Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Artist Marina Abramovic calls indigenous Australians dinosaurs in memoir passage
Daily Mail
Abramovic has previously spent time in the Northern Territory, praising the experience to The Australian during an exhibition of hers last year. 'Australia is so much a part of me. It's the beginning of all my best work. You know it was your Australian ...

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Independent Australia
Our History, Our future. Speech by ACTU Indigenous Officer Kara Keys To the ACTU Executive
ACTU (press release)
And the founding layer – the bedrock and the thing that is most unique about Australia among the nations of the world – is the long story of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage. This story stretches back through tens of thousands of ...
Government policy and Indigenous incarceration ratesIndependent Australia
From an Aboriginal mission to the UN: shifting perceptions on self-determinationThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Indigenous woman died in police custody after notification service not used
The Guardian
The reported circumstances are similar to the 2012 death of Maureen Mandijarra, who was arrested in Broome, Western Australia, for being intoxicated in public and lay unmoving in a police cell for at least six hours before police realised she was dead.

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The Guardian
Greens urge government to revive Indigenous work program CDEP
The Guardian
Oliver said the income support program, which operates only in remote Australia, was discriminatory and deprived its participants, more than 80% of whom are Indigenous, of basic workers' rights. “The government should be putting in place policies that ...

ABC Online
Beef boom creating plenty of job and investment opportunities for Indigenous Land Corporation, says new CEO John ...
ABC Online
"The way I look at it is, there's two ways of increasing employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians. "One is to increase the percentage of jobs that Indigenous Australians fulfil in the assets you have at the moment. "And the second way is to ...

Pro Bono Australia
Eight Ways we Can Improve Indigenous Employment
Pro Bono Australia
Non-standard recruitment agencies, more education and ongoing mentoring and support are key to improving the number of Indigenous people in the workforce write Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University fellow, Boyd Hunter, ANU Senior fellow, ...

Google News

Indigenous Leaders Call For Post Election Summit
Pro Bono Australia
The Canberra forum supported continued discussions regarding suitable amendments to the Australian Constitution for recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the establishment of a national First Nations representative structure, a ...

Google News

Courier Mail
New bridge honours indigenous pioneer
Courier Mail
“As Australia's first Aboriginal person in federal Parliament, Senator Bonner worked to ensure Aboriginal people retained their cultural identity, while acquiring the economic, educational and social opportunities that non-indigenous Australians took ...
Neville Bonner bridge to be part of Queens Wharf developmentBrisbane Times

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ABC Online
Why 'recognition' of Indigenous Australians isn't enough
ABC Online
Australia is crawling toward recognising the nation's first people in the constitution, but even if it makes it, will the country have achieved anything meaningful? Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens and Megan Davis explain why the concept of 'recognition' in ...

NEWS.com.au
'Australia needs to grow a spine'
NEWS.com.au
But the Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion disagreed. A spokesman for the Minister said Australia has a strong track record of delivering land grants and native title determinations. “More than 70 per cent of Australia's land mass is either ...

The Guardian
'How could this happen?': Indigenous health tragedies spark search for answers
The Guardian
Jane's case is one of several being examined by the National Justice Project as part of their Aboriginal Health Matters initiative, which is dedicated to using the law to highlight cases of medical mistreatment of Indigenous Australians based on ...

ABC Online
Suicide rate for young Indigenous men highest in world, Australian report finds
ABC Online
The rate of suicide among young Indigenous men is the highest in the world, according to a new report highlighting the challenges facing young Australians. The first ever Australian Youth Development Index (YDI) was compiled as part of International ...
State of our youthThe Advertiser

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ABC Online
Unearthed High's Indigenous Initiative winner reflects on cultural upbringing
ABC Online
The Indigenous program will provide Tia with ongoing mentoring from the Australian Association of Artist Managers (AAM), including managers who have worked with the likes of Tkay Maidza, Gotye, Urthboy and The Rubens. "I don't even feel like it's real ...

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Star Observer
LGBTI Indigenous Australians people kicking goals
Star Observer
Star Observer caught up with some of the awesome LGBTI Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who are doing amazing work in their respective fields across the country. The fab five speak about who they are, what they do and what they have been up to.

National Indigenous Times
[ August 10, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE: Blood samples could unlock decades-old Stolen Generation mysteries NEWS
National Indigenous Times
Anthropology professor Emma Kowal, deputy director at the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics at the Australian National University, said the samples, which have been held in storage, could unlock decades-old mysteries surrounding the genetic lines ...

SBS
Indigenous meanings of Australian town names
SBS
Amongst the towns and cities named after European figures or reconstituted British geographical locations ( ... because the red rugged landscape of Exmouth in WA is so similar to England's seaside *cough*), many of Australia's places are taken from one ...

SBS
Indigenous meanings of Australian town names
SBS
Amongst the towns and cities named after European figures or reconstituted British geographical locations ( ... because the red rugged landscape of Exmouth in WA is so similar to England's seaside *cough*), many of Australia's places are taken from one ...

ABC Online
Ella Havelka's journey to become Australian Ballet's first Indigenous dancer
ABC Online
As a little girl growing up in Dubbo, all it took was a glimpse of a Swan Lake performance on an old VHS tape for Ella Havelka to know that she was going to be a ballerina. Before Ms Havelka joined in 2012, the Australian Ballet had never had an ...

The Conversation AU
With a vote delayed, where does this leave constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians?
The Conversation AU
On Tuesday, the Referendum Council announced it was extending its timetable for consultations on the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians into next year. It will need until mid-2017 to deliver its final report. Both Prime Minister ...
Cause to celebrate: Australia's Indigenous population is on the riseThe Guardian (blog)
Indigenous referendum delay welcomed as "wise" opportunity to get it rightThe Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous referendum on 1967 anniversary date dumpedThe Australian
Sky News Australia -National Indigenous Times
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How did so many indigenous Australians end up in prison?
Crikey (registration)
When Frank Walker was in office in the early 1980s there was no heroin epidemic, no talkback radio law and order campaigns, and there were less than 4000 people in prison in NSW, writes Bob Debus.