Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
NITV goes for gold in Games coverage
The Australian
Times have changed and the channel now champions some of the 300 indigenous languages spoken in Australia. “Audiences are quite attracted to hearing a variety of languages. They are very happy to hear (Northern Territory language) Warlpiri down in ...

The Australian
'Feral' politics threaten move to recognition
The Australian
The 183-page document includes key proposals drafted in discussions with up to 1500 indigenous Australians and contained in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, calling for “constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our ...

Herald Sun
Indigenous kids need basics for real equality, writes Kevin Donnelly
Herald Sun
“Whiteness” is described as teaching “the white values, culture and history” of Australia. As an alternative, Dr Schultz argues the schools must teach “racial literacy across all subjects” and that teachers must “allow indigenous knowledges and ways of ...

Experts shine light on Australia's genocidal history
The Westender
UThe nee d for recognising past injustices towards Indigenous Australians was a powerful topic at this year's International Association for Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference in Brisbane. The 2017 conference saw several global scholars come together ...

SBS
Musicians bring Indigenous Australian composers' works to life
SBS
Musicians are performing original music from Indigenous composer Brenda Gifford who says the sound is based on the seasons from her home town of Wreck Bay. "It's that connection within me...it's that connection like when I go down to Wreck (Bay) it's ...

Daily Mail
'I want to show the beauty of our culture': Photographer behind stunning images of Indigenous newborns and pregnant ...
Daily Mail
Indigenous Australian photographer, Bobbi-lee Hille, 30, specialises in culturally significant baby photography. Her breathtaking works pay homage to her own Indigenous culture - as she captures babies and children surrounded by traditional Indigenous ...

The Australian
APY paints broader picture for War Memorial
The Australian
In the end, it's about the defence of our land — Australia.” The 5m-long painting, to be officially unveiled this year, was commissioned through South Australia's APY Art Centre Collective, in part in recognition of the roughly 1100 indigenous ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
The End of AAMU
Aboriginal Art Directory News
But Stijn Schoonderwoerd, General Director of the NMWC, said about this acquisition: “We are very proud and happy that the most important collection of Aboriginal art outside Australia is being entrusted to our care. This means we can immediately ...

The Mercury
South Australian indigenous artist Peter Mungkuri wins inaugural $100000 Hadley's Art Prize
The Mercury
Mungkuri, a retired stockman, is from Indulkana — an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia. He said his piece, Ngura Wiru (Good Country), was inspired by and depicted the landscape of his people.

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AEC cuts will disempower the NT: Labor MP
The Australian
"Aboriginal people are already disadvantaged and under-represented," he said. "To take away their ability to vote in 2017 - 50 years after the 1967 referendum - is one more terrible example of the Turnbull government putting indigenous Australians last ...

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Broadsheet
Australia's Brave New World
Broadsheet
But scratch the surface and the tourism posters are propaganda pieces promoting Australia as a utopia for whites. The Depression was hitting hard. Indigenous-Australian cultures were being crushed. Some books were banned, including the satire from ...

NT program boosts Indigenous army recruits
EducationHQ Australia
Last year's graduates brought the number of indigenous Australians in defence to more than 500 for the first time since World War II. Numeracy lecturer Bruce Garnett says the change he's seen in the students is phenomenal. "You see these young people ...

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UQ News
Through the lens of the Wild Australia Show
UQ News
Was Meston's Wild Australia Show of the late nineteenth century a form of exploitation or a vital link between Indigenous Australians and the wider world? A new photographic exhibit, documenting the controversial troupe, is allowing people to decide ...

ArtsHub (subscription) (blog)
Seeing BLOOD RED
ArtsHub (subscription) (blog)
Based on archival images from the Frontier Wars which depict Indigenous Australians chained and brutalised, the exhibition inverts the roles depicted, placing white Australians in chains and Indigenous Australians in positions of power. The resulting ...

Huffington Post Australia
It's About Time We Opened Our Eyes To The Risk Of Blindness From Diabetes
Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are particularly at risk. Already they are three times more likely to be blind than other Australians and diabetic retinopathy is the third leading cause of vision loss and blindness amongst Indigenous ...

The Australian
Plan for indigenous to serve jail time at home
The Australian
A NSW Bar Association proposal for special indigenous courts has received a boost with new data on high incarceration rates, but the person behind that data, criminologist Don Weatherburn, said any revised system must come with adequate resourcing “to ...

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The Australian
NSW Bar pushes for indigenous court to cut incarceration
The Australian
Efforts to reduce the indigenous prison population since the 1993 report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody have failed, with the rate nationwide rising by 63 per cent since then. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians ...

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The Canberra Times
David Pocock's good deeds continue on rugby sabbatical in South Africa
The Canberra Times
"To have a group of Indigenous young people as part of the Classic Wallaby Program for five weeks, that's a life-changing experience I reckon," Pocock said. "A group of eight young Indigenous Australians are over here for five weeks as part of a school ...

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
YOU ARE HERE
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Presented by actress Miranda Tapsell, the TV series of films under the title of You Are Here explores the place of Indigenous people in Australia today. Included in the series are Warwick Thornton's We Don't Need a Map, Erica Glynn's In My Own Words, ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous people keen to be trained in filming interactions with police
The Guardian
Newhouse said more than 20 Indigenous communities across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland had requested training but were afraid of ramifications if they were identified. He said much of the training centred on ...
The Campaign To Help Aboriginal People Fight Police HarassmentHuffington Post Australia

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