Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Standalone David Unaipon Indigenous college to close at University of South ...
ABC Online
A standalone Indigenous college is to close in Adelaide by the end of the year as the University of South Australia moves its programs into its mainstream campuses. The David Unaipon College for Indigenous Education and Research has operated since ...

Stuff.co.nz
Australia: Aboriginal art festival captivating the world
Stuff.co.nz
In recent times, the sparsely populated APY Lands have gained increasing prominence, with senior men such as Hector Burton, from Amata community, ranked among Australia's most eminent and collectible Aboriginal artists. At last month's Telstra Art ...

The West Australian
Indigenous iron mine wins deal
The Australian
Fortescue (FMG) chief executive Nev Power has signed an agreement for Australian Aboriginal Mining Corporation to deliver two million tonnes of iron ore annually for five years from Western Australia's Pilbara. AAMC will deliver the ore to Fortescue's ...
FMG opens way for first indigenous mineThe West Australian
Aboriginal iron ore mine moves closerYahoo7 News

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The West Australian
FMG opens way for first indigenous mine
The West Australian
“Fortescue is focused on building up Aboriginal communities through full economic participation rather than passive welfare and today's signing ceremony is another example of how all Australians can work together with respect to end Aboriginal ...

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Newcastle Herald
Aboriginal art festival, Australia: New generation of Central Desert artists ...
Newcastle Herald
His paintings hang in the Queensland Art Gallery and also in the British Museum, which exhibited a portrait of Captain Cook in its recent blockbuster show Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation. Vincent's bold, graphic works – wry commentaries on ...

ABC Online
WA football's Indigenous pioneer Jimmy Melbourne honoured nearly 80 years ...
ABC Online
Jimmy Melbourne was an immensely talented footballer, a World War I veteran and a pioneer. Born in York in 1876, the man known as "Greased Lightning" was the first Indigenous Australian to play professional football in Western Australia. Melbourne was ...

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The Guardian
Play gets Indigenous musicians Jimmy Little and Bobby McLeod utterly wrong
The Guardian
Jimmy Little and Bobby McLeod are giants of Australian Indigenous activism and music. In death, now, as in life, each remains a hero for his unique role in the ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights, and for the hope and inspiration their music ...

Backpacking through paradise Australia and its forgotten indigenous people
Affairs Today
And it was already in 1788, when Governor Arthur Phillip landed in Botany Bay with the instructions to establish the first British colony on the continent which was at this time inhabited by 320, 000 Aborigines – the indigenous people of Australia ...

Aljazeera.com (blog)
Indigenous Australians may soon lose ancestral land
Aljazeera.com (blog)
Western Australia, Australia - The arid, rural territory of Western Australia is home to over 270 remote indigenous Australian communities that live on their ancestral land. This land has sustained the oldest living culture for over 50,000 years and ...

ABC Online
Indigenous recognition bill passes through WA's Parliament
ABC Online
Legislation recognising Aboriginal people as Western Australia's first peoples has been passed by State Parliament, with advocates describing it as a major milestone. The bill introduced by Labor MP Josie Farrer, an Aboriginal woman from the state's ...

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Addressing discriminatory sentencing practices to reduce high Indigenous ...
Phys.Org
"There are many problems that Prime Minister Tony Abbott would have become better acquainted with while spending time in remote Indigenous Australia recently. A key one is the appalling treatment of Indigenous Australians by the sentencing system," ...

The Guardian
The Bundian Way: ancient Aboriginal trail, future great Australian bushwalk
The Guardian
Having now completed the trail several times, Blay says walking it became a sort of “pilgrimage towards the old Australia”. Dotted with Aboriginal artefacts – worked bits of stone, axe heads and middens – the trail is an example of “Aboriginal ...

Courier Mail
How history is playing its part in ice epidemic
Courier Mail
Associate Professor Edward Wilkes said the arrival of Europeans 200 years ago was still having deep impacts on indigenous Australia reflected in substance abuse, including the drug ice. “Today we are a disadvantaged and oppressed people,” Professor ...

Human Capital Magazine Online
Indigenous Business Australia employee charged for $1m embezzlement
Human Capital Magazine Online
A court has heard that a man has been charged after allegedly stealing $1.3 million of federal funds reserved for Indigenous businesses. According to Fairfax Media, Nicholas Schofield – a senior employee at Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) – stands ...
Police charge man alleged to have stolen $1.3m destined for Indigenous businessThe Canberra Times
Helping agencies reach indigenous spending targetsThe Mandarin (registration)

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SBS
Indigenous youth incarceration jails 'regular kids': Briggs
SBS
2013-2014 data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows that Indigenous young people are 26 times more likely to be in detention than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Indigenous youth make up just 5 percent of total Australians aged ...

The Australian
Telstra and NT government seal $30m Territory connection
The Australian
The efforts to improve communication services in rural and remote regions plays a key role in bridging the digital divide experienced by indigenous Australians. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about one-third of households that ...
Telstra's RAP star Penn inks $30m NT Govt co-investment dealiTWire

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The Ecologist (blog)
Australia: Indigenous communities must take centre stage in 'development'
The Ecologist (blog)
Indigenous Australians are systematically deprived of the benefits of mining and other developments, writes Seán Kerins, and being left to suffer their environmental impacts. As Abbott's government prepares a bonfire of 'red tape', it's time to put ...

SBS
Indigenous incarcerated youths are 'regular kids': Briggs
SBS
Up to 70 percent of the centre's population is Indigenous, the centre said. Briggs meets First Australian teenage men and learns about who they are. "Who do you call…When do you use the phone," he asks a teenager there. "My mum," the young man replies.
'There's potential behind this razor wire': Rapper Adam Briggs explores ...ABC Online

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ABC Online
'There's potential behind this razor wire': Rapper Adam Briggs explores ...
ABC Online
On average, Indigenous youth in Australia are 24 times more likely to be jailed than their non-Indigenous peers, according to a report published earlier this year by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). In New South Wales that number ...

Australasian Lawyer
Law Council announces indigenous legal professional award winner
Australasian Lawyer
Eddie Cubillo was awarded the National Indigenous Legal Professional of the Year over the weekend, along with Alison Whittaker, who took out the award for the National Indigenous Law Student of the year, at the 2015 National Indigenous Legal ...