Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Chinchilla News
No indigenous Australian has been here, until now
Chinchilla News
No other indigenous man or woman has ever made it into this elite set. Dr Murray will be the first indigenous orthopedic surgeon since these guys arrived. News Corp Australia. He is one of only two fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons ...

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SBS
Chansey Paech: Indigenous politician fighting for equality
SBS
As Australia's first openly gay Indigenous politician, Mr Paech is making waves in the Labor seat of Namatjira. He told SBS Viceland's The Feed he liked to think of himself "as a face of real change". "Changing the way that governments have ...

NEWS.com.au
First indigenous orthopedic surgeon Anthony Murray makes history
NEWS.com.au
THIS is Australia in 2017. Possibly the most multicultural and egalitarian nation on earth.

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The Guardian
Chanel's $2000 boomerang criticised for 'humiliating' Indigenous Australian culture
The Guardian
Chanel has been denounced on social media for appropriating Indigenous Australian culture by producing a $2,000 boomerang derided as the ultimate in useless status symbols. The wood and resin item is priced at A$1,930 in the luxury haute couture ...
Chanel regrets 'some may have felt offended' at new $1900 boomerangThe Sydney Morning Herald
Chanel Regrets Offence Over Selling $2000 Luxury BoomerangHuffington Post Australia
Chanel baffles high-fashion shoppers with $2000 boomerangDaily Mail

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Mandurah Mail
International production to put a new spin on Indigenous dance | WATCH
Mandurah Mail
A collaboration between acclaimed Italian theatre company TPO, Australian director Jason Cross and a range of diverse Indigenous artists, Saltbush aims to open children's experience of Indigenous culture and land directly through traditional customs.

The Australian
Elton John to auction indigenous artwork through Bonhams, Sydney
The Australian
The canvas will be auctioned on June 25 in a sale of 68 lots of Australian and Aboriginal artvalued at $1.6 million to $2.2m. “It's represented a great investment over 20 years, from $40,000 to $150,000, that's more than kept pace with inflation, and I ...

1967 did not change indigenous lives: CEO
The Australian
This could include an elected parliamentary body enshrined in the Constitution, overseeing laws affecting indigenous Australians. Mr Gordon cited Liberal MP and constitutional lawyer Julian Leeser as saying such a proposal “sits most comfortably with ...

From Brush to Boorish: The Failures of Paul Ryan's Artistic Practice
ArtsHub (subscription)
Through an unabashed rearticulation of Australia's colonial history, Ryan's paintings attempt to comment upon the destruction of Indigenous Australia with the arrival of the First Fleet, and fittingly, its ongoing ramifications. While purportedly ...

SBS
How a young Indigenous man and a Russian girl broke all the rules, to conquer international figure skating.
SBS
When two young skaters with an Australian flag next to their names stepped out on the ice at the junior world championships and blew their competition away, it was a big deal. They had deviated from the script. They had beaten pairs from Russia, China, ...

teleSUR English
Indigenous Women in Australia Are Being Imprisoned at an Alarming Rate: Report
teleSUR English
A new report has shed light on the alarming rate at which the Indigenous women are being incarcerated in Australia, raising concern over the "immeasurable harm" caused by the situation and urging authorities to put an end to "cycles of disadvantage ...
Indigenous women in jail risen 250 per centSky News Australia
Soaring female Indigenous imprisonment rate obstructing Closing the Gap targets, says reportThe Guardian
'Tough on crime' doesn't work and is destroying Indigenous women and familiesThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Aboriginal women prisoner rates skyrocket
The Australian
Aboriginal women make up about 34 per cent of the female prison population but only two per cent of Australia's adult female population. Former prisoner turned advocate Vickie Roach spent many years in and out of the courts, children's homes and jails ...
Soaring female Indigenous imprisonment rate obstructing Closing the Gap targets, says reportThe Guardian
'Tough on crime' doesn't work and is destroying Indigenous women and familiesThe Guardian

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The Advertiser
Kyam Maher rediscovering his roots
The Advertiser
Now Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Minister among a swag of portfolios, Mr Maher swiftly emphasises that his early life was blessed compared to those of indigenous children throughout Australia. Kyam Maher with his wife Carmel and sons Marley ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous netball camp first of its kind
dailytelegraph.com.au
From July 7-9, the athletes will be coached, mentored and supported by some of the best in the game netball, including former Aboriginal Diamonds representatives Marcia Ella-Duncan OAM, Sharon Finnan-White OAM, and Australian Diamonds Coach Lisa ...

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The Australian
Australian music portrait neglects indigenous and modern composers
The Australian
It was appropriate, therefore, that when Roger Covell first published Australia's Music in 1967, he devoted about 14 pages of a chapter (“Jindyworobakism and more”) to indigenous music. So it is regrettable that, almost 50 years later, for this new ...

The Australian
Netball Australia launches camp to encourage indigenous players
The Australian
The indigenous high-performance camp will be one of only seven elite programs Netball Australia will run in 2017, and forms a part of the body's broader reconciliation action plan. According to Ella-Duncan, the first Aboriginal woman invited to the AIS ...

ABC Online
Advance Australia Fair is our anthem, right or wrong
ABC Online
I could go on and on. Indigenous people comprise fewer than 3 per cent of the Australian population but are more than 10 per cent of the National Rugby League competition. Of the 13 players who ran out for the Australian Kangaroos against New Zealand ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Protected Areas get five-year funding extension in budget
The Guardian
It said the government had extended the National Landcare Programme and the department was working with other agencies to “deliver long-term improvements to Australia's biodiversity and natural resource condition and expand the Indigenous Protected ...

SBS
NRL Indigenous round kicks off amid national anthem controversy
SBS
Despite having kicked off just last night, this year NRL's Indigenous Round has already been shrouded in controversy. At last night's Bulldogs Cowboys game, Advance Australia Fair was sung in both the Dharug language and then in English. A NRL ...
Bulldogs' Elliott happy to be a role modelNRL.COM

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The Macleay Argus
Proudly representing Indigenous heritage
The Macleay Argus
Kelly-Scholes starred for the New South Wales Echidnas who claimed silver at January's School Sport Australia 19 and Under Championship held in Sydney and she earned a place in the Australian Indigenous Budgies side to compete in Suva.

ABC Online
Indigenous arts festival seeks to break down 'dots and didgeridoos' stereotype
ABC Online
"Yirramboi festival is the opportunity to show not only Melbourne, but Australia and the rest of the world just how brilliant our contemporary artists are." Mr Boehme is aiming to transform Melbourne into a "city-wide treasure hunt" of Indigenous arts ...

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