Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

BBC News
Why Australian indigenous representation matters to kids
BBC News
Images of Indigenous Australian rugby star Johnathan Thurston hugging his daughter as she clutches a dark-skinned doll have become a talking point, with many praising it as a positive portrayal of indigenous people. Melanie Prewett, the Aboriginal ...
How rugby star daughter's doll captivated AustraliaBBC News
Doll captivates Australian rugby fansFTC Publications

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BBC News
How rugby star daughter's doll captivated Australia
BBC News
The Australian athletics star became the second Indigenous Australian woman to win an Olympic gold, during the Sydney games in 2000. "It is a very significant moment in the sport of rugby league, but in particular the story of Aboriginal participation ...
Thurston's daughter's doll gets the country talkingSydney Morning Herald
Johnathan Thurston wins the NRL Grand Final, and Australia's heartNEWS.com.au
2015 NRL Grand Final montage: North Queensland Cowboys talisman Johnathan ThurstonBrisbane Times
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Indigenous Business Australia to hold information session
Bundaberg News Mail
INDIGENOUS Business Australia (IBA) will hold free information sessions in Bundaberg to let the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members know how IBA might be able to assist them to buy their own home. For a limited time, IBA has ...

The Guardian
Ready for this? Australia's next great teen drama has a largely Indigenous cast
The Guardian
All but one of the teenagers are Indigenous Australian and the show deftly knits together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture with the trademarks of every great teen drama: grand coming-of-age adventures, friendship, rebellion and an endless ...
Indigenous actor Madeleine Madden stars new drama Ready for This, and wants to ...NEWS.com.au

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ABC Online
Authorities deport Fijian national who claimed to be Indigenous Australian
ABC Online
An immigration detainee who has claimed he is an Indigenous Australian, not someone from Fiji who has overstayed his visa, has been deported. The man, calling himself Eddie David, 39, had been held in the Yongah Hill Detention Centre, 100 kilometres ...

ABC Local
Managed investment scheme targets only Indigenous businesses
ABC Local
The creators of a managed investment scheme that will only invest in Indigenous businesses are labelling it an Australian first. The Aboriginal Business Advancement Fund was launched this week by Perth-based company Primary Securities and advisory ...

Indigenous mental health
ABC Online
Indigenous health expert Aunty Kerrie Doyle says that suicides among Aboriginal people will continue at 'heart-breaking' levels unless Australia addresses racism. Indigenous Australians have a suicide rate nearly three times the national average, and a ...

ABC Local
New discoveries reveal great length of Esperance's Indigenous history
ABC Local
Applied Archaeology Australia, an organisation that works with a range of universities and the National Trust, has been busy digging east of Esperance for the past few months, and has unearthed stone artefacts. "They actually came across evidence of ...

Sydney Morning Herald
British Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry questions Australian ...
Sydney Morning Herald
British Turner Prize-winning artist and cultural critic Grayson Perry has questioned whether Australian Aboriginal painting should be classified – or exhibited – as "contemporary art". Perry, a ceramicist and textile artist known also for his ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Tarnanthi Festival: Indigenous art reimagined in South Australia's APY Lands
Sydney Morning Herald
There is a distinctive rhythm to the stories told in the Musgrave Ranges in the north-western corner of South Australia that echoes through generations. In country strewn with boulders, etched with dry creek beds and dotted with ghost gums, groups of ...

ABC Online
Katiti Petermann Indigenous Protected Area declared in NT to 'keep things ...
ABC Online
An IPA is Aboriginal land environmentally managed and run by the traditional owners, including Indigenous rangers. Katiti Petermann is now the 70th IPA in Australia, with the total of all IPAs in Australia approximately 63 million hectares ...
Indigenous protection of vast area in NT will educate future generationsSydney Morning Herald
Five million hectares around Uluru declared an Indigenous protected areaThe Guardian
Australia makes huge area around Uluru protected indigenous landBangkok Post

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous protection of vast area in NT will educate future generations
Sydney Morning Herald
It took just a few minutes for Benjamen​ Kenny to see it: the fine markings, so intricately etched in the red dirt of Tjitjingati​, in the south-west corner of the Northern Territory. They were undoubtedly the imprints of a perentie, Australia's ...

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The Guardian
Australia makes huge area around Uluru protected indigenous land
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Sydney (AFP) - More than five million hectares (12.35 million acres) of Outback surrounding Australia's famed tourist attraction Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, was Thursday declared an indigenous protected area. The designation -- covering a region ...
Five million hectares around Uluru declared an Indigenous protected areaThe Guardian
Australia designates huge area around Ayers Rock as protected indigenous landThe Straits Times
Uluru land to become protected zoneOtago Daily Times

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The Guardian
Western Australia announces $3.1m plan to tackle family violence in the Kimberley
The Guardian
The Western Australian government has announced a $3.1m plan to tackle high levels of family violence in the Kimberley, including an extra $1.9m for teams of police and child protection workers to “reset” remote Aboriginal communities with ...
Using the Australian bush to improve Indigenous mental health in the KimberleyABC Online

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The Guardian
Using the Australian bush to improve Indigenous mental health in the Kimberley
ABC Online
For four years, Aboriginal mental health worker James Howard has tackled some of Australia's worst mental health statistics by going bush and building relationships with other Indigenous men. "Just with my men I've been taking out, I've seen them get a ...
Western Australia announces $3.1m plan to tackle family violence in the KimberleyThe Guardian

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The Guardian
The next generation of Indigenous leaders shows great promise for Australia's ...
The Guardian
'Recently, Government House in Kirribilli saw a rare event in the coming together of 40 key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from around the country to discuss a path forward on constitutional recognition.' Photograph: David Moir/AAP.
How-to guide: reaching indigenous employment targetsThe Mandarin (registration)

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The Guardian
Five million hectares around Uluru declared an Indigenous protected area
The Guardian
A ceremony will be held at a remote centre between Uluru and the Western Australian border on Thursday, allowing the Anangu people to receive federal government funding to protect sacred sites, native plants and animals around the Uluru-Kata Tjuta ...

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The Guardian
'It's surreal': Australia's first Indigenous minister, Ken Wyatt, on his promotion
The Guardian
Heeding the advice of the Noongar elders, Wyatt has kept his culture close during this parliamentary career, fighting for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, and for non-discrimination of all Australians. But when it comes to ...
Ken Wyatt becomes first federal Indigenous frontbencher after swearing in as ...ABC Online
First federal Indigenous minister sworn inSky News Australia
Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt to be sworn inThe Australian (blog)
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The Australian Financial Review
Malcolm Turnbull must push economic development and end Indigenous socialism
The Australian Financial Review
The next horizon is northern Australian development, fuelled by the $5 billion Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility and free-trade agreements. Indigenous Australians have rights over 82% of northern Australia and by 2040 will number half its ...
a right to economic developmentThe Australian (blog)

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Sky News Australia
First federal Indigenous minister sworn in
Sky News Australia
When Ken Wyatt was awoken with a tap on the shoulder on a flight to the United States he couldn't quite believe the document that was been placed in front of him. Its content told the Liberal MP he was about to become the first indigenous Australian in ...
Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt to be sworn inThe Australian (blog)

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