Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

How much is an aboriginal youth's life worth?
Eureka Street (registration)
Australians claim an identity as a nation built from the principle of a fair go for all, regardless of background or the colour of a person's skin. Yet I hear and read an ongoing litany of complaints about our Aboriginal communities and individuals ...

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New York Times
Crossing Australia, One Step at a Time
New York Times
Mr. Pryor, an Aboriginal activist from Australia's west coast, was starting his 310th day on foot to protest the treatment of Indigenous Australians, and he seemed anxious to get going. He took a final drag off a cigarette. “Ready, guys?” he said ...

Herald Sun
Australia Day should be moved to another date so we can all celebrate
Herald Sun
MOMENTUM is building for Australia Day to be moved to another date. Around the country there are numerous moves recognising that January 26 is seen as Invasion Day by many indigenous Australians — a day of mourning rather than celebration.

Courier Mail
Opinion: Time to fix woefully low Indigenous representation
Courier Mail
I said at the time that most non-Indigenous Australians wouldn't accept 'special' seats as they could so easily be read as tokenism. It would, I said, be especially problematic for Australians who were neither of Anglo nor Indigenous heritage, and it ...
Garma: Indigenous leaders call for progress on constitutional referendum at final forumABC Online

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Pro Bono Australia
Charity and University Partner to Improve Indigenous Health Outcomes
Pro Bono Australia
In a world first, the Australian model will also consider the preconception environment and incorporate Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander knowledge and leadership. In a joint statement Save the Children and the University of Melbourne said the ...

InDaily
Local govt should stay out of debate I started, says councillor
InDaily
As InDaily revealed last week, South Ward councillor Alex Antic has submitted a motion for tomorrow night's meeting, urging the council to publicly advocate a position on the date of Australia Day. Indigenous activists have labelled January 26 ...

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The Guardian
Australia better at tackling natural disasters than helping Indigenous people, CEO says
The Guardian
Governments are better at tackling natural disasters than longer-term problems in remote Indigenous communities, the head of Mental Health Australia has said. The Arnhem Land community of Galiwin'ku was devastated by two cyclones just four weeks apart ...

SBS
What's the deal with wild foods?
SBS
While these wild and native ingredients have only come to the fore in Australia in recent years, Indigenous Australians' traditional knowledge of native edible flora and fauna is vast, stretching back tens of thousands of years. “Being Aboriginal ...

Indigenous Australia faces 'tsunami' of kidney disease
ABC Online
Following the death of the acclaimed Indigenous musician Dr G Yunupingu from renal failure, east Arnhem Aboriginal health organisations are calling on the federal and territory governments to match their own funding to fight the problem. At the Garma ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Turnbull Government has appointed Vicki Coltman, Sarah Davies and Fiona Jose to the Council of the National Museum of Australia (NMA) on a part-time basis for three year terms. Coltman is a Director and Deputy Chair of the Art Gallery of Ballarat ...

ABC Online
Same-sex marriage debate threatening to tear Government apart
ABC Online
... Turnbull in 1997 when the Howard government opted to use the mail to elect delegates to the Constitutional Convention on the Republic. Then, Mr Turnbull said, the process was designed to disenfranchise migrants, the young, and Indigenous Australians.
Same-sex plebiscite delay is exhausting for votersThe Australian

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Spouting feel-good fluff is no proof of foreman material
The Australian
There are differing factions in Aboriginal Australia that advocate either taking what you can get now or pushing the envelope way beyond what is possible. At any large gathering of like-minded people, there is always a tendency to reach for what cannot ...

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The Australian
Mining jobs deal helps indigenous tighten grip on futures
The Australian
Those petitions, which hang in Parliament House, and the Wave Hill walk-off that followed them in 1966, were stations along the way to the 1967 referendum by which the federal government took responsibility for laws regarding indigenous Australians.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Government could end HIV transmission in Australia with just $32ma year
The Sydney Morning Herald
The rate of HIV notification in 2015 among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples was more than double the rate in the Australian‑born non‑Indigenous population. At the end of 2015, an estimated 25,313 people were living with HIV in Australia ...

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ABC Online
Garma: Kidney failure that killed Dr G Yunupingu highlights huge problem for Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
The death of Arnhem Land musician Dr G Yunupingu at 46 years of age should highlight the crippling impacts kidney failure is having on Indigenous Australians, health experts and advocates have warned. As well as Dr G Yunupingu's death, land rights ...

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The Advertiser
Alec Antic: Councils should stick to the basics and not get involved in issues like “Invasion Day”
The Advertiser
Problems such as domestic violence, unemployment, alcoholism, and poor health in our indigenous communities are not aided by opportunistic raids from local government bodies, and do little more than cast a shadow on our national psyche. ... This week I ...

ABC Online
Proposed charter and Indigenous assimilation pamphlets among recovered documents in SA
ABC Online
South Australia Parliament Research Library director Dr John Weste explained he felt a little like that recently when he was sorting through a pile of uncatalogued and very undistinguished looking documents. "One of them was the sort of thing with a ...

The Australian
Same-sex marriage: Religions protected in private members' bill
The Australian
The draft legislation will remove existing restrictions to allow “two people” to marry, regardless of their sex or gender, according to News Corp Australia. It reports the bill will extend religious freedoms to all religious ministers, while service ...

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ABC Local
From prison to university: Live-in program for Indigenous students changing lives
ABC Local
"We would love every residential college in Australia to pick up this program," Mrs Webber said. "So we can change overnight the whole graduation and retention rates of [Indigenous students] in Australia." Mr Johns hopes to start a Masters degree at ...

The Australian
Q&A debate on indigenous future
The Australian
Mr Pearson said the country had never formally recognised the existence of original Australian languages. The 2012 expert panel on indigenous constitutional recognition suggested it should happen but the polling at the time “was quite negative about it ...
Sally McManus ratchets up campaign against 'racist' work-for-the-dole programThe Sydney Morning Herald
PM praised for speaking Aboriginal dialectYahoo7 News

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