Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
The push for a treaty with Indigenous Australians and why some don't want recognition in the Constitution
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Nayuku Gorrie explains in a provocative essay, which has gone viral, why she doesn't want Constitutional recognition and explains why she feels a treaty is the only satisfactory solution for Indigenous Australians.
Indigenous constitutional recognition: One woman's expletive-laden call for a treatyABC Online

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Meeting indigenous job targets
Business News
THE Wirrpanda Foundation, mining camp operator Sodexo, and employment agency atWork Australia are three very different organisations seeking to bolster indigenous jobs in Western Australia. Wirrpanda and atWork are among nine organisations in WA to ...

Marketing to Islander and Indigenous cultures a focus of Homeground Talks
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The inaugural HOMEGROUND TALKS will take place at Sydney Opera House on 27 May, the anniversary of Australia's 1967 Indigenous referendum, providing an important new forum for provocative conversations about contemporary First Nations issues.

ABC Message Stick
Cultural awareness promotes better relationships between Indigenous Australians and police
ABC Message Stick
"It's important that police understand cultural protocols and cultural traditions that [Indigenous Australians] still carry and have carried for thousands of years," PLO Lowah said. "And it's important that those traditions and protocols are recognised ...

ABC Online
Confusion surrounds push to recognise Aboriginal people in Constitution, First Peoples congress warns
ABC Online
Confusion surrounds the push for a referendum on constitutional recognition amid a lack of direction from the Prime Minister's office, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has warned. The comments come as a survey of hundreds of ...

WWD
Model Call: Charlee Fraser, Fall's Indigenous Australian Star
WWD
The 21-year-old from Newcastle, a harbor city located two hours north of Sydney, is well on her way to making her mark as the first Indigenous Australian model to make the radar of the international fashion industry. One of the top new faces of fall ...

euronews
Stop polluting the oceans, says indigenous Australian art in Monaco
euronews
The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco is currently home to a major exhibition by artists from across Australia aimed at raising awareness about the dangers of pollution affecting the oceans. Named after a traditional children's song 'Taba Naba', the show ...

Lifehacker Australia
Easily Find Aboriginal Place Names With This Interactive Digital Map
Lifehacker Australia
The project called Weemala, which means 'a big lookout' in the Gadigal (Sydney region) language, places historic survey information from the State Library's collection relating to Australia's Indigenous communities in a digital landscape. “This ...

Busselton Dunsborough Mail
Pat Dodson and Linda Burney will boost the national conversation on Indigenous people in Federal Parliament
Busselton Dunsborough Mail
The path for aboriginal activist - and the father of reconciliation - Pat Dodson into the Senate representing Western Australia is virtually assured. He has been nominated by Mr Shorten to fill a casual vacancy created by the resignation of right wing ...

The Guardian
South Australian Indigenous communities to get street names
The Guardian
Some Aboriginal communities in South Australia are unmarked in records or maps, but that is about to change. When you don't have a house number or street name, filling in forms to access welfare payments, apply for a driver's licence or register a car ...

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Mic
Here's One Example of the Racism Indigenous Men Face on Grindr in Australia
Mic
Twenty-four-year-old Dustin Mangatjay McGregor of South Adelaide, Australia, used his Facebook page to share what was really happening when he spoke to men on gay hookup app Grindr. The images he shared show several different men approaching ...

ABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull hosts meeting with First Nations People to rebuild Government relationship
ABC Online
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has moved to rebuild the Federal Government's relationship with the Indigenous community, reaching out to host a meeting with the elected leaders of the National Congress of Australia's First Nations People.

Gizmodo Australia (blog)
Easily Find Aboriginal Place Names With This Interactive Digital Map
Gizmodo Australia (blog)
100 year old letters, surveys and more containing 88 Aboriginal languages from across Australia have been collated in an interactive digital project by the State Library of NSW. The project focuses on the Aboriginal place names and meanings for various ...

ABC Online
NT rates of Indigenous children going into care highest in Australia
ABC Online
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Child Protection Australia 2014-15 report revealed more children are being taken into care, and the rate of Indigenous children being taken into care was rising faster than any other group. Most of the ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous innovation could save a billion tonnes of greenhouse gases
The Conversation AU
This is in line with Indigenous fire practices. Through the Australian government's Emissions Reduction Fund (under which savanna burning can earn credits), Australia is leading the world in reintroducing traditional fire practices. The first project ...

ABC Online
World's largest study into Indigenous health finds location doesn't determine disadvantage
ABC Online
MARK COLVIN: The world's biggest study on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people has found that living in a richer country doesn't give Indigenous people an advantage. The study of more than 150 million Indigenous people in 23 countries was ...
UN goals on Indigenous people in danger of failingSBS
Australian NFP Funds Global Research on Indigenous Peoples HealthPro Bono Australia
Global snapshot of indigenous peoples health releasedScience Daily
HealthCanal.com (press release) (blog)
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SBS
UN goals on Indigenous people in danger of failing
SBS
The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples' Health Population Study provides a snapshot of how Indigenous people across the world are tracking now in comparison to the wider population. It was commissioned by the British medical journal The Lancet. Executive ...
Australian NFP Funds Global Research on Indigenous Peoples HealthPro Bono Australia
Indigenous peoples around the world still live in greater poverty, report findsABC Online
First Lancet global snapshot of indigenous peoples health released University of MelbourneEurekAlert (press release)
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The Conversation AU
Aboriginal – Māori: how Indigenous health suffers on both sides of the ditch
The Conversation AU
Indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand, despite the distance separating them and varying histories, have one disturbing issue in common: poor health. A landmark comprehensive report published today in medical journal The Lancet has highlighted ...

Times Higher Education (THE) (blog)
World insight: one size can't fit all for indigenous communities
Times Higher Education (THE) (blog)
Forty-three years ago, the South Australian Institute of Technology, an antecedent institute of the University of South Australia, was the trailblazing institution in Australia for the provision of opportunity and education to Aboriginal and Torres ...

The Guardian
The Uluru decision highlights what's so wrong with Indigenous policy
The Guardian
In May next year the Australian public is scheduled to vote on whether our constitution should be amended to recognise Indigenous Australians. Serious concerns surround the feasibility of that date, the precise form of recognition, and whether ...

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