Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Conversation AU
Census 2016: what's changed for Indigenous Australians?
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a complicated history with the Australian census. Until the 1967 referendum, the question about Indigenous status was used mainly to exclude the Indigenous population from official population statistics ...
Census 2016: indigenous people return to pre-settlement numbersThe Australian
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake SydneyThe Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than EuropeanThe Border Mail
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The West Australian
A Noongar lullaby is the first step in increasing knowledge of this indigenous Australian language
The West Australian
The tune is familiar but the words are unrecognisable to far too many West Australians. At Middle Swan Primary School three women sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Noongar, the indigenous language of the South West. “Djinda djinda kanangoor (Twinkle ...

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SBS
Why many high-achieving Indigenous students are shunning university
SBS
Indigenous students remain vastly underrepresented in higher education in Australia. According to Universities Australia, Indigenous people comprise 2.7% of Australia's working age population but only 1.6% of university domestic student enrolments.

ABC Online
Indigenous art: Pormpuraaw artists turn ghost nets into world-renowned pieces
ABC Online
Thousands are found in Cape York and the wider northern Australia area. Brought in on northern currents, many are discarded by illegal fishers. Artist Sid Bruce Shortjoe hoped the community's art raises awareness about the damage the nets do to the ...

The Guardian
Class is the new black: The dangers of an obsession with the ... - ABC
ABC Online
Chelsea Bond says focusing on an Aboriginal middle class obscures the fact that Indigenous Australians face significant challenges no matter their ...
Work for the dole racially discriminatory in remote areas, inquiry told ...The Guardian
Social security program 'inherently discriminatory', lawyers say ...Lawyers Weekly

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ABC Online
Diamonds are not forever: Indigenous communities grapple with end of the mining boom
ABC Online
As Australia's resources boom wanes, several Indigenous communities that were once promised prosperity have been left grappling with a legacy of endemic poverty and questions about how mining money has been spent. For the traditional land owners ...

InDaily
New research shows there is still a long way to go in providing equality in education
The Conversation AU
Key junctions in education are important for disadvantaged groups such as Indigenous Australians, and those from regional and remote areas and low socioeconomic backgrounds. One of the most concerning findings is the degree to which school ...
Australia's staggering education divideInDaily
Australia's 'staggering' education divideSBS
Education gulf can't be bridged with money alone – inequality expertThe Guardian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Opera House sails to light up every sunset with Indigenous art
The Sydney Morning Herald
The nightly animation includes the works of five artists from across Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, including Queenslander Jenuarrie (Judith Warrie), the young NSW artist Frances Belle Parker, Torres Strait artist Alick Tipoti, as well as the ...

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The Australian
Dancer, pilot, lawyer: indigenous children have life targets
The Australian
In the early 1990s I was involved in career workshops for indigenous students from Year 6 upwards across South Australia, western NSW and Victoria. In 1994 we worked with about 1200 students in a specifically interactive program. We found that ...

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Census 2016: indigenous people return to pre-settlement numbers
The Australian
Overall indigenous Australians remain significantly younger than non-indigenous ones. In 2006 the median age was 20, rising to 21 in 2011 and 23 last year. The median age for non-indigenous Australians in 2016 was 38. More than half — 53 per cent ...

The Australian
Census 2016: numbers add up despite the ABS glitches
The Australian
It included University of NSW chairwoman of indigenous health, professor Lisa Jackson, Melbourne University head of demography professor Peter McDonald, former Australian statistician Dennis Trewin, former assistant chief Canadian statistician Peter ...

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The Australian
Indigenous culture to light up Sydney Opera House
The Australian
The nightly “lighting of the sails” with indigenous artworks, revealed by The Australian last year, follows the very popular Vivid displays that ended this month. Screened on the eastern side of the Bennelong restaurant at sunset, the seven-minute ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Australian gin brands: more than 100 and rising fast
The Australian Financial Review
“I want to help Aboriginal people stay on their land and work, and to put money back into community.” It's not the kind of thing you expect to hear at the launch of a new craft spirit. But Something Wild Beverages' Australian Green Ant Gin is not ...

Daily Mail
Local council demands government change Australia's national anthem because references to 'colonisation and white ...
Daily Mail
A town council will appeal to the government to change the countries national anthem because the current song doesn't include Indigenous Australians. Lake Macquarie Council says references to the 'colonisation and white settlement' excludes Aboriginal ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian, less European
The Sydney Morning Herald
A record 2.8 per cent of Australians identified themselves as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, up from 2.5 per cent in 2011 and 2.3 per cent in 2006. Although the census has been conducted every five years since 1911, it has only consistently ...
Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 peopleABC Online
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake SydneyThe Northern Daily Leader
Census 2016: Perth households hit by mortgage stress while Australia loses its religionThe West Australian
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ABC Online
Indigenous art pioneer Peter Fannin dies in Alice Springs
ABC Online
Tributes are flowing in for Peter Fannin, a local Central Australian botanist, Indigenous art pioneer, and philanthropist who died in Alice Springs aged 86. Along with the late Geoffrey Bardon, Mr Fannin was instrumental in the birth of the Western ...

The Westender
Major exhibition by Indigenous artist at Griffith Uni
The Westender
A major exhibition celebrating the work of Bidjara artist Christian Thompson opens at Griffith University Art Gallery next month. One of Australia's leading contemporary artists, Thompson made history as one of the first two Aboriginal Australians ...

SBS
Census 2016: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population growing
SBS
The first results of the 2016 Census of Population and Housing, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today, show Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples represent 2.8 per cent of the population, up from 2.5 per cent in 2011, and 2.3 ...

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ABC Online
Jimmy Chi: Bran Nue Dae playwright, award-winning Indigenous 'WA treasure' dies
ABC Online
Indigenous playwright Jimmy Chi, who penned acclaimed Australian play Bran Nue Dae which was later turned into a major motion picture, has died. Chi passed away in Broome hospital on Monday afternoon aged 69. His sister, Maxine, told the ABC he ...
Bran Nue Dae playwright and Broome legend passes awaySBS
Bran Nue Dae playwright dies in WAThe Australian

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The Conversation AU
Census 2016 reveals Australia is becoming much more diverse – but can we trust the data?
The Conversation AU
The 2016 Census reveals that Australia is becoming much more diverse – in language, country of birth, Indigenous status, and religion. In the 2011 Census, 69.8% of people reported being born in Australia. This declined over the past five years to 66.7%.
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian, less EuropeanThe Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 peopleABC Online
Census data reveals a fast changing nationSpatial Source
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