Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Pilbara native title claim surrounding $280b Solomon Hub mine owned by Andrew Forrest's FMG upheld
ABC Online
The Federal Court has recognised an exclusive native title claim in WA's ore-rich Pilbara, potentially allowing an Indigenous group to sue Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group for millions of dollars in compensation.
Native title blow for Forrest's Pilbara mineThe Australian
Fortescue Metals Group Limited share price sinks on native title decisionMotley Fool Australia

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The Guardian
Native title blow for Forrest's Pilbara mine
The Australian
The Federal Court has found a major indigenous group in the Pilbara is entitled to exclusive native title rights over land on which Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has built its multibillion-dollar Solomon iron ore mine, paving the way for a ...
Pilbara native title claim surrounding Solomon Hub mine owned by Andrew Forrest's FMG upheldABC Online
Big native title decisions could leave governments and companies exposedThe Australian Financial Review
Native title holders hail victories in Pilbara and Northern TerritoryThe Guardian
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The Advertiser
$4m Federal grant for Port Adelaide Football Club's new Aboriginal excellence centre
The Advertiser
“I am pleased to be partnering with Port Adelaide Football Club to provide $4 million to establish a facility that will deliver residential and education support for young indigenous Australians,” Scullion said. “I am backing in the Port Adelaide ...

The Guardian
Indigenous archaeological find in Kakadu recasts Australian history – video
The Guardian
A dig at Madjedbebe on the traditional lands of the Mirarr people in northern Australia has unearthed thousands of artefacts, some as old as 80,000 years. The discovery upends decades-old estimates about the human colonisation of the continent ...

Australian Ageing Agenda
Innovation grants focus on improving indigenous home care
Australian Ageing Agenda
The fund targets six priority areas including adaptive technology, dementia, and support for indigenous Australians and older people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Among the successful applicants is the National Ageing Research Institute, which ...

9news.com.au
Indigenous Australians roamed alongside giant kangaroos and wombats
9news.com.au
Indigenous Australians roamed alongside giant kangaroos and wombats An edge-ground hatched head found at the Madjedbebe rock shelter in the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory which is part of new proof showing Aboriginal people lived in ...

ABC Online
Indigenous rock shelter in Top End pushes Australia's human history back to 65000 years
ABC Online
Dr Clarkson said the agreement was one of the strongest agreements ever negotiated in Australia between traditional owners and archaeology teams. "Aboriginal involvement, Aboriginal permission, Aboriginal rights over the excavation itself are very ...
Australian dig finds evidence of Aboriginal habitation up to 80000 years agoThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Australian dig finds evidence of Aboriginal habitation up to 80000 years ago
The Guardian
The findings on about 11,000 artefacts from Kakadu national park, published on Thursday in the Nature journal, prove Indigenous people have been in Australia for far longer than the much-contested estimates of between 47,000 and 60,000 years, the ...
First Australians arrived even earlier9news.com.au

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide inquest 'a mockery to Aboriginal people' MP Josie Farrer says
ABC Online
"I feel that this inquest is a mockery to Aboriginal people, it's not going the way it should," she wrote in a letter to WA Attorney-General John Quigley. Ms Farrer, whose staff attended the hearing earlier this week, said evidence from community ...

Sky News Australia
Local councils push for new date for Aust Day
Sky News Australia
Hobart City Lord Mayor Sue Hickey, who led the push for change, believes Australia Day shouldn't be on a date that many indigenous people regard as 'Invasion Day' because it marks the arrival of the First Fleet from England in 1788. The push for change ...

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Local councils push for new Aust Day date
SBS
Huge protests by indigenous Australians and their supporters were held on Australia Day this year amid growing calls to change the date. But the federal government opposes any change to Australia Day. Government frontbencher James McGrath previously ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Activist Sarain Carson-Fox on finding hope for troubled indigenous communities
The Sydney Morning Herald
In Australia to launch her indigenous rights documentary series Rise, which starts screening on SBS Viceland next month, the livewire 29-year-old is also speaking about being "young and black" at the Splendour in the Grass festival in Byron Bay on the ...

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Spatial Source
4 maps uncovering Aboriginal history and culture
Spatial Source
Aboriginal place names are familiar to most Australians, however there are many that people would not be aware of. Item names like Waratah and Kangaroo are familiar over the world, but place names like Wollongong (sounds of the sea), Wagga Wagga ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pharmacy Scholarships announcedAustralian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic paroleThe Guardian
Aboriginal Communities Continue Treaty Calls Following Referendum Council ReportBuzzFeed News

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Catholic Leader
Central Australia's Arrernte people can now read the Bible in their own language
Catholic Leader
The project is the result of a long-term collaboration between indigenous elders in Alice Springs and Santa Teresa community, and linguists from the Lutheran community and Australian Society for Indigenous Languages (AuSIL). They have translated the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic parole
The Guardian
All states and territories should end the practice of jailing for fines, introduce a statutory custody notification system and introduce automatic parole in an effort to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates, the Australian Law Reform Commission says.
Aboriginal Communities Continue Treaty Calls Following Referendum Council ReportBuzzFeed News

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Copyright Agency distributes $1.3 million
ArtsHub (subscription)
Additional funding is committed to the Eleanor Dark Foundation Fellowships for Indigenous Writers. Three Artist in Residence programs – in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria – have also been supported. The residencies will enable artists to ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Constitutional convention would offer a way forward on Aboriginal recognition
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal people have held a convention, and so too should the community at large. A constitutional convention representing all Australians will provide a platform to argue why an Indigenous advisory body is the right change. It will fill in the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Call for people's body to push recognition
The Australian
(Tony) Abbott came in promising to sweat blood for indigenous Australia but never set up a proposal — we've had campaigning and we've had processes but we're not set up for a referendum, so my view is we need a convention as a way of focusing the ...
Constitutional convention would offer a way forward on Aboriginal recognitionThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Indigenous recognition steps outside Constitution
The Australian
“This declaration might be indigenous Australia's version of America's Declaration of Independence, celebrating the indigenous, British and multicultural aspects to our unified national identity,” said Mr Pearson. The idea was aimed at mollifying the ...

Courier Mail
Culture Club: Queensland arts, theatre and music news
Courier Mail
Moon flew to WA to select the pieces for this show which is quite a coup for QAGOMA and director Chris Saines says it's an important one that “offers audiences a unique opportunity to access works by a seminal group of indigenous Australian artists ...

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