Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Creators Project (blog)
It's Time to Rethink How We See Indigenous Australian Art
The Creators Project (blog)
A recent exhibition at the Harvard Art Museum set out to change how we view and contextualize Australian Indigenous art—not as relics of the past, but as contemporary, internationally relevant contributions. Everywhen: The Eternal Present in ...

Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Man Stands Up To Racism With A Friendly Pot Of Tea
Huffington Post Australia
A Perth man who overheard two women making racist comments about Indigenous Australians has responded in the most perfect way possible -- by buying them a friendly pot of tea. Jarred Wall and a friend, who are both Indigenous, were having lunch at ...
'Distasteful conversation' gets perfect response from Indigenous AustralianThe New Daily
Aboriginal man's brilliant response to racismThe Advertiser
Man buys racist neighbours a pot of tea in ultimate power moveMashable

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal artefacts in Sotheby's auction prompt questions over provenance
The Sydney Morning Herald
Jones, along with National Museum of Australia senior curator Carol Cooper, is on a mission to find out exactly where shields like this came from, right down to identifying the people who made them. Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones holding one of the ...

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ABC Online
Boyer Lectures: Sir Michael Marmot urges Australia to invest in early childhood to close Indigenous health gap
ABC Online
If Australia wants to close the gap between the health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, the traditional approach of treating disease will not do it, epidemiologist Sir Michael Marmot says. Indigenous life expectancy is 10 years lower than ...

Football Australia (press release)
Fogarty aims to inspire Aboriginal talent
Football Australia (press release)
For followers of the indoor game in Australia the sight of Fogarty proudly waving the Aboriginal flag upon the conclusion of another victory has become ubiquitous, and it's something that the engaging attacker is hoping to repeat at the 2016 edition of ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The women taking on Australia's global suicide capital
The Sydney Morning Herald
A 2016 audit of data from 2005 to 2014 found the Indigenous suicide rate in the Kimberley to be more than seven times Australia's average in 2011, with 74 suicides per 100,000 compared to 9.9 per 100,000 across Australia. Of those, 27 per cent were ...

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The Australian
QUT's Oodgeroo unit for indigenous students not discriminatory
The Australian
At the outset, QUT unapologetically stands by its longstanding and hitherto uncontroversial practice of providing a support unit and services dedicated to encourage and assist indigenous students in their education here. Most Australian universities ...

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The Conversation AU
Countering the claims about Australia's Aboriginal number systems
The Conversation AU
Norris claimed that our paper was about the largest numbers in Australian Aboriginal languages that could extend beyond ten, but still didn't extend past 20. He gave some examples of other Aboriginal counting systems with limits higher than those we ...

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WAtoday
No spark for Australia Day fireworks in Cockburn
WAtoday
Fremantle's Australian Day fireworks event will no longer take place. Photo: Jay Cronan. The cancellation of the fireworks sparked condemnation from many quarters with the Chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine ...

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SBS
Chansey Paech is Australia's first gay, Indigenous parliamentarian
SBS
Chansey Paech spent the last several few weeks driving his silver Nissan four-wheel-drive around central Australia, meeting with small communities and sleeping under the stars. “I'm a pro at changing tyres and tying stuff on the back of the car,” he ...

Daily Mail
Indigenous Australians may have been the first bakers making loaves 15000 years before the Egyptians
Daily Mail
Australian author Bruce Pascoe claims Aboriginal people were not only hunter gatherers as commonly portrayed after European colonisation in his book 'Dark Emu, Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?' 'Yes, we were the first to invent bread by 15,000 years.

Celebrating Indigenous achievements in business::
Invest in Australia
... capture and processing is adhered to, for this we are working through the process with the government and Aboriginal groups. I hope we can have in future a very viable native harvest business that provides products all over Australia and around the ...

Independent Australia
Australia's Indigenous children are incarcerated at the world's highest rate
Independent Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are sentenced and incarcerated at three times the rate of non-Aboriginal children arrested. This is another reason why many of us are calling for the national rollout of the Custody Notification Service ...

ABC Online
John Howard, Tony Abbott lock in against treaty with Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Two former Liberal prime ministers have outright rejected a treaty with Indigenous Australians, as public debate continues about the merits of holding a referendum to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Let the market unchain indigenous communities
On Line opinion
The remote town of Warburton, Western Australia, gives us a glimpse into everyday life for many indigenous Australians. The average life expectancy in Warburton is 45. The population of 800 is mostly unemployed. Most young adults do not go to high school.

ABC Online
Sung into her seat: Indigenous MP Linda Burney makes history as the world watches
ABC Online
Wiradjuri woman Lynette Riley has been "blown away" by the international interest in her Indigenous acknowledgement, sung from the public gallery of the Australian Parliament, to welcome her long-time friend Linda Burney as the first Aboriginal woman ...

Hyperallergic
Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
Hyperallergic
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia's Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics. They did so ...

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Huffington Post Australia
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are Indigenous
Huffington Post Australia
Even though they only comprise 2.5 percent of the population.
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happiness - ABCABC Online

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ABC Online
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happiness
ABC Online
Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men have lower rates of happiness than their non-Indigenous counterparts, with 10 percent rating their happiness as zero out of ten, a new survey has found. The Mission Australia Youth Survey spoke to 18,727 ...
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are IndigenousHuffington Post Australia
Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian ArtHyperallergic
[ September 7, 2016 ] We can't let our young people despair and lose hope, says Calma NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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Huffington Post Australia
Q&A: Shakespeare's Sonnet 127 Was Read In An Indigenous Language And It Was Awesome
Huffington Post Australia
... translates Shakespeare into Indigenous languages, and on Monday night Q&A was treated to one of those performances. Farmer performed Sonnet 127 in Noongar, which is the indigenous language of her family in the south-west of Western Australia.
Q&A on Shakespeare's universal truths: 'This famous white fella who's dead now 400 years'ABC Online
Listen To Shakespeare Performed In An Indigenous Language On Last Night's 'Q&A'Junkee
Germaine Greer tells Q&A Shakespeare's timeless lesson is to make us thinkThe Guardian

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