Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Indigenous spending to double, warns Michael Mansell
The Australian
“Compensation could be either in the form of money or land, or both,” he writes, citing the instance of the 2015 Noongar agreement in Western Australia that saw claimants surrender native title in exchange for gaining freehold title to up to 320,000ha ...

The Guardian
Female artists and curators making ACCA and NGV 'a little bit blacker'
The Age
"We're taking a 'B' and an 'L' and we're making it a little blacker at ACCA," Paola Balla said on Thursday. The co-curator of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art's first exhibition dedicated entirely to Aboriginal artists, which opens on ...
Long overlooked, Indigenous women's art takes centre stage in Melbourne exhibitionThe Guardian
Indigenous art exhibition Who's Afraid of Colour redefining the genreABC Online

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Business News
Startup bent for indigenous jobs
Business News
The overarching theme of the Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference was to propose strategies to ensure indigenous Australians have the same access to capital and skills as non-indigenous Australians. “Part of (it) is education and ...

SBS
Looking past Hobart Mayor's 'I didn't kill them' comments: MONA's vision unveiled
SBS
Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art, MONA in Hobart has a big vision for a National Truth and Reconciliation Art Park that acknowledges the truth of Australia's history and its frontier wars with Aboriginal peoples. Palawa man Greg Lehman worked on ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous art exhibition Who's Afraid of Colour redefining the genre ...
ABC Online
A new exhibition of works by female Aboriginal artists at the National Gallery of Victoria challenges the idea of what Aboriginal art is meant to look like.
Female artists and curators making ACCA and NGV 'a little bit blacker'The Age
Long overlooked, Indigenous women's art takes centre stage in ...The Guardian

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Detention centres 'may hurt' Aussie UN bid
Yahoo7 News
Amnesty International and the Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) both believe Australia needs to lift its game in terms of asylum seekers and indigenous Australians to improve its chances of securing a seat. "It needs to, in good faith, clean up its own ...

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Detention centres 'may hurt' Aussie UN bid
NEWS.com.au
Amnesty International and the Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) both believe Australia needs to lift its game in terms of asylum seekers and indigenous Australians to improve its chances of securing a seat. "It needs to, in good faith, clean up its own ...

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The Australian
We should unite around indigenous recognition
The Australian
The more talk there is of treaties, the less likely it is that Australians will come together to recognise indigenous people in our Constitution. As we report today, South Australia's government has joined Victoria in the pursuit of a treaty with ...
SA to commence Aboriginal treaty talksGeelong Advertiser

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The Australian
Warren Mundine tells Aboriginal groups to get house in order
The Australian
There is enormous responsibility on Aboriginal groups across South Australia to ensure their “houses are in order” before they push for compensation as part of treaty talks with the Weatherill government, the chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous ...

South Australia moves towards treaty with Indigenous nations
ABC Message Stick
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Across Australia separate campaigns are simultaneously pushing for greater recognition of Australia's Aboriginal history. In South Australia today historic negotiations began to sign a treaty between that government and it's ...

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The Guardian
SA government aims to sign treaty with Indigenous Australians within 12 months
The Guardian
Treaty negotiations will soon begin between Indigenous South Australians and the state government, a step some Aboriginal groups say is an “olive branch”. The SA government has set aside $4.4m over five years for a treaty process that would involve ...
SA to commence Aboriginal treaty talksNEWS.com.au

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Livingstone working to close the Australia Day gap
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
"The resolution by council was to include up to two indigenous persons in the Australia Day committee which was a motion I moved after feeling very strongly about trying to make positive steps towards inclusive leadership and decision making for ...

Independent Australia
The myth of 'over-funded' Indigenous communities
Independent Australia
For instance, Roebourne in Western Australia's Pilbara is said to have 67 service providers with over 400 programmes for less than 1,200 residents. I know Roebourne pretty much inside out and I do not know where these 67 services are located. Certainly ...

ABC Online
Australia should create seventh state run by Indigenous people, lawyer Michael Mansell says
ABC Online
Australia should create a seventh state run by Indigenous people, with its own parliament and court system, an Aboriginal lawyer and activist has proposed. Tasmanian Michael Mansell said statehood was the "ultimate prize" on the path towards ...

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ABC Online
What will Indigenous treaties mean?
ABC Online
Australia is the only Commonwealth country that does not have a treaty with its Indigenous peoples and interestingly, the states are leading the charge, the ABC's editor of Indigenous affairs says. Stan Grant said there was still a "big debate" around ...

SBS
Winners of the 2016 Indigenous STEM Awards announced
SBS
Despite Indigenous knowledge systems; ecology, astronomy, biology and engineering having sustained Australia for thousands of years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are very underrepresented in today's scientific workforce. Approximately 2 ...

Eternity News
The big issue facing indigenous Australia
Eternity News
Working to solve social issues within Aboriginal Australian communities is a “band-aid” fix, not a long-term solution, according to the first Indigenous Ministry Officer appointed by the rural support service Bush Church Aid. “I believe the church can ...

The Australian
Compensation looms as South Australia turns to treaties
The Australian
Historic negotiations costing $4.4 million over five years to create treaties with dozens of separate indigenous South Australian nations will be announced today, with wide-ranging outcomes including financial compensation under consideration.
Elder supports push for indigenous treatiesThe Advertiser
Facing the past a rite of passageThe Mercury

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The Guardian
Missing Indigenous painting at centre of 35-year art mystery found
The Guardian
An Aboriginal art mystery spanning more than three decades has finally been solved. With an estimated value of up to $150,000, the painting, Untitled (Travelling Dreaming), was loaned to the Northern Territory chief minister's office sometime after ...

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EducationHQ Australia
NAPLAN shows Indigenous students improving
EducationHQ Australia
Spiller, the principal of St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School in Brisbane, said the 2016 NAPLAN results showed overall gains for Indigenous students in Year 3 and Year 5 in reading and numeracy. "But Australia still has a long way to go to close the ...

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