Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Herald Sun
Australia has racism problem: Rudd
Herald Sun
They include an elderly Aboriginal couple not being served in a regional cafe or a black, but not indigenous, Australian who left a job recently because he was sick of being called a “monkey”. He told the breakfast gathering of indigenous, political ...
Kevin Rudd's brutal slapdown of Australians who don't think we have a racism problemSydney Morning Herald
Kevin Rudd: Goodes booing proves racism is at work in AustraliaThe Australian (subscription)
Australia has a racism problem: Rudd9news.com.au
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Hollows' indigenous eye program remembered
NEWS.com.au
Forty years after the ground-breaking program set out to eliminate trachoma and treat other eye conditions in rural and remote communities across Australia, the work of Fred Hollows and his team is still making an impact. More than 100,000 people from ...

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The Guardian
Stolen generations hail 'collective healing' for Indigenous Australians – video
The Guardian
To mark eight years since the then prime minister, Kevin Rudd, apologised to the stolen generations, Lorraine Peeters and Michael Welsh, both members of the Healing Foundation, speak about the power of collective healing. Peeters says of the Indigenous ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Australia has a racism problem: Rudd
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Mr Rudd cited several other examples of what his indigenous friend recently called the "low, steady hum of racism" in the country. They include an elderly Aboriginal couple not being served in a regional cafe or a black, but not indigenous, Australian ...
Celebrities, athletes, political figures take a stand against racism and unite in support for Adam Goodes ...Sydney Morning Herald
Kevin Rudd: Goodes booing proves racism is at work in AustraliaThe Australian (subscription)
Kevin Rudd Calls Bullshit On Racist Adam Goodes BooingHuffington Post Australia

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The Guardian
How can Indigenous Australia put its stamp on buildings in modern cities?
The Guardian
Namely, how can Australia's first nations people put their stamp on to buildings in a modern, bustling city? And how, exactly, do we define Indigenous architecture? As Jefa Greenaway, 45, founder of the not-for-profit Indigenous Architecture Victoria ...
Funding gaps could lead to trachoma resurgence – Indigenous health expertsThe Guardian

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Australia needs a nutrition policy for indigenous people to help reduce deaths from preventable diseases, says ...
ABC Local
Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal the alarming prevalence of food insecurity among Australia's Indigenous people. Nicky Turner is a researcher based at the University of Newcastle. She's spent many years working in the area ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Closing The Gap Was Groundhog Day For Indigenous Australia
Huffington Post Australia
It's time that Indigenous Australia once again had a truly representative voice at State and National level. A body elected by Indigenous people, for Indigenous people from across the country. One that cannot be dismantled, as was ATSIC by the Howard ...

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Kevin Rudd's brutal slapdown of Australians who don't think we have a racism problem
Sydney Morning Herald
But at a breakfast gathering of indigenous and political leaders at the NSW Parliament on Friday, Mr Rudd cited examples of what an Indigenous friend had recently described as the "low, steady hum of racism" in Australia. This included a black, but not ...

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Yahoo7 News
Australia making mixed progress in improving indigenous lives
Yahoo7 News
A government report released Wednesday found mixed results in erasing disadvantages for indigenous Australians, with life expectancy still 10 years lower than for others. Targets to reduce unemployment and boost school attendance weren't on track, ...

Australia Network News
Perth International Arts Festival to Showcase Indigenous Art
Australia Network News
“Home is about Indigenous culture, 40,000 years of Indigenous culture. It's about Western Australia since white settlement and importantly, it's about the shared vision for the future,” Martin said. 'Home' will be a free event with more than 500 ...

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ABC Online
Recognise backs Labor's push for 2017 Indigenous referendum
ABC Online
The movement to recognise Indigenous Australians in the nation's constitution says it is firmly committed to a referendum being held "no later" than May 2017. Recognise, the government-funded organisation charged with raising awareness for a referendum ...

NEWS.com.au
Australian kids unlikely to ever grow old
NEWS.com.au
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday that Australia was failing to close an “unacceptably wide” gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and non-indigenous people. He said the “target ... was not on track”. Aboriginal Australians make up ...
Turnbull urges stronger partnership between government and Indigenous Australia to close the gapThe Conversation AU
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing-the-Gap oratorySydney Morning Herald
Our priority must be to bridge the gapThe Age
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ABC Local
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students tackle constitutional reform
ABC Local
Students discussed the inclusion of Indigenous Australians in the constitution and staged a mock election. The university's Wayne Costelloe said students' critical thinking around the issues surrounding the recognition of Australia's first peoples was ...

The Guardian
Indigenous painting found at charity shop sells for $1800
The Guardian
An ochre and charcoal artwork by an internationally exhibited Aboriginal artist from far north Western Australia has been sold for $1,800 – from a charity shop. The artwork, titled Spearhead Dreaming, turned up in a pile of donations to St Vincent de ...

Awards honour extraordinary commitment to Indigenous health
UQ News
“They are exceptional philanthropists who have made an extraordinary commitment to creating change through efforts to close the gap in life expectancy and to help progressing towards health equality for Indigenous Australians,” he said. “Mr Poche, who ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians retire with 23% less savings
The Conversation AU
Indigenous people will retire with 23% less income than non-Indigenous Australians, according to new research by Griffith Centre for Personal Finance and Superannuation. People who identify as being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI ...

The Conversation AU
Laying pathways for greater success in education for Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Graduates of a 2015 Tertiary Entry Program, which paves the way into university courses, with lead author and CQUniversity's Pro Vice-Chancellor of Indigenous Engagement, Bronwyn Fredericks (fourth from left) and Provost Hilary Winchester (far right).

The Economist (blog)
Australia struggles to bring equality to its indigenous population
The Economist (blog)
THE massive gulf in living standards between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians has long been one of the country's great shames. After much pressure from activists, governments have channelled increasing amounts of money and political will in an ...

Huffington Post Australia
Australia Is The Only Developed Country To Still Have Trachoma
Huffington Post Australia
Our teams visited more than 465 communities and screened about 100,000 people, 62,000 of whom were Indigenous Australians. They found that nearly half of Australia's Indigenous people had trachoma and, in some regions of the Northern Territory and ...

Herald Sun
Indigenous Australians must stop the excuses and accept responsibility
Herald Sun
And once again Aboriginal “leaders” offered those exhausted and divisive excuses. Don't blame Aborigines, insisted Professor Tom Calma, co-chair of Reconciliation Australia. He told the ABC: “The lack of progress should never be interpreted as a ...