Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

National Indigenous Times
Rio Tinto supports AFL indigenous programs
AFL.com.au
Rio Tinto CEO Iron Ore and Australia Andrew Harding said: “Rio Tinto is proud to support the AFL's highly successful indigenous programs and encourage young Aboriginal men and women to achieve success in education, business, community life and sport ...
[ May 24, 2016 ] Footy 'empowering us', as Rioli names his top five SPORTNational Indigenous Times

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The Indian Express
For a bunch of indigenous Australia women, a landmark cricket tour
The Indian Express
Instead, they cuddled up to the less discriminatory realm of Australian football, rugby and athletics. And it wasn't until Jason Gillepsie made his debut in 1996 that a cricketer of indigenous origin represented Australia. At least, the first time a ...
Sally Moylan tours India in Indigenous women's cricket teamThe Canberra Times
New Delhi welcomes first female First Nations women's cricket teamSBS

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The Age
Labor senator Nova Peris a frontrunner for AFL's top Indigenous job
The Age
Olympic gold medallist and Labor senator Nova Peris has emerged as a frontrunner for the AFL's top Indigenous job, a development that could affect the ALP's federal election campaign and fast-track the competition's push to promote Aboriginal ...

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Mashable
How to unlock the traditional science of Indigenous Australians
Mashable
The divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is still undeniably wide, with Indigenous Australians consistently losing out in health, employment, incarceration, life expectancy and education. Given the disadvantages faced by Indigenous ...
Indigenous youth to benefit from WA grants9news.com.au
WA Government urged to fix contaminated water supplies in remote Indigenous communitiesABC Online

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The Guardian
'My relative was a mass murderer of Australia's Gunai people. Can I make amends?'
The Guardian
My relative has come to embody some of the very worst excesses of Australian colonial history. And that is saying a lot for a country in which 20,000 of its Indigenous people are estimated to have died during the “frontier wars”, and where, until ...
Only 188 sign petition in Australia to strip honour from Scottish murdererHerald Scotland
Explorer from Skye should not be honoured because he was a "ruthless murderer"Press and Journal

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ABC Online
Doubts cast on likelihood of referendum to add Indigenous Australians to the constitution by 2017
ABC Online
Two members of the national Referendum Council have cast doubt on whether a referendum on recognising Indigenous people in the Australian constitution would be achievable by May 2017. The date for the vote was flagged by Recognise, the ...
First Nations senate candidate exposes the con in Constitutional RecognitionGreen Left Weekly

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Supreme Court Chief Justice Chris Kourakis hits out at South Australia indigneous jail toll
The Advertiser
The conference has the long term aim of finding strategies to help reduce the Aboriginal incarceration rate to three per cent — in line with the number of indigenous people in the SA community. The Chief Justice said the conference would examine ways ...

VietNamNet Bridge
Australian indigenous artists depict culture and history
VietNamNet Bridge
The route, which runs 1,850km across Western Australia and follows waterholes where animals and people could access drinking water, crosses the boundaries of many Aboriginal language groups. Similar stock routes were established across aboriginal ...

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The Australian
Indigenous violence: police must act for children's sake
The Australian
Since Martin's work, others have written about violence in Aurukun including, controversially, Peter Sutton (The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus, 2009), who observed the tragic consequences for child ...

ABC Online
Indigenous surfers head to culturally significant site of Bells Beach to compete
ABC Online
"Indigenous people have an amazing connection to the ocean and Bells Beach is a very significant place for the local Indigenous people as there was a lot of trading that went on down here, a lot of history," Jordie Campbell, one of Surfing Victoria's ...

The West Australian
Indigenous Albany cricketer to represent Australia in India - The West Australian
The West Australian
Albany cricket product Samara Williams' dream of representing her country will be realised over the next week with the all-rounder part of the national indigenous women's squad touring India. Williams, who grew up in Albany and has since moved to Perth ...

The Conversation AU
On the wrong track: why Australia's attempt at Indigenous reconciliation will fail
The Conversation AU
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, constitutional change is about righting injustices inherent in the current recognition of difference, rather than promoting an agenda of sameness. Michael Coghlan/Flickr, CC BY-SA ...

ABC Local
Lost language of Boandik Indigenous people revived in traditional possum fur cloak
ABC Local
A proud Boandik woman, Michelle is wrapped warmly in a possum fur cloak, the making and wearing of which has long been a symbol of tradition and ritual for Indigenous tribes in the south-east of Australia. In the native language of Bunganditj, the ...

Sportskeeda
All-indigenous Australian women's cricket team set for Indian tour
Sportskeeda
A group of 14 indigenous Australian women cricketers will fly out on Wednesday for a whirlwind 10-day tour of India, the first of its kind orchestrated by the sport's national body, Cricket Australia announced on Tuesday. Backed by Cricket Australia ...

Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous Leader Wins Reconciliation Fellowship & New Funding
Pro Bono Australia
Australian indigenous leader, June Oscar AO, has won a prestigious global award that celebrates individuals doing extraordinary work in reconciliation as her Kimberley enterprise takes up a new venture philanthropy partnership. Oscar, who is due to ...

MadameNoire
Meet Maminydjama Maymuru, The First Indigenous Woman To Compete In Miss World Australia
MadameNoire
When we think of Australians, we're more likely to see a tanned, European, dressed like Crocodile Dundee, speaking in that unmistakably Australian accent. But truth be told, the native people of Australia are nothing like that. But y'all know how ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous reconciliation in Australia: still a bridge too far?
The Conversation AU
Success will come from changing the way Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's issues are talked about and addressed – from one of deficit in which people are described as problematic to one of empowerment and strength. Global Panorama/Flickr ...

Daily Mail
$200 million mine expansion in Western Australia halted after 'exceptionally rare' indigenous grinding stones are found
Daily Mail
Rio Tinto has been forced to put a million dollar mine expansion on hold after archaeologists discovered 'exceptionally rare' artefacts which date back to the Ice Age. The artefacts which may indicate Aboriginal settlement were uncovered in the remote ...

The Guardian
Indigenous consumers scammed out of $1.2m last year, a rise of 65%
The Guardian
Indigenous consumers lost more than $1.2m to scammers last year, an increase of nearly 65% compared with 2014, data from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has shown. Dating and romance scams caused the greatest monetary loss ...

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ABC Local
Election 2016: Durack ALP candidate makes Indigenous enrolment a campaign priority
ABC Local
Labor's federal election candidate for the Western Australian seat of Durack says she will aim to get as many Aboriginal people enrolled to vote before rolls closes this Sunday. Durack has the nation's third highest proportion of Indigenous residents ...