Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

National Indigenous Times
[ December 1, 2016 ] Songwriter targeted over Oz Day comments PEOPLE
National Indigenous Times
Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettit told www.nit.com.au that the council started looking at what it did on Australia Day after this year's celebrations and talking with some of the Indigenous participants about how it made them feel. Australia Day marks the ...

[ December 1, 2016 ] KPMG swoops on Arrilla in ground-breaking deal BUSINESS
National Indigenous Times
The deal announced this week will see Arrilla principal Shelley Reys become the first Indigenous partner of KPMG Australia. Arrilla is an Indigenous consulting firm which works with government, private enterprise and community groups. “We believe ...

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The Age
Australia stagnating in maths and science as other nations streak ahead
The Age
The story is similar for year 8 in mathematics and even worse in science. The gaps in achievement between Australia's Indigenous and non-Indigenous students remain as they were 20 years ago. In mathematics, 62 per cent of Indigenous students do not ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
The message all Australians should take from Indigenous culture
The Sydney Morning Herald
I realised immediately that this was a golden opportunity to broaden what was a pretty narrow mind when it came to Indigenous people. It's such a hot potato for most suburban Australians – an awkward conversation that most would rather not have. Most ...

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Herald Sun
Radio star Brendan 'Jonesy' Jones breaks down on air: 'I feel so guilty'
Herald Sun
The pair were discussing the controversial SBS show First Contact in which six well-known Aussies spent 28 days learning about Aboriginal Australia. The second episode of the three-part series aired last night and Jones said on air this morning that he ...

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10 things you can do after watching First Contact
SBS
To immerse yourself in some amazing stories check out books written by Indigenous Australians - there's plenty; Alexis Wright, Kim Scott, Sue McPherson, Sally Morgan to name a few. A great place to start is Indigenous author Dr Anita Heiss' list of 99 ...

First Contact: The message all Australians should take from Indigenous culture
The Age
The offer to appear on First Contact was met with the quickest 'Yes' I've ever given to any TV show since I've been in the business. I realised immediately that this was a golden opportunity to broaden what was a pretty narrow mind when it came to ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Inside Coast theme park 'new world'
Gold Coast Bulletin
A performance based on the arrival of Captain Cook to Australia, featuring a replica of the HMS Endeavour, will also be staged at the riverside park where the chairman also plans to build an “Aboriginal Cultural Village” and a small Australian wildlife ...

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Brisbane Times
Australia stagnating in maths and science as other nations streak ahead
Brisbane Times
The story is similar for year 8 in mathematics and even worse in science. The gaps in achievement between Australia's Indigenous and non-Indigenous students remain as they were 20 years ago. In mathematics, 62 per cent of Indigenous students do not ...
Australian schoolkids are falling behind on maths and scienceBusiness Insider Australia
Australian student performance flatliningTeacher Magazine
Wake-up call: Australian students fall behind Kazakhstan in maths and science rankingsThe Sydney Morning Herald
ABC Online
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Lawyers Weekly
Practice area demand driving collaboration among law firms
Lawyers Weekly
“It remains the case in Australia that Indigenous people are badly served by the legal system. In Victoria, 26 per cent of the prison population is Indigenous when only 2 per cent of the population is Indigenous, so the legal system is systematically ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Ophthalmology patients stuck on wait lists the longest as elective surgery wait times rise: AIHW report
The Sydney Morning Herald
The report confirmed the gaping disparity in health provisions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, with Indigenous Australians waiting on average six days longer for elective surgery, and more likely to sit on a wait list for more than a ...

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ABC Online
Chapel By The Sea: Key Indigenous mural destroyed by management
ABC Online
An Aboriginal Mural on the side of Sydney's Wayside Chapel at Bondi, which has been described as a key symbol of reconciliation, has been painted over and destroyed by the Chapel's management.

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous domestic violence — it needs to stop
dailytelegraph.com.au
Marches were held across Australia, including in Darwin and Alice Springs. Appropriately so. Family violence exists across Australian society but its epicentre is the Northern Territory, which has among the highest rates in the world fuelled by ...

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Herald Sun
indigenous domestic violence — it needs to stop
Herald Sun
Marches were held across Australia, including in Darwin and Alice Springs. Appropriately so. Family violence exists across Australian society but its epicentre is the Northern Territory, which has among the highest rates in the world fuelled by ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Former Football Star Reconnects To His Indigenous Heritage To Recover From Depression
Huffington Post Australia
Williams began to workshop 'The Enemy Within', a suicide prevention charity that now sees him touring Australia and overseas speaking with schools, sporting clubs, organisations and remote Indigenous communities. "Working with these communities and ...

teleSUR English
Painted Indigenous Faces Tower over Rural Australia
teleSUR English
“We used them for navigation, we used them for seasonal changes, so the stars meant a lot, the moon meant a lot of course, and so did the sun,” he told ABC Australia. The Indigenous artworks are part of an “outdoor gallery” project across the region ...

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Business Insider Australia
Australian schoolkids are falling behind on maths and science
Business Insider Australia
The gaps in achievement between Australia's Indigenous and non-Indigenous students remain as they were 20 years ago. Source: TIMSS 2015. Trends in Year 4 mathematics achievement within Australia, 1995–2015, by Indigenous background.
Wake-up call: Australian students fall behind Kazakhstan in maths and science rankingsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australian student performance flatliningTeacher Magazine
The NT is the only Australian jurisdiction where students' results are going backwardsABC Online

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SBS
How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
SBS
The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before Europeans came to Australia. And like today, they ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Trapped in Australia's 'invisible prison'
dailytelegraph.com.au
But as we see how the celebrities react to Indigenous Australians Justin Mohamed, CEO of Reconciliation Australia, has revealed how he feels living in Australia and why he feels freer overseas. Justin Mohamed CEO of Reconciliation Australia. Picture: ...
SBS's 'First Contact' Sent Well-Known Aussies Into Aboriginal ...Huffington Post Australia
3. David Oldfield says Aboriginal Australia Should Die OutNEWS.com.au
First Contact: Poverty Porn And Trauma TV, With Bonus CelebritiesNew Matilda
The West Australian -SBS -Junkee
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Courier Mail
Trapped in Australia's 'invisible prison'
Courier Mail
But as we see how the celebrities react to Indigenous Australians Justin Mohamed, CEO of Reconciliation Australia, has revealed how he feels living in Australia and why he feels freer overseas. Justin Mohamed CEO of Reconciliation Australia. Picture: ...
First Contact: when Indigenous Australia becomes entertainment, everyone losesThe Guardian
Meet Eight Prominent Indigenous Australians In SBS's First Contact VR ExperienceGizmodo Australia
3. David Oldfield says Aboriginal Australia Should Die OutNEWS.com.au
SBS -Huffington Post Australia -SBS
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