Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Government contribution to native title rights development
The Australian
Senator Brandis said there had been moments of “shared joy” and “bitter division” between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians over what native title meant to “modern Australia”. “What is important is that we continue to work together,” he said.

Open Sesame: the man who moved Australia into the Street
Equities.com
As owner of the then-fledgling multimedia production outfit Carbon Media, his concept was as bold as it was unique: a Down Under segment featuring Indigenous Australian actors to be included in the world's most successful and longest-running children's ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous recognition: Patrick Dodson and Mark Leibler to lead council
The Guardian
In 2012, the previous expert panel recommended the removal of a section of the constitution that allowed states to disqualify someone from voting on racial grounds; the insertion of a section recognising Australia was first occupied by Aboriginal and ...
Andrew Demetriou, Amanda Vanstone to help decide on constitution and ...Sydney Morning Herald

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The Australian
Indigenous gymnast Mikayla George eyes Olympic skiing glory
The Australian
George was approached to join the VIS talent transfer program, which recruits young acrobatic athletes to become aerial skiers. Australia's success in the sport is built on the premise established by Olympic Winter Institute boss Geoff Lipshut that it ...

The Canberra Times
ACT and Australia fare badly in indigenous report card
The Canberra Times
While the ACT is a largely healthy and highly educated population, the Aboriginal community continues to be left behind, with little or no progress in five years, a new report finds. The Productivity Commission reported this week on progress towards ...

Young Indigenous Australians wanted
Circular Head Chronicle
Marathon. Young Indigenous Australians are being encouraged to apply for the 2016 Indigenous Marathon Project (IMP) team. Established in 2010 by world champion marathon runner, Robert de Castella, the IMP – a program of the Indigenous Marathon ...

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The Guardian
Stan Grant wins Walkley award for Guardian columns on Indigenous affairs
The Guardian
Guardian Australia columnist Stan Grant has won the 2015 Walkley award for coverage of Indigenous affairs. The television broadcaster and writer won the award at a ceremony in Melbourne on Thursday night for a collection of three opinion pieces about ...

Indigenous Imprisonment Symposium communique  Law Council of Australia

InDaily
The preventable scandal of Aboriginal incarceration
InDaily
Welcome to the world of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous people in Australia represent 2% of our population but 27% of our prison population. In the case of indigenous women, the numbers are even more disturbing. Indigenous ...

Huffington Post Australia
Kakadu Plum -- Australia's Native Vitamin C Bomb Everyone Wants A Piece Of
Huffington Post Australia
It's the richest known source of Vitamin C, richer than the blueberry in antioxidants and is native to Australia. So why haven't we heard more about the kakadu plum? Grown across the top end of Northern Australia, the kakadu plum (also known as the ...

Brisbane Times
Anzac Square Diggers: Shortlist for first Australians' military memorial
Brisbane Times
"This monument will give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a more inclusive military history within Australia." The winning design would be selected following consultation with several stakeholders, including community elders, Brisbane City ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous Australia can learn from the Korean pensinsula
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous Australia can learn from the Korean pensinsula. Share; Share via Email · Share on Google Plus · Post on facebook wall · Share on twitter · Post to Linkedin · Share on Reddit. Indigenous people do not have to trade their culture for progress.

SBS
Indigenous education gap stands out in latest NAPLAN results
SBS
The gap is so pronounced in every state and territory, except Tasmania, that the mean score for Indigenous students is close to or below the 20th percentile score for non-Indigenous students. The Australian Government's Productivity Commission said ...
NAPLAN results an encouragement to those working with Indigenous studentsEducationHQ Australia
NAPLAN chief says first step to better results is teaching teenagers to readThe Age
NT student reading results on the improveNT News
The Educator
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NT News
Cricket Australia and the Stars Foundation declare cricket for girls is a ...
NT News
Sanderson Middle School students Elouise Calma (14), Talia Corrie (13) and Kayllah Motlop (13) are part of Cricket Australia and the Star Foundation plans to establish a female indigenous cricket competition throughout NT Schools. Picture: HELEN ORR ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous HIV rates a 'looming crisis', as injecting drug use becomes more ...
ABC Online
Associate Professor James Ward, an Aboriginal health researcher from the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide, describes HIV rates in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities as a looming crisis. "There are a ...
The first time I spoke in my own language I broke down and weptThe Guardian

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ABC Online
History made in Indigenous rugby union tour of USA
ABC Online
An Indigenous rugby union team has returned home to Australia after making sporting history during a tour of the United States. The team played several games, including a match in New Mexico against an Indigenous team from the United States.

What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand's Approach To Indigenous Languages ...
Junkee
After much consultation and development with Indigenous communities, NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli finally dropped the big news yesterday: Aboriginal languages will be available to study as an HSC subject from 2016. This comes 11 years after ...

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Mashable
Indigenous languages to be taught as a year 12 school subject in Australia
Mashable
Providing an important link to the country's heritage, indigenous Australian languages will become a subject for the first time for year 12 students in New South Wales taking their final exams. The new policy will begin in 2016. NSW Education Minister ...
Aboriginal languages to become HSC subjectSBS

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Uprising
Indigenous Australian Activist Points to Forced Displacement Of Her Community
Uprising
Friday November 27th was meant to be the biggest shopping day of the year. But that day has increasingly become a convenient day of protest for a variety of causes including low-wage workers demanding better working conditions, and Black activists ...
Aboriginal workers sought for WA prisonsPerth Now

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The Australian
Aboriginal legal service cuts blamed on toxic culture
The Australian
Several former VALS lawyers pointed out that West Australian indigenous woman Miss Dhu, whose death in custody last year is the subject of a coronial inquest, would have been refused service under VALS's November freeze. “If there's another death in ...