Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

You Are Here: Indigenous television that tells it like it is
The New Daily
She uses her film to call for a full version of Australian history to be taught in all schools – reflecting the fact that 36,000 years ago, indigenous people were making bread, building houses and dams. “I'm not an expert in Australian history but this ...

UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detention
Daily Advertiser
The vast majority of Aboriginal people had jobs, attended school and were not involved in the criminal justice system, Mr Scullion said. He acknowledged some Indigenous Australians "need additional support" and said the Coalition was committed to ...

The Roar
Why the Wallabies' Indigenous jersey should be permanent
The Roar
Beale's reaction demonstrates the huge symbolic meaning of the jersey, not only to our Indigenous people, but to all patriotic Australians who recognise the crimes committed against Australia's Indigenous population since European colonisation. Anyone ...

The Australian
Holmes a Court shares indigenous art trove in Sung Into Being
The Australian
Bulunbulun's work demonstrates the connection between north Australian indigenous people and the Macassan traders of Indonesia. “There were people coming back and forth to Australia from Indonesia for thousands of years,” Holmes a Court said.

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The Australian
UN indigenous rep Megan Davis set to join ARL body
The Australian
The Weekend Australian understands that Megan Davis, the first indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, is on the verge of being appointed to the commission after being sounded out by ARL chairman John Grant. Professor Davis is also a professor of ...

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Indigenous voice ideal option for constitutional change
The Australian
The Referendum Council's two simple recommendations this week break the impasse presented by previous reports on recognition of indigenous Australians. The report identifies a single proposition that can be guided through the narrow window of ...

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From little things
The Australian
The pair had earlier dropped by the office of Magabala Books, Australia's oldest independent indigenous publisher, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Among the numerous children's and adult titles on display in the office's light ...

The Australian
Forever beginning
The Australian
The story unfolds in the here and now, unlike That Deadman Dance, set in early-19th-century Western Australia, or one of its predecessors, Benang, which focuses on the decades of forced removal of indigenous children, the people we now know as the ...

The Advertiser
The epic tale of a WWI Indigenous Anzac and his captor
The Advertiser
ROLAND Carter set off from his lands around South Australia's Lake Alexandrina to fight the Germans in WWI, the first Ngarrindjeri man to enlist. He could never have expected the remarkable journey to come, or that he would find among the enemy a man ...

National Geographic Australia
Aboriginal Artefacts sold Illegally in Hobart
National Geographic Australia
A member of Tasmania's Indigenous community reported the illegal trade after the artefacts were being offered for sale on the internet. Luke Bond, Chief enforcement officer from the Natural and Cultural Heritage Division found 38 potential indigenous ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Politicians must face the truth: Indigenous Australia doesn't accept symbolic recognition
The Guardian (blog)
I announce that if I am re-elected, I will put to the Australian people within 18 months a referendum to formally recognise Indigenous Australians in our constitution, their history as the first inhabitants of our country, their unique heritage of ...
Let's give indigenous people a voice in parliamentThe Australian
Ken Wyatt disappointed over Council decisionSky News Australia

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SBS
Driver not guilty of Indigenous teen Elijah Doughty's manslaughter
SBS
A man who ran over and killed a 14-year-old boy while he rode a stolen motorcycle in Western Australia's Goldfields region has been acquitted of manslaughter, but convicted of the lesser charge of dangerous driving causing death. The man, who cannot be ...
Elijah Doughty trial: Man jailed for three years over death of Kalgoorlie teenagerABC Online
Elijah Doughty: man who ran over Indigenous teenager jailed for three yearsThe Guardian
Elijah Doughty verdict: Is Kalgoorlie facing more unrest after driver acquitted of manslaughter?Perth Now
Junkee -Daily Mail
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CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
New workshop explores Indigenous culture and music
CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
Rock your event with the culture of Indigenous Australia. The new workshop offers groups a special insight into the culture and music of Indigenous Australia, and is available for meetings, incentives and special events being held anywhere in Australia.

CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
New workshop explores Indigenous culture and music
CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
Rock your event with the culture of Indigenous Australia. The new workshop offers groups a special insight into the culture and music of Indigenous Australia, and is available for meetings, incentives and special events being held anywhere in Australia.

Crikey (registration) (blog)
Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 6 - the 1972 Larrakia Petition
Crikey (registration) (blog)
In 2011 the National Archives of Australia described 'the Larrakia Petition' as 'one of the most important documents in the history of Indigenous Australian's struggle for land rights' (NAA 2011c; Reconciliation Australia 2011b:9). Four years earlier ...

The Guardian
Rugby union has an image problem in Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
It was wonderful to see Kurtley Beale dancing at the unveiling of the Wallabies' Indigenous jersey in Redfern on Monday. Beale's impromptu expression of pride in his Aboriginality was certainly an uplifting moment in an otherwise bleak year for ...

Art centres fight for “fair trade” purchasing of Indigenous art
ArtsHub (subscription)
National art fairs also help support the work of Art Centres by showcasing their work at events such as Australia's leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art event, the 11th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF). This August a record number of 66 ...

Brisbane Times
Community of Coen invert Australia's past to 'dissolve' divide
Brisbane Times
Mr Semu hoped that by inverting the past he could stimulate and continue discussion of Australia's history. "We need to stop packaging this as an Aboriginal crisis or problem and we need to re-label it as an Australian owned and operated humanitarian ...

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FourFourTwo Australia
Documentary highlights Indigenous football
FourFourTwo Australia
A new documentary 'Australian Soccer's Dreaming' highlights how John Moriarty Football and the National Indigenous Football Championships are opening new pathways for young Indigenous footballers. The documentary was shown on NITV on Sunday ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous representative voice better enshrined in legislation – Ken Wyatt
The Guardian
The government frontbencher, minister for aged care and Indigenous health, said he would support a people's convention to consider ways forward, compromised of anyone who wanted to attend – both Indigenous people and non-Indigenous Australians.