Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

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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The Canberra Times
Nicholas Schofield jailed for stealing from Indigenous Business Australia
The Canberra Times
A finance manager will spend at least three years behind bars for stealing $1.4 million from vulnerable Indigenous Australians and using it to fund a lavish lifestyle of luxury cars, designer fashion, and overseas holidays. Nicholas Schofield, 46 ...
Man who stole $1 million from Indigenous authority for sports car, wedding jailedABC Online

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The Guardian
Indigenous heritage and development: the fight over Darwin's Kulaluk lease
The Guardian
“And Aboriginal people and Aboriginal organisations, we've got land that we can use.” She said the decision gave the community a say in what would happen to its land, and would create jobs and opportunities for their kids. However the Larrakia Nation ...

ABC Online
Australian Story: Dr Mark Wenitong, reggae musician and Indigenous health leader
ABC Online
He certainly plays a mean guitar in his reggae band. But he is also the father of multi-award winning musicians who have played to packed stadiums — Shakaya, Local Knowledge and The Last Kinection. At the same time, Mark is a leader in Indigenous ...

The Guardian
Indigenous health: ad campaign aims to reduce smoking rate
The Guardian
The government is committed to halving the 2008 smoking rate for Indigenous people aged 18 or older, of 47%, by 2018. “It is important that we reduce tobacco smoking among all Australians,” Nash said. “But the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Campaign targets Indigenous smokersSky News Australia

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ABC Online
NT Indigenous housing crisis continues despite national improvements, justice agency says
ABC Online
The Northern Territory is the only jurisdiction where most Indigenous people, almost 80 per cent, live in remote areas, according the ABS. North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) chief executive officer Priscilla Collins said service ...

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ABC Online
A community's journey to find an answer to suicide
ABC Online
About 20 residents from the town have set off on a one-week 3,600-kilometre road trip through the desert to attend Australia's first-ever Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference in Alice Springs on May 5 and 6. The ...

The Guardian
Indigenous owners outraged at site earmarked for Australia's first nuclear waste dump
The Guardian
But the local Indigenous community do not support the proposal. Adnyamathanha traditional owners asked the federal government to reject the nomination of the site in November, saying that the proposed dump site was near significant cultural sites, ...

ABC Online
NATSISS results show Australia long way off closing the gap, Indigenous leader says
ABC Online
The results of a comprehensive survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians again proves there is a long way off closing the gap with the general population, an Indigenous leader says.

SBS
Jamie's Ministry of Food rolls into Indigenous Australia
SBS
The upcoming program, marking the van's second-ever visit to an Indigenous community in Australia, will aim to empower families with the confidence needed to improve their diet and in-turn, their health. “The food we want to cook is not unattainable ...

mySanAntonio.com
Indigenous tribes in Queensland seek balance between tradition, tourism
mySanAntonio.com
The east coast of Australia was described by experts as something like a barometer — the further north into remote areas you go, the more likely it is that the indigenous people will be sticking to their traditional ways of life. These tribes are in ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous health: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking rate drops below 40%
The Guardian
However, the rate remains much higher than non-Indigenous Australians and it is unlikely the gap will close any time soon. The data comes from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which has released its six-yearly National Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
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