Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Call for action against 'charlatans' targeting Aboriginal communities
ABC Online
Aboriginal leaders are calling for a crackdown on "charlatans" who for decades have preyed on Aboriginal communities and misappropriated enormous amounts of money meant for the nation's poorest people.

The Guardian
Indigenous leaders call feud between minister and land council chief 'childish'
The Guardian
“I would implore Malcolm Turnbull, if his Coalition government is returned on July 2, to look among his caucus and find a new minister who has the interests of Indigenous people at heart and a commitment to work with the institutional architecture, not ...

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SBS
'Compelling' science reveals Indigenous people the first Australians
SBS
The ancestor's DNA showed similarities with DNA from other Indigenous Australians, “types that are only found in Aboriginal people and not found anywhere else,” he says. "By going back and reanalysing the samples with more advanced technology, we ...
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitantsScience Daily
The first Australians WERE Aborigines: 'Mungo Man' DNA contradicts claims unknown race preceded indigenous peopleDaily Mail
Mungo Man DNA test settles row on Aborigines here firstThe Australian
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Science Daily
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Science Daily
This earlier study was interpreted as evidence that Aboriginal people were not the first Australians, and that Mungo Man represented an extinct lineage of modern humans that occupied the continent before Aboriginal Australians. Scientists from Griffith ...
The first Australians WERE Aborigines: 'Mungo Man' DNA contradicts claims unknown race preceded indigenous peopleDaily Mail
Mungo Man DNA test settles row on Aborigines here firstThe Australian

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Phys.Org
Conflicting theories of Mungo Man debunked: Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Phys.Org
The original excavation of Mungo Man, found near Lake Mungo in southwestern New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Wilfred Shawcross. Griffith University researchers have found evidence that demonstrates Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit ...
The first Australians WERE Aborigines: 'Mungo Man' DNA contradicts claims unknown race preceded indigenous peopleDaily Mail
Mungo Man DNA test settles row on Aborigines here firstThe Australian

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The Australian
Fraud suspected in 44 remote indigenous programs
The Australian
Warren Mundine, chairman of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, said: “We wouldn't accept in the wider Australian community … people sitting on boards who have no financial or no business background. ” Reconciliation Australia chief ...
Indigenous organisations rocked by allegations of fraud and corruptionDaily Mail

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The Guardian
Indigenous health: Queensland's gulf in cancer survival rates fails to improve
The Guardian
Its findings, based on the cases of 214,000 cancer patients aged 20 to 89, will prompt further work by health authorities on how to better engage Indigenous patients with services and treatment. Survival rates among Indigenous people went from 53% over ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous organisations investigated amid allegations of fraud and corruption by senior figures
ABC Online
Ms Beacroft said the separate corporate regime for Aboriginal Australia was vital because it provided both the flexibility to deal with the nuances of Indigenous cultures across the country, but also sharp powers to crack down on unscrupulous operators.

Independent Australia
Indigenous Australians are still dying 20 years younger
Independent Australia
Reports indicating that the life-expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is narrowing, are hopeful at best and do little to effect change, says Gerry Georgatos. THE LIFE EXPECTANCY gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

The Sunshine Coast Daily
How Australia's first Indigenous cop turned whistle blower
The Sunshine Coast Daily
Code of Silence is the true story, incredible as it is, of Colin Dillon, the first indigenous policeman in Australia and the first serving policeman to testify at the Fitzgerald Inquiry. It has taken this long for Colin to tell his story because he ...

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Voice of America
Aboriginal Superhero Makes Australian TV Debut
Voice of America
Australia has its first Indigenous superhero. Cleverman, a fantasy drama that has had its premiere on Australian television, blends Aboriginal mythology with modern superhuman style and cutting political commentary on racism and identity. It is set in ...

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School closed in remote Australian indigenous community
World Socialist Web Site
Queensland's state Labor government last month withdrew teachers and shut down the only school in the remote Aboriginal township of Aurukun, blaming violence by local youth, while boosting the number of police in the town from five to 21. It was the ...

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ABC Local
Why closing the gaps between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians is not black and white
Warwick Daily News
LONG-TERM and sustainable grassroots-backed job programs are the key to ensuring the Southern Downs's Aboriginal residents are better educated, healthier and live longer. That's the view from three of the nation's leading indigenous experts who have ...
Prominent Indigenous Australians throw weight behind constitutional change and treaty debateABC Local
Six inspiring Indigenous stories for Reconciliation WeekArtsHub (subscription)
Still a long way to go on Indigenous issuesThe Sunshine Coast Daily
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ABC Local
Astronomy the centre point of Indigenous culture
ABC Local
Indigenous peoples' spiritual and physical connection to the land also extends to the stars, according to a Monash University astronomer Dr Duane Hamacher. According to Dr Hamacher, astronomy is centre point of Indigenous culture in Australia, playing ...

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Astronomy the centre point of Indigenous culture
ABC Online
Indigenous peoples' spiritual and physical connection to the land also extends to the stars, according to a Monash University astronomer Dr Duane Hamacher. According to Dr Hamacher, astronomy is centre point of Indigenous culture in Australia, playing ...

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ABC Message Stick
Eddie Mabo hailed a hero by Indigenous community leaders on anniversary of landmark decision
ABC Message Stick
On the 24th anniversary of the High Court's landmark decision on Indigenous land rights, community leaders in far north Queensland have hailed Eddie Koiki Mabo a hero of the people. Traditional land owner Tommy Pau said Mr Mabo was particularly ...

Junkee
Deborah Mailman: Australia Is Now Realising The Worth Of Indigenous Work
Junkee
After months of anticipation including an announcement of a second season before the first episode even aired, Australia had its first look at Cleverman last night. The overwhelming consensus: the hype has been worth it.
Indigenous Australian Sci-Fi 'Cleverman' Is Getting International CoveragePedestrian TV
Hunter Page-Lochard stars as Koen West in Cleverman, which begins on Thursday. Photo: Lisa TomasettiThe Sydney Morning Herald
Cleverman recap, season one episode one: supernatural and politicalThe Guardian
Australia Network News -Hollywood Reporter -The New Daily
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ABC Local
Prominent Indigenous Australians throw weight behind constitutional change and treaty debate
ABC Local
Prominent Indigenous Australians have thrown their weight behind the possibility of constitutional change and a treaty, after the Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister said Australia could have both. Speaking at a Reconciliation Week visit to the ...
Six inspiring Indigenous stories for Reconciliation WeekArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous Leaders Call For Post Election SummitPro Bono Australia
Commonwealth Bank announces intention to reach Indigenous employment parity by 2026ABC Online
Central Western Daily
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ABC Online
Commonwealth Bank announces intention to reach Indigenous employment parity by 2026
ABC Online
The Commonwealth Bank announced on Thursday it will significantly raise the number of Indigenous Australians it employs, hoping to reflect population levels by 2026. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up 2.4 per cent of the population ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous woman hit with baseball bat in 'cowardly' attack
The Guardian
One woman was hit with a baseball bat during an assault on a group of Indigenous people that left two hospitalised in Darwin on Wednesday night. Northern Territory police on Thursday said a group of six Indigenous people were sitting in a Darwin park ...