Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Andrew Bolt's claim to indigeneity, petulant at heart, obscures facts
The Australian
In the past few years, Andrew Bolt has adopted a strategy of repeatedly claiming he is indigenous Australian in order to undermine arguments for indigenous constitutional recognition. He did so again on Wednesday night when I was on his show.

WA budget 2016: millions waiting to be spent on indigenous reform
The Australian
Opposition Aboriginal affairs spokesman Ben Wyatt said the lack of action prolonged uncertainty and frustration for Aboriginal people. “The government is still trying to dig its way out of Mr Barnett's decision to close 150 communities. And clearly ...

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NEWS.com.au
NT teen makes Miss World history
NEWS.com.au
“It's the first time I'll be representing my state in such a well-known event and I know a lot of people will be watching me. My family at home, all of Arnhem Land … and all over Australia.” Magnolia, who was first discovered in a Darwin shopping ...
Magnolia Maymuru: From Yirrkala to the catwalkABC Online
NT Makes History With 1st Indigenous Contender For Miss World Oz CrownPedestrian TV

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ABC Online
Magnolia Maymuru: From Yirrkala to the catwalk
ABC Online
Ms Maymuru also hoped her participation in the pageant — something traditionally associated with bikinis, crowns and proclamations of world peace — would continue to boost her career prospects and show Australia a different side to young Indigenous ...
NT Makes History With 1st Indigenous Contender For Miss World Oz CrownPedestrian TV

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The Guardian
Ken Wyatt's battle in Hasluck: can the first federal Indigenous frontbencher hold his seat?
The Guardian
It's week one of an eight-week election campaign and, in Wyatt's electorate office in Forrestfield shopping centre, 23km east of Perth, Western Australia, the details are still being mapped out. It will be a fight. Hasluck, the outer metropolitan seat ...

Fox Sports
Source: FOX SPORTS
Fox Sports
To have the opportunity to represent my heritage and Australia's indigenous people while doing what I love is something I'm grateful for. While I go out there to give 100 per cent every week for Penrith, there's always that little extra excitement ...
Indigenous stars front and centreNRL.COM

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The Age
We must embrace Indigenous issues in the 2016 federal election
The Age
Indigenous disadvantage is a reality that must be confronted and owned by the entire nation. But we perceive a real danger in this election campaign that the many issues affecting Indigenous people will be swept aside or tritely agglomerated into a ...
#IHMayDay16 – a cry for help on Indigenous mental healthThe Guardian
Pop star invoked to protect Torres Strait intellectual propertyThe Cairns Post

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The Conversation AU
Ancient Australia: world's first nation of innovators
The Conversation AU
For the first couple of centuries of European occupation of Australia the history of its Indigenous people, as written by white fellas, drew heavily on adjectives like 'primitive'. As both a white fella and an anthropologist devoting much of my time to ...

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The Guardian
#IHMayDay16 – a cry for help on Indigenous mental health
The Guardian
We are co-hosting @IndigenousX this week to highlight how much is going on around suicide prevention, families and communities in Indigenous Australia. On 5-6 May, the Inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference took ...
Pop star invoked to protect Torres Strait intellectual propertyThe Cairns Post

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The Guardian
Gary Foley and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy: 'We were all young, crazy, but we believed in justice'
The Guardian
... behind the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The embassy, which was first assembled by activists on the lawn of Parliament House in Canberra in 1972, still exists today, representing Indigenous Australia's ongoing struggle for land rights and self ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Archaeologists find proof that indigenous Australians made 'first' axe
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
But in most countries in the world they arrive with agriculture (about) 10,000 years ago," Professor O'Connor, from the Australian National University School of Culture, History and Language, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Wednesday.
Cutting edge Stone Age technology was born in AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Oldest axe ever found was invented by Aboriginal ancestorsSBS
Axe fragment found in Australia 'world's oldest'Yahoo7 News

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Language Magazine
Declaration Gives New Rights to Indigenous People of Canada
Language Magazine
Canada's Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Carolyn Bennett has announced Canada's decision to drop its permanent objector status to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The declaration was first ...
Canada changes course on indigenous rights 3:33CBC.ca
Canada drops opposition to UN indigenous rights declarationThe Globe and Mail
Canada Finally Adopts UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples But Some Are SkepticalVICE News
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Indigenous Writers Workshop - Birch Backs Indigenous Writers
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Mildura Writers Festival, in collaboration with PEN Melbourne and Mallee District Aboriginal Services, will present an Indigenous Writers Workshop with acclaimed Indigenous author, Tony Birch. The workshop is open to local Indigenous writers of all ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous reconciliation is hard, it re-opens wounds to heal them
The Conversation AU
Australia is being held back by its unresolved relationship with its Indigenous population. Drawing on attempts at reconciliation overseas, this series of articles explores different ways of resolving this unfinished business. We begin today by looking ...

The Guardian
Aurukun teachers evacuated after alleged carjacking in Indigenous community
The Guardian
Kate Jones, the Queensland education minister, ordered her department on Tuesday to urgently relocate 25 staff from the Aurukun campus of Noel Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy to Cairns after she became “deeply concerned” for their ...

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CRN Australia
Reseller banned from entering indigenous communities
CRN Australia
A reseller accused of "unconscionable conduct" against indigenous customers has agreed with the Federal Court to stop its sales practices and pay $20,000 in compensation. In January, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission commenced ...

CBC.ca
Canada removing objector status to UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
CBC.ca
The declaration — first adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007 — recognizes Indigenous people's basic human rights, as well as rights to self-determination, language, equality and land, among others. "We are fully adopting this and ...
Canada endorses United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesGlobalnews.ca

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The Guardian
Shorten pledges 400 scholarships for Indigenous teachers – video
The Guardian
... seat of Leichhardt in Cairns. Shorten tells reporters that 'we need more kids from an Indigenous and Torres Strait background finishing Year 12'. Labor has pledged 400 scholarships for Indigenous Australians to become teachers, if it wins the 2 ...

The Guardian
Labor's Patrick Dodson says Indigenous treaty should be an option
The Guardian
Dodson noted that Victoria had begun negotiations with Indigenous Australians for a settlement agreement, which would be the first treaty with Indigenous Australians in Australia and follow similar arrangements with first peoples in Canada, the US and ...
Election 2016: Labor pledges more indigenous teachersSBS
Sam Dastyari hops on Shorten's busThe Australian Financial Review
Bill Shorten visits Cairns on first day of Federal Election campaignThe Cairns Post
The Australian
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SBS
Election 2016: Labor pledges more indigenous teachers
SBS
Labor wants to get more indigenous teachers into Australian classrooms if it wins the July 2 federal election. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has promised 400 teaching scholarships for indigenous Australians, at a cost of $4.8 million over four years ...
Election 2016: Sam Dastyari hops on Bill Shorten's busThe Australian Financial Review
Federal election 2016: who won day two of the campaign?The Australian
Bill Shorten makes education a priority as Labor 'underdogs' hit campaign trailThe Guardian
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