conversation AU
These issues are particularly relevant to remote Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, where high levels of illness and early death persist, and where what applies to the tightly controlled conditions of a laboratory rarely ...

National Indigenous Times
Aboriginality today: it's not all black and white
National Indigenous Times
Douglas D'Antoine is changing the stereotype of what it means to be an Aboriginal person in Australia. He is many things: a father, a man thriving in his workplace and possessing a body that reflects a very healthy 45 years. He is governed by an ...

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Eternity News
Indigenous art book 'Our Mob, God's Story' wins Australian Christian book of the year
Eternity News
Our Mob, God's Story has taken out the prize for the 37th Annual Australian Christian book of the Year at a ceremony in Melbourne. The judges called the book “beautiful, confident and irresistible.” Advertisement. “Sixty-six Aboriginal and Torres ...

The Australian
Childcare push to scrap Australia Day
The Australian
A push is on to sideline Australia Day celebrations in preschools and childcare settings because of sensitivity about the event among indigenous Australians, with a group of activist educators throwing its support behind a Melbourne council's ban.

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