Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Conversation AU
How discrimination and stressful events affect the health of our Indigenous kids
The Conversation AU
LSIC broke new ground worldwide for studying the social, developmental and familial dynamics of a group of Indigenous children and their families. Data are collected from Indigenous families across Australia, from cities to remote locations. We can use ...

Financial Times
Care crisis revealed among Australia's aboriginal children
Financial Times
The report reflects a growing child protection crisis in Australia, where aboriginal children are 10 times as likely as non-indigenous peers to be placed in state care. Its publication follows an outcry over the treatment of an indigenous youth held in ...
Keeping kids with familiesHerald Sun

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ABC Online
Google hands out more than $5m to Australian not-for-profits for innovation
ABC Online
Professor Tom Calma from the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation proposed a special program to record Australia's many Indigenous languages. "Australia was once a home of over 600 Indigenous language spoken for tens of thousands of years," ...

ABC Online
AFL push for more Indigenous umpires
ABC Online
"Certainly the last few years if you headed into an umpiring group throughout Australia it was full of a lot of white males and we are trying to change that – whether it be Indigenous, more females or more people from multicultural backgrounds," said ...

Exhibition launch: Indigenous Australians at war
Barossa & Light Herald
An exhibition honouring the role of Indigenous Australians in war will be launched at the Barossa Regional Gallery in the coming weeks. The Indigenous Australians at War exhibition will visit the region as part of a tour that has seen its stunning ...

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Exhibition launch: Indigenous Australians at war
Barossa & Light Herald
An exhibition honouring the role of Indigenous Australians in war will be launched at the Barossa Regional Gallery in the coming weeks. The Indigenous Australians at War exhibition will visit the region as part of a tour that has seen its stunning ...

Indigenous arts take centre stage in Wesley Enoch's first Sydney Festival
The Sydney Morning Herald
A concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of Australia's 1967 Indigenous rights referendum and Aboriginal language classes are among the highlights of the 2017 Sydney Festival, which will also feature concerts by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and PJ ...

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Poor, remote Indigenous Australians have increased risk of sexually transmissible infections
News-Medical.net
A unique 21-year study of more than 2.4 million cases of infectious disease across Australia reveals a major social divide where being poorer, living remotely or being an Indigenous Australian means having an increased risk of sexually transmissible ...

Australia's coal politics are undermining democratic and Indigenous rights
The Conversation AU
These challenges sit outside the current powers of the Coordinator General and are at the intersection of Australia's native title system and the rights of Indigenous peoples under international law and conventions. For Indigenous communities, the mine ...

ABC Online
Rottnest Island: Black prison to white playground
ABC Online
The inmates buried here were among almost 4,000 men and boys from all across Western Australia imprisoned in the Aboriginal-only Rottnest Island Prison between 1838 and 1931. When the first white settlers came sailing up the Derbarl Yerrigan, or Swan ...

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The Australian
Indigenous dictionary project aims to keep endangered languages alive
The Australian
The prototype includes Anindilyakwa, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara speakers but has the potential to cover all of Australia's living languages. Each dynamic dictionary entry includes text, audio recordings and video of speakers. Indigenous ...

Billboard
Jessica Mauboy Becomes First Indigenous Artist to Debut Atop Australia's Albums Chart
Billboard
Jessica Mauboy has claimed a piece of history by becoming the first Indigenous Australian artist to debut at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The 27-year-old Darwin-born singer and actor bows at the national chart summit with The Secret Daughter (Songs ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Lack of accountability letting down Indigenous Australians
The Australian Financial Review
Any stranger visiting Australia who was presented with a statistical snapshot of what is happening in some of our Indigenous communities could be forgiven for concluding that ours is an uncaring nation, indifferent to the plight of some of our most ...

SBS
Shadow Trackers: Hunting monsters in the unexplored Australia
SBS
But one question that isn't asked often enough is how truly Australian this fear is. In watching Shadow Trackers, a new SBS documentary series focusing on two Indigenous myth and monster hunters, you quickly come to realise that our First Peoples have ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal communities struggle with world's highest rheumatic heart disease rates
ABC Online
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is completely preventable, but children in Australian Aboriginal communities still have the highest rate in the world. Six years ago, 12-year-old Paddy Cahill told his parents he did not want to go to school because his ...

Manila Bulletin
Discovering the past: Australian Embassy holds exhibit showcasing Indigenous Australians of Filipino descent
Manila Bulletin
Aside from marking the 70th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Philippines and Australia, the exhibit aims to raise awareness that there is a deep historical Australian indigenous connection between the two countries, even before they ...

Community Newspaper Group
Reigning Miss NAIDOC out to change perceptions about media coverage of indigenous Australians
Community Newspaper Group
FRUSTRATED with the overwhelmingly negative media coverage surrounding indigenous Australians, Applecross resident, Noongar and reigning Miss NAIDOC Shelley Cable set out to change perceptions. After joining forces with friend Mikayla King ...

The Mercury
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre applauds Kingborough Council's Australia Day date shift bid
The Mercury
She said Australia Day celebrated the invasion of one people's land by another people and ignored the previous 40,000 years of indigenous culture. “There has been no treaty to mark the end of hostilities, there's been no negotiation of the terms on ...

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The Guardian
Business must help with social reform: Ken Henry
The Australian
Dr Henry, the board's latest recruit, said he wanted to help new indigenous businesses on Cape York manage risk and become financially resilient. Since bowing out as Treasury secretary in 2012 he has been appointed to head the board of National ...
Noel Pearson hits out at political parties for 'welfare reform failure'The Guardian

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The Australian
18C debate: Media needs freedom to cover all indigenous affairs
The Australian
Even worse, Cronin admits that for a time the impact of section 18C meant he considered having West Australian Newspapers abandon its coverage of Aboriginal affairs. Cronin's view has been informed by his struggle to defend a cartoon by Paul Zanetti ...

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