Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Independent Australia
Utopia: The dirty secret of Indigenous Australia
Independent Australia
Nine years after the Howard Government's "intervention" conditions are dire for Indigenous Australians who are "denied consistent running water, sanitation and power. That basic sustenance should join this list is not surprising", says John Pilger. I ...

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teleSUR English
Starvation of Indigenous in Australia. Utopia's Dirty Secret
teleSUR English
Black incarceration in Australia is greater than that of Black people in Apartheid South Africa. Indigenous people go to prison, are beaten up in custody and die in custody as a matter of routine. In despairing communities, children as young as 10 take ...

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Is There a Place for Indigenous Healers in Australia's Health System?
Yahoo News
It's Friday night and still over 35 degrees Celsius in the town of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory. It is market night, and the pubs and streets are full of people. I hear glass shattering and a man and woman yelling at each other in ...

Huffington Post Australia
Australia Needed To Take A Goodes Look At Itself
Huffington Post Australia
I've spoken to people who have never even met Goodes who say they were so affected they could hardly get out of bed because of the things people were saying about Indigenous people that week. It made us sick and it polarized our country. Everyone was ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous groups say ranger program is working, but needs more funding
The Guardian
A coalition of Indigenous ranger groups are ramping up their campaign for more government support before the federal budget, claiming the government's program is working, but needs to be expanded if Australia is to close the gap on Indigenous ...

Adelaide Crows
Crows unveil new Indigenous jumper
Adelaide Crows
The Crows will wear a jumper designed by the aunt of Eddie Betts in Indigenous Round this year. Renowned Australian Aboriginal artist, Susie Betts, created the vibrant and culturally significant artwork for the jumper, which will be on show against ...

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Mongabay.com
Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)
Mongabay.com
It is now acknowledged, however, that many indigenous people lit fires regularly as part of a sophisticated relationship with the land that helped nurture their future supply of food resources and encouraged biodiversity. Growing concern about climate ...

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Mongabay.com
Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)
Mongabay.com
It is now acknowledged, however, that many indigenous people lit fires regularly as part of a sophisticated relationship with the land that helped nurture their future supply of food resources and encouraged biodiversity. Growing concern about climate ...
Near deaths in Australian prisons largely uninvestigated, human rights advocates sayABC Online

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Daily Mail
Did Aborigines use 'star maps' to plot their way across Australia?
Daily Mail
Robert Fuller, a PhD student of indigenous cultural astronomy at the University of New South Wales in Australia, has found they navigated their way across hundreds of miles to trade with other groups using the star patterns to mark waypoints on their ...

ABC Online
Indigenous rangers lobby for more positions amid threat of feral animals, weeds
ABC Online
Indigenous rangers across Australia have launched a national campaign urging the Federal Government to double its funding and boost job numbers. The Indigenous Ranger program and Indigenous Protected Areas program have provided jobs for more ...

ABC Online
Secrecy and Despatch exhibition remembers the 1816 Appin Massacre of Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
In the early hours of the morning on April 17, soldiers under the command of Captain James Wallis, by instruction of Governor Macquarie, shot at and drove a group of Aboriginal people over the gorge of the Cataract River. Two hundred years on, the ...
Artists shed light on Governor Macquarie's massacres of Indigenous AustraliansSydney Morning Herald

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Daily Mail
Australian barristers call for mandatory sentences on minor assaults to be scrapped
Daily Mail
Governments have been told to scrap mandatory prison sentences for minor crimes to keep indigenous Australians who commit traffic offences and small-time theft out of jails. Australian Bar Association president Patrick O'Sullivan has met with federal ...
Call for mandatory sentencing laws to be scrapped to reduce indigenous incarceration ratesSydney Morning Herald
Fix or ditch mandatory sentencing: ABALawyers Weekly
ABA targets sentencing lawsThe Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Call for mandatory sentencing laws to be scrapped to reduce indigenous incarceration rates
Sydney Morning Herald
The gross over-representation of Aboriginal people in prison is a "national disgrace" and should be tackled by abolishing controversial mandatory sentences for a range of minor offences, the nation's peak body for barristers has urged. In a plan ...
Call to scrap minor mandatory sentencesSBS
ABA targets sentencing lawsThe Australian

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The Atlantic
Is There a Place for Indigenous Healers in Australia's Health System?
The Atlantic
Statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show that the life expectancy of indigenous people is about 10 years less than that of nonindigenous people (69.1 years compared with 79.7 for men; 73.7 compared with 83.1 for women), and ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Artists shed light on Governor Macquarie's massacres of Indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
The instructions were clear. Governor Lachlan Macquarie wrote in his diary in April 1816 that he felt compelled to "inflict terrible and exemplary punishments" upon Indigenous people living on the outskirts of Sydney. Macquarie's diary, held at the ...

Brisbane Times
Artists shed light on Governor Macquarie's massacres of Indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
Governor Lachlan Macquarie wrote in his diary in April 1816 that he felt compelled to "inflict terrible and exemplary punishments" upon Indigenous people living on the outskirts of Sydney. Genevieve Grieves' Remember is "like a remembrance wall that ...

Artists shed light on Governor Macquarie's massacres of Indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
Governor Lachlan Macquarie wrote in his diary in April 1816 that he felt compelled to "inflict terrible and exemplary punishments" upon Indigenous people living on the outskirts of Sydney. Genevieve Grieves' Remember is "like a remembrance wall that ...

The Canberra Times
'Gross breach of trust': Indigenous Business Australia manager facing more jail
The Canberra Times
Ms Musgrove said the stolen money had accounted for 3 per cent of the total funds allocated to Indigenous Business Australia. "I submit that that's a large amount of money in a small organisation that's set up to actually assist Indigenous Australians ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous youth with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder need Indigenous-run alternatives to prison
The Conversation AU
Rosie's case highlights how the system is failing Indigenous people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Parliamentary committees have found Australia's response to foetal alcohol spectrum disorder “lags behind other countries” and that there is “a ...

BBC News
The pride and fury of Australia's Indigenous rappers
BBC News
Born in the United States, hip hop has developed a distinct Indigenous flavour in Australia that reflects both dispossession and hope. There is an unerringly provocative streak coursing through the music of Corey Webster, aka Nooky, a young firebrand ...