Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Country, culture and community: Understanding Indigenous agribusiness in southern Australia
ABC Online
Driven by a desire for self-determination, and often with extensive areas of land under their control, Indigenous people hold a unique place in Australian agriculture. On the surface, Aboriginal farmers grow crops and manage livestock within the same ...

SBS
Population snapshots: Australia at 24 million, 14 million and four million
SBS
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act was enacted in 1976. It was the first attempt by an Australian government to legally recognise the Aboriginal system of land ownership and set up processes for Indigenous Australians to reclaim land.

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Huffington Post Australia
Could NRL's Indigenous All Stars' Dance Could Be 'Australia's Haka'?
Huffington Post Australia
“It's good fun, and obviously something that means a great deal to this Indigenous team.” So said respected rugby league commentator Peter Sterling after the incredibly stirring pre-game war dance at the weekend's Indigenous All Stars vs World All ...

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Wall Street Journal
'Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art From Australia' Review
Wall Street Journal
“Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia” at the Harvard Art Museums showcases about 60 works, including 10 by Pintupi painters from the 1970s. The works range from a 1971 pencil sketch by Uta Uta Tjangala (c. 1926-1990), an ...

The Age
Prevent bushfires the Aboriginal way
The Age
Largely missing from the modern landscape is the fire that Captain Cook saw, fire introduced into the landscape by Indigenous Australians. Cook sailed the east coast well after the bushfire season. He was most likely seeing smoke from the smaller, cool ...

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ABC Message Stick
Is the Gap Closing?
ABC Message Stick
The Government has released its latest report on Closing the Gap. That's the name of a plan that aims to help Indigenous Australians to live as long as non-Indigenous Australians. But the report shows that it's not going very well. So what's the issue?
White lies and Black lives: Turnbull just widened the credibility gapRed Flag
Address homelessness to Close the Gap: PHAAAustralian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Queen Emma's grave oversight
dailytelegraph.com.au
In life she provided a bridge between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia and her standing in the community was such that her death made headlines in the national press, including the Sunday Times that on December 3, 1916 dubbed Queen Emma as ...

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Independent Australia
Indigenous Australia and an Australian Republic: Moving in the same direction
Independent Australia
... to upper class Australian of privilege [cough: white] you probably would think that Australia is fine the way it is. I should start by getting my bias out in the open immediately: I am Aboriginal and an advocate for Aboriginal self-determination ...

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Independent Australia
Indigenous Australia and an Australian Republic: Working together
Independent Australia
... thus, I advocate for Treaties to be enacted with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations for not only self-governance and land rights, but the most critical part of my personal agenda is to have all Australians educated on the truthful ...

The Guardian
Alan Jones says Australia needs another stolen generation 'to protect children'
The Guardian
Alan Jones says Australia needs another stolen generation to “protect” children in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families from the drug abuse problems of their parents. The talkback radio host made the comment while complaining about players in ...
Alan Jones calls for MORE Aboriginal children to be taken from their parentsDaily Mail
Alan Jones Just Said Australia 'Needs' Stolen GenerationsHuffington Post Australia
Alan Jones says Australia needs more 'Stolen Generations'9news.com.au
Sydney Morning Herald -dailytelegraph.com.au
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Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Address homelessness to Close the Gap: PHAA
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
The ABC Without a Home Fact File, released in 2011, shows more than half of homeless Indigenous Australians are located in the NT and 70% in remote or very rural areas. The Fact File also shows homeless services only accommodated for 3.7% of all ...

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Gizmodo Australia
Scabies Research Breakthrough Will Help Remote Indigenous Australian Communities
Gizmodo Australia
Australian researchers have used cutting-edge genome technologies to reveal the genetic makeup of a widespread skin parasite causing serious health problems in Aboriginal communities. The research team identified the genetic 'map' of the human ...

teleSUR English
6 Ways Gov't Has Abandoned Indigenous Australians Since Apology
teleSUR English
13, 2008, then prime minister Kevin Rudd's apology speech was seen by many Australians as the start of a new era. But how much has really changed for Indigenous Australians since then? The latest Closing the Gap report on the state of Indigenous ...
K-Rudd: Booing Adam Goodes & Claiming It's Not Racist Is "100% Bullshit"Pedestrian TV
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest WordHuffington Post Australia

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PRI
An Aboriginal comedy show in Australia finds a mainstream audience
PRI
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 ...

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The Guardian
Scabies mite genome mapped in boost for remote Indigenous health
The Guardian
Thousands of scabies mites were analysed by Australian researchers in a study that could lead to more healthy skin in people in remote Indigenous communities. The team used cutting-edge genome technologies to identify the genetic map of the human ...
Gene technology to help healthy skin in Aboriginal AustraliansEurekAlert (press release)

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Courier Mail
Moves afoot for Aussie indigenous war dance
Courier Mail
Kangaroos captain Cameron Smith met with the NRL indigenous leader and welfare manager Dean Widders last month about bringing the tribal dance to the Australian team. However, The Courier-Mail understands the idea would need to be formally ...
Push continues for Kangaroos to adopt pre-game Indigenous war danceSydney Morning Herald
Kangaroos captain Cameron Smith reveals Australian rugby league team might bring back pre-match war danceDaily Mail

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous health leaders helped give us a plan to close the gap, and we must back it
The Conversation AU
There is a stain on Australia that past generations have failed to remove. It is the entrenched divide between non-Indigenous Australians and our First Peoples, who continue to be denied the most basic human right to health equality and old age.

Review: Aboriginal artefacts make a surprising return to Australia
WA today
Civilisation is a concept that has changed beyond recognition over the past century. To the pioneering ethnographers of the Victorian era, tribal cultures were merely stages on the way to the civilised state. Viewed as backward, impoverished and ...

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Courier Mail
Moves afoot for Aussie indigenous war dance
Courier Mail
Kangaroos captain Cameron Smith met with the NRL indigenous leader and welfare manager Dean Widders last month about bringing the tribal dance to the Australian team. However, The Courier-Mail understands the idea would need to be formally ...

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CEO of Reconciliation Australia to Lead New Direction of Indigenous Cricket
Wisden India
CEO of Reconciliation Australia Justin Mohamed heads an impressive list of four new appointments to Cricket Australia's National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cricket Advisory Committee (NATSICAC). Mr Mohamed has been appointed Co-Chair of ...