Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

NEWS.com.au
Blame booze, not the past: Pearson
NEWS.com.au
The Australian reports that the noted academic used a speech in Brisbane to urge indigenous people to “rise above historic trauma”, likening that process to the way in which Jewish people have endured after the Holocaust. “I have to push back against ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Christian Thompson tells Indigenous Australia's story in The Imperial Relic
Sydney Morning Herald
In one photograph, Christian Thompson's head can be just seen emerging from a fabric sheath resembling an old-fashioned gramophone horn. In another, he wears an elaborate helmet made of maps, including one of the distribution of Aboriginal language ...

teleSUR English
Uranium Contaminated Indigenous Australian Communities' Water
teleSUR English
Unsafe levels of uranium were found in the water supplies of four Indigenous communities during tests between 2012 and 2014, according to a report from the Office of the Auditor General Western Australia. “Uranium leaches naturally from soils, rocks ...

Get over historical indigenous wrongs: Noel Pearson
The Australian
“We've constructed a major industry out of indigenous disadvantage. Australia spent $33 billion last year in the name of indigenous people … yet the results are the poorest you can imagine.'' Mr Pearson said white Australia believed indigenous people ...

Get over historical indigenous wrongs: Noel Pearson
The Australian
“We've constructed a major industry out of indigenous disadvantage. Australia spent $33 billion last year in the name of indigenous people … yet the results are the poorest you can imagine.'' Mr Pearson said white Australia believed indigenous people ...

The Canberra Times
ADFA theatre honours Australia's first Indigenous officer, Reg Saunders
The Canberra Times
When Captain Reg Saunders, Australia's first Indigenous army officer, discovered a cold and hungry baby in an abandoned Korean village more than 60 years ago the veteran of the Middle East, Greece, Crete and the Pacific war was stumped. "How were we ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous legal services peak body wins last-minute pre-budget reprieve
The Guardian
Wednesday's funding announcement comes less than two months after Brandis reinstated $25m worth of cuts to community-based legal aid services, citing the impact the cuts would have on Indigenous Australians and survivors of domestic violence in ...
Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many storiesBBC News

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BBC News
Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many stories
BBC News
An enormous exhibition banner flaps gently in the breeze as a small group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women crane their necks upwards to read the words: 'Indigenous Australia: enduring civilization'. The long awaited exhibition ...

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The Guardian
Most groups funded under Indigenous advancement strategy non-Indigenous
The Guardian
Geographically, the largest share went to eastern New South Wales (18%), which has a quarter of Australia's Indigenous population, followed by greater Western Australia (13%) and the Top End and Tiwi Islands region (11%). A 10th of the funding went to ...

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ABC Online
Revive stamp duty exemption for Tasmania's Indigenous first home buyers ...
ABC Online
One of Tasmania's peak Indigenous bodies has urged the State Government not to "ignore" Indigenous Australians in this year's state budget. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) wants the Government to reinstate first home buyers stamp duty exemption ...

ABC Online
Majority of grants from Indigenous Advancement Strategy first round given to ...
ABC Online
Less than half of the successful applicants for the first round of the new federal Indigenous Affairs funding scheme were Aboriginal organisations. The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet confirmed the figure in its submission to a Senate inquiry ...
Most groups funded under Indigenous advancement strategy non-IndigenousThe Guardian

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The Conversation AU
Racism towards Indigenous Australians: reporting the good with the bad
The Conversation AU
Can we trace modern-day racism against Indigenous Australians to the country's British invaders? Often when trying to extinguish a fire, it is more important to know what sustains it rather than what started it.
Artefacts help us plot future course by learning from pastThe Australian
Aboriginal art unfit for Western eyesTelegraph.co.uk
'We don't have monopoly on taxpayer dollars': Aboriginal elder Garry Murray3AW

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Indigenous employment making tracks
PS News
Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Nigel Scullion said the 300 new jobs would be delivered through ILC subsidiary companies, Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia and National Indigenous Pastoral Enterprises Pty Ltd (NIPE) and at the ILC-operated ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Cataract surgery 'blitzes' not a long-term solution for Indigenous communities ...
Sydney Morning Herald
"[Indigenous people] who manage to get onto a waiting list will wait almost twice as long as non-Indigenous Australians, sometimes waiting several years or more before receiving surgery," the authors said. Australia's first eye surgical blitzes, called ...
Doctors say cataract surgery blitzes aren't helping fix eye problems for ...Business Insider Australia
Cataract blitzes not long-term solutionPerth Now

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Domestic abuse of Indigenous women a 'national crisis'
Radio Australia
The situation is deeply worrying, with two women killed in Australia every week as a result of domestic violence. So far this year, 32 women have lost their lives. However, for Indigenous women the statistics are even more appalling. In fact ...

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MuMbrella
Investigative journalist, indigenous Australians, top marketers and creative ...
MuMbrella
They include panels featuring some of Australia's top marketers; a discussion on the media industry's responsibilities to recruit more indigenous Australians; the five questions that any brand should ask with advice from Melbourne's most awarded ...

Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protesters stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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The Australian
Artefacts help us plot future course by learning from past
The Australian
In the Indigenous Australia — Enduring Civilisation exhibition, opened by Prince Charles at London's British Museum on Thursday, there is a shield that once belonged to a Gweagal traditional owner, who held it at the time of the first encounter ...
Aboriginal art unfit for Western eyesTelegraph.co.uk

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Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protestors stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration at record levels as Queensland's prison population soars
The Guardian
Figures obtained by Guardian Australia from Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) show Indigenous people, who make up less than 4% of the state's population, remain grossly overrepresented in prisons, where they account for almost a third of inmates.