Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Kenbi land claim finalised after 37 years, handback to NT Indigenous owners to follow
ABC Online
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said the result had been "innovative" and one that should be closely looked at by other groups around Australia. "Ten years ago I never thought part of the settlement would be a voluntary extinguishment of ...
Indigenous affairs: Kenbi land claim settled after 37-year battleThe Guardian
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NATIVE TITLENational Indigenous Times
NT land claim settled after 37 yearsSBS

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National Indigenous Times
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NATIVE TITLE
National Indigenous Times
Australia's longest running land claim – the Kenbi land claim across the Cox Peninsula on the western side of Darwin Harbour – has finally been settled, 37 years after it was lodged. As exclusively revealed by the NIT this morning, Northern Territory ...
Kenbi land claim finalised after 37 years, hand back to NT Indigenous owners to followABC Online

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New Republic
Australia's Other “Flying Doctors”: The Spirits of Aboriginal Bush Healers
New Republic
It's Friday night and still over 35°C 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 the front yard ...

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The Guardian
Closure of bush court near Uluru 'will hit Indigenous community'
The Guardian
Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT is an alliance of Aboriginal organisations including the Central Land Council, the Northern Land Council, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Central ...

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ABC Local
Campaign for Indigenous recognition in constitution focuses on southern NSW town
ABC Local
Now, Mr Grant is supporting the group Recognise, a campaign seeking constitutional recognition for Indigenous people. The group has visited 300 towns so far, to bring the conversation to town halls and gatherings across Australia. Its meeting has ...
Indigenous community in cashless welfare trial, but rehab centre seven hours awayABC Online
Indigenous recognition: there are some wounds that defy time and kindnessThe Guardian
Two causes collide as Tony Abbott rides into CootamundraThe Australian (subscription)

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The Guardian
Crime: Indigenous Australians and African Americans deserve a 'sentencing discount'
The Guardian
Indigenous people living in Australia in 2016 are 13 times more likely than non-Indigenous Australians to be imprisoned. African Americans are six times more likely to be imprisoned than other Americans. The US incarceration rate is 700 per 100,000 ...

Indigenous community in cashless welfare trial, but rehab centre seven hours away
ABC Online
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: The Aboriginal community of Yalata in South Australia's far west has long battled problems with drug and alcohol abuse. The area is being included in the roll-out of the Government's cashless welfare card trial. Senior community ...

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Investment Magazine
80% Indigenous workers won't have a comfortable retirement
Investment Magazine
Only 20 per cent of Indigenous workers in full-time employment will accumulate enough savings to achieve the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's comfortable standard of living in retirement, an academic report has revealed. Meanwhile, 33 ...

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Who speaks for Aboriginal Australia?
Red Flag
The responses to the Sydney Daily Telegraph's “discovery” that universities are acknowledging one or two facts about the British invasion of this land have revealed something else: who gets to speak for and about Aboriginal people. In the popular media ...

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Fox Sports
The next frontier for football in Australia
Fox Sports
Such was his devotion to football, his affinity for the game and the doors opened by it - and to it by Australia's new migrant class (Adelaide Juventus at the time) - Moriarty quickly developed into a formidable talent. He was the first indigenous ...
Calls for support of Australia's Indigenous Football weekABC Online
Indigenous Football Week highlights unifying nature of our gameSydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Indigenous rangers farming spinifex for world's strongest, thinnest condoms
ABC Online
The project is being used to help train Indigenous rangers. Spinifex grass covers nearly 30 per cent of outback Australia. Mr Saltmere said he was looking forward to creating a permanent spinifex farming industry with jobs for his people. "There's a ...

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Australia's Indigenous youth suicide crisis
The Saturday Paper (subscription)
One in four Indigenous suicides in Australia occurs in WA. But much investment had gone into clinical approaches, ignoring the local advice, Morris says. The incidence of Indigenous suicide in the Kimberley–Pilbara region is the worst in the country ...

The Australian (subscription)
Conservative case for Indigenous recognition: The Forgotten People
The Australian (subscription)
The founders of the Australian nation saw no place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Instead, these peoples were cast as outsiders in their own land, a “dying race” not expected to survive British settlement. The Australian ...

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Herald Sun
History wars and Captain Cook hysteria don't help the living
Herald Sun
Eleven ships deposited this sorry cargo in Circular Quay and the story of Australia's colonisation began. The impact on the indigenous people here was, clearly, enormously destructive. However, that was hardly the will of Arthur Phillip, an enlightened ...
Discovery, settlement or invasion? The power of language in historical narrativesThe Conversation UK

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Financial Times
Return of Australia 'history wars'
Financial Times
Almost 250 years after James Cook landed in Australia a bitter debate has erupted over whether the explorer heralded a British “settlement” or “invasion”, as the country continues to grapple with its colonial history and indigenous heritage. The ...
History wars are not the real battledailytelegraph.com.au
Discovery, settlement or invasion? The power of language in historical narrativesThe Conversation UK

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Why we need adaptive resilience
ArtsHub (subscription)
It is even possible that this was a first site of resistance and information sharing by Aboriginal people in response to the invasion,' wrote Shoebridge to Minister Stokes. 'This is of the utmost seriousness and we call on you to act.' Archeological ...

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ABC Online
Calls for support of Australia's Indigenous Football week
ABC Online
John Moriarty was the first Indigenous football player chosen to represent Australia. His not-for-profit organisation, John Moriarty Football, aims to discover and nurture Indigenous talent in the Northern Territory. On the occasion of the inaugural ...

The Guardian
Football faces closing window of opportunity to lead Indigenous participation
The Guardian
In reality, Football Federation Australia's Indigenous Football Week lies somewhere in between; without concrete on-going commitments the goodwill of such gestures can easily dissipate, but to regard such an event as mere tokenism is to grossly ...

Hyperallergic
Aboriginal Women in Australia Celebrate Their Football Heroes with Pottery
Hyperallergic
MELBOURNE — The desert of Central Australia might seem like an unlikely place to find an art cooperative making potent and beautiful pottery. But an exhibition at Melbourne's Ian Potter Centre is featuring a moving display of hand-painted pottery by ...

The Australian (subscription)
Vanessa Russ is the new associate director of Perth's Berndt Museum. Picture: Colin Murty
The Australian (subscription)
On display at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, on the grounds of UWA, is Interwoven, an exhibition of works made from fibre, feather, paper, recycled blankets and string, collected from indigenous artists in northern Australia, Papua New Guinea and Asia.