Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Recognition doesn't exclude treaty: Grant
Yahoo7 News
Constitutional recognition does not have to exclude the future prospect of a treaty for indigenous people, Stan Grant says. Mr Grant has been appointed to the Referendum Council to advise the government on a way towards a referendum on recognising ...

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Sky News Australia
Suicide on the rise among indigenous youth
Sky News Australia
Suicide is the main cause of death for indigenous people aged 15-35. "How are we going to fix this?" Kunoth-Monks, an activist and elder from Utopia in Central Australia, asks. Professor Pat Dudgeon is co-chairwoman of the government-funded Aboriginal ...
Lost between two worldsABC Online

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ABC Online
Successful rural suicide prevention program informs new initiative tailored to Indigenous needs
ABC Online
A new pilot program informed and run by Farm-Link was launched in March and is specifically targeted at Aboriginal people. Speaking at the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention conference in Alice Springs, Farm-Link ...

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CBC.ca
Australia's Indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in Ottawa
CBC.ca
An experiment that has won favour in Australia is gathering steam in Ottawa as the federal government scrambles to live up to its promise to help Aboriginal Peoples. Members of a Canadian team called the Indigenous Leadership Initiative are proposing a ...

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AllAfrica.com
Africa: Indigenous People Miss Out On Vital Services
AllAfrica.com
The study, which evaluated more than half of the world's indigenous communities, found they scored lower across the board than non-indigenous people on access to basic services. This reduces their life expectancy and educational attainment, and ...

Alice Springs meeting to battle self-harm
Yahoo7 News
Almost 400 people gathered in Alice Springs from around the country have similar questions, and they have united for Australia's first conference on the prevention of indigenous suicide. Suicide is the leading cause of death for indigenous people aged ...

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The Guardian
The budget's response to Indigenous unemployment borders on negligence
The Guardian
Remember that in the 2014 budget $500m was taken off Indigenous Australians by the then, self-described, “prime minister for Indigenous affairs”. And ongoing disappointing outcomes vividly described by the Productivity Commission in National Indigenous ...

The Guardian
Outgoing MP Linda Burney decries 'paternalistic' approach to Aboriginal affairs
The Guardian
Outgoing NSW Labor MP Linda Burney: 'My time in [NSW parliament] has been shaped, though not defined, by my Aboriginality.' Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP. Australian Associated Press. Wednesday 4 May 2016 21.49 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 4 ...

The Guardian
No data exists on suicide among gay and trans Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
'Homelessness and suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is high, and homelessness and suicide among LGBTQI is high. If you're both, the risk isn't going to reduce,' says campaigner Dameyon Bonson. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP.
Budget 2016: 'Silent on the important indigenous issues'The Australian
The budget's response to Indigenous unemployment borders on negligenceThe Guardian

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ABC Online
African drumming helping Indigenous children overcome anger
ABC Online
It is physical, sometimes frantic and often loud — and it has emerged as one of the most promising suicide prevention programs for young Indigenous kids in Australia. It is called Drumbeat and it uses African drums as a focal point in workshops run ...

ABC Online
Government urged to address 'epidemic' Indigenous suicide rates in remote Australia
ABC Online
Mr Calma said suicide rates in remote Australia could be described as an epidemic. He said there had been a doubling of Indigenous suicide rates in the Kimberley during the past five years, and that the problem was larger than official statistics ...
Indigenous groups disappointed in budget with 'little to offer'The Guardian
Australia's indigenous 'guardians' program finding favour in OttawaTimes Colonist
Budget 2016: 'Silent on the important indigenous issues'The Australian

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The Australian
Scholarship to help indigenous doctors suit up for surgery
The Australian
“Growing up seeing lots of health issues that indigenous people face, but also growing up in community where you're pretty much one big family that rely on each other, that's important,” he said. “And when you have an indigenous patient, you feel the ...

The Age
Calls for curriculum to say Australia was invaded not settled
The Age
Education Minister James Merlino has reignited debate about whether the curriculum should refer to Australia being invaded rather than settled. It follows the Minister recently declaring that in the eyes of Aboriginal people, Australia was invaded ...

SciDev.Net
Indigenous people miss out on vital services
SciDev.Net
A lack of access to education and healthcare harm indigenous people throughout their lives, the study says. Most indigenous groups studied had significantly lower incomes than non-indigenous people in the same country, perpetuating a cycle of ill ...

The Guardian
Indigenous dancer Damian Smith returns to Australia for final pas de deux
The Guardian
In 1989 Damian Smith, then a 16-year-old Indigenous kid from Newcastle, appeared in Death in Venice at the Sydney Opera House – where, at such a young age, he performed in awe of the shadow of the national icon. Shortly afterwards Smith left Australia ...

ABC Online
Cashless welfare card: Geraldton Indigenous elders reject 'unfair social experiment'
ABC Online
Aboriginal elders and community advocates in regional Western Australia have rejected a proposed trial of the Commonwealth's cashless welfare card, describing it as a social experiment. Geraldton, 400 kilometres north of Perth, has been widely tipped ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Homelessness, Indigenous Affairs And Dementia Groups React To The Federal Budget
Huffington Post Australia
Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke said this lack of recognition showed the rhetoric of 'Closing The Gap' in healthcare and life expectancy for Indigenous Australians had not prompted any additional funding on top of previously announced ...

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The man who connects Indigenous Australia and Nazi Germany
ABC Online (blog)
Hitler's Final Solution to the Jewish Question was carried out with very few instances of public protest... Well someone did take action... It was Indigenous Australian and Indigenous rights activist William Cooper. In November 1938... William, along ...

ABC Online
Health funding for aged care, chronic pain and Indigenous diabetes testing in federal budget
ABC Online
Rates of chronic disease are much higher in regional and rural Australia, with one in three Australians have at least one chronic condition and one in five having two or more. The Health Care Homes trial will allow patients a 'home base' for their care ...

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SBS
Budget 2016 – What it means for Indigenous people
SBS
The Indigenous Student Success Program is the latest brainchild from the government to get more Indigenous people completing tertiary education. It will see nearly $10 million redirected to the Education Department but will see the ITAS – Tertiary ...

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