Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Conversation AU
Who we should recognise as First Australians in the constitution
The Conversation AU
Writing in the magazine Quadrant, the historian Keith Windschuttle claimed that Indigenous Australians should not have Native Title rights because they were not the first to occupy Australia. He claimed that over most of the continent they had wiped ...

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'Soft totalitarianism?' What Rundle gets wrong about constitutional recognition
Crikey
That's why, in 1967, more than 90% of Australians voted to remove two clauses from the constitution. Those sections excluded Aboriginal people from a federal law-making power and from being counted in the population. So complete was the exclusion of my ...

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The Age
Closing the divide between all Australians
The Age
Aboriginal people negotiate daily the terrain between the requirements of non-Indigenous Australia and the requirements of their own communities, cultures and laws. This is not a simple task, and requires respect and support of Australian governments ...
'Soft totalitarianism?' What Rundle gets wrong about constitutional recognitionCrikey
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...ABC Message Stick

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Subaru pulls TV ad deemed “highly offensive” to indigenous Australians
SmartCompany.com.au
Subaru Australia has pulled a television advertisement after the advertising watchdog found it would be likely to offend people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. The Advertising Standards Board ruled an ad promoting the company's new ...

Abbott sparks anger on Aboriginal “lifestyle choices”
InDaily
Canberra | Senior government ministers have come to the defence of Tony Abbott after the prime minister suggested indigenous Australians were making “lifestyle choices” to live in remote communities. Abbott is resisting Opposition calls he apologise ...

Briggs plans to widen AFL's indigenous engagement
ABC Local
... Briggs has been appointed the inaugural Chair of the AFL Indigenous Advisory Group. Briggs told ABC Goulburn Murray's Joseph Thomsen that he is honoured by the opportunity to help determine the future of indigenous engagement across Australia.

BBC News
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closure
BBC News
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" ...

International Business Times UK
Western Australia Home Burglary Bill will put 'even more Indigenous children ...
International Business Times UK
The Western Australia (WA) state is trying to implement an anti-burglary bill that will target youths, particularly indigenous ones, Amnesty has warned. According to the rights group, indigenous young people are already 58 times more likely to go to ...

Abbott's commitment to be PM for Indigenous Australians questioned after ...
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JUSTIN MOHAMED: To frame Aboriginal peoples connection to land, the importance of responsibility they have to their traditional lands as a lifestyle choice shows that there is some form of misunderstanding or not enough understanding of Aboriginal and ...

The Conversation AU
For the real story on Indigenous Australia, social beats old media
The Conversation AU
Research has shown time and again that although it is held dear by journalists, Australian journalism's democratic watchdog role is severely lacking when it comes to representing the interests and perspectives of Indigenous Australians. The causes are ...
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
Remote communities a lifestyle choice: Tony AbbottThe Australian
Indigenous Australians Still Not Thrilled About 'Lifestyle Choice' To Take ...SBS
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SBS
Indigenous Australians Still Not Thrilled About 'Lifestyle Choice' To Take ...
SBS
“I know every other time representatives of the Australian government have tried to take land off indigenous populations it's been horrific but maybe this time it'll be great and everyone will be super fine with it. Practice makes perfect, after all ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal organisations feeling cost of Federal Government funding cuts call ...
ABC Online
Peak Aboriginal organisations from Central Australia held an emergency meeting in Alice Springs on Tuesday to discuss expected cuts to frontline services following the announcement last week of who will share in $860 million of Commonwealth funding.

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The Australian
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'
NEWS.com.au
“What we can't do is endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to the kind of full participation in Australian society that everyone should have.” Opposition indigenous affairs spokesman Shayne Neumann demanded ...
Indigenous remote living a lifestyle: PMThe Australian
Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over 'lifestyle choice' comments on remote ...Sydney Morning Herald
PM says Indigenous remote living a 'choice'Sky News Australia
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Facility to help close gap in Indigenous health
The North West Star
IMPROVING the life expectancy of indigenous Australians will be among the priorities for a new research centre in Brisbane. A $10 million donation from Sydney couple Greg Poche and Kay van Norton Poche has helped establish the Poche Indigenous ...

The Australian
Indigenous remote living a lifestyle: PM
The Australian
Mr Neumann said the self-declared prime minister for indigenous affairs had form in this area, referring to Mr Abbott's claim that Australia was unsettled before British “foreign investment”. “He has trashed his reputation, he doesn't deserve that ...
PM says Indigenous remote living a 'choice'Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott visits Kalgoorlie-Boulder amid calls to address ...ABC Local
Remote communities are 'lifestyle choices', says Tony AbbottThe Guardian
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Violence against indigenous women 'dire'
The Australian (blog)
The funding cuts to legal aid services in central Australia and the Top End would have a direct impact on family violence, the hearing was told, as organisations struggled to represent clients while facing soaring workloads and increasing costs.

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The Guardian
Indigenous services plead with federal government to rethink cuts
The Guardian
Guardian Australia has spoken with numerous organisations who have lost all funding, had their usual annual budgets cut or had their budgets renewed at the same levels for 12 to 18 months. The chief adviser on Indigenous affairs, Warren Mundine, told ...

Poche Indigenous health centre opens in Queensland
UQ News
Mr Poche, the founder and former owner of logistics company Star Track Express, said the 11-year health and life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was unacceptable. “Improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous ...

Lawyers Weekly
Top legal bodies want cuts to Aboriginal legal aid reversed
Lawyers Weekly
“The likely consequences of these cuts will be chaos in the courts and an increase in indigenous imprisonment, [which is] already at unprecedented levels,” said Australian Bar Association (ABA) president Fiona McLeod SC (pictured). Ms McLeod said the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
State Attorneys-General unite to warn George Brandis of crisis in legal funding
Sydney Morning Herald
In a blistering letter sent to Senator Brandis on Thursday and signed by the first law officers of all states and territories, the Attorneys-General state that women and children who are victims of domestic violence and Indigenous Australians are among ...
States and territories unite in fight against legal assistance funding cutsYahoo7 News
ACT joins chorus of government protest against Legal Aid cutsThe Canberra Times
State and territory attorney generals ask George Brandis to better fund legal aidThe Guardian

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