Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Scullion honours Indigenous diggers
Yahoo7 News
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has paid tribute to Aboriginal diggers who gave their lives for their country in overseas wars, despite not having the right to vote at home. Australians have gathered at Remembrance Day services across the ...

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Scullion honours Indigenous diggers
SBS
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has paid tribute to Aboriginal diggers who gave their lives for their country in overseas wars, despite not having the right to vote at home. Australians have gathered at Remembrance Day services across the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
The world game needs an Indigenous boost
The Sydney Morning Herald
Hopefully, they'll pick up the thread left by Football Federation Australia's decision to axe North Queensland Fury from the A-League five years ago – a knee-jerk move which took a hugely promising Indigenous program with it. Jade North was meant to be ...

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The Age
The world game needs an Indigenous boost
The Age
Hopefully, they'll pick up the thread left by Football Federation Australia's decision to axe North Queensland Fury from the A-League five years ago – a knee-jerk move which took a hugely promising Indigenous program with it. Jade North was meant to be ...

ABC Online
NoongarPedia created as first Wikipedia site in Aboriginal language
ABC Online
In Noongar country, in the south-west of Western Australia, researchers are building the first Wikipedia site in an Aboriginal Australian language. The Noongar people spoke their language for thousands of years — until, last century, it started to fade.

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Gizmodo Australia
Alice Springs Satellite Gets A Deadly Makeover
Gizmodo Australia
In a world first, Geoscience Australia has painted an Indigenous artwork on its satellite antenna as part of a major upgrade – making the Alice Springs antenna unique in more ways than one. The upgraded Alice Springs antenna was commissioned today in a ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson withdraws support for troubled Aurukun school
ABC Online
Mr Pearson wrote to the Queensland Government today advising that the non-profit association he founded, Good to Great Schools Australia [GGSA], will cease "all negotiations in relation to Aurukun and any further provision of support to the school ...

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ABC Online
ASIC targets traders exploiting Aboriginal communities through dodgy credit practices
ABC Online
The court found that the owner of Nobby's Mintabie General Store in South Australia's APY Lands engaged in unconscionable and unlicensed conduct. 'Book up' is an informal credit used in many remote Aboriginal communities, that allows people to buy ...

ABC Online
Emotional Pat Dodson calls for action to stop devastating rate of Indigenous suicide
ABC Online
"I know it happened in Fitzroy [Crossing], a dear 12-year-old boy whose parents found him. "Whatever caused that, I don't know, and it's very hard for us to understand." Nearly a third of children who take their own lives in Australia are Indigenous.
Dodson sheds tears on indigenous suicideNEWS.com.au

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Warren's Indigenous Football legacy
FourFourTwo Australia
The late great Johnny Warren was a passionate advocate of the Indigenous community and their potential role that Aboriginal athletes had in growing the game of football in Australia. Jamie Warren, who runs the Australian football legend's foundation ...

FourFourTwo Australia
Warren's Indigenous Football legacy
FourFourTwo Australia
The late great Johnny Warren was a passionate advocate of the Indigenous community and their potential role that Aboriginal athletes had in growing the game of football in Australia. Jamie Warren, who runs the Australian football legend's foundation ...

SBS
Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
SBS
Many people don't know this, but Indigenous Australian children are born with much better eyesight than non-Indigenous children. Yet, at the population level, Indigenous people at the age of 40 have rates of vision loss three times that of non ...

SBS
Comment: "I have found strength in the resilience of my people"
SBS
What it means for me to be Indigenous is that I had to grow a thick skin as a young kid, all because of the colour of my skin. I have suffered abuse for trying to find out who I really was and what it meant to be Indigenous in Australia for me. While ...

Skill 360 Australia Indigenous pre-employment course boosts skills
The Cairns Post
Tori Warkill is a one of the success stories to come out of Skill 360 Australia's Cairns indigenous pre-employment training courses. The two-week program provides resume-building and interview tips. Ms Warkill completed a course in April and started a ...

The Australian
Oxfam Straight Talk summit focus on domestic violence in indigenous communities
The Australian
Eighty indigenous women from all over Australia visited parliament yesterday as part of the annual Oxfam Straight Talk summit, meeting politicians including Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, her Labor counterpart Penny Wong, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert ...

Daily Mail
Aboriginal community vows to cut tourist access to Australia's Uluru
Daily Mail
A remote indigenous community near Uluru has threatened to 'close the rock' if their voices aren't heard and people continue to live in poverty. The Northern Territory royal commission into juvenile justice has visited, a small community where the ...

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FourFourTwo Australia
Indigenous Championships will grow participation
FourFourTwo Australia
The Inaugural National Indigenous Football Championships held in Nowra over the weekend have been hailed a success. Out of 24 teams from across the country, Illawarra Bungarra defeated Northern Nations 4-0 to win the Women's Division, while SE QLD ...

Lower drug copays lead to reduction in hospitalizations among indigenous people in Australia
News-Medical.net
A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive to lower drug copayments, hospitalizations to treat the population's chronic conditions declined by 40 percent in just two years. The study ...
Cut copays to improve healthcare for indigenous people?Futurity: Research News

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ABC Online
Number of children removed from Indigenous families set to triple in 20 years
ABC Online
The Family Matters coalition wants the over-representation of Indigenous children in out-of-home care eliminated by 2040. "We need to get very deliberate about acknowledging that high number of children that have been removed, and be committed in a ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australians demand return of shield taken by Captain Cook
The Guardian
The descendant of an Indigenous Australian warrior who was the first to confront Captain Cook as he landed on the shores of Australia in 1770 has demanded that the British Museum give back a shield “stolen” by the English invaders. Rodney Kelly, the ...