Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Hundreds of distinct indigenous groups in Australia
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Today, we take a look at problems facing Australia's aboriginees. There are hundreds of Indigenous communities and societies in Australia, each with its own unique culture, custom and language. An appallingproblem facing the groups is the high crime rate.

The Guardian
Aboriginal sci-fi Neomad wins Australia's top comic book award
The Guardian
And on Friday it was picked up by the Aboriginal sci-fi comic book Neomad, created with the input of more than 30 young people in the Western Australian community of Ieramugadu (also known as Roebourne). It's an incredible achievement for a group of ...
Indigenous Sci-Fi NEOMAD Glows Neon With Praise And CultureHuffington Post Australia

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The Guardian
How do you buy Indigenous Australian art ethically?
The Guardian
These practices were “rampant” in Alice Springs some years ago, says Philip Watkins, who is head of Desart, an association of central Australian Aboriginal art and craft centres. A Senate inquiry into the matter was held in 2007 and from that a ...
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shameSydney Morning Herald
Not Content With Wrecking The Environment, Greg Hunt Is Now Desecrating Sacred SitesNew Matilda
Public Service ApprenticeshipsPro Bono Australia

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Sydney Morning Herald
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shame
Sydney Morning Herald
It's now been 24 years since was called Australia's unutterable shame, the legacy of dispossession, degradation and devastation of Indigenous people, in the High Court's reversal of the legal fallacy that this was an empty continent. Since Mabo, we ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous community lets tourists in on newly won Australian homeland
The Guardian
An Indigenous group who won a huge land title claim is partnering with a commercial tourism operator to bring visitors to its region – a remote and seldom visited part of Australia. Intrepid Travel, a global company known for taking tourists on ...

The Guardian
Acrimony and legal threat as Indigenous group approves Adani mine
The Guardian
More than 300 people attended the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) meeting on Saturday where Adani said members “voted overwhelmingly” to authorise an Indigenous land use agreement (ILUA) with the miners for the construction and operation of the ...
Traditional owners shrug off Adani's land use pact in AustraliaLivemint
Adani's $21.7-billion coal mine project in Australia gets traditional land owners' authorisationDaily News & Analysis
Adani $12 billion Carmichael coal project faces fresh legal challengeMINING.com

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Huffington Post Australia
Stan Grant 'Positive' About Recognising Indigenous Australians In The Constitution
Huffington Post Australia
Popular broadcaster and Referendum Council member Stan Grant has conceded it will to be difficult to achieve Indigenous recognition in the constitution but says it must be done to preserve Aboriginal rights and unite Australia. Grant this week replaced ...
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognitionThe Guardian
Stan Grant to advise Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant lands important new jobNEWS.com.au
SBS -Sky News Australia -Yahoo7 News
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Anadolu Agency
Australia slammed for indigenous incarceration rates
Anadolu Agency
On the 25th anniversary of what was heralded as a game-changing report on Aboriginal deaths in Australian prisons, an indigenous rights campaigner says the government's success claims are based on skewed facts. Amnesty International's Julian Cleary ...
'Vicious cycle' as Australia indigenous prison rates soarYahoo7 News
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remainsThe Guardian
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Sky News Australia -Gizmodo Australia (blog) -World Policy Institute (blog)
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The Guardian
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
There is not only no Indigenous recognition in the constitution, but clauses that have been used to work against the better interests of Indigenous people.” Grant said he was determined that constitutional recognition should not be simply about ...
Stan Grant to advise Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant lands important new jobNEWS.com.au
Stan Grant appointed special adviser to PM on Indigenous recognitionSBS
The Australian
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Bombala Times
Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Bombala Times
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant to advise Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous recognition
Sydney Morning Herald
Popular broadcaster Stan Grant will help lead the nation towards the constitutional recognition of Indigenous people. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten have appointed Mr Grant, a Wiradjuri man and award-winning reporter ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
When volcanoes clash: Transcendence tells Australia's history through Indigenous eyes
Sydney Morning Herald
According to Dja Dja Wurrung man Justice Nelson, telling this history in Nyernila: Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria, all the rocks thrown by Lalgambook at Tarrengower can still be seen today. They form the Guildford Plateau, where the Jaara ...

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attitude.co.uk (satire) (registration) (blog)
Indigenous Australian student shares screenshots of racist Grindr abuse
attitude.co.uk (satire) (registration) (blog)
A university student has opened up about the frequent racist messages that he receives through online dating apps, SBS reports. Dustin Mangatjay McGregor has Yolngu heritage, which means he comes from a group of Indigenous people from the ...
Gay indigenous man screenshots racist messages he gets on GrindrDaily Mail

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Yahoo7 News
'Vicious cycle' as Australia indigenous prison rates soar
Yahoo7 News
The calls came on the 25th anniversary Friday of the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, which recommended sweeping reforms to improve the plight of the nation's first peoples, who are the country's most impoverished.
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remainsThe Guardian
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Australia's Treatment of Aboriginal People is Its Dirty SecretWorld Policy Institute (blog)
Gizmodo Australia (blog) -Daily Mail -ABC Message Stick
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The Guardian
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remains
The Guardian
She is one of about 340 Indigenous people to have died in custody since the royal commission into such deaths handed down its final report on 15 April 1991. The bulk of the commission's 339 recommendations remain unimplemented or only partially ...
Why we should honour the humanity of every person who dies in custodyThe Conversation AU

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Indigenous incarceration in Australia at a glance
The Conversation AU
The Conversation is funded by Michigan, Boston U, Ohio State, Case Western Reserve, Florida, UMass Amherst, Georgia State, Michigan State, Rutgers Newark, Penn State, South Florida, Texas A&M, SUNY ESF, Albany, Binghamton, UT Austin, Tufts, U of ...

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The Guardian
Gurrumul hospital row highlights Indigenous health obstacles
The Guardian
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is a multi-award winning singer who has toured the world. He's also a 46-year-old Yolngu man from Australia's far north, a member of one the country's most disadvantaged communities, and when he ended up in hospital ...

Australia's Treatment of Aboriginal People is Its Dirty Secret
World Policy Institute (blog)
They said that elderly indigenous people in the homelands had received no food from an aged care program funded by the Australian government and administered by the regional council. “One elderly man with end-stage Parkinson's received two small ...

Daily Mail
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment Rates
Pro Bono Australia
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council has called on governments to fundamentally rethink the way they work with Aboriginal communities if they are to combat the deepening crisis of rising imprisonment rates for indigenous people. The call comes on the eve of ...
Aboriginal young people make up more than half of the youths across Australia who are locked up.Daily Mail
Australian indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked upStuff.co.nz
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal SuperheroGizmodo Australia (blog)
Junkee -Daily Life -Eureka Street (registration)
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