Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Sydney Morning Herald
Bush tucker trend: Indigenous custodians call for protections on native foods
Sydney Morning Herald
Ben Neil oversees Charcoal Lane, a social enterprise venture run by Mission Australia. The Gertrude Street restaurant serves bush foods in the heart of trendy Fitzroy, while also training Indigenous students in hospitality. The menu includes char ...

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CRN Australia
Polycom partners join forces to help indigenous communities
CRN Australia
Polycom has partnered with unified communication resellers Nallawilli Technology and CommuniCloud to provide a range of video, web and audio conferencing to indigenous and socially disadvantaged communities across Australia. Nallawilli Technology ...

The Guardian
Police filmed allegedly punching an Indigenous woman may not face action
The Guardian
Two police officers filmed allegedly punching an Indigenous woman may not face disciplinary action according to Western Australia's police commissioner. Video has emerged on social media that appears to show a male officer punching what is claimed to ...

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SBS
Canada promises full reconciliation with its Aboriginal people
SBS
Canada will implement all of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 recommendations, while Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda says a similar process would speed up Indigenous reconciliation in Australia.

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SBS
Commission would speed up Indigenous reconciliation in Australia: Gooda
SBS
His commitment has marked the release of the final report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission into abuses within government residential schools for Indigenous children. And as Kristina Kukolja reports, an Australian Indigenous leader is ...

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The Guardian
Token Podcast: 'The Australian media is incredibly offensive to Indigenous ...
The Guardian
Token is a podcast that explores the collision of race, culture and identity in the news. In this week's special edition Guardian Australia's new Indigenous affairs editor, Stan Grant, talks to Monica Tan. Grant says Indigenous affairs is the 'most ...

Australian Ageing Agenda
Indigenous, dementia workforce programs safe, as sector's fund merges with health
Australian Ageing Agenda
All existing indigenous aged care workforce specific activities and dementia training activities will continue, the Department of Health has confirmed to Australian Ageing Agenda, but other aged care specific workforce programs remain in doubt.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous artist Tracey Moffatt to represent Australia at 2017 Venice Biennale
Sydney Morning Herald
Tracey Moffatt will represent Australia at the 2017 Venice Biennale, making her the first Aboriginal artist to present a solo exhibition at the prestigious event. In an announcement for the Australia Council, commissioner Naomi Milgrom​ said Melbourne ...
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Meet Australia's first Indigenous Green Army
ABC Online (blog)
Earlier this year, the Australian Government funded a program for a group of Indigenous 17-to-24-year-olds with hands on environmental management training. They restored natural and culturally-significant landscapes on Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay.

ABC Online
Indigenous cattle station in Western Australia attracts interest from ...
ABC Online
Mowanjum Aboriginal Corporation CEO Steve Austin said the trial had attracted international interest and they were on the verge of expansion. "We are looking for an investor with the dollars we need to put in the infrastructure we need to move to the ...

The Australian
Time to remedy great wrong against indigenous: Malcolm Turnbull
The Australian
Addressing the first meeting of a new 16-member referendum council that will steer the process of constitutional recognition for indigenous Australians, the Prime Minister said he was confident there was sufficient goodwill to reach a successful ...
Constitutional recognition: Indigenous voices to shape referendum questionSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous will lead talks on Constitutional recognitionThe Sunshine Coast Daily
Australian Indigenous leaders meet with PM to discuss landmark constitutional ...GlobalPost

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Domestic violence behind spike in indigenous jail numbers: John Rau
The Australian
In response to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures that show South Australia has the second-highest rate of Aboriginal imprisonment of all states, Mr Rau said the problem was not the state's corrections system but rather a “deeply entrenched ...

The Guardian
Ignoring Indigenous Australians a big error, Turnbull tells referendum council
The Guardian
Recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution will help right a “great wrong”, the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has said, as he sets out the path to a referendum on the issue. The referendum council, set up this month and tasked with ...
Time to remedy great wrong against indigenous: Malcolm TurnbullThe Australian
Constitutional recognition: Indigenous voices to shape referendum questionSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous will lead talks on Constitutional recognitionThe Sunshine Coast Daily

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The Conversation AU
Turnbull can't be Australia's leader for reform until human rights are respected
The Conversation AU
The international community's recent review of Australia's human rights record – as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) – makes this particularly timely. Turnbull's ability to address the human rights of asylum seekers and Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Referendum Council to meet for first time, PM flags Indigenous-led consultations
ABC Online
Mr Shorten told reporters that the meeting would be another step towards the "overdue recognition" of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. He also noted that any change had to be made in the context that Indigenous Australians do not get "an equal ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
In every other comparable nation, treaties and indigenous sovereignty are a ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The absence of a treaty meant that Australia could be created in 1901 by ignoring Aboriginal peoples. They were set aside as a "dying race" that would not survive white settlement. The Constitution even declared that they were not to be counted in ...

Brisbane Times
How an Indigenous treaty would build a better foundation for Australia
Brisbane Times
These problems will hopefully be rectified if Australia finally comes to vote on Indigenous recognition after the next federal election. The process towards that goal begins afresh today when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's referendum council meets ...

The Age
How an Indigenous treaty would build a better foundation for Australia
The Age
The absence of a treaty meant that Australia could be created in 1901 by ignoring Aboriginal peoples. They were set aside as a "dying race" that would not survive white settlement. The Constitution even declared that they were not to be counted in ...

ABC Online
Indigenous mentor turning lives around in Halls Creek
ABC Online
In an outback town with a troubled reputation, a local Aboriginal man is helping turn around the prospects for the next generation. Carl Merrison was born and bred in the remote West Australian town of Halls Creek, which was once described by Kimberley ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Virtual dreaming - Indigenous Australia restored in the digital world
Sydney Morning Herald
Williams, a NSW local council Citizen of the Year and volunteer working to engage Aboriginal men with their communities, is caught between optimism – that non-Indigenous Australians might take an interest in Aboriginal culture – and concerns that ...