Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Conversation AU
FactCheck Q&A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500000 Indigenous people in Australia?
The Conversation AU
Nicholas Biddle works in a centre at the ANU that receives funding from Commonwealth and State/Territory governments to research Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander demographic and socioeconomic outcomes. Dennis Foley is an Indigenous Australian ...
Ngaya Ngyamitjimitang. This is all I can say in my own language, and it is painful for meThe Guardian
Hurtful cartoon fails to help indigenous victims of injusticeThe Australian
In memory of so many, there must be a national custody notification serviceIndependent Australia

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ABC Online
Victoria signs over $500m in public housing stock to Aboriginal organisation
ABC Online
AHV CEO Jenny Samms said she believed the transfer of housing to the Indigenous organisation was the largest. "I believe it is the biggest housing ownership transfer in Victoria and the biggest in Australia to a single Indigenous organisation," she said.
Victoria to transfer ownership of hundreds of homes under Indigenous planThe Guardian

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ABC Online
That Sugar Film: Documentary maker Damon Gameau pays back ...
ABC Online
That Sugar Film actor and filmmaker Damon Gameau repays a debt of knowledge, using the success of his latest documentary to support an Indigenous health ...
Australian Story :: The Sugar Trip - ABCABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Victoria to transfer ownership of hundreds of homes under Indigenous plan
The Guardian
The Victorian government will transfer ownership of 511 homes to Aboriginal Housing Victoria on Monday as part of a plan to provide almost 1,500 homes to Indigenous peoples reliant on public housing. The housing minister, Martin Foley, said the homes ...

Yahoo7 News
Aboriginal woman goes from 'non-citizen' to Australian parliament
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Wearing a cloak decorated with the goanna lizard, the first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia's lower house took her seat in parliament this week, saying that as a child she was a "non-citizen". Former teacher Linda Burney made ...

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ABC Online
First Aboriginal curator appointed to South Australian Museum, with ...
ABC Online
The South Australian Museum hopes more stories of Indigenous history and culture will be uncovered, following the appointment of its first Aboriginal curator ...
An Indigenous curator for Indigenous artefacts: South Australia ...The Guardian (blog)
AM - Young Indigenous leadership gathering underway in Sydney ...ABC Local

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The Guardian
'Blatant war and genocide': memories of Native Police haunt Indigenous Queensland
The Guardian
Detail from an 1888 drawing of the massacre of Indigenous people by Queensland's Native Police at Skull Hole, near Winton in central Queensland, Australia. The drawing was by Norwegian scientist Carl Lumholtz, who recounted being shown between 1882 ...

The Guardian (blog)
An Indigenous curator for Indigenous artefacts: South Australia breaks new ground
The Guardian (blog)
On Monday the museum will formally announce the appointment of Iseger-Pilkington as curator of Aboriginal art and material culture. Six other Indigenous Australians work there. But it is the first time in the history of the museum, founded in 1856 ...
Young Indigenous leadership gathering underway in SydneyABC Local

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The Conversation AU
Can Turnbull change course in Indigenous affairs?
The Conversation AU
The mismanagement of a new competitive funding scheme, the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, and the substantial cuts to Indigenous funding in the 2014 budget, have both had a significant impact on services and communities across Australia.

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The Guardian
Introducing 'Noongarpedia' – Australia's first Indigenous Wikipedia
The Guardian
The Noongarpedia project began in 2014 by a team from the University of Western Australia led by school of Indigenous studies professor and Noongar elder Leonard Collard, with Curtin University's John Hartley and the Miles Franklin award-winning ...

The Guardian
Indigenous media is crucial to the Australian landscape and it needs to be self-sufficient
The Guardian
Started by the luminary Gavin Jones 20 years earlier, by that time, Vibe had grown in to an important media/health/education centre-point for Indigenous Australia. There was nothing else like Vibe. If you were looking for a well-run event to deliver ...
Racist laws must not return: Dodson9news.com.au

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Telegraph.co.uk
Australian Indigenous MP Linda Burney: I have journeyed to a powerful place
Telegraph.co.uk
The first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the House of Representatives has told her fellow MPs that she was deeply moved to have journeyed to a "powerful place" in her maiden speech. Linda Burney slammed calls for the watering down of the Racial ...
Linda Burney, Australia's first federal female Aboriginal MP, just ...Business Insider Australia
Linda Burney gives maiden speech as first female Indigenous lower house MPThe Guardian
Australian Aboriginal MP Linda Burney vows to fight for changeBBC News
CBC.ca -NEWS.com.au
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NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal MP Linda Burney's speech 0:59
NEWS.com.au
Constitutional recognition for indigenous Australians was the next step for the parliament and country in the reconciliation journey, she said. She invited the chamber to imagine what it was like for a 13-year-old girl who was told at school her ...
Linda Burney, Australia's first federal female Aboriginal MP, just delivered her moving maiden speechBusiness Insider Australia
Australian Indigenous MP Linda Burney: I have journeyed to a powerful placeTelegraph.co.uk
Linda Burney gives maiden speech as first female Indigenous lower house MPThe Guardian
SBS -CBC.ca
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Co.Exist
This Man Is Walking Across Australia To Get The Prime Minister To Acknowledge Aboriginal Rights
Co.Exist
Australia's indigenous people, including Pryor and the Noongar, are not currently recognized by the country's constitution. This is despite Aborigines having roots on the continent that date back 50,000 years; white European settlers first arrived in ...

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Amnesty International
Australia: Reforms to justice system essential to protect the rights of Indigenous youth
Amnesty International
Major reforms must be undertaken by the authorities in the Australian state of Queensland to protect the rights of Indigenous children from a youth justice system that criminalizes them out of all proportion to the general population, a new Amnesty ...
Indigenous Australians in Queensland Said to Face Higher Juvenile Detention RatesNew York Times
Indigenous youth over-represented in detention: Amnesty InternationalBrisbane Times
Queensland breaching international standards on youth detention: AmnestySBS
The Guardian
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Business Insider Australia
Linda Burney, Australia's first federal female Aboriginal MP, just delivered her moving maiden speech
Business Insider Australia
Last month Linda Burney made political history once again, becoming the first Aboriginal women elected to the Australian parliament. The MP for Barton is now Labor's shadow minister for human services. Some 13 years ago, Burney became the first ...
'I will not be stereotyped': Aboriginal MPSBS
Linda Burney Says She Won't Be Stereotyped Or Pigeon-Holed In Maiden SpeechHuffington Post Australia
Australia's 45th Parliament: Meet the record breakersABC Online

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The Guardian
Indigenous prisoner Jayden Bennell showed suicide risk, inquest told
The Guardian
A psychiatrist who treated Jayden Bennell for two years said he would have been “alarmed” and “greatly concerned” by the 20-year-old Indigenous man's behaviour in the months before his death, telling an inquest it showed a heightened risk of suicide.

ArtsHub (subscription)
Presenters reject Indigenous arts
ArtsHub (subscription)
Two thirds of Australian presenters did not program any Indigenous arts last year, a new Australia Council study reveals. Presenters reject Indigenous arts. Bangarra, lore. The Australia Council study reveals Indigenous artists continue to face ...

The Guardian
Labor asks Senate to consider whether NBN raids could constitute ...
The Guardian
Labor opens a new front in the controversy over the leaked NBN Co documents and the subsequent police raids. As it happened.

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The Guardian
Waking our sleeping Indigenous languages: 'we're in the midst of a resurgence'
The Guardian
Indeed in the past couple of decades non-Indigenous Australia have cottoned on to the importance of preserving and rescuing the languages of first nations people, and we are in the midst of a resurgence in appreciation, he says. “There's a whole range ...