Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Smithsonian
Online Map Charts Massacres of Indigenous Australians
Smithsonian
In July of 1843, a group of 20 European colonists in Australia set out on a murderous mission. Members of the Indigenous Brataualang group had killed the nephew of the Scottish pioneer Lachlan Macalister—possibly in retaliation for the deaths of ...

ART ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Queensland and Western Australia are both opening major Indigenous art exhibitions and/or fairs this month – two, in fact in Queensland, headed by the annual Cairns Indigenous Art Fair this weekend. As I wrote earlier, CIAF is exploring the theme ...

SBS
Indigenous netball camp unearths future Diamonds stars
SBS
On hand to mentor the rising stars was the first Indigenous woman to represent Australia, Marcia Ella-Duncan. "This is the culmination of a lot of years of what I call trying to raise awareness about the barriers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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Particle
Storylines—the digital database uncovering Indigenous history
Particle
It's his job to connect Indigenous West Australians with the library's heritage collections. But that's a hard job to do within four walls. Many Indigenous communities live in remote or regional areas. And WA is a big place. So how do you reach the ...

Talking Aged Care
Additional funding and support for remote and rural aged care services welcomed
Talking Aged Care
“We want aged care that is flexible, non-discriminatory and culturally appropriate, no matter where people live, and inclusive of elderly Indigenous Australians who are among our most vulnerable citizens.” The grants also give providers an opportunity ...

ABC Online
Art opens doors to healing, equality, opportunity says Aboriginal artist Jandamarra Cadd
ABC Online
Cadd said he dreamed of becoming the first Indigenous winner of the award. "I get overwhelmed emotionally, choked up to even think that," he said through tears. "Not because it's about 'Oh I'm the greatest look at me'. "For me it totally comes down to ...

Google News

Pro Bono Australia
Calls for 'Urgent Reform' to Address Skyrocketing Indigenous Incarceration Rate
Pro Bono Australia
According to the latest report from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), released on Monday, the NSW Indigenous imprisonment rate is 13.5 times higher than the non-indigenous rate and Indigenous Australians are close to eight ...

Eureka Street (registration)
Bookending Australia's history
Eureka Street (registration)
Colonising Australia Modern Australian history is bookended by the arrival of white settlers in which Indigenous Australians were expelled to the margins, and by the arrival of people seeking protection who were themselves expelled to the margins on ...

NEWS.com.au
Red Bull Music Academy Weekender returns to Australia with Tony Humphries playing live here for the first time
NEWS.com.au
VIA ALICE follows hosts, American rapper and producer Khalif Diouf (Le1f), & indigenous Australian dancer and choreographer Waangenga Blanco. Daniel Stricker and John Kirby will be skulking in the background making everything cosmic and ...

Indigenous voice key to education progress: new research
EducationHQ Australia
"Indigenous Australian children carry with them the educational and trauma debts of their parents, grandparents and communities," he said. Gillan, who is Executive Director of Education Partnerships in the Northern Territory Education Department ...

ABC Online
Fact check: Has trachoma among Indigenous kids fallen from 20pc to 4pc?
ABC Online
The 2009-10 federal budget papers spell out $58.4 million in funding over four years for "improving eye and ear health services for Indigenous Australians". According to the National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit, in 2009 the Government ...

Home detention to keep indigenous offenders out of jail
The Australian
Skyrocketing indigenous jail numbers could be slashed by more than 500 people a year if NSW home and community detention provisions were expanded, with a new report finding half of all indigenous short sentences in the state could be eligible for the ...

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The Australian
The native chefs using local bush tucker
The Australian
Adelaide chef Jock Zonfrillo, who has done more than any other in Australia to integrate indigenous foods into a modernist cuisine, gets an 11th-hour call asking him to put together some kind of event for the stars that “is more in connection with the ...

The Advertiser
Natasha Stott Despoja: Constitutional silence about the existence of indigenous Australians is holding us back
The Advertiser
LAST week's NAIDOC celebrations reminded us of the thousands of years of history, culture and creativity of indigenous Australia. The continuing injustice should also horrify us. I recall my excitement at the Reconciliation Bridge Walk in 2000. Despite ...
More Indigenous midwives equals strong cultural connection for ...SBS

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FRANCE 24
Songlines through opera: The tales of Australia's indigenous communities
FRANCE 24
Annette Young meets Australian Aboriginal opera singer, Deborah Cheetham, who is a member of the "Stolen Generation." For nearly 100 years up until the 1970s, thousands of children of Aboriginal descent were forcibly removed by government agencies ...

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Exploring the impact of indigenous culture on modern society can be delicious and fun
The Border Mail
Rethinking the Australian legend is something you could sit and ponder on these winter weekends. Exploring how indigenous culture has shaped modern Australia could be considered a hefty topic but a series of public lectures at the Museum of Australian ...

Eternity News
Bible translation runs in the family for these indigenous women
Eternity News
Two women from remote South Australia told a room full of delegates that they grew up watching their parents translate the Bible from English into Pitjantjatjara, a language spoken by several thousand indigenous Australians in Central Australia.

SBS
More Indigenous midwives equals strong cultural connection for mothers and babies: expert
SBS
Only one per cent of Australian midwives are of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background despite six per cent of all Australian births being Indigenous. Angela Coe is a Wiradjuri woman from Cowra, Central New South Wales. She lives in Redfern ...
Bureau of Stats has NAIDOC numbersPS News

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Bega District News
EDITORIAL: Indigenous languages should have a voice in education
Bega District News
Over the years researchers have ignored or left out the Djiringanj from their work, further confusing non-Indigenous Australia's understanding of the Bega Valley's original people. People of all ages are hungry to learn and understand more of the ...

Indigenous voice key to education progress
SBS
Aboriginal educational disadvantage will only be addressed with the full participation of indigenous people, from the national level down to individual schools, a review has found. A review released by the Australian Council for Educational Research on ...

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