Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Conversation AU
Indigenous girls missing school during their periods: the state of hygiene in remote Australia
The Conversation AU
Basic sanitary products can be unaffordable, unavailable or too shameful to buy for girls and women in Australia's remote Indigenous communities. A report released today, containing interviews with organisations working in multiple remote Australian ...

Courier Mail
Jeff Horn's victory a fairytale of the tape
Courier Mail
Australia II winning the America's Cup, Evonne Goolagong becoming the first and only indigenous Australian to win Wimbledon and one-time scrawny schoolboy Cadel Evans winning the Tour de France. It's that special. If he was American they'd make a ...

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Eureka Street (registration)
NAIDOC Week: Languages matter because people matter
Eureka Street (registration)
The National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) week originated in the conviction that the Australia Day celebration presented a one-sided image of Australia's history. Australia Day celebrated uncritically the disruption to the ...

The Australian Financial Review
On 10th anniversary Gawura, a primary school for Indigenous children, wants to scale up its model
The Australian Financial Review
Speaking last week on the eve of NAIDOC week, which celebrates the culture and achievements of Indigenous Australians, Dr Collier said that parents were seeing Gawura as a "circuit breaker for generational poverty". Dr Collier said that even though ...

ABC Online
Canada celebrates 150th anniversary but indigenous protesters decry colonisation
ABC Online
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has kicked off celebrations to mark the country's 150th birthday amid heavy security as many citizens braved incessant rains and long delays to reach the main site in the nation's capital. An estimated 500,000 ...

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The Sunshine Coast Daily
Indigenous mentor teaches his peers to AIME high
The Sunshine Coast Daily
"They definitely help you with everything about being Indigenous in Australia,” he said. "They come across to you well (and) open up about how they felt growing up. "You can understand what they're saying because you feel the same way. "It's something ...

ABC Online
NAIDOC: Jessie Lloyd on mission to reclaim Indigenous cultural heritage through song
ABC Online
Unearthing songs from the settlements and missions where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people lived, her Mission Songs Project adds another dimension to Indigenous Australia's rich cultural history. From the late 1700s well into the 20th ...
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the forceSBS
NBA champ Patty Mills wins NAIDOC awardThe West Australian
Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winnersThe Guardian
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ABC Online
Closing the Gap: Queensland's positive Indigenous health model eyed for national rollout
ABC Online
The IUIH has become arguably the most innovative and responsive ACCHO in the country and it is no coincidence that the region it serves is the fastest growing Indigenous population in Australia, with some 65,000 people. More Indigenous people live in ...
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the forceSBS
NBA champ Patty Mills wins NAIDOC awardThe West Australian
Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winnersThe Guardian
Planeta.com
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NBA champ Patty Mills wins NAIDOC award
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NBA champion and fan favourite Patty Mills has been honoured for his work in promoting Australia's indigenous cultures. The three-time Olympic basketballer was named person of the year at the National NAIDOC Awards ceremony in Cairns on Saturday ...

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Courier Mail
Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival keeps Dreamtime traditions alive
Courier Mail
Cape York artist and elder Sid Bruce Shortjoe says there is a huge appetite for indigenous Australian art and culture overseas. The tribal lawman takes washed-up ghost nets and weaves them into the skeletons of powerful totems – the crocodile, shark, ...

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ABC Online
Claiming Aboriginality: Have Tasmania's Indigenous services been 'swamped with white people'?
ABC Online
"It is widely known that Tasmania came closest to wiping out all our people than any other state in Australia," she said. "Yet today we see Australia-wide the proportion of Indigenous people is 2.8 per cent whereas in Tasmania it is 4.6 per cent. How ...

SBS
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the force
SBS
... more Indigenous staff as part of a recruitment drive. State employment minister Wade Noonan said he hoped the traineeship program would also help fight Indigenous unemployment, hovering around 14 per cent in Victoria and 18 per cent, Australia-wide.
Australia's Aborigines deliver PM a roadmap to constitutional recognitionBusiness Insider

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Broadsheet
Legacies of the Referendum
Broadsheet
When The Sky Fell was put together by Clothilde Bullen, who previously curated for the Indigenous art collection at the Art Gallery of Western Australia for more than a decade. Bullen is a Wardandi (Nyoongar) Aboriginal woman with English-French ...

Business Insider
Australia's Aborigines deliver PM a roadmap to constitutional recognition
Business Insider
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's aboriginal leaders delivered a report to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday recommending the indigenous population be recognized in the constitution as the country's first people, with a history dating back some ...

The Guardian
Bangarra: Indigenous Australian dance company tells the conflicted story of Bennelong – video
The Guardian
Bangarra's newest work is inspired by the life of Woollarawarre Bennelong, one of the most famous Aboriginal figures from the time of first contact. Bennelong was a senior man of the Eora nation, who was captured by British colonialists, becoming an ...

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ABC Online
Just being Aboriginal doesn't make me an activist
ABC Online
Aboriginal activists often face sustained animosity — Australia doesn't want to see Aboriginal people as David, or itself as Goliath. That would turn the image of the beloved Aussie underdog on its head, reframing it in light of theft, murder and ...

Smithsonian
How Indigenous Australians Are Still Fighting for Their Lands 25 Years After a Landmark Court Case
Smithsonian
The landmark decision—issued 25 years ago this month—changed the lives of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. (While both are indigenous to Australia, they have different ancestry.) For cultures so deeply intertwined with the land ...

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Faith no more: churches in trouble as the nation goes godless
The Australian
Between the 2011 census and the 2016 census the Australian population increased by 9 per cent. The number of indigenous Australians increased by 18 per cent. And the number of atheist Australians increased by 45 per cent. Each of these numbers tell a ...
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than EuropeanCessnock Advertiser

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ABC Online
Why Indigenous languages matter
ABC Online
There was a brief transfer of cultural knowledge immediately after first contact - and the exchanging of personal names between the naval officers of the ships of the First Fleet and the leaders of the Gadigal clan. Languages were actively denied to ...

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ABC Online
In a strange uncanny Australia, how do we know we belong?
ABC Online
This grand building once announced Australia to the world, drawing international guests to an exhibition of this emerging nation. The exhibition contained many Indigenous artefacts, specifically weapons and shields. Soon after the palace burned to the ...