Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

SBS
Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day: What's in a name?
SBS
The day involves recognising the history of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including the trauma caused by government policies of assimilation and separation that saw many people removed from their traditional lands and culture.

The Guardian
Call to involve Indigenous communities more in family violence programs
The Guardian
Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (Anrows) also concluded the rebuilding of family and kinship ties is considered central to responses because violence is “in part, attributed to intergenerational trauma and the breakdown of ...
Newcastle academic slams 'Eurocentric' education for indigenous studentsABC Message Stick
Gooda blasts card in annual reportThe Guardian (Australia)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talents converge for Klub KooriGay News Network

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Herald Sun
Preston radio station launches nation's first top 100 indigenous music chart for Australia Day
Herald Sun
Preston-based radio station 3KND Kool N Deadly (1503AM) will create a chart of their own this Australia Day, playing their top 100 songs recorded by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. 3KND station manager Jim Remedio said creating the list ...

Business Insider Australia
The controversial Australia Day lamb ad with Lee Lin Chin is here to stay
Business Insider Australia
“The Board noted that other than the use of the word boomerang the advertisement does not depict, refer to or parody any Indigenous Australians or Aboriginal culture. In the Board's view the use of the tagline or phrase 'Operation Boomerang' as used in ...
Australia Day lamb ad featuring Lee Lin Chin does not incite hatred against ...ABC Online
Aussie Day lamb ad OK: ad standards bureauThe Australian (blog)
MLA's Operation Boomerang cleared by ASBAdNews
SmartCompany.com.au
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Gizmodo Australia
Lack Of Medication Safety Data Putting Indigenous Australians At Risk
Gizmodo Australia
A lack of data on drug safety in Australia's Indigenous population risks the health of Indigenous people who are on therapeutic drugs from a younger age than the average population, according to experts published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

Australia Network News
Indigenous Australians Could Have Fatal Side Effects From Common Drug Use
Australia Network News
Doctors are exposing indigenous Australians to lethal side effects from some of the most commonly prescribed medications for cardiovascular disease and epilepsy. Researchers warn that Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders may suffer ineffective ...
A game that encouraged players to kill Indigenous Australians was removed from ...Business Insider Australia
Survival Island 3: Australia Story 3D game that encourages players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death ...Sydney Morning Herald
Consultation With Indigenous Communities A Must For Game DevelopersKotaku Australia
SBS -NEWS.com.au -The Guardian
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SBS
Indigenous suicide prevention program launched in WA
SBS
The suicide rate among Indigenous Australians is twice that for non-Indigenous people - and the highest rates are witnessed in Western Australia. The Turnbull government is now trialling a one million dollar critical response project to address suicide ...
The Health News – 19 January 2016Health Professional Radio (press release) (blog)

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MuMbrella
MLA's Australia Day vegan flaming lamb ad cleared by advertising watchdog
MuMbrella
The Board noted that other than the use of the word 'boomerang' the advertisement does not depict, refer to or parody any Indigenous Australians or Aboriginal culture.” It also rejected complaints about violence in the ad. “Specifically, the Board ...
Torching of vegan food in Australia Day lamb ad 'humorous'ABC Online
MLA's Operation Boomerang cleared by ASBAdNews
Meat & Livestock Australia ad featuring Lee Lin Chin does not break ...SmartCompany.com.au
Sheep Central -The Guardian
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ABC Online
Cyclist rides 3000km from Darwin to Adelaide to raise awareness for Indigenous ...
ABC Online
"A lot of people told me this ride was going to be impossible, in the middle of summer, going through the desert," he said. "It's the same with problems faced with [the loss of] Indigenous culture in Australia." Mr Whelan said Australians must continue ...

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Gizmodo Australia
Consultation With Indigenous Communities A Must For Game Developers
Gizmodo Australia
NSWALC Chair Roy Ah-See said the public had sent a clear message that Survival Island 3 — Australian Story 3D was unacceptable and disrespectful to Aboriginal people. “The game's depiction of Aboriginal people is inaccurate, insensitive and demeans ...
A game that encouraged players to kill Indigenous Australians was removed from ...Business Insider Australia
Survival Island 3: Australia Story 3D game that encourages players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death ...Sydney Morning Herald
Minister orders investigation into game promoting killing of Aboriginal ...SBS
NEWS.com.au -The Guardian
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ABC Message Stick
Newcastle academic slams 'Eurocentric' education for indigenous students
ABC Message Stick
"Australia just seems to be reluctant to embrace the need for change, and I think it is fundamentally tied up with the notion of treating Aboriginal people as guests in the dominant educational domain," he said. "I talk about what I coin the 'guest ...

The Guardian
Critical response team to tackle 'ongoing tragedy' of Indigenous suicide
The Guardian
The $1m critical response project is being trialled in Western Australia, which has the highest rates of Aboriginal suicide in the country, with a view to being rolled out nationally. The project aims to allow support workers to quickly connect with ...
Critical response program to tackle high WA Indigenous suicide rateABC Online
$1m program to curb indigenous suicideThe Australian

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ABC Online
Indigenous home ownership hits highest-ever level under loan program
ABC Online
The statutory body Indigenous Business Australia [IBA] claimed the milestone when it revealed it had $1 billion in Aboriginal loans on its books through the Indigenous Home Ownership Program [IHOP]. CEO Chris Fry said clients came to the IBA for ...

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ABC Online
Critical response program to tackle high WA Indigenous suicide rate
ABC Online
An on-call service will allow Indigenous West Australians to contact the critical response team when they are affected by suicide or traumatic events. Senator Scullion said the initiative was being trialled in Western Australia because it had the ...
$1m program to curb indigenous suicideThe Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous student demands answers from Google and Apple over game that encourages death of Aboriginal ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The Gadigal woman who began a successful petition for the removal of a game that requires players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death is pushing for an explanation as to why Google and Apple hosted the app in their stores. The Turnbull ...
Minister orders investigation into game promoting killing of Aboriginal AustraliansSBS
Indigenous Australians Could Have Fatal Side Effects From Common Drug UseAustralia Network News
Game that rewards players for killing Indigenous Australians pulled from app storesThe Guardian
NEWS.com.au -ABC Online
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Sydney Morning Herald
Lack of drug safety data is putting Aboriginal lives at risk, says report
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney: A lack of data on the safety of medicines for indigenous Australians is putting their health at risk, experts say. Writing in the latest Medical Journal of Australia, Dr Tilenka Thynne, from Flinders Medical Centre, and Dr Genevieve Gabb, from ...
Drug data absent for indigenous AussiesNEWS.com.au

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Business Insider Australia
A game that encouraged players to kill Indigenous Australians was removed from ...
Business Insider Australia
The game tasked the player with surviving in ancient Australia, and screenshots used to promote the app in the App Store told the player to “beware of Aborigines!” Several people who had bought and played the game uploaded videos to YouTube showing ...
Survival Island 3: Australia Story 3D game that encourages players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death ...Sydney Morning Herald
Survival Island 3: Outrage over app where gamers hunt 'Aborigines'NEWS.com.au
Apple and Google pull down 'racist' game that promotes killing of Aboriginal ...SBS
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Drug data absent for indigenous Aussies
NEWS.com.au
While attention is given to reporting the safety of medications in older people, children, and pregnant and breastfeeding women, there are no specific reporting requirements for ethnic groups, including indigenous Australians. The median age of the ...

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The Canberra Times
Where are they now? Daniel Billing getting hundreds of Indigenous kids reading
The Canberra Times
So far, 441 Indigenous students from communities across Australia have successfully completed the e-literacy program. Last year the program placed 200 tablets with Indigenous kids in about 90 schools and 172 out of 200 students successfully completed ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australian filmmaker Lynette Wallworth uses virtual-reality technology to take Indigenous story to Sundance Film ...
Sydney Morning Herald
When Indigenous elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan first caught sight of Lynette Wallworth's virtual-reality camera, he quickly recognised its storytelling potential. "Nyarri looked at this camera and said: 'It's got 16 eyes and four ears'," Wallworth says. A ...