Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Indigenous Australian Gene Gibson was lost in translation
The Australian
On the clipped green lawns of Perth's Supreme Court Gardens, two small children run around in the autumn sunshine, under the watchful eye of their Aboriginal grandma, aunts and teenage cousins. Inside the Victorian-era building, beyond the white entry ...

ABC Online
Walking in two worlds
ABC Online
MITS (Melbourne Indigenous Transition School) brings 22 Aboriginal students from around Australia to their Melbourne boarding house, and spends 12 months helping to prepare them for mainstream education. It then helps place them with different private ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Imagining an Indigenous led performing arts venue
ArtsHub (subscription)
A handful of venues including NORPA and Sydney Opera House have dedicated programs led and driven by Indigenous artists but there is not one major performing venue in Australia dedicated to Indigenous performance. 'We don't have Indigenous-owned ...

ECU News
Western Australia's Indigenous Prisoner Dilemma
ECU News
Western Australia's Indigenous Prisoner Dilemma. Western Australia Holds More Indigenous Australians Prisoner Than Any Other State. WA+prisons%27+Indigenous+population+makes+up+the+. Close. WA prisons' Indigenous population makes up the ...

Ararat Advertiser
UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detention
Ararat Advertiser
Indigenous Australians are living in "appalling" conditions and young Aborigines in detention are "essentially being punished for being poor", the United Nations has declared in a scathing report. A 15-day tour of Indigenous communities and high-level ...

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EducationHQ Australia
Using dance to learn Indigenous cultures
EducationHQ Australia
While they were there, the duo were joined by an Indigenous artist and a visiting Balinese 'Dalang' to really flesh out the links between the ancient cultures. “The commonalities were just really amazing, every time we met we would just get goosebumps ...

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ABC Online
Artist Waniwa Lester tells Bible stories through Indigenous dot paintings
ABC Online
More than 60 Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal artists have contributed to Our Mob, God's Story, a book just launched in Adelaide. It tells Old and New Testament stories through the eyes of Indigenous Australians and was seven years in the making.

ABC Online
Nigel Scullion rejects United Nations' call for Australia to establish Indigenous justice target
ABC Online
She backed calls from the Greens, Labor, the Australian Medical Association, lawyers, unions and other groups to establish a justice target. "There should be a justice target that will look into the high levels of Indigenous people [in prison along ...
UN expert slams high levels of discrimination against Aboriginals in AustraliaThe Canary

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NT elders hope app can save young lives
NEWS.com.au
The clinical psychologist says indigenous Australians rarely seek help for mental illness due to geographical isolation, stigma and concerns about confidentiality. But the Kurdiji 1.0 app breaks down those barriers. "This is an early intervention ...

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National Indigenous Times
Treaty talks begin for South Australia
National Indigenous Times
South Australia's Treaty Commissioner Roger Thomas began consultations this week with Aboriginal people to discuss what a state Treaty might look like. Initial talks will focus on whether Aboriginal people want a treaty, whether there should be a ...

Treaty talks begin for South Australia NEWS
National Indigenous Times
South Australia's Treaty Commissioner Roger Thomas began consultations this week with Aboriginal people to discuss what a state Treaty might look like. Initial talks will focus on whether Aboriginal people want a treaty, whether there should be a ...

The Guardian
Stronger Indigenous culture would cut suicide rates, health congress told
The Guardian
Those deficits – poverty, lack of adequate housing, poor education, poor healthcare – are stark and are common across the indigenous communities of the three countries involved in the world leaders suicide prevention forum: Canada, Australia and New ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal astronomy the star of Dreamtime stories
ABC Online
... University of NSW and has aspirations to study the formation of stars once she graduates. She is descended from the Wiradjuri people but only delved into her ancestry after seeing an Indigenous map of Australia hanging in the entrance of the ...

Gizmodo Australia
Tonight, Tune In To The ABC's Stargazing Live
Gizmodo Australia
Julia Zemiro and Professor Brian Cox will be joined by a host of experts like the CSIRO's Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith, astronomer Greg Quicke, citizen science advocate Dr Chris Lintott and Indigenous Australian Michael Anderson, who will explain the ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous Warlpiri elders want to blend traditions into app to help tackle suicide risk
ABC Online
While Indigenous suicide rates have intensified across Australia in recent years, the Northern Territory community of Lajamanu has been proudly suicide-free since 2005. Following the community's first youth suicide 12 years ago, Lajamanu elders decided ...
Indigenous Elders Are Creating A Mobile App To Tackle High Suicide RatesHuffington Post Australia
Indigenous 'Shield' to Prevent Youth SuicidePro Bono Australia

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Huffington Post Australia
United Nations Blasts 'Disturbing' Indigenous Youth Incarceration Rates
Huffington Post Australia
The United Nations has blasted Australia's Indigenous incarceration rates and its failure to reach its own Close the Gap targets in a scathing review of the treatment of Australia's first peoples. The findings come as United Nations Special Rapporteur ...
Indigenous justice target 'vital'Sky News Australia
UN official criticises Australia's 'disturbing' number of Aboriginal children behind barsABC Online
United Nations 'appalled' at Indigenous youth detention and living conditionsThe Sydney Morning Herald
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Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Elders Are Creating A Mobile App To Tackle High ...
Huffington Post Australia
Suicide is the leading killer of young Indigenous people, with males between the ages of 25 and 29 having the highest rate in the world of taking their own lives.
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ABC Online
Culture key to suicide prevention among Indigenous Australians, experts say, ahead of global discussion
ABC Online
A focus on culture may be the key to reducing the high rate of suicide among Indigenous Australians, experts say, as they gather to hear the experiences of First Nations people from around the world to find solutions.

Australia's Indigenous People Face 'Deeply Disturbing' Racism, UN Envoy Says
Wall Street Journal (subscription)
CANBERRA, Australia—The top United Nations envoy on indigenous rights criticized Australia for “deeply disturbing” levels of racism and urged the country to embrace a treaty that would recognize its indigenous people as its first inhabitants, a move ...

UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detention
Eyre Peninsula Tribune
The vast majority of Aboriginal people had jobs, attended school and were not involved in the criminal justice system, Mr Scullion said. He acknowledged some Indigenous Australians "need additional support" and said the Coalition was committed to ...