Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Shorten's push for Indigenous treaty a 'bridge too far' say Coalition MPs
ABC Online
Coalition MPs have warned the Opposition Leader's push for a treaty with Indigenous people would be a "bridge too far" for many Australians and could "confuse and harm" the campaign for Indigenous constitutional recognition. Bill Shorten said yesterday ...
Treaties and settlements next on recognition agenda, says ShortenSBS
PM to meet Labor on indigenous referendumNEWS.com.au

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ABC Online
WA Liberals divided over constitutional recognition of Indigenous people
ABC Online
A split within the WA Liberals over constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is set to come to a head, with the party's right-wing wanting to exert pressure on federal MPs to back the 'no' case. The Young Liberals are planning to move a ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Don Dale scandal may impact on referendum to recognise indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Northern Territory juvenile detention scandal is beginning to impact on the referendum to recognise Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in the Constitution. Many Territorians are starting to push back against the royal commission into the Giles ...
Garma: Noel Pearson says debate about indigenous affairs at 'rock ...The Australian
Pat Dodson calls for Indigenous royal commissioners as further abuse claims emergeThe Guardian
Aboriginal people 'take abuse for granted'The West Australian
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SBS - The World Game
Images of the HANDS OFF ABORIGINAL KIDS rallies across Australia
SBS - The World Game
... inadequate role in protecting Aboriginal children from such harm and highlighted the continued disservice to the Indigenous community. Political group, Blackfulla Revolution said that the rallies were extremely powerful and called for Australians ...

RT
Australians protest over government's lax reaction to abuse of ...
RT
Cities across Australia joined in protest over the government's sub-par response to shocking videos of institutionalized child abuse at a detention facility – the ...

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Aljazeera.com
Australians rally against youth detention abuses
Aljazeera.com
"I believe it would be appropriate for the royal commission to have two co-commissioners who are Aboriginal Australians, strong people, men and women, who can make sure the voices and the experiences of Aboriginal Australians are given full justice in ...

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Africanews
Protests in Australia over indigenous youth prison abuse
Africanews
Hundreds rallied in Australia, in cities including Sydney, where aboriginal flags flew as demonstrators denounced the scope of a government ordered probe – demanding it become a full national inquiry. “This is one of the most brutal, racist attacks on ...
Australia: Rallies demand national inquiry into juvenile 'torture'euronews

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The Australian
Garma: Noel Pearson says debate about indigenous affairs at 'rock ...
The Australian
Cape York leader Noel Pearson has called for constitutional recognition to provide the hook for a decade-long cascade of reforms aimed at finally closing the ...
Garma festival opens with call for 'strong agreement' on Indigenous ...The Guardian

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The Guardian
'A national disgrace': protests held across Australia over NT juvenile detention centre abuses
The Guardian
“We are shocked by the video footage that has emerged from Don Dale youth detention centre in the Northern Territory in Australia, showing children as young as 10, many of whom are Aboriginal children, being held in inhumane conditions and treated ...
Australia-wide Don Dale ralliesSBS
UN Human Rights Commission slams Australia youth prison abuseReuters
Four Corners: NT youth detention treatment may breach two human rights conventions, UNHCHR saysABC Online

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The Guardian
Appoint Indigenous commissioners to NT juvenile detention inquiry, says Shorten
The Guardian
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has called on prime minister Malcolm Turnbull to appoint two Indigenous Australians as “co-commissioners” to the royal commission into juvenile detention in the Northern Territory. Following ABC's Four Corners graphic ...
Victims need Aboriginal listeners: LaborNEWS.com.au
Four Corners: Northern Territory Indigenous groups not consulted on royal commission into juvenile detentionABC Online
Calls for two Aboriginal co-commissionersSky News Australia

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The Guardian
Garma festival opens with call for 'strong agreement' on Indigenous lands
The Guardian
A senior Indigenous leader has called for Australia to find a “strong agreement” to ensure Indigenous lands are protected “forever and a day”, at the official opening of the Garma festival in the Northern Territory. The festival officially opened on ...
Garma: Yunupingu calls for constitutional guarantee on Aboriginal land rightsThe Australian

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NEWS.com.au
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlight
NEWS.com.au
More than half of children in detention in Australia are indigenous. That's despite indigenous Australians making up less than three per cent of the country's national population. The 2011 Standing Committee inquiry found that high levels of contact ...
Shorten to consult on indigenous issuesSky News Australia
From the Darling Downs to Don Dale: a litany of monstrous acts against Indigenous childrenThe Guardian
Cruel numbersThe Saturday Paper (subscription)

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Sky News Australia
Shorten to consult on indigenous issues
Sky News Australia
Attorney-General George Brandis and Mr Turnbull consulted two of the most prominent indigenous spokespeople in Australia - Mick Gooda and Warren Mundine - in drafting the terms of reference for the inquiry. However, acting Labor leader Tanya Plibersek ...
From the Darling Downs to Don Dale: a litany of monstrous acts against Indigenous childrenThe Guardian

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The Australian
Divergent paths branch off from road to Indigenous recognition
The Australian
Wind whipped across the plateau, rattling the stringybark, as Galarrwuy Yunupingu sat deep in Arnhem Land staring into the fire. It was mid-2007 and the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant delivers fiery speech on Indigenous rights in wake of abuse scandal
The Sydney Morning Herald
"This week we know what Australia looks like. This week Australia is a boy in a hood in a cell. This week Australia is Aboriginal boys tear gassed, locked down and beaten. These are the images on our television screens. The boys who look like my boys.".

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders 'disgusted' they were not consulted on detention inquiry
The Guardian
Indigenous leaders in the Northern Territory say they are “completely and utterly disgusted” that they were not consulted before the details of the royal commission into youth detention were announced, saying the commission has already lost all ...

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ABC Message Stick
Aussies overwhelmed with pride to represent Indigenous brothers and sisters
ABC Message Stick
Players and coaches of the Australian Indigenous All stars basketball team say playing for your country is one thing but representing your Indigenous brothers and sisters is another. Now in its third year, the Trans-Tasman Basketball Clash features the ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous stories heard through public art
ArtsHub (subscription)
The field was still largely dominated by men​ and the voices of Indigenous and multicultural Australia were often absent. But the rise of abstraction gave birth to the idea of public art as a vehicle to connect with a broader public and an expectation ...

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SBS
Four Corners: Northern Territory Indigenous groups not consulted on royal commission into juvenile detention
ABC Online
Three Northern Territory organisations say Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has failed Indigenous Australians by ignoring their requests to be consulted when defining the terms of reference for the royal commission into abuse in the juvenile justice system.
Royal commissioner refutes conflict claimsSky News Australia
Why Malcolm Turnbull's Northern Territory youth abuse royal commission is doomed to failThe Sydney Morning Herald
Ex-NT chief judge Brian Ross Martin to lead youth detention inquiryThe Australian
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ABC Online
Indigenous organisations push for royal commission into suicide rates
ABC Online
Figures released last month in the Medical Journal of Australia estimate that 5.2 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will take their own life. Dameyon Bonson, an Aboriginal mental health advocate among those calling for the ...
Don Dale: Let Indigenous Australians decideIndependent Australia
[ July 26, 2016 ] Don Dale, NT v Abu Ghraib, Iraq – Spot the difference NEWSNational Indigenous Times
FACTBOX - Jailed too young? 10 facts about Australia's Aboriginal teenage prisonersThomson Reuters Foundation
Huffington Post Australia
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