Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

SBS
Octopus attacks and Indigenous harvests: the delicious history of oysters in Australia
SBS
These days it's delicious fare often washed down with a glass of bubbly, but Australian history of oysters stretches back much further than you may realise. Sydney rock oysters (Saccostrea glomerata) are native to the eastern coast of our continent ...

SBS - The World Game
Socceroos icon Cahill shows indigenous footballers the way
SBS - The World Game
The partnership of JMF, Football Federation Australia, Professional Footballers Australia, SBS and Fox Sports, will use this year's Indigenous Football Week to highlight the achievements of indigenous players, both past and present, as well as the next ...

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Football Australia (press release)
Tim Cahill shows NT Indigenous footballers the way | Football ...
Football Australia (press release)
Tim Cahill met five courageous 12-15 year old Indigenous players who have moved 3000 kilometers from their homes in remote areas of the Northern Territory.
Socceroos icon Cahill shows indigenous footballers the way | : The ...SBS - The World Game

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ABC Online
Closing the Gap: PM overturns Government's opposition to target Indigenous imprisonment
ABC Online
Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The Greens, Labor, the Australian Medical Association, lawyers and other groups have long urged the ...

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ABC Online
Closing the Gap: PM overturns Government's opposition to target Indigenous imprisonment
ABC Online
Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The Greens, Labor, the Australian Medical Association, lawyers and other groups have long urged the ...

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The Australian
Shortfall on indigenous health targets prompts new reform drive
The Australian
Now the Department of Health has moved to evaluate the effectiveness of primary health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including the $3.4 billion Indigenous Australians' Health Program, established in 2014 as a key component of a ...

SBS
Remains coming home to the Clarence Valley
SBS
This will be the 51st repatriation from Germany since the Government's Indigenous Repatriation Programme's inception at the start of the 1990's, with over 1400 ancestral remains being repatriated to Indigenous Communities in Australia from the rest of ...

The Guardian
Walk for the dole? Indigenous man says payment hinges on 35km daily trek
The Guardian
... buses that took participants to and from worksites every day. The CDP is a work-for-the-dole program largely targeted at Indigenous Australians living in remote communities or outstations, and has provided 12,400 job placements since it began in ...

ABC Online
Indigenous soldiers' stories of pride, pain after world wars told in Facing Two Fronts exhibition
ABC Online
A tale of two worlds, one of inequality and racism, the other of mateship and patriotism, is being traced in a new National Archives of Australia digital exhibition. Facing Two Fronts recounts the battles Indigenous service-people fought after they ...

The Australian
Venice Biennale 'a gig like no other' for indigenous photographer Tracey Moffatt
The Australian
She is the first Australian indigenous artist to have a solo show at the Venice Biennale. Artists including Rover Thomas, Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Moffatt have shown in group exhibitions there. While such a high-profile forum may be overdue for an ...

The West Australian
Day aims to close gap
The West Australian
“Close the Gap Day is about reducing the inequalities between indigenous and non-indigenous people in Australia,” she said. “As an Aboriginal organisation, we are raising awareness along with over 1000 other events in Australia. “There is such a big ...

Esperance Express
Closing the Gap: Six of seven targets 'not on track', life expectancy gap unchanged
Esperance Express
Dr Fadwa Al-Yaman, an Indigenous health expert at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, said the high cancer mortality rates were largely a result of more prevalent risk factors such as smoking, cancer not being detected until later stages ...

EducationHQ Australia
First Indigenous law graduate is dreaming big
EducationHQ Australia
It is certain that Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Global Studies graduate David Orr will be talking to many people as one of the first group of lawyers to graduate at Australian Catholic University (ACU) and when he takes up a position with the ...

ABC Online
Did Indigenous warriors influence the development of Australian rules football?
ABC Online
Tommy Wills, who grew up in western Victoria, was the son of a settler implicated in ethnic cleansing against Indigenous Australians who would later lose his life in a conflict with the Gayiri people in central Queensland. James Boyne Thompson left ...

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Michael Kirby tells bosses not to 'stick to their knitting'
Investment Magazine
One of the groups most negatively affected by racism is not migrants but Indigenous Australians. Kirby said one of the greatest achievements of the High Court of Australia had been the 1997 Mabo decision, which he said set many Indigenous communities ...

UN visit coincides with fresh 18C uproar in Parliament
National Indigenous Times
Federal Parliament erupted over Australia's race hate laws on Tuesday as a United Nations delegation began its tour of Australia to report on the human rights treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. UN Special Rapporteur on the ...

Indigenous citizenship rights 40 years after the referendum
Eureka Street (registration)
In the face of historically low levels of Indigenous representation within Australian parliaments, the Indigenous caucus between Commonwealth, State and Territory Labor representatives points to some progress. Front page of Abo Call newspaper What it ...

SBS
Why guaranteed Indigenous seats in parliament could ease inequality
SBS
The argument remains even as Australian political parties are exploring ways of increasing the number of Indigenous people preselected as party candidates. For example, federal Labor MP Linda Burney, who is Indigenous, explains that her party is trying ...

Huffington Post Australia
How An Indigenous Kid From Rooty Hill Became World Figure Skating Champion
Huffington Post Australia
The Pachins had moved to Australia from Russia in the 1990s. They saw in Windsor a lithe, tall, co-ordinated athlete they could work with, and trained him in the balletic, elegant Russian style. The problem is that Harley had no Australian skating ...

National Indigenous Times
Missy Higgins headlines at Barunga
Katherine Times
With an audience of over 65 per cent Indigenous attendees, the event has become an important and immersive experience for both Australians and travellers seeking a unique and authentic experience of Indigenous Australia. This year's event sees an ...
Barunga Festival 2017 Programme Announcedscenestr
Barunga all set to light up the TerritoryNational Indigenous Times

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