Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

BBC's Banished: How I tried and failed to get Indigenous characters on TV
The Age
I can also understand how people would find it strange that a drama about British settlement of Australia wouldn't show any Aboriginal people. But Banished is not a drama about the settlement of Australia, it is not a broad, sweeping colonial history ...

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The Guardian
Northern Australia plan aims to make region an 'economic powerhouse'
The Guardian
“The government will consult Indigenous Australians and industry on possible amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act to reduce duplication in the heritage protection regimes across jurisdictions, while ...
Northern Australia plan: China backs 'economic powerhouse'The Australian Financial Review
Agriculture seen as big winner in Northern Australia white paperBeef Central
Politics Live: June 18, 2015Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
WA Indigenous recognition bill receives bipartisan support
ABC Online
A bill recognising Indigenous people as Western Australia's first inhabitants and traditional custodians will receive bipartisan support. Indigenous Member for the Kimberley, Labor MP Josie Farrer, said she was nearly moved to tears after receiving a ...

theMusic
MCs Announced For National Indigenous Music Awards
theMusic
With the National Indigenous Music Awards fast approaching in Darwin, the MCs hosting the night's festivities have been announced — SBS and National Indigenous TV (NITV) presenter and journalist Malarndirri McCarthy along with cabaret comedian ...

The Guardian
Antony Hegarty condemns 'genocide' of indigenous peoples in Australia and US
The Guardian
Antony Hegarty said in the US 'there are just giant spots of the country where the genocide was so complete … there are places I can barely step on the land because I just feel it's this freshly slaughtered country'. Photograph: Alejandro Garcia/EPA.
Dark Mofo audience swoons over ...Sydney Morning Herald
Antony & The Johnsons Singer Donates Dark Mofo Fee To WA Aboriginal CausetheMusic

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SBS
Pearson's 'zero voice' comments anger Indigenous leaders
SBS
These comments are inaccurate according to Les Malezer, Co-Chair of The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples which advocates at a national level for Indigenous Australians. "The fact is that there is a very good national representative body ...

Eden Magnet
Would you vote 'yes' or 'no' to constitutional recognition of indigenous ...
Eden Magnet
It would be nice if Australia came on line with other countries, and live in this century rather than the last century. Most countries have already acknowledged their indigenous peoples, and New Zealand is a great example to follow where there is a ...

Pro Bono Australia
Pipeline of Indigenous Talent Leads to Social Enterprise Success
Pro Bono Australia
Western Sydney has the largest percentage of Aboriginal youth unemployment in Australia, while nationally, the unemployment rate for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population is 18 per cent, three times the national unemployment rate of 6.1 ...

The Australian
Plea to drive indigenous business
The Australian
“This reform would be part of a wider settlement that will empower our communities, provide us with control over our lands, and ensure we can use our land for economic development — just like everyone else in Australia.'' Cape York leader Noel Pearson ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson says government has work to do with indigenous
The Australian
The Cape York leader said indigenous leadership was strong and had the support of corporate Australia to pursue social and economic advancement, but government was falling short. “The government piece is still not right,” he said. He cited inaction ...

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Good Food
Canberra's Indigenous gardener Adam Shipp reaps rewards at Greening Australia
Good Food
Adam Shipp has been working with Greening Australia in Aranda as the Indigenous restoration officer since 2012. He was born and raised in Canberra, spending all his school and working life here. His father is a Wiradjuri from central-west NSW; his ...

ABC Online
Indigenous community 'resilient' as mine closure talks continue
ABC Online
Residents from a remote Indigenous community in northern South Australia believe their town will suffer from, but ultimately survive, the Alinta Energy coal mine closure. The company announced last week its Leigh Creek mine and two Port Augusta power ...

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WA wants to go it alone on Aboriginal property reform
The Australian
Western Australia is refusing to work with an Abbott government committee examining reforms to indigenous property rights, a position the committee chairman has labelled “childish” and damaging to the push to create jobs and Aboriginal economic ...
Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WAABC Message Stick

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The Age
Aborigines have zero voice in Australia: Pearson
The Australian
“At the end of the day, parliament could say 'we don't listen to that advice' but it would be salutatory advice,” he said. He said that, as an “extreme minority”, indigenous Australians were “excluded from democratic structures”. “Yet, we are a special ...
Pearson proposal at odds with realityBrisbane Times

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The Guardian
White supremacist accused of selling cannabis to Indigenous communities
The Guardian
A white supremacist and neo-Nazi supporter accused of running a large cannabis plantation is suspected of selling his product to members of an Indigenous community in north Queensland, say police. John Lee, who came to police attention through his ...

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Amnesty investigates Indigenous incarceration in WA
ABC Message Stick
The high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Australia are a blight on this country but head west and the number of Aboriginal children behind bars is truly disturbing. In fact the rates are so bad that after releasing a report on the national picture ...

The Australian
Phillip Toyne, environmentalist and champion of indigenous land rights, dies
The Australian
Mr Toyne is best known as the co-founder of the Landcare movement in 1989 while head of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 1986-1992; in a ground-breaking union that saw the environmental movement join forces with Australia's farmers.
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67ABC Online
Co-founder of Landcare Australia program Phillip Toyne dies at 67The Guardian
Leading environmental campaigner Phillip Toyne dies at 67Sydney Morning Herald
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ABC Online
Youth suicide at crisis levels among Indigenous population, experts warn
ABC Online
Across Australia, young Indigenous Australians up to 24 years old are 5.2 times more likely to die due to intentional self-harm than other young people in the same age range. Rowe Butterworth knows the struggle all too well. His parents split when he ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Matildas Kyah Simon and Lydia Williams the unlikely idols of Canada's ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The two Aboriginal stars of Australian women's football are blossoming into idols of an indigenous community on the other side of the world. Proudly waving the flag of their background on the biggest stage of the world, their success story is providing ...

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ABC Online
Landcare co-founder and Indigenous advocate Phillip Toyne dies aged 67
ABC Online
Indigenous advocate and co-founder of the national Landcare program, Phillip Toyne, has died aged 67. Mr Toyne established the environmental organisation with Rick Farley in 1989 when he was head of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Prior to that ...
Leading environmental campaigner Phillip Toyne dies at 67Sydney Morning Herald
Co-founder of Landcare Australia program Phillip Toyne dies at 67The Guardian

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