Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Meet 7 Indigenous legends who are fighting to 'close the gap'
ABC Online
Australia is failing to meet most of its goals to close the gap between Indigenous and other Australians on health, education and employment. The latest annual report card on Indigenous disadvantage, handed down on Wednesday, shows only two of the ...
How Woman of Influence Dawn Casey closed the gap on racismThe Australian Financial Review
Indigenous doctors key to improving health9news.com.au

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Malcolm Turnbull delivers Closing the Gap report which shows Indigenous life expectancy has not improved
Radio Australia
The Prime Minister said his Government would redouble its efforts to engage with Indigenous Australians. "Under successive governments, under both sides, progress against the Close the Gap targets has been mixed, we have to be honest," he said.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing-the-Gap oratory
Sydney Morning Herald
Labor is supporting calls by Indigenous leaders to add a new target on closing the incarceration gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, with Mr Shorten saying: "It is wrong that an Aboriginal man of 18 is more likely to go to jail than ...
Turnbull urges stronger partnership between government and Indigenous Australia to close the gapThe Conversation AU
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivers the tenth annual Closing the Gap address to Parliament on ...NEWS.com.au
Closing the Gap: Australia is failing to meet its goals on tackling Indigenous disadvantageABC Online
Northern Star -SBS
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The Conversation AU
Turnbull urges stronger partnership between government and Indigenous Australia to close the gap
The Conversation AU
The 2016 Closing the Gap Prime Minister's Report shows a bleak picture on progress on Indigenous employment and little improvement in school attendance. Australia is not on track to halve the gap in employment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...
Closing the Gap: Australia is failing to meet its goals on tackling Indigenous disadvantageABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing-the-Gap oratorySydney Morning Herald
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivers the tenth annual Closing the Gap address to Parliament on ...NEWS.com.au
Northern Star -SBS
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The Guardian
Battle for bark art: Indigenous leaders hail breakthrough in talks with British Museum
The Guardian
Detail of an etched bark taken from the Dja Dja Wurrung people in the 1850s and now in the collection of the British Museum. It is currently on show in Canberra as part of the National Museum of Australia's Encounters exhibition. Photograph: Museum ...

The Australian
NRL All Stars: Indigenous stars want Kangaroos to do war dance
The Australian
“It's something I really want to see the Kangaroos do before I retire from playing for Australia,” Indigenous All Stars captain Greg Inglis told The Australian. And watching as Inglis taught the dance to the next generation of players around a fire at ...
'The game owes it to indigenous Australians'Courier Mail

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Sydney Morning Herald
Dr Jackie Huggins Photo: Eva Schroeder
Sydney Morning Herald
Mr Turnbull will deliver his first major speech on Indigenous affairs when the annual Closing the Gap report is tabled in Parliament on Wednesday morning. He is expected to affirm a commitment to improving the future of Indigenous Australia "not by ...
Reconciliation support grows, but racial tensions still a problem in Australia, report findsABC Online
Indigenous reconciliation report finds deep support but 'piecemeal' policiesThe Guardian
Everyone has a role to play in closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, Kia Dowell writesABC Message Stick
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Indigenous literary festival a place to learn, laugh and participate
ArtsHub (subscription)
Blak & Bright is presented by First Nations Australia Writers' Network, alongside Australian Poetry, the City of Literature Office, the Emerging Writers' Festival, Express Media, the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Small Press Network, the Wheeler ...

ABC Online
Reconciliation support grows, but racial tensions still a problem in Australia, report finds
ABC Online
The State of Reconciliation in Australia has found the vast majority of people believed the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was important. But it also found a third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had been ...
Indigenous reconciliation report finds deep support but 'piecemeal' policiesThe Guardian
Warren Mundine blasts indigenous funding wasteThe Australian
NSW Indigenous leader welcomes suicide response trial but says more early intervention neededABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Northern Territory intervention should be disbanded, says Indigenous advocacy group
The Guardian
National Congress co-chair Rod Little said the damage done by the intervention to the self-image and human rights of Indigenous people in the NT, coupled with the lack of progress, meant there was no reason to keep the policy in place. “Let's remove it ...
Greens urge Malcolm Turnbull to consider treaty with Indigenous people alongside constitutional recognition pushABC Online

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Courier Mail
'The game owes it to indigenous Australians'
Courier Mail
The All stars, and Indigenous All stars are announced, All stars coach Wayne Bennett. Pic Jono Searle. “It's not a game about making money or anything other than indigenous Australia and us giving back. “The money part doesn't interest me. If we're ...
All Stars match may be last as uncertainty surrounds its futureThe Australian

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The Guardian
Northern Territory intervention 'fails on human rights' and closing the gap
The Guardian
According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data, Indigenous people made up 3% of the population but 27% of the prison population, and 52% of all young people in detention. In the NT, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples make up 86 ...
Warren Mundine blasts indigenous funding wasteThe Australian

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ABC Online
Indigenous lawyers and law students making a mark on SA courts under scholarship and mentoring programs
ABC Online
Thirty years after South Australia's first Indigenous lawyer started practising, a growing cohort of law students is following in her footsteps. In 1985, Irene Watson made history as the first Aboriginal lawyer in South Australia. This year, the Law ...

The Australian
Noma Australia: Rene Redzepi popup dines out on indigenous ingredients
The Australian
In most chefs' hands, Rene Redzepi's zeal to shine a light on indigenous Australian ingredients used in new ways at his Sydney Noma pop-up would be nothing short of commercial suicide. Certainly for any Australian chef. Just ask Orana's Jock Zonfrillo ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Beyond Bangarra: the centrality of Indigenous art in Australia
ArtsHub (subscription)
Designers are often misunderstood as mere window dressers instead of meaning-makers intrinsic to creative process. Where does Australia fit in Singapore's regional art hub? Singapore has positioned itself as a regional hub, throwing vast amounts of ...

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Screen Australia opens $400000 worth of funding for Indigenous filmmakers
Inside Film
Screen Australia will provide up to $400,000 funding as part of The Next Step Indigenous Screen Business Fellowship. The funding is a targeted initiative for production companies run by Indigenous screen practitioners who are ready to take the next ...

NEWS.com.au
QUT embroiled in 'segregation' furore
NEWS.com.au
The issue has been highlighted in a Federal Court case, first reported by The Australian newspaper, in which an employee at a Queensland university's indigenous unit is seeking $250,000 in damages under Australia's racial discrimination laws ...

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Harvard Gazette
Indigenous Australian Art Exhibit Opens in Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Art Museums' special exhibition on Indigenous Art from Australia opens on Friday, with an opening celebration on Thursday night. Entitled “Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia,” the exhibition includes works by ...
Breaking bonds of timeHarvard Gazette

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cricket.com.au
Indigenous players get a chance to step up
cricket.com.au
The inaugural National Indigenous Cricket Championships start in Alice Springs next week, providing Aboriginal and Torres Islander cricketers more opportunities than ever before to reach the top. From Monday, 12 teams of Australia's most talented male ...

ABC Local
Bunbury Australia Day sign vandalised in a indigenous racial protest
ABC Local
Staff arrived at Summit Realty on Victoria Street this morning to find the graffiti and puddles of wet paint on the footpath outside the building. Principal real estate agent Greg Gardiner told the ABC it was "disappointing" to see. The business ...

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