Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Holographic exhibition tells stories of 30 disabled Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
A holographic exhibition that has been shown at human rights conventions in Geneva and New York is shedding light on the challenges faced by disabled Indigenous Australians. Creator Belinda Mason spoke with 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...Brisbane Times
The Health Wrap: Indigenous incarceration disgrace, let's talk about smoking ...Crikey (blog)

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DAF launches Indigenous Program
Inside Film
“It's exciting to connect like-minded funders and not-for-profits with filmmakers to amplify issues experienced by Indigenous Australians through the powerful medium of documentary. Funding a documentary goes hand in hand with making sure it is seen ...

ABC Online
Two thirds of Indigenous people dying before age 65, AIHW report finds
ABC Online
The figures in the latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report also show no significant change in suicide rates among Indigenous people, even though there was a 25 per cent drop for non-Indigenous people, and an alarming rise in the ...

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ABC Online
Man claiming to be Indigenous held in WA immigration detention centre
ABC Online
A man being held in Western Australia's Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre says he is an Indigenous Australian and not a visa overstayer or asylum seeker. Eddie David, 39, has been held in the centre since Friday. He said he was born on Murray ...
Indigenous man 'locked up with asylum-seekers'The Australian
Man inside WA immigration detention centre claims to be IndigenousSBS
Indigenous man 'falsely detained as refugee'The New Daily

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Indigenous man 'locked up with asylum-seekers'
The Australian
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has denied the claim of prominent refugee lawyer George Newhouse that an indigenous Australian man has been mistakenly detained in Yongah Hill immigration detention centre built to hold ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum – Vote Yes for Aborigines. They did so in such numbers that no referendum before or since has ever matched ...

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The Australian (blog)
Noongar deal lays path to indigenous future
The Australian (blog)
Mr Barnett's original 2012 offer fuelled outrage in some quarters because it compelled the Noongar people of the state's southwest, including Perth, to relinquish their native title claims. In exchange the new Noongar Boodja Trust and six regional ...
Massive WA native title deal edges closerSky News Australia
Massive $1.3 billion WA native title deal edges closerNEWS.com.au

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VVN Music
Indigenous Australian Singer Archie Roach Receives Queen's Honors
VVN Music
Indigenous singer songwriter Archie Roach and entertainer, singer and broadcaster Denis Walter have been honoured in the Queen's Birthday List for 2015. For the past 25 years Archie Roach has articulated the need for social justice and indigenous ...
Migrant, refugees and an Indigenous musical icon among Queen's Birthday ...SBS
Queen's Birthday honours: Archie Roach, Victorian singer song-writer who told ...ABC Online
Renowned Aboriginal musician honoured9news.com.au
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The Australian
Massive $1.3 billion WA native title deal edges closer
The Australian
Under the deal, Noongar people will surrender native title rights in a 200,000 square kilometre area spanning from Jurien north of Perth to Ravensthorpe in the Goldfields-Esperance region in exchange for $1.3 billion worth of land, finance and benefits ...
Massive WA native title deal edges closerSky News Australia

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Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum – Vote Yes for Aborigines. They did so in such numbers that no referendum before or since has ever matched ...

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Brisbane Times
Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians is a once-in-a ...
Brisbane Times
Triumphs and tragedies shape us. Almost 50 years ago, Australians triumphed by changing the Australian constitution for the better at referendum – Vote Yes for Aborigines. They did so in such numbers that no referendum before or since has ever matched ...

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Independent Australia
Australian Reconciliation a long way from Vergangenheitsbewaltigung
Independent Australia
In 2009, the Association established the Mullenjaiwakka Trust to honour the work and example of Mullenjaiwakka, formerly known as Lloyd McDermott, the first Indigenous Australian to be admitted as a barrister. The purpose of the Trust is to provide ...

SBS
Embracing Indigenous languages: the Kiwis just do it better
SBS
Linguist Felicity Meakins recently gave a disturbing account of exactly how little the average Aussie knows about Australia's Indigenous languages. Few know how many there are or what they are called, let alone are able to speak them. Researching what ...

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The Conversation AU
Embracing Indigenous languages: the Kiwis just do it better
The Conversation AU
Linguist Felicity Meakins recently gave a disturbing account of exactly how little the average Aussie knows about Australia's Indigenous languages. Few know how many there are or what they are called, let alone are able to speak them. Researching what ...

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ABC Online
Barunga Festival prompts renewed calls for Indigenous treaty
ABC Online
During the Barunga Festival in 1988, Mr Hawke promised a treaty between Indigenous people and the Australian Government "on behalf of all the people of Australia". The Northern and Central Land Councils then presented Mr Hawke with the Barunga ...
Burunga celebrates 30th annual festivalSky News Australia

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SBS
Queen's Birthday Honours List recognises Indigenous and Migrant Australians
SBS
You know, over the years of my activism and my advocacy work for Timor Leste, I've not exactly felt supported by the Australian Government, particularly during the years of the Indonesian occupation.But nonetheless, it's a wonderful recognition. And it ...
Queen's Birthday honours: Lucy Marshall, campaigner for Indigenous Agent ...ABC Online
Queen's Birthday 2015: Nine unsung heroesSky News Australia
Let's replace the Queen's Birthday holiday with Reconciliation DaySydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Queen's Birthday honours: Lucy Marshall, campaigner for Indigenous Agent ...
ABC Online
A West Australian Indigenous elder who campaigned on behalf of Aboriginal Agent Orange victims has been made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Derby woman Lucy Marshall is one of more than 500 people recognised in this year's Queen's ...

The Guardian
Renouncing Australia: a dozen people to follow Murrumu by taking Yidinji ...
The Guardian
Asked if the decision to quit Australia to join the Yidindji nation was a “lifestyle choice” (an echo, perhaps, of prime minister Tony Abbott's controversial assertion that Indigenous Australians who live on some remote communities were exercising such ...

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The Guardian
'Unadulterated strength': the women of Indigenous Australia in their own words
The Guardian
In Ntaria, 130km west of Alice Springs in Australia's red centre, Que Kenny stands in country made famous by artist Albert Namatjira, her shock of red hair glowing against the clear blue sky. An Aboriginal transgender activist, studying law at Deakin ...

Perth Now
'I was headed to the big prison'
Perth Now
An Amnesty report launched this week, “A brighter tomorrow: Keeping indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Australia”, shows that Australia is detaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children at its highest rate in 20 years.

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