Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Brisbane Times
Cabinet papers 1992-93: Keating government fights for Indigenous rights on multiple fronts
The Conversation AU
Paul Keating's first term as prime minister is often remembered for divisive debates over Indigenous affairs. He sought to pursue his vision of reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, negotiated passage of the Native Title Act ...
Cabinet papers 1992-93: The Mabo debate made 'Trump's campaign look like the free-flowing milk of human kindness'Brisbane Times

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ABC Online
Cabinet papers look back on the Keating era
Sky News Australia
The campaign featured two events which have gone down in Australian election lore, both involving the coalition's proposed GST and cake. Perhaps Keating's enduring achievements from this era relate to indigenous affairs. On December 10, 1992, Keating ...
Cabinet documents from Keating era offer glimpse into 1992 AustraliaABC Online

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ABC Online
How Keating won Libs' unlosable election
9news.com.au
On December 10, 1992, Keating made his watershed Redfern Speech in a park in inner-city Sydney, marking a fundamental shift in the troubled relationship between indigenous and white Australia. As complex as our contemporary identity was, it could not ...
Cabinet documents from Keating era offer glimpse into 1992 AustraliaABC Online

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The Guardian
Indigenous inmate numbers a 'national embarrassment', says Keating minister
The Guardian
The former Indigenous affairs minister Robert Tickner has used the release of the 1992-93 cabinet documents to urge leaders to “command the authority of the nation” to improve Indigenous incarceration rates and end the “national embarrassment”. ... “I ...
Mabo passed in '93 after bitter debate9news.com.au

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The Guardian
Warren Mundine looks back: 'Tony Abbott was a whirlwind'
The Guardian
Included in his parting advice to Malcolm Turnbull is a recommendation that the prime minister fight the impulse to see Indigenous Australians as a single group, for which a single person – either himself or Noel Pearson or, perhaps lately, Stan Grant ...

3 indigenous groups on course to settle South Australian treaties
The Australian
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher has said the treaty process was the first time an Australian state had committed to negotiations with separate Aboriginal nations, to recognise their cultural authority, and to consider the consequences of settlement.

The Australian
Paul Keating ignored advice to do nothing over Mabo - The Australian
The Australian
Paul Keating rejected public service advice to say nothing about the High Courts Mabo judgment until its implications could be carefully analysed and instead ...

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Indigenous treaty talks have a long, rich history
The Australian
Almost every Australian interested in Aboriginal and Islander people can mentally conjure up the Tindale map of the Aboriginal tribes of Australia. Australia is a brightly coloured jigsaw of the tribal groups with their distinctive languages and ...

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The Australian
The big push: Cricket Australia to focus on local clubs
The Australian
In an interview with The Weekend Australian during the Boxing Day Test, chairman David Peever revealed the CA's next five-year plan would have community cricket as its centrepiece. It will push to promote the game in indigenous communities and exploit ...

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The Australian
Sydney Festival puts William Dawes and Aboriginal language on the stage
The Australian
It starts with the “whole solidarity conversation”, as he puts it, of achieving overwhelming victory in the 1967 referendum, of winning land rights, “that indigenous Australia had to kind of step together, if we want change”. From there it morphs in ...

ABC Online
Early Indigenous folk songs collated, promoted by Mission Songs project
ABC Online
From songs about Aboriginal men in Darwin on the lookout for Japanese ships during World War II to heartfelt songs of isolation, the Mission Songs project is providing a living historical archive, which Lloyd hopes will become cemented in Australia's ...

The Wire
More Indigenous Doctors Aim to Close Australia's Health Gap
The Wire
Having more aboriginal doctors is definitely going to have a positive impact on aboriginal and Australian health”, says Vinka, who at 27 is hopeful that despite the challenges, the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people will reduce ...

10 Apps To Help You Learn A New Language
Lifehacker Australia
Welcome to Country This app educates you on the Traditional Owner' culture and heritage protocols right across the Australia. It gives the user a solid appreciation of the many cultures and languages groups that exist in Indigenous Australia. The app ...

Fish oil for mums may cut asthma in kids
NEWS.com.au
ASTHMA IN AUSTRALIA: * One in 10 Australians have asthma. * It is more common in boys aged up to 14 and females over 15. * Rates among indigenous Australians are almost twice that for non-indigenous Australians. * Asthma caused the deaths of 421 ...

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Herald Sun
Bob Hawke divides crowd at music festival with nuclear dumping ground idea
NEWS.com.au
Furthermore, it would allow us to address the indigenous divide in Australia — a situation he labelled “a great stain on our national character”. The previous night, Mr Hawke led the crowd in a rendition of Waltzing Matilda but his address yesterday ...
Bob Hawke at Woodford Folk Festival: Australia should be world's nuclear dumping groundHerald Sun
Bob Hawke pushes nuclear power at Woodford Folk FestivalABC Online
Bob Hawke blames decline in quality of politicians on intrusiveness of mediaThe Guardian

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Townsville Bulletin
Former PM divides music festival
Townsville Bulletin
The former PM said a non-negotiable part of Australia becoming the world's nuclear dump would be using revenue to address the “great stain on our national character” — the gap between indigenous Australians and mainstream society. He said many ...

Courier Mail
Bob Hawke at Woodford Folk Festival: Australia should be world's nuclear dumping ground
Courier Mail
The former PM said a non-negotiable part of Australia becoming the world's nuclear dump would be using revenue to address the “great stain on our national character” — the gap between indigenous Australians and mainstream society. He said many ...

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FourFourTwo Australia
Finding the next Indigenous football star!
FourFourTwo Australia
During the 2015/16 A-League season one time Socceroo and current Brisbane Roar Defender Jade North, was the only Indigenous representative in Australia's top flight. There are over 1 million participants who play football in Australia and 6,541 ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)
SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING TRUE BLUE
dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)
Sources of the suit and shirt represent Australia's two foundation states, while the Grafton-born wearer himself represents indigenous Australians, the Catholic church and our nation's rural centres. Warren's Labor history combines with the Liberal ...

Black Arm Band in financial disarray
The Australian
The Black Arm Band has been the toast of major arts festivals and an ambassador for indigenous Australia overseas, but behind the scenes its board and financial management appear to have been a shambles. Gurrumul, Archie Roach and Dan Sultan are ...