Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

National Indigenous Times
Indigenous leaders urge Australians to get behind Uluru Statement proposal
SBS
“Then there's been some commentary from the Aboriginal politicians and some of the Aboriginal leadership, but on the whole we need this to be a really dedicated position that Australia needs to take up. “We believe that all Australians are mature ...
Grassroots dissent derails referendum reportNational Indigenous Times

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Perth Now
Indigenous students from Perth's Wesley College dance in New York's Times Square
Perth Now
After their Times Square performance, the students were invited to perform at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC. The students were in the USA last week on the way to the 2017 World Indigenous Peoples conference in Toronto, Canada, which runs ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous groups worry 'Voice to Parliament' referendum proposal will be watered down
ABC Online
... this has been a collective voice, it's been a very large voice from all around Australia," she said. "And it wasn't just about being recognised, it was really about a real structural reform." A working group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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ABC Online
Storylines archive at State Library of WA offers a way to find photos of Indigenous family members
ABC Online
"It's pretty magical." That's how Damien Webb, Indigenous liaison officer at the State Library of Western Australia, describes his work. Mr Webb runs the Storylines project, which is dedicated to helping Aboriginal people find historic photographs of ...

The Guardian
Helpmann Awards 2017 winners: Kosky's Saul and Belvoir's The Drover's Wife dominate
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australian actress, director and writer Leah Purcell. Photo: James Brickwood. Melbourne Theatre Company's Jasper Jones, originally produced by Belvoir, picked up awards for best male supporting actor (Guy Simon) and best set design (Anna ...
Helpmanns 2017: The Drover's Wife and Adelaide festival claim Australian theatre awardsThe Guardian

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The Australian
Senior leaders call for indigenous advisory body
The Australian
“The aim of such a body should be to represent and give voice to the First Nations of Australia in their contemporary form. It should represent, as Dr Galarrwuy Yunupingu has appropriately described, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in a ...
5 Indigenous Shows Breaking Ground On Australian TV Right NowJunkee

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ABC Online
Fitzroy's Indigenous heritage honoured in Charcoal Lane mural by ...
ABC Online
It's a suburb known for its clout in Melbourne's cultural landscape but Fitzroy's Aboriginal heritage is rarely mentioned. A group of street artists hope to start a new ...

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BuzzFeed News
Rallies across the country call for justice for Elijah Doughty
SBS
"The verdict “reduced (Elijah's) death to an offence under the Road Traffic Act," she said.“It seems to be open season for vigilantes in Western Australia.” She questioned why no Indigenous people had been on the jury. Labor MP Linda Burney also spoke ...
AB Original's Powerful Splendour Set Pays Tribute To Elijah DoughtyHuffington Post Australia
AB Original bring thought-provoking fury to SplendourABC Online
'Threat to kill boy' after alleged bike theftThe Australian
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Sky News Australia
AB Original's Powerful Splendour Set Pays Tribute To Elijah Doughty
Huffington Post Australia
Australian rappers A.B. Original used their set at Splendour In The Grass to issue an emotional, incendiary call for justice for indigenous people, leading the crowd in chants and tributes while dedicating their set to Kalgoorlie teenager Elijah Doughty.
Rallies across the country call for justice for Elijah DoughtySBS
'Threat to kill boy' after alleged bike theftThe Australian
Anger over sentence in Elijah Doughty caseSky News Australia
ABC Online
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ABC Online
Sacred Aboriginal objects returned to Central Australia, century after collected by museums
ABC Online
More than two dozen sacred objects have been returned to Indigenous people in Alice Springs, a century after they were removed. The 26 items ended up in museums in Victoria where many of them were on public display, contrary to Arrente law, until the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Survival of Aboriginal Australians should be a cause for national pride
The Sydney Morning Herald
Science has rewritten the history of Australia – of humans, even – by proving that Aboriginal people have lived here at least 65,000 years. That's 18,000 years longer than previously known and exceeds even outlying expectations by 5000 years.
Australian state hands 470 houses to Aboriginal peopleXinhua

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The Australian
Indigenous MPs urged to stop 'agenda of failure'
The Australian
Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten have been warned they risk failure on indigenous constitutional recognition unless Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander politicians stop “pushing an agenda” at odds with last week's Referendum Council recommendations.

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Radical approach to Indigenous recognition is destined to fail
The Age
The Referendum Council's narrow, take it or leave it approach to constitutional recognition is unlikely to be approved by the Australian people. The Referendum Council's final report to Parliament is even more remarkable than last month's Uluru ...

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Radical approach to Indigenous recognition is destined to fail
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Referendum Council's narrow, take it or leave it approach to constitutional recognition is unlikely to be approved by the Australian people. The Referendum Council's final report to Parliament is even more remarkable than last month's Uluru ...

Radical approach to Indigenous recognition is destined to fail
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Referendum Council's narrow, take it or leave it approach to constitutional recognition is unlikely to be approved by the Australian people. The Referendum Council's final report to Parliament is even more remarkable than last month's Uluru ...

The Australian Financial Review
Native Title needs reforming or more Indigenous opportunities will be lost
The Australian Financial Review
However these opportunities could easily be lost if we don't call out the inefficiencies of a current Native Title regime that has evolved in a way that works against the long-term community and economic interests of Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...

Indigenous astronomers share culture through storytelling
SBS
Professor Ray Norris from Western Sydney University and the CSIRO says there is rich knowledge of the night sky embedded in the songs and stories of Indigenous Australians. "We found that people thousands of years ago in Australia were clearly staring ...

ABC Online
Dialysis in remote Indigenous communities one step closer after sell-out Purple House exhibition
ABC Online
The paintings are of iconic places in the Central Australian landscape, like Docker River and Mount Gillen. "They all start completely red, and then I work up from that, I don't draw meticulously, I just get stuck in," she said. "I've been having some ...

The Guardian
'The idea is coming of age': Indigenous Australians take carbon farming to Canada
The Guardian
One of the most successful types of Indigenous carbon farming in Australia has been savannah burning, in which regular small fires are lit, replicating ancient Aboriginal practices and helping to prevent larger fires that release more carbon dioxide ...

The Roar
Why Queensland's Origin domination is important to Indigenous Australians
The Roar
Others can analyse the Blues' decade-long problems in trying to find a sustainable winning team, but as we saw (yet again) in Origin 3, the Maroons' supremacy has been built on an intangible and impossible to buy or manufacture spirit and belief ...