Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Indigenous landowners want protection from mining: 'I don't know what happens ...
The Guardian
“The park's land tenure provides a framework under which the traditional owners' wishes can be undermined by the government of the day in the Northern Territory, despite having joint management rights,” the application, obtained by Guardian Australia ...

Indigenous group in Adani mine court fight
Yahoo7 News
The group is already taking action to stop the mine through the United Nations. The court action comes after the Australian Conservation Foundation this month lodged papers against Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt's reapproval of the mega-project.

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Stuff.co.nz
Aboriginal researcher fights for indigenous languages, looks to Maori
Stuff.co.nz
The situation over the Tasman is dire - their languages are disappearing, Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research at the University of Sydney, Professor Jakelin Troy. "In Australia our languages are going to sleep," she said. "Out of ...

The Australian
Ochres celebrates the legacy of Bangarra Dance Theatre
The Australian
Page says this connection allowed Bangarra to create dance and movement pieces that fused the traditional stories, songs and dances of indigenous Australia with the contemporary style that Bangarra had been developing since the company began in 1989.

Brisbane Times
Whether you're listening or not, Australia is a nation of white privilege
Brisbane Times
But if Australia's Indigenous population were to be ranked separately, it would come 100th out of nearly 200 nations. In other words, Australia is one of the richest Western countries in the world built on an industry of mining from the lands of ...

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The Australian
Can new PM turn around the disaster of indigenous affairs policy?
The Australian
On becoming Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull declared “this is the most exciting time to be an Australian”. His optimism lifted my spirits, as I think it did for many Australians. But, I wondered, is it also the most exciting time to be an indigenous ...

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The Australian
Can new PM turn around the disaster of indigenous affairs policy?
The Australian
On becoming Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull declared “this is the most exciting time to be an Australian”. His optimism lifted my spirits, as I think it did for many Australians. But, I wondered, is it also the most exciting time to be an indigenous ...

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The Canberra Times
Canberra's new-look National Gallery
The Canberra Times
As part of the general process of dissolving boundaries between categories in art, there is also a blurring of lines between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian art, especially when artists do not come from traditional tribal areas. I have long ...

ABC Online
Indigenous actor Robbie Collins takes centre stage as Mufasa in The Lion King
ABC Online
"Traipsing a family across Australia has been the hardest thing." The Australian production of The Lion King opened in Sydney at the end of 2013. The international musical has now been running for almost 20 years and is currently being performed in ten ...

ABC Online
Australian War Memorial publishes history of Indigenous service
ABC Online
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) has published an online history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's service in Australia's Defence Force, but says this does not signify a step towards commemoration of the Frontier Wars. The memorial ...
Bill Shorten: The injustice dealt to Indigenous people is a stain on our whole ...The Guardian
Two charts that show Australia's human rights crisisSydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation AU
Kimberley conservation threatens to take a step back on Indigenous rights
The Conversation AU
Mr Jacob is proposing is the Dambimangari people surrender exclusive control of their ancestral lands to enter into a joint-management arrangement with the West Australian Government. For some, this choice presents a watering down of Indigenous ...

ABC Online
Indigenous jail rates, female education ALP priority: Shorten
The Australian
Aboriginal men are 15 times more likely to be jailed than non-indigenous Australians, and the imprisonment rates have more than doubled in the past decade. “For Aboriginal women, the rate of imprisonment is accelerating even faster, a 74 per cent ...
Bill Shorten pledges to end 'national shame' by reviving Indigenous ...ABC Online

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The Guardian
Labor promises 'justice reinvestment' to reduce number of Indigenous prisoners
The Guardian
The Labor leader used a speech to the Melbourne University law faculty to repeat the party's 2013 promise that if elected it will use his first meeting with state premiers to set national targets to reduce Indigenous incarceration, saying that goal is ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous protesters peacefully demonstrate against court's power
The Canberra Times
Activists peacefully demonstrated against the jurisdiction of the ACT courts over Indigenous Australians in support of an Aboriginal woman challenging its power to hear minor traffic charges against her. The group of protesters sang and moved through ...

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Sky News Australia
Indigenous defence service in Australia
Sky News Australia
Indigenous men have served in Australia's armed forces in peace and in every post-federation conflict with evidence of a few in uniform even before 1901, a new study says. Historian Chris Clark said this was remarkable considering the expansion of ...

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Indigenous defence service in Aust: study
The Australian (blog)
HISTORIAN Chris Clark said this was remarkable considering the expansion of white settlement and the brutal, often violent, dispossession of indigenous people from their traditional lands. "What prompted indigenous Australians to contemplate voluntary ...

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ABC Online
Future looking bright for Indigenous carbon farming project
ABC Online
A trail-blazer in the field, Fish River was the first Indigenous savanna burning project in Australia to sell Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) on the open carbon trading market. According to the Federal Government fires across northern Australia ...

ABC Online
Remote school makes progress with Indigenous literacy and numeracy
ABC Online
The principal of one of Western Australia's remotest schools says making the basics of education relevant to local Aboriginal students is allowing them to make significant progress. Servicing some of the most isolated communities in the state ...

The Conversation AU
Whether you're listening or not, Australia is a nation of white privilege
The Conversation AU
But if Australia's Indigenous population were to be ranked separately, it would come 100th out of nearly 200 nations. In other words, Australia is one of the richest Western countries in the world built on an industry of mining from the lands of ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Sacrifice the theme of 2015 FFA Hall of Fame inductions as women's and ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Two of the most ignored bases of Australian football were recognised by Football Federation of Australia after indigenous footballer John Moriarty and former Matildas star Lisa Casagrande were inducted into the Australian football hall of fame, along ...
Two more enter football Hall of Famedailytelegraph.com.au

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