Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Mutitjulu unaware of 'Uluru bark petition' on sanctity
The Australian
The so-called Uluru bark petition was signed by about 30 indigenous people, but claimed to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia. “This is a cultural initiative, it is not a Christian initiative,'' Pastor Walker said. “But you can align the two ...

Independent Australia
Tony Abbott and White Australia: Let's be serious about change
Independent Australia
The innate conservatism of Tony Abbott and much of white Australia is steering the discussion of genuine Indigenous rights towards a minimalist and almost meaningless constitutional conclusion, says Jeff McMullen. When most of the world recognises the ...

PS News
DFAT launches Indigenous strategy
PS News
Australia's first ever strategy for advancing the interests of the world's Indigenous peoples has been released by the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Peter Varghese (pictured). As part of the DFAT Indigenous Peoples ...

The Guardian
Australia desperately needs more Indigenous teachers. Our students deserve it
The Guardian
Feel-good stories of “success” like mine may hide the fact that Australia is startling short on Indigenous educators. Indigenous teachers form about 1% of the teaching community, while Indigenous students make up 5% of the student population. It has ...

The Guardian
Death in custody: NT police thought Indigenous man was 'feigning sickness'
The Guardian
... failure three hours after the 59-year-old was arrested for drinking in a regulated area on 21 May. He had a history of heart problems and had travelled to Darwin from his home community of Yuendumu in central Australia for treatment a week before ...
Kwementyaye Langdon death in custody: Police watch house nurse entered ...ABC Online

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Australasian Transport News
Linfox builds on its Indigenous employment scheme
Australasian Transport News
The company says it is committed to closing the large employment gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Its Indigenous Engagement program includes a range of activities to support, enhance and improve its standing as an employer of ...

International Business Times AU
Strategy proposed to increase prospects for indigenous Australians
International Business Times AU
“Australia has a leadership role to play in shaping the international agenda on indigenous issues,” Bishop said. She further ensured that this strategy would inspire the native Australians to participate and aid the programs and thereby build on their ...

Crikey (registration) (blog)
Words have impact: language & Indigenous issues
Crikey (registration) (blog)
Is this how many Australians view Indigenous Australians? As long as the belief prevails that there are somehow 'real' Aborigines and, what – fake? pretend? – ones, equality in this country will not be possible. Employing terms such as real or fake ...
Eddie McGuire privately attacked Sydney Swans after racially vilifying Adam GoodesThe Daily Telegraph
Australia: Racial identity politics and the Goodes sagaWorld Socialist Web Site

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Honi Soit
The Indigenous Australia We Don't Talk About
Honi Soit
It's not very often that most of us hear success stories from Aboriginal communities. The overwhelming majority of the mainstream media treatment of Indigenous issues focuses on the (very real) problems which affect Aboriginal people, problems which ...

The Australian
Pilbara indigenous community split over Fortescue mine claim
The Australian
Both sons of the Pilbara with strong connections to the land, Forrest and Woodley have vastly different ideas about the role mining companies should play in closing the tragic gap in living standards between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.

ArtsHub (subscription)
Winners of esteemed Indigenous art prize announced
ArtsHub (subscription)
In 2015 the awards themselves celebrate 32 years of supporting Indigenous artists in Australia. Schutenko elaborates on the profile of the awards, 'The NATSIAA awards are really the principle art award for Indigenous art in Australia so they are of ...

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous-only constitutional conventions unrealistic
The Australian
However, there is significant disagreement as to who is and who isn't indigenous. There are hundreds of thousands of “indigenous Australians”. But they are individuals with greatly diverging lives when it comes to “being black”. Sometimes they identify ...
We need to move beyond the medical model to address Indigenous suicideThe Conversation AU

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous-only constitutional conventions unrealistic
The Australian (blog)
However, there is significant disagreement as to who is and who isn't indigenous. There are hundreds of thousands of “indigenous Australians”. But they are individuals with greatly diverging lives when it comes to “being black”. Sometimes they identify ...
We need to move beyond the medical model to address Indigenous suicideThe Conversation AU
The voices behind IndigenousXABC Online

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Kudos: Indigenous artists shine at the top
ArtsHub (subscription)
West Australian artist Jukuja Dolly Snell has been named winner of Australia's most prestigious Indigenous art prize for 2015, the Telstra Art Award (Telstra NATSIAA). Born in 1933, it was Dolly's work Kurtal – the name of her homeland in the Great ...

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The Mabo Oration and Indigenous Recognition
ABC Online (blog)
Dr Dawn Casey is the chair of the Indigenous Land Corporation and the former chair of Indigenous Business Australia. And she is delivering the 2015 biennial Mabo Oration, paying tribute to the work of Eddie Mabo and looking at the current issues facing ...

The Conversation AU
We need to move beyond the medical model to address Indigenous suicide
The Conversation AU
Despite efforts to prevent suicide among Indigenous Australians, especially the young, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide rate is at least twice as high as – and in some instances, such as at Mowanjum near Derby, 100 times – the national ...

Indigenous acts rally for a true blue cause
The Advertiser
TRUE Blue country singer John Williamson will headline Adelaide's newest music event in October when he joins a line-up of some of Australia's best indigenous acts for the “Around The Campfire” concert at Alberton Oval. Williamson, who recently hit out ...

NEWS.com.au
Indigenous acts rally Around the Campfire for a true blue cause
NEWS.com.au
The concert is presented by Port Adelaide Football Club and proceeds support the Fred Hollows Foundation Indigenous Australia Program, The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation and the Power Aboriginal Program. ALNF executive education ...

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Herald Sun
Indigenous acts rally for a true blue cause
Perth Now
TRUE Blue country singer John Williamson will headline Adelaide's newest music event in October when he joins a line-up of some of Australia's best indigenous acts for the “Around The Campfire” concert at Alberton Oval. Williamson, who recently hit out ...
Indigenous acts rally Around the Campfire for a true blue causeHerald Sun

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The Australian
'Luminous' work captures spirit of place and Telstra indigenous prize
The Australian
The warm, colourful acrylic was painted by the wheelchair-bound veteran over three weeks in Fitzroy Crossing, in northern Western Australia, where she lives but it evokes her birthplace in the Great Sandy Desert. Eva Nargoodah, acting as her great-aunt ...

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