Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Liberal MP revives Tony Abbott's Indigenous "lifestyle choices" debate – politics live
The Guardian
I put it to the members of this place that the taxpayers of Australia should not be funding lifestyle choices. Yes, I agree with the former prime minister, the member for Warringah, when he refers to Indigenous Australians' choice to live in remote ...

Sydney Morning Herald
One Billion Beats reveals how Australian cinema treats Aboriginal people
Sydney Morning Herald
In a darkened theatre at Campbelltown Arts Centre, a water trough filled with meaning sits on the stage. Behind the trough, a film shows a group of Aboriginal people drinking from a water trough that is later used by cattle. A scene from the movie ...

The West Australian
WA Liberal MP slams 'noble savage' ideal - The West Australian
The West Australian
A Liberal Federal MP has lashed out at indigenous welfare programs, saying taxpayers shouldn't fund “noble savage“ lifestyle choices of remote communities. Tangney MP Dennis Jensen believes the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous outcomes ...

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Sky News Australia
Leyonhjelm slams indigenous 'fairy tales'
Sky News Australia
Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm has lashed out at special treatment given to indigenous Australians, arguing "fairy tales" are encouraging them to consider themselves special. In a speech in the Senate on Monday, Senator Leyonhjelm responded to the ...
Senator Leyonhjelm slams 'special' treatment of Indigenous AustraliansSBS

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Global Voices Online
An Aboriginal Comedy Show in Australia Finds a Mainstream Audience
Global Voices Online
But “Black Comedy” became an instant hit and just started its second season. Lui says the show has something for everyone and it also taps into white guilt over Australia's original sin: colonizing Australia's indigenous people. “We have some very ...

SBS
Senator Leyonhjelm slams 'special' treatment of Indigenous Australians
SBS
Affirmative action programs, including targets for government employment of Indigenous Australians, encouraged indigenous people to get ahead through "special pleading" and non-Indigenous Australians to view them as charity cases, he said.
Leyonhjelm slams indigenous 'fairy tales'9news.com.au

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Australia Network News
Indigenous Journalist Stan Grant Could Commence a Political Career
Australia Network News
It is believed that the Labour party is pushing him to run in the Western Sydney seat of Reid, according to The Australian Financial Review. While speaking at the National Press Club, Grant stressed on the importance of senior indigenous voices in ...
Stan Grant pens emotional takedown of the Australian dream9news.com.au
Stan Grant applauded over his evocative National Press Club addressNEWS.com.au
Why Stan Grant could be our next indigenous politicianThe New Daily
Daily Mail -The Australian (subscription) -Sydney Morning Herald
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ArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous writing: it's not just politics
ArtsHub (subscription)
The responsibility to tell their stories is a powerful motivator for Indigenous writers. Playwright Tammy Anderson, memoirist Kate Howarth and multi-genre writer Anita Heiss ​all spoke of responsibility ​in their session on building a career as a 'Blak ...

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The Conversation AU
Four ways Western Australia can improve Aboriginal heritage management
The Conversation AU
The new changes will see decisions over heritage listings rest almost entirely with the CEO of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, which the Law Society of Western Australia has argued gives too much power to one person. We need a system of cultural ...
Lawyers call for action on indigenous incarcerationThe Sunshine Coast Daily

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NEWS.com.au
Stan Grant applauded over his evocative National Press Club address
NEWS.com.au
“And this wound sits at the heart of the malaise that grips Indigenous Australia.” Grant also implored leaders not to repeat the policy mistakes of the past. “How many PMs are going to leave office and say their biggest regret is that they didn't do ...
Indigenous Journalist Stan Grant Could Commence a Political CareerAustralia Network News
Stan Grant pens emotional takedown of the Australian dream9news.com.au
Why Stan Grant could be our next indigenous politicianThe New Daily
Herald Sun -The Australian (subscription) -Sydney Morning Herald
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9news.com.au
Stan Grant pens emotional takedown of the Australian dream
9news.com.au
Indigenous journalist Stan Grant says the Australian dream is a "tourist brochure" which let Aboriginal people "rot", and once saw him so ashamed of his skin colour he tried to "scrub it off". Writing in his new book Talking to My Country, the former ...
Journalist Stan Grant could pursue politics career within monthsThe Australian (subscription)
Stan Grant says Australia still has issues with 'festering racism' in new bookHerald Sun
Stan Grant says Indigenous leaders must rise to challenge of public serviceThe Canberra Times
The Guardian -The Australian Financial Review
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The Conversation AU
FactCheck Q&A: are Indigenous children ten times more likely to be living in out-of-home care?
The Conversation AU
Their most recent report on this issue, Child Protection Australia 2013–14, indicates that Indigenous children (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) are 9.2 times as likely to be in out-of-home care than non-Indigenous children in Australia. So it's ...

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Daily Life
Indigenous Australians have a right to speak our first language
Daily Life
It's therefore remarkable that while a "White Australian Leader" can receive superlatives for reciting an Indigenous language in parliament, a female Aboriginal politician can be reprimanded for reverting to her native tongue during a debate in the ...

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SBS
US singer Rob Thomas apologises for racist joke about Indigenous Australians and alcohol
SBS
US singer Rob Thomas has apologised for making a racist remark about Indigenous Australians overnight in front of thousands of fans. In front of fans in Melbourne last night at Rod Laver Arena, Thomas, who is known for major hits with band Matchbox 20 ...
Rob Thomas Insults Indigenous Australians And Owes Australia An ApologyNoise11
Rob Thomas makes offensive comment about Aboriginal Australians during Melbourne showWonderwall
Matchbox 20 frontman stuns fans with racist remarkSydney Morning Herald
Daily Mail
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Sydney Morning Herald
How Aboriginal artist Dave Malangi's design ended up on Australia's money
Sydney Morning Herald
A camel, according to conventional wisdom, is a horse designed by a committee. We've had our share of camels born of committees in Australia, but the Currency Note Design Group, convened in 1963 by the governor of the Reserve Bank, H. C. "Nugget" ...

Noise11
Rob Thomas Insults Indigenous Australians And Owes Australia An Apology
Noise11
Whatever, Ron Thomas needs to apologise to Indigenous Australian's after telling the Melbourne audience on his opening night of his Australian tour that on the flight from New York 'I start drinking until I'm a black Australian”. The comment beggars ...

The Australian (subscription)
Push for Aboriginal ID tests
The Australian (subscription)
Council chairman Warren Mundine and Queensland Aboriginal leader Stephen Hagan, who until recently headed a council of Australia's Federal Court-vetted native title organisations, said the existing system to approve claims of Aboriginality was outdated ...

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The Australian (subscription)
Indigenous tongues deserve recognition as official languages
The Australian (subscription)
Like New Zealand, Australia could enact an Australian Languages Act, declaring English and indigenous Australian languages as official languages of the commonwealth, and setting out fair rules for people to apply for leave to speak other foreign ...
Aboriginal minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT ParliamentABC Online
Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliamentThe Guardian
Australian Politician Fights for Indigenous Languages in ParliamentteleSUR English
SBS -Sky News Australia -La prensa
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ABC Online
Children from Indigenous communities more likely to suffer unintentional injuries, study finds
ABC Online
Children from Indigenous communities are almost twice as likely to be hospitalised for unintentional injuries than non-Aboriginal children, a study has found. The study, led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW), is the first of its kind in ...
Indigenous children almost twice as likely to be hospitalised for unintentional injuriesABC Local
Study finds Aboriginal children experience high burden of unintentional injuryindiablooms

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The Australian (subscription)
Indigenous Australian children more likely to suffer accidental injury, study finds
The Australian (subscription)
The UNSW-led project, published today in the American Journal of Public Health, finds that indigenous children are more than one and a half times more likely than their non-indigenous counterparts to be hospitalised with an unintentional injury. The ...
Children from Indigenous communities more likely to suffer unintentional injuries, study findsABC Online
Indigenous children almost twice as likely to be hospitalised for unintentional injuriesABC Local

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