Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Recognition: indigenous leaders rail at 'beads and trinkets'
The Australian
Indigenous Australia is on course for a showdown with Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten over constitutional recognition, with the final of 12 regional meetings on reform concluding yesterday that it would only be satisfied with a substantive outcome ...

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Esperance Express
Anthem update should occur regularly, says Bowman MP
Esperance Express
Mr Laming said the anthem's first verse could focus on Australia's natural attributes while the second could be on values. While indigenous people needed to be recognised, no particular race of people who had come to Australia dominated. Mr Laming's ...

The Guardian (blog)
Sovereignty never ceded: how two Indigenous elders changed Canberra's big day
The Guardian (blog)
That, of course, gives us a window on to the white stereotyping of Indigenous people at a time when Australia believed it was – due to massacres, disease and assimilationism – witnessing the “vanishment of the race”. And it is instructive, almost 90 ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Deborah Mailman stars in first animation to feature Indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
Offspring actress Deborah Mailman is lending her voice to Australia's first animation to feature Indigenous Australians and their culture. The NITV cartoon, Little J and Big Cuz, follows the adventures of two Indigenous children who live with their ...

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Deborah Mailman stars in first animation to feature Indigenous Australians
The Age
Offspring actress Deborah Mailman is lending her voice to Australia's first animation to feature Indigenous Australians and their culture. The NITV cartoon, Little J and Big Cuz, follows the adventures of two Indigenous children who live with their ...

The Advertiser
Artist brings the past alive
The Advertiser
His parents broke up when he was only one and his Chinese grandparents moved to Australia to help raise him with his father. “Basically, my Chinese grandparents had a big role in raising me for 13 years,” he says. Which is not to say his indigenous ...

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Artist brings the past alive
The Mercury
His parents broke up when he was only one and his Chinese grandparents moved to Australia to help raise him with his father. “Basically, my Chinese grandparents had a big role in raising me for 13 years,” he says. Which is not to say his indigenous ...

The Guardian
Wild Australia: reliving the shocking story of Indigenous slave-performers
The Guardian
Dancer Jack Sheppard, whose relatives were among 27 Indigenous Australians who performed in the Wild Australia tour Sheppard is recreating for Yirramboi festival. Photograph: Supplied. While the show enjoyed huge success, it seemed the appalling ...

The Guardian
Push to parole terminally ill Indigenous man jailed for 15 months for driving offences
The Guardian
“Minister Scullion encourages his state and territory colleagues to continue to work with him to address systemic issues as well as take a personal and practical interest in the individual cases of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system.”.

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The Australian
Why Marcia Ella-Duncan wishes she wasn't a role model anymore
The Australian
The most recent national survey data, from 2008, revealed that 13 per cent of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander girls under 14 played netball, only slightly less than the 16 per cent of males who played rugby league or Australian football. And state ...

ABC Online
Don't call them disadvantaged: Successful Australians redefining what it is to be Indigenous
ABC Online
I was at the International Convention Centre in Sydney. Before me was a room full of some of the most successful people in Australia and they were Indigenous. Yes, Indigenous. I looked out and there was Kyle Vander Kuyp, an Olympic hurdler. In the ...

Northern Star
First Nations curators headed to Venice Biennale
The Border Mail
Australia has had a presence at the event since 1954, with esteemed artists including Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd having works showcased throughout the past 60 years. Moffatt will this year become the first Indigenous Australian to have a solo exhibit ...
Bundjalung artist sent to Venice BiennaleNorthern Star

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Northern Star
First Nations curators headed to Venice Biennale
Blue Mountains Gazette
Australia has had a presence at the event since 1954, with esteemed artists including Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd having works showcased throughout the past 60 years. Moffatt will this year become the first Indigenous Australian to have a solo exhibit ...
Bundjalung artist sent to Venice BiennaleNorthern Star

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Herald Sun
“Now it's time for me to make my own name for myself and play my own brand of footy.”
Herald Sun
“You're not only representing yourself, you're representing the whole indigenous community around Australia.” Daniel catches up with cousin Cyril often, mostly just for a coffee and a chat. Sometimes about footy, sometimes not. Rioli said he needs to ...

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Indigenous curators off to Biennale
NEWS.com.au
Adding to the excitement, for the first time, the Australian pavilion in the Venice Giardini will be represented solely by an Aboriginal artist. Tracey Moffatt will represent the nation with My Horizon, MCA director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor said. For Ms ...

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Indigenous curators off to Biennale
The Australian
Adding to the excitement, for the first time, the Australian pavilion in the Venice Giardini will be represented solely by an Aboriginal artist. Tracey Moffatt will represent the nation with My Horizon, MCA director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor said. For Ms ...
Two First Nations Curators From MCA Australia chosen for VenicePRWire (press release)

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Indigenous curators off to Biennale
SBS
Adding to the excitement, for the first time, the Australian pavilion in the Venice Giardini will be represented solely by an Aboriginal artist. Tracey Moffatt will represent the nation with My Horizon, MCA director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor said. For Ms ...
Two First Nations Curators From MCA Australia chosen for VenicePRWire (press release)

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Katherine Times
Indigenous leaders program
Katherine Times
Natasha Hamilton, project manager – DIPL Katherine, will take part in the 12-day program in May and September this year, gaining valuable leadership lessons from Indigenous mentors across Australia. “I am grateful for this opportunity to network and ...
What constitutes real Indigenous policy reform? Here are some cluesThe Guardian

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ABC Local
Wife fears husband will become Australia's next Indigenous death in custody
ABC Local
However, Indigenous imprisonment rates have continued to rise every year and now make up 27 per cent of the prisoner population, despite being only 2 per cent of Australia's population. From 1991 to 2016 there were 343 Australian Indigenous deaths in ...

The Australian
'Shared' history of Aborigines, Endeavour crew to be marked at Cook landing anniversary
The Australian
“We recognise that Cook's landing led to European settlement and enormous change to the lives of indigenous Australians,” Mr Pesce said. “At our event each year on 29 April, we acknowledge, accept and respect each other and our shared history.