Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

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Free flu vaccines for Indigenous children as experts warn of dangerous season ...
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Indigenous children will benefit from the Federal Government's free flu vaccine program for the first time this year as authorities brace for a virulent strain of flu heading for Australia. The Government announced it would extend its free flu program ...

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Petition to Save Indigenous Legal Services
Pro Bono Australia
Law Council of Australia (LCA) President Duncan McConnel called for the Federal Government to immediately re-commit funding to Indigenous Family Violence Prevention Legal Services (FVPLS). “Given what we know – that Indigenous people are ...

ABC Online
Free flu vaccines for Indigenous children as experts warn of dangerous season ...
ABC Online
Indigenous children will benefit from the Federal Government's free flu vaccine program for the first time this year as authorities brace for a virulent strain of flu heading for Australia. The Government announced it would extend its free flu program ...

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The Conversation AU
Aboriginal lifestyles could fix the hole in the heart of Australia
The Conversation AU
The prime minister's recent assertion that the government cannot afford to fund the “lifestyle choices” of remotely based Aboriginal people is an opportunity to increase the debate about the future of outback Australia. Tony Abbott was repeating that ...
Consultation to begin with Aboriginal communities slated for closure in WAThe Guardian
Abbott Confuses on Indigenous AustraliansThe Diplomat
Without connection to country, Australia is a shallow nation. That's what ...The Guardian
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Call for global support against Indigenous community removal
Echonetdaily
'On Thursday March 19, Australians across the nation are being asked to celebrate Close the Gap Day, but for many of our countrymen the gap has been significantly widened, placing increasing pressure and trauma on our people. 'Starting in the Kimberley ...
Aboriginal lifestyles could fix the hole in the heart of AustraliaThe Conversation AU
A multi-faith congregation in Tunis honors the victims of the Bardo museum ...NEWS.com.au
Consultation to begin with Aboriginal communities slated for closure in WAThe Guardian
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The Guardian
Without connection to country, Australia is a shallow nation. That's what ...
The Guardian
An acknowledgment of country may not seem like much, but its value is enhanced if one can understand that this very gesture has been occurring on this land with Indigenous Australians for many thousands of years. It is an ancient and serious gesture ...
Is Tony Abbott a pass or fail on Indigenous affairs?The New Daily
Tony Abbott refuses to apologise for 'lifestyle choices' commentsThe Guardian
Choosing is hard, but it's still a lifestyle choiceThe Age
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Six survivors of Australia's longest-running Indigenous mission – in pictures
The Guardian
Artist Asher Milgate documents the experiences of 18 Wiradjuri elders and elders-in-waiting connected to Nanima Mission, established in the early 1800s in Wellington, in the central west of New South Wales. There is nostalgia in the memories of Uncle ...

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Light-skinned indigenous people face discrimination: Michelle Lovegrove
CBC.ca
Judging aboriginal people by their skin colour — whether light or dark — is wrong, asserted an indigenous Australian broadcast journalist in a public talk last week at the University of British Columbia. "Australia has this obsession with colour and ...

The Diplomat
Abbott Confuses on Indigenous Australians
The Diplomat
With his throwaway “lifestyle choice” comment about those who live in remote communities Tony Abbott has angered indigenous Australia. The prime minister's recent track record on gaffes may well be laughable, but in this case things are a little more ...
Is Tony Abbott a pass or fail on Indigenous affairs?The New Daily
Tony Abbott refuses to apologise for 'lifestyle choices' commentsThe Guardian
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closureNewsfirst
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“A future where we harness the determination of all Australians, Indigenous ...
The Stringer
The Aboriginal community has shown itself to be mindful of the migrant experiences of different communities. It is imperative that the migrant communities display the same regard for the experiences of the Indigenous communities. The Australian ...

The New Daily
Is Tony Abbott a pass or fail on Indigenous affairs?
The New Daily
Tony Abbott came to power claiming he would be the Prime Minister for Indigenous people, but 18 months after winning government his work in the area has been criticised as shallow, misjudged and “hopeless”. Search for “Abbott in remote Australia” and ...
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closureNewsfirst
Tony Abbott refuses to apologise for 'lifestyle choices' commentsThe Guardian
Tony the troglodyteIndependent Australia
Perth Now -Herald Sun
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ABC Online
Governments accused of 'walking away' from Indigenous housing commitment ...
ABC Online
Northern Territory community leaders have accused the Federal and Northern Territory governments of "walking away" from a commitment to Indigenous housing. Megan Raymond lives in Binjari, a community 15 kilometres south-west of Katherine with a ...
'Unfair and arbitrary. Is the only thing new in the Indigenous Advancement ...Crikey (blog)

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Newsfirst
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closure
Newsfirst
Derby Aboriginal elder Lorna Hudson was a child when government authorities in the 1960s moved her people from tiny Sunday Island off the remote north-west coast of Western Australia to the mainland. For a time most of the Sunday Island “saltwater” ...
Tony Abbott refuses to apologise for 'lifestyle choices' commentsThe Guardian
Tony the troglodyteIndependent Australia
Bishop backs PM after Aboriginal commentsPerth Now

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Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson's heartfelt plea to Tony Abbott: Change course on indigenous ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson, one of the country's most respected indigenous leaders, has issued an urgent plea to Tony Abbott to change track, warning that the fate of the referendum on recognition of the first Australians hangs in the balance. Mr Dodson issued his ...
Abbott trashes Australia's reputation abroad — againIndependent Australia
Abbott promises Islamist crackdownThe Australian
Police evacuate aboriginal protest camp in PerthNews24
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Green Left Weekly
Tony Abbott shuts down Aboriginal legal services
Green Left Weekly
On March 9, the ABC reported that the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, based in Darwin, will soon have to stop taking new clients amid uncertainty over its funding next financial year. On March 9, the Lawyers Weekly quoted Australian Bar ...
Nigel Scullion under fires for cuts under new Indigenous Advancement StrategyHerald Sun
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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Independent Australia
Abbott trashes Australia's reputation abroad — again
Independent Australia
In Malaysia and Indonesia, articles pillorying the hapless Australian PM and equally inept Foreign Minister have become almost daily fare. Malaysia's Sin Chew Daily headed its report 'Fury as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities a “lifestyle ...
Aboriginal rally brings Melbourne CBD to standstillHerald Sun
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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The Age
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...
The Age
More than a thousand protesters shut down traffic in Melbourne's CBD to rally against the planned closure of remote Indigenous communities in West Australia. The group had hoped to confront Tony Abbott at the National Gallery, where he had been ...
Tony Abbott shuts down Aboriginal legal servicesGreen Left Weekly

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The Age
Aboriginal rally brings Melbourne CBD to standstill
Herald Sun
Ms Onus said the protest was in response to WA premier Colin Barnett flagging that about 150 of the state's 274 remote indigenous communities may be shut down. The communities house more than 12,000 Aboriginal people. “Children aren't attending ...
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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ABC Online
Federal Government funding cuts 'possibly an oversight': NT Indigenous group
ABC Online
A Northern Territory youth service tackling petrol sniffing in disadvantaged Indigenous communities says it hopes Federal Government funding cuts to youth programs are "an oversight". Two regional councils in Central Australia raised the alarm earlier ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's lifestyle choice remark leaves 'everyone hurting inside' in ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Not since John Howard declared that there was no need to say sorry for past injustices has a prime minister so unwittingly inflicted such hurt on indigenous Australia. Ms Cox regards Mr Abbott's assertion that "it's not the job of the taxpayer to ...
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
For the real story on Indigenous Australia, social beats old mediaThe Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians Still Not Thrilled About 'Lifestyle Choice' To Take ...SBS
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